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flipping-the-coin · 2 years ago

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From the desk of

Head Archivist: Orion Pax

Hall of Records

East Trion Square

Iacon

I would like to extend my greatest thanks to the esteemed members of this Council for hearing my proposal on such short notice. It is to my understanding that the Council has been accepting proposals for public works projects. I would like to propose one of my own.

We have several monuments available to our citizens to pay their respects to the fallen Prime, who so graciously sacrificed his life so that our home could be fully restored. These memorials have provided the public with much needed spaces to come together in reverence, ceremony, brotherhood, and remembrance for our dear Prime. What these spaces do not allow, however, is an appropriate place to grieve those lost in the war.

I propose a pool of funds to be dedicated to the design, building and maintenance of a memorial dedicated to all those fallen during our great civil war. The monument should include but should not to be limited to: One(1) standing monument of artistic quality to represent those lost, Six (6) types of public seating, fitting all frame sizes, from sparklings to warframes, four (4) gardens, two (2) buildings to be dedicated to the public’s personal memorials and as many plaques as needed to legibly engrave the designations of those whose sparks were snuffed during the war.

As well as requesting funding, I also seek the appointment of those I know to be capable and trustworthy in their work to lead this project. I humbly request the Council consider lead Architect Bulkead for the drafting, planning and building stages of this project. For the designing and creation of the monument itself, I request that the council consider Grapple for the position. For the design and creation of the gardens, I request the council consider the combined efforts of Councilor Deepstreak and civilian crystal tender Cloudbeam. If I may be so bold, I humbly request that our Primal Steward, Ratchet oversee the management of funds and general project oversight to ensure that the needs of our citizens are properly considered.

The needs of all of our citizens are being considered… aren’t they? I know that this council has several times been told of the horrendous lack of support for those living on the sublevels. Perhaps the severity of the issue simply 𐌃Ꝋ𐌃Ᏽ𐌄𐌔 the members of this Councils’ attention. None of you have ever lived in the sublevels, so how can you be expected to truly grasp the lack of attention being given to those who live there? Perhaps now is the perfect time for me to elaborate my grievances.

Upper Iacon has a marvelous assistance program to caretakers of new sparklings. It provides a modest income for the purchase of purified energon, medical aid and other necessities. All one must do is register the little one and present it for verification. Perhaps you were unaware, but this much needed assistance program is 𐌂𐌵𐌕 Ꝋ𐌅𐌅 to those in the Lower Levels. Upon filling out the required forms, it becomes obvious that only addresses from Upper Iacon are accepted. Perhaps this is simply an oversight, but I suppose it is easy for some to forget about the sparklings who's caretakers chose neutrality over violence.

Were you aware that there are no proper educational facilities available to sparklings and younglings living in the sublevels? This would not be much of an issue if registration of addresses from the lower levels was accepted, but alas, as I have already pointed out to you, they are not. I have 𐌕𐌐𐌉𐌄𐌃 𐌔Ꝋ 𐋅𐌀𐌐𐌃 to see this oversight as a benevolent one, but with how blatantly 𐌃𐌄𐌀𐌃 𐌔𐌄𐌕 this council has been upon silently reintroducing a caste system, I can only assume this serves a dual purpose in to preventing neutral views from 𐌉𐌍𐌅𐌄𐌂𐌕𐌉𐌍Ᏽ the propaganda you have so dutifully taught to your own younglings and to force citizens of the lower level into a state of functionalism. If the only education opportunities available to you are apprenticeships that match your frame type, you have no choice but to 𐌔𐌵𐌁𐌌𐌉𐌕 just to survive.

Frankly, the way this Council prioritizes Upper level, Autobot sparklings above the rest 𐌃𐌉𐌔Ᏽ𐌵𐌔𐌕𐌔 me. The members in this very room have, on more occasions than I can recount directly 𐌕𐋅𐌐𐌄𐌀𐌕𐌄𐌍𐌄𐌃 the lives of sparklings living in the sublevels. 𐌄ᕓ𐌄𐌐𐌙 𐌔𐌉𐌍Ᏽ𐌋𐌄 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌄 you have voted to ‘redistribute’ energy to meet the demands of your frivolous ‘grand openings’ or galas, you throw everyone below your pedes into darkness. I have lived there. I have heard the Ꮤ𐌀𐌉𐌋𐌔 of hungry sparklings at the mercy of the length of your festivities as they are forced to endure without their purifiers to cleanse the 𐌓𐌉𐌔𐌔 𐌓ꝊꝊ𐌐 quality of fuels shipped and sold there.

If they do manage to survive and are hopeful enough to attempt to 𐌂𐌋𐌉𐌌𐌁 𐌕𐋅𐌄 𐌋𐌀𐌃𐌃𐌄𐌐 and make a life for themselves on the surface, they are left stranded. It is perfectly legal to deny housing and employment to anyone on this planet. Of course, those of the upper levels, mostly registered Autobots, do not face this issue. They are Ꝋ𐌍 𐌕𐋅𐌄 Ꮤ𐌉𐌍𐌍𐌉𐌍Ᏽ 𐌕𐌄𐌀𐌌 after all. The only guaranteed pathway to employment and housing available to those coming up from the sublevels is to join the Elite Guard and be subject to 𐌁𐌐𐌀𐌉𐌍Ꮤ𐌀𐌔𐋅𐌉𐌍Ᏽ techniques and massive 𐌅Ꝋ𐌐𐌂𐌄𐌃 alterations to their personality matrices through 𐌁𐌐𐌵𐌕𐌀𐌋 𐌀𐌍𐌃 𐌀𐌁𐌵𐌔𐌉ᕓ𐌄 methods of reprogramming. 𐌕𐋅𐌄 Ꝋ𐌍𐌋𐌙 𐌐𐌄𐌀𐌔Ꝋ𐌍 I secured my position despite being unregistered in Upper Iacon was because 𐌉 Ꮤ𐌀𐌔 𐌃𐌀𐌌𐌍 ᏵꝊꝊ𐌃 𐌀𐌕 𐌌𐌙 ᏖꝊ𐌁 before the war and everyone knew who had personally trained me.

Which brings me to my second point of grievance against this council: the constant belittling of myself by nearly all present in these chambers. Not a single other member of this government is subject to the levels of 𐌂𐌐𐌵𐌄𐌋𐌕𐌙 𐌀𐌍𐌃 𐌃𐌄Ᏽ𐌐𐌄𐌃𐌀𐌕𐌉Ꝋ𐌍 that these courts allow me to be subject to. There is no other member of this government who must endure the blatant disrespect I am subject to anytime I must physically reside in this room. I am certain it has happened during the reading of this very proposal. How many laughed or groaned out as soon as my designation was uttered as author of this proposal? How many Ꮤ𐌐𐌄𐌕𐌂𐋅𐌄𐌃 𐌀𐌍𐌃 𐋅𐌵𐌌𐌉𐌋𐌉𐌀𐌕𐌉𐌍Ᏽ designations was I called before the Primal Stewart finally called for order? Ꮤ𐋅𐌉𐌂𐋅 Ꝋ𐌍𐌄𐌔 𐌃𐌉𐌃 𐌕𐋅𐌄𐌙 𐌂𐌀𐌋𐌋 𐌌𐌄 𐌕𐋅𐌉𐌔 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌄? ‘Megatron’s Little Mouthpiece?’ ‘Primus’s Largest Mistake?’ Perhaps someone even muttered that I am a ‘glitch?’ Perhaps some of you immediately voted ‘’no’ simply because this proposal has my designation attached. How many times has the orator been forced to stop as I am denigrated by my peers?

Do not think that I am 𐌉𐌍 𐌕𐋅𐌄 𐌃𐌀𐌐𐌊 regarding the ulterior motives behind the recently passed blasphemy laws. How else can you 𐌊𐌄𐌄𐌓 𐌙Ꝋ𐌵𐌐 Ᏽ𐌐𐌀𐌔𐌓 Ꝋ𐌍 𐌙Ꝋ𐌵𐌐 𐌋𐌉𐌄𐌔 regarding my life? You’ve already disrespected me by ignoring every single petition for records correction I have turned in. You would rather keep telling the 𐌓𐌐𐌄𐌕𐌕𐌙 𐌋𐌉𐌕𐌕𐌋𐌄 𐌋𐌉𐌄 that I willingly took that 𐌓𐌀𐌐𐌀𐌔𐌉𐌕𐌉𐌂 𐌀𐌁Ꝋ𐌌𐌉𐌍𐌀𐌕𐌉Ꝋ𐌍 you call the Matrix of Leadership into my chassis and 𐌌𐌄Ᏽ𐌀𐌕𐌐Ꝋ𐌍𐌵𐌔 𐌕𐋅𐌐𐌄Ꮤ 𐌀 𐌅𐌉𐌕 over it instead of 𐌕𐋅𐌄 𐋅𐌀𐌐𐌔𐋅 𐌕𐌐𐌵𐌕𐋅 𐌕𐋅𐌀𐌕 𐌉 Ꮤ𐌀𐌔 𐌔𐌕Ꝋ𐌋𐌄𐌍 𐌅𐌐Ꝋ𐌌 𐋅𐌉𐌌 (Which is, need I remind you, a war crime as stated in the Codices of Proper Warfare: Article 4, Paragraph 2, subsection C, point XVI: harassment, assault, seizure, torture or killing of noncombatant spouses of hostile party leaders.) He did what was his right as my Conjunx in seeking to retrieve me! Instead, you mock my attempts at 𐌐𐌉Ᏽ𐋅𐌕𐌉𐌍Ᏽ 𐌕𐋅𐌉𐌔 ��𐌐𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌕𐋅𐌀𐌕 Ꮤ𐌀𐌔 𐌂Ꝋ𐌌𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌕𐌄𐌃 𐌀Ᏽ𐌀𐌉𐌍𐌔𐌕 𐌵𐌔 by refusing to even acknowledge that he and I 𐌔𐋅𐌀𐌐𐌄𐌃 Ꝋ𐌵𐌐 𐌔𐌓𐌀𐌐𐌊𐌔 before some of you were even 𐌓𐌋𐌵𐌂𐌊𐌄𐌃 𐌅𐌐Ꝋ𐌌 𐌕𐋅𐌄 Ꮤ𐌉𐌋𐌃𐌔!

Furthermore, your 𐌂𐌐𐌵𐌄𐌋 𐌐𐌄𐌅𐌵𐌔𐌀𐌋 to acknowledge said bond between 𐌌𐌄Ᏽ𐌀𐌕𐌐Ꝋ𐌍𐌵𐌔 Ꝋ𐌅 𐌊𐌀Ꝋ𐌍 and myself is further proof of how low this Council has sunk into pettiness. Bondings are sacred for all Cybertronians, yet for this Council it seems that 𐌔Ꝋ𐌌𐌄 𐌐𐌉𐌕𐌄𐌔 𐌀𐌐𐌄 𐌌Ꝋ𐌐𐌄 𐌔𐌀𐌂𐌐𐌄𐌃 𐌕𐋅𐌀𐌍 Ꝋ𐌕𐋅𐌄𐌐𐌔 as my repeated pleadings for not only our 𐌊𐌀Ꝋ𐌍𐌉 bond to be accepted, but those of all other city-states to be registered properly as well. This Council is intentionally violating our rights as a 𐌁Ꝋ𐌍𐌃𐌄𐌃 𐌓𐌀𐌉𐌐 by trying to 𐌅Ꝋ𐌐𐌂𐌄 us to adopt Iaconian standards over those of my Conjunx’s culture and you 𐌓𐌉𐌕𐌔𐌓𐌀Ꮤ𐌍 are cruel enough to force this punishment on our citizens just so that you may 𐌔𐌉𐌋𐌄𐌍𐌕𐌋𐌙 𐌊𐌄𐌄𐌓 𐌙Ꝋ𐌵𐌐 𐌂𐌀𐌔𐌕𐌄 𐌔𐌙𐌔𐌕𐌄𐌌 𐌀𐌍𐌃 𐌊𐌄𐌄𐌓 𐌌𐌄Ᏽ𐌀𐌕𐌐Ꝋ𐌍𐌵𐌔 𐌅𐌐Ꝋ𐌌 𐌐𐌄𐌂𐌉𐌄ᕓ𐌉𐌍Ᏽ 𐌕𐋅𐌄 𐌔𐌀𐌌𐌄 𐌋𐌵𐋄𐌵𐌐𐌉𐌄𐌔 𐌀𐌍𐌃 𐌔𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌵𐌔 𐌙Ꝋ𐌵𐌐 𐌂Ꝋ𐌍Ꮦ𐌵𐌍𐋄𐌄𐌔 𐌀𐌐𐌄 𐌀Ꮤ𐌀𐌐𐌃𐌄𐌃.

𐌌𐌄Ᏽ𐌀𐌕𐌐Ꝋ𐌍𐌵𐌔 is the only Conjunx of a member of this Council who is never awarded the appropriate subglyph designations to signify his bond to me when he is spoken of by this Council, whilst yours receive titles such as ‘Beloved Conjunx of…’ and ‘Conjunx Endura of…’ Instead, you speak of him with 𐌄ᕓ𐌄𐌍 𐌌Ꝋ𐌐𐌄 ᕓ𐌄𐌍Ꝋ𐌌 than you speak of me, sometimes in 𐌃𐌉𐌐𐌄𐌂𐌕 𐌀𐌕𐌕𐌄𐌌𐌓𐌕𐌔 𐌕Ꝋ 𐌀𐌍𐌕𐌀ᏵꝊ𐌍𐌉Ɀ𐌄 𐌌𐌄. Our relationship is regularly 𐌃𐌉𐌔𐌌𐌉𐌔𐌔𐌄𐌃, 𐌂Ꝋ𐌍𐌃𐌄𐌌𐌍𐌄𐌃, 𐌀𐌍𐌃 ᕓ𐌉𐌋𐌉𐌅𐌉𐌄𐌃 in my presence with the express purpose of Ᏽ𐌄𐌕𐌕𐌉𐌍Ᏽ 𐌵𐌍𐌃𐌄𐌐 𐌌𐌙 𐌓𐌋𐌀𐌕𐌉𐌍Ᏽ to cause me to 𐌋𐌀𐌔𐋅 Ꝋ𐌵𐌕 so that I may be reprimanded for defending my relationship.

𐌌𐌙 𐌂𐋅𐌀𐌌𐌓𐌉Ꝋ𐌍 has never once received a formal invitation to an open Council session. 𐌕𐋅𐌄 Ꝋ𐌍𐌄 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌄 𐋅𐌄 𐌕𐌐𐌉𐌄𐌃 𐌕Ꝋ 𐌂Ꝋ𐌌𐌄 to offer me support, he was 𐌔𐌕Ꝋ𐌓𐌓𐌄𐌃 𐌀𐌍𐌃 𐌕𐋅𐌐𐌄𐌀𐌕𐌄𐌍𐌄𐌃 by the guard when, as my Conjunx, he has every right to 𐌔𐌕𐌀𐌍𐌃 𐌀𐌕 𐌌𐌙 𐌔𐌉𐌃𐌄. Even if he is merely 𐌓𐌉𐌂𐌊𐌉𐌍Ᏽ 𐌌𐌄 𐌵𐌓 to walk me home, he is ᕓ𐌉Ꝋ𐌋𐌄𐌍𐌕𐌋𐌙 𐌕𐋅𐌐𐌄𐌀𐌕𐌄𐌍𐌄𐌃 until either I or the Primal Stewart can intervene.

𐌍𐌄ᕓ𐌄𐌐 has he been invited to 𐌔𐌕𐌀𐌍𐌃 𐌉𐌍 𐌌𐌙 𐌓𐌋𐌀𐌂𐌄 at the Grand Openings to your superfluous memorials to the Prime, as is standard protocol when a Council member cannot attend such festivities. 𐌕𐋅𐌄𐌐𐌄 𐋅𐌀𐌔𐌍'𐌕 𐌁𐌄𐌄𐌍 𐌀 𐌔𐌉𐌍Ᏽ𐌋𐌄 gala, party or fundraising event I have been able to attend as my Conjunx was explicitly 𐌅Ꝋ𐌐𐌁𐌉𐌃𐌃Ꝋ𐌍 from attendance. He is 𐌍Ꝋ𐌕 𐌄ᕓ𐌄𐌍 𐌕Ꝋ𐌋𐌄𐌐𐌀𐌕𐌄𐌃 𐌀𐌕 𐌕𐋅𐌄 𐌐𐌄Ᏽ𐌉Ꝋ𐌍𐌀𐌋 𐌀𐌃𐌃𐌐𐌄𐌔𐌔𐌄𐌔 regarding 𐌊𐌀Ꝋ𐌍, 𐋅𐌉𐌔 𐋅Ꝋ𐌌𐌄! Tell me, are there any citizens 𐌁𐌀𐌐𐌐𐌄𐌃 𐌅𐌐Ꝋ𐌌 𐌄𐌍𐌕𐌐𐌙 to all public events other than my 𐌌𐌄Ᏽ𐌀𐌕𐌐Ꝋ𐌍𐌵𐌔?

This Council has restricted his involvement at every level, even though 𐋅𐌄 𐋅𐌀𐌔 𐌁𐌄𐌄𐌍 𐌓𐌀𐌐𐌃Ꝋ𐌍𐌄𐌃 𐌅Ꝋ𐌐 𐋅𐌉𐌔 𐌂𐌐𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌔 by the one you hold sacred. He has not even been provided 𐌕𐋅𐌄 𐌌Ꝋ𐌔𐌕 𐌁𐌀𐌔𐌉𐌂 of benefits awarded to Conjunxes of government workers. He has been granted 𐌍Ꝋ 𐌓𐌐𐌉Ꝋ𐌐𐌉𐌕𐌙 in employment even for positions he is 𐋅𐌉Ᏽ𐋅𐌋𐌙 𐌔𐌵𐌉𐌕𐌄𐌃 𐌅Ꝋ𐌐, such as Hall of Record security, the counterterrorism task force, or leading the 𐌓𐌐𐌀𐌂𐌕𐌉𐌂𐌀𐌋𐌋𐌙 𐌵𐌔𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌔𐌔 Decepticon Refugee Outreach program. Ꮤ𐋅𐌀𐌕'𐌔 𐌄ᕓ𐌄𐌍 ᏔꝊ𐌐𐌔𐌄? He has been barred from enrolling in any government funded educational programs, including ones hosted in 𐌌𐌙 Archives! You have 𐌁𐌋𐌀𐌂𐌊𐌋𐌉𐌔𐌕𐌄𐌃 𐋅𐌉𐌌 from every means of self betterment available to him 𐌀𐌍𐌃 𐌂𐌀𐌋𐌋𐌄𐌃 𐋅𐌉𐌌 𐌀 𐌌Ꝋ𐌍𐌔𐌕𐌄𐌐 𐌅Ꝋ𐌐 𐌍Ꝋ𐌕 𐌋𐌉ᕓ𐌉𐌍Ᏽ 𐌵𐌓 𐌕Ꝋ 𐌙Ꝋ𐌵𐌐 𐌉𐌀𐌂Ꝋ𐌍𐌉𐌀𐌍 𐌔𐌕𐌀𐌍𐌃𐌀𐌐𐌃𐌔.

𐌕𐋅𐌄 𐌐𐌄𐌀𐌋 𐌌Ꝋ𐌍𐌔𐌕𐌄𐌐𐌔 sit in these very chambers. They are those 𐌔𐌓𐌀𐌐𐌊𐌋𐌄𐌔𐌔 enough to vote in favor of measures that leave new Caretakers 𐋅𐌄𐌋𐌓𐌋𐌄𐌔𐌔 as you deny them needed aid and cut off their power. 𐌕𐋅𐌄 𐌐𐌄𐌀𐌋 𐌁𐌄𐌀𐌔𐌕𐌔 are the ones who can 𐌐𐌄𐌂𐋅𐌀𐌐Ᏽ𐌄 𐌀𐌕 𐌍𐌉Ᏽ𐋅𐌕 after knowing they 𐌃𐌄𐌓𐌐𐌉ᕓ𐌄𐌃 𐌉𐌍𐌍Ꝋ𐌂𐌄𐌍𐌕 𐌔𐌓𐌀𐌐𐌊𐌋𐌉𐌍Ᏽ𐌔 𐌕𐋅𐌄𐌉𐌐 𐌅𐌵𐌄𐌋. Your 𐌂𐌐𐌵𐌄𐌋𐌕𐌙 is 𐌀 𐌐Ꝋ𐌕𐌕𐌄𐌍 𐌔𐌕𐌀𐌉𐌍 that shames all of us. 𐌕𐋅𐌄 𐌋𐌄𐌀𐌔𐌕 𐌙Ꝋ𐌵 𐌕𐌀𐌂𐌕𐌋𐌄𐌔𐌔 𐌅𐌐𐌀ᏵᏵ𐌄𐌐𐌔 𐌂𐌀𐌍 𐌃Ꝋ 𐌉𐌔 𐌀𐌋𐌋ꝊᏔ 𐌕𐋅𐌄𐌌 𐌀 𐌓𐌋𐌀𐌂𐌄 𐌕Ꝋ 𐌓𐌐Ꝋ𐌓𐌄𐌐𐌋𐌙 Ᏽ𐌐𐌉𐌄ᕓ𐌄!

In conclusion, the public would greatly benefit from the construction and maintenance of a proper monument memorializing the sparks lost in our great conflict. I humbly request this prestigious council consider the disbursement of funding to allow such a memorial to be realized. With the esteemed Primal Steward Ratchet as the head of funding, there is no chance for this project to fall into corruption. I have it on greatest confidence and trust that lead Architect Bulkhead, Council member Deepstreak, Cloudbeam and Grapple are the ones best suited for the construction of all phases of planning and building. It is my hope that this Council will accept my proposal for the good of all of Cybertron.

Head Archivist Orion Pax

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