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:*Realpolitik posits a centralizing concept that the successor states to the Second Empire, fragmented and bickering as they do, comprise a greater whole of what amounts to the main body of the victorious Third. Cat-Lon's reign resulted in a feudalistic federated state filling the void of governance created during the exile process. This network of factions carry on the civilizing legacy of the Second (and its brutality) and are direct responses to its fall. No other factions (including the Hives) can lay claim to his inheritance. As such they operate in a fashion of contending for hegemony over the regressive state with little ability to impose total will over the island (until recently).

:*No faction sees this as some reclamation process or great achievement to be pursued. Long has the horrors of the Second passed from memory. What exists now are the desperate, paltry, fruitless conflicts the major states summon up against each other. Their survival is foremost. Yet they cannot see the dreadful world around them for what it is. Their disputes only weaken the whole - that is unless one finally obtains the upper hand and uses it well.

:*There is >no< Third Empire. They >are< the Third Empire. The Third Empire >doesn't< exist. The many make up the whole which isn't there.

:*We arrive at a moment on the timeline where the Holy Nation stumbles enough to expose the potential for great change through the world map. With the existence of the Traders Guild and reformist Shek alongside the internal tensions of the HN is ample opportunity for stirring the pot.

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 :*Realpolitik posits a centralizing concept that the successor states to the Second Empire, fragmented and bickering as they do, comprise a greater whole of what amounts to the main body of the victorious Third. Cat-Lon's reign resulted in a feudalistic federated state filling the void of governance created during the exile process. This network of factions carry on the civilizing legacy of the Second (and its brutality) and are direct responses to its fall. No other factions (including the Hives) can lay claim to his inheritance. As such they operate in a fashion of contending for hegemony over the regressive state with little ability to impose total will over the island (until recently).
 :*No faction sees this as some reclamation process or great achievement to be pursued. Long has the horrors of the Second passed from memory. What exists now are the desperate, paltry, fruitless conflicts the major states summon up against each other. Their survival is foremost. Yet they cannot see the dreadful world around them for what it is. Their disputes only weaken the whole - that is unless one finally obtains the upper hand and uses it well.
+:*There is >no< Third Empire. They >are< the Third Empire. The Third Empire >doesn't< exist. The many make up the whole which isn't there.
 :*We arrive at a moment on the timeline where the Holy Nation stumbles enough to expose the potential for great change through the world map. With the existence of the Traders Guild and reformist Shek alongside the internal tensions of the HN is ample opportunity for stirring the pot.