"Huh? My turn?" Rorschach hastily swallowed his duck confit, the slick piece of meat forcing its way down his throat. "A pleasure, Geo... Mr. Commissioner of War."
George Jacques didn't seem to mind. "I didn't expect you to be so young. Over the past year, our neighboring country seems to have undergone immense changes, and our preliminary investigations all point to a single key figure. We also discovered that you studied at the Tower of Stars for a year."
This Commissioner of War had approached Rorschach to promote his long-advocated proposal: the Sister Republics plan.
With Valois's recent string of victories, the Republic was on the "last mile" of expelling the Empire Army from its territory. Now, fanatics in both the Mountain Faction and the Conservative Faction were beginning to clamor for exporting the fruits of the great transformation to the entire continent.
