I forget, was specificly agreeing not to research our own Fireblood part of our agreement with Felonsine? If not, E.
I wish we had the option to invest in our fortifications. Our army is weak and our treasury makes us a juicy target.
Nope. The deal in our entirety was simple:
we send them ingredients, they send us Blackhearts with crews. No restrictions on the development of Blackhearts or Fireblood. The only other thing we added to that was that they also sent us some money the first year. In other words, our little fiasco was a complete overreach by the Felonsine engineers. It is now up to their court if they want to double-down on it and back their engineers to the hilt (literally, most likely; the only way they could spin this in their favor is by claiming that we invited them to a personal meeting solely to ambush and arrest them to keep them permanently and thus break the deal, the knavish blaggards we are, at which point they threaten us with war) or disavow their engineers' actions in attempting to assassinate a king during a diplomatic meeting (because that's really what it looks like from our people's perspective).
One thing I'd note, though, is that we kinda sorta demonstrated what happens to fixed fortifications under Blackheart bombardment during our war with Cydwyl; absent counter-battery fire from trebuchets or Blackhearts of our own, old-style fixed fortifications will crumble pretty badly. Without some major advance along the lines of star forts or even earthen works, we may be throwing good money after bad. While I am amenable to renovating the fortifications, I suggest that given that we just alienated a major military power with bombards, we look at that the experiences of that war, not to mention those convenient (albeit unfortunately uncrewed) Blackhearts that we still possess, to help guide our renovations. With that caveat,
H.
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