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In this conversation it would be Kelbor who made the first stand, “You have come to witness several thousands worlds across the galaxy that had been owned by the Mechanicum. In all cases we obeyed the terms of the Olympian Treaty and we did not push our faith against the people of those planets.”
“Was that not because you simply chose the best orphans of the population to join your Priesthood?” The Emperor placed forward with a small hint of a grudge, “I am well aware that you have done that upon Terra itself.”
“We do so to fuel the war that you wish to wage.” Kelbor gave back the slight, “It is no different from your Astartes taking children away from their Families. You are well aware of that fact for you did not send a formal protest to me.”
“I hereby do so.” The Emperor said simply as if the words were not a good shot at him. The issues when one talked to someone as powerful as the Emperor was that his words were indeed Law, his thoughts the legislator that create such laws. The two Priests needed to convince the politicians within the Emperor’s mind that they should do change.
“I accept your protest and shall have it released to the Mechanicum.” Kelbor said as he realized that they had just lost a great amount of resources. TalOS, seeing this happen, simply sent his Liege a ping of confidence so that he would not quickly lose heart.
They might be digging their own graves, but they could just as easily strike an artifact of immense power. In this case, it was say within the government of the Imperium.
“That is not a rebuttal, Emperor.” The honorifics were gone as Kelbor knew the guise was gone for the moment, “Does it really trouble one as great as yourself of what we teach our people? Does it not have wisdom that you yourself agree with?”
“That is what every faith I have ever interacted with said. They claim that their way of thinking is greater than all others.” The Emperor addressed as he must have been thinking of over a thousand instances, “Even now I know a great many of your Priests think the common Imperial Citizen an ignorant troglodyte as he does not know of their faith.”
“Is that not with all peoples?” Kelbor gave back, “It is only in Faith that we scream it, but are there not always factions that appear within the courts of Tyrants and Warlords? Each of them speaking into your ear asking you to do something their way, you have suffered this at one point have you not?”
“Those are false equivalence.” The Emperor said as he gave another example, “There were dozens of Kingdoms and Nations who had torn at each other’s and their own throats simply at the concept of whether they can depict their god in a picture. In those societies that were secular, they debated topics that affected the lives of others.”
>But that does have significance, doesn’t it?
>They were fools who did not know the true faith.
>Man always looks for something different in each other, it does not matter who or what.
