Excerpt: Magenta

“Dear people of the world,” the recording went. “The Old World has fallen completely. It will completely collapse around itself and leave desolation such as this world has never seen. The fish, however cliché it might be, rots from the head. Citizens who are no longer free but who live free within your hearts, know that the those leaders that picture themselves gods will fail. They will watch their empires crumble around them. There will be no need for bloody revolution that you, our innocent brothers and sisters, will—despite your courage—lose. Especially those brave American souls that are out there whom could not have known what was coming. We wish we could impart all knowledge upon every one of our soldiers, but that is not the way of things. Do not think we forget you. We honor your sacrifice as we would any our dead, but honor your more because you must now live away from the land of your birth. Already your monument is being built next to those monuments that mean the most to our fair country. Do not revolt. All revolution will cause is death on your side and the bolstering, at least temporarily, of the gov-ernment you are trying to overthrow. Instead, let those corrupt figureheads destroy themselves as they have destroyed all the precious history of the world, from the arc de triumph in Paris or the Coliseum in Rome.” They failed to mention that the Coliseum had be destroyed as part of an al-lied diversion tactic. “They will destroy themselves, and from the rubble we will rebuild. When the outside world is ready, they will find a way to contact us. And we will come. We will come, our brothers and our sisters. We will come and set your free. Be strong. Remember the past. Hope for the future. This is America, signing out. Wait for us.”