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if a man is a branch on the tree of life, a group of men loosely acquainted is the faggot - but this is justly so just a group of men, to become a kingdom of kingdoms you have to standardize the men from a collection of sticks into like rods and bind them together with ties of white and red (gee i just mentioned that as a power generation station ponderingpikachu.png_)
the fasces was just as it is described, the empror - the king of kings - had 12 direct servants who each weilded a tool - these servants were each themselves a king of a great nation, the tool they wielded was the standardization of the minds of the men of their kingdoms ie govern-ment or constructed ethos
(like dont get me wrong their were shock troopers in head to toe metal suits of leather lined plate armor that wore stiletto heals of metal that stabed into the ground just to dissipate electrodynamic weaponry but those weapons wernt fasci)