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    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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    "That's easier said than done." Lianna gave it some thought. "Masamune rarely makes the first move, and will almost certainly find some sort of way to turn a part of the battlefield into a defensible position that's not easily attacked rashly. He's likely thinking the same thing as we are as well, so getting him to attack Marin isn't going to be easy unless we make a deal with him before the others do. Julius will likely make the first move, or Marin. Getting her to attack Karl is just a matter of us staying quiet and letting her own instincts do the work for us."

    She thought of what Karl would likely do, and he wasn't likely going to follow much of the plan either. "Karl's likely going to try and attempt some sort of subterfuge and hit someone's supply lines -- most likely Marin's, since she's bound to make the first move. As for us, we need to downplay our own strength to bait Julius into attacking Marin instead of us, because he's got this obsession about always fighting the strongest ones on the field."

    "That being said, what should our own opening moves be?" Lianna, deciding against her gut instinct, put the overall contest out of her head for the moment and decided to focus on learning a bit of strategy here.

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    "This ain't going to be easy, kid." Severus carefully studied the schematics laid before them. "The way I see it, our ships have the highest defense ratings on the grid, but compared with Marin and Lianna, our weapons are pretty much shit. The only way we can threaten either one with something other than a wall is by trying to pit those two against each other."

    "What about Karl? He's certainly going to be up to something, and Julius is going to fight what he sees as the strongest one on the field." Masamune, having listened to the rules read out to him, grasped the concept of this game. "And Marin is going to attack Karl, unless someone with legendary skill persuades her to do something else."

    "We should write the Asmodean faction off as dead in the water." Vrael chimed in before his counterpart could speak. "We should let the Glacian force do its work and attack the Asmodeans so that we don't have any surprises coming our way. Our main goal is to convince Julius to aid in the attack on that faction, so that there remains a united front to keep Lianna busy later on, so that we can buy time to figure out their endgame strategy."

    "Alright, so what if that all backfires and Julius ends up working with Karl to bring Marin down instead?"

    "In that case, we attack Karl, eliminate him, and turn on Julius instead. We'll take considerably more damage that way, but our high defense and our replenish rate will keep us strong enough to oppose the other factions if a worst case scenario comes up. In either case, we secure ourselves a lopsided field by the time the Achenaran faction decides to attack one of us early. Even if we're at a disadvantage on the board, at least we can easily end the battle with a draw by the time the clock runs out." Vrael seemed to already have his plan nicely figured out, so Masamune nodded in agreement.

    "If three of us remain, all that needs to be done is pick which one we attack later. If Marin emerges as our ally, we let her do the heavy lifting while we provide defensive cover until she is eliminated. We'll then play an attrition battle with Lianna so that we can grind her down and hopefully win." Severus scratched his beard, and thought of alternatives. "If by some chance we work with Lianna, it's all but over and it's just a matter of outlasting the clock."

    Vrael added one last comment before they concluded and headed to the game room. "Remember, if we get eliminated and the battle starts to go sour, your objective is not solely to eliminate everyone. Your objective is to survive and remain capable of combat until the time runs out. If you can do that, you'll at least score a couple points."

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    It was a short few hours before everyone had assembled in the game room. Predictably, Marin and Julius had recruited their commanders from their own honor guard. Karl had his mercenary bodyguard, Rex, nearby. Masamune appeared later, having gotten lost because of his blindness and requiring assistance to find his way to the meeting spot. It was only a matter of time before Lianna joined and the game could commence.

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    The Emperor listened to the words of the princess, nodding at them to show that he comprehended what she was saying, formulating his own advice as the main strategist for the Glacian empress candidate. "It shouldn't be hard to convince Julius that the Glacian fleet is the biggest threat on the battlefield," he remarked. "They have the hardest hitting weaponry out of anyone, and more ships than the Achenaran faction in this particular game. The Ralgon Triple R rating is second only to the mystery faction in how terrible it is, so he'll wear himself out without being able to replenish his losses, making him an easy target to be dealt with in time."

    "Appeal to his sense of national pride, using your own inherent charisma and manipulation, and he should consider his own Empire's fleet to be the most dangerous on the field. That should convince him to make the first move. With those three fighting it out, our main concern will be the CCC... Masamune mystery faction. Their trump card is that they are practically immune to antimatter-based weaponry, granting them the highest defense rating against Glacian and Imperium forces on the board... for now. But there are two hidden easter eggs that we can exploit to deal with them..."

    "First off," he said, "In the very center of the battlefield is a Promethean remnant planet, in the Orion system. In holding this system, we can boost our Triple R even higher... but defending it is quite difficult, since it is in the center of the map. Only the Imperium Stargate network can establish a stable enough supply line, but if we can hold it, we're pretty much guaranteed to reinforce our fleet against whatever they throw at us."

    "Secondly..." he remarked, "Kappa Laboratories is on the verge of developing a new weapon. Non-antimatter based WMD. This should be able to bypass the CCC's resistance to antimatter weaponry, but it will only be available in the later part of the game. If Masamune does as you predict, and turtles up his defense... he'll have something unexpected hitting him with enough power to wipe out his fleet towards the end of the game. Until then, we're best off fighting the CCC as little as possible, and even losing a few battles to them, provided it doesn't hurt our fleet numbers too badly."

    Gazing at the princess to see if she understood the strategy, and was wise enough to defer to his strategic genius in this particular matter, he continued to point out a few minutia during the remainder of the prep period... intermediate stages for securing Orion, and maintaining the Imperium's defensive lines with factors to spare.

    Eventually, he made his way towards the game room, positioned at Lianna's right hand side as her acting military commander. It was odd to walk at her side in such a manner, as it was customary for his own military officers to do so when accompanying him, but as he was acting in accordance with Achenaran military custom, it was proper to suit the situation.

    "I'm sure you've already completed your strategy meetings and gathered your commanders," he said. "So without further ado, let's begin the game." With that, the neural interface for the commanders and their officers activated, and the simulated battle began.

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