Aurelian and Astra had not gone far into the estate before Orvain's earlier words began to settle more heavily in his mind.
The method for training possible commanders sounded almost too simple when Orvain explained it, but after thinking about it for a little longer, Aurelian understood why ordinary people could not use it.
Source fragments were not something civilians could simply buy, even low-grade gray ones.
The right to trade them was tightly controlled by the Alliance and by the great families, because anything connected to commander growth could not be allowed to spread without limits.
It was not only about fear.
It was also about order.
A commander needed resources to grow. Source fragments, shipgirl support, combat opportunities, territory, training, and maintenance were not small things.
If random unregistered commanders appeared everywhere, most of them would be trapped at the lowest level, and some would eventually turn desperate.
