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“If we know where the Aristocrats may send ships to flee their system, we could intersect them and battle them near Urgi space.”
”And what would the purpose of that be?”
“We could direct the fighting into a faction of our choice... who will be forced to prepare defensive forces. And if say, an Antimatter torpedo glances off an Aristocrat ship and hits and Urgi station, or Aristocrat biospores are accidentally released near an Urgi military fleet and get sucked into their atmospheric filters...”
”And expend their resources! I see.”
“Yes. If we accept the Esaal's offer, not only would it give us an advantage in our war, but also let us influence the election subtly by reducing the militarization level of a faction by one bar. Becuase of how spread out and disjointed the Urgi are, we can pick and choose where this will happen; plus, don't forget, this is for a favor in the future. We you could freely decline if you so choose.”
”But, that would strain our relationship with the Esaal... Hmm... That reminds me, has the stealth retrofit finished on my Battleship?”
“It has indeed, your Majesty.”
”Perfect! They'll never expect this. While busy fighting the first attack wave, who would expect an invisible BATTLESHIP to show up and bomb the daylights out of one of their planets? Hehe... I love my toys.”
You realize of course, if you had spent some of that economic abundance on new battleships, you'd have even more ability to bomb the Aristocrats and reduce their defenses further; but you felt the Starsight Academy and Migrators were more important in the long term. Your primary battleship, now retrofitted with stealth technology, will have to do. Loaded up with all the super-dense kinetic rods it can carry, you aren't going to risk it for a ground invasion. Let's see how many mountain ranges and jungles we can level with it...
Do you want to accept the Esaal's deal; information for a favor in the future?
>Yes
>No
You also have a Stealth Battleship ready to bombard an Aristocrat planet. This will reduce one planet's defenses by exactly 30 points. Where would you like to use it?
>Specify a planet controlled by the Aristocrats (pink number) to attack
”And what would the purpose of that be?”
“We could direct the fighting into a faction of our choice... who will be forced to prepare defensive forces. And if say, an Antimatter torpedo glances off an Aristocrat ship and hits and Urgi station, or Aristocrat biospores are accidentally released near an Urgi military fleet and get sucked into their atmospheric filters...”
”And expend their resources! I see.”
“Yes. If we accept the Esaal's offer, not only would it give us an advantage in our war, but also let us influence the election subtly by reducing the militarization level of a faction by one bar. Becuase of how spread out and disjointed the Urgi are, we can pick and choose where this will happen; plus, don't forget, this is for a favor in the future. We you could freely decline if you so choose.”
”But, that would strain our relationship with the Esaal... Hmm... That reminds me, has the stealth retrofit finished on my Battleship?”
“It has indeed, your Majesty.”
”Perfect! They'll never expect this. While busy fighting the first attack wave, who would expect an invisible BATTLESHIP to show up and bomb the daylights out of one of their planets? Hehe... I love my toys.”
You realize of course, if you had spent some of that economic abundance on new battleships, you'd have even more ability to bomb the Aristocrats and reduce their defenses further; but you felt the Starsight Academy and Migrators were more important in the long term. Your primary battleship, now retrofitted with stealth technology, will have to do. Loaded up with all the super-dense kinetic rods it can carry, you aren't going to risk it for a ground invasion. Let's see how many mountain ranges and jungles we can level with it...
Do you want to accept the Esaal's deal; information for a favor in the future?
>Yes
>No
You also have a Stealth Battleship ready to bombard an Aristocrat planet. This will reduce one planet's defenses by exactly 30 points. Where would you like to use it?
>Specify a planet controlled by the Aristocrats (pink number) to attack
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