The briefing was pretty stark, the armies against them had made great gains, counter attacks failed and there was about 1 glimmer of hope. He had mixed feelings, a desire to defend his country, no one had expected the reds to roll up this fast and assumed they would have weeks to months to be able to react. Instead the borders had fallen and armies surged forward far beyond any time tables and planned assessments. Had they lied about their military state or did the enemy just be that much better and luckier?

The kingdoms were mobilising… that meant members of his family would be enlisting in the Navy or called to duty. They were hardly small folk but they had served as officers and men in the fleets for centuries from wooden ships to iron and steel monsters fed by coal. 

The Favain diplomat knew the assessments  but how could he politely rebuke for his country, but to not cause unnecessary hurt. A lot of loss from small folk to royals. “It is indeed grave news gentlemen and you have my sympathies. The kingdoms did not expect things to degrade at the pace they have. Our information was it is now optimistic to be polite.” He kept things short for obvious reasons.

“I want to give you some good news, but to fully mobilise, organise, integrate the Favian reserve fleets, auxiliary and merchant formations will take time. As well as to train and fill out the reserve Marine Battalions. 

The main home forces will be ready faster however and the latest of the Mars Class battleships are coming into service. They are equal or more to the emeny heavies.” He said professionally, they would be effective if used right, Favis was strongest as a Naval power, thats whete it investment lay and fully mobilised would be effective but integrating their various arms into a wartime operations force would not be instant.