Boldness comes up with a plan.

It's clear that whatever life cycle assassins of her kind go through, this is the terminal stage. As she works her bright, adventurous personality begins to drop away, eliminated from her mind to make room for ever expanding reams of data. She absorbs information like a sponge; plate tectonics, fleet dispositions, technical specifications, unique capabilities. She ceases to sleep and barely eats, causing resultant deterioration in her physical form. Every resource is poured into her intellect. It's a profoundly unhealthy thing to witness. It's like watching her death and replacement with a piece of biological hardware. Everything goes into power, power, power, stealing the abilities of a god at the expense of everything. She introduced herself as an adept of the Ikarani Temple, and Icarus seems like the correct metaphor for how her mind's wings melt like wax.

She comes up with a plan. In form it is strangely comprehensible, reading more like an extremely high quality intelligence report, written in dry and unpoetic speech, rather than an act of brilliant madness. In content, it is a massive escalation, more than she previously implied was necessary. She has detailed key targets and timing windows. It has three key components:

- The issuing of a high level diplomatic delegation to the Biomancers, which will result in them withdrawing from the system along with 20% of the Furnace Knight's allies and vassals.
- A risky fleet engagement taking advantage of the opened window, combined with a devastation orbital bombardment on Tanshin II. This has the objective of both softening up ground forces for an assault and causing a mass death event as the planet's vast biosphere collapses.
- A covert ground assault on one of the strange necromantic temple complexes that the Azura are currently building. The idea is not to stop the process, the idea is to rapidly complete and then overload the circuit with a massive burst of necromantic energy that will pair with the wave of death coming in from the biosphere collapse. 

Militarily, it is audacious but doable. Magically, it is profoundly uncertain. This entire operation hinges on the precision sabotage of an alien magical installation in a very specific time window. A [i]huge [/i]amount of magical energy is to be thrown about as part of this operation; the sacrifice of a living planet plus whatever the ground assault team can pack. The side effects are listed as 'unpredictable', which seems code for 'apocalyptic'.

But the primary effect will be a massive necromantic shock delivered directly to the Furnace Knight before he is prepared for it. From a distance it looks like the ugliest, nastiest, worst, most overkill version of the lich spirit binding process imaginable - she's studied the Aotrs process and this seems to be a hideous, weaponized perversion of your technique. This is combined with an operation that she conducts along with her other assassins to murder the Furnace Knight mid-way through the transformation, preventing his spirit from coalescing. If everything goes to plan there aren't better odds than this.

This does, however, require almost total trust. The timing windows for the construction are too narrow to allow testing, and Boldness is barely coherent after designing the plan so she can't be effectively pushed for details or explanation. Various conventional strike options are still on the table but those involve sustained ground assaults and committed conventional warfare.