Ves did not like what he heard.
The very notion of taking over a state or several states disgusted him. One of the biggest reasons why he founded his own clan and invested in so many starships was because he wanted to obtain freedom from more worldly entanglements.
It made little sense for him to counteract his present strategy by investing so much in fixed territory.
He could tolerate the formation of planetary branches. While the Larkinson Clan had established many of them across the Red Ocean Union, they did not really amount to much in the greater scheme of things.
Even if a hostile alien raiding force descended on a planet that hosted one of these branches, the life and death of all of those clansmen had no impact on his mood.
He never met them in person. He could not place any familiar faces to their names. The Larkinson Clan probably would not even notice the demise of a single planetary branch.
