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"Exodus"

That name has many meanings now. In the early days it was a literal description of our status (the major points of which Kawaii has summed up excellently) as refugees fleeing a broken system. It came to represent our own internal conflicts as we sought to escape the legacy of our founding. I think the story of Exodus is one of continuing flight; first from stagnant dictatorship, then from our own identity, and finally to the corners of the NS world or - as it turned out for some of us - from NS itself. This is not an unhappy ending, not to me.

Instead of recounting the entire history (which is far too long for an RMB) how about a vignette?

Government is hard work, the Exodites knew that. To keep themselves honest, they created a detailed legislative system in the style of the old region. Laws were passed with style and ceremony and much signing of names. Then, someone discovered an error and, suddenly, the Arch Imperator was an illegal alien and all the laws he signed (most of them) were null and void. The streets ran red with blood for seven days.