User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 439: Albareth Empire, Review./@comment-24277053-20150608122512/@comment-7418318-20150608125053

Now that you mention flashbacks.... Did Makarov go through all of Reedus' pictures and had Mest erased from them? Or could Mest have been a loner or maybe picture shy?

I think Veronica is too small to me much of anything other than just being there. I might be mistaken on this, but to me it seemed as if Veronica was more of a city-state than an actual big country. That'd mean their military contribution to a continental-size alliance would be negigible.