"Now," Jack said. "The miners are already assembled. I had S coordinate their arrival. They're waiting until you're ready to deploy them."
He stood, rolling up the blueprints and returning them to storage. "This needs to happen fast. Within a month, we'll have guests arriving. Important guests. I want Sorne transformed before they see it. I want them to walk into a territory that looks like it spent years preparing for war, not weeks."
"Intimidation through infrastructure," Loryn mused. "Ambitious."
"I'm making everyone understand who the Kaiser's are. From stories I was told as a child, anyone with half a brain cell wouldn't challenge my father openly. Yet someone did." Jack corrected. "House Kaiser has enemies. More than we can count. Some we know about. Others we don't. But all of them need to see that we're not vulnerable. That attacking us isn't worth the cost."
Pho's expression didn't change, but something shifted in the air around him.
