Much had changed over the past years. The Living Mech Corporation had gone from an obscure mech company that was indistinguishable from other ones to a rising market player that intimidated many market competitors!
Leveraging Patriarch Ves Larkinson's unorthodox design philosophy and unique glows that provided tons of utility, the living mech models that the LMC published with increasing frequency quickly became famous — or infamous in various circles — for their ability to affect the minds of people!
Whether it was their supportive glows that lifted the morale of soldiers or suppressive morale that ruined the concentration of enemy mech pilots, the glows associated with LMC products quickly became one of the more famous features of the products of the Red Ocean!
Though paranoid critics and disgruntled competitors often brought up accusations that the Larkinsons exploited illegal brainwashing technology, such news only gained a moderate amount of traction.