Peace At Last

The Hunt and School Begins

Crimson: "Is this all that we have? Is this the limit of our knowledge on this whole Fucking Fiasco?"

Aides and clerks hurry about with renewed frenzy as they scramble to bring in new stacks of papers or whispering furiously with whoever they are speaking to on thier scrolls. The inner sanctum was filled of people for the first time and Crimson was quite annoyed by it. He is only thankful that Blank only brought her Dakotah with her unlike the rest of his inner circle. His annoyance must've been palpable as Duke revs his Goreblade that brought order to the room. The King was greatly annoyed that he needed Duke to do this. He chides himself that he had Hati sleep for her refit. It was rotten luck this attack happened with his precious Viking out of commission.

Broadside: "Aye then. What we have is everything to date chief."

Crimson: "Let's begin then. Start us off Broadside."

Broadside: "Yes, Chief! As of two hours ago, we can raise our causalities to forty-three--"

Crimson: "Nearly Fifty Dead!?!?"

Broadside: "Aye, Chief. Most of our loses were from the patrols outside of the outpost when the attack began. We're still collecting bodies of these scum and we so far got over two hundred of them with twenty-five prisoners."

Vanders: "I must also add that I've lost a Patrol Squadron of Banshees. Squadron Six was annihilated by this unknown beam weapon. It was sadly destroyed but its mere existence raises questions on its origin. So, we must sadly raise the causalities to forty-eight."

Lilliana: "It can't have been made here since we've long stopped research into laser weaponry in favor of ballistic and missile technology yet I can't think of anywhere else but Here that such a weapon can be conceive in..."

Broadside: "Hopefully one of the prisoners can shed light on that question but we must act with what we have!"

Crimson: "Let's hear it then. What suggestions you got?"

Broadside: " Chief, I propose that I take the Second and Third Regiments out to scour the forests and mountains for these damn rats with the Fourth reinforcing our fledging towns and military installations. Leave the First here to protect the Capital and yourself. If these Rats have the balls to attack one of our outposts then we can not rule out assassination and especially so with Hati out of commission."

Vanders: "I second that half the Fleet moves out with the majority of the Vikings and Banshees. The thought of the King being killed is laughable with or without Hati."

Crimson: "Tell Aegis Wing that they are staying to guard the capital and you can take the rest since Vanders is right. They must be delusional to think that mere bullets or steel can end me. A truly poor joke indeed."

Broadside and Vanders saluted thier chief before leaving with their aides quickly gathering papers and rushing out after thier leaders as they left a mess in thier wake. Crimson was relieved that it got a bit quieter now that they were gone. The seemingly endless chatter and harsh whispers demanding answers was starting to annoy him and now things were more manageable for him.

Lilliana: "We still need to investigate how these rebels or insurgents got thier equipment. The only place they can get any sort of decent hardware is here and no where else."

Winter: "We can't be too sure about that but it is true that Etheria is the most probable place. Vale and Menagerie are too backwater to be the source of equipment let alone the amount of it that was used and with that Laser Beam weapon used which I'm sure Vale has a hand in its conception."

Blank: "I don't get how they got so many rocket launchers to assault the base. Though these reports tell me that these rockets are rather weak and almost near civilian grade due to how little damage they did to the walls and the amount they had to throw at it to even make it crack."