2021.2.5
DAM-TORSAD, AMARR PRIME, DOMAIN
Three Freed Slaves sent out by the Amarrian Orthodox Church, Sedevacantist were taken into police custody following public disturbances outside separate cathedrals in the Amarr capital city of Dam Torsad today. Each slave erected a portable chair, one fashioned to look something like the Amarr Imperial Throne, and then in an anguished voice began repeatedly screaming “the throne is vacant” in the direction of the empty “throne”. Police summoned to the scenes removed the slaves from public visibility and each precinct in which the cathedrals are located initially reported “suspected transcranial microcontroller (TCMC) malfunctions”. However, no further updates have been issued even after repeated press inquiries.
According to scholars of the Amarr Empire at the University of Caille, the Dam Torsad police probably connected both the slogan and empty chair prop used by the slaves to the Amarrian Orthodox Church, Sedevacantist, an extremist outfit led by notorious capsuleer Nauplius which believes that the Amarr Throne became vacant with the promulgation of the pacifistic Pax Amarria. Not wishing to give the Sedevacantist Church any publicity, the police then ceased further press communication regarding the case. Even so, some rumors and gossip regarding the incidents is likely to circulate in Dam Torsad circles, raising awareness there of sedevacantism, which was likely the goal of the Sedevacantist Church in sending out the slaves to cause a scene in the first place.
According to TCMC experts, with the right conditioning and TCMC programming, a slave could be made to go to a designated place and repeat a short slogan, having set up a simple chair prop. Capsuleer Nauplius is known to have a substantial number of illegally held freed slaves, whose free status likely facilitates their movement around the Empire once released, meaning his Sedevacantist Church likely has the means to repeat pro-sedevacantist sloganeering in Amarr public places in the future.
The Amarrian Orthodox Church, Sedevacantist refused comment on the events.