It was the most telegraphed death of all time, and I need to go with shinta on this one. The way her retainers handled it was extraordinary bad. They were more or less acting out a military coup during her regency, and tried to clean it up as she was taking official power.

"We've been losing a war without telling you, our people are about to starve while we've been wasting the rare powersource on building better Knight-Mecha for ourselves in an attempt to gain a permanent advantage over the Empire...and oh by the way, your best companion in the entire world is dead."

That would be better than what they did, which was the exact REVERSE of that sentence. Maybe they were trying to drum up her support for the military attack by traumatizing her.

I do like the world-building that was subtly going on. There's some feature of the new planet that prevents flight of any kind, so it has the same technologically superior but medieval tactics that Isekai Monogatari had where ravines and narrow pathways can be turned into bottlenecks. It has a real Earth analog in terms of geography, just smaller, which is super cool.

The planet itself even seems to be poisoned, ever so slightly. Flowers don't grow, crops wither.

I also like that the primary characters the audience has been introduced to thus far, are kinda sorta the bad guys on the planet, and they're also losing the war. Hard to know who to believe about who started it.