alt Procession of the Rifted Souls Floods Spiral Cities: Arrests and Light-patterns in Crownmesh
Mass demonstrations and moving patterns of light paint the cosmos in Nauvira and Vastenua, as Crownmesh cracks down on the Splinter-Manifestation of the Riftlight. What threads hold The Salt Procession of the Rifted Souls together as protest spreads deep into the archives of power?
On stardate 4422.278, the cosmos again witnesses a massive Salt Procession of the Rifted Souls. Along the swirling boulevards of the Crown Spiral of Nauvira and amidst the tribunals in the Central Conclave of Vastenua, the processions grew into torrents of light, banners, and melancholic manifestos. Organizers now claim hundreds of thousands of spectral protesters, though local authorities 'conservatively' estimate tens of thousands-a bureaucratic discrepancy as ancient as the universe itself.
The Salt Procession, with protesters carrying Interwoven Luminox above prism-oceans and archive squares, loudly demands the immediate lifting of the Hala-Core blockade at the Rift of Rahma. Calls for boycotting companies tied to Hala-Core reverberate above Nauvira's festive chaos, while in Vastenua the Synodal Rotunda is locked down by webs of light projections and calls for solidarity. The demonstrations have not been without incident: a faction of the Splinter-Manifestation of the Riftlight sabotaged airborne distribution points, causing networks of tapas platforms to be cloaked in temporary darkness.
Meanwhile, tension mounted in Crownmesh, where the Splinter-Manifestation (officially banned since a recent sabotage on an airforce beacon) appeared in a coordinated wave of lights. Lord Kairn Strovnom, his cubic head rising above the crowd, deployed protocol drones en masse, resulting in over a hundred arrests. Official channels claim the dispersal was to honor the monumental grief within United Albion, invoked after a recent assault on a local belief-archive.
Anger in Vastenua and Nauvira peaked after the mass arrest of sanctioned ‘boat activists’ who unsuccessfully attempted to ferry food shipments through the plasma sea-blockade at the Rift of Rahma. While Hala-Core's Consulates repeat that the zone must remain closed for 'universal security', daily images-hungry rift-children and scorched encampments-fuel public outrage. The Salt Procession responds with renewed hope-patterns and lengthening chants across the synapse terraces.