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Kerjak leads you to a conference room- and finally you see him. Hwat. The current acting Supreme, and your closest colleague. Every since you were forced to denounce Tetak, Hwat is the closest friend you've had in the Hegemony over all these years.
<span class="mu-r">”Cijan! Welcome back.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Hwat! Good to see you. It's been months- well- years for the rest of you- since I had my medallion. Too busy to come upstairs and join the party?”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Last minute Supreme stuff. You'd know better then anyone else. We can go upstairs and enjoy it together- in just a minute. We need to talk.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Hmm...? Hwat, what is going on?”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Cijan, your Majesty, we are making changes to the Hegemony. Big things are coming.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">””We?””</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Kerjak's people and my people. We've discussed it to death at this point- and there was even violence over it- I took care of it while you were away. But now our solution to everything- all the Hegemony's problems- that's the one thing I can't do myself. I have already passed all the laws and informed the populace through the AI system- it's just the highest backing of all we need now- we need you. We need your vow to uphold it.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”I don't understand. What am I vowing to uphold?”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Our Accord. To settle our differences... And to patch up the problems in the Hegemony. Honestly, it's been a long time coming. Even long befrore you left. Cijan, haven't you felt it? We're <span class="mu-i">stagnating</span>. Our society hasn't had a true breakout success since Talacent, hundreds of years ago. Agori caused an ascension crisis which Eoba II fixed beautifully, and he expanded the empire, and you gave us the greatest victory in recent history- and yet despite this we are still stagnating. So much research and such a huge population and so much newly acquired territory, and yet our culture and people have not seriously advanced in so long. Where is the Golden Age? This is part of the problem.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Settle our differences? You're acting like there's a great division in the Hegemony.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”THERE IS! The Blackknifes and the Blackspots. The supremacists and the economists...”</span>
