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The Pulse of the Empire—Voices from Thebeka III
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Odelya d'Hanguest
Order of St. Severian
#1 - 2014-10-02 13:29:38 UTC
Dear Readers of the IGS,

Yesterday I piloted my cloaked ship to Thebeka III. Thanks to some high ranking people in the local administration supportive of my cause, I managed to visit a city on the surface incognito. I agreed not to name that city, and it suffices to say that it is located on the continent of Numayriyah. I had a very specific mission. I wanted to put my fingers on the pulse of the Empire. I wanted to feel its heartbeat and look beyond the propaganda of its sycophants.

I talked to numerous officials, priests, commoners, and slaves alike. What do they think about the current state of the Empire?

First, I went to commercial district of the city. “This here is a nest of bootlickers!”, a shopkeeper shouted. “Yonis [Ardishapur] does a lot of talking, but was has changed to the better?” I asked him about the infrastructure programmes that were initiated years ago. “Hospitals? Yes! Schools? Yes! For the Mandate! All for the Mandate! And here? Men and women for rent everywhere! Our streets are full of dirt and ****! Our exalted heir is so busy winning the hearts and minds of Amarrians that he has lost his own!”

I met former slaves in an assembly house of the Salvation Church of Blessed Servitude. Many of them still have to bear the horrors of the emancipation decree. Overnight thousand of slaves were “freed,” and their former owners continued “employing” them, paying too much to die, but too little to survive. Prostitution is widespread, and so is drug trafficking. “They don’t feel responsible for us any more. And our children are throwing away what our ancestors harvested; today our salvation means little to us, and nothing to them... May the Lord have mercy on our souls!” And another added: “What shall we do? Go to the Republic? But this is our homeland!” “This is not the Empire anymore,” an old woman replied. “This is a military dictatorship! Our souls mean nothing to them!”

While I was talking to the slaves, a priest entered and recognised me. He kissed my hands and told me that he is an ardent reader of the Intergalactic Summit. “Many of us don’t believe the lies of the Theology Council anymore”, he said. “We yearn for the day when the righteous Emperor will return. May God bless Your Grace!”

Deeply shaken by the magnitude of decay and moral mischief, I returned to Palas.

Do you have similar experiences? What is your experience with baseliners in the Empire?

Odelya d’Hanguest, Begum etc. pp.
Ottom Ephesianos
Mirkur Draug'Tyr
Ushra'Khan
#2 - 2014-10-02 16:57:33 UTC
In the old days of the Empire colonizing 40% of known space took a mite of ingenuity. However beyond natural resources Amarrians couldn't fit into gods plan what to do with the people. So far out of their element SSD began to set in. Even then. The results of that quest was slavery.
Rodj Blake
PIE Inc.
Khimi Harar
#3 - 2014-10-02 17:12:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Rodj Blake
One thing that I've learned from my debates here over the years with anarchists, terrorists and pirates is that propaganda is more likely to be effective if it's not blatant.

It would seem that the d'Hanguest family has a lot to learn about producing effective propaganda.

Dolce et decorum est pro Imperium mori
Samira Kernher
Cail Avetatu
#4 - 2014-10-02 17:15:24 UTC  |  Edited by: Samira Kernher
I would say that Her Grace The Begum d'Hanguest had the ill fortune of only speaking with the malcontents of society that are never satisfied, and that I am saddened she did not have the opportunity to speak with more level heads. Afterall it would be of course out of her character to herself believe such lies that have no basis in reality. Everyone knows that The Right Honorable The Heir Ardishapur began his public works programs within Ardishapur domains before he was ever gifted with the Mandate, disproving claims that he has only given his blessed attention to the Ammatar, and that only last year a large and very successful school reform was passed within those same territories.

I must offer my condolences for you having encountered such unthankful and inconsiderate people, Your Grace. May it be that one day they finally recognize the blessings that the Empire offers them. As His Highness Ardishapur has said, “All people must one day be brought into God's embrace, through their own choice or through our guiding hand. Embrace those who would learn, defeat those who would make mockery of God's way."
Odelya d'Hanguest
Order of St. Severian
#5 - 2014-10-03 12:23:54 UTC
Samira Kernher wrote:
I would say that Her Grace The Begum d'Hanguest had the ill fortune of only speaking with the malcontents of society that are never satisfied, and that I am saddened she did not have the opportunity to speak with more level heads. Afterall it would be of course out of her character to herself believe such lies that have no basis in reality. Everyone knows that The Right Honorable The Heir Ardishapur began his public works programs within Ardishapur domains before he was ever gifted with the Mandate, disproving claims that he has only given his blessed attention to the Ammatar, and that only last year a large and very successful school reform was passed within those same territories.

I must offer my condolences for you having encountered such unthankful and inconsiderate people, Your Grace. May it be that one day they finally recognize the blessings that the Empire offers them. As His Highness Ardishapur has said, “All people must one day be brought into God's embrace, through their own choice or through our guiding hand. Embrace those who would learn, defeat those who would make mockery of God's way."

Ms Kernher

Thank you very much indeed for your invaluable advice and precious information. Your opinion is very important to me, after all you are coming from the same ethnic and social background that I am so curious about. People in slums, unaffected by the educational reforms and its many blessings, are regularly more outspoken and open than those affected by the shaking sights of Ardishapur style monuments and public statements. I will make sure to study their rhetorics, and the truth behind it, during one of my next visits.

Many regards from Khanid Prime
Odelya d’Hanguest, Begum etc. pp.