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Skies over Byzantium blacken as Duke Mehmed's armada thunders by
WAR!
Shortly after Prince Chadwick's triumphant fleet, carrying 5 unidentified cargo pods, returned from Aragon, Duke Mehmed the Magnificent of House al-Malik joined the Holy Crusade and as of February 5th A.D. 4961 HTT (Holy Terra Time) House al-Malik and the Hazat are in a state of war.
Although previously advocating peaceful resolutions to internal Imperial matters, Duke Mehmed had a change of heart when abundant evidence verifying the Hazat are developing weapons of mass destruction began to surface. The evidence also suggest that the Hazat have every intention of using these devastating weapons against other great Houses in the future and it corroborates that they have already used their research on Symbiot psychology to incite Symbiot attacks on Shaprut and Istakhr.
In his public address Duke Mehmed went even further:
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We'we lost friends. We've lost relatives. We've lost those we've held most dear. There isn't a person amongst us who hasn't suffered a loss by the hands of those infernal abominations.
To now learn, that the Hazat possesed and used this perverted knowledge to control and to cohort with the enemy of our entire civilization, in a most dispicable and cowardly manner, requires - demands - our most harshest and uncompromising response!
[The crowd roars]
Long live Duke Mehmed! Long live the al-Malik!
Still... Still, above all, we are a noble and peaceful people, and I am a peaceful man, and I have nothing against the Hazat people, who are not just innocent bystanders but they are also victims caught in the corrupt whirlwind of a few demented individuals who reign over them.
Hawkwood troops have seen the terrors that suffocate the streets of Castle Furias, they've gaged over inhuman displays of Hazat savagery - a cruelty that so palpably permeates from every building, every nailed window, every deserted playground, every tree and rock on Aragon!
The Hazat people are a starving people. Their women get raped in their own homes. Their children walk naked and abandoned. Their access to free media is limited. These people deseve our pity, but these people also need our help - our help to dispose of a regime that has a deep hatred for everything our civilization stands for!
So to all Hazat citizens, soliders and serfs I say - do not fear! Do not fear, because we are coming! We are coming to feed you! We are coming to protect you! We are coming to bring justice against those that have brutalized you so relentlessly over the years! Do not burn your oil wells! Do not destroy your mines! Do not sabotage your industry, because this is the wealth that belongs to the Hazat people and when the day of reckoning comes, your own people will judge you - and they will show you no mercy.
So join us! Join us in our quest to rid the universe of these depraved madmen! Join us, and together we will bring prosperity to all Hazat people and to all the peoples of the Known Worlds!
Death to the abominations! Death to all the sinners!
We shouldn't fool ourselves, however. Hazat despots will not go down lightly. They will come at us here on Istakhr, on Shaprut, on Aylon, everywhere and with every spineless instrument at their disposal, so we must be ready! And with your help, my fellow citizens, my brothers and sisters - my children - we can be ready! I will make certain our security agencies have all the authority they need to protect each and every one of us from our monstrous enemies, but they'll need your help!
At this very moment our compatriots on Criticorum are in grave danger from Hazat and Symbiot agents who prey from within! Martial law has been declared and our Mutasih officers are tracking them down one by one, but they still need you! You can help them capture these traitors! You can save all our lives! Our people need you! The whole civilization needs you!