e seat of the recently deceased state industrial general manager, so he would come after him to that excellent job. Paul is not interested in this any longer, so he tells Kroner he will stop working in industry. He means he is disgusted by the system but Kroner cannot understand it and thinks Paul just wants to become a secret counterspy to spy against the revolutionary group. So he manages a "shadow firing" of Dr Proteus so that Paul could work as a spy among the Ghost's Shirt Brethren. The Brethren learn about this firing and try to make Paul a real member of their Brotherhood. They think he would not come spontaneously so they kidnap him. They have created a whole network of local Brotherhoods, which are centrally ruled from Ilium. By the way, one of the highest members of the Cell is Edward Finnerty. The Illium Cell composes an official letter to the government, which is in fact like one of the proclamations that start wars. It is an ultimate message, it clearly says the people are bored and disgusted by current system and that they want a change. They would use violence if the government would not accept their requests. The letter is scribed by Paul Proteus's name although he had absolutely nothing to do with all of it. In fact he is being hidden in a cell as a prisoner, and he is only an Official Head of the Brotherhood just a puppet to be shown to people. From this you can see that the idea of revolution was not bad at all, but it turned worse with the people's want for might. So it happens. The government does not accept their request, which means violence is used. The common people go mad; most of them encouraged by strong drinking, and destroy machinery in general. They do not really care about which machine is really bad and which might be helpful or needful, they do not distinguish, so they just smash all down. The army makes a counterstrike, so the revolution is finished soon by violence. Paul does not belong anywhere now. ...
