Focusing on maintaining calm, the Emperor watched as the Glacian princess focused her gaze on him, though it wasn't lost on him how everyone else in the room was paying attention. He realized that her flirtatious behavior and show of attention was not meant for him, but to make a show to her cousins as they watched, and therefore resolved not to let it get to his head.
"Indeed..." he remarked. "I'm sure we have much to discuss, after all." Allowing her to take hold of his hand, he made his way to the adjacent room with the princess, a look of slight amusement on his face as he did so. Once they were out of view of the others, he directed her towards a separate room in order to conduct a pre-simulation strategy meeting.
"There are two games at play here, if you haven't figured it out," he remarked. "As far as the fleet combat tactics are concerned... you're probably better off leaving the command of the Imperial Armada to me. As for your part, you should focus on playing your cousins against each other. The simulation takes place on a five-pointed pentagonal battleground, with our closest neighbors being the Ralgons, and the mystery faction. If you can convince the Ralgons to attack the Glacians, and the Mystery faction to attack the Asmodeans, we'll have victory secured before we even engage our opponent. Though our fleet is the smallest, our triple R should be sufficient to keep our forces at top strength so long as we don't suffer heavy casualties."
He was quoting some of the rules of the game that all of the princes would know once they read up on them, provided they spent enough time to learn the game, though he himself was more well-versed in them than the others. The Triple R that he was referring to was the Repair, Resupply, and Reinforcement network that was in play... the Imperium's being quite high due to their Stargate network. Triple R didn't allow for a fleet's numbers to exceed their starting limit, but it did allow them to replenish their numbers over time. The only fleet other fleet with high triple R for their top of the line ships were the Asmodeans, though the Glacian trash drones had the highest triple R of all due to how cheap they were.... though Donald III considered Glacian trash drones to be useless against everyone except the Ralgons and perhaps the mystery faction, as they died in one hit and lacked the firepower to damage Imperium or Asmodean fighter craft.
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