Just because she hasn't directly said "I'm upset with you" in the last 30 days doesn't mean she doesn't already strongly dislike Hireshmont due to your previous interactions, which by all accounts were borderline disastrous. Brance shares almost everything he gets from Hireshmont with the council, so I see a lot of what he writes. During that little tiff over Demyansk before Kabrinskia was founded, my character was ready to pick up a torch and start burning Terran to the ground, so don't underestimate Hireshmont's ability to make people hate his guts. Hell, even though Hireshmont's been very reasonable in his communications with Astrum lately Lysander still doesn't like him, all because of his attitude in Astrum's earlier interactions with him.
Oh, I agree. And if Haktoo were like, "Hey, I hate Hireshmont: I'm going to pummel Terran until he's removed from power," I might not exactly be happy (okay, I would be pretty disappointed), but I would get it. What perplexes me is the hypothesis that Haktoo has such a virulent hatred for Hireshmont that she will... send FangFang to attack in Demyansk, but not do anything at all on any other front?
Alternatively, considered another way: Lysander may very well dislike Hireshmont. But I don't see Lysander launching an attack on Terran anywhere. The line between "quietly despise" and "11,000 CS of soldiers attacking you" seems, to me, to indicate that
something more happened, I just have no idea what.
But, again, we'll see how it all plays out. I'm bummed Terran's military command didn't want to fight in Demyansk; I was chomping at the bit to meet the Zuma in head-on battle.
