-𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘. 𝑆ℎ𝑒'𝑑 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑣𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐷'𝑇𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑓 ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑚𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑛.

𝐴𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝐵𝑒𝑙𝑑𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑑𝑒𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑑, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑖𝑟𝑑 𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑜𝑓 𝐷'𝑇𝑎𝑛'𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑠, ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑅ℎ𝑖.

-were annexed by the Empire in the war with Earth and are eager to help all groups that are fighting to retain their freedom. The hospital ship is a D'deridex, the 𝘌𝘬𝘩𝘦𝘴, it can be here within three days."

-you are hiding in open space and uninhabited or aligned systems. Those who support you cannot find you as easily, and getting supplies is much harder. The Denobulans have a long history of resisting, helping, and caring, several of their colony worlds-

"We know you lost the 𝘊𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘬𝘬 a few months ago and the 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘰𝘳 took heavy damage in that fight outside of Yyarvin. It takes a while to get a crew together."

𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑑, 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑔𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑠𝑘.

"It is different defending worlds than a fleet, we know it is hard when-

"I understand. The staff is primarily Denobulan...I trust that will be acceptable?"

-vessels are welcome in territory held by the Kre'ey Rheilhhu, I am also authorized to offer you a fully equipped and staffed hospital ship, the crew of which is sympathetic to your cause and freely seek to assist."

"I know...and information is being manipulated to make it appear our factions are at fault. We are planning for more attacks, though our sources do not think any are imminent."

𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑, 𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝐵𝑒𝑙𝑑𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑎𝑡 𝐷'𝑇𝑎𝑛.

"I am here to assure you that your flotilla and associated-

"That is our belief...they already claim that it is rebels and reunificationists causing uprisings on some of their worlds. At least a dozen of the attacks in the last 20 months throughout the splinter factions have been blamed on us, on you, on the Isolationists, attacks we know were not ours."

𝑆ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 𝐵𝑒𝑙𝑑𝑎𝑠, 𝑛𝑜𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐷'𝑇𝑎𝑛.

"We know that the Free State is using Star Empire ships, as well as operatives...they are allowing searches on worlds under their rule."

-obscure which one is the source of it, we are leaning toward they are actually the same organization but are using different names to be able to accuse one another in order to confuse and manipulate their populations."

"Yes...we are still working to confirm the veracity of the reports from the Federation and see if there is actual substance to it. There are conflicting reports, the subspace jamming has significantly hindered regular communications. The Star Empire and Free State seem to be hard at work trying to-

-𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑛𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑠, "I did escape, with help, and now continue to serve our people. Commander Beldas was good enough to bring me to you...I am sure you know him?"

"Jolan tru, I would never have imagined that youth that had so many questions and opinions for me on an academy visit to the Senate would be here, a commander of a resistance flotilla." 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, 𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑎𝑛. 𝐻𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, 𝑒𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑖𝑟-

-𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑚, 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐵𝑒𝑙𝑑𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑟.

"Shaoi dan, Khre'riov D'Tan; as the fyyholnen of the Anna'eri Rheilhhu Rihan, N'Viell u'Thilux, I am here to present myself to you as a voice of my people, in friendship and mutual alliance."

-𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒, ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑑.

"Khre'riov, the fyyholnen of the Kre'ey Rheilhhu is here!" 𝑆𝑢𝑏𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐷'𝑇𝑎𝑒𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑, 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒. 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑘 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑, 𝑏𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠 𝑠ℎ𝑒-

-𝑡𝑒𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑧𝑒.

𝐺𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑑, 𝑒𝑥𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑢𝑔𝑒 𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑝. 𝐷𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑙 𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑠, 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ, 𝐶𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑘 𝑓𝑒𝑙𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐴𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛-

𝐶ℎ𝑒𝑐𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑖𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒, 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑑. 𝐵𝑒𝑙𝑑𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒, 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑚 𝑎𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟. 𝐴 𝑝𝑎𝑖𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑔𝑢𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦, 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙.

"I hope this goes smoothly." 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, 𝑙𝑖𝑝𝑠 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝐵𝑒𝑙𝑑𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟-

-𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑐𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑑𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑑, 𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑒.

𝐴 𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔