Grand Festival of Empress Vaylin

The Grand Festival of Empress Vaylin was a lavish party thrown by Vaylin, Empress of the Eternal Empire of Zakuul, to celebrate her glory after the recent victories over the Alliance that opposed her. Meanwhile, the Alliance launched Operation Dragon's Maw, using the party to get close enough to Vaylin for a strike. Magistrate of Revelry Indo Zal who organized the party secretly hated Vaylin for years and contacted the Alliance with a plan on how to bring her down, offering to provide disguises and security clearances for Theron Shan and the Alliance Commander in exchange for them saving captured Zakuulan rebels from public execution during the party. The Commander held a key to Vaylin's mental conditioning, but required a diversion to get close enough to trigger it, which the rebels were meant to provide. The Commander and Theron Shan traveled to the Palace of the Eternal Dragon disguised as two Knights of Zakuul, while Lana Beniko provided remote support from a nearby shuttle. After meeting with Indo Zal, Theron and the Commander installed Ion charges throughout the Palace to disable the rebels' shock collars. when Vaylin began her speech, the Commander triggered the ion charges which freed the rebels and activated Vaylin's conditioning, making her powerless to retaliate. However, their confrontation was interrupted by arrival of Vaylin's brother and former Emperor Arcann, who arrived with a group of loyalists and attacked the Palace. After saving the rebels from execution by fighting beasts, Theron and the Commander pursued Vaylin and interrupted the duel between siblings, inadvertently allowing Vaylin to escape. Arcann then offered to join the Alliance to atone for his past crimes, and the Commander agreed to take him in, but Vaylin ordered the Eternal Fleet to bombard the entire Palace to rubble, with her supporters still inside. Lana picked the Commander, Theron and Arcann in a shuttle just before the entire Palace collapsed, killing multiple civilians and tarnishing Vaylin's public image among the people of Zakuul.

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