The Princes' Game Series Summary by M.C.A. Hogarth

Author:M.C.A. Hogarth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Studio MCAH

Military/Political Stuff

A lot of the moving parts in this book are set-up for the final acts in Books 5 and 6. We learn that the Chatcaavan Navy is under the command of Second, who uses it to betray the Emperor (and, presumably, kill him). But that there are many Chatcaava in the Navy who are uncomfortable with this. The Navy was supposed to be the one place where betrayal doesn’t happen: there are contests of strength to decide who gets to lead, but there’s no backstabbing. The unrest in the ranks starts bubbling after the ambush. In addition to this, the Usurper and Second are gathering all the ships for the war—Naval and System Militia—in the Apex system, where they have to stare one another in the eye: two elements in the Empire, traditionally enemies. That might have worked had they been sent on different errands, or to different fights, but they’re starting to bristle at one another, hanging around in the solar system together.

(If this does not seem smart to you, excellent. It isn’t smart. We learn why it was done anyway in the story to come.)

Additionally, we discover that the Empire has been using its contacts with pirates to harry the Alliance border in an attempt to deflect some of Fleet’s strength away from their planned target. Given what Sediryl finds, this isn’t a minor threat. Pirates are supposed to come in ones and twos, not in fleets of three hundred, including stolen Pelted military vessels.

Fleet has sent out war warnings, based on Lisinthir’s intelligence in Book 3. They’re hoping that the Emperor will keep the Empire in check—the fact that he’s been betrayed and that the Empire is now under someone else’s command is a big deal, and that’s the intelligence that Lisinthir and his Fleet companions are about to communicate to them in the beginning of Book 5 (once they clear the Apex system).

Finally, we suspect, with the Emperor’s observation, that there won’t be putting this particular egg back together now that it’s cracked. The Empire isn’t in a civil war… yet. But it’s heading for one.

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