Tristan Wesseling and Professor Zin Galbraith continued their leisurely discussion as the founding ceremony became dominated by the all-important speech.
Though a dazzling variety of mechs still marched through the streets, not even the mech designers paid that much attention to their designs anymore.
As new but committed citizens of the colonial state that President Yenames Clive sought to establish, it became extremely important to understand what kind of society they were trying to build!
Tristan and Galbraith approved of what they heard in the early parts of the president's speech.