I thank Flavius for delivering the scepters so brazenly looted from the League. We'll be capturing them next year, simultaneously with the palace complex on Madoc.
However, I feel the need to correct him on his latest statement.
Yes, we do still fight the League, which involves spoils as well as losses. Yes, we were forced to confiscate food from the Agora on Shaprut, to avoid starvation (all thanks to the unnamed benefactor who got us excommunicated), but we did not loot the Madoc Agora.
To my memory, it was still there last time I looked, but admittedly I did not look very carefully - it's perfectly possible it was captured by the same unspecified party who quietly looted one of the Agoras on Byzantium Secundus (the one next to the Eye compound).
Such self-serving, unauthorised action by one of the Houses, on a planet that we consider ours (despite still flying the Li Halan flag) would be highly uncool.
By the way, I forgot to mention, we've constructed four new cities on Stigmata, and razed another one of the Symbiot Hives. Yet another Hive on Daishan was purged via orbital bombardment.
Also, we might have accidentally lost some of the League ships captured earlier, because I might have been drunk when giving orders and possibly forgot to scout the space for cloaked ships.
-Ibn Donald