Conflicting Loyalties

Posted on Wed Aug 31st, 2011 @ 11:40am by

364 words; about a 2 minute read

Mission: Mission 76 - Home comings
Location: USS Pegasus, Observation Lounge
Timeline: Current

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Suan stood with the others and listened as the Admiral told them what their latest assignment was. For her, it was not as black and white as it appeared to the others assembled.

After the destruction of Romulus, she had hoped that things would change, that the ideology that had created the closed, tightly controlled empire would die with their world. It would appear that it was not to be. The old guard that ruled for centuries was still firmly in place; democracy, her hope, was destined to be just that, a hope not a reality. She had not heard who had claimed praetorship but the governing body was simply dusting off the old ways on their fresh new capital world.

She would have cried if it was not so 'human'. She would have been called a 'dissident' in any society beyond her own. She had seen what was beyond and what the possibilities could be for her people. Now, if what the Admiral said was true, the reformation of the empire was short lived, the cold war that thawed during the Dominion conflict had resurrected itself. The Empire had aligned with belligerents and turned its back on a golden chance for galactic peace.

As much as she disliked her government's old world thinking, she was not so joyous at the opportunity to wage hostilities with her fellow countrymen. If Starfleet decided to protect those Federation colonies at risk, could she simply comply and be an accomplice to the possible deaths of perhaps hundreds of Romulans, men and women brainwashed to serve the totalitarian regime? Had she not escaped during the chaos after the destruction of Romulus, she could have been assigned to one of those warbirds near the border.

She did not openly object since these Federation officers, under the patriotic fervor of protecting their own, could never understand her dilemma.

Suan would look into the medical records of these colonies and hoped that she found something - anything- that would force them to leave those worlds so she would not have to be complicit -treason as her people would call it- if hostilities arose between the Federation and the Empire.

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