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     Lt. SG Maiko D'rall |
Once again, it felt like she was having her face rubbed in the fact she wasn't really Starfleet, that M64 wasn't really the Federation, and that her people had 'screwed up' the natural order of things. It annoyed her people thought this. They had done right by the Braids. Instead of countless first contacts, they had stuck with the Braids, and instead of just giving them technology, gave it to them and taught them about it, nurtured them. It wasn't as if they'd handed them photon torpedoes and phasers and left them to their own devices. Well, truthfully there was the matter of those shuttlecraft they sold to the Ji'san - alright, that was a bad idea, but that was as much for maintaining good relations with their neighbors than it was to survive... though that technically was survival, having good friends. Friends like the Frants. Here was an opporunity to learn more about the Jjaro through the Frants and it had been passed up on the grounds of the Frants' apparent technological 'backwardsness'. Pure hubris! This coming from an organization which was happily using the asteroid once - and probably still if they went down that creepy chamber far enough - inhabited, as well as technology bought off a merchant! How few scientific endeavors in M64 by the "recently" arrived Starfleet had been truly made by themselves? No doubt about it - this was a bad call. As soon as she got back to Coronado, she intended to - well, what could she do? Jump ship and live with the Frants? Smuggle one aboard? She sighed inwardly even as she piloted the Teresa towards the rift, keeping an eye on the gravimetric readings to avoid being caught in anything. Deep down she felt the Frant could tell them more about the Jjaro than just stumbling around Xanadu ever would... not to mention that the Jjaro had come in the past. They likely would again. And that was all she had time to think before the blinding glare flashed over the shuttle, faster than she could react to get it out of the path of the inevitable nature of the future. |