Spires of Aeldrum/Session 2

With Count Homer as intermediary, the Serene Duchy sent 200,000 Fialta POWs to Sigvald the Cruel for "temporary" holding, while Sigvald sent 200,000 conscript soldiers under the command of Banshee the Blind to support the Aeldman war effort. As part of the transportation arrangement, 5 captured Fialta warships were stripped of their weapons and repurposed as heavy freighters. To nobody's surprise, those ships disappeared quietly from record and are now almost certainly re-gunned and part of the ATC's off-books fleet.
The Parliament passed a law instigated by the Serene Doge and Count Homer to establish a military research academy on Lidenia. This law included riders that severely limited disclosure of industrial secrets, including information on conditions in Guild workshops.
Doge Tiello "Brick" Augustine of Estonne surprised the public by attending the inauguration of the Academy and jointly proclaiming with Count Homer that the Academy would offer scholarships to all races and classes.
Using the special intelligence gathering powers awarded under the Industrial Secrets Amendment to the Academy Act, Dick Intrepid's newly constituted Industrial Secrets Agency (ISA) coordinated with the Aeldrum Dragoons to raid and expropriate large swathes of Valdosian bank holdings on Aeldrum, ostensibly to seize secret soul contracts that might pose a threat to national security
Doge Ulysses "Stubbs" Durant of Galthad refused to admit the Dragoons, leading to a tense standoff at the Galthad Spire. Stubbs' handling of the situation was contrasted with the restrained approach of Doge Tiello.
Serene Doge Leopold Orvihm, Dick Intrepid and Secretary Ildesh organized a major diplomatic convention on Korinth to official draft and sign the terms of the Aeldrum Coalition. The Coalition's founding document was a masterpiece of international diplomacy, laying out Aeldrum's foreign policy objectives as focused on trade rights over land ownership, establishing a primitive international mediation body to handle intra-Coalition disputes and articulating a doctrine of multilateral trade and freedom of navigation. Onlookers applauded the extraordinary document and were awed by a sumptuous signing ceremony, with ample media coverage. Banshee the Blind on behalf of the Kingdom of Sigvald became the first junior signatory to the Coalition.
In a stunning moment that shocked Aeldrum to its core, the Baroness Sivelna Morweld, wife of the Serene Doge, was struck dead by a bullet meant for her husband. Orvihm, mad with grief, is said to have retired to his temporary state rooms on Korinth to orchestrate brutal reprisals against any and all involved.
Dick Intrepid and General Donovan were both charged with security for the Korinth proceedings. Intrepid, apparently negligent in his duties, was linked to the assassination plot by certain military intelligence elements: he was killed by one of Donovan's subordinates, Aristom Eldeth, just as the assassination attempt on Leopold took place.
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