The A.F.R. and the insurgency's total anti-O.N.A.N. demands — "Sudetenlandization" and the squeak
pivotal · Root Cult pre-Experialist; assassinations peak autumn YTSDB (2004); standing as of YDAU
- When: the A.F.R.'s Root Cult (Le Jeu du Prochain Train's veterans) predates the Reconfiguration; its assassinations of squeak-hearing officials run through "the violent and bloody autumn of the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar"; the demands are the cell's standing public position as of YDAU
- What: The Assassins des Fauteuils Rollents (Les Assassins / A.F.R.), the legless wheelchair cell of the Papineau region, are the sharpest expression of anti-O.N.A.N. grievance. They frame the Reconfiguration as the "Sudetenlandization" of Québec and Canada by an American-dominated O.N.A.N., and assassinate prominent Canadian officials who support or even tolerate it — "to hear the squeak" of slow wheels being the power structures' euphemism for that death. Their stated aims are total: the return of all Reconfigured territories to American administration, the cessation of E.W.D. and ATHSCME activity within 175 km of Canadian soil, the removal of all annular fusion/waste sites north of the 42°-N parallel, and the secession of Canada in toto from O.N.A.N. This totalism marks them off from conventional separatists (who want only Québec's independence): n304's scholar notes that purported affiliations between the A.F.R.'s Root Cult and the ordinary Séparatisteur cells "tend [...] to be contradicted by both stated agendas" — and by how many prominent Separatists have themselves "heard the squeak." The cell's Root Cult predates Experialism entirely, grown from the veterans of pre-Experialist Québec's nihilistic Le Jeu du Prochain Train; the Reconfiguration gave an existing death-cult its "raison de la guerre outrance." See the AFR thread, the Marathe timeline (this thread carries only the O.N.A.N.-level grievance, not the cell's operational history).