Star Trek Online: Myriad Universes - To Lose the Earth Part 1

[10:59][STOIC]Felenn@photi😐FX|` It’s seven years since the destruction of Earth at hands of Xindi. By the Human calendar it would be mid-2161. Vulcans, Andorians and several Humans arrived as mediator delegation to+
[11:01][STOIC]Felenn@photi:Coridan Prime. The Coridanites have asked for assistance in resolving months long friction between Tellarites and Rigelians, which seems to escalate into loss of life as of recent. The Capital City+
[11:02][STOIC]Felenn@photi:of Coridan Prime bathes in sun and nice weather, emphasizing the architecture of the civilisation.+
[11:02][STOIC]Felenn@photi:++At the shuttle arrival gate, a single Rigelian, Jarris Felenn, awaits the delegates to arrive
[11:04][STOIC]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128😐 The arrival of Representative Nina Reyes, of the Centaurian delegation would be delayed slightly, though details were scarce
[11:04][STOIC]L’aira@psducki:Representative L’aira of Vulcan arrives shortly
[11:04][Local]Felenn@photi:“Captain L’aira, I presume?”, he looks to the Vulcan
[11:05][Local]L’aira@psducki:"Yes, that is me.
[11:06][Local]Felenn@photi:“Peace and long life.”, he says without the usual hand gesture. "My apologies, the gesture remains complex to perform.
[11:06]Felenn@photi bows to L’aira
[11:07][Local]L’aira@psducki:"It can be hard for non-Vulcans, yes.
[11:08][Local]Felenn@photi:"I am Jarris Felenn, representative of our Coridan hosts. We are grateful of your arrival here.
[11:10][Local]L’aira@psducki:"And I am grateful to be here.
[11:11]Felenn@photi gestures towards the exit. "I heard that Centaurian delegation ran into some propulsion issues but they should be here as well. Meanwhile, I suppose I can brief on the current situation.
[11:12]L’aira@psducki nods to Felenn
[11:12]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 walks off the transporter pad with a slow, heavy step, looking at the tall Coridan buildings while she straightens her tunic and representative’s sash
[11:12][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:Sorry for being late, Representative L’aira, Ambassador Felenn. These old Republic ships need a lot of work to keep them moving
[11:13][Local]Felenn@photi:“Ah… Representative Reyes. We were just mentioning you. No need to apologise. The circumstances are dire across the quadrant. I was just going to brief Captain L’aira on the current situation.”
[11:15]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 nods slowly, looking between the two official with a tired, but sharp focu
[11:16][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:Th
[11:17][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:The Centaurian Republic is here to support any way we ca
[11:21][STOIC]Felenn@photi😐FX| As Felenn walks the representatives to the rendezvous point, he explains a bit of architectural history on certain Coridan buildings along their promenade. While Rigelian himself, he had lived+
[11:22][STOIC]Felenn@photi:Coridan for the past two (Human) decades with his Coridanite wife and children
[11:23][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:You have a beautiful home here, Ambassador. The Republic understands the value of a place worth protecting..
[11:24]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 walks slightly behind the Vulcan, keeping her eyes on the surrounding buildings as she listens to Felen
[11:24]L’aira@psducki listens to Felenn as well
[11:25][Local]Felenn@photi:“Your species have learned that a very hard way, Representatives Reyes.”, he nods respectfully. "Humanity’s own experience and Vulcans’ logic will, hopefully, prevail. The skirmishes between+
[11:26][Local]Felenn@photi:Tellarites and my people are becoming increasingly violent. There have been casualites as of late.
[11:26]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 slows her pace slightly. What humanity had been through was now well known by many, increasingly so, and Nina knew this could be of some use in diplomatic situations, should the Vulcans/Andorian
[11:27]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 | … allow her to assist as she was actually here to d
[11:28][Local]L’aira@psducki:"And those skirmishes are exactly what we are here to stop, yes?
[11:28][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:I am pleased you speak of your people Ambassador. While your history is impressive, and your city, I do think hearing the people’s views as paramount to understanding such conflicts. I can understan
[11:28][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:.. myself why they might grow concerned at the violence
[11:29][Local]Felenn@photi:"Stop and revert them to some kind of cease fire. I doubt the trade will continue as before. Before we meet the delegates, I wondered if you’d like to review all the gathered data in some quiet.
[11:30][Local]L’aira@psducki:"Yes, that would be a good idea.
[11:31]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 waited for the vulcan to speak first, as was their expectation in all things. But when she did reply, she thought to press the Ambassador a little..
[11:32][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:Yes, that would be most helpful. Especially since the Tellarites are so strongly disuputing the data, we need to be certain of every detail captured by your government before the formal meeting
[11:33]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 doesn’t look to L’aira, but she suspects the Vulcan may be doing their characteristic restrained eye roll around about now. In truth, she’d not worked directly with Representative L’aira before
[11:33]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 | .. so she did not exactly know the Vulcan’s… habits
[11:33][Local]Felenn@photi:"The Coridan investigators have compiled several reports which you may access from that console on the right side, along with the map of the area where the incidents have occurred.
[11:34]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 moves toward the console in the area set up for them to examine the data
[11:35]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 ’s eyes begin scanning the data with a focus that might indicate someone used to finding hidden truths
[11:36][Local]Felenn@photi:"I will leave you to the work. It would be considered favouring by the Tellarite delegation if I remain and this is something I wish to avoid.
[11:36]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 nodded at the Ambassador, glad his eyes wouldn’t remain fixed upon he
[11:36][Local]Felenn@photi:"Should you require refreshments, call for a service from that console at the end wall.
[11:36][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:Thank you Ambassador, until we talk again later
[11:37][STOIC]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:As the Ambassador moved away, Nina spoke softly as she knew L’aira would hear perfectly fine. "If the Tellarites claim this is a fraud, and were attacked unprovoked, we should check for an
[11:38][STOIC]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128😐 … signal masking or manipulation in the data captured by the Rigel authorities, yes?
[11:38][STOIC]Felenn@photi😐FX| The console is lit up already, with map on the wall, and listing of various documents that were submitted
[11:39]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 reads from their PADD
[11:40]L’aira@psducki looks through the documents, looking for anything that might help solve the conflict
[11:41]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 taps the other terminal, scrolling through the list of provided files to see exactly what the delegation have to work with
[11:43][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:Let us see what we have here. These look like hull analysis reports from the initial Rigelian mining convoy and sensor logs from both skirmish events. But, yes, there’s more. Data from both side
[11:43][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:And even interviews with third parties. Some of which… might not be reliable accounts, but are included
[11:43][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:It seems the Coridan Authorities are keen to do as much as they can to bring this dispute to an en
[11:44][STOIC]Felenn@photi😐FX| Database seems rich: Protest letters from Rigel and Tellar, individual investigations of skirmish sites by Coridan Navy, notes on rumors, and so on.
[11:45][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128😃o you… have a preferred place to begin Representative L’aira? I know where I’d begi
[11:46][Local]L’aira@psducki:"Where would that be?
[11:46][STOIC]Felenn@photi😐FX| If they begin chronologically, it would begin with the initial skirmish which Tellar Government disputes. Subsequent investigation of ship debris by Coridan authorities indeed confirm+
[11:46][STOIC]Felenn@photi:Tellarite particle weapons, though there seem to be some addendums from only few days ago
[11:47][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:Well… in a dispute like this, the official reports from both sides are going to be too sterile. Prepared, refined, produced… I want to see what people on both sides are whispering about
[11:47][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128😛eople who may have inadvertently caught wind of half the real truth and not realise it
[11:48][Local]L’aira@psducki:"That is a good idea.
[11:48]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 begins to filter the data to show the informal logs and notes. Focusing on those from freelance and contract merchants who interacted with crew on both sides of the disputes
[11:50][STOIC]Felenn@photi😐As Reyes filters the data and begins reading (or analyzing via computer), all merchants agree that the skirmishes appeared all too sudden. There was no indications from either major power that+
[11:51][STOIC]Felenn@photi:anything was boiling in economic relations between Tellar, Rigel and Coridan. There was political friction as each side wanted to gain greater boons for their peoples, but nothing out of ordinary.+
[11:53][STOIC]Felenn@photi:Even Tellarite “squabbling stance” was well within their culture. Trade was in fact increasing. Some merchants, however, have reported appearance of Tellarite ships stalking on Rigelians, but+
[11:53][STOIC]Felenn@photi:merchant ship sensors will only tell you so much.|
[11:54]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 narrows her eyes as she scans the sensor logs, notes and interviews
[11:54][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:It doesn’t quite make sense. If trade was increasing, and relations within ‘norms’, the Tellarites had no reason to risk it all with an unprovoked attack
[11:55][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:These merchantn sensors are weak, even by Republic standards… but they do show that the Tellarite ships were in the area, but they can’t be clear whether those ships were purposefully intending t
[11:56][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:attack the rigelian convo
[11:57][Local]L’aira@psducki:"I agree…that would be quite illogical.
[11:59][STOIC]Felenn@photi😐The reports from Tellarite Navy vessels indicate that they would occasionally intercept Rigelian merchant convoys or individual ships to perform inspection before Rigelian ships would enter+
[11:59][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:If we want to understand why a Pralim cruiser was even within weapons range of a civilian mining convoy, we should examine their official protest and flight logs
[12:00][STOIC]Felenn@photi:Tellar Union space, and Rigelians did the same, as if it were a mutual agreement. What does stand out in Tellarite reports is that inspections were done by vessels which were classes of escorts or+
[12:01][STOIC]Felenn@photi:smaller cruisers and not more capital ships like Pralim class. This fact served as a basis of a protest from Tellarite side.|

[12:06]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 looked at the data for a while, not speaking. She was not a military tactician, but she could see that it was out of the ordinary for a capital ship to engage in such ‘inspection’. Something consi
[12:07]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 | .. consistent for both sides in the dispute. And yet…. "L’aira, look at the ship classes here. Stndard inspections are handled routinely by lower class vessels, and yet the Rigelians allege
[12:08][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:.. capital ship was specifically used against their conveoy
[12:09][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:Either there was a massive and sudden change in Tellarite policy or that ship involved wasn’t there…. or..
[12:09]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 felt uncertain about saying what else she thought aloud
[12:10][Local]L’aira@psducki:"Wasting a capital ship on something like that…how illogical.
[12:11][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:But why would the Rigellians claim it so, if it wasn’t true? It’s so outlandish
[12:11][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:My current theory is that we simply have an unknown element not shown in the data to hand. If the ship was indeed a Pralim cruiser, then it either acted outside routine orders, and it’s being covere
[12:12][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:up… or it wasn’t there, and someone is making it look like the Tellarites initiates this, and were careless in doing so by using a capital ship
[12:12][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:.. or by faking it’s readings for Rigellian sensor systems
[12:13]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 goes to call up the weapons signature data which Felenn had spoken of… to check how truly ‘unequivical’ it wa
[12:13][STOIC]Felenn@photi😐Tellarite Civilian Shipwright Authority has delivered logs to Coridan investigators on presence of Pralim ships. Two capital ships were on patrol near Coridan space in time range of initial skirmish
[12:14][STOIC]Felenn@photi😮ne Pralim was on the far side, the other was about five light years away from the location of the incident.|
[12:15][STOIC]Felenn@photi😐At Reyes request, the computer system offers three document bundles about the weapons signature - initial sensor logs of the Rigelian convoy, Tellarite comparative analysis of those sensor readings+
[12:16][STOIC]Felenn@photi:standard Pralim signature output and reports from independent Coridan military experts.
[12:18][STOIC]Felenn@photi😐On general level, Rigelian sensors and Tellarite comparative analysis do indicate Pralim weapons involvement, at least by intensity of weapons residual traces on the hull, decay of those traces and+
[12:19][STOIC]Felenn@photi:so forth. Spectroscopy is a b!tch and will recognise fingerprints as they are. Reyes would notice that some Coridan reports, however, have several addendums to this generally agreed picture.
[12:20]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 seemed unsatisfied that the host of reports generally agreed with the view that Tellarite weapons signatures were found. However, she was curious about the addendums made by the Coridan investigat
[12:21]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 | -ors, and accessed these additional files
[12:23][STOIC]Felenn@photi😐Coridan Addendums agree that weapons which fired upon Rigelians were particle weapons consistent with Tellarite technology, but they went a bit further. Coridan military experts compared hulls of+
[12:24][STOIC]Felenn@photi:all the convoy vessels between themselves, not just to a Tellarite and Rigelian official references. What they found was that, while particle traces were generally the same, it seemed as if weapon+
[12:25][STOIC]Felenn@photi:modulation changed. Each convoy ship hull had a slightly different energy signature. As if particle weapon which assualted them was unstable between the shots delivered.
[12:25][Local]L’aira@psducki:“Hmmm…an unstable particle weapon?”
[12:26]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 had just been reading the addendum when L’aira had spoken aloud the relevant conclusion. "hmm, well how about that
[12:27][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:A Pralim-class cruiser strikes me as a masterpiece of Tellarite military engineering. Their weapons would surely not be so unstable
[12:27][STOIC]Felenn@photi😐Instability could have been caused from a number of things, but given Tellarite precision engineering, rivaled by that of Vulcans, it would like someone was rather sloppy with production of those+
[12:27][STOIC]Felenn@photi:specific weapons.
[12:28][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:Could this support reasonable doubt over whether the ship class was even used? Does it suggests an effort to .. mimic their signature data
[12:30]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 taps the console, highlighting the sections of the addendu
[12:31][STOIC]Felenn@photi😐Words and sentences like “modulation change”, “modification”, and “compared beyond known references” are highlighted in this particular document set.
[12:32]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 still didn’t seem pleased, "Why wasn’t this conclusion given more weight, instead of being hidden away like this?
[12:32][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128😛erhaps the Ambassador could help shine a light on it
[12:33][Local]L’aira@psducki:"Mayhap the person that hid it wanted it to stay hidden…like they were responsible?
[12:34][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:But before we do, let me quickly check whether the second skirmish has the same modulation abnormalities to it, or if those signatures, for both sides resulting in those destroyed ships are entirel
[12:34][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:consistent..
[12:34][Local]L’aira@psducki:“That is a good idea.”
[12:37][STOIC]Felenn@photi😐The investigation of the third, and so far the bloodiest, incident is still underway and there is no a lot of data gathered thus far, especially in light of the event and increased+
[12:39][STOIC]Felenn@photi:political friction on both sides. Tellar and Rigel both accuse one another of “opening fire” first in this latest incident. The area is under lockdown as both parties barely agreed that Coridan leads
[12:40][STOIC]Felenn@photi:the main portion of the investigation this time. The agreement was, interestingly enough, reached through Felenn as he nudged Rigelians to put more trust into their Coridan trade partners.
[12:41][STOIC]Felenn@photi😐Initial reports claim that standard weaponry was used but ship-to-ship analysis has not been conducted yet.|
[12:43]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 straightens from the terminal, rubbing her chin as she looks at the incomplete data from the most recent and bloodiest encounte
[12:43][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:These logs are inconclusive at best, but the pattern of … friction is unmistakable, don’t you think L’air
[12:44][Local]L’aira@psducki:"Yes.
[12:44][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:If this keeps up, Coridan will be forced to pick a side I think, and right now.. all the “evidence” is pushing them straight into the arms of the Rigelians. Look how those addendums were practicall
[12:44][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:Hidden away
[12:44][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:I have to wonder who actually gains from this
[12:45][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:If Tellar and Rigel bleed each other dry and Coridan is made choose a side, it destabilises the entire sector, but in who’s favour
[12:46][Local]L’aira@psducki:“Likely whoever Coridan chooses…”
[12:46][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:I don’t think we can be conclusive about anything, but perhaps we should shine a light on there being enough ambiguity to suggest … someone could be working hard to make sure things look maligned t
[12:46][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:the Tellarite
[12:47][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:And… who will guide who Coridan chooses…. Already, the Coridan authorities have been thrust centre in the latest investigations due to the support of the Rigellians
[12:47][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:Brokered by the Ambassador..
[12:49][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:I think the Ambassador’s … answers could be interesting for all thi
[12:50][Local]L’aira@psducki:"I agree.
[12:50]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 catches the attention of an aid who had been standing at the door, and she signalled for them to summon the Ambassador
[12:52][STOIC]Felenn@photi😐A few minutes later, visibly disturbed Jarris Felenn enters the office and greets the representatives with quiet nod.
[12:52][Local]Felenn@photi:"Forgive me, but we just finished another… impolite session of mediation between Tellarite and Rigelian representatives from their respective Ministries of Commerce and Defence.
[12:53][Local]Felenn@photi:"Humans use to say that a fresh pair of eyes makes finding a solution easier.
[12:54]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 keeps her expression professional and composed, and her tone is conversational. "A difficult and trying time for all sides. Clearly there is a shared sense of senselessness to the ongoing dispute.
[12:54][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:Yes, we still do say that Ambassador
[12:55]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 turns back to the console to call up data on the larger screen. "I was hoping you might clarify certain questions for us, should you be willing
[12:55][Local]Felenn@photi:"If it gets us a step closer to solution, then yes… Yes I am.
[12:55][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:We have been reviewing the naval deployment logs. It seems highly out of the ordinary for a Pralim class capital ship to be used for a routine merchant inspection at the best of times
[12:56][Local]Felenn@photi:"Yes, that is the main proposition from Tellar Government.
[12:56][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:Even the tellarites seem.. baffled by the allegations of that class being used, and of course their data indicates that neither one of the two deployed capital ships in the area were presen
[12:57][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:Tell us, what do the Rigellians think about this… ambiguity
[12:59]Felenn@photi clasps his hands behind his back and sighs. “How to say this without sounding biased…”, he pauses. "Rigelian hardliners think that Tellarites wanted to play power games and demonstrate+
[1:00][Local]Felenn@photi:++that power rather vividly. The more reasonable members of legislation believe that Tellarite government begins to lose their grip over their military and the first incident was, in fact, an act of+
[1:01][Local]Felenn@photi:dissidents. It is this belief that has, thus far, prevented the Rigelian legislation to declare war on Tellarites."
[1:03][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:That seems a bit of a reach for the legislature, Ambassador. Given the stable relations both powers have shared via Coridan’s economic partnership for years, it is difficult to see what
[1:03][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:.. the Tellarites have to gain by starting a war with the Rigellians only to immediately feign their innocence of such actions. It would be .. uncharacteristic as my Vulcan colleagues might describe
[1:03][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:i
[1:04][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:Tellar is not a culture known for being… hesitant about a fight. If they intended to strike, they would usually be quite loud about their reasons, one might imagine
[1:04][Local]Felenn@photi:"Rather braggy about poking you with a stick before actually poking you.
[1:05]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 pauses for a moment, her gaze drifting back to the console calling up the weapon modulation conclusions. "And this… there seems to be a level of ambiguity discovered by independent reviewers..
[1:05][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:… though these conclusions have been deprioritized in the overall findings. Do you know much about them?
[1:07][Local]Felenn@photi:“I do.”, he states without a hesitation. "I was the one who financed the independent reviewers, Representative Reyes. Like you, I refused to believe that Tellarites would drop a proverbial duranium+
[1:07][Local]Felenn@photi:brick on their own feet.
[1:08]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 nods, again professional respect softening her gaz
[1:08][Local]L’aira@psducki:"And why would they? It makes no sense.
[1:09][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:Then you’re familiar with the addendums and the conclusions that the weapon signatures are hardly concrete when it comes to the preceision we might expect from Tellarite engineering. It suggests
[1:10][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:.. a deliberate imitation..
[1:10][Local]Felenn@photi:“I was made aware of discrepancies in weapon signatures, but deliberate imitation did not cross my mind.”, he admits
[1:10][Local]L’aira@psducki:"Precisely.
[1:11][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:Has the Rigellian leadership acknowledges that there is enough uncertainty in the findings you.. funded, to warrant consideration of a suspension of hostilities while further investigations are done
[1:11]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 raises an eyebrow, but lowers it. She was spending far too much time around Vulcan
[1:12][Local]Felenn@photi:"It is not that simple, Representatives. While Rigellian negotiators are aware of the addendums, they are limited from… legal point of view. If a state agency, say state military experts in this+
[1:13][Local]Felenn@photi:case, say “weapons are Tellarite”, then our negotiators must take that statement as obligatory.
[1:14]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 sighs, a flicker of frustration crossing her face at the mention of such red tape and bureaucratic interpretation of data. She’d thought it was isolated to the Human-Vulcan relationship, but appar
[1:14][Local]Felenn@photi:"They are obligated to follow reports from military as if it were rule of law.
[1:14]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 .. apparently not
[1:15][Local]Felenn@photi:"But… what is your thought on deliberate imitation?
[1:15][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:The negotiators are bound by their own state experts even if the data is indicating potentially flawed conclusions. hmm, A political stalement disguised as a legal one.
[1:16][Local]Felenn@photi:"Concisely put, yes.
[1:16]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 taps the console, showing the modulation data. "Think about it. The signatures are Tellarite, but on deeper inspection they couldn’t be from a Pralim class. Two such ships were deployed
[1:17][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:… one is now destroyed. Once that data is in, it will show whether there is any variation in the modulation. If the surviving ship’s weapons systems might be assessed directly too, we coul
[1:18][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:.. eliminate any doubt on whether the weaponms fire originated from either ship
[1:18][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128😮ne of them surely HAS to match the data
[1:18][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:… or not
[1:19][Local]Felenn@photi:"If those are your suggestions, then there is only one way - head for the location of the most recent incident.
[1:20][Local]L’aira@psducki:“Good idea.”
[1:20][Local]Nina Reyes@ⲛⲩⲛⲓⲕ#4128:The Republic would certainly be willing
[1:20][Local]Nina Reyes@ⲛⲩⲛⲓⲕ#4128:But Ambassador, if Coridan called for a ceasefire until the weapon systems are directly verified, both sides might actually listen.
[1:22][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:Rigel and Tellar are both economically reliant on Coridan’s trade. If the buyer demands a pause to ensure they aren’t funding a framed conflict, it carries more weight than any legal argument
[1:23][Local]Felenn@photi:"Somehow, Coridan seems to be at the centre of all this.
[1:23]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 studies the expression on the Rigellian’s face closely. She was a good reader of people, but admitedly, these were mostly human, and the ocassional Vulcan or Andorian
[1:23][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:Not to mention… you too Ambassado
[1:24][Local]Felenn@photi:“Me?!”, he raises his eyebrows as his eyes widen, but he keeps the usual stern face of Jelna Rigelian
[1:27]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 doesn’t look away, holding Felenn’s gaze. "That is not an accusation… it is <she looks to her Vulcan colleague> and observation
[1:28][Local]L’aira@psducki:"Precisely. I do not mean to accuse, just observe.
[1:28][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:If Coridan is the centre of the conflict, then you will naturally be put under the spotlight. You hold much influence in how the next steps will play out, and we… I urge you to bring this matter
[1:29][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:.. before the negotiators, and impress upon them that Coridan will suspend all trading with both unless they agree to an immediate ceasefire while these anomalies are confirmed. That the Tellarite
[1:29][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:are to make available their surviving Pralim battlecruiser in the sector for a joint-inspectio
[1:30][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128:And perhaps that could occur at the scene of the latest incident also, so we can determine on-site, the signature of the destroyed sister ship to
[1:30][Local]Felenn@photi:"I will not hide I am afraid of war between my people and Tellarites. And finding Coridan, the home of my wife and our children, caught in between.
[1:31][Local]Felenn@photi:"Convincing them to cease fire in light of what you discovered as invited mediators was what I needed. The inspection of Tellarite sistership, however, might be a bit more difficult.
[1:32][Local]Felenn@photi:"But I suggest we head for the inspection site as soon as possible.
[1:32][Local]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128😛erhaps position it to the Tellarite delegation as them potentially losing a fight with whoever may be framing them. It could get them to engage positively in supporting the effort
[1:33]Nina Reyes@nynikal#4128 nodded her head, pleased the Ambassador seemed to be onboard with the idea… even if she wasn’t entirely convinced of his… motives
[1:33][Local]Felenn@photi:“I will pass on your suggestion to Coridan mediators.”