Black Sky Faction

The **Black Sky Faction** (RC: "Mavrurani Phatreya") is a joint Laconic task force, formally established & controlled by the National Navy through the Mars NN Chani highliner, in partnership with the Larkana State (RC: "Larkana Ethnos") represented by the Bobbie Draper LCD.

The battle group is a means to pursue the extroverted foreign policy objectives of these 2 Laconic states, focusing on a long-term strategic defense against the Midian machine empire: they want to bridge the gap from Laconia to the shores of the Midian galactic void around the tiny but crucially important outcrop of Earth 2.

They intend to achieve this by reforming the stellar blockade around a nearby Righteous Alliance bastion of more than 40 billion souls, precisely in order to liberate the Boadicea LCD commanded by Larina Shon to lend assistance to the Atreides Corporation fleet of Quijadic warships roaming the big Earth 2 oceans.

Your humble narrator had a radio chat with their forces:

DML: (radio) Bobbie Drepyor technical skiff, this is the Princess Irulan from the TroBom fleet of Boadicea LCD. You are on an intercept course, please advise!!

Bobbie: (English pronounciation) Draper.

DML: Sorry?

Bobbie: (short pause, mufflled chatter) Irulan, hello, this is first lieutenant Tugaltur Patrick from the Bobbie Draper LCD. Don't you worry, we keep that skiff away from your ass... I mean assets!

DML: Yo, National Navy in the house! You wanna take a tour, huh? I got some hash in the galley if you...

Bobbie: No, sir, I'm afraid it's anathema for us today.

DML: Pity!

Bobbie: Lieutenant, we are from Larkana Nation State, it's errr... Well, it's Laconic state like Mars, basically, just bigger. Personally I am from Earth 2 just like you, Mongolia.

DML: (excited) Kurultai??

Bobbie: (hysteric laughter, says something in Mongol) Kurultai, right! Yeah, well, actually I grew up in Ordos cuz my parents wanted to make money, so it's Chinese territory. My Mongol heritage was not a big priority at school, to say the very least!!

DML: (amused) Ordos was a playable house in all the Dune video games, just saying!!!

Bobbie: (enthusiastic) Fuck yeah, what's up man! Now we're talking. Emperor: battle for Dune was my favourite.

DML: I played with Dune: the building of a dynasty the most, it was released back in the 80's or early 90's by Westwood studios.

Bobbie: Wow, you a boomer or something? Never mind, tomorrow you can rendez-vous with our vessels, we have spice liquor & high power MDMA to trade for your hash!

DML: Oh, good! Kharasho.

Bobbie: But not tonight, bro, we have a shit ton of work here. By the way, the Mars NN carrier is the Chani right behind us... But they are also kind of busy right now, you see?

DML: Okay, but the Chani is a million clicks behind you on my periscope. Your skiff is on an intercept course, like I said. It's okay if you wanna dock it with us, just let me know!

Bobbie: No, sir, we will not intercept your course. We are changing the skiff to half three five quarter nine, with sixteen hundred grams, immediately!

DML: Hold on! That much is not necessary.

Bobbie: I don't know how much you've been told, Irulan, but we are doing a stellar blockade here. Please consult our mission repository for further details!

DML: Blockade, huh? Thank you, but we are doing that as well & I think we're getting along just fine. This is a TroBom cruiser, full of guns to shred those righteous thugs to pieces if they come around.

Bobbie: Yeah, well, I guess we can just re-inforce the shield of your impenetrable air superiority from behind, you know, just in case. It won't hurt, right? You may be vectored out of here in the near future, you know, that kind of thing. Onward to the black skies of Midian, ahoy!!

DML: (frustrated) What the fuck are you talking about??

Bobbie: Never mind, bro, I was just thinking aloud. You can hail us for supplies anytime: fuel, ammunition, wives, angels, groceries, whatever you need!! (RC: Sakhar, piromach, dominas, angeles, phaghes.)

DML: Thank you, I'll keep that in mind. So you err... You came with the Adiemus too?

Bobbie: No, I came from Dorchol Station with the Atreides afterwards. Your birth place is listed as Dorchol on the fleet manifest, by the way, Theliangel Marton.

DML: I'm not a Theliangel & I was born in Miskolc down the Earth 2 gravity well, not some Dorchol station in the Belt.

Bobbie: Whatever. Okay, Bobbie Draper admirality over & out. Oyedeng, beratnas!!