The next King of Eks Corp prayed to deities that had gone out of fashion thousands of years ago, like the gods of luck and time, and for his own father's forbearance.
Brendan used the authority that had been written into his cells for the required decades of service to Eks Corp, again, a decade before he would officially bear responsibility for the King's actions. The King's authorization was what allowed him to make a system-wide declaration. Overriding the broadcasting streams was something that even the current King of Eks Corp wasn't supposed to do, outside of an incident on the scale of interstellar war.
He formally stated the topic, his identity as the next King of Eks Corp, and then continued, "Indeed, I purposefully created a race that would favor those who were not impaired by the inherited memories stored in their libraries. But I am as surprised as anyone else to learn that 7 out of 10 of the top entrants simply lack inherited memories."