I'll explain why I'm so "optimistic".In 10 years of real time since the destruction of Nova Cats, we have received:
- practically nothing about the uprising itself. As that page was in the Era report and remained. Except that a few minor local details were added by various technical readouts. We know much more about the death of any other clan. Moreover, Nova Cats is the top 4-6 most popular clan. And even now they have quite a lot of fans.
- We know a little more about Spirit Cats. There was a hope to see their description in the "Empire alone". Especially after a very cool description of various mini factions in the "Tamar rising". But the style of the "Empire alone" is different and in the end we only learned about the small role of Spirit Cats in the form of puppets in the game of sea foxes. And again, almost nothing about the internal structure of the clan protectorate.
And a strong shift of emphasis in it from Spirit Cats to Sea Foxes. Right up to rewriting history. For example, Lady Jullieta was healed by Spirit Cats medics, but in the "Hunting season" it is written that Sea Foxes treated her.
I'm sorry that this post looks like whining. It's just that ten years of waiting are taking their toll. The last straw was ""Damocles sanction". This is a great book and the topic has nothing to do with Cats. However, there is one caveat. Minor spoilers : Although the book is mainly about Davions, nevertheless, the narrative often shows a different side of conflict. Yori and Torunaga actively appear in the text and sometimes recall their life path. None of them ever even mentioned some kind of uprising of Emi Kurita and Nova Cats. Torunaga thinks so bluntly that before the attack on the FS, all he became famous for was minor border skirmishes and showdowns with bandits. And nothing else. There was simply no uprising and no Nova Cats!
Well, what to think after all that? I don't see any prerequisites for operation dragonslayer 2. And what will happen to the Jaguars after the departure of the BLP?