Thread:Ecoraptor3339/@comment-5496489-20171102142934/@comment-25890179-20180105221235

Great. I think perhaps the Mendel force the Northern Alliance to leave once Durrandon starts being a menace. They give them one free pass for ending Fenric's war, but don't want them there. Anybody who'd rather rejoin the Pact stays, but all the die hards go to Quisling space.

So how do you think the Mendel will handle the war? Will they join with the Vanara to fight Durrandon or will they maintain neutrality for now?

I've got an idea. Just a thought, nothing fixed. So the Mendel maintain neutrality for now, but Durrandon really wants to crank it up to eleven and start wiping the Vanara out. He knows the Mendel will go to war with him if he goes all ethnic cleansing on the Vanara (well, he'll try), so he starts injecting the Draconian Empire with stimulus packages of cash to revive their economy and get them ready for war.

Then, he buys secret hyperspace lanes from either the Therazines or IBC, and gives them to the Dracs. The Dracs launch a spearhead invasion of Mendel space, striking right at the capital in an effort to remove them from the war equation. They take out a good chunk of the Mendel's fleet, but obviously they have tons more, and now the Mendel are at war with the Dracs, so Durrandon declares war as well, and the Mirus Mendel focus on Durrandon while Hrothur fights the Draconians in Cyrannus. If this is a go, it won't happen until later, maybe not even until a future war, but I thought it was worth throwing out there.