The White Deliverance

After eight years of an incredibly red war, the Lady Almira of the Republic and the general of the Holy State of Elysia, a woman named Varvana who called herself the Mercy Defender, sat for tea in a garden beneath a blooming dogwood tree. Almira praised the other's capable soldiers, wondering aloud how they were so uniform, how they never spoke unless spoken to. Varvana grinned widely, leaned over the iron cast table with pale hands clasped tightly and began to proudly tell the Lady a tale of scientific discovery - they had uncovered the nerves in the human brain that allowed the flow of something they called Element I. In the simplest of terms, it was the passageway of their individuality, their free will. They devised an object no bigger than a fingernail that is stuck to the nape of one's neck, and after seconds it slithers its way under the muscle and begins its quick work to stop the flow of Element I entirely. The host becomes a mindless sack of flesh until orders are relayed through the chip into their nervous system.

Two years later, Almira offers to send her Aide, Elara Ryker, to the Holy State to trade information under the pretense that she was indeed very interested in this development in control. Elara's true directive is to kill her, and the Archbishop that sits at the throne, so the Republic may move in and deliver liberation to the army that cannot think.