I'm wondering how Burke is orchestrating a coalition of Alois and Verta forces given Verta's king still holds Alan in high regard as a loyal subject.
I can't believe they're not using long-range communications to talk to Alan about this despite their insane technological advantage. Even if Alan is far away, this should be possible especially with AI Iris around who he's been communicating with even when she was in orbit. There's just no excuse not to talk to him about this.
Then they can send laser drones to assassinate the leaders of this siege plot. If not outright drop weapons from orbit to destroy the buildings they hide in. Or if they want some action, then annihilate the "magic siege weapons" at the gates with the advanced base artillery, if not drone strike the troop columns and magic weapons on the way there.
Yeah, the name changes are super weird. Now Selena is Celina, Carter is Katel, Cara is Carla... good thing I keep notes but this is one heck of a mess.