*Chess moves. For greater understanding, may be read in conjunction
with a chess board.
The Belgian-Swiss Alliance had entered the movement on the side of the
Cantons. Indeed, they had taken it over. Those of broader vision had
suspected such a move was possible. That Cantos, a single
planet-colony of sixty million inhabitants, could hope to make more
than minor gains in that newly settled quadrant was somewhat doubtful.
The known galaxy was expanding, and the Cantons themselves had been
little more than blind, eager puppets, fed and encouraged from outside,
closely watched to see how far they could bend (or simply ignore) the
precepts of International Law. Though the damage they did was all too
real.