06-23-2020, 08:24 AM
June 23rd
Tlinchueypan Imperial University
Tlinchueypan, Western Military District (formerly Itotemoc Tribal Domain)
"So, as the ancient texts demonstrate, the four original ethnic groups of Huenya all shared similar religious, social and cultural aspects, even from the beginning of time." Pahua, Professor of Pan-Huenyan Studies, took his laser pointer and briefly waved it over each of four diagrams. Each one was labeled with the name of one of the four ethnic groups: Necatli, Itotemoc, Tepiltzin and Xiomeran. "Our language, with some regional variations, is the same. Our religion, our beliefs, our beginnings are the same. Where, then, did the notion of Xiomeran supremacy arise from? For that, we have to look not at facts, but at a mythology carefully created to conveniently serve the rise of the Empire as we know it today. This was no accidental development, for Xiomerans to be enshrined as somehow superior to their fellow Huenyans. This was, in fact, a carefully calculated plan, begun under the Emperor Quiauhticue, and followed by successive generations of Xiomeran rulers." Pahua gestured for his teaching assistant to move to the next slide in the presentation. "A carefully calculated campaign to erase the dialects, accomplishments and beliefs of the other ethnic groups of Huenya, to ensure no resistance to Xiomeran ascension as rulers over all of Huenya, to assimilate and eliminate any other distinctions. Xiomera is, perhaps, the only nation in its time and place to not be colonized by outsiders, but by insiders."
The students in Pahua's class listened intently. Most of them were Itotemoc, but there were Necatli, Tepiltzin and even Xiomeran students in the class as well. They followed along, and took notes, as Pahua continued.
"When we look over what history shows us, it is clear that the rise of Xiomerans over everyone else in Huenya was not the result of some godly mandate, or some inherent trait of superiority. After all, we all sprang from the same land, and share the same background. Taking advantage of circumstances, such as the great plague that decimated most of Huenya's population in 1372, and then using the sheer weight of superior numbers, the people responsible for creating the Xiomeran Empire were able to take over, not through superiority, but through lucky moments and advantageous opportunism. One might add that times do not always change much, and that we can see clear parallels of that historical tendency in current events in our country - "
The doors to the lecture hall burst open, cutting Pahua off mid-sentence as they slammed against the walls. Five students, each of them wearing a silver armband with an image of Quetzalcoatl on it, marched into the hall. "Professor Pahua. You are required to cease what you are doing at once and come with us."
"I was not aware that the XSA would be paying my class a visit," Pahua replied calmly. "Nor was I aware that this course had been cancelled. Did the IUS Council of Regents make a decision I was not informed of?"
"You know fully well why we are here, and on what authority," one of the armband-wearing students replied sharply. "The teaching of the slanderous ideology known as pan-Huenyanism is forbidden. You will come with us now." Two of the other armband-wearing students stepped forward and grabbed each of the professor's arms, dragging him away from the lectern.
"Let him go!" a Xiomeran student shouted, standing up. Other students began yelling as well, and rising from their seats. "Shut up and sit down, all of you, or you will be expelled from this university," the leader of the XSA group demanded. "We are working on behalf of the administration."
"You are working on behalf of pigs and dogs. You will not take our teacher," an Itotemoc student shouted. Another student picked up a rather heavy textbook, tossing it at the head of one of the XSA goons. The resounding thwack echoed across the lecture hall. Like the sound of a starter's pistol, it roused the rest of the students to action. Surging forward, they quickly overwhelmed the XSA squad, freeing Pahua.
As word spread throughout the Tlinchueypan campus of the attempt to seize Pahua, other students began leaving their classes as well, assembling angrily in the central courtyard of the campus. They began marching on the administration building, in a spontaneous and furious display of frustration at the government control over their campus. "Defend the university! Defend our teachers! Defend our right to learn!" they began shouting, many of them grabbing whatever objects they could as they went. They forced the five XSA students who had tried to detain Pahua ahead of them, in a stumbling rush.
At the administration building, a line of campus police and other XSA members stood, hastily reinforced by a few Tlinchueypan municipal police and Imperial Police who had arrived on the scene. They stood desperately in an attempt to hold off the wave of angry students, which had now swelled to several hundred. It was like trying to hold off an ocean wave with a piece of string. Not deterred one bit by the club-wielding line ahead of them, the angry students simply steamrollered over those seeking to guard the administration building. After forcing their way inside, and disarming the police and XSA-affiliated students, they quickly rounded up the university administration inside the building. The campus administrators, police and XSA students were forced to walk to the main gates of the university, flanked on either side by angry students. "Expel the collaborators!" many of them shouted, as the wave of angry students forced those siding with the new government outside the gates. The XSA students received one final bit of attention before they were forced off campus. Their silver armbands bearing the image of Quetzalcoatl were yanked off their arms. "You have no right to wear the image of the god of knowledge," they were told with contempt before being shoved outside the campus walls. The students then slammed the gates closed. With a clear determination, they began chaining the gates, and blockading them.
Tlinchueypan was a relatively small and remote town, so an incident there would normally escape the notice of Tlālacuetztla, at least for a little while. But the students of Tlinchueypan did not want to escape notice. Soon, they were calling their friends at other universities throughout Xiomera.
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Huānoch, Milintica
"Well, that's a sight for....something," General Tlehuaque said, sighing and resisting the urge to curse.
The arrivals from the various WOE-led climate change rallies around the world were arriving at Fort Amacatl, having just recently begun landing in Milintica. "They have no weapons, no real supplies....what in the world am I supposed to do with them? We barely have enough equipment for our own army, and our army isn't going anywhere near Xiomera."
"Not officially, anyway," defense secretary Aperira Raharuhi laughed.
"Yeah, yeah. Not officially." General Tlehuaque grimaced.
Raharuhi smiled sympathetically. "No one plans to give us an impossible task. A few ships arrived at the port of Huānoch today, with all sorts of goodies for our brave would-be soldiers. A gift from the government of Crown Prince Texōccoatl."
"I do like gifts, especially if they're the kind that go boom," General Tlehuaque said eagerly.
"Oh, there's plenty of boom on those ships. More than we've ever had in Milintica, by a significant margin. I am quite sure that some of that boom can end up remaining here for our own army, once we've equipped the forces that are going off to Xiomera. The forces destined for Manauia Island are first. That's the Lauchenoirians, along with the Teyatia."
"Wonderful. Let's get started then. I am sure they're eager to go off and defend the trees and whatnot," General Tlehuaque replied.
Tlinchueypan Imperial University
Tlinchueypan, Western Military District (formerly Itotemoc Tribal Domain)
"So, as the ancient texts demonstrate, the four original ethnic groups of Huenya all shared similar religious, social and cultural aspects, even from the beginning of time." Pahua, Professor of Pan-Huenyan Studies, took his laser pointer and briefly waved it over each of four diagrams. Each one was labeled with the name of one of the four ethnic groups: Necatli, Itotemoc, Tepiltzin and Xiomeran. "Our language, with some regional variations, is the same. Our religion, our beliefs, our beginnings are the same. Where, then, did the notion of Xiomeran supremacy arise from? For that, we have to look not at facts, but at a mythology carefully created to conveniently serve the rise of the Empire as we know it today. This was no accidental development, for Xiomerans to be enshrined as somehow superior to their fellow Huenyans. This was, in fact, a carefully calculated plan, begun under the Emperor Quiauhticue, and followed by successive generations of Xiomeran rulers." Pahua gestured for his teaching assistant to move to the next slide in the presentation. "A carefully calculated campaign to erase the dialects, accomplishments and beliefs of the other ethnic groups of Huenya, to ensure no resistance to Xiomeran ascension as rulers over all of Huenya, to assimilate and eliminate any other distinctions. Xiomera is, perhaps, the only nation in its time and place to not be colonized by outsiders, but by insiders."
The students in Pahua's class listened intently. Most of them were Itotemoc, but there were Necatli, Tepiltzin and even Xiomeran students in the class as well. They followed along, and took notes, as Pahua continued.
"When we look over what history shows us, it is clear that the rise of Xiomerans over everyone else in Huenya was not the result of some godly mandate, or some inherent trait of superiority. After all, we all sprang from the same land, and share the same background. Taking advantage of circumstances, such as the great plague that decimated most of Huenya's population in 1372, and then using the sheer weight of superior numbers, the people responsible for creating the Xiomeran Empire were able to take over, not through superiority, but through lucky moments and advantageous opportunism. One might add that times do not always change much, and that we can see clear parallels of that historical tendency in current events in our country - "
The doors to the lecture hall burst open, cutting Pahua off mid-sentence as they slammed against the walls. Five students, each of them wearing a silver armband with an image of Quetzalcoatl on it, marched into the hall. "Professor Pahua. You are required to cease what you are doing at once and come with us."
"I was not aware that the XSA would be paying my class a visit," Pahua replied calmly. "Nor was I aware that this course had been cancelled. Did the IUS Council of Regents make a decision I was not informed of?"
"You know fully well why we are here, and on what authority," one of the armband-wearing students replied sharply. "The teaching of the slanderous ideology known as pan-Huenyanism is forbidden. You will come with us now." Two of the other armband-wearing students stepped forward and grabbed each of the professor's arms, dragging him away from the lectern.
"Let him go!" a Xiomeran student shouted, standing up. Other students began yelling as well, and rising from their seats. "Shut up and sit down, all of you, or you will be expelled from this university," the leader of the XSA group demanded. "We are working on behalf of the administration."
"You are working on behalf of pigs and dogs. You will not take our teacher," an Itotemoc student shouted. Another student picked up a rather heavy textbook, tossing it at the head of one of the XSA goons. The resounding thwack echoed across the lecture hall. Like the sound of a starter's pistol, it roused the rest of the students to action. Surging forward, they quickly overwhelmed the XSA squad, freeing Pahua.
As word spread throughout the Tlinchueypan campus of the attempt to seize Pahua, other students began leaving their classes as well, assembling angrily in the central courtyard of the campus. They began marching on the administration building, in a spontaneous and furious display of frustration at the government control over their campus. "Defend the university! Defend our teachers! Defend our right to learn!" they began shouting, many of them grabbing whatever objects they could as they went. They forced the five XSA students who had tried to detain Pahua ahead of them, in a stumbling rush.
At the administration building, a line of campus police and other XSA members stood, hastily reinforced by a few Tlinchueypan municipal police and Imperial Police who had arrived on the scene. They stood desperately in an attempt to hold off the wave of angry students, which had now swelled to several hundred. It was like trying to hold off an ocean wave with a piece of string. Not deterred one bit by the club-wielding line ahead of them, the angry students simply steamrollered over those seeking to guard the administration building. After forcing their way inside, and disarming the police and XSA-affiliated students, they quickly rounded up the university administration inside the building. The campus administrators, police and XSA students were forced to walk to the main gates of the university, flanked on either side by angry students. "Expel the collaborators!" many of them shouted, as the wave of angry students forced those siding with the new government outside the gates. The XSA students received one final bit of attention before they were forced off campus. Their silver armbands bearing the image of Quetzalcoatl were yanked off their arms. "You have no right to wear the image of the god of knowledge," they were told with contempt before being shoved outside the campus walls. The students then slammed the gates closed. With a clear determination, they began chaining the gates, and blockading them.
Tlinchueypan was a relatively small and remote town, so an incident there would normally escape the notice of Tlālacuetztla, at least for a little while. But the students of Tlinchueypan did not want to escape notice. Soon, they were calling their friends at other universities throughout Xiomera.
---
Huānoch, Milintica
"Well, that's a sight for....something," General Tlehuaque said, sighing and resisting the urge to curse.
The arrivals from the various WOE-led climate change rallies around the world were arriving at Fort Amacatl, having just recently begun landing in Milintica. "They have no weapons, no real supplies....what in the world am I supposed to do with them? We barely have enough equipment for our own army, and our army isn't going anywhere near Xiomera."
"Not officially, anyway," defense secretary Aperira Raharuhi laughed.
"Yeah, yeah. Not officially." General Tlehuaque grimaced.
Raharuhi smiled sympathetically. "No one plans to give us an impossible task. A few ships arrived at the port of Huānoch today, with all sorts of goodies for our brave would-be soldiers. A gift from the government of Crown Prince Texōccoatl."
"I do like gifts, especially if they're the kind that go boom," General Tlehuaque said eagerly.
"Oh, there's plenty of boom on those ships. More than we've ever had in Milintica, by a significant margin. I am quite sure that some of that boom can end up remaining here for our own army, once we've equipped the forces that are going off to Xiomera. The forces destined for Manauia Island are first. That's the Lauchenoirians, along with the Teyatia."
"Wonderful. Let's get started then. I am sure they're eager to go off and defend the trees and whatnot," General Tlehuaque replied.
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