LECTURE - BYWORD OF THE GENEVAN PALACE MASSACRE l 2086

['77 East]

The lecture continues to pace on.
At least it's getting interesting now.
You stare at your transcipt.​

... with the infamous 'last stand' concluded on the steps of the then-Genevan Palace of Nations, the aftermath had yet to register despite the trio's death. Tens of millions poured into the streets globally demanding clarification of the written statement aired on live television by the armed trio and their forced hostage, Chief Judge Donaldson. Riots emerged in Australia, Japan, and the Vladivostok Refugee Center almost immediately as the accusations were read out.

Announcements in response were slow to appear, and accused by critics of being drawn out by the Lambda-led global government initiative with many claimants denied their initial restitution payments for a variety of bureaucratic reasons. Historians have since produced significant evidence emphasizing the pull the wartime movement had in both the Blue Street riots -- a premature tokyo urbanite movement labelled as protest-turned slaughter when promised munitions organized by Lambda did not appear -- and the Vladivostok Obliteration, key factors in the later 'STANDALONE'-organized voting bloc's independent secession from defacto United Nation control, lead by the six nations of South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, the Independent Territory of Tasmania, Japan and the New America Economic Zone, with the Chinese-dominated Russian Occupied Territories following eight years later after heavy UN debate.

Claimants also filed suit demanding adequate compensation for the preplanned 'White Flu' outbreak, another joint-venture by the Lambadan forces and the Eurasian Liberation Army to significantly cull the loyalist collaborator populace without regard to civilian casualties. Despite heavy pressure, Beijing refused to allow public access to witnesses from the self-described 'liberation group' outside of a small conference chaired by former commanders-turned-advisors Engel Haas and Lei Wuyong denouncing the broadcast as an opportunistic smear campaign, the group's wartime participants were then spirited away to hidden outposts in Mongolia. Demands for extradition have since gone unanswered, most concluding that few surviving members remain today. Most artifacts from their group are kept stored in the Beijing National Archives, with some occasionally held on tour for rotating exhibitions.

Additional outcry erupted once surveillance footage from the palace was leaked on the 'net in 2049, revealing the extent of the responding force's mismanagement in the attack, both to external 'bleeding clamp' assault forces and the trial's own armed participants. Rampant criticism following the reveal that a mother held hostage was mistakenly executed by responding paramilitary forces attempting to stop the trio's slaughter led to the heavy-handed string of reprisal arrests of those accused of spreading footage. Accusations of governmental censorship rivaling that of the CMB-state have been levied, but remain without standalone support given the lack of testimonial evidence found.

Mikel Wikus has been appropriated by the standalone South African government as a folk hero, which despite distancing itself from his later tenure in the Civil Protectorate, continues to insist that his intrepid service in the Conscription Arm and lengthy campaign as an insurgent figure (before an assumed defection following the execution of his 'X-Collective' ex-conscription arm brethren by a coalition of vortigaunts and lambda-sponsored skinheads.) outweighed his disgruntled return to the Protectorate and later accusations of impartial crimes against civilians. In Japan, he is considered an objective war criminal despite his sentence for water sabotage never being accurately determined one way or the other, with many often labeling his image as a poster figure for the Occupation's many depraved policies.

Vortigaunt Rights Groups and Occupational Survivors emphatically protested a decision by the South African Embassy to install a statue commemorating Wikus's time in the Conscription Arm; an effort to remove the statue failed after the reveal that key Kobayashi Syndicate members had backed the planned demolition both for political and financial reasons, and it was reluctantly granted heritage status by popular appeal demanding that the cabinet distance itself from such blatant corruption, the monument still regarded as an intentional diplomatic snub. These days, it is frequently the scene of protests against the Japanese Government by anti-corruption groups and CMB-fanatics, both eager to gain brief media attention, a far cry from the horrific acts that the man incarnate had once supposedly committed. Small numbers of Conscription Arm enthusiasts continue to downplay his spree of violence, insisting that it was a righteous act necessary for the public to learn of and decry Lambda's hushed atrocities.

Eija Väisänen remains the key symbol of authorial rejection of the Lambadan Coalition in the eyes of the common populace, this has made her a martyr by the standards of many CMB-sympathetic revisionists and conspiracy theorists. Unlike Wikus, who was given tact appraisal by the South African state due it's post-war conflict against 'vortigaunt tribalism' and the Japanese public as a coincidental postmortem figure of highlighting corruption, and Colton, who was forgotten by most beside historians and prolific biographers-turned-filmmakers, Eija is solely regarded with warmth in sympathizer circles and little elsewhere, condemned by most as a figure of butchery up with the likes of Breen. A commemorative plaque was installed at the site of San Diego's Child Containment Center years later, a notable site of her horrific act of genocide that has still unbalanced the New America Economic Zone's population statistics. Annual troves of tourists and scholars arrive during the winter season, mourning those five hundred thousand who fell victim to policy ordained and spearheaded by one of humanity's worst occupational figures.

Adrian Colton did not share in the post-siege infamy, often glossed over by scholars in favor of detailing Wikus's cold pragmatism and Väisänen's rampant fanaticism, written away as a singular serial-murderer delighted to partake in the momentary slaughter once more before his death - a synopsis helped by his own insistence to being the first to commit suicide during the last stand. His graphic pistol-assisted suicide remains a popular bit of footage for those eager to provoke and shock others on the 'net.

Many of his 'Order of the Bleeding Clamp' compatriots distanced themselves from his documented frenzy of murdering bystanders during the incident, some surrendering from the movement out of sheer disgust, some becoming holdouts in the remaining pan-america forests until their gradual, forceful removal by state and police authorities. A bulwark of the remainder sealed themselves off within remote sections of Brazil, vowing to continue their attack on civilian centers. The Lambda-led world response would see the intentional airdrop of tainted synth-oil disguised as old CMB-issue aerial support packages over their encampments, a scheme that hoped to neutralize the group's remaining survivors without 'provoking another civilian massacre'. It was a muted success, leading to the deaths of fourteen hundred and remains an ethical crime that is still hotly contested in politics.

Most of the surviving relics and possessions from the former Palace of Nations disappeared into private hands of the on-site responders or looters in the chaotic aftermath of the slaughter. Some were seized by police authorities and later placed on permanent exhibition in the Occupational Memorial Museum of Zurich, others remain in Geneva's archives, barred from the public by executive decree, an act that has incited some accusations of a lengthy state-led cover up regarding the incident. Chief Justice Donaldson's bloodstained suit continues to herald student tour groups inside the large hall showcasing the Memorial's Exhibit of Occupational Crimes, filled with ornamental technology, deactivated equipment and even Mikel Wikus's former Conscription Arm uniform, believed to been gifted to the museum from a private benefactor.

Recently, it had been revealed that the franchi SPAS-12 combat shotgun wielded by both Väisänen and later Wikus in the infamous spree has been put up for auction, establishing a starting sum of 520,000 credits. The seller, an anonymous figure who spoke to confirm the veracity of the archaic weapon's authenticity, said that the antique had viciously incited an entire generation to consider the lengthy ramifications of Lambda's grip on the occupational insurgency as it was used to threaten and then murder Chief Justice Donaldson during the pivotal broadcast, and thus held immense value as a relic of public change ...

You tune out again with the turn to recent history, slowly pivoting a return to idle thoughts.

Perhaps Professor Sanz will give you the true rundown of what happened when this formal lecture ends.
He can't teach the truth, they won't let him talk candidly like that in public. Government doesn't like it. Screw 'em.

The synth oil he brought last tuesday was a neat experience.
First time you ever dreamt like that.
Felt like your mind had been freed.

Maybe he's got more of it...​