Little changed in the country.

Ministers continued to fight over power, old players were deposed by new ones - each more vain than the last. A lack of principles became a synonym for success.

Ordinary citizens remained a bargaining chip in political games, small cogs in the soulless machine of total surveillance and control.

The desire for an abstract “common good”, embedded into the minds of citizens, had unexpected consequences. As it turns out, everyone has their own idea of “good”. And this meant that people strived for different, often opposite things.

A wave of unmotivated violence swept through the city. People attacked one another at random, sincerely believing that they were doing it “for the common good”. When the wave of violence subsided, leaving behind it blood-soaked streets, the few survivors - shaken to the depths of their souls by the incident - started building a better world.

And they did it with such fervor that they forgot about their own basic needs. After only a month, Helmer was a ghost town, where even the most desperate did not set foot.

Is a cult of personality really such a bad thing? After all, if someone receives praise to the high heavens, doesn't that mean that they deserve it? The mindless worship of the Wise Leader was replaced by the blind adoration of Evan Redgrave.

And if citizens had previously been able to afford to express their disapproval of the current state of affairs, even in a whisper, now no one would have dared to do so. Because having one's “own” thoughts is an unaffordable luxury in a country covered with relay towers.

But this is not the end - it is only the beginning! There are still so many places in the world where Heimdall's towers are yet to rise into the skies, and so many countries yet to learn about Evan Redgrave.

You can’t force a person to be happy against their will. But what if you forcefully give them free will? What if you instill in them a single thought: “From now on, you make your own decisions and take responsibility for your own actions”?

Could it bring about peace? The inhabitants of Helmer were the first to become truly independent - even though their lives weren’t perfect, their choices were often far from ideal, and the consequences of these choices were painful.

But they had their own choices, their own happiness and their own “mercy”. The ministers, all of them, were executed, the monstrous and useless bureaucratic apparatus was gradually dismantled, and the Ministry Building was turned into a museum dedicated to senseless cruelty.

Luxury. Senseless and merciless. Marble statues, palaces and golden toilets for officials, Persian carpets, mountains of jewels and money, foul pools filled with champagne and caviar, monstrous orgies.

The atmosphere of greed and a rotten system drowning in corruption. People stopped seeing anything wrong in it.

The worship of one idol over another caused no kind of conflict - the signal from the relays took care of that. The Wise Leader was replaced by the Luxurious Leader - and no one noticed.

It's scary when a real psychopath comes to power. And it is a nightmare if his power is limitless. But there are no words to describe the horror when this maniac gains control of your mind.

In the hands of DeSalvo, Heimdall towers spread across the country. But they didn’t just force people to obey - from time to time, they transmitted a single emotion at full capacity - pure horror.

Beside themselves with fear, people would increasingly hole up in the deepest crevices they could find, like mice. They had less and less time for anything useful. An atmosphere of impending doom, bordering on panic, reigned in the country for a long time.

The relays quickly spread across the country. And citizens were processed into biomaterial to create clones.

Copies of the “ideal employee” once known as Carl Stein replaced ordinary people - first in Helmer, then throughout the country, and then, step by step, all over the world. And next, the conquest of the solar system and the stars.

A perfect, effectively-functioning world has no room for strife or war, hunger or injustice, love or compassion.

Hemnitz deceived Evan unashamedly. With the relays at his disposal, he spread them quickly throughout the country and immediately carried out his plan to destroy the population.

People dutifully lined up at the Euthanasia Centers. And when there was no one left, the Boreans came and took everything they needed.

The once great country became a desert, with the frightening, empty streets of a ghost town.

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