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STSF Corizon

Twilight

Lieutenant Commander Corris Sprint ran his free hand through his jet-black hair and leaned back into his chair with a light yawn. The Avalonian sun was slipping behind the event horizon as the station slowly crept about the planet below, and the last rays of sun were vanishing into darkness.

 

Camelot Station had been quite the past few weeks; the only real excitement had come from a stray comet that the Command and Control Center staff had been monitoring, more out of boredom than anything else.

 

In away it was a welcome change from the previous year and half he'd spent on the station—if wasn't the Hundred taking pot shots at the station, it was the Scorpiad or someone. Things had been decidedly calmer on the station since the cessation of hostilities.

 

Of course some of that had to do with the vastly different role Camelot had taken on since the end of the war. There had been a time when the most powerful people in the quadrant had graced the Round Table that sat empty just a deck below him. Now it went mostly unused, save for the monthly Camelot Advisory Council meeting.

 

Glancing down to his traffic monitor, he smirked slightly. That was, of course, the most obvious change to Camelot. Once he'd had to coordinate fleets of starships from the different races. At any given time there had been as many as four-hundred ships operating in the system—today there were twelve. Three Starfleet vessels, a Romulan transport, two Klingon Bird-of-Prey, a Scorpiad transport and a handful of merchant ships from various species from around the quadrant.

 

In many ways, the change of pace had been come as a welcome relief from the tensions of the war, but in others, it felt like the dream that had been Camelot had been discarded. The major Alpha Quadrant powers had recalled most of their senior ambassadors, and in the case of the Romulans, all but abandoned the station. The Dominion, Hundred and Scorpiad were so knee deep in their own problems that the station drew little attention from them these days.

 

Some of the changes though, were more of a problem, Sprint inwardly groaned at the thought, that had arisen in the changes was not welcome though. The war with the Scorpiads had stretched the Jem'Hadar thin. As the Dominion shifted to counter a possible insurgency from the Hundred, the outlying colonies had begun to assert themselves more openly. Reports of civil strife had begun to trickle into Camelot on a regular basis. And to ad the rife political climate, the lack of Jem'Hadar patrols increased piracy on the trade lanes. So far the lanes between Camelot and the wormhole had remained mostly untouched, but Sprint wondered how long it would be before this sector of the Quadrant looked more like the Caribbean on Earth.

 

The other problem that had started growing, was further way, but just as big of a concern. The Al-Ucard and the Eratians, helped by the Shalia had begun open rebellion against the Scorpiad Empire. Thankfully that was far enough away that he would have to deal with war in the back yard, but there were several Starfleet ships out that way, including the Excalibur, and he didn't want them to get caught up in it.

 

As twilight engulfed the command center, Corris couldn't help but get the feeling that twilight was also engulfing the powers of the Gamma Quadrant.

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