18-11-2025, 04:12 PM
Imperator Scipio makes a public appearance: "Turns out, I was right all along."
December 5688
As the crisis in Selucia becomes more difficult to sustain, with Calatia proclaiming the Imperatorship illegitimate and forming a new government based on the Principate, as well as the First Olerian Cohort rebelling against the Imperator, the old Scipio could not remain in the shadows for much longer.
With a tired expression, and with a powerful message as such, the Imperator retired back to the 'comfort of his home' and made no further comment, nor took any action. Rather, it is as if he had given up and decided to keep things going until the very end of his own life: he will not bow down to those who have opposed him, but he will not bother fighting either. It is the sign of a man admitting defeat, but too tired and proud of himself to accept it.
December 5688
As the crisis in Selucia becomes more difficult to sustain, with Calatia proclaiming the Imperatorship illegitimate and forming a new government based on the Principate, as well as the First Olerian Cohort rebelling against the Imperator, the old Scipio could not remain in the shadows for much longer.
Quote:"I predicted that, indeed, our enemies would take advantage to tear us down and, as the opportunist leeches they are, try to take Selucia for themselves. Turn our precious nation into a puppet, perhaps even worse than that. They have but helped ruin Selucia, and some of them dare blame me! But even worse is seeing our own people blaming me, in spite of all the efforts I've taken to protect us... I hope they can open their eyes now, before it's too late. They [our enemies] are out there, right there! In the sea, in the air, in the comfort of their homes... While we deal with uncertainty, chaos, and blood. And any hole, the smallest possible hole, that I left in this nation... will be its very own death. Perhaps I have grown tired: Selucians are unruly, and perhaps we have nothing to do with what we used to be in our glorious past... and it is time to let go of such assumptions.
I am old, I barely have energy left to rule this nation, even less so in this situation... But I do have a warning: one, for our rebels, and it is that you are going to destroy that which you so dearly hold in your hearts; another, for our enemies... You've won. But you'll pay for everything. Sooner or later. And I loathe that I will not be there to see your tears and hear your screams."
With a tired expression, and with a powerful message as such, the Imperator retired back to the 'comfort of his home' and made no further comment, nor took any action. Rather, it is as if he had given up and decided to keep things going until the very end of his own life: he will not bow down to those who have opposed him, but he will not bother fighting either. It is the sign of a man admitting defeat, but too tired and proud of himself to accept it.