The trials of the aristocratic club, with its terrorized membership and its building
broken down and almost gone back to grass, is historically framed between two
grand, successful dream-ideals: the church of the past and the modernized Sulaco
of the future. In this section about the triumphs of Unification, the period between
mega-conquests appears as a valley of decrepitude and danger. Note that the aristocrats
supported Federalism, the Separatist movement opposed by the Unionist Guzman Bento.