Well, to be fair, Ibladesh would've totally destroyed perdan and caligus as well if things had gone differently. I don't think we would've even gone through the motions of offering a completely unacceptable peace treaty. They were to be replaced by theocracies and that was that.
And I thought that's what was going to happen. I still don't have the slightest idea how it got turned around. I joined Perdan explicitly because I thought it had no hope and wanted to enjoy riding down with the ship with a bloodthirsty Hero trying to make a name for himself in hopelessly one-sided battles.
He's on BT now, and finding all of that he could ever need, heh...