Return to Rawhani

Military action

Kaleb returns to Rawhani.

Making good on his McArthurian promise to return, Kaleb found his way back to the dust bowl industrial world to bring another group of refugees back to Gudrun.   As the lifters from the Pillar of Salt landed, the bodies of many local megafauna- sandworms- were found killed at the edge of the city, but at a terrible cost. Additionally, a strange, spherical dust storm was detected, slowly moving on the stack city. Kaleb, and some militia from the city ventured out in open topped trucks, into the teeth of the storm- to find out that it was not a storm at all.   A squadron of mechs, calling themselves House Draconis, were using the artificial storm as cover. Important relics from their early days of living on the planet were rumored lost in the caverns beneath the city, and with proof that the corporations were now firmly on the side of the Remnant, they moved on those rumors.   Kaleb was able to befriend the knight house, and they returned to the city together, hoping to get permission to look beneath the broken ship reconstructed city hall. Marianne and Mirosan, the city leaders, eventually relented, allowing them into the caverns below.   Priceless relics from the house were excavated from the caverns below, including several unique artifacts that were charged with MES energy. Kaleb also learned about the house roots, and their worship of the goddess Auguana. Returning to the surface, relics in hand, their exodus was timely- and none too soon, as a Remnant fleet spike-drilled into the system edge.   In exchange for saving them from annihilation, and bringing them along, the knights of House Draconis welcomed Kaleb the psychic into their order, granting him the title of Seneschal, and pledging their service to Greenbriar and her people.   The Pillar of Salt spike drilled out of system space as the first enemy fighters came within weapons range.