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The Pact Council was not pleased when you tried to sell them on the idea of Project Peace Shell, but you had earned enough credibility amongst them to at least get it put to a vote. The more conservative members of the council naturally voted against green lighting the project, but enough of them were intrigued, desperate or just plain crazy enough to get it approved by a narrow margin.
Construction would begin at your shipyard in Higg, and would take up the attention of you and your team leads for the foreseeable future; you couldn’t be happier.
The Hot Dog MK2 was much better received than its predecessor. With the Glory-Cs in production there was now a proper platform to actually carry it into battle. The long range particle beam coupled with the shield mode allowed battle groups to engage their targets at range instead of having flights of TILE Bombers brave enemy point defences.
Many among the fleet started to whisper that R&D was finally starting to make stuff that was useful and wondered whether that “Dumbass” was still in charge… the nerve of them.
The enemy TILE-H remained a scourge though. Carrier groups struggled when engaging their peers as the Imperial TILES outflanked their vessels and attacked them from their unshielded sides.
By now Pact and Imperial strikecraft doctrine had completely diverged: where they once shared common designs the Imperial Fleet had phased out their fighter/bomber combos for the versatile TILE-H design. The Pact had replaced its bombers with the Hot Dog MK2 and used existing fighters to cover them while they fired from a distance.
Following their recent defeats the Imperials rallied and launched a new offensive into Noto. Waves of warships translated into the jump points and crashed against the Pact defenses. However, thanks to the bravery of the Fleet (and a little help from a certain AI) the defenses buckled but did not break.
The Imperials had solidified their original beach head once again but had utterly failed to spread out and contest the outer orbits they had so previously dominated. Their threat continued to loom over the independent systems of the NKH Pact but there was now hope.
((As I said before my schedule is screwy and while I continue to run this quest it's been harder to maintain a consistent update schedule. Since NonCognis is feeling it I shall let them take you through another arc of Ex-Nihilo))
