Exlor
lark is like the Godfather he comes in and takes everything he wants and ves can just look and cant do anything
He can. Actually. If he decides to go to their level and play hardball, he can tell them that if they want to fight for the state, they can do that using state mechs. The mechs and expert mechs that HE developed and built USING money and material for from ATACKING aliens instead of other humans will continue to be used for the expedition.
Yeah, this was obviously the next step. Ark is a leader type, and the society worships expert pilots. And he’s more of a Larkinson elder than Ves. Of course he would jump to the larger clan and then claim a chunk. Ves should have isolated him first, but he was too trusting and too interested in the win of maybe getting an Ace pilot for cheap. They even talked about the risk of trusting family a few chapters back. The problem is Ark is now grabbing things he didn’t work for, Ves did.