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Galborae’s problem, but Empire resources would have a bearing on how quickly the gleason problem was resolved on Tranxte.
    “We are in the midst of a vast rebellion,” she said. “Rebels banded together with another civilization from outside our borders and have essentially taken over our Empire. This other civilization, we call them the Chessori, wields a horrible mind weapon that completely incapacitates every creature within our Empire. Because of that mind weapon we have been unable to fight back against the rebels despite an almost unlimited supply of soldiers and ships and weapons.”
    Galborae looked at Washburn. The dark man had intimated that he fought battles on many fronts. This must be what he meant.
    Krys continued. “Just as your people are at the mercy of the demons, we were completely at the mercy of these Chessori until discovering another civilization from outside our Empire. We call them an emerging civilization, just as we call your world of Tranxte emerging. We classify civilizations as emerging when they do not have the ability to travel between worlds. We have a complete hands-off policy toward such worlds because we do not want to sway their development.”
    She took a deep breath, then said, “Out of all the worlds known to us, this particular emerging civilization is immune to the Chessori mind weapon. They are the only ones who are immune. Think about what that means.”
    Galborae frowned as he considered, but he did not have the knowledge to take her words to the next level. She gave him that knowledge.
    “They are not advanced enough to build ships and weapons, but they don’t have to know how to build them or even how they work—they only have to know how to use them, and we have trained them. They’re flying our ships, they’re using our weapons to fight with those ships, and they’ve sent soldiers to clear the Chessori from some of our command centers. Finally, we’re fighting back.”
    Her eyes lifted and looked toward him. “We can do the same for you. We can teach you to fight demons with our weapons.”
    “You expect me to captain one of these great ships?” Galborae asked in astonishment.
    “No. We have plenty of our own people to do that, but we do not have enough soldiers to fight the demons across your whole world. We can, however, supply you with weapons and teach you how to use those weapons.”
    Galborae considered, then said, “I have not seen your weapons, but I’m willing to try.”
    She nodded. “At the outset of our rebellion, every single Chosen except one was killed. The sole remaining Chosen is our Queen now. She rules with the aid of a few Knights of the Realm like Tarn and myself. You can see that I’m blind. I wasn’t always blind. The Chessori mind weapon incapacitates people by causing unbelievable pain, but for me it physically wounds. It is what caused my blindness.”
    “You have personally fought your enemies?”
    Her lips thinned. “No. I’m from the Empire and am powerless against the mind weapon. However, my crew and I have fought gleasons, your demons. We understand what you’re up against.”
    Galborae rubbed his chin. “I can’t say I do,” he eventually said.”
    Krys nodded. “All of us have a long fight ahead of us. Mine is against the rebels while yours is against the demons, and I must confess to you that resources are a problem. We’ll provide help, but most of our resources are committed to fighting our rebellion. In addition to fighting the rebels, we believe the Chessori have found the home of this other emerging civilization which has partnered with us. Protecting that world is our highest priority since without them we cannot fight back at all. Can you see how protecting that world is even crucial to Tranxte?”
    Galborae considered what she meant. He nodded, then remembered she could not see him. “I do, M’Lady. My world needs them to survive so that you can survive to help us.”
    She nodded. “So now you have