The Supreme Sacrifice

The Empire fell without a sound. Ships stopped arriving at the port. Deliveries halted on the dangerous roads. The town and countryside fell into chaos threatening to tear our society to shreds. All kinds turned on themselves and each other. Time, along with food and resources, was running out.

One person decided to bring order to chaos. Before becoming Lord Dredd, the peasant from a backwater town turned lawyer for the Empire was named Karan Hoverla. He had been placed in Durno before the fall in order to usher in import/export reforms.

On one momentous night when society see-sawed on the precipice of apocalypse, Karan stepped in front of the massive mob in Durno. He wore ragged robes and spoke no words. He raised both his hands in the air pointing at the smoke filled night sky. In an instant, he jammed his fingers into his eyes and tore them out. He tossed them into the crowd.

The mob screamed in horror. But he had their attention now.

Karan’s bloody, empty eye socketed face stared back at them. He spoke with an eerily calm manner, “If we want a society of justice, of order, then we must be blind to our own biases. Forget about the Empire and the past. We will reform society in such a way that we cure injustice and scarcity in a single lifetime. Assist me in building a future with no past.”

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