Date: May 3025<br/>Location: Siege Perilous: Aboard the Cobblestone Road<br/>Tagging: Open<br/>Content: The Scenic Route<br/><br/>Cavanaugh's voice cut in, interrupting any conversation.  "If you look to your left, you'll see a large field with a number of odd holes.  Those of you with significant combat experience will be able to recognize the majority of them as foxholes left over from a large battle.  That was the last major battle fought between the factions present on this planet and it was interrupted by a bandit raid.  The bandits deemed the forces involved to have been depleted enough to overcome, so that they could seize control.  They serious underestimated the skill and tenacity of the warriors involved, as well as their ability to set their differences aside to deal with a common enemy.  The enemy of my enemy is my friend, as they say.  During the battle the eleven of the bandit mechs were utterly destroyed and six others captured.  This particular bandit group was being led by a coalition of disgraced Lyran and Draconian lesser nobles who seemed to have decided to try and carve out their own fiefdom.  Since that time, there has been a truce between the five factions on the planet and open warfare had come to stop.  Currently any large scale military actions involve raids from the outside.  Whereas the various factions are like the fingers of a hand, when faced with an outside threat, they form into a fist that is terrible to behold and impossible to withstand."<br/><br/>Cavanaugh turned off his mike and looked at Kurumi.  "The enemy of my enemy is my friend,  I wonder how many realize that as soon as I no longer have another enemy, I no longer need the friend."  Perhaps it was idle conversation.  Perhaps not.<br/>