People were not happy with Sekundas Drumpf declaring himself the Republic’s
dictator. It didn’t make any sense, and it wasn’t right, and it wasn’t fair.
The voters distrusted women as much as he did, but that didn’t mean he had
the right to pass whatever laws he wanted, or to punish however he saw fit.
People were dying, even though capital punishment remained illegal. They had
to get him out of office, and that meant sparking a revolution. This
rebellion force had absolutely nothing to do with the Thicket. They didn’t
feel that women should be equal, but if the city was going to develop any
policies regarding what a woman could and couldn’t do, then it would develop
them as a collective, not by a single voice. Unfortunately, unseating Drumpf
was not destined to be the easiest thing in the world. He was extremely good
to the military. He allowed them to use whatever means they deemed necessary
in the fight against terrorism, but also made their jobs as easy as they
wanted. He didn’t force them to work, but when they did work, he let them do
it however they pleased. He had no interest in commanding the troops, but
left that responsibility to the Commons. By the way, Common was the
Durune analog for a General, due to some English linguistics becoming
lost in translation over time. They loved him, and they would do anything
for him, and the only way to stop him was if they switched sides, or if
dissidents started an internal conflict. For two years, this so-called civil
war raged throughout the city. Soldiers on both sides died, as did innocent
bystanders.
The Thicket rebels didn’t know what to do. They could see some great
opportunities to make real changes while Aljabara was distracted and in
chaos, but they were afraid of making things worse, or stooping to their
level, because that was the kind of thing that their enemies would do in
their shoes. In the end, they did nothing. They stayed in hiding, and let
the Aljabarans work it out themselves, for if they tried to help the
dissidents, they would just be painting a larger target on their own backs.
No one really won this conflict. Drumpf ultimately stepped down, deciding
that he would rather not be in power than see the city fall, and the women
rise from its ashes to take their revenge. Before he left office, however,
he made one final speech, where he warned the citizens of the last
prediction that his hidden seer made for him. He claimed that a great
subversive force was on its way, that this force would destroy everything
they had been working towards for the last sixty years, and that they would
come crawling back to him in the wake of its destruction. He said that he
would gladly return to office when that day came, and would not hold these
recent events against them. It was the only thing he ever asserted that
ultimately proved to apparently be true. Years later, a woman from Earth
showed up, and helped take down the established republic. In response to
this, Drumpf was indeed returned to leadership, in an albeit different
position, with smaller scope. Until that day came, however, the Republic
still needed to continue, and someone had to be in charge around here. The
dissidents hadn’t really thought about who would do that, or how they would
go about finding this man. They decided they needed an emergency election.
That actually went pretty well, and marked a turning point in the planet’s
history. The thirteenth top leader of the Aljabaran Republic secretly
studied under former President Summerfield, which gave him the insight to
learn from his mentor’s mistakes. Before the Republic ended, social justice
was already leaning in that direction, thanks to Remanoir Eskandar
Aljabari’s initiatives.
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