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Cptn Swain

Moving Towards Resolution

“Report!” Taenix’s voice echoed shrilly through out the small chamber aboard the Dominion command dreadnauht DV-11234236-IJ.

 

Maliv remained unperturbed. “I have delivered our terms and wait their response.”

 

“And?”

 

“We have received no response from the rebels.” He hated to use the word, but it was the only one that would suffice.

 

“I see,” Taenix’s disembodied voice echoed in his ear. “The Council wishes to know how much longer until this situation is resolved.”

 

“The Council,” he said sharply, “or that fool Keevan and his allies?”

 

“The Council,” she said repeating herself, “desires this situation resolved as quickly as possible and for work to resume at all Dominion facilities on the planet.”

 

For a time Maliv remained quiet. He had at his command nearly four-hundred battlecruisers and attack vessels, and three of the massive dreadnaughts that could blot out a star. A single one of them, he had countered to Taenix, would have been sufficient to quell the rebellion. She hadn’t agreed. A show of force, she countered, was needed. “I understand,” he finally said, a more conciliatory tone to his voice. “I have given them one standard cycle to come to a decision. If they do not capitulate, I will do as you -- as the Founders -- have ordered and begin the culling.”

 

“We must not waiver in our resolve,” Taenix said, “The Founders do not wish to see their people suffer, but we have few choices, you know this.”

 

“The Founders are wise in all things.” The refrain seemed somewhat forced, but Taenix did not push it further.

 

“The local population should give you little resistance,” she said. “Perhaps they will see the error of their ways quickly and some of them can be spared.”

 

“And what of their leaders? Shall they be executed -- assuming they aren’t killed in the bombardments?”

 

“No, not summarily.”

 

Maliv raised a brow. “I see, what shall I do with them?”

 

“We have an opportunity to show that we are merciful as well as just. If they are willing to admit the depth of their mistakes, I will allow the sentence of death to be commuted.”

“And if they don’t?”

 

“Then they will be executed as traitors.”

 

“I fear they will become martyrs should we make it a public execution.”

 

“Then throw them out an airlock. I am empowering you Maliv to resolve this situation in the way you feel is consistent with the commands of the Founders. Tarawani must be brought back into our fold, and we must have the full command of its resources again.”

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