Imperial Discovery of the Sa’auei’a
When the Airawa Empire discovers the Sa’auei’a Continent, it encounters a civilization that contradicts imperial doctrine.
The Sa’auei’a are advanced without mother trees, disciplined without imperial memetics, and politically durable without fixed capitals. Their existence implies that the empire’s founding story is not natural law.
Imperial Reaction
The ruling class cannot allow that implication to circulate. It launches the Xenophobic Memetic Campaign, framing Sa’auei’a life as contamination, animal mimicry, reproductive threat, and ecological sabotage.
The campaign is not only propaganda. In the empire, propaganda is grown into bodies.