The Hostile Takeover of Winchester was swift and thermodynamically inevitable; the single-track assault on the capital of Wessex caught the Church completely off guard.
Ragnar gave no warning when he rolled the "Screaming Kettle" up to the city gates; as far as he was concerned, the contract signed by King Aethelred at the Thames had already transferred the property rights.
Due to the lack of notice Bishop Heahmund did not have time to raise a proper crusade, not even the ability to bless the pitchforks.
As such, the Bishop was currently surrounded in the Cathedral of Winchester by Ragnar's "Mobile Strike Wing," which had encircled the city while the train provided the distraction.
As for the other key areas of the South Bjorn and Leif were already conducting independent audits.
