09-03-2023, 12:01:29 PM
Well, we need either a vote to reject, or Captain Beck to offer support of this nomination to achieve the five votes necessary. I will remind you Chief Political Officer Liwari is an omnipresent threat. They may seem small, ridiculous, weirdly obsessed with movies, and perhaps even stupid, but I assure you, they are none of those things. Well, they are the first three, but they're not stupid, and they're every bit as violent and brutal as Sendri. Quite possibly worse. They're also fanatically loyal, so I'm sure you can see where that'll land you if Liwari ever finds out what's going on here.
Valdragon suddenly twitches on the monitor, before slamming his fist down on the desk. The camera shakes.
The only reason you are not dead is because thus far, I have carefully hidden our actions from Liwari, at great personal cost. So, get your act together. I have sacrificed much for you, what would it hurt for you to sacrifice a little for me? Or perhaps you're not as committed to the cause as I thought. Perhaps you all want to run to Sendri and beg for forgiveness for your transgressions, in the hopes that you will be absolved, and that Sendri's famously unlimited mercy and patience will be permitted to fall upon such worthless worms as you? Is that what you want?
Do you wish to be a pathetic bootlicker like Captain Lanthanide, weak and flashy, too obsessed with creating drama to realize exactly how close to death she stood? But even now Liwari monitors us. You may think I am cruel. Indeed, I am. Captain Walson's death proved my capability to use cruelty to prove a point about what happens to those who betray me... but you cannot comprehend the horrors Liwari will inflict upon you if they catch you.
The Colonel pulls out a remote control.
This is why what you are about to see is as much an act of mercy as it is a reminder of the power I hold over you and motivation to do as I say.
And he presses the button.
Valdragon reappears on the screen, looking and sounding, if possible, even more dangerous than before.
This is my mercy. If Liwari had found them, their deaths would have been far worse, and ours would surely have followed. This is why I urge you forward, this is why we must exercise the utmost caution while still maintaining that forward momentum. Imagine my cruelest moments. Imagine the worst thing I could do to you. Imagine that thing happening every day for the rest of your life. That is only a tiny fraction of the suffering Liwari inflicts on those who they suspect to be traitors. If they know us to be traitors, it'll be far worse even than that.
Valdragon suddenly twitches on the monitor, before slamming his fist down on the desk. The camera shakes.
The only reason you are not dead is because thus far, I have carefully hidden our actions from Liwari, at great personal cost. So, get your act together. I have sacrificed much for you, what would it hurt for you to sacrifice a little for me? Or perhaps you're not as committed to the cause as I thought. Perhaps you all want to run to Sendri and beg for forgiveness for your transgressions, in the hopes that you will be absolved, and that Sendri's famously unlimited mercy and patience will be permitted to fall upon such worthless worms as you? Is that what you want?
Do you wish to be a pathetic bootlicker like Captain Lanthanide, weak and flashy, too obsessed with creating drama to realize exactly how close to death she stood? But even now Liwari monitors us. You may think I am cruel. Indeed, I am. Captain Walson's death proved my capability to use cruelty to prove a point about what happens to those who betray me... but you cannot comprehend the horrors Liwari will inflict upon you if they catch you.
The Colonel pulls out a remote control.
This is why what you are about to see is as much an act of mercy as it is a reminder of the power I hold over you and motivation to do as I say.
And he presses the button.
Cpt. Sony and Cpt. Microsoft's Corporate Dissolution
Footage from a Protectorate Financial News Program plays, talking about how Sony and Microsoft have been acquired by Null Development. All their IPs have been merged with Null Development. Two of the oldest tech corporations in the known universe have been effectively shut down, merged into a substudio of a subordinate company that ultimately traces back to the Alliance.
Then the footage cuts to the Captain Sony and Captain Microsoft you knew, Sony chained to a bedframe in a dirty cell and Microsoft chained similarly to a wall. Both are clearly badly beaten, and have probably been extensively tortured. A soldier comes into the cell, pulls out a gun, and shoots Sony through the head, and turns and does the same to Microsoft. You get to watch as their bodies are unchained, picked up by soldiers, removed from the cell, loaded into wheelbarrows, and pushed through the facility's hallways. Eventually, the bodies reach a room with a large chute. The soldiers hoist them over the railing, and the camera turns to watch them slide down towards a grinder.
You wait for there to be a twist, some horrific turn to make the scene worse, like one of them being still alive. No twist comes, as the bodies simply get crushed up and pulled through. That's the last you see of them as the video ends.
Then the footage cuts to the Captain Sony and Captain Microsoft you knew, Sony chained to a bedframe in a dirty cell and Microsoft chained similarly to a wall. Both are clearly badly beaten, and have probably been extensively tortured. A soldier comes into the cell, pulls out a gun, and shoots Sony through the head, and turns and does the same to Microsoft. You get to watch as their bodies are unchained, picked up by soldiers, removed from the cell, loaded into wheelbarrows, and pushed through the facility's hallways. Eventually, the bodies reach a room with a large chute. The soldiers hoist them over the railing, and the camera turns to watch them slide down towards a grinder.
You wait for there to be a twist, some horrific turn to make the scene worse, like one of them being still alive. No twist comes, as the bodies simply get crushed up and pulled through. That's the last you see of them as the video ends.
Valdragon reappears on the screen, looking and sounding, if possible, even more dangerous than before.
This is my mercy. If Liwari had found them, their deaths would have been far worse, and ours would surely have followed. This is why I urge you forward, this is why we must exercise the utmost caution while still maintaining that forward momentum. Imagine my cruelest moments. Imagine the worst thing I could do to you. Imagine that thing happening every day for the rest of your life. That is only a tiny fraction of the suffering Liwari inflicts on those who they suspect to be traitors. If they know us to be traitors, it'll be far worse even than that.
I am the They who says it!