The Road to PARTIZAN continues, and it does so with Alex Roberts' and Evil Hat Productions' For the Queen, a card based storytelling game about the retinue of a leader on a critical journey through difficult territory.

Today's game takes place about 500 years before the events of Partizan, at a moment where the Principality marches against two of the only remaining galactic powers not yet under the heel of the Divine Principality, each an echo of a past culture that fans of our second season, COUNTER/Weight, will know well.

Now those two cultures join on this crucial mission to the heart of Divinity. From the Empire of Apostolos, the Apokine (our stand in for the game's titular Queen) has gathered around them a cadre of trusted companions: Eudora (Andrew Lee Swan), their adopted sibling, Antigone Gennadiy (Janine Hawkins), their former caretaker and a current soldier in their military, and Orbit Shard (Andi Clare), their bodyguard and most trusted fighter. They are joined by Modus Maria (Austin Walker) a member of the mysterious "Branched," a people who have transformed their bodies into something spectacular and free—only to have the threat of war force them to rebuild themselves as soldiers first and foremost.

In this moment, the future is unwritten. Can the Apokine finish their journey and secure freedom for their people? Or will Apostolos be conquered by the Principality, as so many other people and places have been?

This week on the Road to Partizan: For the Queen

////PARTIZAN PALACE DATE ENTRY | 1418 P.M. 09 01 \\\\

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///OPERATION: CHOOSE SECTION: MILITARY ACTION && GALACTIC POLITICS: DISPLAY TOP ARTICLE\\\

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//APOSTOLOS STRIKES KESH, ESTABLISHES 'FORT ICEBREAKER' \\

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/OPERATION: GENERATE BULLETED PRECIS\

• Hostilities begin on Partizan during fight between Kesh and Apostolos in the Verglaz Taiga
• Apostolosian forces led by elect of Motion, Hyacinth, who utilized wind and snow drift to disorient Kesh opposition and to misdirect their opposition long enough for Fort Icebreaker to come online.
• Brief description of Fort Icebreaker: "a mobile fortress," "network of tunnels," "treads and cannons"
• Neutral analysts from Orion and Columnar are quoted, citing the divine Motion's ability to extend operation time of Apostolosian hollows as a key aspect of this victory, though secondary to Hyacinth's strategy
• Melody Sefton East of the Church of Received Asterism calls for an end to hostilities.
• Additional context given re: current Kesh-Apostolosian hostilities across Divininty (see also: Princept (Dahlia), Princept (Cynosure Kesh)

Hosted by Austin Walker (@austin_walker) Featuring Janine Hawkins (@bleatingheart), Sylvi Clare (@captaintrash), and Andrew Lee Swan (@swandre3000) Produced by Ali Acampora (@ali_west) Cover Art by Craig Sheldon (@shoddyrobot)

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