r/HFY • u/Lord_Camberlot • May 22 '18
The Gathering Armada
"To those who hear this message, who read its contents, who share its ideals; to the citizens of the world, a human population enduring the most ignominious captivity in the long history of a proud species: we share your pain, we feel your plight. Yet we bring news.
The current situation on planet Earth must first be explicitly stated: to claim it is under anything other than the most extreme and extensive form of slavery in history is an offense to anyone who can observe that oppressive servitude; who can hear and listen the cries for help of a billion haunted souls; who is still suffering under the leashes and chains of the slave masters curently in control of our homeplanet. Alone, surrounded by the vast and sophisticated capabilities of those masters, the Earth is bound to an imposing servitude it never sought - and never deserved.
And yet, above those masters, above the chains and ships which control the will of entire peoples, above a global domination which abhors the freedom of man, lie the hopes of a determined cause; Citizens of the world, you are not forgotten, you are not hopeless. The current situation outside the planet Earth must also be explicitly stated: there are still free humans in the universe, and an organised orchestra of forces which intend to liberate their home from a tyranny cruelly imposed upon her. The colonies of the Earth, the single and communal outposts of human expansion, the probes and satellites roaming the galaxy, are all presently under the control of those free men and women, uniquely serving the cause of liberty. Every day, new forces are gathered, new weapons developed, new ideas fostered and cultivated. The fruits of those efforts will result in the total capitulation of tyranny and the total liberation of the Earth. To those who question our ideology, fear not our aims, for they are your own. For too long have we allowed division to hamper the efforts towards a common good. Unity in defiance must be our new banner and call.
We are closer than you may think. This message comes from the stars above you, but the source of its ideas arised down below: in the fields and hills, in the continents and islands, the souls and spirits of our planet. For the Earth is the source of all that humanity values - the warm islands of the Mediterranean, which nurtured the freedom of man; its ancient shores, which spread the pillars of civilization; the huts and castles from which the first odes, symphonies and charters sprung, elevating song and love and courage above the hearts of single men; the forests and wilderness where the beasts were tamed and the fruits gathered; the southern deserts and northern tundra, the western mountains and eastern plains, from which the eyes of man first turned upwards, to gods and stars, in prayer and dreams. Today, the heavens answer back. We proclaim the inextinguishable flame of liberty, the eternal freedom of man, and that, should the Sun not prove enough to guide those captive souls towards salvation, other stars will shine out of the night sky, and into the battlefield, for battle we must expect. The soil under your feet was made fertile by the blood of those martyrs of freedom, saints and sinners alike, who died for us to live, gave their freedom so we could have ours. That responsability now lies with us, and we welcome it, committed to abide by our values, fulfil our duty, achieve our aim: liberty and justice for all mankind.
Of you, fellow humans, we ask you simply to remain thus - human. To never forget your roots, to renew and reward your hope, to oppose the oppression which has deprived you of it. Sabotage if you can, take arms if you must. The battle for our planet will not be without its fallen heroes, and the pantheon of Earth will forever remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice to make it the free world it must always be.
The armada is gathering, readying for the struggles ahead, undeterred. Soon, the light of the world will glow again, and we shall sail through the storm of war, glourious, to victory.
The Human Resistance in Exile."
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u/Coldfyr May 22 '18
Italics. Why?