Jack of Harts

The Aesiran do not have a single national military or diplomatic or economic services or even a government in the ways we know them. Individuals, families, or inter-family corporations focus their specialties along any of those missions, but everything from an individual soldier up to a trading vessel or even a warship belong to them. Not any central government. The closest our diplomats have come to understanding the Aesiran governmental system is that there are one or more families with sufficient honor to generally direct what the Aesiran as a whole will do. Because they have earned the honor by leading through success. Which family or families these may be are more than the diplomats can guess at, since they appear to change based on what needs doing.