Exlor
Calling it now! While tinkering with his mechs in preparation for the duel, Ves stumbles on something big. Completely by chance, he somehow turns a normal mech into a Masterwork! He quickly comes to his senses, dismantles the thing, and pretends it never happened, hoping the incident doesn't reach his wife's ears.
politics is the bane to most if not all achievers in order to advance their merits. one they have to over come the bigotry of ideas people who are set in their ways not willing to change. two gas lighting arguments where one side trys to convince the other side that they are the definer of truth "who do you believe me or your lying eyes" is a common tactic. three straw man tactical argument where they use broad ideas to cover narrow views "evil is bad, killing is bad, people who kill are evil and bad, mech kill so bad, people who drive mech are evil and bad" this is common thinking of the idea. politics perpetuate this to a fine art that lazy informed population will fall into the trap easily. the sad part is that these are just basic tactics.đ§