Spaceships and Magic, What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Chapter 174: The Plan

The rest of the eting passed in a blur of planning.

The first thing I learned was that I had been a bit ambitious when assuming that the territory push was going to be global.

The push for territory was going to happen in six key locations across the surface of the world, each location equidistant from the two next to it, in one big ring.

The hope was that after the push had been made in those locations the rest of the people on the planet would be incentivised to make pushes of their own, to occupy their own territory.

I wasn't sure if that was going to be the case, and I also felt as if the dwellers of the Furnace were going to be taking their grief out on entirely the wrong people.

What had the people in the fifty floors above actually done to the people in the Furnace?

The answer was nothing at all.

Those people shouldn't be displaced and punished just so the people of the Furnace could move up in the world. Not to ntion the untold number of deaths that would likely be the result of resistance from the upper levels.

Not only that, the mont they launched their attack on those upper levels, any secrecy the people of the Furnace would have had about their operations and plans would be blown wide open.

All of a sudden the upper levels would understand that the Furnace actually constituted a genuine threat, and once that had happened I wasn't so sure that the dranes would be as willing to leave them to their own devices any longer.

I brought all of this up in the eting, of course, and was t with wary stares and uncertain expressions. That was when I revealed what actions I thought we should have been taking.

For a start, breaking cover before it was necessary was an inherently bad idea. The mont the uppers got any idea that the people living below could actually pose a threat to them they'd start acting incredibly cautiously and would double their efforts to maintain the status quo.

Obviously, that would be bad for any revolutionary effort, so we'd need to keep our actions on the down-low until it was absolutely necessary. When we attacked it would have to be quick and decisive. In other words, we'd have to cut the head off the snake instead of holding it by the tail.

My plan would be a simple matter, all things considered, but likely quite difficult to execute.

First of all, we'd need to capture a drane.

Then we'd need to figure out so way to get the drane to talk without either notifying the rest of the enforcers or draining anyone of their life energy.

We'd get the drane to tell us exactly where the leaders of this world were situated. The true location, too.

After that, a small strike force composed of only myself and Lara would go up to wherever it was that the leaders were hidden and we'd kill them. All of them.

From that point onward it would beco much easier for the people of the Furnace to push up and take their rightful place in society, even if that only ant being able to move between the upper and lower cities or leaving the planet altogether.