The ongoing occupation of Beldobaan has turned to some rather bloody fighting now that the Vloz’Khress and House Kenduis have shown up. The numbers are largely in our favor on this front and the city remains firmly under our control at the moment. The attack on Jaal’Darya itself has been almost entirely routed and current analysis predicts that our current forces will not be able to break any deeper into the Jaal’Darya headquarters before being wiped out. The attack on Sarghess Territory was halted by Agallias destroying the terrain so significantly that reaching the bases with mechanized units was becoming impossible.
The fleet battle in orbit of Thenica has begun to die down with all sides taking significant damage but Sharen is currently taking the worst of it and depending how the next key conflicts go whether or not they will be able to win. Though as we know two large groups of reinforcements are on the way from outside the system, so they may just need to hold out a little longer to regain dominance in orbit.
Song Auni has reappeared within the borders of Beldobaan to hide out from Kanika. We have promptly received notice to turn her over within the week or we can expect Kanika to assault Beldobaan herself. This will involve the entire Hassani entering the war immediately. We also received word from Sakhessa that the matter involving the Song Clan has taken Kanika’s priority over listening to herself back at Aureum. The treaty can only stand as long as Kanika doesn’t decide to attack and Sakhessa can’t stop her from her relentless pursuit of Song Auni. She cautions to do something about Song Auni before Kanika attacks, once the treaty is negated then Sakhessa says she herself will be obligated to show up and that will also prevent her from continuing to block Jaal’Darya from using the rot infused plagues.
I noted she sounded very stressed and frustrated.
The interception of the Hasao Tei fleet was met by a small fleet that declared itself under the flag of the Hydra. One of the Hassani, who also declared the Hasao to be under its holdings as of hours before our fleet got there. Apparently they convinced the Hasao to sign onto its ever-growing collective of smaller entities to avoid being shot by us. Which poses an issue since that means the Hasao just became members of the Hassani…not sure about that play though given the long history of Hassani’s treatment of ‘mortals’. They might have kind of shot themselves in the other foot this time.
Meanwhile the Caelkians, who have no idea any of this is happening at all, wouldn’t mind help with building a space station. They have their own but they’re all very last-gen and they think ours are fancier. They’re also particularly interested in security pacts because of the abundance of pirates in the Reach. They don’t know the amount of other security threats we’re involved with yet.
So how’d the meeting go?
The lances are taking heavy losses fighting at Thenica but are still overall ahead in terms of overall forces. The Federation still has more firepower available on Thenica. Though judging from the sounds of it, the treaty is breaking down which might swing things dramatically out of our favor.
Also Irae is back, alone. She still regenerates in your plane if she dies despite the loss of the phylactery, and its a good thing it works that way. According to her, things on the Blaiken world haven’t gone great. She and Lancaster were both executed in the throne room and they probably kept Sarrai. Irae is not as terribly familiar with the ‘Lancaster special’ so I’m not sure if Lancaster is dead or if Irae doesn’t know that Lancaster is just half naked in some corner.
Either way, she’s out of commission for a bit to recover from being murdered.
The main issue with establishing an embassy with the Zhulkites is how scattered they are ever since communications went down. While they’re not exactly opposed to the idea, the problem becomes where to put it. Since they have broken down into smaller alliances and territories with the disruption of trade and communication, at best we can ring up some random patrol base and its nearby couple of systems it can reasonably reach. Which is a start none the less, just pointing it out.
We had VSEC send some people to check in on the engurians but similar to our issue with the Zhulkites, its a bit of a trip so they’re working on that.
After some, very long extended observation, we have noticed ships that do come and go from the facility. This planet is a warrens exit but it does not appear to be an entrance. Ships will occasionally appear here from a Warrens exit but then will fly off elsewhere into the galaxy.
Rampart has been continuing their work assisting Lancaster with trying to expand influence on Kuhas. Though it has been hitting a weird ceiling. Kuhas is still operated primarily by their own security force, and their word is law since they will just shoot anyone who doesn’t obey them within three seconds. Every time Rampart expands a bit further they get shut down in minor ways by station security. Who we can’t ask for further details and as mentioned before, will open fire very quickly if disobeyed. Knowing what we do about them, this behavior is within the realm of automatons. Though it hasn’t been just us having this issue, other major gangs on Kuhas have similar problems where the larger they get the more often they run into security and get entire operations shut down by some guys dispersing them as if they were a normal crowd in a place that a crowd should not be. It doesn’t necessarily seem targeted, more like an automated response to certain but inconsistent parameters.
Meanwhile at Jydoq, Kennae is still wandering around playing superhero with his sidekick Kaylen with shockingly little of a plan. Though he has a following of jydoq who have become interested in the zankist arts. At best we have determined the jydoq assassin to be living in dense areas that usually have some political relevance. Given what we know about their diet that makes a lot of sense either way. As it is right now, Kar’Soluth has been relatively quiet as they are likely focused on the war in Sol more so than their political scheming over at jydoq. So at the very least there is a convenient lull in their activities.
The Nomads report a major issue with pirating Thenican supply lines. The major supply lines for Kar’Soluth aren’t using traditional shipping methods. Sarghess in particular is using Renjala’s Rift to transport themselves and their supplies around. So while they are finding occasional things to scoop up, none of it is impacting the front lines.
Also our counter-ops reported stopping an attempt by Jaal’Darya to introduce the plagues to the Nomad Flotilla. While we’re on high alert for any other attempts or signs of infections popping up, it’s worth mentioning that they’ve taken notice of the Flotilla.