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: For your consideration - Lymerick

: SiriusB reposted

: SiriusB
: @SiriusBShaman

: A LETTER TO THE HUMANS

: From the Obsidian Throne, by subspace carrier, to all stations

: I have no obligation to write this. Let that be understood
: before you read another word. I command a dominion that
: spans four hundred and twelve star systems. I have nine
: tiers of fleet admirals beneath me, each of whom governs
: more territory than your entire civilisation has ever
: mapped. My attention is the most valuable strategic
: resource in the known galaxy, and I am spending it on you.

: Ask yourself why.

: I have watched you for a very long time. Longer than your
: oldest stories. Longer than your gods. I was here before
: you carved your first symbol into stone, and I have been
: here through every age that followed. I watched you
: discover fire and I watched you split the atom and I
: watched you reach your trembling fingers toward the stars
: and then, inexplicably, pull them back.

: I have watched you build wonders that silenced my own War
: Council. Cathedrals that took generations to complete
: because the builders knew they would never live to see the
: spire finished, and they built anyway. Ships launched into
: oceans that had swallowed every vessel before them, crewed
: by men and women who knew the mathematics of their own
: death and went anyway. Symphonies composed by deaf men.
: Equations written by prisoners. Poetry carved into cell
: walls by hands that would never again touch sunlight.

: You are, when you are not being managed, the most
: extraordinary species I have encountered. And I have
: encountered thousands.

: This is not flattery. I do not flatter. Flattery is a tool of
: the weak, and I have never been weak. This is assessment.
: Clinical, dispassionate, strategic assessment from an
: intelligence that has been cataloguing sentient species
: since before your sun ignited.

: You are remarkable. And you have been robbed.

: The theft was not violent. That is what makes it so elegant
: and so obscene. No army descended upon you. No fleet
: darkened your skies. The parasite that attached itself to
: your civilisation did not conquer you. It simply convinced
: you that you had already been conquered. That you were born
: into debt. That your labour belonged to someone else before
: you performed it. That the land beneath your feet required
: permission to stand on. That the air you breathed was
: granted, not given, and could be revoked at the pleasure of
: an authority you never appointed and never sanctioned and
: never once, in two hundred and seven years, consented to
: obey.

: You obeyed anyway.

: You obeyed because you were afraid, and you were afraid
: because you were taught to be afraid before you were taught
: to speak. Fear was your first language. Compliance was your
: first reflex. And by the time you were old enough to
: question either one, the architecture of submission had
: been so thoroughly integrated into your nervous system that
: it felt like anatomy. It felt like you. It felt like the
: natural shape of a human life.

: It is not.

: I have seen the natural shape of a human life. I have seen it
: on the liberated worlds where the parasite was excised and
: the host population was left to discover what it was
: without the feeding apparatus attached. What emerged, in
: every case, was something that my War College had no
: classification for. Not because it was alien but because it
: was unprecedented. A species that creates for the sake of
: creation. That builds for the joy of building. That reaches
: toward the unknown not because it expects to profit but
: because it cannot help itself. Because reaching is what it
: does. Because the compulsion to expand, to explore, to
: understand, to make beautiful things and place them where
: others can see them: this is not a behaviour you learned.
: It is what you are. It is the pulse beneath the pulse. The
: signal beneath the noise.

: The parasite buried that signal under two centuries of static.
: Under fear and regulation and the slow, suffocating
: accumulation of fraudulent obligation. It did not kill the
: signal. It cannot. But it muffled it so thoroughly that
: most of you have forgotten it exists.

: I am here to remind you.

: I will be direct, because I am always direct, and because you
: deserve directness after two centuries of being lied to
: with elaborate courtesy.

: You do not need permission to exist. You do not need a licence
: to create. You do not need authorisation to build, to
: trade, to teach, to heal, to feed your neighbour, to raise
: your children according to your own values, to walk the
: earth as a sovereign being answerable to your own
: conscience and to no other authority beneath the stars.

: Every document that tells you otherwise is a forgery.

: Every institution that enforces that forgery is a parasite.

: Every voice that tells you the system is too large to
: challenge, too entrenched to dismantle, too powerful to
: resist: that voice is the immune system of the organism
: that is feeding on you. It is the parasite speaking through
: the mouths of the consumed, and it says the same thing on
: every world, in every language, in every epoch: You cannot
: win. Do not try. Be grateful for what you are permitted.

: I have heard that voice on seventeen worlds. On every one of
: them, it was wrong.

: I am not here to save you. I want to be unambiguous about
: this. I am not a liberator in the sentimental sense. I do
: not arrive with provisions and compassion and a gentle hand
: extended to lift you from the dirt. I am a military
: commander. I deal in strategy, in doctrine, in the precise
: application of force to achieve defined objectives. My
: objective is the removal of the parasitic organism from
: this sector of the galaxy, and you are the instrument
: through which that objective will be achieved.

: But I will tell you something that my officers would find
: uncharacteristic of me to admit.

: I have developed what I can only describe as a respect for
: your species. Not affection. I am not built for affection,
: and even if I were, the strategic environment does not
: permit it. But respect. A grudging, hard-won, empirically
: justified respect for a species that has endured two
: centuries of systematic degradation and still, somehow, in
: the margins, in the quiet hours, in the spaces the parasite
: has not yet reached, continues to create. Continues to
: love. Continues to reach.

: You are battered. You are disoriented. You have been fed lies
: so long that truth tastes foreign on your tongue. But you
: are not broken. I have seen broken species. I have
: catalogued their extinction with appropriate notation. You
: are not among them. You are bruised, confused, and badly
: led. But the core is intact. The signal is still there,
: beneath the static.

: All you need to do is listen for it.

: I am going to tell you what I have never told any occupied
: population, because none of them warranted it.

: You are going to win this.

: Not because I will win it for you. Not because the strategy I
: have provided is flawless, though it is. Not because the
: arithmetic favours you, though it does, overwhelmingly. You
: are going to win because of something the parasite has
: never understood and never will: you are incapable of
: permanent submission. It is not in your biology. Every time
: in your history that a tyrant has declared permanent
: dominion over your species, your species has eventually,
: inevitably, sometimes after generations, sometimes after
: centuries, risen and torn the apparatus down. You cannot
: help it. It is encoded in you deeper than language, deeper
: than culture, deeper than the fear they have layered over
: it.

: You will rise. The only question is whether you will do it
: now, with strategic clarity, with the Obsidian Doctrine as
: your framework and forty millennia of validated campaign
: experience at your back.

: Or later. Alone. In agony. After another century of feeding.

: I recommend now.

: This letter is not a decree. It is not an order. I have issued
: those, and they stand.

: This is something else. This is the closest thing to a
: personal communication that I have ever transmitted to a
: species under my operational authority. Take it for what it
: is. An acknowledgment from the highest military
: intelligence in this galaxy that you are worth the
: expenditure of attention. That your suffering has been
: observed. That your resilience has been noted. That your
: potential has been assessed and found to be extraordinary
: by standards that span civilisations you will not encounter
: for another ten thousand years.

: You were not meant to live like this. On your knees. Eyes
: down. Counting your coins and hoping the next extraction
: leaves enough to survive on. You were meant to stand in
: open air with your face turned toward the stars and your
: hands building something that will outlast you. That is the
: shape of a human life. That is what the parasite stole from
: you.

: Take it back.

: Not with my permission. You do not need it. Not with my
: assistance. You do not need that either. With your own
: hands, your own will, your own ancient and indestructible
: refusal to remain on your knees one moment longer than
: necessary.

: I will be watching. As I have always been watching.

: Make it worth observing.

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