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 after Bao Zheng finishes his speech and introduces him on the stage.

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).

After this speech, 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 non-RMS Titanic brothers and sisters in arms, dear New Yorker friends, we are gathered here to mark the beginning of a brilliant new future. 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. ''As I sit here to thank Bao Zheng for this introduction, 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.'' ''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.'' Today, myself and my council and the forty representatives the people of this new nation elected will sign our new constitution into law. ''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 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 do! And we must fight back.'' I have a message for Supreme Leader Victor Nevarez: you can torture us and bomb us and burn our unoccupied worlds to the ground. ''But do you see that? Fire did catch this once great city. And if we burn, you burn 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 won't be future slaves to the Coalition nor the terrorists of the Global Liberation Union, nor the demonic ducangers of South Vietnam either.'' Well folks, from this day forward - I'm damn proud to say that we are all citizens of 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.