The Kingdom of Mechs was splitting apart.
There was nothing that the people of the Red Ocean could do to prevent this course of events from unfolding.
The distant Star Designers responsible for commanding the kingdom to inflict so much harm to itself were all grimly united in their purpose.
Seventy of them apparently commanded enough authority within the Kingdom of Mechs to push through this drastic change with or without the cooperation of their peers in the Red Ocean!
That simple fact galled Ves and a lot of other people who happened to be stuck in the new frontier.
The red humans had all been caught up in an accident that exposed them to a lot of new and indeterminate alien adversaries.
It was difficult for them to resist all of this opposition when they were badly outnumbered. One of the few reasons why they still managed to retain a sense of confidence was that they knew that they had their brothers and sisters in the Milky Way backing them up from a distance.
