Loyal to the Destroyers, Chapter Four: Interrogation
Loyal to the Destroyers is now posted.
The Fidelity Defense Association mentioned in the text is one of the unique cultural products of the pre-Orthocracy system of government, a contractual form of mutual defense pact among anarchists, which grew up in the influence of the Prometheus Intelligence. None lasted for more than a few years, and all were ended in the System Crash. However, the launch of the Shamlin expedition, and the attempt to deflect the Destroyer Race with peace negotiations show both the brilliance and the naivety of these idealists.
This is a reconstruction based on Anne Shamlin’s recovered notes and postwar Destroyer records of several exchanges taking place over a period of weeks. Events have been compressed for purposes of drama.
Neither Amaranth Mansion nor the Vatican makes any specific public statement concerning the allegation that the uplift of Homo Sapiens from nonhuman ancestors was not a product of Darwinian evolution, but an artificial bioengineering project of the Destroyer Pan-Archon Rhahavrangoroth.
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
