Edward John Smith's Post-Constitution of the Republic of Avalon Ceremony Speech

Edward John Smith's post-Constitution of the Republic of Avalon Ceremony speech is given to the former RMS Titanic crew members who would later go on to be members of the Constitutional Assembly of the Republic of Avalon. It takes place minutes after the Constitution of the Republic of Avalon signing ceremony.

It takes place inside the Vault.

Transcript
"Gentlemen, comrades, friends... we cannot think of going back to our time -- the day of my ship's sinking, early Monday morning, April 15th, 1912 -- anymore. We have a nation to build, a planet to rebuild, wealth to redistribute, and democracy to deliver. And most of all -- we have Operation Nautical Salvation to succeed, because a unicorn mare from Equestria named Trixie Lulamoon told me that should we not save a ship from sinking and bring every one of their hands to this era of despair would mean another era of despair in the coming millennium or so. Also, we must act on our beliefs, deliver on our promises, and do what we can to heal the former New York City metropolitan area after these long years of an every-man-for-himself era since nuclear radiation and fire almost consumed human civilization into what remains. ''I began this colonization out of human repopulation and to bring something better for the multiverse. Park Syngman is now being inaugurated as the first Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Avalon, serving for first Prime Minister Thomas Andrews, and will be gifted by seeing all the 2,200 passengers and crew from the past like myself carry the torch of hope and unity amidst the dire aftereffects of a grand-scale apocalypse.'' ''Avalon will become an Astorian society - a libertarian counterpart of the Ho Chi Minh Thought, even though we are friends with the first country ever to recognize our existence and our independence from the United States and/or the United Nations -- the Socialist Republic of Vietnam -- a Southeast Asian country under a communist government with the same exact authoritarian counterpart of the Astor Plan ideology, in time. I brought you all along because you believed, as I did, that Earth must be healed. Even here in wartorn Manhattan.'' I know my political skills like almost all the damn others aren't well-handled before, but with the help of the Infinity Project, the COTRS, the AFHF and the UN, we can do what we can to be the next Volodymyr Zelensky, and not the next Donald Trump. For now, we have finished but one chapter of our story of our salvation from succumbing to frigid waters after our ship was struck with an iceberg, our duty to Avalon and to show we had the will to survive, just like what humanity is doing right now. ''Well, boys. It's ever man for himself no more, so now it's about time that we turn to a new chapter: to govern and to bring justice to the people once more!'' Come, let us begin."

Trivia

 * This is a reference to Let's Play Archive's Republic: The Revolution story and its 48th chapter.