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| 08 Mar 2014 06:38 PM |
Brothers, sisters, I envy you. To fight the enemy of our nation! To face the people who would deny us even our right to breathe! Is an honor we all aspire to. Our flag means nothing! If not held aloft in the hands of the mighty! And it is you who now carries it!
If the leg goes lame, it must be removed. If the kidney fails, it must be cut out. The body does not live through the individual organs. Sometimes for the body to survive, parts of it must be lost. A good surgeon understands this. And I promise you this, through your sacrifice Harkonnen will survive!
War, it is about action and what we do in the coming days, will prove to the ISF once and for all! That we will not be dictated to! Death is the only lesson that they will understand. Brothers and sisters of Harkonnen, as of today you are the hands that bludgeon, the teeth that bite and tear. You are the beating heart of this nation, the vital organ that keeps Harkonnen alive. With your blood, you nourish us all!
My father once said that the greatest weapon Harkonnen possess is its people. I never truly understood what he meant until today. But seeing you standing here before me, ready to fulfill the promise of our forefathers, I finally understand. My Brothers and Sisters! You are Harkonnen!
Change is inevitable; no one understands this better than Harkonnen. We not only embrace change, we bent it to our will, mastered it! And now we must be ready to do it again! Our time has come at last!
We owe our fathers a debt, but we cannot allow the ghosts of their memories to stop us from what must be done! They did what they had to in order to survive, and so must we.
To those that cling to the old ways, I say this, do not mourn our father’s because you will meet them soon enough.
We stand at the dawn of a new era, at the very precipice of destiny. The ISF attack us! Blind us to the threat that even now rises behind them. A glorious sun that signals the beginning of a new day, and that will bane the ignorant in its claims.
The ISF want to believe that we’re evil! They’ve convinced themselves, that we’re sub-human. Somehow undeserving of the basic liberties granted so freely to others. They do this to justify their invasion. But remember this, the man who seeks excuses for his actions, is doomed to fail.
Look up my brothers! Gaze upon the stars, and what awaits us once we have dealt with the ISF. Harkonnen is and always will be our home. But the time has come to claim our birthright! To rise up and take back what was stolen from us!
We are Harkonnen, a name that strikes fear into the hearts of all who hear it. We are not the monsters that they claim. But to those that dare trespass on our planets, we will be more frightful than even their worst nightmares.
When our father’s first arrived on Harkonnen, they believed this place to be a curse. They were wrong. And in time, they came to understand why. This planet, our home, has gifted us with everything we need to claim our rightful place in the galaxy. All that is required of us is to embrace it, and the stars are ours to own.
Are you a true Harkonnen? The true Harkonnen knows only hardship, the true Harkonnen understands the needs of the many come before the needs of the individual! At a time like this, with the enemy at our gates! This nation has space alone for true Harkonnen. So I ask you again, Are you a true Harkonnen?
The Harkonnen are known throughout the galaxy as an uncompromising people. Our banner strikes fear into the hearts of all who lay eyes upon it! And as you walk under it, know that you protected because the banner is held aloft by all Harkonnen!
The ISF Stole Arkavia from our fathers! And now they want to take Harkonnen from us! With smiles on their faces and knives hidden on their backs! They talk of peace, but their diplomacy is just another word for thievery. We will not trade words with them; your actions will make our intentions clear enough!
People speak of the cost of war, as if it were a simple equation. Let us remind them, that no life lost in the service of a nation is wasted. No blood spilled in for a worthy cause should be mourned. In the end we pay what we must, because we believe is necessary to do so.
Our military leaders were negligent, they failed themselves, and they failed the people of Harkonnen. We should thank them, their gross misconduct almost cost us our home! But has given us a renewed sense of purpose, and tempered in the fires of adversity our will is forged anew!
The citizen speaks of opportunity, the bureaucrat speaks of authority, and the diplomat speaks of policy. The solder, does not speak, the soldier acts, and that is why the soldier is the one who wins the war!
Many years ago, my father was asked, “Are you not afraid”, his reply, “I know why I am here, why should I be afraid?” Fear is born of uncertainty, we fear nothing, because our purpose is clear and our path is certain. To be Harkonnen is to know your place in the universe, and from that certainty comes, the strength to conquer all!
My fellow Harkonnen, I want to remind you that we are a free people. Free from uncertainty, free from doubt, free and secure, in the absolute knowledge that we and we alone, are capable of surviving the hardships of tomorrow. That Harkonnen alone is fit to lead the universe, and all its citizens through the trials that lay ahead.
The Arkavians speak of the individual, they preach of the rights of every man, of one man. Who is this person, and why is he more important than the rest? Why do the needs of the few come before the many? So I ask you this, how can this one man, hope to stand against a unified Harkonnen nation?
Arkavia and its people are sick, poisoned by uncertainty, they debate and doubt questioning themselves and others. Always unwilling to see what is right before them, we will make them see, and as we hold their heads in our hands. They will stare into the face of tomorrow, and they will finally understand.
The ISF are blind to the troubles of the world, and in their ignorance they find comfort. Hope and faith are the rallying cry of the lazy, the excuses of the weak. And yet the path that lies before us, all is hard and filled with dangers as yet imagined. If the universes citizens are to make it through, it requires a people with unwavering resolve, a people tempered in their very fires of hardship, it requires the Harkonnen.
Some have called this war unecesscary, but I ask you. Is it unnecessary to protect our way of life; is it unnecessary to stand against evil? We do this not because we want to, but because we must! Because if we let them, the ISF will deny us every freedom, every liberty, we have worked so hard to obtain!
We, Harkonnen have always been a resilient people. We toil while others complain, we persevere when others give up, and when evil stares us in the eyes, and we stare right back. That is who we are. Our father’s fought and died for Harkonnen, and we can do no less.
The ISF call us tyrants, but their coming here has done nothing but proved themselves to be agents of tyranny. Self-appointed defenders of justice? By what right do they have to tell us how to live? What authority do they have over our very lives? We are a free people, and we will command our lands and our families as we see fit!
We are evolution’s favorite children, nurtured by another planet, we have grown strong and proud, while the Arkavians have become petty and weak! They are afraid of us, and their fear has led them here, the ISF come in our home, under the asperses of liberty and freedom, killing and pillaging in the name of their laws, and then they lecture us on morality!? They will be held accountable for their crimes, this I swear to you!
The Arkavians speak of freedom, but they have no idea what true freedom really is. They are imprisoned by their laws and customs, and their so called “Civility”. They are selfish people; they live frivolous wasteful lives, possessing neither purpose nor direction. The ISF have no say here, and yet they still think they have are allowed to meddle in the affairs of a free and law abiding people, we are our own masses! The Harkonnen answers to no one!
The Arkavians are a lost people; they meddle in the affairs of others, instead of solving their own problems. Hardship and sorrow add focus, and give one’s existence meaning. We will help them find meaning.
With our hands, we built this planet up from nothing, our sweat and blood is as much as a part of this world as the air we breathe. And the ISF think they can take it away from us?! They are either fools or madmen! There is no understanding without weapons! There can be no dialogue without bloodshed! The ISF will be made to understand, and that knowledge will be paid for with their lives.
The Arkavians speak of innocence but in war there are no innocents. The Arkavian public, support their leaders, they elect them into power, and they send their children to fight against us! They are all guilty! And as any civil nation will agree, the guilty must be punished!
As before, we Harkonnen stand alone, but we stand as one, united. As the combined forces of the alliance rises against us, we will stamp them back down! |
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Hazor
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| 09 Mar 2014 07:48 AM |
What the heck? You took a very legitimate and well established House from Dune and turned it into this? Unacceptable..
Your new home world is Giedi Prime, your leader is now a Baron, and you are to start acting like real Harkonnen at once.
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