@Acolytus Well not all scientist will simply cooperate when they understand that their knowledge would be used to massacre people, this Velanto guy shorten some of the undesirable processes like having a conscience and morals that a hegemonic country like Dhala would think of as weakness, this guy is a literal brain-eating garbage sadist, he wants technology to kill people he is Dhala's trump card.
I understand your point but this is a fantasy setting and in my opinion, he being their leading "mind" in research is in reality pretty believable, i mean he is only the head scientist of Dhala it isn't like he is the only responsible for advancements in the world as a whole, and if him being the center of Dhala's knowledge bites them in their balls to me is fine more than fine truth be told when he dies it will be glorious.
A little edit: The bra of our loli(?) when she got all grown up is BUSTED, and i am saying this only to emphasize those marvels of nature that are attached to herself.