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Exactly, she's good at her job, and she also decided to desert from the country the moment she got the chance.

One thing that's been bothering me as I've read through this story is the lack of mention of other alien races. I mean, sure we've got some unnamed dead alien races like the tiny crystal people and we've also seen proto-gods of some of them, but as far as I can tell the only current alien race ever mentioned by name was the Sandmen

Umm, both sides do remember that the Coalition has female pilots too right? lol

Gloriana: I never abused those boys! Also Gloriana: Why yes I support genetically engineering their whole gender so they'll never measure up to women, please ignore my hypocrisy in ignoring that requirement for my own family.

Yeah, taking a sample of his psionics and sending it back to headquarters isn't suspicious at all. Either they're studying them or they're doing some voodoo stuff. I'm tempted to think his pylon is smaller because it's a more advanced model, given the interest the MTA is showing in his methods.

I get that it's meant to be funny and all, but going from trying to copy his philosophy at all costs and practically fangirling over S to claiming his philosophy isn't nuanced is pretty hilarious.

Also yeah, the Hexers suck at diplomacy. Actually despite what we've seen of DIVA's successes, they also suck at intrigue, given their total and complete failure against the Coalition in preparation for the war, ad the fact that one of their most competent spies decided to abandon them the moment they got the chance. Speaking of which, they also suck at war, given that despite launching a surprise attack they proceeded to immediately get bogged down in attrition warfare, which would have gone even worse without Ves' glow mechs. Frankly, the only thing the Hexers have proven to be any good at is indoctrination.

Didn't he already agree to have the Hexers accompany their fleet way back? Or was that just Gloriana's small fleet?

Eh, he didn't exactly have much of a choice. He tried to run away only for the MTA to support her in essentially forcing her way into his life.

Not sure why Ves is suddenly so eager for the Hegemony to win the war. I get that he dislikes the Coalition and that his mom is tied to the Hegemony, but I got the feeling that he didn't want the Hegemony spreading their unique brand of crazy either, so wouldn't he be better served just keeping a balance between the two?

I find it hilarious that Ves tried to instill a sense of nurturing in the spirit by modeling it after his mother, who spent his whole life beating him down and basically crippling him while ensuring he'd be a failure at anything he had a passion for, just like the Hexers do.

Am I the only one that finds it incredibly ironic that his way of dealing with the fact that he'll never be able to see plants in real life is to make sure that people in a video game will never see certain types of plants?

I really wish one of these VRMMORPG novels would drop the whole "magical helmet" nonsense and just have the players jack into the game with cybernetic spinal/brain implants. Would help a lot with establishing some sense of realism.