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“The Aristocrats are fuming, my Lord.”
<span class="mu-b">”Good! I knew exactly how to hit them where it hurt.”</span>
“Oh?”
<span class="mu-b">”Yeah. I figured, what better way to humiliate them then have the final order to defeat them not come from the God-King Supreme Noble Ruler of the Hegemony... but from the common soldier? What better way to squader their great treasures then handing them over to the common people instead of keeping it locked in some vault and private collections of the Hegemonic elite? What could possibly make them more mad then that?”</span>
“Brilliant, my lord. As for the new sanctions and conditions of surrender for the Aristocrats?”
<span class="mu-b">”I want to just annoy them, Threes. Don't disrupt them enough to stop their normal operations or society; or enough they may attempt to rise up in the future with new efforts. I just want them to police themselves in a way that's annoying; just annoying enough to remind them of our victory over them.”</span>
“Considering. How about enacting a law that restricts artistic expression; but only for very specific species related to the Hegemony? So they cannot depict primates, bovines, or boney-fish in a negative way regardless of the species or context? That way, regular Aristocrats will have to keep this in mind or else go against a new social paradigm. After all, their free expression is their most important aspect.”
<span class="mu-b">”That's great, it's just senseless enough to be annoying. Throw in the migrators and Baalathi too. Make them tiptoe around the subject of a “Supreme Ruler” and the Hegemony as a whole.”</span>
With this humiliation; the Aristocrats are hereby <span class="mu-s">defeated</span>. While they aren't gone, nor do you have the ability to totally control or conquer them for good; they won't be messing with you. No more tailored biological agents or tricks; just as the Consortium. Rival brought low, at least for now. Now, on the Esaal remain undaunted and confident in your sector of space...
