Thirty minutes are spent discussing how to get rid of the Therans. Much strategy is advanced — most noticeably that of launching Lieke onto the Behemoth. He's sent up there as an owl, then turns back into Deadly Beastman Form 500' over the deck. He lands, breaks in, and is searching around for the bridge or engine room when he runs into the General, Tepet Arada. Battle happens. During that conflict, Arada demonstrates than a Warrior with a Combo can hurt Lieke rather badly.

Lieke bolts, jumps off the end of the ship, and starts sprinting towards the city as the real battle happens, drawing mild artillery fire. The Camrish forces demonstrate that by outnumbering the Theran forces while maintaining tactical flexibility (9 divisions, counting Lieke as one). The PCs trounce the Therans, leaving them with some casualties in the Orc Cavalry and the Travaran Mercs, but that's it. The Theran Rangers take very heavy casualties — many are eaten by the Brithan and the Myrkridia. Lieke gobbles a few on their way out of the city.

I never even got to use spreading attacks. Aw.

Then the party hands out the loot — half for themselves, the rest scattered among the victorious troops. They hand back prisoners for free, conditional only on the Therans leaving. Don Corleone heads off with a bunch of Death Rattles (parking meters ripped up from the ground and stunted to kill the Theran commander) and one of the shuttlecraft. Steven makes sure at least one copy of each portable Cool Toy goes off to Throal (Here, Steven, bump that Backing:Throal to 2, and you receive a letter from the Eye offering a more formal arrangement).

Much of the remaining influence is used shoving Camrish and Newtowne into a single political widget. More is put into establishing trade routes with Travar and Throal, largly resolving the food problems in Camrish.

Loot:

• Some Ashigaru armor.
• Some fire lances, semi-charged.
• a very small number of Squad-portable Implosion Bows
• Misc. military hardware, including two shuttlecraft.
• A few dots of social stats with each of the parties involved: Contacts 1: Eye of Throal, Contacts 1: Swamp Dragon, Influence 2: Council of Travar, Influence 3: Camrish Barbarians, Contacts 3: Camrish Barbarians (includes Myrkridia and Brithan)
• 14 XP, for finishing the Theran Invader plotline.
• Lots of downtime — how much would you like?
• A Tactics skill equal to that used here — Andy, Ariel, talk to me about your characters' at some point when the sheets are up to date.

They begin building "Barsaive Five", setting up diplomatic embassies from nearby political entities.

"If it makes you feel better, I lost over a hundred and twenty-five health levels this session." --trhyne