If Ves was being honest with himself, his belief in human supremacy had changed.
He no longer possessed the naivete of the past.
While still believed that the human race possessed a lot of superior traits, he was not blind to the fact that other races might not necessarily fall behind.
The Red War had long opened his eyes to the fact that most intelligent alien races deserved respect.
They all had their respective strengths and weaknesses.
If he had to make an honest evaluation, then perhaps the native aliens of the Red Ocean might score lower in terms of culture, society and technological mastery, but these were all surmountable faults.
So long as the alien races learned from their human foes and fixed many of the faults that impeded their civilizations, it was not impossible for them to grow rapidly and experience their own versions of the Age of Conquest!
Ves might despise their present incarnations, but he could not underestimate their future potential.
