"Being a Breaker means making a promise to stop at nothing to bring back the world's society. We watched it fall before our very eyes, and we refuse to let it happen again. How you go about it is entirely your choice. Want to be a doctor and do your best to keep as many people as possible alive? You qualify as a Breaker. A politician that wants to ensure no policy is passed that does something insane like make slavery legal, you qualify as a Breaker. You a soldier destroying the little dictatorships that formed in the aftermath of the plague, or defend the right ones that fight for actual values like human equality and the right of all to vote on whether their leader leads, you're a breaker. Simple stuff. We leave the philosophy to the philosophers." Bryce sips at the tea, and says "Its not that bad these days. Since I convinced Asia to join us, we've managed to stomp out most of the worst kingdoms, and got the bureau to agree to a cease fire, so there's no big war left to fight in. Plus, we just finished development on the first FTL ship, and sent it to a near Earth planet. That was a week after I left, so if I return and the gap in time is the same, that means that when I get back we might have begun colonizing a parallel Earth."