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There was one other potential complication to embracing the Adaptive Scale's bid.

Master Francesca Castillo already made it clear that she was a part of the RA Guidance Faction.

The Guiders were known as meddlesome mechers who strongly advocated that the Red Association take over the autonomy of individual states.

They were basically the Polymath's strongest cheerleaders outside of the Survivalist Faction. 

The Guiders would love it if human civilization melted all of its internal divisions and united in a single cohesive group that obeyed all of their instructions!

While there was a certain logic to their ideology, Ves personally found it reprehensible.

That was a problem, because he was pretty sure that the Adaptive Scale was mainly willing to offer her orbital shipyard in order to pull him into the orbit of her faction.