Thread:CrimsonFire735/@comment-25890179-20170514212937/@comment-25890179-20170829041148

@Zilla - I was thinking about how we could realistically explain how the Vermillions could hold Ugandalore with five galaxies worth of colonies bearing down on them. Here's what I got.

First, as we know, the northern clans are terrified of them. They've seen the Lagorthenes rip people apart and watched Katrus burn entire villages alive, and they don't want that happening to them. They think, what's the worst that can happen if they fall against Kirta? Execution, imprisonemnt, maybe even some torture, but still nothing compared to being eaten alive by Lagorthenes.

Second, the group has no infrastructure or dependent operations. Burn the buildings they occupy, blow up the entire city of Koridable if you like just to get them out of there, but then they'll just hide up north, where they can literally go underground or hide way up north where its too cold to march inexperienced troops through. Burn every Sweetborne field in existence? Fine. They'll hide in the woods and make space meth. Destroy their gun factories? Fine. They'll pay off one of your generals and buy guns directly from him. Can't happen, you say? Your generals are all solid? Maybe one of them has a secret, small time drug habit. Maybe one has odd sexual habits, one a Vermillion agent with a camera recently gained the means to expose. No matter what, they'll find a way.

Third, by the time an invasion can be mounted, they've dug in. Hard. They've wiped out nearly all form of civil resistance, eliminating the possibility of covert ops. The people are too terrified to lift a finger. Even if Kirta's armies regained control of some territory, many would still be too scared to join her and fight back. That's not assumption, that's fact in any case. Even members of the proudest warrior races in the universe would be worn down by constant slaughter and torture. Many Mendel citizens will see Fenric as the "master" and won't dare cross him. Some truly terrified ones would even snitch to his forces about Kirta's movements. It's happened in real life.

Finally, and most importantly, its Kirta's homeworld, and that of her entire race. That leaves any and all weapons of mass destruction, most orbital weapons, and certainly any uses of terraforming out of the question. Even if she were willing to damage her world, she sure as hell wouldn't kill billions of innocent people with indiscriminate bombings. And with what I said earlier about the Vermillions not having any structure targets, the only form of warfare they could employ would be squads. And one, the Vermillions won't give them a fair fight. Two, they're extremely potent fighters themselves.

I think that even if Kirta does eventually take Ugandalore back, the Vermillion presence won't diminish much. The atrocities and war crimes might stop, but most likely they'd just move north and turn the tundra into an even more horribly violent place, one that no Mendel soldier would volunteer to die in. After they resettled in the north, the Vermillions and northern clans probably would do some guerrilla attacks in the south, but would most likely just focus on the Sweetborne trade and become gang bangers, while still awaiting another opportunity to strike.