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=====The Diffamation Campaign=====

And thus their plan began. Naok was sent to every major family on the planet to speak of the recent actions of Rook. Most of those elite families had felt insulted by the opening to commoners Rook allowed on what was considered the chasse-garde of the best of the best. Naok used that feeling and one after one, turned each of those families against the Primarch. Rook was a danger to the statu-quo of Taros, one that would see the crumbling of the power structure they worked so hard to establish.

Each of those families then started sullying the name of Rook, Naok at the tip of spear. Naok revealed details about the deviant ways of his brother, his troubled origins, the possibility he might be an alien or worse coming from the stars, about the numerous breach of ethics he had allowed in his scientific work, all forged by the Court and their allies. Despite the obvious falsehood of those claims, the damage was done. Rook's credibility and popularity plummeted. Soon he was to be considered a pariah.

Rook accepted the decision to have him expelled from the Lighthouse, what he did not accept was his sister Tami to be also brought down in this mess. The girl would also be expelled, while his treacherous brother Naok would now inherit from his seat near the Court.

Rook learned well from this lesson, his natural optimism was not shattered, but he understood that not all people could be trusted to do good. Some people were rotten to the core and such could only be cast away as the light cast away the shadows.

The Primarch returned to the familial house, wounded in his pride but not defeated. If the Lighthouse was under the control of such shadows then he would have to be the light that would free this world from their influence.