"Aff. However I am a Warrior. Crafting speeches is not my specialty. Perhaps we will need to create some form of...permanent position...one who is tasked with making our speech and ways seem palatable to the Earth Sphere at large..."
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"Such a Merchant-" He's thinking of them as such because entertainers are a subcaste of them. "-would have to be trained by you, of course." He's not even flattering her at this point, he simply trusts very few other people to do the job. He then rubs his chin in thought to answer her question.
"In our Occupation Zone, we assigned everyone nominally to a caste and forbid the use of surnames on official documents but otherwise left things mostly as they were. No doubt this was due to Ulric Kerensky anticipating our exile years in advance...Normally we would have forcibly integrated the Domepoli, but Adette requested they be left to govern themselves, with our Warriors serving as defense force in exchange for their maintaining those garrisons. This proved a wise choice in the long run."
It's a measure of his regard for her that he curbed his ambition for conquest on her say-so. Of course, this ambition also reflects his origins as a young Crusader punk, which still show through despite his change of heart.
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Congratulations! You just invented the profession of Public Relations! Achievement Unlocked: Kerensky Is Rolling In His Grave That Someone Is Getting Paid For That.
"Such a Merchant-" He's thinking of them as such because entertainers are a subcaste of them. "-would have to be trained by you, of course." He's not even flattering her at this point, he simply trusts very few other people to do the job. He then rubs his chin in thought to answer her question.
"In our Occupation Zone, we assigned everyone nominally to a caste and forbid the use of surnames on official documents but otherwise left things mostly as they were. No doubt this was due to Ulric Kerensky anticipating our exile years in advance...Normally we would have forcibly integrated the Domepoli, but Adette requested they be left to govern themselves, with our Warriors serving as defense force in exchange for their maintaining those garrisons. This proved a wise choice in the long run."
It's a measure of his regard for her that he curbed his ambition for conquest on her say-so. Of course, this ambition also reflects his origins as a young Crusader punk, which still show through despite his change of heart.