Edward John Smith's Constitution of the Republic of Avalon Speech

Edward John Smith's Constitution of the Republic of Avalon speech is given by High Captain Edward John Smith of the Republic of Avalon (former captain of the RMS Titanic), taken place on May 25th, 2042, near the New York Vault. It was spoken the RMS Titanic blew her whistle, Bao Zheng warns her passengers and crew that Smith is talking.

This ceremony is attended by all the passengers and crew of the said ship, including the soldiers, officers and generals of the Coalition of the Red Phoenix and the Grand Alliance, aged heroes of the September 11 attacks, Hurricane Sandy and the COVID-19 pandemic, surviving New York City emergency government officials, UN peacekeepers, and Brotherhood of Steel paladins with Cala Maria filming this speech as a propaganda film, as ordered by Lexi from Lights, Camera, Lexi! (a Preschool Girls member who also works as the Minister of the Grand Alliance Department of Propaganda at the time).

Throughout the ceremony, there were pennant flags of the White Star Line and Grand Alliance member states (including the flag of the Organization of American States and the flags of its member states, the UN flag, and the flag of the United Nations Transitional Authority in New York City) and with the Captain's Council members ready to speak. At 12 noon, the Titanic 's whistle blasted long and loud to start the speech after the pre-speech concerts and the speeches. In the Manhattan Vault, quartermaster Robert Hichens even found an audio projection device so that those assembled could hear the captain and all the other speakers, including upcoming live performers. The first thing to hear after he installed it was when Bao Zheng was giving the audience members attention that Captain Smith was about to speak.

After this speech, outgoing Special Representative of the Secretary-General Park Syngman of the United Nations Transitional Authority in New York City encouraged the audience to cheer for him before the post-speech concert sessions are about to begin. Soon, this one made an impact to the slaves of Coalition-occupied worlds who would later stand up to revolt against occupation and slavery.

It was watched by Su Ji-Hoon with his Pip-Boy 3000 Switch (while journeying to Goodneighbor) and by the Vault-Tec Rep (ghoulified) by an old Radiation King TV set (while staying in Hotel Rexford), both via Post-Apocalyptic Times Network (PATN), and later, by Grand Alliance soldiers with Preston Garvey presiding the celebration.

Transcript
"Ladies and gentlemen of this brave new civilization, my fellow brothers and sisters in arms of the Coalition of the Red Phoenix, dear New Yorker friends, men and women of the Grand Alliance, my little ponies of the Allied Forces of Harmonic Friendships, citizens of the multiverse who're listening to me while under the yoke of our greatest foes whose ferocity is much worse than an iceberg in which it failed to perish us all; we are gathered here to mark the beginning of a brilliant new future. A future that would put our enemies I mentioned earlier, the Coalition of the Red Star, into an inevitable defeat while turning the tide for those who yearn for peace and freedom as a victorious moment for those who wanted to fight for the unalienable rights in which we'll cherish forever, and take the weakened United States' spot as a brand new arsenal of democracy after a horrific nuclear conflict had disfigured not only this planet, but also most of the multiverse, burnt by nuclear fire, poisoned by radiation, and teeming with horrible monsters, in which we sapient species all are too bad at surrendering when we are present to this world once more. ''To start off, please allow me to introduce myself. For all those of you who don't know me while you're witnessing this historic moment in person, via radio, via television, or via live streaming, I am Edward John Smith, former captain of the White Star Line and probably the only captain of the RMS Titanic, now the very first High Captain of the Republic of Avalon. And today, I'm standing beside a great hero whose deed had saved not only my life, but also the ship and all of her 2,200 hands -- passenger or crew -- in the name of what's right and/or what's wrong. Nathan Bradford, on my side now, will help me rebuild this planet, take humanity on a more righteous path, and we can pray for a new era of love, peace, kindness and cooperation through the coming years of turmoil and conflict that still haunt everyone and everything today.'' ''From the arrival of the Siberian people to the inhabitation of this place by the Native Americans, Giovanni de Verrazano's discovery of New York City to Henry Hudson's discovery of the Hudson River, Dutch settlers' arrival on this city to the incorporation of that former Dutch settlement, the establishment of Nieuw Haarlem to the British capture, the Zenger trial to the first ever St. Patrick's Day, the British occupation to the inauguration of George Washington as the first ever US president, the foundation of the New York Stock Exchange to the commissioners' grid plan, construction of the Erie Canal to the Fire, the draft riots of the 1863 against the American Civil War to the unification of the five boroughs, the construction of the IRT Subway to the Spanish flu outbreak, stock market crash to the World's Fair, opening of the New York Aquarium to another world's fair, near-bankruptcy to the World Trade Center bombings, the September 11 attacks to Hurricane Sandy, the COVID-19 pandemic to the cancelled USRAC invasion of New York City, this city was burdened by these events of history, especially during the Third World War when tensions between the NATO and the CSTO were at an all-time high due to such differences that humanity failed to realize in the name of what's right or what's wrong. What would be called now as "Titanic City" started it off well as a myriad of tipis inhabited by Algonquian Native Americans, mainly the Lenape whose homeland was then called Lenapehoking, to a bustling area filled with towering skyscrapers made out of concrete, steel and glass and jam-packed with diverse people immigrated from around the world -- long before weapons of mass destruction -- biological, chemical or nuclear -- changed the shape of this wounded planet, particularly here in this place, yet her spirit will never die. I'm sure she'll continue to live on not only in our hearts, but also in person. Even though it's now reduced into ash and rubble, we can bring this merely-deserted place back on track together. All in one piece in the name of rebuilding civilizations from mere scratch.'' ''Always remember that we are also united once again to stand up and unite against the scourge of anti-Rubyism due to the evils that lie ahead of our continuing existence that saved us from the impending doom with the sinking of my passenger ship with an iceberg. Everybody knows this pestilence of harming Ruby Rose from the world of Remnant - mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually - is a very lethal thing much worse than drowning into freezing saltwater that avoided us from doing so when it came to that. That's why people, I want each of every one of you guys to be non-Rubyists too. This is a very, very belated threat we've never heard, seen, felt, smelt or spoke before, about 130 years from the past into this very day.'' ''But now I must warn you, citizens. Another great, yet weaker threat is anti-Avalonism. These assholes who always follow this toxic ideology wanted us to go back to the time where my final ship, the RMS Titanic, would sink in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, off the Cape Race in Nova Scotia, Canada by an iceberg, on the cold night of April 14th, 1912, in which it failed to doom us thanks to Trixie Lulamoon's will to recuperate humanity, and even to prevent my ship's first class passengers from being invited to the How I Can Help Make the World Great ceremony by having some Red Phoenix folks to grant immunization from the said event's evil organizing committee in the name of the greater good.'' ''And, as I sit here to thank Bao Zheng for this attention given to all of you who's watching me speak in the name of peace, progress, prosperity and unity, let me remind you that over one month ago, we found ourselves upon the shores of a North America nigh unrecognizable to us all. We have been swept across time and space, something that none of us quite understand or can explain. I also thank Babs Seed for our gratitude on avoiding our past doom that would've killed over 1,500 people, including me, leaving 700 to agonize such a tragic past.'' ''Comrades, we are here now, and that is all that matters. We must move forward and prepare for what lies ahead, and create a world suitable for our children and their children and many generations thereafter. If only Eric L. Adams, the 110th mayor of New York City at the time of the opening years of World War III, was with us today, he would've been the first Mayor of Titanic City by then. Too bad he's dead. Screwed up by a nuke's blast. Yeah, never seen that coming. Therefore, I thank Michael Bloomberg, who had passed away recently, for all the deeds and accomplishments within this city he had done, for me. For Avalon. For all of us in the former New York City metropolitan area.'' ''Perhaps, some people can name their babies after me as a popular unisex name for boys and girls. And I promise you that my first 100 days will be a bumpy ride for all of us. Still, I must thank Guan Xing, Hongmao, Alisa Bosconovitch, Ieyasu Tokugawa and Mousse Benetta for bringing us here to this ruined world so we can rebuild together with the help of those affected by a horrid war on an apocalyptic scale, and I promise that Operation Nautical Salvation is gaining momentum. Yet, the COTRP, the AFHF and the UN knew that there are more nautical tragedies such as the Tsushima Maru and the Doña Paz that have yet to be rescued so they can be sent to this era with a goal of rebuilding the dying human civilization with the help of the Infinity Project.'' ''You know guys, if I were some lad who works as the Special Representative for the Secretary-General for the United Nations Enclave named Park Syngman, I would put law and order in the former New York City metropolitan area effectively, and yeah. It works. Glad I did this impossible crap. If I were Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Robin Williams of Ukraine who's also the Winston Churchill of Ukraine, then I might be a good leader even though I'm a noob to politics by now. Still, I hope you can still love me back, no matter what will it takes. Even my council would be like him even though most of its members aren't into politics yet. Hope it works well, huh?'' ''Today, after some political training programs done to all of us by the finest surviving mentors from around the world, myself and my council and the forty representatives the people of this new nation elected -- including those from the UNTANYC and the Coalition of the Red Phoenix -- will sign our new constitution into law. A law that all of you damn Red Star brats are against and should you all to embrace -- and if not, may they face severe consequences that's rather unprecedented, unthinkable and horrific to those who seek to destroy our freedom and maybe that of the rest of the multiverse's own.'' ''Also, I want the enslaved peoples in Coalition-occupied worlds to know that I'm alive, saved from a historical fate history books said this to me about it when my ship was to be hit by an iceberg. That I'm in the ruins of former New York City where one of the Coalition of the Red Star member states - the Russian Federation - just bombed this city with an RS-28 Sarmat, filled with unarmed men, women and children. And there might be no survivors yet to be searched.'' ''If you think for one second that the Coalition might soon ever treat us fairly once they took over our world, you are lying to yourselves, because we know who they are and what they do. That event from 15 years was what they did! And we must fight back right now.'' ''I have a message for Supreme Leader Victor Nevarez: you can torture us and bomb us and burn our unoccupied worlds to the ground. Or worse: you can control icebergs to sink ships with their awesome force just like what it did in the original timeline to my ship as some moment of futility to some Ancientmen prophecy that should there be an already-sunken ship yet to be rescued and transported to the future would prevent any at all bloodier future resource wars like before.'' ''But do you see that? Fire and radiation did catch this once great city. And if this place burns and/or suffers radiation poisoning again, and this time, with we to endure the same fate, you all as well agonize all these effects with us!'' ''Now - after all that prep talk for the Alliance, let me know you folks that today is birth of our new nation. From this day forward, we are no longer American or English, Canadian or French, European or Asian. Also, we aren't gonna be slaves to and/or tyrants fighting for the Coalition of the Red Star, nor the terrorists serving for the Global Liberation Union, nor South Vietnam's own demonic ducangers, nor even these rather asinine Global Confederation lapdogs either -- so, yeah, I too believe we all never ever will be. And if ever they invade us, they would find out that they could screw up the wrong remnant of a once-great country.'' Well folks, from this day forward - I'm damn proud to say that we are all citizens of a new Grand Alliance/Organization of American States/NATO/UN member state, the Republic of Avalon.

Trivia

 * His speech resembles that from Katniss Everdeen's speech from Mockingjay - Part 1 when she was in a ruined hospital in District 8.