The D’Sev War rages across the stars and it’s finally reached Foregone. The conflict has taken the aspect of a bitter fight for influence over nomadic tribes across the continents.

Our initial efforts to contact the nomads had seen slow progress and stubborn resistance, but then we realized we can piggyback off the D’Sev’s efforts. Whenever they built a trade port they used their psychic powers to overcome nomadic skittishness. So we started building our own ports a dozen miles down the coast from them and initiated contact with the same emboldened tribes.

We, the heroes who destroyed the slave trade, finally started making deals, settling disputes, building infrastructure and stealing the Imperium’s allies.

In response, D’Sev mystics led a dozen armed tribes against our competing port on the Millarin Coast.

The D’Sev commanders compelled thousands of firryans to march in perfect formation. It was too professional to have been taught conventionally, the D’Sev must have been exerting intense mind control, risking the souls of their clients to oppose us.

Our port had no walls and only a few dozen peldaks within, so the defenders advanced in a scattered, skirmishing pattern.

But before a single shot could ring out, the enthralled firryans broke and ran. The officers barked orders to return, but nobody complied.

We don’t currently have an explanation for why this occurred. The dominant theory is that psychic powers have been a hoax.

Days later, the nomads returned to the D’Sev’s port, furious and armed with imperial weapons. We heard that a battle broke out, the D’Sev dropped any pretense of being a beneficial force and slaughtered their former allies. Their influence ruined, they left the region, allowing us to move in and care for the wounded.

The Imperium isn’t likely to try enthralling nomads into soldiers again.