>I wonder, how do the Lunars invade and defend new
>provinces?
>Do they send spies in advance (mundane spies) or start
>by heroquesting in the realm of the would-be conquered
>and study his greater powers capability and link to
>the mundane world?
Both. An example of the former is the report to Dagius Furius from the Good Rat (KoS p233) about the population of the Colymar.
An example of the latter is Honeel's insertion into the Ernaldan Rites of Tarsh and the deaths of Terasarin and the Pharaoh.
>Do they seed dissention before the
>real conquest, trying to make the victim ask for their
>intervention and to salvage their "political correctedness" or
>do they merely and brutally crush any resistance and
>annexe the new prey by right of superiority?
They take advantage of any dissension that exists in the country they want. They don't need people to beg for intervention because as the Rightful Rulers of the Cosmos they rule the whole world. What they can to is issue threats to kings and princes to put their houses in order or we will do it for you. Sartar's conquest was not their normal practice.
>Do they have a continuity of strategy, or
>are their strategies as mutable as their Mask's mood
>and as their flexible tactics?
Both.
>Is more economical (in
>terms of expenditure of resources) for them to use
>before and mainly their mundane resources or their
>supernatural ones (from mild persuasive magic to the
>crimson bat in a continuum of spectrum)?
They do not care about the economy. What matters for the military is battlefield glory, loot and plunder.
>I wonder, besides, how do they mark/defend and watch
>the "limes" of their growing empire. Do they rely
>"simply" on magic wards (like the huge reaching moon
>temples) or do they use towers of observation,
>fortification walls, patrols and spies to discover
>even the slightest of dangers?
Both.
>Do they array their
>forces on the boundaries or do they keep them on
>reserve to deal with the invading menace when it has
>already displayed its power?
They favour the pre-emptive strike. The invading menace must be crushed before it even has a chance to be an invading menace.
--Peter Metcalfe
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