The grim prospect of extended conflict
24 Jul 2019Tan Bin Phan Nguyen
These last 2 weeks have been exceedingly grueling. It seems that every aspect of my life has increased its pace seven fold. While Arbor Caelum grows in numbers, this involves a great deal of logistics and communication. Delegation has been a skill I've forced myself to learn, there is simply no way for me live peacefully under the constant onslaught of meetings, sorties, rendezvous, recoveries, briefings, debriefings... all the while devising my own path as well as the course of ARCM as a whole.All in all, quite thrilling. Not bad for a mudsucker, as my father said.
The internal structure of JCN is shattered, but that will not do at all. We hammered them this time around, and they put up a respectable fight. Even had us worried there for about a day. But soon after Corvettes stopped showing up to the conflict zones, I knew they were running on fumes. The problem now is that they still hold registered ownership of two major assets that ACID will need in order to secure its defenses here. Current local laws would render us pariahs if we were to seize them with JCN in their state of disarray. Casus Belli is needed, and so we will be rendering our support to our recently vanquished foes. Bridge building, if you would like to see it that way. Hearts and minds.
We will usher them through their recovery, and ensure their victory in war against the interlopers, RNF. With our support, JCN will soon find itself questioning their place in the way of things in this system, and we may furnish them with an opportunity they couldn't help but exploit. They will be opening bottles of celebratory bubbly before they feel the implacable iron jaws of our trap fall shut.