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The Halls of Millennium Part II

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"Glory to this day and to his.....your reign. I'm so sorry my queen. If Your Majesty is ready, we have compiled the results."

The resident specialist received a stoic nod.

"There......is a chemical imbalance in the former emperor's brain. There was the same in his late Majesty Carlos the First's. This specific.......defect is known to trigger and be responsible for chronic Manic Depression. The onset in your husband & his father was the early forties. It ultimately had a large hand in the third & final heart attack that killed your husband's father. The timeline, it makes perfect sense. The last five years..."

The stoic nod turned to a furrowed brow.

"........From the rest of what we've deduced it only seems to be prominent in his family. The male side. It is of course treatable. However as Your Majesty knows both preceding majesties constantly refused treatment. Save for alcohol, which only aggravated their conditions. I cannot even begin to quantify the amount of tears shed for the suffering of our beloved first emperor."

"They're Justosian men doctor. Your surprise is what's truly disturbing here. Continue please."

"If I could humbly imply, perhaps Your Majesty can now lobby for His Majesty to accept treatment in this new stage of his life...."

The stare returned.

"That concludes the summarization of this report."

"Thank you doctor for your attempted delicateness. The Lord is all my family needs. Now that my beloved husband is no longer burdened with the duty of governance, I expect his condition to improve. Thank you further for illuminating some mysteries. Good day."

The doctor bowed then left. The empress, or queen as she has insisted she'd rather be called then made her way back to the Residential Wing. Past the Administrative Wing. Solely occupied now, & for the last 5 months by His Excellency the Prime Minister.

At 8:00 PM Justosian time, Monday, July 15, 2019, His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Carlos Luis Francisco II formally signed his abdication proclamation & related papers. The reasons remain under wraps to this day. For just over the last 5 months the Continental Empire of Justosia has had no acting sovereign. The immensely popular queen, together with Prime Minister Blount, have quelled the public instability this had initially caused. This accompanied the borders being all but closed. This would pail in comparison to what had to come next. The elimination of one of the most archaic rules of House de Francisco.
 
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The throngs of reporters almost overwhelmed the structure of the palace main gate. There was no undoing this now. Some of his closest aides had started to suspect he leaked it on purpose as he was likely tired of living a lie.

"This should go without saying, but I still love you. That said, as acting head of this house, your claim to The Throne of Falcons is officially null and void. Is this what you wanted?"

Carlos III, now only the Duke of Avalon, turned his head up towards his mother.

"No. I stood ready to do my duty. Do it as MYSELF however. It's all me, or none of me mama. Forgive me."

She stared at him for a couple seconds before turning to her private secretary & the Imperial Guard Captain.

"Tomorrow my son will hold a press conference. He will come clean, to all of it. He will then formally renounce his first claim to the throne. I want this to be done with. It weighs our house down. Captain. Get those vultures off my property.

Carlos. You will handle your ex wife...."
 

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The details over the changing course of Justosian history were being hashed out over morning espresso & croissants.

"I'm decided Prime Minister. My priorities will be infrastructure, education, social programs, and international relations. In that order."

The PM's aides casually jotted relative notes down.

"Your Majesty is aware that this is virtually a total deviation from the legislative, domestic, international priorities of your husband. It will likely add to the sentiment already pervasive in the more conservative facets of my constituency that not only do you mean to make coronation history, but history of a matronly way that could very well be perceived as.....weak."

"Through prayerful consideration of the new direction best to take the empire and taking the general pulse of European politics, I have decided these are best. Military spending will remain at a level that will maintain our current standing readiness & prowess. My husband saw to that. Nothing more need be built. At the very least not now. All available funds before the allocation of the new budget by the senate will be diverted to the aforementioned."

Annabella paused to enjoy her drink. She then nibbled on her croissant. After wiping her mouth she spoke again.

"Foreign Minister Fernando Torres has served us well. Convince him to gracefully resign or I'll fire him myself. I want a new foreign face for Justosia and Vanguardia. One that's both a veteran and moderate and inclined towards peace in their duties.
The borders are to be reopened immediately. Furthermore, Your Excellency, and this is classified by my order as of now. I will be pursuing a policy of neutrality visa ve all current, or potential international hotspots. All foreign policy will follow this directive first for the foreseeable future. Lastly. After I announce these new stratagems as sovereign, we will court the left leaning nations of the @Kadikistani Union and @Ostmark. I mean to foster a....strategic peace wherever possible in Europe."

The PM allowed himself to look dumbstruck for only a second before composing himself & motioning for his aides to stop writing.

"I can say now truly, your reign will be remembered for more than just your sex. Pardon me, Your Majesty. I must take my leave now."

He bowed then left. Annabella finished her breakfast in reflective silence.
 

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Annabella had been tossing & turning about a bit for the last couple hours. Perhaps it was her husband the former & first emperor slumbering much more successfully next to her in his convalescence. Then again he was being medicated now. Side effects & all. The crown weighed differently on them but it would weigh nevertheless.

It was a breezy, pleasant 18.33 degrees Celsius in the capital. This as the vast majority of the rest of Europe suffered through winter. The queen said a quick prayer to God thanking him for Justosia's warm cradle in the world before going out onto her balcony to take in the lights of the city before the sun rose. This was always the most reflective time for her.

Much to do tomorrow. She walked back in, to her bed. Elsewhere down the stretch of the residential wing could be heard the echoes of HRH Prince Julian Francisco II. Praying, in Tiburian Catholic. Praying in what still disqualified him, the only other current male heir to the throne, from the throne.
 
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Queen Annabella briskly walked into her suite in the a wing. How palace employees commonly referred to it. She sat down & immediately picked the phone up.

"Secure line please. Connect me with His Excellency. Thank you."

"Good evening Your Imperial Majesty. Why do you grace me this evening may I ask?"

"Prime Minister. The national standard for our party. It's quite too menacing and aggressive. A black and red plethora of arrows. This will no longer do. As sovereign I'm aware it's unconstitutional for me to interfere this brazenly with the legislative branch. This is why I'm SUGGESTING that you kindly broach the subject with your party. Such moderate overtures could help us recapture the majority from this split senate. Though perhaps you enjoy it as it practically doubles your power."

"Majesty I'm happy truly, ultimately, secretly, with whatever level of power you'd bestow upon me. You're on that throne because of God. Then again perhaps that's also why we've been a Constitutional Monarchy for so long now. Consider it done. Is there anything else?"

"I want an extra detailed brief of the tighter empire wide school inspections & available funds for infrastructure allocation along with my morning briefs tomorrow. Thank you."

"Yes Your Majesty. Goodnight."

"Goodnight."

Upon hanging up she asked for a fine Avalon Vineyards™ red. She was also keen for further details of the reception of her foreign policy reboot. Patience.
 

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10:08 PM Justosian Time

The PM's motorcade briskly pulled to the palace North Face. The PM exited & was promptly surrounding by the palace Imperial Guard. He saluted. They saluted. He continued his brisk pace into the palace, to Her Majesty's apartments.

Upon arrival he bowed. She nodded.

"Majesty. Thank you for agreeing to this impromptu meeting at this hour. This brief is pressing in its relevance."

He seated himself. He handed the classified document to his queen. She read diligently.

"............First I should like to discuss this proposed reduction in freedom of navigation operations in the greater South Thaumantic and Silk Seas. They've been more provocative than anything else. Our national security is just as well served with more localized patrols and missions. We can still utilize aerial reconnaissance there if need be.

Secondly I need no brief on Her Tyskonian Majesty's visit here. Going well enough. Thirdly. I see our restoration of cordial and formal diplomatic relations with Eiffeland and Lars is a full go. I'm pleased. We shall continue to rehabilitate our image across Europe.


Lastly, this proposed shift in funds from conventional military to cyber and clandestine strategems."

"Yes Majesty. This new era, this new Justosia must be smarter, faster. The Honorable Defense Minister has proposed a twenty percent shift in avaliable funds for the military to the aforementioned. The decade, the main battle lines will be in cyberspace, back alleys God knows where. It's time we caught up with the elder European powers here."


The queen took this in. These politicians, veterans, clearly knew better here. She agreed. She signed off her ascent. They bid each other goodnight.
 

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2:46 AM Justosian Time

The PM had moved out of his Avalon outskirts villa. Too empty. Too many bad memories. Wife died in her sleep beside him couple years ago. Son & daughter now at Avalon University.

Now he was closer to them. Closer to everything. This is the most expensive real estate of its kind in the capital. He paid about §25,000,000,000 for the whole top two, huge floors. The top Penthouse for him. The next floor down for his security & service staff. On his kitchen counter lay a financial dossier that would tell the tale of his Nationalist Right Bloc's legal but underhanded path back to undisputed power....
 

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"Yes. Thank you for the well wishes Your Imperial Majesty. Goodnight."

NRB Senior Senator Marco Reyes (Avalon District) hung up the phone. The queen was placing well wishes calls to both main parties. Not to the new fringe parties left or right. Likely that she didn't want to validate them with the aforementioned. This move was more right than she yet knew.

Political donations laws in the empire were relatively lax. In truth the vast majority of current & former nationalist senators, even the PM himself, have been donating to the new Socialist & Communist parties of Justosia. The new, far right Justos Millennium Party was literally their proverbial child. The objective of this underhanded but fully legal mission was clear. Fracture the left vote. Return them to undisputed power.
 
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2:47 PM Justosian Time

Interior Minister Fox shuffled through the administrative items of the day. Somewhat perplexed how some of these lower echelon items ended up on his desk. His office oversaw the top floor for a reason. While sifting through he forwarded his attention to a dossier marked most urgent of the day.

After reading he had his aides set up conferences calls with the CEOs & boards of the empire's two major oil & natural gas companies. There was more oil off Justosia's east coast than even the last overestimating report deduced. The stock market is healthy. The economy just, so, average. It needed an international shot in the arm. Justosia has to sell more than just its beaches & old fighter jets. An empire's economic appetite must be sated constantly. With the Vanguardian & Victorian economies growing, this point was compounded.

Fox picked his phone up.

"Secure line please. Grand Naval Command. Yes. Grand Admiral. Good afternoon. The Interior Ministry officially requests the navy's aid in scanning and prepping the eastern seabed for deep drilling and exploration. We will split the credit in informing the empress. Yes. Good. Viva Justosia."
 

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3:30 PM Justosian Time

Keeping watch above the debating 104 senators were the 7 great kings of Justosia. With the founder of the Justosian state, 1st king, Father de Justosia, Ferdinand the Great, standing center. The last, 7th on the right being the first & former emperor Carlos Francisco II.

Senate Speaker Reyes (NRB-AVALON) presiding.

"The senior Nationalist senator from the Cortoba District is recognized.*

"All over Europe again it seems, the seedlings of alliances. Alliances that lead to excuses for military action, expansion, empires. One could wonder if the vote to formally declare ourselves a continent was a mistake. No longer apart of Himyar we are excluded from such potentially beneficial alliances. What if again it looks likely they begin to turn their guns on us? I am proposing no legislation at this time. The rest of which I yield."

Reyes spoke again.

"The junior Social Democrat senator from District Avalon is recognized."

"Perhaps my esteemed colleague from the south should remember that part of why we declared ourselves our own separate continent in the first place was to AVOID the potential messes brewing there. Avoid potential future wars we rightly should have no stake in. No. Breaking from Himyar WAS, is still, the right move. I speak for many in my party when I say that we have little trust in them. Lastly I say that aforementioned move made it easier & more logical to reorganize the kingdom into the continental empire you love so."

Reyes again interjected.

"The time for daily general debate has passed. Senate Parliamentarian will note. In accordance with procedural rules before adjournment we will vote on the bills tabled yesterday.

Bill Forty. Official Ascension of the Avalon Accord signed yesterday by Her Imperial Majesty. The yays are sixty three. The nays are forty one." Bill is hereby passed and ascended.

Bill Forty One. Official Ascension of legislation to expand current nuclear power grid. The yays are ninety five. The nays are nine. Bill is hereby passed and ascended. We are adjourned. Viva Justosia. Long live Empresa Annabella Sofia Francisco the First."
 

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1:10 PM Justosian Time

Over croissants, & varied forms of coffee the Supreme Council, as it is sometimes informally called, discussed the best way forward for the empire. It consisted of the top government & military brass.

Newly promoted Grand General Ramos' concern manifested.

"Emperatriz, pardon my insistence but we have under a hundred operational battle tanks. All current defence strategems call for at least two hundred. I beg you respectfully, it must be again added to the next funds legislation in the senate."

Annabella took a sip of her espresso, thought on it.

"Grand General we are an island. A big island but an island. Furthermore I believe such conventional ground forces are slowly but surely becoming obsolete. Naval and air assets take priority. That said I do agree with that minimum. Your request is approved by the crown, but must also be by the senate. Lastly, those tanks WILL be built in Justosia."

She continued.

"Justosia's greatest defence weapon should be its money gentlemen. Any nation, government can call itself an empire but without the money to back it up it's a lie. Money that must fund infrastructure first. For true glory starts at home. With education and social programs for general betterment following. Wars only destroy prosperity in every facet. My beloved husband, our first emperor. He bared the burden of the hard, controversial work of rebuilding our military. He sacrificed so much to lay the path for our true and first golden age. A toast. To His Imperial Majesty Emperador Carlos Francisco the First."
 
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Foreign Minister Montez entered Annabella's chambers after being announced, not knowing what to expect. Why wouldn't his actions be ascended? The Ostmarkian regime was one of the most radical left & anti monarchial in Europe.

"Emperatriz. As always it's an honour and pleasure."

Annabella was of course composed, silent for a couple seconds.

"Do sit minister........are you lonely? Plan on resigning soon? Abruptly? Your diplomatic dance today with the regime in Ostmark would suggest you feel more attention be paid to you. Or that you plan soon to join the nationalist hard liners in the senate. You are a moderate aren't you? You helped draft Strategic Neutrality, our new foreign policy platform. Poking the red bear as you did today causes ripples in the pond of peace. Explain yourself."

Montez gathered his dressed down thoughts before responding.

"......Your Imperial Majesty, I was only reiterating government policy of not, ever, recognizing regimes that violate Justosian pillars of human rights & general liberty. Call it what you will. Republican or democratic. I was able to extract a confession from their regime today. That they have been, are now, and are continuing to build up their military forces. I believe theirs is the most erratic regime in Europe. One could truly wonder if they believe their own propaganda. They're a threat to us, indeed most moderate republics and democracies on the continent. Their human rights violations are flagrant. I......I felt I had to hold them to account when they hailed us today.

Annabella stared at him again for a couple seconds.

"You called their elections illegitimate."

"Emperatriz they don't allow their citizens even their basic due rights."

"REGARDLESS. That sort of projection isn't constructive. You may very well be right. God knows they're a dictatorship if there ever was one sitting in Europe right now. However. You don't have concrete proof of that. Just as you don't have concrete proof that their supposed people's revolution wasn't bloodless. Personally.....I am inclined to agree with you. They are utterly repugnant in virtually every facet. That said, the palace in conjuction with your office will issue a revised version of your earlier communique."

".........Majesty my zeal came from an ardent love of one's God given rights in a true, civilized nation."

"Noted. In the future you will relay your future forays unto such actors on the European stage through the palace. If it's not general nationalist hawkishness, it's idealistic posturing I must now deal with. That won't change a bad actor's actions. Your heart may have been in the right place....but in the future.....don't let it bleed as much. You may go."

The Foreign Minister stood up. He bowed. He kissed her right hand. He left. The Emperatriz then summoned palace Press Minister Alejandro.
 
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Yes. The Emperatriz was still working. A mountain of dossiers to read & logistical forms required her ascent. From monitoring the ODS. The threatening Kadikistani rhetoric. Her Foreign Minister's zeal opposing it. Lastly the landing of aid workers in Furlanìe.

She made an exception to her work rule & opened a bottle of red from the palace vineyards. She had an ace up her sleeve. Her husband the former emperor. They could hammer these out together in no time. Constitutionally there was no clause forbidding a former & current sovereign from working together. Especially married ones. He was always there for her. Even in his convalescence. She need only summon him from their bed chambers. Yet she relented. He had already given so much for their fledgling archipelago empire.

She ran her hands over her face. Sipped. Then dove into the dossiers first. She'd open one to the left. Reading while she signed logistical ascents on the right. It went like this for half an hour. Finally she had finished the governance for the day. Into the next day. As she was about to adjourn to bed she noticed one final sealed folder. That was the PM's seal. She walked out onto the balcony & read. It was a personal communique followed by strategic politik.

"Your Imperial Majesty,

The time has come to legalize gay marriage. Yes. Empire wide."

She finished her glass of red & stared out at the glistening lights of the capital.
 

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The Emperatriz & PM continued their rather tense meeting. Prime Minister Blount's boss was not pleased with this latest strategem. Legalizing gay marriage across the lands. Via rolling over for the SDP in the Senate.

"No. I believe myself a moderate. I believe in not judging another's heart whom I don't know personally. I believe in basic rights for all my subjects & imperial citizens. However this is a step too far..."

The PM pleaded.

"Your Imperial Majesty I beg you please listen to reason. My reason. To ascend in certain corners of Europe which Justosia now permeates, the empire must evolve, or at least pass itself off as a more liberal leaning Constitutional Monarchy. At least socially, culturally. This helps make our case. Ups our credentials when we engage allies, alliances, adversaries. Think of it as.....a face lift."

Annabella was not amused.

"For God's sake Jean. Literally! I am the head, Holiness Temporal of our church! I understand you're a smooth yet shrewd political operator. It's why you're still here. That you served my husband well. However I simply can't sanction this."

"I know. Everything you said is true My Lady. If I may yield."

Her husband, the former & first emperor, walked into the room. To affect government for the first time in half a year.

"My darling. Please. Listen to him. He's served both of us well. Myself in ways I can't yet tell you. This is a good hand. We should allow him to play it."

The PM then spoke again.

"I believe Your Imperial Majesty should come out.....pardon me, and say that while you personally oppose this legislation, you will of course respect the vote of the Senate. Which is indirectly the will of our people. Your people. That you'll sign it. Albeit under protest. I can easily whip five to ten senators. Especially ours."

Annabella ordered them both to leave. She needed to pray & think.
 
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10:40 PM Justosian Time

The Angel Hills neighborhoods were where most Imperial Senators lived. It was the most affluent part of the capital.

A black truck, carrying a fully black dressed man, had just finished visiting the doorsteps of 5 of the Senate's most prominent nationalists. Five firm NAYs surely on the coming gay marriage vote. Soon the maids & butlers of these houses would discover the folders that were left....
 

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PM Blount sipped the whiskey from his ornate glass gently as an NSS Officer sat before him.

"It's done?"

"It's done Excellency. Will you ever tell her?"

"No. This is straight politics. The kind she must always be above."

"Isn't that treason?"

"No. On my mandate as chief elected executive of Justosia, Vanguardia, and Victoria Island. She and I are two halves of the executive branch. I could have told her husband. He'd understand, but not her. Even though it's for her. Ergo, for the empire. You WILL keep this to yourself."

He finished his whiskey & ordered the Officer gone.
 

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The Rainbow Five, as they were now being sarcastically dubbed, held little back.

"Jean you'll fucking pay for this. You've gone too far this time."

"Enjoy your last term. This will come out sooner or later."

"Bastard. Neither you or your popularity are immortal."

The PM brushed them off. Make no mistake, he's a nationalist, but a highly pragmatic breed. The empire needed moral currency as it strives to continue its image rehabilitation across the continent. It was clear. This boosts Justosia's credentials as a center right Constitutional Monarchy that's socially free. So too would become their reign to call out other nations less so. In the ODS especially. He did what he had to do. Dispensing with the mask that this upper echoleon.......convincing doesn't happen everywhere.

No. He feared these seething politicians not. He only feared God & his Divinely Righted sovereign he served. He had to keep this secret from her. For now. This was for her after all.
 

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The sovereign, PM, Grand Admiral, & Defence Minister sat down for a working dinner.

As they finished their Duck Confit, Defence Ministry aides kindly laid blueprints, logistical reports, & price estimates before her cleared table area & after her permission. She studied them.

"........My. Aren't these sleek. I'm sure some would say beautiful. Some in the Senate perhaps."

She looked upon plans for an Imperial Navy Fourth Fleet. Unlike the existing 3, this one would have an accompanying Air Corps.

Grand Admiral Carvalho made his case.

"Mi Reina, tensions rise again between the right and left in Europe. Unlike with Trier, Justosia has a say this time. A transformed, more prosperous Justosia. An empire. I implore you. Ensure it remains properly safeguarded. An island nation must be an indisputable sea, naval power."

"Admiral in our immediate region I do not see a present challenge to our naval power. No. I will not even consider ascending this with my pen and seal until every item on our domestic agenda has been sated. Consider this a motivator. Paz mediante propseridad.

Lastly, this time, should this come to pass, it will be voted through by the Senate. I need not be crucified internationally like my poor, beloved husband was. Detractors will find it harder to attack our democratic process and indirect will of our people than I. We're adjourned. Viva Justosia."
 
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The course of a nation is always changed on a whim. Be it by voters. By the senators they elect. Or a president, prime minister, etc. It always starts out a whim. This fledgling archipelago empire would experience such via the Divine Right of their sovereign. Which is ironically, fervently supported by its chief elected official. Perhaps the best of both worlds. Justosia after all, liked to have it all.

The Emperatriz took her tea as she executed a new foreign policy directive.

"Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, the time to show and prove is over. Beyond accomplished. Justosia, Vanguardia, and Victoria Island are not dogs to continously jump through hoops on command. We have staunchly recently, as we have since eighteen fifty, proved our commitment to Constitutional Monarchy, democracy. We deserve to be admitted into the ODS. I will not go as far as to say we need such, it would however benefit us greatly. All of us."

Foreign Minister Montez spoke next.

"It would benefit them too mi Reina. The three founding members are no slouches militarily, but there's only three of them. They'll act otherwise, but they need modern, first class militaries like ours has become. Thanks to your noble husband. The ODS must be every bit a power projecting deterrent to Rurikgard as possible. I agree. The time for us to apply for full membership is fast approaching."

The PM spoke.

"I agree with consensus. Although a bill, as ceremonial as it will be when the time comes, should be put to the senate floor for a vote. I will see to its passage."

"I'm glad we've reached this agreement so quickly gentlemen. This in my opinion will complete Justosia's transformation, rehabilitation. God willing we will bring this home. Sergio, talk to your old friend. Tell him to begin forming his arguments. We're adjourned. Viva Justosia."
 

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TO: HIH
FROM: DMVC
8:30 PM Justosian Time

Your Imperial Majesty,

I come to you both humbled & grateful. Your promoting me is as good as a blessing from your master who Divinely Righted you. I will not disaapoint you.

In that spirit, I communicate to you my proposal. In this, the empire will lead Europe. In it becoming public, will bolster our defencive credentials. Place us among the most advanced in aerospace in Europe. I must advise you that conservative price estimates currently range from 100-150 billion.

If Avalon truly is the Jewel of the South, than the jewel must be impervious. The
Jabalina Anti Aircraft Defence System will humble any potential aggressor. Mi Reina, I stake my reputation on it. This is a PURELY defencive measure. I beg you, authorize & ascend its creation. Put those who still secretly despise the empire on notice. Dios salvar el Reina. Viva Justosia.


Sincerely,
Vicente Aguilar
Defence Minister
 
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