The Confederacy has won important victories, and the Yankee state is bursting at the seams. But not all influential players are satisfied with this outcome. Especially the cunning ones who come from “foggy Albion”, who know with what spoon to stir the hellish brew of intrigue. Why? If only for the reason that it is easy to impose enslaving conditions on those who are losing in exchange for political and financial support, and there is also a desire to short-circuit the growing Confederation. So Viktor Stanich has to change his position as a military leader and “gray eminence” to an official one. And the indecisive leaders of the Confederacy are beginning to become a brake on the path of the planned...