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Posted by Lieutenant Kiama Naim (Chief Science Officer) in Main Sim - The Next Day - Cropland ..

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OOC: sorry for not replying. Been busy for the last few days. I know I should’ve been doing my best here but with personal reasons it’s been harder.

IC: As the ensign walked with them going into the cavern she also then noticed that the away team was hearing something. Something unusual but she then realized that it would be harder to do anything. She then asked the Lt something. “Lt. What’s going on here? I dont understand what anything out here is saying or anything.” She said to the Lt.

When the Ensign looked around and realized that it was something that she might have heard herself. But she was completely unsure. “Lt. If I may, I think these voices was what I was hearing from outside. Which I don’t understand. Do know what they are talking about?” She asked.

Ensign williams

Looking at Williams, Naim nodded. “Yes, we are all hearing those voices. Every 12,000 years the Gravians reach a turning point when they have to make a decision. We reached that point and because the four of us are in this place where the decision has to be made, we have to play our part. I am the mediator. Lieutenant Calloway wants the Gravians to move on. Lieutenant Pretha wants them to remain as they are. And you will have to choose.” Her expression was serious, but there was a gentleness in her dark eyes nevertheless. “But,” she continued emphatically, “it’s the Gravians who will actually have to make that choice. Second Minister Maree and Mr Tov are with the Captain and can hear us and we can hear them. You must not say yes or no to the choice till they know what they want and told us. Understood?”

~Lt. Naim, CSO

Tov spoke. His voice sounded weak and distant. =^= I think we should go on. Why wait more? It is not like we as a people are going to magically become better. Why cower in our state when we can go through this change. Whatever it is. =^=

Maree’s voice was stronger, but still from far away =^= That’s foolishness. Stepping into the unknown is no way to launch into a new ‘state’. Certainly to .. boldly go .. implies growth and wisdom and the potential for a fall, but it is something we must deliberately take - eyes open. Not close our eyes and hope for the best to press on into .. what? =^=

The mediator, Naim, would know from the ‘voices’ that even though Maree and Tov might say their piece, they have their role there in the cave too; Maree and Tov were only additional elements of the pros and cons debate.
- Wookiee

OOC: Please carry on your own pros and cons here.

=/\=The question is whether the Graviens have the courage to take a leap. All knowledge is worth having. Even negative things are information.” And boy did Faye know all that intimately! “Don’t you understand? Even choosing to not make a choice is a choice. You’re always going to be making choices, Maree, and you rarely get a say in how they go down but don’t bury your head and pretend that you can just carry on as if nothing has happened here. Tov is right that you can’t grow by doing nothing. You have an incredible opportunity here!=/\=

~Faye Calloway

Maree replied. =^= It seems that the last time this came about there was no one to make the choice and a mess was created. I can’t begin to explain how. But I know that any people must choose wisely in every day to advance and grow - not just in one .. do or die decision. One doesn’t just become more mature and right and noble at the snap of one’s fingers. If we do this ‘thing’ we’ll be the same - only what? With more power to make choices with potentially more devastating consequences? =^=

Tov chimed in. =^= Or better, more constructive choices. Why not take that responsibility? =^=
- Wookiee

The Captain’s voice came through, obviously speaking to the Graviens. =/\= Then it comes down to trust. Do you trust yourselves to make the next step? Do you trust in your people to do what they feel is right with new knowledge and new perspective? Or do you trust in your traditions and your practice more? Either way has it’s own inherent truths, and I am not here to tell you that you should choose one way or another. But traditions and history are not always the best judge of the future. It comes down to people.. individuals. “Do you, the caretakers, trust them -, the next generation, to know what is best for them and where they will take your species… and the others who are involved in this? Remember, this isn’t a choice about now. It is about your future. And either way you choose, the future remains unknown. But choose you must. And soon. =/\= As if to accentuate his words, a groaning of the ship could be heard.

Cochrane, CO

Pretha had been listening and shook her head. “I think that remaining as you are and learning what and who you are may be better than making that sudden change. It seems to me that the awareness that you have to make a choice is also an awareness that there is a decision to be made. And can you honestly move forward without truly understanding where you currently stand? Whether it’s the land or the water or something else, you are divided. And I think learning to live that way first is a wiser choice than leaping blindly into the next situation only to be twice as lost in the next 12000 years.” The desire to remain was strong but the voices in her mind had silenced. She could still sense a presence there and started to move around the ship they were under as if the answer would pop out in the form of an actual sign. She knew it wouldn’t, but it would have been a nice thing to happen. How does one argue a point for a species one didn’t understand?

Pretha
CRIT Ldr

Tov replied, “What is the difference between trying this step and trying the slow step? Who wouldn’t want a leg up on your potential?”

Maree added, “By your own knowledge of the past and by what we are learning here we’ve abandoned the old traditions or devotion or whatever you want to call it and it has been disastrous. Twenty four centuries of forgotten lore that utterly defines our people and directs our future? How can we rush ahead when we don’t even have our foundations right?”

Tov interjected, “Aunt, we can find that just as easily no matter what our state.” He frowned. “I would hope.”
- Tov/Maree

Kiama listened silently, but attentively. Ready to say or do something at a moment’s notice should she be needed as a mediator. But so far things seemed to go well and everyone was amicable. The only problem was: They were running out of time. And while she wanted to gently push the two Gravians on the Manhattan to make a decision one way or another, she was worried that trying to that would have the opposite effect. So for now she continued to keep her silence while not only listening, but also keeping a close tabs on the emotions of everyone present.

~Lt. Naim, CSO

“You don’t know. You will never truly know until you take the chance. It’s a risk, but existing at all comes with its own risks,” Faye said, She could feel the determination to make her point flooding through her. “You can’t expect to ever be fully ready or prepared for a change like this. If you tried you’d be waiting forever.”

~Faye Calloway, Data Specialist

Cochrane’s voice could be heard on the Bridge and by the Away Team through the comms. =/\= Now is the time. We don’t know how long after the decision is made the effects will take to release the ship, or even if it will… but we have to try. Please… for the sakes of all of our people… Do you want to speak to Dia? Get her perspective? I think she can hear you. =/\=

Cochrane, CO