It was not Katerina crawling that the two Princes were waiting on.
No, that would have been much too mundane.
They were waiting for the fallout of this decision to make it to them. The other allied nations were slowly deciding how to interpret the fact that Wistover had made new military weapons again.
And now that they had delivered them to Axbridge, in a grand formation of flying interceptors that landed in full sight of the capital before being moved to a hangar, the details could no longer be considered secret.
That would either spur them to come here and demand a fleet of their own, or they would begin making moves within their own factories.
There was no prohibition on making new weapons in their agreements.
