pigeon: okay
[09:43am] pigeon: some more backstory on the stars are right
[09:43am] pigeon: so, up until the great contagion, everything went basically according to canon
[09:43am] pigeon: immediately after the great contagion, there was an enormous uproar in the halls of heaven
[09:44am] pigeon: because like obviously that was an example of something going totally wrong
[09:44am] alsoquin: yes
[09:44am] pigeon: hold on a second
[09:44am] alsoquin: k
[09:45am] pigeon: oh yeah
[09:45am] pigeon: the other thing that happened around this time was the breaking of the mask
[09:45am] pigeon: which caused the sidereals to be forgotten
[09:45am] alsoquin: around the contagion?
[09:46am] pigeon: yeah
[09:46am] alsoquin: not after the usurpation?
[09:46am] alsoquin: hm
[09:46am] alsoquin: ok
[09:46am] pigeon: I mean
[09:46am] pigeon: how long a span of time is there between the usurpation and the contagion?
[09:47am] alsoquin: it's either ~700 years or ~1500 years
[09:47am] pigeon: okay
[09:47am] pigeon: I'm going to say that the breaking of the mask was basically going on for that whole period
[09:48am] pigeon: they just kept putting up bigger and bigger astrological effects
[09:48am] pigeon: and then at the same time as the contagion it broke
[09:48am] pigeon: which made it way harder for the sidereals to react properly to the contagion
[09:49am] alsoquin: ah ok
[09:49am] alsoquin: so there's a big hullabaloo
[09:49am] alsoquin: "something is v. wrong"
[09:49am] pigeon: yeah
[09:49am] pigeon: and all kinds of uproar
[09:49am] pigeon: and chejop gets summoned to the jade pleasure dome
[09:49am] alsoquin: 
etc.
[09:49am] pigeon: and he doesn't come out
[09:49am] alsoquin: hrmmm
[09:49am] pigeon: that picture better be of cats and dogs living together
[09:50am] pigeon: haha
[09:50am] alsoquin: sorry
[09:50am] alsoquin: 
[09:50am] pigeon: that's hilarious
[09:50am] alsoquin: animated version is better
[09:50am] alsoquin: anyway
[09:51am] pigeon: instead some censor comes out and goes "chejop has been found guilty of some official crime"
[09:51am] pigeon: interfering with the exalted mandate to rule creation, maybe
[09:51am] pigeon: I have to figure it out
[09:51am] alsoquin: right
[09:52am] pigeon: "and so we're putting him in a cage of eternal torment and not letting him out"
[09:52am] pigeon: "no you can't see him so don't ask"
[09:52am] pigeon: so uh
[09:52am] pigeon: this leaves a rather sizeable power vacuum
[09:52am] pigeon: and the bronze faction kind of dissolves
[09:53am] pigeon: and the gold faction ends up in power for a while
[09:53am] pigeon: but, uh
[09:53am] pigeon: there aren't actually any solars
[09:53am] alsoquin: right
[09:53am] pigeon: and when they go ask the malfeans to open the jade prison back up
[09:53am] pigeon: it doesn't really go well
[09:53am] alsoquin: hahahaha
[09:53am] pigeon: so the gold faction basically falls apart too
[09:53am] alsoquin: uh huh
[09:54am] pigeon: and for like a thousand years nobody really know what the hell to do
[09:54am] pigeon: they basically shore up the existing power structures in an effort to keep society from collapsing
[09:54am] alsoquin: mmhmm
[09:55am] pigeon: except for the sidereals who encourage rebellion in the outlands in an effort to keep society from collapsing
[09:55am] pigeon: etc. etc.
[09:55am] pigeon: throughout this time, there is no capital convention
[09:55am] alsoquin: ah ok
[09:55am] pigeon: which means that the realm is basically a really complicated and irritating place to mess with from the sidereal perspective
[09:56am] pigeon: because it's not actually anybody's JOB
[09:56am] pigeon: and so everybody wants to do it
[09:56am] alsoquin: yeah
[09:56am] alsoquin: but nobody wants to be left holding the BAG for it
[09:56am] pigeon: exactly
[09:57am] pigeon: so, finally, when the solars start coming back, the sidereals are like "shit" and start scurrying around trying to look busy
[09:57am] alsoquin: mhm
[09:57am] pigeon: and one of the things they do is to recreate the capital convention as the convention concerning the pole of earth
[09:57am] pigeon: and that's you guys
[09:58am] alsoquin: mhm
[09:58am] alsoquin: so we are the sidereal red-piss legion
[09:58am] pigeon: yeah
[09:58am] pigeon: that's about the size of it
[09:58am] alsoquin: cool
[09:58am] pigeon: you guys are the guys who got sent there for being politically unacceptable geniuses
[09:59am] pigeon: your underlings are the guys who got sent there for being retarded, homicidal or too lazy even for a bureaucracy
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