Bolitic Confederacy Emperor Aliowaki has survived an assassination attempt when slave soldiers of an unknown rival were sent on a suicide mission in a war zeppelin to attack the Emperor's summer residence on Delos 3. Of course a suicide mission in a large slow moving bag of highly inflammable gas can only end one way and that is badly.
Assassination attempts are nothing new to the Bolitic of course, indeed this was the 3rd this year however that is an unusually low number and is probably why Aliowaki is the longest serving Emperor in history. It is thought some Barons are boring of peace and want the Bolitic to declare war on something.