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<span class="mu-b">”Wha- Political parties? Are you <span class="mu-i">serious</span>?! I leave for three years and you form damn political parties in my absence?!”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”They aren't political parties, Cijan.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”In all but name. And you want me to vow to uphold some accord- let me guess- does this accord involve limitations on the power of the Supreme Ruler too? A <span class="mu-i">constitution</span>?”</span> You can already tell by his look that it does. <span class="mu-b">“I cannot believe this! I trusted you to guide the Hegemony in good faith until I returned, and this is how you repay me? By steering us wrong?”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”You were already streering us wrong.”</span>
From across, the room, Kerjak had hissed. The fact he was here, discussing these matters-of-supreme-state at all, had already triggered a red flag in your head. But now, you're sure of it.
<span class="mu-g">”You, Cijan Anak, are the cause of the Hegemony's problems. Hwat will not admit it, but you have used and misused the office of the Supreme Ruler. We are lesser because of you.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Be quiet, fool. I was ruling this empire since you were a child. What do you know of leadership?”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”Leadership means leading a people. You do not lead <span class="mu-i">our</span> people. Throughout your career, time and time again, you have sided with alien interests over our own. I brought them here to make them servants- you bring them here to be equals. You allowed Hazaar Hybrids to stay on Xin, and create their filthy families together on the closest life-sustaining planet to Jaxt. You infected our local gas giant, Max, with the damn Baalathi, the first aliens to ever harm and kill Jaxtians- that gas giant will never be free of them now. Do you deny this? You conquered even more foreign worlds only to give them back to the Hazaar in the Hazaar vassal states; instead of taking those planets for the Jaxtian race. Do you deny this too? Life-sustaining planets, for aliens! And what about Farro Val? A decorated starship captain; left as an alien's pet, in exchange for your precious “life machine”.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Farro is a cultural ambassador. You don't know-”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”I know much, Anak. Hwat gave me access to the Bite's security logs. I know what you've done- your actions are not those of some great leader to lead us into the future, but the actions of a damn species traitor!”</span>
