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The question hung in the air while Helen considered. "There's little enough we can do. Patrols are already stretched thin, we're going to need to ration service to prioritise responding to attacks on civilian traffic. Conserve manpower and avoid high risk deployments until the other shoe drops, so to speak."

She tapped the table irritably for a moment. My concern with the Royalists is this. They're not here because they're irrational, or trying to obtain some kind of worthy death. They must be trying to achieve something tangible, maybe to establish credibility with a domestic audience. Take some kind of trophy scalp that can signal to potential fence-sitters at home that they're a viable alternative to their government."

"The thing that keeps me up at night is the cobalt bombs they set off on Leeds. It seems unlikely that all of those were accounted for when the Enclave was rooted out of Edinburgh, and it'd only take one smuggled down to London or Cambridge to make a fairly deadly statement. God knows, there's enough Bretonians who feel we have unfinished business with Gallia too."

"It's not beyond the realms of possibility that one might even collaborate with the Royalists in such an attack out of a perverse sense of accelerationism, hoping to spark a war with Gallia as a whole, where they could settle scores on a grand scale. This really isn't the threat we're equipped to fight, particularly terrestrially."

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