Public Notice: Institute Commissioned to Re-examine Death of Emperor Prime

DEATH IN DEALY PLAZA

Though we are in excess of two-score years passing since Our Most Beloved First Emperor was stuck down in the public plaza by a seeming legion of complexly motivated individuals, public bewilderment and interrogative continues, somewhat diminished, yet largely un-mollified. In recent months, and at the behest of the National Committee for Public Somnambulism and Unrest, the Mt. Palomine Institute of Mysteries has (oddly, yet not ungratefully) been commissioned to reopened this formidable sea-chest of history and pour heedless over its contents in the possibly vain hope of casting greater illumination upon the whole despicable affair. Our Committee for the Re-examination of the Death of the Emperor has already widened scope beyond the primary event and peeked into tangentially related epiphenomena, these being:

• The strange--seemingly self-inflicted--death of Our National Drama’s "Cleopatra" following a booze-laden and blowzy exhibition to the entire nation—via the optical wireless—of her affections to His Greatness, affections transcending those nominally expected of any loyal citizen and further indicating possible unsavory linkages
• The assassination of the "assassin" by a cross "Citizen Rubycon"
• The later assassination (My, how these heaped up rapidly!) of Our National Drama’s "Marc Antony" who, although initially forswearing revenge, sought national backing for a vendetta against His August Sponsor’s murderers very nearly initiating a Strange Civil War.
• The identity of Our National Drama’s "Brutus" who, according to the tale, "…did not love the Emperor less, but loved the Republic more."
• The suspicion that the fatal blow was struck--quite tragically--not by an opponent of the person of His Greatness but accidentally by a personal guard endeavoring to protect .

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