Vinlander journalist Mads Halfdan, speaking on the current great powers of the Near East: the Social Confederation of Greece, a socialist-libertarian republic with large Muslim and Jewish minorities, competing with the Imperial State of Iran, an absolute monarchy of the most despotic kind."The Persians and Greeks were completely total opposites back in ancient times, with the empire to the east being considered a tolerant and multicultural place, while the city-states to the west were known to be victims of their own xenophobia and jingoism, both via diplomacy and warfare, words and weapons. But 2500 years later, those who are aware of these facts can only look upon what the two civilizations have become today, what their countries that have taken up their mantle as their descendants, and ask; what happened?"
I fear what we have found beyond this sea: this civilization is unholy, their shipwrights canny, and their rulers ambitious. And now, god help us, they know we exist.