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GNS Archive: Naming of the Kantus, 4/8/2970; Terrance Haydn reporting, Secunda Delta
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[GNS ARCHIVE, 16:42:07 SDT, 4/7/2970]
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This is GNS. Real. Current. News.

We interrupt our regularly scheduled coverage of the San Licio colonization for this breaking news. We now go live to our reporter in the field, Terrance Haydn, who is joining us via intrasense from Secunda Delta. Let's hear what's happening, Terrance.

Yes, Michael, I am here on Secunda Delta, and the absolutely massive crowd you see behind me has rallied on Kantus Ridge overlooking the capital of Diyu Nakara has turned out in support of the individual we only know as the King of Man.

This is the same man who has rallied the support of Secunda Delta against its regional government, correct, Terrance?

That's absolutely right. As GNS has reported for the past several months, the situation on Secunda Delta has gotten progressively worse - this King of Man has more or less swept the Deltan government off its feet and is in place to implement a fairly rapid revolution. The Emperor, so far as we know, has not responded to his anti-Edictus threats as of yet.

How large are the crowds on Kantus Ridge? All we can see behind you is just a mass of people, and I think I can make out the King of Man himself speaking some distance behind you.

Satellite photos estimate in the area of two to three million people here, nearly a quarter of Secunda Delta's population proper. Most of them are listening in on an intrasense feed directly from the King of Man. It's a very effective way to give a speech - they're feeling what he's feeling, they understand the emphasis on each of his words.

I would assume that you're listening, too: what exactly is he saying at this point?

Our regional GNS AI is transcribing everything in this speech as we speak, but what I'm getting so far is more of what he's been saying for the past several months: 'down with the Edictus', 'the Emperor is corrupt', 'the Edictus has been holding humanity down', just really the sort of thing that people truly do believe out here on the Northern fringe. These worlds - they're impoverished, their people can rarely get off-world, and they're really just the worst places to-

I- excuse me, Terrance, but our regional AI is telling me that there's a very important passage in the speech that might prove very important in the coming days. Let's cut to that right now, keep in mind that we have toned down the emotion in the intrasense broadcast for those of you listening in via the GNS intrasense feed - we'd rather not be responsible for any effect of this speech on the Edictus as a whole. Here it is:

“Look how Kantus Ridge stands poised to sweep away Diyu Nakara, as if it were a wave of earth! Let us then adopt the name Kantus for ourselves, being the wave which shall sweep away the corruption of the Edictus.”

That was the King of Man, as he calls himself, standing atop Kantus Ridge and speaking to a crowd of some three million on Secunda Delta. It seems that the new name of this...movement is going to be the Kantus, named after the rather poetic ridge overlooking Diyu Nakara. We in the newsroom are going to watch this story very carefully - you stay safe out there, Terrance.

I'll try, indeed. The King of Man, for whatever he preaches, seems to be ordering his followers to leave the media reporters alone. He wants the galaxy to know what he's saying here, and we'll try our best to keep reporting on what's happening on Secunda Delta and what it means for the region and the galaxy at large. Back to you, Michael.
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