Exlor
A living mech that is a masterwork, is valuable and more with hyper tech. The RA would like to have that mech because dont have pilot problems of compatability and can become their own ouroboros, if not maybe their own Quint. And by being a quasi first mech is no problem for the RA to upgrade it to their standards.
Can’t he make all three versions a masterwork, theoretically, if the right conditions line up? Likewise, he might accidentally make the Larkinson one a masterwork during production anywayst Personally, I think he start from the lower complexity and correct things / gain inspiration on that mode before moving on to the more complicated one. I feel like he’d accumulate way more inspiration that way.