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VentAn intelligence report has come in stating that a Drukhari Archon is "playing at humans": having bent a high-ranking official to her will, she is now effectively running the colony from the shadows. She is committing unthinkable atrocities but is surprisingly good at governing.
YOUBury the xenos under a mountain of paperwork
VentThe Archon acquires a taste for bureaucracy and turns it into a method of torture. She continuously invents new requirements for forms and petitions, makes the queues drag on for months at a time, and arranges fights to the death for a chance to receive an approval stamp. Once she is done harrowing the clerks, she slaughters them all and leaves the colony. The nobles are quite pleased to have no one left to write reports to.end of branch
YOUSend assassins after her
VentThe Archon easily dispatches the assassins, unmasks herself, and decides to "let her hair down" a little. The colony drowns in blood until the Drukhari's thirst is quenched. She departs, leaving behind valuable gifts of xenos origin and a slew of dead bodies arranged into a message of thanks.end of branch
YOULeave the Drukhari to her entertainment
VentThe Archon's game becomes crueller by the day, until, at last, she grows bored of it and vanishes from the planet. Unexpectedly, it turns out that the aristocracy liked the previous official even less, and the xenos's "term" in power has had a positive effect on the planet's administrative structure.end of branch