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In Dreams Of Silent Seas
Fox would later write in his autobiography:
"Into my life flew a decision which would sweep up my paws, dreams, and personal belongings, and rip the guise off my heart that innumerous wealth so fortuitously bestows. This decision, as all young people face in their lifetime, set the compass of all aspects of my heart, and inevitably the compass of the universe and all it's nations. A person, regardless of species or genus, can have all the wealth, friends, enemies, and material possessions they may so want at the whisk of a wand. But with all the material advantages of Human or Furry existence neither has seemed to manage to produce one all exalted algorithm which delineates what one is supposed to do with his life. I stared down this daunting mountain of a question with all the dominance my inheritance and my Vulpine nature could allow. Admittedly not knowing what the yiff I was doing, I made the right choice to ride a wave of the times to it's very wake. Perhaps it is best when the the Fool carries the fate of a people upon his shoulders, and not the Wiseman. He is an easier card for the Gods to play." Chapter I "The senate of Ra recognizes the representative from the planet Seth." Said the senator from Ra.
"My fellow Congressmen, I address the house of an age old manner|" He was interrupted by another senator.
"If you want to press the issue of the Outer Planets I insist that you and your constituents accept the answer that has been served to you again and again and again." He said.
"But again and again and again doesn't|" He was interrupted by the same senator.
"It has and it will! You keep raising your prices for grain and we in the Inner Core keep paying it, yet you stand here in congress and plead for more?!"
"There is a lot more the inner planets could give! Have you ever been to Seth, or any other Outer Planets? What parts are not in total disarray are teetering on collapse. Our industry is shot, and our streets have broken out into one revolution after another in a violent power battle. There is no law, not even yours." Repeated the representative from Seth.
"But your farms are still operating" Asked the senator from Ra.
"If you could call it that." Said the Seth senator
"Senator Viazen….You are wasting the senate's time. Get to your point." Said the senator from Horus.
"Do I have to repeat it? The state of Seth, and the outer planet states are broke! | he took a sip of water, and calmed himself| I have to wheelbarrow coins to the baker for a mere loaf. We the states have no money, and therefore no internal improvements, no roads, no revenue. No business, no industry. Soooo weee constantly up the price of grain to compensate. We need the drafting of a bill, putting internal improvements at a federal responsibility, and a government bail out for the private sector of the five Outer Planets. That is out plea today, as it has been for the past 70 years. Will we have this bill drafted within two weeks? ….Before you answer, let me ask you a question." The Ferret Viazen paused…
"Yes?" Asked the Ra senator
"Was this Guile Lylat's dream? When he guided our ancestors from their slavery on Earth, did he envision half of our people sleeping in the very soil in which they toil to grow the wealthy half of the population's food? Did he envision a non reactionary government that would rather cushion themselves then extend a paw to who put them in power? Not a paw to their brethren farmer? To their vulpines in the fields, their rabbits in construction? |He looked at the senator from Horus| Their fellow wolves in local government?" said Viazen
His tail was big, and bulging and bushy. His fellow congressmen from the Outer Planets were in tears, the waters trickling down their fur.
"…My fellow friend. It is not that this government wishes to ignore, or pretend to act, it's that we can't. We are gridlocked. To direct funds to the outer planets we would be taking away from deserved funds from Inner Planets. This would naturally, and rightly so, anger the populace. The only way to fund both would be to raise taxes exponentially! Plus we would have to amend the constitution. It's absurd. It is best if your planets solve their own problems." said the senator from Ra.
"But we can't!" yelled Viazen "All these necessary improvements are too expensive for us! They are all state programs right?"
"Yes, which is exactly why you are asking the wrong people." Replied the representative from Ra.
"But you are the senate! Who has a higher authority than you! We've fought and gotten to
the top….and you are going to refuse your own people? Lylatian Democracy is dead…" said Viazen.
"Consider your request for the bill noted. This senate is adjourned." Said the senator from Ra.
"Someday soon there will be a Reckoning…" Said Viazen.
The five outer planetary congressmen stepped outside the House of Congress, and onto the afternoon sidewalk of the capital city Corneria. Loud celebratory military planes flew over head, floats and cars toured down the main paved street. Vendors were shouting and selling to the hoards of people who lined the streets behind the ropes. Viazen breathed a heavy sigh, shouting over the Settlement Day parade to his four other senators.
"I'll go back to Seth and inform our governors of the congresses' decision!" shouted Viazen.
"But the decision wasn't final!" Shouted back another senator.
"That decision was as final as it was ever going to get!" shouted Viazen again. A firecracker went of behind the him, Singeing his tail fur.
"Gods!" He exclaimed as a little rabbit girl looked away sheepishly. Viazen brushed off his suit.
"For the interest of our nation I need you to stay on Ra! Gage the political climate. We can't make any sudden moves. Besides. Your presence hear may just push their decision in our favor." he said.
"Alright. Should we enjoy the parade?" His friends asked
"Settlement Day is only a holiday for the happy who have a place to celebrate it, but have a crack at it anyway." Viazen said.
The other senators nodded, and Viazen hailed a taxi which took him to Guile Lylat Airport where he boarded a large and cylindrical spaceplane for his flight back to Seth.
So proud the Inner furs are. So full of joy and bliss for their country. How happy they are that it gives them the freedom they enjoy, the rights they have, the chains that have been broken off their wrists for 1000 years that have slowly snuck back on. The parade was the public display of this grand finale of freedom. The parade symbolized the path that the Furs took through history. It carried itself on past the rural houses, into the inner Cornerian city, past the Senate House, and the Presidential Pyramid, and the High Court, And all the way to the grand twenty foot tall golden statue of Guile Lylat. He was the reason of their existence, their freedom, and their tranquility. His statue rotated, so it always pointed up to the sun Maat, which shown happily upon the fortunate of the Lylat System, and overshadowed the tiny dim distant star that could only be seen below it at night.
In space the civilian airliner's wings retracted. Viazen reclined in his seat and relaxed, trying to calm himself before the Hyperlink Jump. This jump fluxed the ship through random dimensions as it brought the ship rapidly across the distance from Ra Corneria and Seth. The ship entered the gloomy atmosphere on the dark side of Seth. Upon reaching the capitol the pilot announced
"Attention Passengers. Our landing will be delayed due to …aggressive civil disturbance. We are short on fuel, and will be landing in half an hour regardless."
"Oh damn it." Sighed Viazen. He turned to the male next to him and said "How many times?"
"Fourth time this month" Grunted the old wolf next to him.
"No, third time. The incident two weeks ago doesn't count. That faction was fighting itself." Interjected a Lizard behind them.
"Gods damn it, it doesn't matter who they're fighting, their shooting! Stop being contrary." Growled the wolf again.
"I'm being contrary!? You're being…" The lizard trailed off as Viazen looked out the window at the ground, at the flaming streets and the frequent flash of gunfire.
Down there it was primeval. The buildings looked more like shacks than houses. Out beyond the city sprawl of the capitol of Seth; these were the villas. 90% of the population lived this way. They knew there were real schools, that there are real houses, but that they were out of their reach. Most ignored the government, and focused their attention on local leaders, and shot for them.
In the hellish smoke below the plane were two gangs. The underdog gang had snipers invading peoples homes and picking off advancing infantry in a desperate effort to reclaim lost territory. Those furs with black fur or wool went as they were, as those who had bright fur wrapped themselves with black rags. Both the winning and losing gang had access to advanced weaponry. Hell half of them were in the military. Hell the other half was in the government.
"Ah hell." Said the old wolf. "It's that damned Prosperity gang. Trying to 'secure peace and freedom for everyone' yeah whatever."
"Last Stand is on it's last stand eh?" Said Viazen.
"I'm glad I got out of that a long time ago."
"look at this! They have Last Stand on the run." Said Viazen.
"Once Prosperity has the Last Stand militants at the end of the boulevard the second wave will flank them from behind that market building and cut them off." Said the wolf.
"This should be a short war…" Commented the lizard.
"Break break break!" The Last Stand member shouted on the ground before being incinerated by a Molotov. A squad of males wearing tin can Armour lifted their rifles and ran out of a burning and bombed out building. They took cover behind a barricade of garbage cans, using the lids as shields. A good quarter of them died when a Prosperity Grenadier fired off a rocket propelled grenade straight into the barricade. The Last Standers flanked left into a house, never mind that it was their own, and took to the roof where they used their rifles to snipe off Prosperity soldier after soldier after soldier. But again the rocket grenade prevailed again. The Prosperity fleet of cars and soldiers marched down the boulevard and enclosed the Last Stand, and the old wolfs prediction came to pass. The Prosperity soldiers lifted their leader over their heads where he could see the devastation which he caused, and he smiled a wide grin. His soldiers hoisted a large flowing banner over him which read 'Venom' and shouted his name over and over and over "Andross, Andross, Andross, Andross, Andross, Andross"
"Bugger" Said the wolf up in the plane. "He'll never fix anything. Whats his name?"
"Andross." said the lizard. "And he's a visionary. A revolutionary savior for our times. Don't dare you mock him."
"Idolized and idealized sentiment for the hopeless and the young, that's all he is." Said the wolf.
The plane landed in the capitol city, and unloaded it's passengers with guards. The neighborhood was secured by Andross' Prosperity, and the only force that stood in their way, The Last Stand, was stripped powerless.
Senator Viazen walked into the Governors Building and into the office of the Governor of Seth. The governor looked up from the conversation he was having with his advisor to Internal Affairs and said
"Ah! Viazen, come in. I'm eager to hear the news."