Renner Alvous may be the first, but he was no longer unique.
More Terran mech pilots suffered from the same afflictions.
The symptoms were almost identical. Each of them seemed to have aged at a hyper-accelerated rate. Each of them lost the spark of life that defined their lives prior to this instance. Each of them essentially became dead men walking.
Ves feared that he had already condemned them to an irreversible fate.
Yet his hands did not work any slower because of this. He remained committed to the plan, and he understood that the Terrans would never refuse to make this sacrifice.
Even as his heart became weighed down by the guilt of his actions, his modification actions became faster and smoother over time.
He learned. He gained proficiency. He increasingly comprehended the depth of what he was bringing into existence.
