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Chapter 65 - Self Configuring Modular Robot[]
"Mother, we are struggling for no reason...
...and I'm finished indulging your paranoia." the cause of this, lay on the table, neatly printed. "We can do this. The Confederation is at peace for the first time in generations. We stayed out of the last few spats, there has been time to rebuild. It is time to excel." Sun Tzu Liao rarely, if ever, contradicted his mother, but he was one of the few who could without dying.
"Excel?" she started to mock, and her son raised a finger.
"Hear me out. These field equations are perfect." he said, "but, they made a mistake, and the Confederation can capitalize on that mistake."
"How?", she asks
"I know how they built it" he asserted, "and we can do the same...only better."
"For what purpose?" she snarled.
"Prestige." He told her, "The Gauntlet is laid, we can do this, and when we do it, we can prove the superiority of the Capellan Confederation to all. Please, mother, the people need their pride, not merely the fear of your anger. Let me do this."
"If you fail, I will disown you and place your sister as my heir." Romano Liao relented. "Do not fail."
"I have no intention of failing, Mother...does that mean I have your consent to begin?"
"Yes."