Xu motioned for her to sit on the bloodstained chair.
"Seems I beat some sense into you."
He sat on the edge of the table once more.
"Corsairs are imperialistic. Not content with the dustball they are on, they spread out like cockroaches with their eyes set as far north as Honshu, as far East as Dublin and encompassing most of Bretonia and Rheinland. They will not stop there, oh no. Like all Empires, it will not see a border as a permanent fixture."
He picked up a stack of papers.
"They need to be put in their place. Next question: The Mollys are friendly with the Coalition. We support them and they allow us to use their bases. What if you find a Molly taxing a miner in Dublin? What if they're outside Dublin, what then?"