A highly successful blow to the state at University College today resulted in the violent guillotine-firing squad-horse dragging deaths of the ten member Homecoming Court, including the king and queen.
The action was planned and perpetrated by the Independent Front of Nationality, a popular fringe group led by rejected court nominee Hector, 1st Baronet Hallston.
“I would love to represent this school as Homecoming King,” he had earlier stated. “Allow me to pour out my heart for your evaluation.”
Ten minutes later, upon being informed of his rejection, Bart. Hector ran the messenger through with his rapier and raised a sortie of the civic guard, led by his Captain, Banning Cocq (and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburch) and marched off into the night, staging an armed revolt.
The battle was terrible and fierce. The King’s Own Fusiliers tried to flank the IFN Companion Cavalry, but were repelled by the Horatii Heroes Cohort. On the nearby lake, IFN naval forces sunk two royal galleasses and the royal flagship, the brigantine Medusa. Survivors were reported in the water screaming for help on a raft but IFN forces retreated, fearing U-Boat attacks.
Midway through the battle, the royals sent an envoy to sue for peace under flag of truce, but Hector ran him through with his rapier as well.
University administration claimed neutrality but still took flight. They are assumed dead having been last seen entering the realm of Mad Anthony’s Forest Skræling Legion.
The royals were captured, and, on this third day of the month, were executed as a symbol of a new world order, this brave new world, a compact between government and governed, that on this day, by us few, us happy few, it was pledged on tennis court #3, that government for, of, and by the people shall not perish from this campus.
“Liberty led us,” Hector, our hero, stated at his consecration 1st Emperor Universitas. “Our freedom was born under our blue banner in the stormy year of 2008. We are forever free from the tyranny of the Ancien Regieme.”
