In the aftermath of the anarchist movements becoming more violent, the ducal forces step up their efforts. The police start becoming more proactive, raiding suspected anarchist hideouts and safehouses, preferentially taking prisoners than killing on sight. The worst cases, after going through the proper channels (Non-jury legal trials.) are executed, where as the rest get indefinite prison sentences, released only when they have been deems rehabilitated
Still, the various programs organised and executed seem to go somewhat well despite the various events of late, with more and more of the city being converted from scrap to stone buildings, and the base of a great wall surrounding the settlement having been laid out. Of course, the search for lost technology goes middlingly. While there hasn't been any material found, the units assigned are more or less intact.
The arrival of the traders of Norogoth was met with little fanfare, though the trades go swimmingly. Once they came in with cartloads of food, they left with metal and books along with a curious few priests whom wished to accompany them, offering up small sums of wealth for the privilege of doing so.
Then came the news of the completed hall in Serbis. The lord protector,facilitated by having reservations on visiting it himself, send a small delegation to it in his stead.
In Serbis, Great River States Hall
Soon after the other councilman arrives, the delegate from Aerindinus arrives. The sharply-dressed elf soon retorts his own sentence into the ongoing conversation. "Pardon my lateness, we had a few problems getting inside. Now, Having overheard what I assume was the later parts of the conversation, I certainly would disagree in using them as forced labour. Given the economic infeasibility of it, and that we'd only fuelling their cause by making martyrs of them. In the worse cases, they make our choice, But for all the others, we incarcerate and rehabilitate. Nothing would take the steam out of their cause so much as seeing their former brethren publicly renounce and denounce their former allegiance."