Years from now, many will wonder as to how for the second time in our history we have come to this point. Another failed war, another revolution, another government overthrown. As with most of human history, there are no clear answers, and what answers we do get so often leave a bitter taste in our mouths. How did it come to this?

It would be wrong of me to offer false answers, or to employ an ideology during this time of strife and hardship, no doubt others will do this in time. I cannot say why such things happen. But I can give a solution. Rheinland was once a proud and noble house, where the old ideas of duty, loyalty and honour were not simple words that were thrown around like rags. They were the lifeblood of Rheinland, a time when pride was tempered by wisdom, where loyalty was earned by action, not by honeyed words.

It can be again. Rheinland can become more than it was. Much noise has been made already about democracy, about respecting the 'elected government' but I ask you, is this a better house? Three wars have been fought as well as an attempted invasion. The other houses look to us and laugh. We are not wise, nor are we proud. We are spiteful, and disheartened. This should not be the way of things. Rheinland must remember who she once was. We charted the Omega Nebula before anyone else, it was Rheinland who dared to venture into the Omegas and Omicrons before anyone else. Liberty had the blessing to arrive upon a green world, we did not, but we carried on anyway. We struggled every step of the way, we never gave up.

It is human nature to seek culpability in a time of tragedy. It is a sign of strength to cry out against fate, rather than to bow one's head and succumb. Inevitably, many shall fault the hands upon the sword that felled the Republic. Those more sensible will place responsibility with those who forced our hands.

Years from now, many will ask: How did it come to this? And many will answer: I know not.

I would have it said however, that this time, we remembered who we are, and won back our future.