"We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war."
- Douglas Macarthur Victory Speech
"Where is our Venetian friend Don Vittoria Contarini?"
"Go find him! Now!"
"And withdraw some troops to the beaches, summon all the sentries, call the Venetian reinforcements!"
The Sultan felt his hands and teeth shaking violently, for he knows that those ships are definitely hundred percent plus chop not owned by the Genoese, there can only be one faction of power that owns the ability to organise such a huge fleet and wonder so deep into the Aegean, that is his rival still standing beneath him Antonius De'Ricci.
