Pilot: "Immortal Imperial Headquarters have been contacted, Duchess."
"Excellent."
"Greetings, Emperor. We have entered Prussian space and are about to finalize Operation Exorcism, our first blow against the paltry Prussian Empire, as devised by me. Pilot! Activate the screen."
"The blue indicators are Prussian-controlled planets with bases on them, the red ones are our ships. The Prussian bases are arrayed around the central area - their homeplanet - as a ring of forts. Claiming these forts for our own as points to stage our invasion from was our first task here, and I felt little for spending a lot of time festering out all these small settlements. Thus I personally set the coordinates for our Armada so our ships came out of hyperspace right above these planets. As I suspected the inferior Prussian navy is hiding and we haven't seen a trace of them yet - I suspect the rats will only show themselves when we force them to fight once we begin bombarding their homeplanet. We've immediately started deploying our forces - the Prussians will be caught by surprise, and their 'ring of forts' will be proven useless, as you'll soon see. Pilot! Contact Colonel Ricardo. (to Immortals) - He's been commanded to oversee the ground offensive -."
"All ground forces are deployed and ready to strike, Duchess. However, we've seen no signs of life yet! Our vessels weren't fired upon, and so far I've received no reports of enemy sightings in those bases yet either!"
"Hmm, it must be some kind of trap. Hold back all our forces for now, send scouts to survey the area and those bases and tell the commanders to get some radars up to see if we can get life readings from the bases."
"Very well, Duch- Hey! The VoL we put in the front ranks are already beginning their attack! The Brittanians are following them! The same thing is happening across all fronts!"
"Argh! Those idiots! Recall them now!"
"I've issued the order, but they're not listening!"
"Mierda! The Brittanians must want to claim those bases for their own... Send in the shock troops across all fronts! We're not going to let our 'allies' claim all the credit!"
"Fine."
"Attack men! Issue the order to the other commanders as well!"
A few minutes later
"All bases have been captured, Duchess. No resistance was encountered... We're searching the bases for enemies, but none have been reported."
"No resistance? Wait a min- Commander, pull our forces out of those bases immediately!"
*beep*
"Very well, Duch-" *rumble* "WHAT THE?"
"Aaargh!"
"Commander!"
Pilot: "Duchess, the Prussian bases are exploding! Forward squads have been wiped out on all fronts!"
"I want a detailed status report on those forces now!"
Pilot2: "Duchess! Enemy ships have appeared in Sector 1 and are ambushing our ships!"
"What? Activate the map, quick!"
"This looks bad. Our ships are being hit from behind and are outnumbered now our Armada is divided... It's as if they knew what we were doing from the start!"
"Contact all allied ships! I'm personally taking command here - we need to reorganize and take this chance to crush the Prussian navy!"
*rumble* "Gah!" *thump*
Captain Roberto: "Duchess! Enemy vessels have appeared behind us! They must have kept some units in reserve to strike at our mothership to disrupt our command!"
"Argh... I'll have to end this transmission here, Emperor. I assure you this is only a minor setback. I'll contact you again after we deal with these upstarts."
