Exlor
Hey its the MTA’s fault in the first place, who would stay calm when their ultimatum pertains to only a week’s time to loot a hostile environment filled with ace mech like adversaries. They definitely wanted Ves’ clan to be the pawns that lures the hidden dangers. It’s a give an take as we can see the MTA is bad against the unknown, so Ves makes the big bad show up and the MTA uses every overpowered Weapon know to Man.
Leave it to a mecher to start a conversation by laying the groundwork to justify the MTA taking everything for itself, and even expecting you to pay for the honor......They'll insist on the original agreement's 90% tax, claim Purgatory itself as their private property, and insist Ves compensate them for the consequences of their own ultimatum by giving them his statue!