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As for yourself? You are not sure how to feel. Your ancestor, TALACENT, specifically forbid the slaying of the Hazaar, the first intelligent aliens the Hegemony came into contact with, for a reason. What was that reason? You are unsure. Perhaps it was the novelty of the time, perhaps it was some kind of misplaced empathy and kindness given to those beings which did not deserve it, or perhaps it was something else. Perhaps it was to set a precedent that has since been broken.
Even looking at the Wrix Val before you now, gleeful at your decision to follow his advice, you are unsure. You don't argue with his goal and logic, it's just the motivations behind it you question. Wrix Val was a secondary Supreme candidate, a short and unpopular blonde, and not even the first among his contemporaries. He was the backup of a backup, only chosen seemingly at random by a woman of all things. You've read the historical records and spoken to Cijan and Jale, both alive and intimately tied to the events surrounding the second UNSPEAKABLE, and you know the truth about him.
WRIX was always very concerned about how others viewed him. You wonder if that influenced him, being the first blonde Supreme and from an unproven family lineage. He draped himself in the colors of other, more popular Supremes from the past. He had big shoes to fill. Desperately being begged to bring order, perhaps even punishment to the Jaxtians of that time, who viewed the entire political crisis to be the direct result of an alien. Perhaps this was all projection from a place of weakness. It is not your place to say if his decision was right or wrong, but perhaps it was simply extreme, an over-correction, as dangerous and wasteful as hesitation in the face of true danger. It is obvious to all, during that time of relative peace, that he was carried away in the waves of the moment.
You will WEAR THE MASK, but you don't intend to make the same mistake.
