Kestrel's story

1: ----Get servo skull/skull computer purse guys

2: ----Get a group of wealthy benefactors by agreeing to protect them. They use the funding to strangarm more power, becoming figurehead highlords that thorn in kestrel's side. (agri-ship problem) -- Goes out to find the civilian spy

3: ----Kestrel gets enduring leverage over them. Buys out the company by getting the Synth guy from before. Kills him after running in with a group of synths.

4:----Group of synths wrestles with Kestrel's synth "friend's" info that there was an infection. They said, they were gonna go down and get some info and report back. Kestrel is like synth containment breach fucked shit up. We have to destroy these synths before they make it worse.

5:----FOWA forms, citing kestrels warlording as a piece of why they're needed. Kestrel launches an e-war campaign against its female leader by being misogynistic, (being subspeciest worked?) only for that to backfire. So a small timeskip later, he gets a failure set up for her and uses that. (By offering services of protection and showing that she cant protect people? Maul style?)

6:----This does however spawn a more militant gender rights movement that he only doubles down for. Creating a form of "order against the chaos" based around gender and social repression and military power. He tries to supress it but no bullets, so he goes to the laser gun corp supplying them and proposes an alliance after a small fight.

7----A religious duopoly forms among space miners. Both muslims and christians believe the scourge occured because god punished inkuna for the EUvGlobal South cold war going on. Kestrel needs the mining resources and can't get the first group to replicate the unequal exchange nor war they (correctly) spot he's doing. However Kestrel is like this is easy enough, let me. invoke a crusade. He says that he got a vision form god (read: Lies) that the scoruge was a punishment for London despite being the capital of humanity, not waging a crusade to unite humanity and stuff. The rapture obviously happened because the world ended (duh) so they must earn heaven through glorious death.

8----Kestrel spawns the first Iron Crusade, and a LOT of people start dying. However, there are things needed to survive in space that farming and killing threaten. Kestrel seeks out farms and hydroponic equipment while he can. He begins to go mad with power believing his own cult, saying that they are demons, working aginst the ways of god blah blah to get people to turn on and take stuff from farmers who scuttle their stuff to avoid Falcon attention or use.

9----Eventually people in Kestrels ranks are like this is stupid and he's crazy they spark a coup. Kestrel is like God has left humanity and he is all who remains to guide them to the empty heaven. He says that in this forsaken system all he has offered is order, life, and salvation, but all he has been met with is derision and opposition. Purge the enemy. yada yada crazy shit like that.

10----Kestrel leads a prosperous cult. He's gone mad with no opposition to his diefication left. Then, he gets a call from Patton. The Empire has collapsed but the people have remained. Without London, the EU lost the cold war but like the global south didn't want a genocidal war and the fireflies were pretty universal. Kestrel prepares for war by issuing the christening of warships. Hamlin is like we can't break humanity apart the second we were back together (circa 04IT) And Hamlin doesn't trust anything Kestrel says. He decides to go to Io. Everything's destroyed, luckily, but he discovers that the facility that got breached was a Skullcrest Falconry Special Warfare Lab.

Kestrel shows up near him or in his comm. Violating Quarantine is a threat humanity cannot afford, Hamlin.

Special Feature: A smile blah blah blah. Skullcrest facility dies to the Scourge.

Skullcrest Season 2:

\*Kestrel goes to Riversie or as Patton calls it, the true US, and touches base on what's happened there. As he's getting rescued, he escape and tracks down a Gothic American assassin that tracked down Patton's elusive and underpowered entourage. Patton also lets slip that the planetside skullcrest had info on the scourge, trying to cure it.

\*Tries for the venusian colony ships. Full of shitloads of robots and gestating embryos.

\*Falcon evacuation effort

\*Falcon finding the data on the scourge

\*fight zri/arden

\*04-06

"Escape the plague! Join the falconry."

People discover that skullcrest is evil, causes stir.

appeasement trend

Gothic states fund syndicalist movements the world round providing them with tech insights and resources. Imperial remnant is like is it time to launch the nuke? Ways off earth! Ways off earth! Radio tunes to something analog. (revealing everything so far were radio shows.) Morse code distress. "There."