NEFX - Comaphos.txt ? That is, the mere fact of not officially beginning new imperial ventures — which within the calculus of the Blightgeist is only measured in terms of officially initiated and designated imperial ventures from one territorialist faction and domain to another, rather than in terms of widespread or even sporadic individual actions which brutalize all the same — gains muster as being a sign of principle that Erosion itself nonetheless does not believe, as such imperial ventures are necessary to it both in its own designated principle and (technically speaking) for the maintenance of its selected systems of rulership (such as for hyper-hoarding). ? Key figures within the Blightgeist, particularly in the Erosive aspect, may gain currency among their convinced subjects as being strong enough as an emissary of empire to be beyond empire itself, and to thus demand respect among beings at large for the cause of being-as-such by the supposed abstention from empire. ? These meantime opposers at such moment seek desperately to make formal resolution on procedure of brutality in order to cease at least one proxy support made by the key Erosive agent, or again to help prevent an official imperial venture where the key agent may have authorized the slaughter of a key official agent within an outside domain of the known world — even eliciting rare trans-spectral support of the countermeasures towards this agent from within the halls of officiality even among those sharing its general segment of the spectrum of Blightgeistian thought. ? Yet in these instances it is invariably found that the key agent (and in particular selected icon) in question escalates the ventures of empire in several avenues, to the loss of an increasing number of beings relative to the prior norm, as in, say, a 330% increase in cowardly remote methods of destruction, or as for example a 2,243 such actions compared to the 1,878 in an early stage of a prior selected icon on the other end of a false dichotomy of options who nonetheless dwells elsewhere in the spectrum of a central force for empire; and the feeding of proxy groups to hide behind in other points in the known world. ? This exposes a weakness in the Blightgeist to exploit. ? Yet by the same token the key agents in question will grant ability of similar world-alert proportions to other official domains in the known world by ceasing agreements on even just the stopping of craft of means of mass loss, allowing them then to create in one or two normalized time cycles what would once take a significant cycle. ? Such moments may then be followed by the icon with orders into the halls of officiality (particularly those of brutality) to craft deliberate plans for brutalization that were once idly gestured in the moment of impulse, even against the counsel of the otherwise likewise erosive forces therein, like the advisors and secretaries of brutality and supposed security; and yielding much greater risk of devastating world alert since generationally distant keystone events of similar alarm. ? The increasing of means for competition only in terms of means of brutality, and the incitation of proxy forces in parts of the known world, very blatantly and deliberately serve the impulse of empire and, by extension, the Blightgeist. ? Yet in such instances it is merely that the key agent in question, particularly a chosen icon for such purpose of Erosion, merely did not YET begin new imperial ventures, while nonetheless inflaming existing ones and showing at several points clear intent (which according to the agent’s subjects is to be believed as an article of faith of the agent’s supposed pure and strong honesty) to begin new ones while maintaining (for themselves and among their base) plausible deniability. ? The severity and recklessness of this particular agent’s actions for this, in contrast to the by-then normalized actions along such lines, is generally marked by panicked opposition to them from even within the halls of officiality such as furthered ventures of empire heretofore. ? The scheming icon’s approximations of new imperial ventures may not be intentional but borne of a belligerent world-stage impulse to maintain a status of self and of a vehicle of a territorialist faction and according identity through which the agent carries out its impulses.