Kill Me if You Can!
The story follows Rad Bartol, a common citizen kidnapped and altered to impersonate the planet's Autarch under hypnotic commands, as he endures public ceremonies, security theater, and repeated assassination attempts by the Benevolent Society of Assassins. The Peace Commander and android apparatus control his movements, justify the substitution with warnings about Galactic League intrigue, and equip him to survive while hiding the true ruler. Bartol struggles internally against implanted compulsion and the moral cost of being a political decoy, and the narrative examines manufactured authority, ritualized violence, and the erosion of individual agency under an authoritarian system.
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The story follows Rad Bartol, a common citizen kidnapped and altered to impersonate the planet's Autarch under hypnotic commands, as he endures public ceremonies, security theater, and repeated assassination attempts by the Benevolent Society of Assassins. The Peace Commander and android apparatus control his movements, justify the substitution with warnings about Galactic League intrigue, and equip him to survive while hiding the true ruler. Bartol struggles internally against implanted compulsion and the moral cost of being a political decoy, and the narrative examines manufactured authority, ritualized violence, and the erosion of individual agency under an authoritarian system.
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