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Jorahl

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A Final Choice

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The Control Tower was deathly silent.

 

There was no movement among the officers stationed there, no rush of security. It was actually Jorahl who had shifted the duty rosters so that all those he knew would be loyal to Aegis were removed from CT duties, though for completely different reasons than the conspirators had. He wanted no one else to get harmed if it came down to this. He had done everything he could to prepare them for the battle to come and it did no good for people to die in vain.

 

In preparing the station to be capture by these traitorous Romulans the SubCommander had ample opportunity to expedite it's recapture. It was amazing how many similar goals the two tasks shared. The Shipyard was a variable the traitors didn't want to deal with so they had it evacuated. This also meant it would see no damage from combat and insured many of his most loyal officers were now on station and ready for combat. Communications outside of the asteroid field were also limited so that the allies could not react in time. Equally, whatever forces the traitors had awaiting would be unaware when their plans went awry. (Five Warbirds were enough to deal with.) Likewise by making sure officers and civilians were corralled away from critical areas he could easily shape the battlefield to his own liking. And finally, it was much easier to block everyone's access to the Defense Grid than try to limit it's use to just one side.

 

That's not to say any of this was easy. If it had he would have simply beamed all the traitors into space and let the Grid loose on the Warbirds. That option however was taken away when the first Romulan ship docked with Aegis. It was now within the main shield perimeter. Local shielding would prove little use against a Warbirds full arsenal at point blank range. It was too late for open resistance by the time the threat was known. The best choice was to play along.

 

So, like a good Romulan Jorahl waited.

 

With the comm from Aegean though he could wait no longer. Jorahl knew where they were, just in range to have received his coded message. Opening the computers to their access had gone undetected for a little while but he saw the bandwidth limitations clamp down and knew it was time. What information left he needed them to know would have to come from his lips, most likely his last words.

 

As a true Romulan he found no better last words.

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