Thread:Wormulon/@comment-1490328-20131121004553/@comment-5365119-20140127155818

Well, it could involve humanity to a great degree since many of them are DCP allies. On order of the Vermulans, the Ottoman Empire could launch a Blitzkrieg-style surprise attack against the any human nations that are likely to side with the DCP (that's the Fjord League, the ESR, France, and perhaps Australia, POTATO, Roreinia, and their allies more distantly; I'm not sure when it comes to other human fictions). Liquid told me last night that the Vermulans uplifted the Ottomans so that they might stay competitive against these nations while still being isolated from the market.

I'm a little hesitant to have another fiction invade everyone Tyranny-style, though. It's feels a bit meh to have the Ottomans take on the rest of humanity singlehandedly. Maybe the Vermulans warned the Ottomans in advance that this was going to happen, and they spent ten-twenty-fifty-odd years amassing a web of near-human and alien alliances, protectorates, and dependencies in their corner of the Milky Way, maybe pursuading the Great Empire of Sun and Sand to lend it resources and manpower as a faithful ally.

It could spend years planning a multi-pronged invasion of (I'm going to start calling the Franco-European-Fjord-whomever-else alliance the Allies) several Allied nations, which it could pull off by (1) coordinating with its allies, especially the Great Empire of Sun and Sand, (2) through the use of innovative tactics and strategy designed to divide and conquer each nation alone based on their strengths and weaknesses (I could help with coming up with a Schliffen-like plan for each nation, if you like; the Ottomans have the advantage in this regard, being the attacker), and (3) with careful manipulation of surprise. It's possible that they could even pull off a Pearl Harbor-like stunt to even the odds in the beginning (this would be especially critical against the ESR; nobody wants to face down their exceptional ships of the line).