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Newly Seated Servitors Launch Peace Offensive


Above: Bostar, recently elevated member of the Ascended, speaks to fellow Servitors on the wishes of their communities during the run up to the signing of the 42nd Imperial Decree

A string of recall elections and shuffling of the Ascended over the last few months has elevated a new majority of communal experts, elders, theorists, and diplomats to key positions within the House of Servitors and the Imperial Pavillions. The popular reaction to stalled efforts to bring the war with Rossia’s jingoistic government to an end without conceding the demands of the ultimatum, these citizens have been expected to formulate a way out of the impasse set before the Holy Empire as the learned opinions among our fellow Toonelans turn against the continued existence of the Admiralty and other active command structures. The success of these structures in both the war’s Thor Passage sector and alongside imperial allies enforcing the embargo have not insulated them from criticism. The Servitors have responded with a flurry of activity directed at ending the war, the culmination of which have been codified and published as a public strategy today during the signing of ‘Imperial Decree No. 42: Proclamation on the Need for Peace’ by the Sufet.

The proclamation verifies a number of recent actions already undertaken by the reconstituted Imperial Pavillions since the elevation of the new members of the Ascended; these include the implementation of force limits on the production requests made by the Admiralty, advice to members of the International Onaronist Association (many of them abroad) to make clear to other Social Liberal Union governments that they oppose any war aspiring to “liberation via arms”, and public requests via official channels for commitments from other Union members to support the existing terms of the ultimatum as the basis for negotiations. The most ferocious of these efforts have highlighted the Council Republic of North American Republic’s inability to produce evidence of widespread support for their invasion amongst the natives of Rossia’s indigenous territories, despite the litany of proven ethical errors the latter’s political leadership has engaged in. During this period, the Pavillion for the Resolution of Extraordinary Diplomatic Situations (a merely two month old affair), has ramped up pressure on their Rossian counterparts with an explicit message: accept the mercy of the ultimatum while their peoples can still afford to save face, regardless of the consequences for select members of their leadership. Alongside this has been an obvious implication, namely that the forces arrayed on the Holy Empire’s behalf can just as surely be a deterrent to Republican invasion as it can remain a knife aimed at the Rossian flank.

This ‘carrot-and-stick’ approach has only been amplified by the recent formation of the Second Imperial Defense Fleet in the wake of the influx of new units being built up over the last several months. This new fleet is taking over many of the embargo duties operated in tandem with the Federal Republic of Anaaxes, and with confiscated contraband now exceeding 1,000,000 gross tonnes since the start of the war, Toonelan diplomats are hopeful that Rossia’s leadership will heed the signs signaling that even a temporary dip in the embargo’s operational efficiency will not provide them justification to continue the war effort. The First Imperial Defense Fleet, now led by the recently unveiled flagship and aircraft carrier Baal, has been reorganized, and was last seen due west in the direction of the Rossian front line.

Meanwhile, Sufet Cardonawana left yesterday for the Social Liberal Union’s host city in Biscuitopolis, where they are expected to deliver a speech regarding the war, the first of its kind in our polity’s history, on behalf of the Toonelan people to assembled representatives and dignitaries.