Battle of Masks

[History, War]

When during the years 3327 to 3331 the Blackwing Bandits and many other Pirate Units under the command of the Pirate King harassed the Cogwerk periphery, isolating and controlling numerous mining enclaves and assaulting a worrying number of commercial transports, the Cogwerk society convulsed, giving rise to a confrontation between two political parties that pretended to have the solution definitive to the plague of piracy.
Taking advantage of the momentum (the political confusion experienced during their Politic Powerplay) both, Shogunate and Hegemony fueled the Pirate threat to deteriorate the stability of the Cogwerk Society and to invade a portion of its perypherial area and perhaps initiating the collapse of the Cogwerk territorial balance.

The Shogunate and the Hegemony used the services of the Pirate King, or they, the Major Powers and the own Pirate King manipulated each other. This extreme is something that has not yet been determined.

Although the Pirate King's ultimate plans are unknown, the overwhelmed force deployment and his brilliant strategy were able to put the SoCP forces in check, which once again resorted to the mercenary clans' wild card.

During the various campaigns against the Pirate King, he has demonstrated a high level of knowledge of the labyrinthine structure of the Gateways, which he has always exploit to build a huge advantage against the overwhelming allied forces of SoCP and the Mercenary Clans.

Towards the end of 3330, some mercenary clans found evidence of a plot by the Hegemony and the Shogunate against SoCP, and they were behind the piracy actions.

 However, the Pirate King had his own plans, and although both powers: Hegemony and Shogunate, took a step back, he took advantage of everything he gained to continue his campaign of conquest and clandestine activities.

 When the Mercenary Clans once again set off the grinding wheel of their unparalleled war machine, a whole host of new units emerged from anonymity to take a leading role as they thwarted the clever but fragile Pirate King's house of cards.

 The final battle received the name of Battle of Masks, in part, because of the covert war that the great powers maintained and that gave rise to this campaign and partly because of the new emerging clans with the final battle, units like Black Lotus, Crimson Cavaliers and Mastodon, which for some gave rise to a kind of carnival dance.

 However, after defeating the last pirate stronghold and disrupting the plans of the Pirate King, he once again managed to evade the siege of the allied forces and escape safely.
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(By GJ - 685605)