"Actually, although the company is out of money on the books, I still have quite a bit of savings."
"These savings are enough to win this bid."
"But..."
The old man in the picture, with a glint of irrepressible anger in his eyes, croaked, "The other side has hired a large number of ground troops carrying various heavy firepower stationed around my castle on Alien Star!"
"My wife lives there!"
"My castle is located in the unregulated area of Alien Star and is not protected by the Star System Federation so we need to defend ourselves."
"And the Energy Dome of that castle can only last for three hours."
"The other party may start the war at any time!"
"Black Europe Corporation doesn't have much financial strength to maintain large-scale firepower equipment, just some smaller weapons, but that's not enough. Once the war starts, I have to quickly pay a fortune to hire a field army!"
"But... that means I won't have any money to put into the bid."