Crown of the Empire: Timeloop Collector's Edition

Her Majesty's Maid of Honor Elena entered her office, hoping for a quiet time, an opportunity to attend to paperwork and personal matters. She had just returned from a parallel world where she had searched with her team for superweapons and then destroyed them. It wasn't an easy campaign, and she was exhausted. Also, the queen called Helena in for a private, rather titillating conversation after the award. The queen was clearly not in the mood:

- You consider your company a success, do you not?

- Quite right. We found and disarmed the superweapon, in spite of the complexity of the situation.

- But you're the one who allowed the superweapon to go missing and then be used, and then that portal opened up and creepy monsters like the giant praying mantis came pouring out! Our valiant troops spent a whole week exterminating them. Two villages in one of the counties were d...