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<span class="mu-r">”Even if you do manage to survive for, what, a billion years? How much different would your culture, genes, technology even be? It would be so alien to you you couldn't even say it would be the same “people” anymore. Your ideological beliefs are blind against the unyielding laws of the universe and against time itself.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”So you want us to abandon our philosophy then, for the approval of a <span class="mu-i">worm</span>?”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Wrong again, primate. We just want you to eat your words and admit to what it is- <span class="mu-i">posturing</span>. The scientific religion for your unintelligent and ignorant members of your race can remain. You will remain Supreme. I just want you to bow.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”No.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Hmm?”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Bow before you? That's not going to happen.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”Don't be so hasty, Supreme One. I don't mean swearing fealty to us- or myself. I am still in the end your captive- or at best, your humble servant. I've already had agreement to reverse your blacklist and put your race into a better position, politically speaking. You won't be humiliated by it- after all, you control information in the Hegemony and I'm sure these guards wouldn't betray that trust. You wouldn't be humiliated in the interstellar community either- Consortium races had to sacrifice the firstborn children of their highest rulers to us to join up. Something like this is utterly meaningless.”</span>
<span class="mu-b">”Then why demand it at all?”</span>
<span class="mu-r">”BECAUSE that's the POINT! You logically know better then to believe in your pointless posturing of “Supreme” omnipotence, your propaganda of an “unbroken line”- when you yourself broke the line of succession by slaying your ruler! There is nothing unique or special about atoms arranging themselves into a different shape- your body will remain the same organism if it be aligned with the floor or standing straight. You know this. So admit it with your body. Logically, there is nothing to lose here, only gain, for a gesture that means nothing. Your people will enjoy a better position and not fear your neighbors- all it means is betraying one of your principles. The <span class="mu-s">Supreme Ruler must always be Supreme</span>, right? Admit this philosophy is meaningless and that your goals are purely material by bowing before me, an albino stomach eel- that is what we want. The ends justify the means, and to this end, protecting your species from an early destruction or exploitation is more meaningful then some prideful rejection of basic fact. You know there is no logical reason to deny this. So bow before me and prove it.”</span>
>Bow
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