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Carrying official announcements, news of importance, rumor and speculation, the psychic flow is the medium that Emperors often use to disseminate their opinions, sometimes in very subtle ways. The Imperial Swords enable Emperors to infuse the flow with the intensity and duration needed for each particular message. The Emperors Condor, for instance, generated feelings of racial superiority and xenophobia with the Western Imperial Sword. Always on the flow were the subliminal suggestions that pure Western heritage was better than mixed extraction, and that anyone without blue-black hair and epicanthic eyes was barbaric and untrustworthy. The Emperors Condor infused very little energy into this suggestion but never ceased broadcasting it. Hence, despite the suggestion's weakness, its very
