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The councillors hologram emitter hovered towards the table, Mercy keeping his hands clasped before him as he examined Valags plan with no small amount of interest. He appeared obsessed with detail, his shimmering hologram leaning forwards towards the map. Respect, as was seemingly common for him by now, remained silent and gestured with his hand to Voroei and his two minors, apparently the silent gesture was easily interpreted and the trio returned to the table from their shadowy corner of the room and began to eat modestly in an effort not to insult their hosts customs... A sharp and obvious contrast to Mercy's comments on "archaisms"
Integrity spoke again, maintaining her forced pose and composure 
"Timinous, a very wise warrior once said that knowledge of your enemy and yourself was the pillar upon which Empires are built. I expect knowledge of these Iscandarians will be routed through Voroei and to the appropriate warrior channels." Integrity silenced her own question to let Wisdom speak his mind, who had signal with a quiet raise of his hand.
"This first veteran special forces group, Voroei and his Lance shall assist them in this task; Deadly shadows may lend themselves well to this cause. What defences can they expect to encounter? We do not want to lose the advanced force because someone missed some planetary security network..." Wisdom trailed off and Mercy interjected quite suddenly, cutting into the conversation
"The Warriors inform us that for the initial invasions you can expect an Warrior Legion and one, possibly two Crèches Legions nearing age; They are of an average stock. We anticipate no problems with the Crèches', however the shapers shall not hesitate to dispatch discipline in the case that there are. It should amount to at least 10000 warriors, it is vert small but I pray it is sufficient. We can raise levies if not, parts of the Ghaj have not seen combat in a while. As for the navy, we shall send what we can spare. It wont be much but it may provide a relief force when we head to the Terran system and catch the Iscandarians in the flank." Mercy concluded, and Wisdom quickly took over, ifinishing off a point
"Many more forces will likely be available shortly, we are exterminating the last traces of the invaders in the outer colonies, for now this is all we dare spare in case of another offensive, but our military commanders believe another offensive so soon to be unlikely." Wisdom stated matter of factly, and it was obvious from his tone of voice that the Ghaj was used to foreign invasions and warfare, so much si that he clearly thought little of the offensive. Indeed, they were rather cool in their attitude towards this war as well; War in general seemed an immutable fact of life in their eyes rather than something to be avoided or disliked.