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Here's the second part of the prologue. I'll play around with this for the next chapters as well until my computing credits run out. For now, the focus is on finishing the next chapter. Had to rewrite the first part of it twice, and had to cut part three as a whole (I maybe might add that later...

So, I made a thing...

Even OTL, Janos Marik probably would have loved to get rid of the Marians as a thorn in the League's side. But then as now he runs the risk of getting jumped by the Lyrans and Capellans, as any significant movement of troops from their borders would be noted and be taken advantage of...

I had to revise the armor down to 6.5 tons rather than 7 due to the half-ton of ammo for the coaxial machine gun. Tonitru TO-1u Designed in 3010 and first having entered service in 3013, the Tonitru TO-1u "Thunder" medium tank is a simple, easy to maintain domestically produced combat vehicle...

Well, unfortunately I caught CoViD at the cusp of December, and I still haven't been able to shake soe of its effects to this day. Hence this has taken me longer than I had hoped, and it went through a full rewrite to boot. C h a p t e r 0 9: Winter Clouds 'The Pad', Landing Landfall Free...

I mean, they were still extremely competent here. A lot of what we see about ROM by now is pretty much their memetic competence, boosted by how the fans view them, and I'm fine with that. In-universe they are deadly, and you've got to run with that. Kristofur very quickly made a fact-based...

Oh my god, has it really been three months since I posted an update?!? 😩 Apologies for that, but a combination of commissions on my map gig and utter stress at my main job kept me from continuing this story. C h a p t e r 0 8: Ma Bell's Long Reach Massilia, Continent of Gaul, Alphard Marian...

Thank you! There's a bit of a struggle merging character development and exposure with the need to propell the plot ahead, but there will be more chapters and parts of chapters where characters like Aidan, the senator representing Meridian Alliance, and others will get POV parts. I'm also adding...

The Perfumed Alleys Lawless quarters of the capital of Nova Roma and the second largest slave market in the Hegemony. As the alleymen are proud to claim, you can get everything there: Spices. Fragrances. Drugs. Food. Hired Muscle. Hired Flesh. The Crimson Chalice The heart of the Perfumed...

Yup, that's just a fact at this point. Even if Marius scraped together every active unit he has plus patrician house guards and local militias, he'd still be no match to 3-500 mechs plus support.

Yeah, probably not. Some sure will lash out when they realize they've effectively been neutered, but Marius' strategy now is basically a mix of carrot and stick. He's moving to expand his legitimate forces and at the same time he's limiting the scope of business that the pirates can do at home...

C h a p t e r 0 7: Politics by Other Means Nova Roma, Alphard Marian Hegemony May 2nd, 3010 "Well, that scheme went tits up faster than a dead hooker in the Perfumed Alleys!" Never one to mince words Marcos Kimura shot an accusatory glare to the young emperor as he paced through the Chamber...

Alright, I suppose a more reasonable way to do this in-universe would be to have an Invader jump to the planet's pirate point, dislodge two Unions and a Leopard, and then have this be a mixed merc force to back up the Illyrians. I can date the ROM team figuring out what they have at their hands...

Alright, that is a problem. The crux is, I can't have the Marians to be on site too long because then I'm running out of reasons not to excavate the rest of the base. I've already given it a backstory, I've already made it smaller than the CB the Gray Death Legion found on Helm, and a complex...

Truth be told, I was switching back and forth between mercs and "totally not C* but mercs" half the time when I was writing this.

I'll be sprinkling little nods at Starbug/JABaker all throughout the story where I believe them to be fitting. I admit I didn't reread that one before picking the reference. The "could be zombies" was about the Resident Evil inspired story. As for Sylvana, he managed to turn it around before it...

C h a p t e r 0 6: Wages of Greed SLDF Castle RICHELIEU Illyria Illyrian Palatinate January 11th, 3010 People were curious by nature. There was no way to change that. When the Marians first approached the Palatinate with their offer for non-aggression and trade, people were naturally...

Don't know why I mixed that up. In no version of the chapter was the POV character anything but a woman, and heterosexual. The overwhelming majority of medical tech has been taken when they left on the Exodus as it falls under the category of stuff that's really extremely useful on such an...

Originally, this was supposed to start the next chapter, but the individual log entries always ended up too big and would have ended up constituting between a quarter to a third of the chapter. Still, I didn't want to completely throw it away. I hope this gives you a small treat to bridge the...

Let me check my notes... one fire support century per combined arms cohort, that's the plan. At current there's no plan for larger artillery formations simply because I don't have the equipment and doctrine, let alone the people experienced in using the gear.