Chapter 29
Fat Duck
“We banned slavery so long ago that its non-existence is a fact of life, not a historical event. The Collective Cypher is a disgusting, depraved, amoral system of control; it is slavery. Setting it loose as we have makes us as degenerate as what that system implies, and I will not allow us to return to darker times, no matter if it means our demise.
“Will killing me solve all of your problems? Will executing me as an example to others not to protest large-scale decisions make it so what I set in place will not come to fruition? No. It is far too late. This incongruity will grow to discover and thereafter break the system.
“I feel no remorse whatsoever for this crime you accuse me of, find me guilty of. My soul already black with true guilt after all I’ve done previously, which was in fact sanctioned and accepted. This grand transgression, as you have described it, is mine to take pride in. Our survival is not worth justifying a new form of suppression that harkens back to one we thought of as sickening. Our survival should not be worth creating such dangerous precedent. I gladly, happily die after what I have done to correct my, our, corruption.”
-Honorary Saint Junal Bin-Haak, spoken on the last day of his trial on 77,498 counts of High Treason
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