{"data":{"id":14074,"title":"This Day in History: The Beginning of the End","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/14074-This-Day-In-History-The-Beginning-Of-The-End","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/14074","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/14074","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"News Update","images":[{"id":727,"name":"ThisDayInHistoryFI2.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/j9vnjqd2pny04r\/source\/ThisDayInHistoryFI2.jpg","alt":"","size":1869743,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2013-08-19T21:16:16+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/727","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/727\/similar"},{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"},{"id":27892,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/w3o9r4zgppm77\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":900916,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2021-09-06T14:48:40+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892\/similar"}],"images_count":8,"translations":{"en_EN":"THIS DAY IN HISTORY\nAugust 12, 2781 SET\n\nThe Beginning of the End\n\nA culture of subversion was growing within the UEE. Though the death of Anthony Tanaka had occurred almost twenty-five years earlier, the seeds of dissent were only now beginning to grow. The people, subjugated for so long, were slowly building the confidence to speak out. The tenth Imperator, Ulysses Messer, was oblivious to all of this as he continued the massive architectural venture he had undertaken while serving as High Secretary during his uncle\u2019s reign. The project involved a redesign of many government buildings, but would also establish a standardized aesthetic for commercial and residential spaces.\n\nIt was upon this architectural canvas of grey government-approved buildings that colorful messages and imagery of defiance began to appear. Although each one was quickly removed, it only seemed to incite others to replace it with a stronger message, marking the first fledgling steps of what would become the revolution.\n\nNear the middle of 2781, Imperator Messer X prepared for the unveiling of the final piece of his decade-long project and what he perceived to be his ultimate legacy: the Khanos Stadium on Angeli, Croshaw. Conceived as a forum, in which future Imperators to be empowered, the design of the structure was, according to Messer X, intended to \u201cmake all who stood within quake at their own insignificance.\u201d To pay for the monolithic structure, he had been raising taxes incrementally for years, bleeding an already over-taxed local populace to feed his desire to see the mega-structure built.\n\nNeedless to say, Messer X spared no expense when planning the gala event. He pulled military resources to lock down the city and line the route that his Imperial processional would take. Not only was attendance from the local populace mandatory, but they were expected to \u201cmaintain an appropriate level of cheer and awe.\u201d Declassified Advocacy Archive documents later revealed that members of the Guard were actually scattered to make sure that the last decree was enforced.\n\nMesser X was going to leave nothing to chance that could jeopardize the culmination of his dream, but he was looking in the wrong places.\n\nHis two children, Linton and Fiona, had spent the past decade growing weary of waiting for their birthright. Linton particularly had become increasingly disgusted at his father\u2019s obsession with wasting money to build monuments. It was, after all, his money that Ulysses was spending.\n\nAn effortlessly persuasive man, Linton worked his way through members of his father\u2019s inner circle as well as prominent members of the military, Senate and Advocacy, in an effort to find assets that he could potentially manipulate against his father.\n\nHis younger sister began to build a network of contacts in the growing circles of activists, not out of any genuine desire for beneficial change, but simply as tools to be used in their plot for power.\n\nOn 2781-08-12, Ulysses Messer\u2019s convoy crept down the Caravac Bridgeway. Surrounded by protective glass, he stood proudly and gazed at the masses forced to cheer. Linton and Fiona were placed in a separate hover. As the Khanos Stadium rose into view, witnesses claim that Messer X openly wept.\n\nThat\u2019s when the bombs went off. A resistance group, surreptitiously aided by Fiona, had managed to place dozens of high-explosive charges into the foundations. The blast was much more powerful than anticipated, killing thousands in the stadium itself, and hundreds more who had been herded to wait outside the stadium as a welcoming group.\n\nMesser X watched his legacy collapse in a cloud of flame and smoke. His Advocacy contingent quickly swept into action, diverting the Imperator to a secure location, but military forces that had pledged support to Linton intercepted them.\n\nThe streets quickly descended into a free-for-all as military and Advocacy clashed. Messer X\u2019s Guard units barely managed to protect the Imperator from the initial ambush. Ulysses fled through the streets of the city, before retreating into one of his newly minted government buildings.\n\nHis Advocacy detail dug in to try and protect their Imperator until reinforcements arrived, but found themselves quickly surrounded by several hundred Army and Marine forces. Ulysses locked himself in an office on the twelfth floor; that\u2019s when he looked outside and saw his son standing impatiently among the military.\n\nIt was only a matter of minutes before it became apparent that the military would overpower the Advocacy defenders. Imperator Messer X, realizing that he would not survive the night, took his own life with his ceremonial pistol.\n\nIn the aftermath of the coup, Linton Messer was empowered as Messer XI. His first course of action was to arrest and execute the revolutionaries that Fiona had enlisted to bomb the stadium, for the crime of treason.\n\nWhile Linton Messer felt absolutely no remorse for the death of his father, there was one thing he couldn\u2019t have anticipated. His and Fiona\u2019s actions of that night created an infrastructure that invigorated the revolutionary movement like never before, a movement that would topple him from power eleven years later and pull Humanity from its dark age.","de_DE":"AN DIESEM TAG IN DER GESCHICHTE\n12. August 2781 SET\n\nDer Anfang vom Ende\n\nEine Kultur der Subversion wuchs innerhalb der UEE. Obwohl der Tod von Anthony Tanaka fast f\u00fcnfundzwanzig Jahre zuvor stattgefunden hatte, begannen die Samen der Meinungsverschiedenheiten erst jetzt zu wachsen. Die Menschen, die so lange unterworfen waren, bauten langsam das Selbstvertrauen auf, sich zu \u00e4u\u00dfern. Der zehnte Imperator, Ulysses Messer, verga\u00df all dies, da er das gewaltige architektonische Projekt fortsetzte, das er w\u00e4hrend der Regierungszeit seines Onkels als Hoher Sekret\u00e4r unternommen hatte. Das Projekt beinhaltete eine Neugestaltung vieler Regierungsgeb\u00e4ude, sollte aber auch eine einheitliche \u00c4sthetik f\u00fcr Gewerbe- und Wohnr\u00e4ume schaffen.\n\nAuf dieser architektonischen Leinwand aus grauen, von der Regierung genehmigten Geb\u00e4uden erschienen farbenfrohe Botschaften und Bilder des Trotzes. Obwohl jeder einzelne schnell entfernt wurde, schien es nur, andere anzuregen, ihn durch eine st\u00e4rkere Botschaft zu ersetzen, die die ersten noch jungen Schritte dessen markiert, was die Revolution werden sollte.\n\nGegen Mitte 2781 bereitete sich Imperator Messer X auf die Enth\u00fcllung des letzten Teils seines jahrzehntelangen Projekts vor und auf das, was er als sein ultimatives Erbe ansah: das Khanos-Stadion auf Angeli, Croshaw. Konzipiert als Forum, in dem zuk\u00fcnftige Imperatoren bevollm\u00e4chtigt werden sollen, war die Gestaltung der Struktur laut Messer X darauf ausgerichtet, \"alle, die innerhalb des Bebens standen, auf ihre eigene Unbedeutung zu bringen\". Um f\u00fcr die monolithische Struktur zu bezahlen, hatte er die Steuern seit Jahren schrittweise erh\u00f6ht und eine bereits \u00fcberforderte lokale Bev\u00f6lkerung entlassen, um seinen Wunsch nach dem Bau der Megastruktur zu erf\u00fcllen.\n\nSelbstverst\u00e4ndlich hat Messer X bei der Planung der Galaveranstaltung keine Kosten gescheut. Er zog milit\u00e4rische Mittel, um die Stadt abzuschlie\u00dfen und den Weg zu beschreiten, den sein kaiserlicher Prozession\u00e4r nehmen w\u00fcrde. Nicht nur die Anwesenheit der lokalen Bev\u00f6lkerung war obligatorisch, auch von ihnen wurde erwartet, dass sie \"ein angemessenes Ma\u00df an Freude und Ehrfurcht aufrechterhalten\". Deklassierte Advocacy-Archiv-Dokumente enth\u00fcllten sp\u00e4ter, dass Mitglieder der Wache tats\u00e4chlich verstreut waren, um sicherzustellen, dass das letzte Dekret durchgesetzt wurde.\n\nMesser X w\u00fcrde nichts dem Zufall \u00fcberlassen, was den H\u00f6hepunkt seines Traums gef\u00e4hrden k\u00f6nnte, aber er suchte an den falschen Stellen.\n\nSeine beiden Kinder, Linton und Fiona, hatten das letzte Jahrzehnt damit verbracht, m\u00fcde zu werden, auf ihr Geburtsrecht zu warten. Vor allem Linton war zunehmend angewidert von der Besessenheit seines Vaters, Geld f\u00fcr den Bau von Denkm\u00e4lern zu verschwenden. Es war schlie\u00dflich sein Geld, das Odysseus ausgab.\n\nEin m\u00fchelos \u00fcberzeugender Mann, Linton arbeitete sich durch Mitglieder des inneren Kreises seines Vaters sowie prominente Mitglieder des Milit\u00e4rs, des Senats und der Advokaten, um Verm\u00f6genswerte zu finden, die er m\u00f6glicherweise gegen seinen Vater manipulieren k\u00f6nnte.\n\nSeine j\u00fcngere Schwester begann, ein Netzwerk von Kontakten in den wachsenden Kreisen der Aktivisten aufzubauen, nicht aus dem echten Wunsch nach nutzbringenden Ver\u00e4nderungen, sondern einfach als Werkzeuge, die in ihrem Machtpark eingesetzt werden sollten.\n\nAm 2781-08-12 schlich sich Ulysses Messers Konvoi \u00fcber die Caravac-Br\u00fccke. Umgeben von Schutzglas stand er stolz da und blickte auf die zum Jubeln gezwungenen Massen. Linton und Fiona wurden in einen separaten Schwebezustand versetzt. Als das Khanos-Stadion sichtbar wurde, behaupten Zeugen, dass Messer X offen geweint hat.\n\nDa gingen die Bomben hoch. Eine Widerstandsgruppe, die heimlich von Fiona unterst\u00fctzt wurde, hatte es geschafft, Dutzende von hochexplosiven Ladungen in die Fundamente zu legen. Die Explosion war viel st\u00e4rker als erwartet und t\u00f6tete Tausende im Stadion selbst und Hunderte mehr, die getrieben worden waren, um vor dem Stadion als Empfangsgruppe zu warten.\n\nMesser X beobachtete, wie sein Erbe in einer Wolke aus Flammen und Rauch zusammenbrach. Sein Advocacy-Kontingent fegte schnell in Aktion und lenkte den Imperator an einen sicheren Ort, aber Milit\u00e4rs, die Linton Unterst\u00fctzung zugesagt hatten, fingen sie ab.\n\nDie Stra\u00dfen stiegen schnell in einen Free-for-all ab, als Milit\u00e4r und Advocacy aufeinanderprallten. Die Wacheinheiten von Messer X konnten den Imperator kaum vor dem ersten Hinterhalt sch\u00fctzen. Odysseus floh durch die Stra\u00dfen der Stadt, bevor er sich in eines seiner neu gepr\u00e4gten Regierungsgeb\u00e4ude zur\u00fcckzog.\n\nSein Advocacy-Detail grub sich ein, um zu versuchen, ihren Imperator zu sch\u00fctzen, bis Verst\u00e4rkungen eintrafen, fand sich aber schnell von mehreren hundert Armee- und Marinekr\u00e4ften umgeben wieder. Odysseus schloss sich in einem B\u00fcro im zw\u00f6lften Stock ein; dann schaute er nach drau\u00dfen und sah seinen Sohn ungeduldig unter dem Milit\u00e4r stehen.\n\nEs dauerte nur wenige Minuten, bis sich herausstellte, dass das Milit\u00e4r die Verteidiger der Advocacy \u00fcberw\u00e4ltigen w\u00fcrde. Imperator Messer X, der erkannte, dass er die Nacht nicht \u00fcberleben w\u00fcrde, nahm sich mit seiner Zeremonialpistole das Leben.\n\nNach dem Putsch wurde Linton Messer als Messer XI erm\u00e4chtigt. Seine erste Vorgehensweise war die Verhaftung und Hinrichtung der Revolution\u00e4re, die Fiona angeworben hatte, um das Stadion wegen des Verbrechens des Verrats zu bombardieren.\n\nW\u00e4hrend Linton Messer absolut keine Reue f\u00fcr den Tod seines Vaters empfand, gab es eine Sache, die er nicht h\u00e4tte erwarten k\u00f6nnen. Seine und Fionas Aktionen dieser Nacht schufen eine Infrastruktur, die die revolution\u00e4re Bewegung wie nie zuvor belebte, eine Bewegung, die ihn elf Jahre sp\u00e4ter von der Macht st\u00fcrzen und die Menschheit aus ihrem dunklen Zeitalter herausziehen w\u00fcrde.","zh_CN":"THIS DAY IN HISTORY\nAugust 12, 2781 SET\n\nThe Beginning of the End\n\nA culture of subversion was growing within the UEE. Though the death of Anthony Tanaka had occurred almost twenty-five years earlier, the seeds of dissent were only now beginning to grow. The people, subjugated for so long, were slowly building the confidence to speak out. The tenth Imperator, Ulysses Messer, was oblivious to all of this as he continued the massive architectural venture he had undertaken while serving as High Secretary during his uncle\u2019s reign. The project involved a redesign of many government buildings, but would also establish a standardized aesthetic for commercial and residential spaces.\n\nIt was upon this architectural canvas of grey government-approved buildings that colorful messages and imagery of defiance began to appear. Although each one was quickly removed, it only seemed to incite others to replace it with a stronger message, marking the first fledgling steps of what would become the revolution.\n\nNear the middle of 2781, Imperator Messer X prepared for the unveiling of the final piece of his decade-long project and what he perceived to be his ultimate legacy: the Khanos Stadium on Angeli, Croshaw. Conceived as a forum, in which future Imperators to be empowered, the design of the structure was, according to Messer X, intended to \u201cmake all who stood within quake at their own insignificance.\u201d To pay for the monolithic structure, he had been raising taxes incrementally for years, bleeding an already over-taxed local populace to feed his desire to see the mega-structure built.\n\nNeedless to say, Messer X spared no expense when planning the gala event. He pulled military resources to lock down the city and line the route that his Imperial processional would take. Not only was attendance from the local populace mandatory, but they were expected to \u201cmaintain an appropriate level of cheer and awe.\u201d Declassified Advocacy Archive documents later revealed that members of the Guard were actually scattered to make sure that the last decree was enforced.\n\nMesser X was going to leave nothing to chance that could jeopardize the culmination of his dream, but he was looking in the wrong places.\n\nHis two children, Linton and Fiona, had spent the past decade growing weary of waiting for their birthright. Linton particularly had become increasingly disgusted at his father\u2019s obsession with wasting money to build monuments. It was, after all, his money that Ulysses was spending.\n\nAn effortlessly persuasive man, Linton worked his way through members of his father\u2019s inner circle as well as prominent members of the military, Senate and Advocacy, in an effort to find assets that he could potentially manipulate against his father.\n\nHis younger sister began to build a network of contacts in the growing circles of activists, not out of any genuine desire for beneficial change, but simply as tools to be used in their plot for power.\n\nOn 2781-08-12, Ulysses Messer\u2019s convoy crept down the Caravac Bridgeway. Surrounded by protective glass, he stood proudly and gazed at the masses forced to cheer. Linton and Fiona were placed in a separate hover. As the Khanos Stadium rose into view, witnesses claim that Messer X openly wept.\n\nThat\u2019s when the bombs went off. A resistance group, surreptitiously aided by Fiona, had managed to place dozens of high-explosive charges into the foundations. The blast was much more powerful than anticipated, killing thousands in the stadium itself, and hundreds more who had been herded to wait outside the stadium as a welcoming group.\n\nMesser X watched his legacy collapse in a cloud of flame and smoke. His Advocacy contingent quickly swept into action, diverting the Imperator to a secure location, but military forces that had pledged support to Linton intercepted them.\n\nThe streets quickly descended into a free-for-all as military and Advocacy clashed. Messer X\u2019s Guard units barely managed to protect the Imperator from the initial ambush. Ulysses fled through the streets of the city, before retreating into one of his newly minted government buildings.\n\nHis Advocacy detail dug in to try and protect their Imperator until reinforcements arrived, but found themselves quickly surrounded by several hundred Army and Marine forces. Ulysses locked himself in an office on the twelfth floor; that\u2019s when he looked outside and saw his son standing impatiently among the military.\n\nIt was only a matter of minutes before it became apparent that the military would overpower the Advocacy defenders. Imperator Messer X, realizing that he would not survive the night, took his own life with his ceremonial pistol.\n\nIn the aftermath of the coup, Linton Messer was empowered as Messer XI. His first course of action was to arrest and execute the revolutionaries that Fiona had enlisted to bomb the stadium, for the crime of treason.\n\nWhile Linton Messer felt absolutely no remorse for the death of his father, there was one thing he couldn\u2019t have anticipated. His and Fiona\u2019s actions of that night created an infrastructure that invigorated the revolutionary movement like never before, a movement that would topple him from power eleven years later and pull Humanity from its dark age."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":79,"created_at":"2014-08-13T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"11 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-04-28 14:39:20","valid_relations":["images","links","translations"],"prev_id":14073,"next_id":14075}}