Invithian Campaign Speeches

Below is a selection of speeches presented by the various parties in the 498 AC election for the assembly of the masses

### Imperial Peoples Party Speech

Loyal subjects of our empire, faithful followers of our exalted empress! Soon shall once again come our collective duty to elect one of our great assemblies to aid our empress in the task of guiding our venerable empire and we call upon you to renew your confidence in the only true alliance of loyalists who stand steadfast to maintain the glory of our realm, we call upon you to vote for the IPP! For decades we have worked tirelessly to preserve our empire's independence in the face of upstarts and squatters and we shall for decades more. Unlike *some* of our unfortunate colleagues, we do not carry the delusion that the squatters and their lackeys can be reasoned with, that we should throw the honours and liberties which made our empire great on the pyre of naive compromise, that we should renounce our birthright to appeal to the sensibilities of squatters!

While the IRM's so-called thinkers sit in their high towers praising their own brilliance and place themselves above the popular will, we work to advance the common Gavzan! Whilst the HESP dogmatists bow to their false idols and sing the praises of cruelty, we stand to protect the weak and the needy from callous freaks such as they! Much as these lapdogs love to spew their venom at each other just as much as towards our treasured institutions, anyone with a brain can see that they are merely two heads of one serpent! The serpent of Tyranny! The serpent of greed! Both wish merely for their oligarchs to lord over you, they give them fancy names, like "esteemed directors" and "exalted ecclesiarchs". Yet we know the truth that these are merely gilded words for thieves and sellouts!

So will you stand with us? Will you add your voice to ours when we say to squatters: "not one step closer!". Then do your duty and vote IPP, for empire, for freedom and for welfare!

### Harmony Association Speech

Dear Voters, I ask of you to take a moment to think of all we have lost, of all our nation has lost. Where we were once the envy and undisputed master of the galaxy, we have now been outpaced by those who still had to work with steam engines when we took to the stars, where our people were once proud and unified, it seems that today we can't even agree about what we disagree about! Some of our yellow friends will scoff at us for saying this, but the truth is the truth and our loss is very real. The only way to prevent ourselves from losing yet more is to face the harsh realities in which we find ourselves. The path towards restoring our former greatness lies not in denial and nostalgia but in the following three things: reform, reform and more reform! Reform to restore our diplomatic importance in this new world, reform to unite our shattered people and reform to secure Invith's true legacy for the centuries to come.

I know that many of you will be quick to point at the Epochians and the Audeans as the culprits of our present woes and that their removal is the plain solution and while this is true in some ways, I warn you that things are not as simple as such. There was a time when these people were not Epochians or Audeans but xenoists, intellectualists, frontiers people, imperial spiritualists and austerists. Unorthodox? sure. Subversive? possibly. But even so, they were still fundamentally loyal to the empire above all else, sought to improve our society above all else. Their turn to foreign masters is certainly not something anyone should endorse, but remember what preceded this: decades of exclusion by established political circles, countless pleas for genuine reforms fallen on deaf ears and case after case of veiled repression against them. It is such deplorable treatment that drove them to the honeyed words of younger races, and it is our duty to bring them back under the truths our founder left us with.

I promise you one thing above all: harmony is not just a dream or a false hope! We can work with those who have gone astray! We can bring those changes which are overdue! and we can tie our empire back together! We shall have progress without dictatorship, strength without cruelty and tradition without denial. But for this, we need your support, for the road to harmony lies in your hands, dear voters! And your hands shall bring it!

### Holy Empress Salvation Party Speech

Devoted followers, the time has come to take another step towards our victory. The IPP and their yellow lackeys have, predictably, overseen yet another term of decline, weakness and sacrilege. For yet another term they have pampered the lazy retches of the empire whilst the true devotees have worked themselves to the bone for the legacy of our divine founder. For yet another term, they have allowed the Epochians to corrupt our places of learning. But for every disgraceful act they commit, the gods favour us further! Invith and Audeos stand behind us on our ceaseless advance to depose the apostates who wish to bring our empire to ruin!

Was it not ambition that drove Invith to bring about our imperial glory? Was it not ambition that brought the favour of the heavens against the old coalition seeking our destruction? And so, it is ambition that will bring about our glorious restoration! It is ambition that will bring our triumph over the second coalition which plots against our empire as we speak! It is from this ambition that we will bring about the imperial rejuvenation, when the timid and the appeased choose our path no longer, when they shall have to toil as you have toiled and when they shall respect the glory of the gods forevermore.

To bring about our rejuvenation is your duty towards your gods and your holy empress! Move with us or condemn yourself to be left behind in eternal shame! So as you go to decide the future of the empire, remember one all-important fact:

Invith is watching you, and she **WILL** judge those who fail her!

### Imperial Renovation Movement Speech

Citizens, today is a sad day. Our empire suffers under the mismanagement and reactionism of the old guard whilst the fanatic agents of Azunel run amok on our worlds, and very soon the grinding wheels of the system which has brought us to this point make yet another turn. But within this sad truth lies a road to betterment, for we shall have the opportunity to remove the sycophants and demagogues which have mismanaged our empire and replace them with insightful and capable individuals who will aid our march to modernity and civility.

And don't be mistaken, for we are the standard-bearers of civility. It was ordered progress that brought our state to its greatest height and barbaric reactionism that brought it to its greatest lows. Still today billions of individuals slave away in our society while the old guard exalts liberty, still billions suffer under oppression while the old guard champions the little Gavzan, caring not for the tiny Toacat or the downright imperceptible Aaraq'o. For one kind to support itself with the toil of others is not civility but the highest barbarity! The IPP's cronies know full well that what they do is not justice, but they do not care, not when injustice funds their demagoguery and allows them to safely fantasise about their superiority. Unlike the yellows and the blues, the IRM stands for all citizens of the empire, including those kept chained and those who must be dragged kicking and screaming into modernity.

And then we have not even discussed the worst amongst them! At least the yellows and blues pretend to care about civility and order, but the Audeans discard these treasured notions entirely; theirs is only the law of the strongest and the most fanatic. If they were in Invith's place, would they have done as she and brought an end to chaos? Of course not; they would have looked upon the carnage and called it paradise!

Citizens, the need for improvement is urgent. We alone can bring forth a new world from the ashes of the old, as Invith once did. Only the Epochian way can stand up to the old guard's incompetence and shamanist insanity. We make this promise to all of you who stand in support of us: No more incompetence, no more reaction, no more populist oppression and no more decline!

### Gavzan National Rectification Alliance Speech

Comrades, I have come today to talk to you about the most important issue facing us: treachery! Our venerable empire is bursting with treason from every seam, it hides in every corner and gains grip on all we hold dear. Because of treachery, we have invited disaster upon disaster! Once upon a time, all aliens cowered before the righteous authority of the staff, yet through treachery, those same aliens now walk all over us and peddle their poisons freely! Our pride has been sold, our strength scuttled and our prosperity thrown out! all because of that one despicable thing our spinless leaders embraced, treachery!

I ask of you; who amongst them are the greatest traitors really? Surely, you might say, it must be the Audeans, who want to sacrifice our empire at the altar of their barbaric alien gods, or the Epochions, who would sell our realm to the deluded tyrants of Jura and subject you to the rule of your inferiors. But neither of these are the greatest traitors, they are not truly traitors at all; they were never on our side and should be regarded as exactly the same as their foreign masters! So then surely the greatest traitors of all must be the blues, right? They who invited in the alien menace to begin with, the spineless wretches who will gladly bow ever lower to despicable demands until they are one with the dirt! Alas, they are not the greatest traitors either, for they are at least honest about their willingness to tear our empire into the ground! No, the greatest traitors which we face, they who work harder than any to betray Invith are the yellows and "Imperial" Peoples Party first amongst them! Every year they claim they will stand up to the xenos, every election they claim to fight for our independence and the good of all Gavzan, that they support our beloved empress in her crusade against the upstarts who seek our destruction. Yet when they must choose between expelling the squatters and appeasing them behind closed doors, what do they do? When Galavon stands poised to assert imperial power once more, are they truly behind her? When they must choose between the fate of foreign fatcats and our own people, who do they favour? At every opportunity, the yellows take the side against our empire and all Gavzan! They distract you with empty promises while they sell our empire with as much vigour as all the others, blinding true devotees of our empire from the reality of their treachery!

But our words are not empty! We carry the cause the yellows have bastardised and neglected, for we are the true champion of the Gavzan! We are the empire's only hope, for only we have the resolve to release our empress from the chains of the cowards who surround her! I make this promise from which we shall not waiver under any circumstance: if we can dethrone the traitors and establish a true imperial regime, we shall expel the squatters within a day, purge every last traitor within a year and bring the upstarts to their knees in a decade! This is the **ONLY** possible path for our survival, all else shall invite nought but extinction!

Support the GNRA, support our empress, support our great revival!

while you still can.