Dilandu wrote:Not to mention that AFTER the Reveal, all other nations would just realize, that they were essentially duped twice - that Charisian "innovative mindset" was in fact only a charade, illusion. The consequences might be... extremely unpleasant.
Why would the Reveal must come from Charis (openly)? Why would they admit they knew about the Federation and have their high tech database at their disposal?
Merlin et co need to defeat rakurai and build a high tech civilization on safehold to get to the stars and challenge the Gbaba, but there is a lot of room in there about how the reveal, the truth about the federation, high tech stuff that leads to space etc will be introduced...
After 915 once Merlin and co have confidence the archangels won't show up for many decades at the least (in 915 there is no way the archangels show up as they would crush Charis since the imbalance is too high), there are lots of sneaky ways to go about it - they can conjure any number of fake miracles and visitations in the Temple lands but far enough away from Zion, hide any number of fake testaments of Schueler or other Archangels or testimonies like St Zherneau's in places to be discovered by devout members of the Temple etc - so they can just stir the pot and prepare the Reveal with these new ideas coming actually from CoGA hierarchy and not from them.