Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate (xi)

I think we may have actually voted 

to bring them here.

 

Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate (x)

Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate (ix)

(They are) drawn to war.

 

Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate (viii)

They came themselves from the stars

at some unexplained behest.

 

Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate (vii)

Forgive me, but that's the way it seemed.

 

Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate (vi)

We knew almost nothing about them.

 

Or at least 

that's the way I remember it.

 

Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate (v)

There is

little to say and

anyway we had to invent new words.

The old ones were inadequate.

Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate (iv)

Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate (iii)

Thank you for your indulgence.

 

Post 800

We interrupt this segment

to celebrate our 800th post.

Happy Anniversary, Guardsman-A-Day.

 

Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate (ii)

Concerning these beasts

we will say very little.

 

Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate

But back to the history

of the Civil War on Kalkovac...

of the eighth secondary faction, and of 

the mercenary soldiers of

the Exitus Primate.

Civil War: Back To The Factions (9)

The absurdity of language, really.

 

Civil War: Back To The Factions (8)

In truth, we're mostly talking

about grammar.

 

Civil War: Back To The Factions (7)

Each with their own grievance

and radical means of destruction.

 

Civil War: Back To The Factions (6)

Not that the net effect of the so-called

minor factions

was anything less than catastrophic

on a planetary level.

In fact there was nothing minor about them at all.

Civil War: Back To The Factions (5)

Civil War: Factions (4)

For the purposes of this record and in the interests

of brevity

we will ignore the Forces of the Reverse Split (968), the alleged

Grey Brigades, and the Exonerate Corporate Forces

and call it seventeen.

Seventeen minor factions.

 

Civil War: Factions (3)

And historians basically fall into two camps

about who or what is a minor, or secondary faction-

the Academy and the so-called Post-Royalist Scholars say it was

seventeen, while the Berthandiasts

adamantly insist that the number

was

forty.

  

Civil War: Factions, Back to (2)

To recap, the five primary factions being

1. The Greater Nobility

2. The Lesser Nobility

3. The Regiment

4. The Publishers and Trade Unionists

and

5. The Hunchbacks

Civil War: Back to the Factions

Okay, back to the faction list.

As you will recall, the Civil War on Kalkovac (956-972)

was the result of irrevocable political decisions

of roughly twenty-two separate factions: five primary forces

and for purposes of brevity let's say seventeen other

secondary concerns.

 

How It Starts II

Pretty soon you have an army-

and again,

it's two sides of the same thing.

 

How It Starts

Civil War?

It's easy

you just stop listening.

 

Civil War: Bandits and Marauders

Brigands and pillagers.

The worst kind.

 

Civil War: Bandits

Though not historically a unified faction of their own, bandits are an issue in civil war.

 

Civil War

Militia fighter armed with a matter gun and self-equipped with (apparently) improvised armor fighting near Beezbo, late harvest 958.

The conflict near Beezbo was focused around the fermentation plants, and remained a stalemate into the following year.