Anything horrible happen during the night?

Of course not, whyever would you expect such a thing?

Then the next morning opens with Sesnai unleashing a psychic scream that shakes the ship, getting dressed really amazingly quickly for a princess, and rushing as swiftly as can be managed to her brother's cabin, no matter how many of her fellow cadets she needs to charge past in a horrified-but-urgent manner!

At least one of her fellow cadets ends up physically bowled over and very concerned about the whole business!

(Just as planned.)

... That is to say, oh no, she hopes Casne will be fine and she hasn't worried him overmuch. GYAN!!

Yes? What's the problem?

Gyantomerenti Adaitan is now awake, unfortunately for him.

Prophecy.

Ah. Of the war?

Yes. Can I come in?

Do.

Short summary, she thinks to him, once they're close and she can shield the room just in case. The Black Fleets will attack approximately now, following the same geometric progression as usual. The attack will be overwhelming; several people I know will still be alive, you aren't one of them though I don't know that you're dead, and everything will go very badly to pieces. My prophecy was of soon in the future, though I don't know if it's within the month or just within a few years, but the war had been going on for quite a while at the moment I saw.

Complete written summary?

Working on it.

What made you rush here instead of just messaging me was...?

As of the moment I saw, Aillis Caitebe, the exceptionally popular young woman, daughter of a hero, nobody has anything wrong to say about her - was pulling a coup.

Ah.

This would have been very bad on its own, but as it happened we were also losing the war overwhelmingly, and one of the thoughts going through my mind at the moment I prophecied was, in fact, that this seizure of power would start a civil war, at a time when we were losing.

A-ha.

I will not say that her seizure of power was ill-motivated, or that any of the people in charge were more competent than she was, or even that it was not the right thing to do. I will say that I am absolutely confident that the Fate we saw was her Fate; that she was key to the unfolding events aboard the Antemacar that lead to everything going so horribly wrong, and that her Fate is a Fate of doom, for Villarosa, for the Adaitan family, and for everyone who does not want to live under the rule of the Black Fleets.

Also probably for her, but as it happens I don't care about that part so much.

Understandable.

The prophecy was - bad for you?

The worst moment of my life, as it happens.

Understood. In that case... we need to tell the Admiral we know the war will start soon, and Captain Eshiaf, too. We need to get Caitebe transferred somewhere else - quickly, before someone lynches her; if four people know it won't be long before everyone knows. Do you think we have time to report the rest of it home?

I doubt it, but we can try. Tell the Admiral - about the war, about Caitebe being a focus of Doom... anything else?

Who was in charge of the fleet, when she tried to take power?