Brotherhood Plans Syzygy Jubilee with Beauty Alliance
11:08am 01/05/270 by Lucas Voorhies
The Brotherhood of the Six has announced their long-anticipated plan for a jubilee celebration this year to commemorate the Syzygy, an astronomical event considered to have great religious import. As part of the jubilee, the Brotherhood has partnered with the Beauty Alliance, an artists' group, to construct a fitting monument, the specifics of which are yet to be worked out.
"This alignment of celestial elements is nothing less than a reaffirmation of the tenets of our faith," said Sister April Flynnt of the Brotherhood. "The heavens themselves are demonstrating proof of the fundamentally orderly nature of our universe. This is the most appropriate time imaginable to build in the name of the Builder himself."
Randal Tokei, founder and leader of the Beauty Alliance, said that he was "honoured and deeply touched" to be approached by the Brotherhood for such a task. "Art is the expression of the soul through an act of construction," he said. "For the Syzygy, we will express nothing short of the soul of Perplex City in our art."
Some naysayers, though, are suggesting that the Syzygy would be better left unremarked. "The last time we had a syzygy of this magnitude, 270 years ago, wasn't exactly a happy time," said historian Lucius Andorian. "Remember, we were at war and the populace was suffering. ... For all we know, this alignment of stars or planets or comets or whatever was the trigger for the catastrophe that carved out Catbite Gorge and razed the city."
The jubilee celebration is to begin at Solstice Day and continue clear through to the New Year, though the Syzygy itself will only occur on a single day.