To End in Fire

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The Solarian League faces defeat after being crushed by the Grand Alliance of Manticore, Haven, and Grayson. As the League complies with surrender demands, it embarks on drafting a new Constitution to prevent the rise of bureaucratic leaders, like the "Mandarins," who led to its downfall. With the disbanding of Frontier Security and the Outworlds regaining economic control, several star systems are poised to secede from the League. Despite this, the League remains the largest and most economically powerful human star nation. Many citizens harbor resentment over their nation's humiliation, particularly blaming Manticore for the nuclear attack on Mesa post-surrender. They refuse to acknowledge that both the League and the Grand Alliance may have been manipulated by a hidden interstellar conspiracy known as the Mesan Alignment. This conspiracy is dismissed by the League as a fabrication of the Grand Alliance, which they believe is equally culpable for the war's atrocities. While some Solarians accept the existence of a conspiracy, doubts linger about its origins. In the face of this, defeated Solarians and agents of the victorious Alliance must unite to uncover and confront the conspiracy, proving its existence to the revanchist Solarians and ultimately aiming to destroy it to eradicate its malevolent influence once and for all.