The Gallic Seigneurs

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The latecomer presented himself in the assembly of the lords, Counter-Admiral Franchet d'Esperon Seigneur of Champagne. A man of simple life who had grown up in the heart of the house of Gallia and its prodigious industry, he was a serious man, grave and sensitive to the interests of his house.

"Ladies and Lords of Gallia, good evening and excuse my late arrival, I had some administrative business to settle before I could depart.I have heard about the last discussions and I am saddened to see, as you do, the deplorable state of our house.
Concerning the current projects, I would recommend to help absolutely the planet Metz not to avoid the famine, these citizens have already suffered a lot from the last war against Kusari and not to help them in priority could bring the disorder in a system in difficult reconstruction.

For the shipyard, the main thing is to increase the capacity of Gallia's shipbuilding, building defensive fortresses is only to slow down the enemy if we want. You all know as well as I do how deeply Kusari invaded our systems, especially in Burgundy, with mobile and powerful fleets, it was our own fleets that successfully stopped the invasion, I saw it with my own eyes.

The important thing is to rebuild, modernize and double our offensive capacity in ships, to obtain a strike force that is both defensive and offensive to be able to deploy on our various borders, and remember the old military capacity of the old kingdom I think we should achieve this level and it must be the priority for protect Gallia.

Having a powerful fleet will also allow us to consider reasserting our presence on our borders, especially in the Tau systems, since we signed two disastrous peace treaties for our influence in the Sirius sector. If we regain a significant presence in the border systems any new invasion will have less impact on our Gallic systems with a series of buffer systems that can be devastated by war before our own territories.

Champagne may be ready to contribute to the construction of warships, a great fleet again if your support is effective."

With these words Franchet stopped and let his colleagues speak, while taking his place among the assembly.