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Golden Age. Racial supremacy. Alien threats-within and without. Oh. Oh shit. Your eyes go wide in the realization as you lower your knife arm.
<span class="mu-b">”Oh. <span class="mu-i">OH!</span> You dumbshits. This is about the books, isn't it? You aligned yourselves with the political books?”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”The Phenology of Capital is a perfect showcase in how we're going wrong, Cijan.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">You- both of you! You actually fell into the book's author-voice and allowed it to change your fundamental methods of thinking?!”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”Political discussion is vital to the Hegemony's existence! The book of our Supremacy outlines this!”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”But you didn't read the other ones! You didn't even get it, the entire point was... hey, don't you know that those books are all written by a Hazaar?”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”Yeah, I know. So what?”</span>
You can't believe what is happening here. Aggregating power among themselves, these two political figures have created political parties. For the first time in the Hegemony's history, the unity and single course of vision have been split among warring parties- the creation of a two party system is dangerous for any democracy, much less the Hegemony, whose strength lies in the omnipotence of its Supreme Ruler. There has never been nor will ever be a greater system- and for the first time ever it is being threatened here and now.
You see the Enforcers here. They are not pointing their weapons at you, but the threat is clear. This isn't a negotiable. For these two, they have finally managed to achieve what they think is a willing and self-created compromise between their great divide- when they don't see the great divide is an illusion. Almost like hypnosis, the two of them have been manipulated to react a certain way to stimuli- Hwat, to wealth and progress- and Kerjak to the alien- and both have invented this unreal division that cannot be overcome; except through unyielding law.
<span class="mu-r">”Cijan- the Supreme Ruler's word is law. Any Supreme Ruler could just ignore or overthrow our accord- put us back into chaos. Only with your vow- the threat of your legacy, can we actually make it last down the line of succession. My vow is worthless, but everyone knows you are returning and you want to do right for the Hegemony. If you publicly vowed to uphold this document, the precedent will be set, and future Supremes will treat it as unbreakable tradition. This is the only way to right our paths- long after all of us our dead. But our children and their children will live and live in prosperity-”</span>
<span class="mu-g">”-And will be able to live at all, free from extermination or slavery by more powerful alien forces. Free from the rot of the multiculturalism infecting our people. Strong,and unified.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”-This is the only way Cijan. You have to do this. This is the only way to save the Hegemony.”</span>
