They're saying that the Jade Grove Nation has made a blood pact with Hak'ach Voz to merge their war bands and retake the Ereba Desert from a colonial installation in the mountain range there.

As usual, you can practically smell the perfumed noble scheming behind it. Several villages have fallen in that region within the last decade, always felled by neolithics that somehow brokered short-term wars of aggression alongside former enemies or were mysteriously knowledgeable about the defensive layout. Imperial janissaries - oft-signaled by their Hussars' grotesque 'canoeing' of fallen bodies, blasting the skull in two with a charge rifle - will wash over the remains of the colony as soon as it falls to the savages, wiping out whatever is left of all sides and claiming the spoils for themselves. A shuttle full of starjacks and neanderthals comes down by morning to disassemble everything and bury the bodies under rubble, sending anything valuable to orbit.

If their official reports are to be believed, every time they had simply arrived too late to save the locals and only retook fair control of the area and resources, as they had returned to them by Imperial law. Yeah, sure. If you believe that, I have a starship in the north pole to sell you.

The whole thing is transparently the empire covering their ass with proxies to swallow up smaller landholders with valuable resources they want. They give the yokels some dumb errand to rubber-stamp them into their hierarchy, a "gift" because they get a brief taste of the airs of degenerate spacer excess, then they have somebody else knock their shit in so they can come in and mop up everything. But if you mention any of this in any of the "free" settlements, you'll have some corrupt councilor orchestrating your exile for "hate speech" against the poor put-upon dispossessed Sophians. Enjoy your third booster against sleeping sickness you fucking morons, let me know how those metalhorror hemorrhoids feel.