Legacy War/Session 7

State of the war:
*Our black pyramid: the fact that it exists is quasi-public info, and rough location is probably known (but not world / location on world)
*Prince Vermes’s Semal attempt totally failed (didn’t seem super willing to invest his resources)
*Korinth: we hold; Brucius’s attempt to take Bishant doesn’t take, but we don’t lose Korinth as a supply line
*Telrion is in doubt but not lost: we took it, then were encircled, but Felix and his allies block them from totally cutting us off
**We lose some ships
**Now he’s messing around with the ATC colonies, where he can wreak lots of havoc, which may still allow the entire venture pay off
*ATC has lost lots of ships and manpower in this war; they’re now actively recruiting more men to fight on other fronts (not the colony worlds, which is their industrial base)
*We still currently have people in the way between Mir’Thalran and Semal–but our strategy is conceding Semal in favor of Harwel
What keeps the Imperium going is relative territorial cohesion. If they take the Firhbank line, and worlds like Hybern and Zanevuela, they could bisect the Imperium. Aeldrum could survive this kind of attack, but we can’t–our mobility is all internal.
*We would be super vulnerable if they cut us off there, but we’re well defended
Retreat through Semal?
*“The great conga line of conquest”
*“We’re building honest, old-fasioned, good old black-magic-powered weapons.”
Cato attempts to take Harwel:
*Apparently it fails, despite having brought a heart that Valdosian angels verified was an organ of the previous emperor
*Constantinus asked Cato to go
*Cato landed there with a bunch of ground troops, who are fine, but...
*Aeldrum secretary of state was dispatched on a secret mission to Orcish Directorate for major mobilization, and he promised the orcs a breakthrough at Harwel. They kept a null bomb in reserve and just pulled it on our navy
*It looks like a sure loss, and Cato falls. Having told his men to take the flesh of the emperor to a particular spot, he reappears–rebirth??? Claims blood of the emperor and abilities of a god (says he has already fallen on the planet once before)
*Cato and 100k men make it to the gate to Aeldrum
Conditioned on some chaos happening in Aeldrum
*We demand:
**Full recognition of Imperium’s boundaries, right to exist, and rightful successor
**Bishant can’t come further than Korinth
**Return of Semal
*We offer:
**Cede Korinth to the Shantine
**Elvish ethnostate run by the Shantarans
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