Jack of Harts

The San Santiago political landscape shifted in a day when the rich son of a Corporate magnate won the Presidency on a Pro-Colonial platform. The platform was of course a lie. All of the news networks knew it, and their reporters wailed on live broadcasts about how impossible this was. They realized within days that they had helped him get elected by not pointing out his obvious ties to the Chinese Communist Party. And the news networks vowed to never again let the man who was “literally Mao” get away with it. They called on all right-minded citizens of San Santiago to stand against the new President-elect, and his whole cadre of Communist sympathizers. They all deserved to fly out of helicopters. That being the natural way to deal with all Communists.

Humanity is a religious animal. From our earliest times we believed in gods. And we believe in gods even now. They are not in many cases the same gods, but we do believe in them nevertheless. Many of us believe in the God of the Bible or the Torah and we try to follow the dictates of that God. Many of us follow Jesus and try to follow his teachings. But there are many who turn away from that God and say that they are moving to a new and better post-religion society. But remember on this weekend that God sent a piece of himself to Earth to teach us to be kind to one another and we hung him on a cross. Most people who turn away from God do not live a peaceful agnostic life. Most choose new gods to follow, and they make sacrifices to their new gods.

As the San Santiago Sector grew more wealthy, an independence movement grew with it. Young men and women wanting to build a new life out on the fringes of civilization soon found that civilization followed them with rules and regulations that made no sense out there. That shouldn’t even exist according to the Union Charter, but Central Council colonial officials imposed them and Central Council judges approved them. The colonial populations became more restive as the century came to a close. And the more restive they got, the more colonial officials pressed back with more onerous restrictions and punishments. The San Santiago Sector was rich with both resources and resentment as the new century dawned, and that was not good for anybody.