This Day in History: The Path to Prime Citizen
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY
December 15, 2546 SET
The Path to Prime Citizen
The initial explosion occurred on August 23rd, 2546 at 12:00 SET. The corresponding echo carried through the biodome in Jata, alerting everyone that something was terribly wrong. Stunned Citizens and civilians gathered to gawk as first responders scanned the rubble for survivors. Shortly after the Spectrum began to broadcast live footage to the rest of Davien System, a second and third explosion shook the enclosure. The strategically placed charges inflicted critical damage to the biodome’s structural integrity, causing it to collapse and kill thousands below.
The explosions shocked the UPE, which had just survived the First Tevarin War. The public was terrified that a Tevarin sleeper cell was responsible for the attack, but it was not long before Advocacy investigators declared otherwise. Analysis revealed the bomb components were Xi’An in origin.
On the day of the “Atrocity at Jata,” Ivar Messer, at the time the High-General, was actively campaigning for an initiative to eliminate the UPE’s governing triumvirate and consolidate power into a single office. He claimed the Tribunal system was a toothless, outdated, ineffectual system where every issue was obsessively discussed without any clear direction or resolution. He believed that ultimately the decision needed to come down to one person, a Prime Citizen who would be able to guide Humanity out from the mire of bureaucracy.
When news of the bombings finally reached the Sol System, instead of immediately meeting with the Tribunal, Messer met with the press instead. Standing before reporters, Messer declared, “I have drafted a plan that will hunt down those responsible for the atrocity at Jata and ensure this never happens again. If we had a Prime Citizen in place, these measures would already be in motion. Instead, the Empire must wait for the Tribunal to convene and debate. Who knows how many more systems will suffer similar attacks by then?”
Over the ensuing weeks, the Advocacy failed to find those responsible for the attacks. While Messer stopped short of accusing the Xi’an government of orchestrating the explosions, his intensifying rhetoric left little doubt as to who he blamed. Meanwhile, the Tribunal’s two other members, High-Secretary Janis Rezaian and High-Advocate Mauricio Tusk, publicly chastised Messer for “inflammatory speech and an unwillingness to discuss strategies other than his own.” The intra-Tribunal bickering ground the government to a halt and angered an Empire that yearned for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
Two months after the Atrocity at Jata, an explosion ripped through Tram’s bustling TDD building and killed close to 700 people. The Advocacy determined the bombs featured the same Xi’an technology used in Jata. Over the following weeks, fear festered in the UPE as four more terrorist bombings occurred, killing hundreds more. Convinced only a strong leader could curb the attacks, Citizens voted in favor of replacing the Tribunal with a single Prime Citizen, then in an emergency election on December 15th, promptly selected Ivar Messer for the position. The rest, as they say, is history.
One of Messer’s first actions as Prime Citizen was to increase the military’s presence near highly populated areas as a deterrent against further attacks. The plan seemingly worked, as no more bombings occurred. History books even credited the end of the terrorist campaign to Messer’s strong leadership.
Then, in 2806, the UEE sanctioned a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to atone for the outrages of the Messer era, releasing a trove of previously classified data to the Ark. Sydney Kamarck, a Rhetor-based historian and professor of Human Political Systems, spent years scouring the information. Fascinated by the sociopsychology behind Humanity’s transition from the Tribunal to Messer’s fascist rule, she dedicated weeks each term teaching students the significance of each attack, but always struggled to answer why the perpetrators had chosen Jata’s dome as a target.
While digging through the now-unclassified documents, Kamarck came across an arrest record from the Jata police that contained a familiar name, Cyrus Ishitaka. Days before the attack on the city, Ishitaka got caught in a police dragnet of local SLAM dealers. He was arrested and booked before being released without charges. There was no reason given for his release — only a name: Pat Mora. A search for Pat Mora turned up a surprising answer. It was a military alias used by Adam Corr, another name familiar to Kamarck. Both Corr and Ishitaka had fought alongside Ivar Messer in the battle of Idris IV. Adam Corr led an infiltration team and Cyrus Ishitaka was a demolition expert.
Sensing a possible connection, Kamarck searched for evidence of Corr and Ishitaka in the other systems that experienced attacks. Traced through the regularly maintained contact he kept with his son, Ishitaka was placed in four of the five systems in the days leading up to each explosion. Meanwhile, neither Adam Corr nor his alias Pat Mora could be found anywhere. Other than springing Ishitaka from jail, Corr was essentially a ghost. That is until Messer was elected Prime Citizen and Corr was given a prominent position in the military.
Fate would not be so kind to Ishitaka. Days after the last terrorist attack occurred, Ishitaka was found dead in a New York City alley with a laser blast to the back of the head. The local police ruled it a SLAM deal gone wrong, but no suspects or witnesses were ever found. The only information on the case Kamarck could find was Ishitaka’s autopsy, which was sealed at the time. After reading it, she discovered her most damning piece of evidence. The coroner had found something under Ishitaka’s nail: traces of a rare chemical compound used in Xi’An explosives.
Kamarck unveiled her discoveries and chronicled her interpretation of events in the 2812 best-seller The Path to Prime Citizen. The book blamed Ishitaka and Corr for the bombing campaign, but ultimately accused Ivar Messer of masterminding the plan as a way to ascend to Prime Citizen. While some critics complained that the theory was heavily predicated on circumstantial evidence, the court of public opinion accepted Kamarck’s version of events.
To this day, the truth behind the Atrocity at Jata may never be fully known, but what cannot be disputed is that it was a crucial step down the dark path to dictatorship.
December 15, 2546 SET
The Path to Prime Citizen
The initial explosion occurred on August 23rd, 2546 at 12:00 SET. The corresponding echo carried through the biodome in Jata, alerting everyone that something was terribly wrong. Stunned Citizens and civilians gathered to gawk as first responders scanned the rubble for survivors. Shortly after the Spectrum began to broadcast live footage to the rest of Davien System, a second and third explosion shook the enclosure. The strategically placed charges inflicted critical damage to the biodome’s structural integrity, causing it to collapse and kill thousands below.
The explosions shocked the UPE, which had just survived the First Tevarin War. The public was terrified that a Tevarin sleeper cell was responsible for the attack, but it was not long before Advocacy investigators declared otherwise. Analysis revealed the bomb components were Xi’An in origin.
On the day of the “Atrocity at Jata,” Ivar Messer, at the time the High-General, was actively campaigning for an initiative to eliminate the UPE’s governing triumvirate and consolidate power into a single office. He claimed the Tribunal system was a toothless, outdated, ineffectual system where every issue was obsessively discussed without any clear direction or resolution. He believed that ultimately the decision needed to come down to one person, a Prime Citizen who would be able to guide Humanity out from the mire of bureaucracy.
When news of the bombings finally reached the Sol System, instead of immediately meeting with the Tribunal, Messer met with the press instead. Standing before reporters, Messer declared, “I have drafted a plan that will hunt down those responsible for the atrocity at Jata and ensure this never happens again. If we had a Prime Citizen in place, these measures would already be in motion. Instead, the Empire must wait for the Tribunal to convene and debate. Who knows how many more systems will suffer similar attacks by then?”
Over the ensuing weeks, the Advocacy failed to find those responsible for the attacks. While Messer stopped short of accusing the Xi’an government of orchestrating the explosions, his intensifying rhetoric left little doubt as to who he blamed. Meanwhile, the Tribunal’s two other members, High-Secretary Janis Rezaian and High-Advocate Mauricio Tusk, publicly chastised Messer for “inflammatory speech and an unwillingness to discuss strategies other than his own.” The intra-Tribunal bickering ground the government to a halt and angered an Empire that yearned for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
Two months after the Atrocity at Jata, an explosion ripped through Tram’s bustling TDD building and killed close to 700 people. The Advocacy determined the bombs featured the same Xi’an technology used in Jata. Over the following weeks, fear festered in the UPE as four more terrorist bombings occurred, killing hundreds more. Convinced only a strong leader could curb the attacks, Citizens voted in favor of replacing the Tribunal with a single Prime Citizen, then in an emergency election on December 15th, promptly selected Ivar Messer for the position. The rest, as they say, is history.
One of Messer’s first actions as Prime Citizen was to increase the military’s presence near highly populated areas as a deterrent against further attacks. The plan seemingly worked, as no more bombings occurred. History books even credited the end of the terrorist campaign to Messer’s strong leadership.
Then, in 2806, the UEE sanctioned a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to atone for the outrages of the Messer era, releasing a trove of previously classified data to the Ark. Sydney Kamarck, a Rhetor-based historian and professor of Human Political Systems, spent years scouring the information. Fascinated by the sociopsychology behind Humanity’s transition from the Tribunal to Messer’s fascist rule, she dedicated weeks each term teaching students the significance of each attack, but always struggled to answer why the perpetrators had chosen Jata’s dome as a target.
While digging through the now-unclassified documents, Kamarck came across an arrest record from the Jata police that contained a familiar name, Cyrus Ishitaka. Days before the attack on the city, Ishitaka got caught in a police dragnet of local SLAM dealers. He was arrested and booked before being released without charges. There was no reason given for his release — only a name: Pat Mora. A search for Pat Mora turned up a surprising answer. It was a military alias used by Adam Corr, another name familiar to Kamarck. Both Corr and Ishitaka had fought alongside Ivar Messer in the battle of Idris IV. Adam Corr led an infiltration team and Cyrus Ishitaka was a demolition expert.
Sensing a possible connection, Kamarck searched for evidence of Corr and Ishitaka in the other systems that experienced attacks. Traced through the regularly maintained contact he kept with his son, Ishitaka was placed in four of the five systems in the days leading up to each explosion. Meanwhile, neither Adam Corr nor his alias Pat Mora could be found anywhere. Other than springing Ishitaka from jail, Corr was essentially a ghost. That is until Messer was elected Prime Citizen and Corr was given a prominent position in the military.
Fate would not be so kind to Ishitaka. Days after the last terrorist attack occurred, Ishitaka was found dead in a New York City alley with a laser blast to the back of the head. The local police ruled it a SLAM deal gone wrong, but no suspects or witnesses were ever found. The only information on the case Kamarck could find was Ishitaka’s autopsy, which was sealed at the time. After reading it, she discovered her most damning piece of evidence. The coroner had found something under Ishitaka’s nail: traces of a rare chemical compound used in Xi’An explosives.
Kamarck unveiled her discoveries and chronicled her interpretation of events in the 2812 best-seller The Path to Prime Citizen. The book blamed Ishitaka and Corr for the bombing campaign, but ultimately accused Ivar Messer of masterminding the plan as a way to ascend to Prime Citizen. While some critics complained that the theory was heavily predicated on circumstantial evidence, the court of public opinion accepted Kamarck’s version of events.
To this day, the truth behind the Atrocity at Jata may never be fully known, but what cannot be disputed is that it was a crucial step down the dark path to dictatorship.
German
AN DIESEM TAG IN DER GESCHICHTE
15. Dezember 2545 SET
Der Weg zum Spitzenbürger
Die erste Explosion erfolgte um 12:00 Uhr SET. Das entsprechende Echo durchdrang den Biodom in Jata und warnte alle, dass etwas nicht stimmte. Betäubte Bürger und Zivilisten versammelten sich, um zu gaffen, als die Ersthelfer die Trümmer nach Überlebenden durchsuchten. Kurz nachdem das Spectrum begann, Live-Material an den Rest des Davien Systems zu senden, erschütterte eine zweite und dritte Explosion das Gehäuse. Die strategisch platzierten Ladungen verursachten einen kritischen Schaden an der strukturellen Integrität des Biodoms, so dass dieser zusammenbrach und Tausende von Menschen unter ihm tötete.
Die Explosionen erschütterten die UPE, die gerade den Ersten Tevarinkrieg überlebt hatte. Die Öffentlichkeit war verängstigt, dass eine Tevarin-Schwellenzelle für den Angriff verantwortlich war, aber es dauerte nicht lange, bis die Ermittler von Advocacy das Gegenteil erklärten. Die Analyse ergab, dass die Bombenkomponenten aus Xi'An stammen.
Am Tag der "Gräueltat in Jata" setzte sich Ivar Messer, damals Generaloberer, aktiv für eine Initiative ein, um das Regierungsdreigestirn der UPE zu beseitigen und die Macht in einem einzigen Amt zu bündeln. Er behauptete, das Tribunalsystem sei ein zahnloses, veraltetes, ineffektives System, bei dem jedes Problem obsessiv diskutiert wurde, ohne eine klare Richtung oder Lösung. Er glaubte, dass die Entscheidung letztendlich auf eine Person fallen müsse, einen Prime Citizen, der in der Lage sein würde, die Menschheit aus dem Sumpf der Bürokratie herauszuführen.
Als die Nachricht von den Bombenanschlägen schließlich das Sol-System erreichte, traf Messer statt sofort mit dem Tribunal zusammen, stattdessen mit der Presse. Messer erklärte vor Reportern: "Ich habe einen Plan entworfen, der die Verantwortlichen für die Gräueltaten in Jata jagen und sicherstellen wird, dass sich das nie wieder wiederholt. Wenn wir einen Bürgermeister hätten, wären diese Maßnahmen bereits in Kraft. Stattdessen muss das Imperium warten, bis das Tribunal zusammentritt und debattiert. Wer weiß, wie viele weitere Systeme bis dahin unter ähnlichen Angriffen leiden werden?"
In den folgenden Wochen gelang es der Advocacy nicht, die für die Angriffe Verantwortlichen zu finden. Während Messer nicht damit aufhörte, die Regierung von Xi'An zu beschuldigen, die Explosionen zu orchestrieren, ließ seine intensivierende Rhetorik wenig Zweifel daran, wen er beschuldigte. In der Zwischenzeit haben die beiden anderen Mitglieder des Tribunals, der Hohe Sekretär Janis Rezaian und der Hohe Vertreter Mauricio Tusk, Messer öffentlich wegen "aufrührerischer Rede und mangelnder Bereitschaft, andere Strategien als seine eigenen zu diskutieren" gezüchtigt. Der Streit innerhalb des Tribunals brachte die Regierung zum Stillstand und erzürnte ein Imperium, das sich danach sehnte, die Täter vor Gericht zu bringen.
Zwei Monate nach der Gräueltat in Jata brach eine Explosion durch das geschäftige TDD-Gebäude von Tram aus und tötete fast 700 Menschen. Die Advocacy stellte fest, dass die Bomben mit der gleichen Xi'An-Technologie ausgestattet waren, die auch in Jata verwendet wurde. In den folgenden Monaten schwelte in der UPE die Angst, als vier weitere terroristische Bombenanschläge stattfanden und Hunderte weitere töteten. Überzeugt, dass nur ein starker Führer die Angriffe eindämmen konnte, stimmten die Bürger für die Ersetzung des Tribunals durch einen einzigen Hauptbürger und wählten Ivar Messer prompt in die Position. Der Rest, wie man so schön sagt, ist Geschichte.
Eine der ersten Aktionen von Messer als Prime Citizen bestand darin, die Präsenz des Militärs in der Nähe von Ballungszentren zu verstärken, um vor weiteren Angriffen abzuschrecken. Der Plan schien zu funktionieren, da es keine weiteren Bombenangriffe mehr gab. In den Geschichtsbüchern wurde das Ende der Terrorkampagne sogar der starken Führung von Messer zugeschrieben.
Dann, 2806, sanktionierte die UEE eine Wahrheits- und Versöhnungskommission, um für die Gräueltaten der Messer-Ära zu büßen und eine Fundgrube von zuvor geheimen Daten an die Arche weiterzugeben. Sydney Kamarck, ein in Rhetor lebender Historiker und Professor für menschliche politische Systeme, verbrachte Jahre damit, die Informationen zu durchsuchen. Fasziniert von der Sozialpsychologie hinter dem Übergang der Menschheit vom Tribunal zur faschistischen Herrschaft von Messer, widmete sie jedes Semester Wochen, um den Studenten die Bedeutung jedes Angriffs zu vermitteln, kämpfte aber immer wieder darum, warum die Täter die Kuppel von Jata als Ziel gewählt hatten.
Beim Durchsuchen der jetzt nicht klassifizierten Dokumente stieß Kamarck auf eine Verhaftungsakte der Polizei von Jata, die einen bekannten Namen, Cyrus Ishitaka, enthielt. Tage vor dem Angriff auf die Stadt wurde Ishitaka in ein Polizei-Dragnet von lokalen SLAM-Händlern verwickelt. Er wurde verhaftet und verhaftet, bevor er ohne Anklage freigelassen wurde. Es wurde kein Grund für seine Freilassung genannt - nur ein Name: Pat Mora. Eine Suche nach Pat Mora ergab eine überraschende Antwort. Es war ein militärischer Deckname, der von Adam Corr benutzt wurde, ein weiterer Name, der Kamarck bekannt ist. Sowohl Corr als auch Ishitaka hatten neben Ivar Messer in der Schlacht von Idris IV gekämpft. Adam Corr leitete ein Infiltrationsteam und Cyrus Ishitaka war ein Abbruchexperte.
Kamarck erkannte eine mögliche Verbindung und suchte nach Beweisen für Corr und Ishitaka in den anderen Systemen, die Angriffe erlebten. Verfolgt durch den regelmäßig gepflegten Kontakt, den er mit seinem Sohn hielt, wurde Ishitaka in den Tagen vor jeder Explosion in vier der fünf Systeme platziert. Inzwischen waren weder Adam Corr noch sein Deckname Pat Mora irgendwo zu finden. Anders als Ishitaka aus dem Gefängnis zu holen, war Corr im Wesentlichen ein Geist. Das war bis zur Wahl von Messer zum Prime Citizen und Corr erhielt eine herausragende Position im Militär.
Das Schicksal wäre nicht so freundlich zu Ishitaka. Tage nachdem der letzte Terroranschlag stattgefunden hatte, wurde Ishitaka tot in einer New Yorker Gasse mit einer Laserexplosion in den Hinterkopf gefunden. Die örtliche Polizei entschied, dass es sich um einen SLAM-Deal handelte, aber es wurden nie Verdächtige oder Zeugen gefunden. Die einzige Information über den Fall, den Kamarck finden konnte, war Ishitakas Autopsie, die zu diesem Zeitpunkt versiegelt war. Nachdem sie es gelesen hatte, entdeckte sie ihr verdammtestes Beweisstück. Der Gerichtsmediziner hatte unter Ishitakas Nagel etwas gefunden: Spuren einer seltenen chemischen Verbindung, die in Xi'An Sprengstoff verwendet wurde.
Kamarck enthüllte ihre Entdeckungen und schrieb ihre Interpretation der Ereignisse in dem 2812 erschienenen Bestseller The Path to Prime Citizen. Das Buch beschuldigte Ishitaka und Corr für die Bombenangriffe, beschuldigte Ivar Messer aber schließlich, den Plan als Weg zum Ersten Bürger zu leiten. Während sich einige Kritiker darüber beschwerten, dass die Theorie stark auf Indizienbeweisen beruhte, akzeptierte das Gericht die Version der Ereignisse von Kamarck.
Bis heute ist die Wahrheit hinter der Grausamkeit in Jata vielleicht nie vollständig bekannt, aber was nicht bestritten werden kann, ist, dass es ein entscheidender Schritt auf dem dunklen Weg zur Diktatur war.
15. Dezember 2545 SET
Der Weg zum Spitzenbürger
Die erste Explosion erfolgte um 12:00 Uhr SET. Das entsprechende Echo durchdrang den Biodom in Jata und warnte alle, dass etwas nicht stimmte. Betäubte Bürger und Zivilisten versammelten sich, um zu gaffen, als die Ersthelfer die Trümmer nach Überlebenden durchsuchten. Kurz nachdem das Spectrum begann, Live-Material an den Rest des Davien Systems zu senden, erschütterte eine zweite und dritte Explosion das Gehäuse. Die strategisch platzierten Ladungen verursachten einen kritischen Schaden an der strukturellen Integrität des Biodoms, so dass dieser zusammenbrach und Tausende von Menschen unter ihm tötete.
Die Explosionen erschütterten die UPE, die gerade den Ersten Tevarinkrieg überlebt hatte. Die Öffentlichkeit war verängstigt, dass eine Tevarin-Schwellenzelle für den Angriff verantwortlich war, aber es dauerte nicht lange, bis die Ermittler von Advocacy das Gegenteil erklärten. Die Analyse ergab, dass die Bombenkomponenten aus Xi'An stammen.
Am Tag der "Gräueltat in Jata" setzte sich Ivar Messer, damals Generaloberer, aktiv für eine Initiative ein, um das Regierungsdreigestirn der UPE zu beseitigen und die Macht in einem einzigen Amt zu bündeln. Er behauptete, das Tribunalsystem sei ein zahnloses, veraltetes, ineffektives System, bei dem jedes Problem obsessiv diskutiert wurde, ohne eine klare Richtung oder Lösung. Er glaubte, dass die Entscheidung letztendlich auf eine Person fallen müsse, einen Prime Citizen, der in der Lage sein würde, die Menschheit aus dem Sumpf der Bürokratie herauszuführen.
Als die Nachricht von den Bombenanschlägen schließlich das Sol-System erreichte, traf Messer statt sofort mit dem Tribunal zusammen, stattdessen mit der Presse. Messer erklärte vor Reportern: "Ich habe einen Plan entworfen, der die Verantwortlichen für die Gräueltaten in Jata jagen und sicherstellen wird, dass sich das nie wieder wiederholt. Wenn wir einen Bürgermeister hätten, wären diese Maßnahmen bereits in Kraft. Stattdessen muss das Imperium warten, bis das Tribunal zusammentritt und debattiert. Wer weiß, wie viele weitere Systeme bis dahin unter ähnlichen Angriffen leiden werden?"
In den folgenden Wochen gelang es der Advocacy nicht, die für die Angriffe Verantwortlichen zu finden. Während Messer nicht damit aufhörte, die Regierung von Xi'An zu beschuldigen, die Explosionen zu orchestrieren, ließ seine intensivierende Rhetorik wenig Zweifel daran, wen er beschuldigte. In der Zwischenzeit haben die beiden anderen Mitglieder des Tribunals, der Hohe Sekretär Janis Rezaian und der Hohe Vertreter Mauricio Tusk, Messer öffentlich wegen "aufrührerischer Rede und mangelnder Bereitschaft, andere Strategien als seine eigenen zu diskutieren" gezüchtigt. Der Streit innerhalb des Tribunals brachte die Regierung zum Stillstand und erzürnte ein Imperium, das sich danach sehnte, die Täter vor Gericht zu bringen.
Zwei Monate nach der Gräueltat in Jata brach eine Explosion durch das geschäftige TDD-Gebäude von Tram aus und tötete fast 700 Menschen. Die Advocacy stellte fest, dass die Bomben mit der gleichen Xi'An-Technologie ausgestattet waren, die auch in Jata verwendet wurde. In den folgenden Monaten schwelte in der UPE die Angst, als vier weitere terroristische Bombenanschläge stattfanden und Hunderte weitere töteten. Überzeugt, dass nur ein starker Führer die Angriffe eindämmen konnte, stimmten die Bürger für die Ersetzung des Tribunals durch einen einzigen Hauptbürger und wählten Ivar Messer prompt in die Position. Der Rest, wie man so schön sagt, ist Geschichte.
Eine der ersten Aktionen von Messer als Prime Citizen bestand darin, die Präsenz des Militärs in der Nähe von Ballungszentren zu verstärken, um vor weiteren Angriffen abzuschrecken. Der Plan schien zu funktionieren, da es keine weiteren Bombenangriffe mehr gab. In den Geschichtsbüchern wurde das Ende der Terrorkampagne sogar der starken Führung von Messer zugeschrieben.
Dann, 2806, sanktionierte die UEE eine Wahrheits- und Versöhnungskommission, um für die Gräueltaten der Messer-Ära zu büßen und eine Fundgrube von zuvor geheimen Daten an die Arche weiterzugeben. Sydney Kamarck, ein in Rhetor lebender Historiker und Professor für menschliche politische Systeme, verbrachte Jahre damit, die Informationen zu durchsuchen. Fasziniert von der Sozialpsychologie hinter dem Übergang der Menschheit vom Tribunal zur faschistischen Herrschaft von Messer, widmete sie jedes Semester Wochen, um den Studenten die Bedeutung jedes Angriffs zu vermitteln, kämpfte aber immer wieder darum, warum die Täter die Kuppel von Jata als Ziel gewählt hatten.
Beim Durchsuchen der jetzt nicht klassifizierten Dokumente stieß Kamarck auf eine Verhaftungsakte der Polizei von Jata, die einen bekannten Namen, Cyrus Ishitaka, enthielt. Tage vor dem Angriff auf die Stadt wurde Ishitaka in ein Polizei-Dragnet von lokalen SLAM-Händlern verwickelt. Er wurde verhaftet und verhaftet, bevor er ohne Anklage freigelassen wurde. Es wurde kein Grund für seine Freilassung genannt - nur ein Name: Pat Mora. Eine Suche nach Pat Mora ergab eine überraschende Antwort. Es war ein militärischer Deckname, der von Adam Corr benutzt wurde, ein weiterer Name, der Kamarck bekannt ist. Sowohl Corr als auch Ishitaka hatten neben Ivar Messer in der Schlacht von Idris IV gekämpft. Adam Corr leitete ein Infiltrationsteam und Cyrus Ishitaka war ein Abbruchexperte.
Kamarck erkannte eine mögliche Verbindung und suchte nach Beweisen für Corr und Ishitaka in den anderen Systemen, die Angriffe erlebten. Verfolgt durch den regelmäßig gepflegten Kontakt, den er mit seinem Sohn hielt, wurde Ishitaka in den Tagen vor jeder Explosion in vier der fünf Systeme platziert. Inzwischen waren weder Adam Corr noch sein Deckname Pat Mora irgendwo zu finden. Anders als Ishitaka aus dem Gefängnis zu holen, war Corr im Wesentlichen ein Geist. Das war bis zur Wahl von Messer zum Prime Citizen und Corr erhielt eine herausragende Position im Militär.
Das Schicksal wäre nicht so freundlich zu Ishitaka. Tage nachdem der letzte Terroranschlag stattgefunden hatte, wurde Ishitaka tot in einer New Yorker Gasse mit einer Laserexplosion in den Hinterkopf gefunden. Die örtliche Polizei entschied, dass es sich um einen SLAM-Deal handelte, aber es wurden nie Verdächtige oder Zeugen gefunden. Die einzige Information über den Fall, den Kamarck finden konnte, war Ishitakas Autopsie, die zu diesem Zeitpunkt versiegelt war. Nachdem sie es gelesen hatte, entdeckte sie ihr verdammtestes Beweisstück. Der Gerichtsmediziner hatte unter Ishitakas Nagel etwas gefunden: Spuren einer seltenen chemischen Verbindung, die in Xi'An Sprengstoff verwendet wurde.
Kamarck enthüllte ihre Entdeckungen und schrieb ihre Interpretation der Ereignisse in dem 2812 erschienenen Bestseller The Path to Prime Citizen. Das Buch beschuldigte Ishitaka und Corr für die Bombenangriffe, beschuldigte Ivar Messer aber schließlich, den Plan als Weg zum Ersten Bürger zu leiten. Während sich einige Kritiker darüber beschwerten, dass die Theorie stark auf Indizienbeweisen beruhte, akzeptierte das Gericht die Version der Ereignisse von Kamarck.
Bis heute ist die Wahrheit hinter der Grausamkeit in Jata vielleicht nie vollständig bekannt, aber was nicht bestritten werden kann, ist, dass es ein entscheidender Schritt auf dem dunklen Weg zur Diktatur war.
Chinese
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
December 15, 2546 SET
The Path to Prime Citizen
The initial explosion occurred on August 23rd, 2546 at 12:00 SET. The corresponding echo carried through the biodome in Jata, alerting everyone that something was terribly wrong. Stunned Citizens and civilians gathered to gawk as first responders scanned the rubble for survivors. Shortly after the Spectrum began to broadcast live footage to the rest of Davien System, a second and third explosion shook the enclosure. The strategically placed charges inflicted critical damage to the biodome’s structural integrity, causing it to collapse and kill thousands below.
The explosions shocked the UPE, which had just survived the First Tevarin War. The public was terrified that a Tevarin sleeper cell was responsible for the attack, but it was not long before Advocacy investigators declared otherwise. Analysis revealed the bomb components were Xi’An in origin.
On the day of the “Atrocity at Jata,” Ivar Messer, at the time the High-General, was actively campaigning for an initiative to eliminate the UPE’s governing triumvirate and consolidate power into a single office. He claimed the Tribunal system was a toothless, outdated, ineffectual system where every issue was obsessively discussed without any clear direction or resolution. He believed that ultimately the decision needed to come down to one person, a Prime Citizen who would be able to guide Humanity out from the mire of bureaucracy.
When news of the bombings finally reached the Sol System, instead of immediately meeting with the Tribunal, Messer met with the press instead. Standing before reporters, Messer declared, “I have drafted a plan that will hunt down those responsible for the atrocity at Jata and ensure this never happens again. If we had a Prime Citizen in place, these measures would already be in motion. Instead, the Empire must wait for the Tribunal to convene and debate. Who knows how many more systems will suffer similar attacks by then?”
Over the ensuing weeks, the Advocacy failed to find those responsible for the attacks. While Messer stopped short of accusing the Xi’an government of orchestrating the explosions, his intensifying rhetoric left little doubt as to who he blamed. Meanwhile, the Tribunal’s two other members, High-Secretary Janis Rezaian and High-Advocate Mauricio Tusk, publicly chastised Messer for “inflammatory speech and an unwillingness to discuss strategies other than his own.” The intra-Tribunal bickering ground the government to a halt and angered an Empire that yearned for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
Two months after the Atrocity at Jata, an explosion ripped through Tram’s bustling TDD building and killed close to 700 people. The Advocacy determined the bombs featured the same Xi’an technology used in Jata. Over the following weeks, fear festered in the UPE as four more terrorist bombings occurred, killing hundreds more. Convinced only a strong leader could curb the attacks, Citizens voted in favor of replacing the Tribunal with a single Prime Citizen, then in an emergency election on December 15th, promptly selected Ivar Messer for the position. The rest, as they say, is history.
One of Messer’s first actions as Prime Citizen was to increase the military’s presence near highly populated areas as a deterrent against further attacks. The plan seemingly worked, as no more bombings occurred. History books even credited the end of the terrorist campaign to Messer’s strong leadership.
Then, in 2806, the UEE sanctioned a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to atone for the outrages of the Messer era, releasing a trove of previously classified data to the Ark. Sydney Kamarck, a Rhetor-based historian and professor of Human Political Systems, spent years scouring the information. Fascinated by the sociopsychology behind Humanity’s transition from the Tribunal to Messer’s fascist rule, she dedicated weeks each term teaching students the significance of each attack, but always struggled to answer why the perpetrators had chosen Jata’s dome as a target.
While digging through the now-unclassified documents, Kamarck came across an arrest record from the Jata police that contained a familiar name, Cyrus Ishitaka. Days before the attack on the city, Ishitaka got caught in a police dragnet of local SLAM dealers. He was arrested and booked before being released without charges. There was no reason given for his release — only a name: Pat Mora. A search for Pat Mora turned up a surprising answer. It was a military alias used by Adam Corr, another name familiar to Kamarck. Both Corr and Ishitaka had fought alongside Ivar Messer in the battle of Idris IV. Adam Corr led an infiltration team and Cyrus Ishitaka was a demolition expert.
Sensing a possible connection, Kamarck searched for evidence of Corr and Ishitaka in the other systems that experienced attacks. Traced through the regularly maintained contact he kept with his son, Ishitaka was placed in four of the five systems in the days leading up to each explosion. Meanwhile, neither Adam Corr nor his alias Pat Mora could be found anywhere. Other than springing Ishitaka from jail, Corr was essentially a ghost. That is until Messer was elected Prime Citizen and Corr was given a prominent position in the military.
Fate would not be so kind to Ishitaka. Days after the last terrorist attack occurred, Ishitaka was found dead in a New York City alley with a laser blast to the back of the head. The local police ruled it a SLAM deal gone wrong, but no suspects or witnesses were ever found. The only information on the case Kamarck could find was Ishitaka’s autopsy, which was sealed at the time. After reading it, she discovered her most damning piece of evidence. The coroner had found something under Ishitaka’s nail: traces of a rare chemical compound used in Xi’An explosives.
Kamarck unveiled her discoveries and chronicled her interpretation of events in the 2812 best-seller The Path to Prime Citizen. The book blamed Ishitaka and Corr for the bombing campaign, but ultimately accused Ivar Messer of masterminding the plan as a way to ascend to Prime Citizen. While some critics complained that the theory was heavily predicated on circumstantial evidence, the court of public opinion accepted Kamarck’s version of events.
To this day, the truth behind the Atrocity at Jata may never be fully known, but what cannot be disputed is that it was a crucial step down the dark path to dictatorship.
December 15, 2546 SET
The Path to Prime Citizen
The initial explosion occurred on August 23rd, 2546 at 12:00 SET. The corresponding echo carried through the biodome in Jata, alerting everyone that something was terribly wrong. Stunned Citizens and civilians gathered to gawk as first responders scanned the rubble for survivors. Shortly after the Spectrum began to broadcast live footage to the rest of Davien System, a second and third explosion shook the enclosure. The strategically placed charges inflicted critical damage to the biodome’s structural integrity, causing it to collapse and kill thousands below.
The explosions shocked the UPE, which had just survived the First Tevarin War. The public was terrified that a Tevarin sleeper cell was responsible for the attack, but it was not long before Advocacy investigators declared otherwise. Analysis revealed the bomb components were Xi’An in origin.
On the day of the “Atrocity at Jata,” Ivar Messer, at the time the High-General, was actively campaigning for an initiative to eliminate the UPE’s governing triumvirate and consolidate power into a single office. He claimed the Tribunal system was a toothless, outdated, ineffectual system where every issue was obsessively discussed without any clear direction or resolution. He believed that ultimately the decision needed to come down to one person, a Prime Citizen who would be able to guide Humanity out from the mire of bureaucracy.
When news of the bombings finally reached the Sol System, instead of immediately meeting with the Tribunal, Messer met with the press instead. Standing before reporters, Messer declared, “I have drafted a plan that will hunt down those responsible for the atrocity at Jata and ensure this never happens again. If we had a Prime Citizen in place, these measures would already be in motion. Instead, the Empire must wait for the Tribunal to convene and debate. Who knows how many more systems will suffer similar attacks by then?”
Over the ensuing weeks, the Advocacy failed to find those responsible for the attacks. While Messer stopped short of accusing the Xi’an government of orchestrating the explosions, his intensifying rhetoric left little doubt as to who he blamed. Meanwhile, the Tribunal’s two other members, High-Secretary Janis Rezaian and High-Advocate Mauricio Tusk, publicly chastised Messer for “inflammatory speech and an unwillingness to discuss strategies other than his own.” The intra-Tribunal bickering ground the government to a halt and angered an Empire that yearned for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.
Two months after the Atrocity at Jata, an explosion ripped through Tram’s bustling TDD building and killed close to 700 people. The Advocacy determined the bombs featured the same Xi’an technology used in Jata. Over the following weeks, fear festered in the UPE as four more terrorist bombings occurred, killing hundreds more. Convinced only a strong leader could curb the attacks, Citizens voted in favor of replacing the Tribunal with a single Prime Citizen, then in an emergency election on December 15th, promptly selected Ivar Messer for the position. The rest, as they say, is history.
One of Messer’s first actions as Prime Citizen was to increase the military’s presence near highly populated areas as a deterrent against further attacks. The plan seemingly worked, as no more bombings occurred. History books even credited the end of the terrorist campaign to Messer’s strong leadership.
Then, in 2806, the UEE sanctioned a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to atone for the outrages of the Messer era, releasing a trove of previously classified data to the Ark. Sydney Kamarck, a Rhetor-based historian and professor of Human Political Systems, spent years scouring the information. Fascinated by the sociopsychology behind Humanity’s transition from the Tribunal to Messer’s fascist rule, she dedicated weeks each term teaching students the significance of each attack, but always struggled to answer why the perpetrators had chosen Jata’s dome as a target.
While digging through the now-unclassified documents, Kamarck came across an arrest record from the Jata police that contained a familiar name, Cyrus Ishitaka. Days before the attack on the city, Ishitaka got caught in a police dragnet of local SLAM dealers. He was arrested and booked before being released without charges. There was no reason given for his release — only a name: Pat Mora. A search for Pat Mora turned up a surprising answer. It was a military alias used by Adam Corr, another name familiar to Kamarck. Both Corr and Ishitaka had fought alongside Ivar Messer in the battle of Idris IV. Adam Corr led an infiltration team and Cyrus Ishitaka was a demolition expert.
Sensing a possible connection, Kamarck searched for evidence of Corr and Ishitaka in the other systems that experienced attacks. Traced through the regularly maintained contact he kept with his son, Ishitaka was placed in four of the five systems in the days leading up to each explosion. Meanwhile, neither Adam Corr nor his alias Pat Mora could be found anywhere. Other than springing Ishitaka from jail, Corr was essentially a ghost. That is until Messer was elected Prime Citizen and Corr was given a prominent position in the military.
Fate would not be so kind to Ishitaka. Days after the last terrorist attack occurred, Ishitaka was found dead in a New York City alley with a laser blast to the back of the head. The local police ruled it a SLAM deal gone wrong, but no suspects or witnesses were ever found. The only information on the case Kamarck could find was Ishitaka’s autopsy, which was sealed at the time. After reading it, she discovered her most damning piece of evidence. The coroner had found something under Ishitaka’s nail: traces of a rare chemical compound used in Xi’An explosives.
Kamarck unveiled her discoveries and chronicled her interpretation of events in the 2812 best-seller The Path to Prime Citizen. The book blamed Ishitaka and Corr for the bombing campaign, but ultimately accused Ivar Messer of masterminding the plan as a way to ascend to Prime Citizen. While some critics complained that the theory was heavily predicated on circumstantial evidence, the court of public opinion accepted Kamarck’s version of events.
To this day, the truth behind the Atrocity at Jata may never be fully known, but what cannot be disputed is that it was a crucial step down the dark path to dictatorship.
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