Aldenan was sitting at the head of the council table, along the table on each side were representatives of the noble houses, it was... an emergency meeting, what else. He internally rolled his eyes...'nobles'...
???1:"Was it really necessary to re-activate the forges? The costs to maintain them are ludicrous!"
A: "There are currently only three of the five forges running, one of them to supply the 'Legion' project and the second to deal with maintaining and slowly expanding on the current fleet, due to the threat that has recently been determined and the third to compensate for the Pacisa trade, two of them are running on low and one of them on mid-capacity."
Ofcourse the forges ran a little bit more than that, but there was no way of them determining that for sure, as they did not know the exact workings of the forges, not like it made much of a difference with their current monetary capacities, they could run the forges on this level for millenia...
???2: "Has there been any message from Pacisa since the destruction of their fleet? Are they blaming us for that?!"
A: "There have been no messages from our trade partners so far, they had moved outside our territory and therefor out of our sphere of responsibility, should they be angry then the only thing they have punished us with is their silence."
There has really been no message since the incident, nor did they come to collect their interdictors, a real shame, but there was nothing to do about that...
???3: "What exactly is project Legion, and why is there no public information about it?!"
...and project Legion...
A: "I´m afraid I do not know the exact construction plans myself, project 'Legion' is meant to make our empire thrive in an formerly unpreceeded pace, however, for security reasons, information is kept contained for now."
This was actually a mostly correct, he did know the construction plans, not that it mattered.
???4: "Contained information?! Are you saying you are keeping secrets from the noble houses?!"
Aldenan stood up, there was world-loving warm smile on his face as his head with the covered blindolf turned towards the man who said that...
A: "Project 'Legion', is a rather delicate matter, as other factions likely would not be pleased by our manners of producing it, do you want to start a war due to an information leak, is it that what you want? Furthermore, do you insinuate that I would betray the Dawns faith in me? Betray the trust I have gained? Me, who has brought you nothing but prosperity and thrive since I arrived?"
An eerie silence filled the room, the voices had died down, the young noble started going back down to his seat looking almost horrified, shifting in it uncomfortably, as if he´d try to sink through it into the ground at any moment...
???4: "Err... no... um... I mean..."
He looked around as if looking for an escape route, like a lowly vermin...
A: "Well, then everything is ok, is it not? We should continue the meeting, shouldn´t we?"
...the room came slowly back to live, more questions were asked, less aggressively and the volume in the room stayed lower compared to before...
Aldenan sighed internally, this would be a long day...
