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"Disgraced Guardian Eros, primary advisor to the
Empress Aurelia VII,
you are hereby charged with the destruction of a Class 1 habitable planet entrusted to you by the
Exalted Empress
, Her Majesty Aurelia II, millennia ago. What do you have to say for yourself?"
I felt tiny as I faced the music of the Intergalactic Court currently based on
Io 5
- the home world of the beloved
Empress Aurelia
, the seventh of that name and direct descendant some twenty generations removed of the woman who entrusted her most prized possession to me in her final will upon the event of her untimely death. As if that wasn't bad enough, I stood in the depression of the litigation area in the High Court facing not only the council, but the Empress herself who had taken time out of her doubtlessly busy day to preside over this case personally; to oversee the trial for a most shameful occurrence - the destruction of Earth, once the
Jewel of the Empire
, now a slag heap abandoned by its people after its premature death. I felt boxed in from all sides as the crowd vocalised their opinions in a raucous manner, suggesting any number of punishments for the crime of losing so much control over the questionably intelligent sapients of
Earth
centuries before. Of course, no one else there thought of it as I did. All they saw was the loss of The Jewel and how they could use its destruction to their best advantage.
In the moment following, a rare thing happened: complete silence filled the hall as everyone awaited my response. An almost visible aura spread throughout the court hall as I let my power grow; a power unknown to most that was gifted to me by my adopted home and one that only the three Council members came close to comprehending. First concern, and then fear drifted and charged the very air surrounding me. My own dissipated as my ego, filled with the pain and suffering of millennia, bolstered me.
"You accuse
me
of allowing this thing to happen," I barely managed to hiss out. "
I
am the reason the jewel lasted as long as she did. Imanipulated
thousands
just to keep her alive.
I
am the Elder; the Kingmaker that has seen the rise and fall of empires, and I have stood idle for too long as you
imbeciles
have groped and grabbed for power by fucking your way through the courts until you had even the most powerful and strongest willed nobles begging for your minuscule cocks.
I
am the one who can restore her now that the children that you call 'The Plague of Humanity' allowed to grow on her back have moved on to "infect" other worlds with their machines and their ever-changing ideals of beauty, that even you will not be able to protect the universe against."
The Empress' face darkened more and more as I ranted and raved, shifting from pale pink to mauve and then a puce that spread down her bare chest, across her sizable breasts and turning her rubbery-looking nipples to a hot pink. As she leaned forward to berate me, they shifted until they were hanging like the multi-nippled teats of a herding
Gukka
, ripe and ready for milking. However, she was interrupted by First, the most confident of the Council, an act that is ordinarily punishable by an extra month - with each conviction - restrained on the planet Insatiatus by his own decree, before being permitted to rejoin that august body. I'm sure that he has used it to his own advantage over the years, but I would still bet that he never considered that it would be used against him
"How
dare
you! She is your
Empress!
You will show her
respect