Looking at the Shipwrights' Conference venue, where blood flowed like a river, Bangjila-Ulan burst into crazed laughter.
He had never intended to negotiate properly with these shipyard owners, because he knew there was nothing to negotiate.
He understood these shipyard owners better than anyone. Ultimately, it was still a problem with Rendili StarDrive's structure. Rendili was a very loose company with a franchise-like structure, and these shipyard owners all retained considerable independence.
For example, when their space docks were idle, they could freely take private orders. When Rendili received major contracts, those orders were also divided through internal bidding.
Moreover, the space docks owned by these shipyard owners belonged to them personally. They possessed complete ownership and inheritance rights.
All Rendili StarDrive could do was standardize those docks so they could take unified-specification orders, while establishing internal regulations to place basic constraints on the shipyard owners' conduct.
To put it bluntly, the Ulan family was also one of the shipyard owners, only the largest one.
Therefore, outsiders saw Rendili StarDrive as being led by the Ulan family. But those who truly understood Rendili knew that the Ulan family was basically the alliance leader. Any order they wished to issue still had to be discussed at the Shipwrights' Conference. They merely had greater scale, more people, a louder voice at the conference, and more votes, making their proposals and policies easier to pass.
So, when all was said and done, it was probably difficult to say how much attachment these shipyard owners had to the Rendili StarDrive name. During his previous probes and investigations, Bangjila-Ulan had essentially confirmed this point. These shipyard owners were all the sort who would serve whoever fed them. Getting them to join him in rebellion was simply impossible.
Rather than discuss matters properly with them at