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Now for the potentials.
If you had chosen the <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-s">Accord</span></span>, then Cijan would have resolved the issues with the Hegemony peacefully. Kerjak's supremacists and Hwat's economists would get their way by enforcing <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-s">permanent</span></span> restrictions on the Supreme Ruler (ie the players) in the form of unbreakable laws. While you'd get laws no matter what in this scenario, which laws you would get was decided based on which political parties you supported in the choose-two book scenario. In this case, it would be something like “The Supreme Ruler cannot kill a Jaxtian citizen without a trial” or something similar. The economists would have laws based on colonies and money, most notably that “The Supreme Ruler cannot do expensive actions without direct approval from the monetary council”, which would basically make it harder for players to do things like rush along science products or do efficient but risky things (since you won't have that money for a short time after), which was a mechanic when this thread was actually a civ game, lol.
The point of the above was not so much the laws themselves but that Yuan would win an ideological victory and a blow against the Hegemony permanently because he has weakened the absolute and Supreme position of the Supreme Ruler. The future of the quest would be that there would be more dissent, less respect from citizens, and less respect from other authoritarian empires because the Supreme Ruler isn't Supreme anymore. The Hegemony goes from being this almost messiac god-like super government promised to last until the end of the universe into just another government. Powerful, yes, but no longer speical. That was the catastrophe in the other scenario.
If you had chosen to <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-s">End the Coup</span></span> but not <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-s">Wear the Mask</span></span>, then the Hegemony would have politically fragmented as disobedience took over- Hazaar race riots on Xin and Jaxtian traders arming the Swall with advanced technology to become their own independent nation. This is because the Supreme Ruler wasn't intimidating enough on his own to consolidate power, and it would need to be taken back.
If you had chosen to <span class="mu-i"><span class="mu-s">Wear the Mask</span></span> but let <span class="mu-i">Cijan</span> take control of the Supreme Rulership again, then I was going to have a dramatic bit where you can choose how to take back control against a belligerent Wrix. Either shoot him (pragmatic), duel him (honorable), or convince him with words (least violent and lets me write another essay). Whichever choice made, I would then have Cijan wear the mask instead; consolidating power his own way through ideological and historical destruction. This comes with the idea that the Mask is different for whichever Supreme Ruler wears it- with Wrix being a blone- he uses blonde hardness and traditionalist thought when he wears his mask. Kill your enemies and take their land, that kind of thing.
