#the classicist

[shadowfromthestarlight]

The 1776 Commission and the Relearning of American History - Ricochet

Victor Davis Hanson explains the work of President Trump’s 1776 Commission (a body on which he served), describes the decline of history as an academic discipline, and explains why humility is an essential ingredient when judging figures from the past.

[movedto-slimytrolls]

Badly worded plot thoughts, I was gonna scribble it out but it’s a bit lengthy and not that important idk Ormmea is confronted by Smuggler and asked to work for him. (I guess at some point Ormmea is a bit infamous for being a lowblood running around killing higherbloods??)

At this point he’s covered in blue blood, Smuggler is impressed, confused and in a bit of denial (the poor blue blood who encountered Ormmea was the Classicist, just to link other trolls in haaa), he tries to fight him/put him in his place, but almost ends up with his own ass kicked.

Smuggler does win though and attempts to take Ormmea with him. Ormmea is already in a pretty bad state due to the ‘rebound’ of his ability, but he manages to pulls some fancy blood work and knocks himself out.

This leads to a visit to Cheiro (a quad of Smuggler’s idk??) bcos his new pet lowblood won’t stop doing knocking himself out and he needs him to kill other trolls for him. Cheiro can’t do much, but proposes a valve type system to prevent blood being forced out of the head region (bs biology uhh?? Blood could still flow regularly, but forced movement would cause the valves to maintain a steady flow and would be tricky to override??).

This proposal scares Ormmea though and he quietly accepts his new duty. He aids in piratey quests and assassinations, since Smuggler runs a small space pirate crew of sorts.

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A few sweeps past and eventually the space pirates run into a tricky situation (with rivals idk?? Nicked some they REALLY shouldn’t have?? Hahaa) and the ship crashes. Ormmea survived thanks to his ability, the crew either died/were incapacitated long enough so Ormmea could escape.

Then yeah he’s doing his own thing again?? IDK

Ps in the distant future Desmat eventually finds some weapons in that ship wreckage OooOooO