Good Research. Indeed, I also thought that Brighlight had been roasted by Lofwyr.
The question then becomes... what has he been doing for Lofwyr? He played a major role in the success of Renraku prior to it all falling apart. Yet, SK has not been as revolutionary in its own matrix developments...
All right-minded citizens were hoping. However, I disagree that SK has not been as revolutionary in its own Matrix developments as Renraku was - because SK does not concentrate on the same
area of Matrix technology that Renraku does.
Renraku is a software company at heart; they look at a problem and wonder how they can code it to make it work better or correctly. Saeder-Krupp looks at an issue and considers how they can
build a better gizmo that'll run the same or upgraded programs more efficiently. Software vs. Hardware. Let me quote again from Clutch, speaking about Vieri:
... and one of the most integral developers of the post-Crash 2.0 Wireless Matrix.
Which means that, due to the tech-sharing / upgrading and all that occurred as everyone fought tooth-and-nail to make everywhere Wireless capable, everything 'we' currently have running is something that Vieri has had a hand in designing. I'm certain that old Gold Snout made sure that his people
understood what the hell was being designed, so as to make sure that he never found SK in the same shoes Renraku was wearing in '59 (needing to reverse-engineer their tech, because only Leonardo understood it, they just replicated it). I don't know how widespread was SK's development (beyond Europe) of the wireless Matrix, but I'm sure there was a lot of interface, lots of tech raids, and plenty of baseline 'okay, we all need to work Like This if we're going to be able to interface at all'. SK undoubedtly made a mint off all of Vieri's 'actually, I had a thought on that' ...