Gloriana's expression remained composed.
"As much as I would like to lead the clan, I am cognisant enough of my own weaknesses. I agree with you all that a strong military leader is preferable to a civilian mech designer such as myself. Ves is able to overcome this limitation due to his repeated acts of courage, but I cannot replicate those feats. Ideally, one of our children should have assumed leadership of the clan, but… they are still too young."
Although the Larkinsons would not particularly mind if Ves and Gloriana engaged in an act of nepotism, it still had to be somewhat reasonable on the surface.
There was nothing reasonable about appointing a preteen child to become the leader of a clan comprising of several million Larkinsons!
