User blog:5nine1/The Strategic Situation

Lexa has united 12 clans and just negotiated a truce with Mount Weather. All the major players are happy.

The Sky People are a minor faction in the region, they are lacking in resources, weapons and soldiers.

If this were Civilization, and I was playing the Sky People faction, I'd probably be starting a new game at this point.

Although, while the Sky People are at a disadvantage (they've lost their only ally) at least they're only fighting on a single front; Woods Clan aren't going to help them, but they have no reason to attack them either.

Unfortunately their single aggressor, Mt Weather, wants to wipe them out in a relatively short amount of time (they've just lost the source of blood treatments).

As far as I can see it, they only option the Sky People have right now is to conquer Mt Weather.

If they succeed they lose their minnow status and become a shark, and if they fail the outcome is the same as doing nothing at all (involuntary bone marrow donors).

Thankfully we have Mr Rothenburg & Co. to write a better story than me... :)