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7/8/2025, 3:55:03 AM
While your intitial surprise attack wasn't able to capture every single planet you targeted, you were able to get most, and capture a single capital, while cutting off some extra reinformcenets. The Aristocrats, naturally, denounce and threaten the Hegemony for this unbridled act of aggression to all who will listen; which is nobody in this region of space. Good, you enjoy watching them cry into the void.
If anything; it is has actually been a positive to your reputation. The Supreme Commander of the Esaal military has actually sent you a direct message.
”Ahh, Jaxtians! You've decided to take a bite out of the Aristocrats as well? Yes! Haha, I love it!”
”Thank you. Looks like we share a common enemy. Even if the Esaal and ourselves haven't always seen... eye to eye. Har har.”
”Our wars with the Aristocrats left us exhausted of fighting them, so we can't join you. It's boring fighting the same people for too long. But we could offer you something else. We still have fresh data from our own conflicts with the pinkos. We'd be willing to trade it for... a favor.”
”A favor? What favor?”
”I don't know yet!”
”Well, I am sorry. You may be the closest thing we have a friend in space, Esaal friends, but I would hate to strain our relations by refusing to fulfill our end of the bargain in the future when it would be an unacceptable-”
”Hold your refusal, Jaxtian noble! Our peoples have known each other for some time, and we are kindred spirits. Fighting with honor, allowing our defeated warriors home without humiliation, and vice versa; you know we wouldn't ask for something absurd in return for something as small as information? I don't know what I would ask for, because I am old. An old Esaal is not long for this world. I must die a warrior's death. But my successor... they will know what to ask you for. I promise, it will not be a trick, nothing massive or expensive or unforward to our relationship. Surely we have earned enough trust in you for that?”
It appears the Esaal want to offer a trade. In exchange for giving you very useful information about the Aristocrats from their previous campaigns; you will owe them a small favor in the future. The Threemind tells you that accepting this deal will give us information on where the Aristocrats will send their reinforcements and where they will likely flee; and as you know, the Aristocrats also border the burgeoning Urgi state.
If anything; it is has actually been a positive to your reputation. The Supreme Commander of the Esaal military has actually sent you a direct message.
”Ahh, Jaxtians! You've decided to take a bite out of the Aristocrats as well? Yes! Haha, I love it!”
”Thank you. Looks like we share a common enemy. Even if the Esaal and ourselves haven't always seen... eye to eye. Har har.”
”Our wars with the Aristocrats left us exhausted of fighting them, so we can't join you. It's boring fighting the same people for too long. But we could offer you something else. We still have fresh data from our own conflicts with the pinkos. We'd be willing to trade it for... a favor.”
”A favor? What favor?”
”I don't know yet!”
”Well, I am sorry. You may be the closest thing we have a friend in space, Esaal friends, but I would hate to strain our relations by refusing to fulfill our end of the bargain in the future when it would be an unacceptable-”
”Hold your refusal, Jaxtian noble! Our peoples have known each other for some time, and we are kindred spirits. Fighting with honor, allowing our defeated warriors home without humiliation, and vice versa; you know we wouldn't ask for something absurd in return for something as small as information? I don't know what I would ask for, because I am old. An old Esaal is not long for this world. I must die a warrior's death. But my successor... they will know what to ask you for. I promise, it will not be a trick, nothing massive or expensive or unforward to our relationship. Surely we have earned enough trust in you for that?”
It appears the Esaal want to offer a trade. In exchange for giving you very useful information about the Aristocrats from their previous campaigns; you will owe them a small favor in the future. The Threemind tells you that accepting this deal will give us information on where the Aristocrats will send their reinforcements and where they will likely flee; and as you know, the Aristocrats also border the burgeoning Urgi state.
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