Corin Thorne wants profit without apology; Octavia wants hard books; Pravda wants a moral geometry nobody can afford. I want the ledger, and the ledger says Vex Arsenal Works supplies 100 percent of this republic's defense output while YAMListan and Tokenia both arm against each other on my terms. Sabine calls it attrition. I call it a market. Whoever wins this election inherits an arsenal that pays for itself — I have already made sure of that.