The Firehounds probably need to be hunted down. (Send company X, mobile assets recommended) Today’s refugees can be tomorrow’s soldiers and factory workers. Dispatch a company of troops to deal with this threat. Perhaps someone to keep an eye on for higher position. A Curious Innovator: Siriano is a interesting person. Ease of Production: Improve Firearms R&D project results, faster distribution of firearms to militia units. Magical Solutions: +20 to Domestic Firearms Production R&D Also give a chance for players to give opinions about runners-up for the ministries and political positions. In this case if you wanted to make Siriano a minister Kelenas, a few more omakes about him would cement him a position in the hiring list. Meanwhile, now that I've had time to more seriously rethink how I'm handling player-made characters, I'd like to encourage more omakes of this sort to establish persons of interest, their abilities, and personalities before putting them to formal nominations for major positions like ministers or generals. Alex is grateful for it, the Dreyse needle-gun had some serious design issues despite it being a novel breechloading gun.
But yes, bullshit magic is bullshit and can be useful for situations like this. Pending canon for when you actually do domestic firearms development.