From: Naomi Lara (naomi.lara_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 24 2007 - 16:50:57 PST
"Exposition" Con't from Rahul's Post Location: USS PATRIOT Scene: Ready Room "This situation is rapidly deteriorating from bad to worse. We need to quickly figure out what is going on, and how we're involved in all of it." Helice began as she looked at the woeful remains of her senior staff. It was just herself, Cal and Maverick. It was a pitiful state of affairs, but most of her senior staff were on the planet, and some were missing. They desperately needed to pull back and regroup. "Preliminary intelligence suggests that the central government is fighting a battle on two fronts. One is within its society, and one within its own ranks." That information had come easily enough from Kenta who had done his own digging about. But it was a worrying sign that a society could destabilize so quickly. "Maybe they should take the hint." Maverick grunted with a dark scowl. He didn't think very highly of politics "Traditionally, that has never happened." Cal resisted the urge to roll her eyes. In some ways, Mav kept reminding her of a barbarian that wanted nothing better then a fight. He was so cynical. More so then her. "Do we need to call for additional help?" She asked, directing the question at Helice. The Captain shook her head with a slight frown. "There's not much we can truly do here. We certinaly can't stand in the way of what the majority of people want on Esperion. And we ourselves are not targeted, so, I think backup would just escalate things to an even higher level." The woman sat down in her chair and glanced at the two officers. "If we can figure out what's going on below, we can make the best decisions." "How's the search going?" Maverick asked after a momentary pause. It was a segway from the topic, but he needed to know, and Jones always had the most up-to-date information. "It's continuing." She replied with a brisk nod. "We haven't found them yet, but the pilots have caught a couple of signals. They suspect they're underground." "The Central Government is the democratically elected representative of these people. Their opposition, if you will was Jurveus who has through peaceful means at least, funded and organized his own faction in a bid to govern the planet. He however doesn't seem to have meddled in the politics. Although a person of that influence would have curried a lot of favor from the politicians." Jones quickly ran through the list of facts as she understood them. Jurveus' group was at the very least the lesser of their concerns. "So he's a puppet master." Bret mused out loud. He didn't like it when people pulled strings from the shadows. It showed lack of courage, or some personality that was too devious altogether. "He wasn't responsible for that bomb?" "No, that was done by a person called dubbed Half-Tail." Cal replied. "He works in the Esperion government, but has used the confusion to make his own move for power. He staged the bomb and the take over at Beliel." The Anarian casually flipped her red hair over her shoulder. "What's left of it anyway." The marine replied. "We don't know it was him." Helice counseled her Operations Officer. "There cannot possibly be a coup within a coup within a coup. That is absolute madness. It has to be Half-Tail." "Why not Jurveus?" Jones asked the young woman. "He wouldn't gain anything from it." The alien woman shook her head, she felt very strongly about this, down to the very marrow of her bones. "He's trying to win the people over with smiles and talk. Not with explosions and mass murder." Cal retorted stubbornly. "So what now?" Maverick replied. "We do nothing. We have no right to interfere with the social processes of a planet. We do, however, have a right to get our people back." Helice stated with a faint shake of her head. Esperion was not a Federation planet, they could really do little to help. "Kenta and Kel are leading the ground teams to the recovery of Clarkson, Rochemonte, Calhoun and Harris. We should know their status within the hour." Jones said. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ NRPG: This is just my way of cleaning up the story a little bit, it was getting a little too muddy Thanks Rahul for oyur help! Naomi Lara Catherine Sterling Jade ILO and Tellah Cal Chief Ops From HyperNews_at_youth.net
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