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Cptn Swain

The Coming of Change

O quam cito transit gloria mundi

 

“Keevan.”

 

“Semil.”

 

The two slightly built Vorta males stood, looking each other for a long moment. Neither had ever, in any incarnation, particularly cared for the other. Semil had always found Keevan to be an opportunist, whose lust for power or survival often interfered with doing the work of the Founders. Keevan, on the other hand, saw Semil as a fundamentalist, far too biden to the word of the Founders to see the larger picture. It had come as little surprise to Keevan when he heard Semil had joined the Hundred. He craved, Keevan knew, the embrace of the Gods, even if they were false prophets. Yet as turmoil, change, and underhanded scheming often tended to do, the two had been drawn together.

 

“Do not bother trying to track my signal,” Semil said finally. “I would think you would know I would have thought of that already, dear Keevan.”

 

Sneering, Keevan waved dismissively. “I give you more credit than that.”

 

“I suppose, or you wouldn’t have called me.”

 

“Yes...”

 

“So what is it, do you wish to join the Hundred, the true gods?”

 

Keevan frowned deeply. “They may be of the Founders, but they are little more than children. I would never commit such heresy.”

 

“Suit yourself,” Semil said, walking past Keevan,stopping for a moment to stroke his chin before circling. “Though if you ever wish to embrace the True Gods, the door will always be open.”

 

“I didn’t ask you here so you could … proselytize the word of your child-gods.”

 

“This must be hard for you,” Semil said, stopping in his circling and nearly whispering into Keevan’s ear. “To have tried so hard to eradicate the Hundred, and now are forced to ask for our help.”

 

Cringing, Keevan took a deep breath. Had he only succeeded. “Or to be taunted. I asked you here because I thought, that despite everything else about you, your loyalty to the idea of the Dominion had not wavered.”

 

“The Dominion was and is the best hope for peace in this Quadrant, but times have changed. The Vorta can no longer simply use force to keep the peace.”

 

“I see.” Keevan said with a sigh. “So you agree with this non-sense.”

 

“If you mean Taenix’s efforts to negotiate peaceful settlements and increase autonomy to client worlds, then yes.

 

“For all your cunning, Keevan you still surprise me. I would think you, of all people, would be the first to see that that change was coming, yet you have elected to stand by the traditionalists, why?”

 

“Our people are a dying race Semil. How long before we run out of viable genetic material to make new clones. How many more Keevans, Weyouns, or Semils do you think we can produce? How long do you think, without the Founder’s words, we can continue to lead the Jem’Hadar? How long before our hold upon them is weakened and they turn upon us?”

 

“That is why you must embrace the Hundred, Keevan. They can give clarity to this chaos. Eloi and the others understand that force alone can no longer be used to keep the peace, that blind obedience programed into our genetic code is a poor substitute for free will.”

 

Semil stopped for a moment. “What do you mean, without the word of the Founders? Does Taenix not speak with them? Does she not use the device recovered by the Federation...”

 

“Why do you ask questions you already know the answer to?”

 

“So, it is as I assumed. The device does not work....”

 

“No,” Keevan interjected quickly. “It works..”

 

“What?”

 

Keevan grinned, despite himself. It was nice, for a change, to know more than Semil. “The Founders -- or more specifically Odo -- have decreed that they will not return to us. he has further instructed her to take the device to Eloi so that he may compel the Hundred to join the New Link in seclusion. Only then, he believes, can they begin to … how did he put it … begin to heal the old wounds and become enlightened.”

 

Semil said nothing. His pale eyes went vacant. Was Keevan being truthful? Considering the source he had to wonder. “And so Taenix has kept this from the others? She has disobeyed the word of the Founders, the word of Odo?”

 

“Yes,” Keevan said. “She believes that if she admits that the Founders are gone, that they have abandoned us, that the Jem’Hadar will turn on us, that the Dominion will break apart as the worlds no longer fear the Jem’Hadar, and that the Hundred will not join Odo in the New Link.”

 

“I see. Then she is doing as she was programed. But I wouldn’t see why you would particularly mind, Keevan

 

“After all, you’ve thrown your lot in with those who would take even stronger actions against rebelling worlds.”

 

“I do what must be done,” Keevan said defensively. “Odo said nothing about letting the client worlds declare independence. He said nothing about undoing the Founder’s legacy, their monument...”

 

“I doubt that he would see the subjugation of billions of people as the legacy he wanted to leave for his people. Eloi...”

 

“They are children.”

 

“They are Gods.”

 

“Or is that you are afraid that without the need to forcibly control people, that we would have no need of you?No need of the Vorta to hold the leash upon the Jem’Hadar?”

 

“I see that asking you here was a mistake,” Keevan said, raising his voice. “I see now that you have no interest in preserving the Dominion.”

 

“I only wish to serve the Founders, Keevan. Nothing more. Our time is ending. Soon there will be no need for the Vorta, or the Jem’Hadar. One day you will understand.”

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