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***DECLARATION OF LOYALTY ~40 years ago***
<span class="mu-i">The Enemy was as delusional as they were tyrannical. They committed all their violence in the name of liberty, equality, and fraternity, but all they brought was enslavement, oppression, and cruelty. After many years of murdering for the Enemy, their leader finally died and the Enemy shattered.
The World Above still loved the Emperor, and so did We, even when there was no Emperor to love. For as long as We could remember, Our songs were silenced to the World Above, the Emperor's ears being Our only audience. But there was no more Emperor. So We sang for the World to hear Us.</span>
Although fighting against their own interests, the conscripted men developed military skills during their service in the Grand Republican Army, fighting Royalists they would have otherwise sided with. The Grand Republic won its civil war, but in trying to preserve the entirety of the Grand Republic instead of letting lesser Republics secede, it soon devolved into an oppressive and tyrannical regime with a dictator. When that dictator died, a power vacuum led to a power struggle between the Republicans. The Nation took this opportunity to recapture their Capital and oust all Republicans from the Country, rising in a revolt led by deserters of the Grand Republican Army.
