While Adzel addresses the pro-galactic Star Believers, anti-galactic Demonists attack but the Believers are armed. A trooper calls for help...
I well remember attending an anti-racist rally where a group of racists burst from a side street and ran towards us, inviting a fight, gesturing for us to take them on. Some of our side were up for it. A big Asian lad knocked me sideways as he ran forward. Fortunately, the police got between the two sides just in time... I was certainly there to confront the racists politically but not physically - by preference. The best way is to outnumber them to such an extent that violence is unnecessary and - believe it or not - their frustration makes them fight among themselves. Anyway, I have some experiences relevant to what Adzel goes through in Ardaig on Merseia.
The Vachs, including landless Urdiolch, have formed a loose confederation but not yet the Roidhunate. When that planetary imperium is formed, it seems that Demonism will inform its ideology.
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Kaor, Paul!
But first the Vachs had to contend with rival Merseian nations not organized as vachs and the Gethfennu before the Roidhunate was founded after three cornered wars with each other.
Yes, I think strains of Demonist thought merged with the aggressive militarism of the Vachs to form the ideology of racial supremacism animating the Roidhunate.
Ad astra! Sean
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