Era of Stratagem
Start: 2591-03-13 (formal start, two days after the Stratagem Accord)
End: Present (open)
Summary
The era in which the houses no longer cooperate openly. Every move is planned against opposition, every alliance could be a maneuver, and every silence is a stratagem. The houses act on their own interests, with their own information, toward their own ends.
A stratagem is a plan or scheme meant to outwit an opponent, and the era takes its name from the thing the houses do most: plan, conceal, execute, and refuse to explain.
The board game itself takes place during the Era of Stratagem.
What happens
The era was triggered by Vera Umberlin's return from the Veil with the encoding revealed: the are real, distributed across the 54 territory planets, and the planets that hold them are everything. Defense fleets became war fleets, and ship factories burn through the night without pause. The Assembly of Solace met four days after Vera's return and reached no agreement, and every house is already moving. See the locked Canonical Opening for the prose moment.
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