+++ TRANSMISSION: IMPERIAL CONFEDERATION HIGH COMMAND +++
+++ PRIORITY AUREK – EYES ONLY – IMPERIAL OFFICER CLEARANCE REQUIRED +++
+++ DECRYPTION KEY: [THESH-IX-SOL-ECHO] +++
BY ORDER OF THE EMPRESS
TO ALL LOYAL SERVANTS OF THE NEW ORDER
Subject: The Bloodborn Schism – A Call to Arms
The fires of Imperial rebirth burn across the stars—yet even as we rise, shadows of the old wars stir against us.
Three weeks ago, the Drexel Sector went dark. A Confederation resupply fleet vanished without distress calls. When the Second Battlegroup Vengeance arrived, they found only wreckage, and a single, looping transmission:
"You wear the sigil of a corpse. The Bloodborn rise. Kneel, or be erased."
Since then, five more attacks—each more brazen than the last. Outposts burned. Loyalists executed. Supply caches looted. The perpetrators? Not rebels. Not the Alliance.
Imperial.
Grand Admiral Jorran Krell, once a blade of the Empire of the Lost, now commands a rogue armada—the so-called "Bloodborn Fleet." His soldiers wear crimson armor, his warships fly defaced Imperial banners, and his rhetoric is a poison: "The Confederation is weak. The true Empire demands blood."
But Krell is no mere warlord.
He knows our weaknesses. He strikes where our factions bicker. He weaponizes our doubts. And if his broadcasts are to be believed, he has allies within our ranks.
YOUR ORDERS
The Empress has authorized Operation Steel Gauntlet. You will:
Investigate the Drexel attack—recover intel, interrogate survivors.
Assess factional tensions—root out dissent before Krell exploits it.
Prepare for escalation—this is not a skirmish. It is a test of our unity.
If we falter, the Bloodborn Schism will shatter us before the Confederation is even forged. If we stand?
Then Krell's corpse will be the foundation of a new Empire.
+++ GLORY TO THE CONFEDERATION. GLORY TO THE EMPIRE. +++
+++ TRANSMISSION ENDS +++
+++ PRIORITY AUREK – EYES ONLY – IMPERIAL OFFICER CLEARANCE REQUIRED +++
+++ DECRYPTION KEY: [THESH-IX-SOL-ECHO] +++
BY ORDER OF THE EMPRESS
TO ALL LOYAL SERVANTS OF THE NEW ORDER
Subject: The Bloodborn Schism – A Call to Arms
The fires of Imperial rebirth burn across the stars—yet even as we rise, shadows of the old wars stir against us.
Three weeks ago, the Drexel Sector went dark. A Confederation resupply fleet vanished without distress calls. When the Second Battlegroup Vengeance arrived, they found only wreckage, and a single, looping transmission:
"You wear the sigil of a corpse. The Bloodborn rise. Kneel, or be erased."
Since then, five more attacks—each more brazen than the last. Outposts burned. Loyalists executed. Supply caches looted. The perpetrators? Not rebels. Not the Alliance.
Imperial.
Grand Admiral Jorran Krell, once a blade of the Empire of the Lost, now commands a rogue armada—the so-called "Bloodborn Fleet." His soldiers wear crimson armor, his warships fly defaced Imperial banners, and his rhetoric is a poison: "The Confederation is weak. The true Empire demands blood."
But Krell is no mere warlord.
He knows our weaknesses. He strikes where our factions bicker. He weaponizes our doubts. And if his broadcasts are to be believed, he has allies within our ranks.
YOUR ORDERS
The Empress has authorized Operation Steel Gauntlet. You will:
Investigate the Drexel attack—recover intel, interrogate survivors.
Assess factional tensions—root out dissent before Krell exploits it.
Prepare for escalation—this is not a skirmish. It is a test of our unity.
If we falter, the Bloodborn Schism will shatter us before the Confederation is even forged. If we stand?
Then Krell's corpse will be the foundation of a new Empire.
+++ GLORY TO THE CONFEDERATION. GLORY TO THE EMPIRE. +++
+++ TRANSMISSION ENDS +++
