Faction Eleven: The Secret Police Assemby

978 was the worst --

 

Faction Ten: The Plebiscites (final)

It's a matter of 

 how you figure these things out.

 

Faction Ten: The Plebiscites 19

But that's the problem with voting

is that you end up getting what you ask for-

 

Faction Ten: The Plebiscites 18

Imagine that.

 

Faction Ten: The Plebiscites 17

They wanted everyone to have the vote-

mutants, salesmen, freelance journalists;

everyone.

 

 

Faction Ten: The Plebiscites 16

Faction Ten: The Plebiscites 15

If all you want 

is to participate.

Faction Ten: The Plebiscites 14

Faction Ten: The Plebiscites 13

Guerilla in action near the now infamous Umbrella Factory, during fighting in the Outstations in 963.

This action was the high water mark for Plebiscite forces, and although they would see the civil war all the way through to armistice they would never again have the "men" and material to mount an offensive.

 

Faction Ten: The Plebiscites 12

Faction Ten: The Plebiscites 11

The Inalienable Right

to Assign Oneself to Authority.

 

Faction Ten: The Plebiscites 10

Faction Ten: The Plebiscites 9

The Right To Be Surveilled.

 

Faction Ten: The Plebiscites 9

Approximate rights.

The Right to an Identifying Number,

the Ability to Register.

 

Faction Ten: The Plebiscites 8

They had, under Kalkovac law, 

the Right to Nearly Commensurate Pay.

Faction Ten: The Plebiscites 7

Faction Ten: The Plebiscites 6

In all seriousness, who votes?

I mean in all seriousness. And these

non-citizens

they were ready to fight for it.

 

Faction Ten: The Plebiscites 5

Approximate Rights.

Nearly equal pay, the right to register, the right to

submit to greater authority.

These were hard fought victories. They wanted to vote?

 

Faction Ten: The Plebiscites 4

We had, after all, been working for centuries toward their

Relative Equality. Like equality, but

minus all the responsibilities of citizenship

and so on.

 

Faction Ten: The Plebiscites 3

Who could have known

that they would harbor such resentment?

 

Faction Ten: The Plebiscites 2

Kalkovac is, after all, an intergalactic planet.

 They have lived side-by-side with us

for many centuries.

 These diverse beings.

 

Faction Ten: The Plebiscites

Sub-faction ten in the Kalkovac Civil War- The Plebiscites.

These are the citizens who actually 

wanted to 

vote. 

 

Faction Nine: The People's Army of Contrition (7)

Faction Nine: The People's Army of Contrition (6)

Signalman 2nd Class (informal) with Hust-Infantry Militia, pictured carrying a bannerpole and standard.

Probably taken near Esgrew, during fighting for The Umbrella Works in late 968.

This was simultaneously the first and last stand on the so-called People's Army of Contrition 
in Kalkovac's Civil War (956-972).

Faction Nine: The People's Army of Contrition (5)

Faction Nine: The People's Army of Contrition (4)

Just this once, they asked.

Just this one time. But by then?

Civil War.

 

The People's Army of Contrition (continued 3)

The People's Army of Contrition (continued 2)

. . . that yet another misstep

is worthy of regret.

 

The People's Army of Contrition (continued)

We are sorry to say. . .

 

Faction Nine: The People's Army of Contrition

Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate (final)

I'll be right back.

 

Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate (xxi)

A sound, out in the yard.

 

Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate (xx)

What was I _______?

Am I forgetting something?

 

Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate (ixx)

Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate (xviii)

Though few in number. they

brought every manner of _________.

 

Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate (xvii)

And after that

they were gone.

 

Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate (xvi)

Maybe, maybe not.

 

Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate (xv)

The story is that there were just sixteen

of them at Marquerna 

 when they defeated the Army of the Southern Continent.

I don't know.

 

Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate (xiv)

In the end

they made little impact overall 

in the civil war on Kalkovac.

Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate (xiii)

Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate (xii)

Honestly? I can't

remember how I voted. Just that

everyone wanted a change, the war was in it's fourth year.

We had no idea.

 

Faction Eight: The Exitus Primate (xi)

Or at least at

the time we didn't disagree

enough.

We were represented, after all.

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)