For the love of gods.
Yes, on a hindsight, I ■■■■■■ up that one. I had much higher confidence in our planetary defenses than I should have had. I also did not account for the fact that they might have had inside help - which, I am afraid, I suspect they did. Nothing else explains the ■■■■ up of this scale even remotely as well.
Maybe someone figured allowing a small-scale attack targeted at my clan could be used put pressure on me? “Play nice if you want your clan protected”? Gods and spirits, the Gultratren Conspiracy is dead and buried and few even remember, but not like there is any reason anyone should take my word for that without… guarantees, and there’s only so many ways to control a capsuleer. (As has been now proven several times, I can be detained, yes, but in the end only because I agree to it. Maybe next time I’ll just throw the backup switch and save my lawyer the trouble?)
And no, I don’t believe anyone of the tribes would go for this kind of devastation on purpose, but maybe that minor plan backfired and it blew up way, way bigger than they expected, and now there is a cover-up going on?
If that suspicion is true, though, I doubt it was Seb work. No one local hates me enough to do that to Rhiannon, who they know I am somewhat estranged from to begin with. Much, much more likely the tribesmen and -women arrested know something of what went on in Mikramurka defense that they, in someone’s opinion, should not.
I doubt we’ll hear the truth about it, though. There is likely an arrangement to hush it up. We get our people, but they keep their mouths shut. It gets covered, move on, nothing to see here.
And fine by me. We cannot afford a civil war.
“Whatever it takes, never again another Long Night.”
I remain
Elsebeth Shaninn, of Rhiannon, born Rhiannon
XO, Unitas Nusquam Est