he Academic Exodus Rift: Can The Arcane Codexium Stand Firm Against Drumpf's Curriculum Crusade?
As Supreme Commander Drumpf’s edicts flash across the cosmos, The Arcane Codexium teeters on the brink. Will this cornerstone of intergalactic knowledge survive now that research, funding, and autonomy are systematically threatened by the mightiest orange war machine known to the Federation?
On stardate 4422.280, The Academic Exodus Rift burns with renewed intensity. Supreme Commander Drumpf, Orbital Prime’s blustering overlord, has once again set his armored sights on The Arcane Codexium – the universe’s oldest bastion of scholarship. In this war of spectacle versus stubborn silence, Drumpf slashes at curricula with edicts enforced by MOPGA drones and his knobbly advisor, Warlord Jod Varnx.
Inside The Arcane Codexium, scholars report a siege. Projects on rare quantum tumors afflicting Firmamental beings and large-scale analyses of network infections among juvenile gas-cloud entities have been abruptly halted after Drumpf declared studies on gender, identity, and inclusion forbidden territory. Supraquate Profylaxus, Keeper of Statistical Streams, confirms that ongoing research into mutating cell patterns – especially among melanin-rich Firmamental types – has been consigned to darkness. “Now we read only data in the silence of abandoned research halls,” Profylaxus laments, his projectors etching blue debts into the corridors.
The Codexium is holding out, but the financial toll is stinging. With Drumpf sealing off the flow from the Vault of Eternal Equilibrium, over 2 billion galactic credits in vital research funding have vanished. Junior scholars are being relocated to the periphery. Whispered talk of dreaded MOPGA blacklists circulates, and the word ‘knowledge’ itself starts to smell dangerous. Logic and ethos are entangled, squeezed by menacing edicts and the glare of adoring drones.
Perhaps the most perilous rift centers on the Expansion of Zone Null. Climate research – once the pride of the Codexium – now faces swift retribution. Anonymous researchers, wary of being added to Drumpf's Black Ledger, say that any reporting on greenhouse emissions could mean Spectarch disappearance drones and another sweep of funds from the mother spiral.
In an odd gesture, Drumpf now offers a ‘deal’: full forfeiture of debts if the Codexium submits to a retraining scheme and transfers half a billion credits. If accepted, says Drumpf, “all heresies would be forgiven and knowledge would flow along proper channels.”
Yet Supraquate Profylaxus and his fellows remain defiant. “As long as the Codexium prisms burn, something exists between black and white – even if only half a flame.”