QUOTE (Abstruse @ Apr 7 2011, 01:46 AM)

And the seven year plan was just for the stocks for Ares. Apparently, the entirety of the plan was "Let Damien Knight do whatever he wants with the block" since she signed over proxies to him for two of those years. Allowed Knight to drum Leonard Aureluis out of the company. This, of course, backfired because Aureluis then went on to Cross and became a bigger thrown in Knight's side while at the same time set up Arthur Vogel to take his place becoming a bigger thorn than Aureluis was inside the company in the first place.
Daviar and Knight already hated each other, and Dunkelzahn surely knew it. It wouldn't have been a bad idea to have the first part of the plan asking Daviar not to do anything particular against Knight for some time. Had Daviar the opportunity, she would probably have backed Leonard Aurelius. But Dunkelzahn probably wanted Knight to stay in position to pursue the fight against the insect spirits threat. An open conflict between Knight and Daviar would also have undermined the Haeffner administration.
If the instructions really were not to move for two or three years, using the proxy rights on Gavilan Ventures as a negotiation tool with Knight would have been a smart move from Daviar.
I'm not sure any authors ever took the time to decide what the seven years plan should be about. It could be about Ares helping or hampering the New Revolutions moves. Or it may have t do with one of my favorite and most overlooked plot ever, the
Man & Machine bit about Ares Macrotechnology having to choose between MCT and Pueblo companies to develop nanotechnology needed to stay in the space race, which opened the possibility of an Ares-MCT merger.
Blood in the Boardroom and
Corporate Download hints at a Pueblo connection that gave (along with Hestaby, and maybe the Draco Foundation or some other source) Arthur Vogel the money to buy more Ares shares from Leonard Aurelius. Now, we're a few years down the line, there is no Ares-MCT alliance, Ares is still a major player in the ongoing space conquest, and Arthur Vogel is executive director of AresSpace.