text: Amadeus, more than happy to see you leave and the leadership of the vessel to fall into command of the Staine siblings who will eagerly shower him in luxury to appease him,  gleefully navigates the vessel towards New Marsbourth. You find one of the smallest, weakest factions in the planet, the noble house of Gilford, a who are little more than a pawn to bigger houses, not even having made any alliances with any house at all, let alone one of the larger ones. Yin a few quick raids, you wipe out the Gildford House, taking their place as Rulers and guardians of the tiny amount of territory they controlled. Landers ferry people, equipment, supplies and rare resources down to the planet, where they begin to set up inside the Gilford House's fortress.
  
  
  With the conquest of the Gilford House, you're left as a new, unexpected player, a small but powerful faction. You realistically have two choices, two long term plans for your forces. You could go to war. The Staine siblings will help your forces get a few critical early victories, before leaving you to wage and perhaps finish the War of the New Marsbourth Houses has been going on for centuries if not millennia. 
  
  
  Secondly, you could go for the peaceful option. You control a small area with farmlands, manufacturing facilities, mines, a city and more. The area could absolutely survive  as an isolated but heavily fortified area, too powerful to conquer without serious and crippling losses, and too small to be worth even a slight amount of effort to secure.
  > You peace
  While your attempts at getting a peaceful life for your men is admirable, it goes badly. The other houses, ever paranoid, still launch endless raids and countless assaults on your territory, always presuming you're planning something. Your failure to occupy more territory means you don't have the resources to push the enemy back, and it's not long before the constant warring takes its toll. Although you ensure that all four Houses that choose to finish you off are decimated, never capable of rebuilding themselves, your forces are crushed. When the houses finally charge your home, you wipe out hundreds, if not thousands, but eventually even you go down.