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From the New Nobles:
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Dear Oxyribo

We are a rebel group against this clearly unjust government. We call ourselves the New Nobles. I think its quite clear that the time of being ruled by money and bloodlines is over. We believe that the world should be ruled by merit instead. We are clearly entering a wider world where ki use is the basis of all power, and you are at the forefront of such power. There is going to be a new elite class no matter what, you should know better than us about that being from the future. Why not control that so that ki users are the ones who can determine the fate of the world and thus competently defend from the world's threats with training and whatever enhancements you deign appropriate?

Think about it, you and the Rebel Alliance are already basically silently ruling the world, you just haven't exercised your true power yet. Think of a government where the military leaders are truly strong and with incentive to pass on their knowledge and training competently, where the power is maintained by the true strength of this reality. What does money or birth matter when we can destroy those who threaten the world in an instant with this power? Industry and institutions built by the sweat of our brows are the future of this world. Imagine ki users being like athletic celebrities during peace time, their fame and fortune tied to the peoples approval of them, and like being soldiers during war time to defend them. Fame rises and falls and thus while society grows more stable, the ki users will not become entrenched like nobility whose method of succession require their families death or their own abdication to truly become defunct.

We are willing to rise up in synchronicity with you to kill all the noble families on the planet to make sure there is no viable successors if you decide to kill the royalty and the nobility. After all, the protocol in case the World Assembly and the King is killed is that their positions will go to all their heirs and thus firstborn sons or daughter if no son is available and I doubt you'd want to be dealing with a bunch of whining lads not even yet grown men with no experience in rulership potentially being threats by being people with the motivation to seek similar enhancements as say, Jade's to try and equal your own, especially while your trying to reform society. Its a bit ugly yes, but needed if we are to have a clean break from these nobility plaguing us as threats later down the line.
-The New Nobles


For Queensjade:
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Dear Oxyribo

We are Queensjade, I'm sure you can tell from our name of what we wish: we want a society of equality and freedom and we believe that Jade is the best person to put in charge for this. However we do not know how to get in contact with her as she does not really have a home as far as we know? So we're hoping you'd know?

Anyways what we want is peace, equality, freedom. Peace on Earth, equality for all people ki using or not, and freedom from oppression and hate. A democratic republic that is elected rather than inherited, by the people for the people. We however know that if you wanted to take over the world, you'd have already done it years ago. You've been more than powerful enough to do that. Which means there is humility to you most people miss. That and why not hand it over to the person who you know has done good for even a greater amount of people than you? Who would appeal to more people because of her human perspective?

But there is many that simply hate both you and Jade simply out of xenophobia. We believe that while you Jade are both hated, that she is the best candidate for Queen as she understands the common people as she was once a common person herself. Change takes time to implement and she can be a relatable figure for most humans that exemplify the values we want to instill in others: a common person without noble birth or something granted by divinity rising up to make her own choices and affect the world through her own efforts, to symbolically destroy the age of nobility, bloodlines and divine right.

And even if she isn't the right person for the job she would know the best person or way to rule instead. After all she did not attempt to rule after overthrowing Hailing and thus does not want to rule through strength. Which is an important quality to have in a world where people fear ki users: if everyone is using the same weapon, from the ground they all start to look like the same thuggish dictator in different masks. We still need to get rid of the nobility, but we don't have to kill them, that is excessive. We can simply imprison them and then when the new government is formed, strip them of all titles and status. Let them make their own way in the world, a greater punishment than any death. We do not want our revolution to be bathed in blood or the rulership to be backed by ki using strongmen silencing anyone who opposes us.

After all, it is only the damage ki users can do that is truly the threat here, as without them this conflict wouldn't have world-ending stakes. The ability to destroy a planet should not determine whether you qualify as a leader just as birth shouldn't, but upon one's ability to actually lead and understand the people them, to effectively work the system for the betterment of the world. At the same time, the hate of Earth right now is bad and should be done away with, but not surprising. Humanity has suddenly been thrown into a wider world and told it is nothing but insects to beings of far greater power existing only at other mercy like pets. It only makes sense that some wish to isolate itself from that world and/or prove that humanity is strong enough on its own and will never accept a world where humanity are nothing but a charity case for someone else, and some of course take that to extremes. They are our enemies, but we recognize the importance of such pride even if we do not let it dominate us.

We appreciate your help, but if there any true change is to be had, humanity must be able to believe that we are more than just pawns in someone else's story. Can we get you and Jade's help?
-From Queensjade.


Jade meanwhile is looking out the window at Oxy city, as if trying to figure out if she likes it or not arms crossed, looking contemplative. What does she see?