Posted by Lieutenant Commander Daggum Hammor (Chief Operations Officer) in Main Sim - Welcome to Fantasy Planet - Anchor Hotel

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Posted by Captain Jennifer Wallace (Commanding Officer) in Main Sim - Welcome to Fantasy Planet - Anchor Hotel
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Jennifer held up a case in one hand, and held her finger up to Athena with the other. “Just a moment, I need to take care of my Science Chief,” she explained, and went over to Liam, opening up the case and pulling out one of the injections. “Alright, ready?” she asked. Former CMO, she knew how to do stuff like this.

Wallace, CO

Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist

“Ready,” Liam stated, bracing himself for the injection. While he could’ve done it himself, it wasn’t easy to do multiple tasks when LB was being defensive and he appreciated the aid.

“I was almost worried ‘Spot’ was going to attack. As vicious as the creature appears, I’m not fond of being forced to burn out its eyes.” Liam’s eyes slid to witness the individuals being herded into a group.

Once his CO finished up, he aired his gratitude,” Thank you.”

-CSO, Liam J. Madison, Sci

Hammor

Captain Wallace nodded to Liam, patting him on the shoulder silently before returning to her important conversation. She glanced at Hammor, frowning slightly with thought for a moment before looking at Athena and scratching her nose quietly. “I’m honestly not sure, but I’m sure it’s possible to figure it out. Could you explain how it all works again?” she glanced around at the gathered crowd. Athena’s people. Her crew. So many people. “Perhaps we could talk more privately instead of in front of this large crowd?”

Wallace, CO

Looking around at the tenseness of both armies Athena shook her head and held the tip of her spear even closer to Ares throat. “There is no way I will trust Ares army to stand easy unless his death is imminent. The judgement must be made here. He has asked for your judgement and I trust that but Hades will turn on us the minute we leave this place.

The dark voice of Hades spoke up. “I will turn on you anyway if this isn’t resolved soon”. He sneered at his stricken “leader” and continued. “Either we fight this battle to the death, or you kill Ares and then we fight this to the battle to the death. If I was you, I’d press your advantage while you still can”.

Ares glared at him but his eyes remained on the Captain.

Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist

“You’re all a bunch of idiots,” Jennifer exclaimed, frustrated. She didn’t want to cause death. She didn’t want to be responsible for killing this man, or for choosing not to kill him and in doing so possibly causing her people to die in return. She turned to Athena, then looked to Hades, then over to Ares. “I don’t believe in you. I have no faith or belief in you. You are people. Stupid, stupid people. Just like Klingons or Vulcans or Humans!” She glanced around at her crew, silently begging them to pick up on what she was saying. These people apparently

One NE threw down the spear he was holding and shouted, “You are no gods! I don’t believe in you!”

Wallace, CO

If it was only R’han he would have stabbed Hades in the throat as he made his proclamation. He wasn’t the senior officer here so he waited for some sort of order or indication.

R’han

Liam gritted his teeth and sighed strongly. At this point, the gods looked less impressive as they fought over their favorite toy. The only issue was that they couldn’t simply take the toy away and fairly prevent any access to it. At least, he didn’t think so. His thoughts were interrupted by the Captain’s outburst.

He immediately frowned despite her bluntly insulting even her own people. Not the best way to hint for them to follow her cue, but he keep his thoughts to himself.

“Honestly, at this point they are more like children fighting over a toy.” He didn’t bother to hid his annoyance at the situation as he turned to his superior officer.

“I think I need some genuine vacation time after this.” even then the situation appeared to be ready to tip into an all out war, Liam managed to keep his face steady and indifference when he commented.

-CSO, Liam J. Madison, Sci

Jennifer turned away from Athena and stepped over to R’han, putting a hand on his shoulder and leaning forward. “Find the thing that converts worship into power and figure out a way to disconnect it. Take whoever you think will be useful,” she whispered in his ear, then said more loudly, glancing at Liam, “Children playing with their toys. An apt description.”

“I assume my Chief Engineer has retaken the ship by now. I’d appreciate it if you could spare a second of your time and “power” to give me a commbadge to communicate with him. You know, those things you took from us because you want your toys to play their roles like good little worship batteries?”

She was tired of this game, and she just wanted to go home.

Wallace, CO

Hermes handed her a communicator seemingly out of thin air. Athena seemed taken aback by his action. “I too wish an end to this conflict. At this juncture I think I would rather cease to be than carry on at our present course towards destruction.

Athena almost snarled at him, “How can you wish the genocide of our race. The EDOC has enabled us to flourish and while people stand ready to fight for it to gain power all we have sought to do with it is form a symbiotic relationship of power bringing joy to others”.

She turned to the Captain, “You call it a worship battery, I call it the future survival of my people. How can you stand there and accuse us of such things when all we sought to do was bring your crew some happiness!” She pointed to Ares and Hades, “We would have done exactly that if they hadn’t interfered, you would have enjoyed your time, left none the wiser and this place would have been a haven for many. Is this your final judgement? To destroy our future?”

It was at this point that an orderly brought the Chief Medical Officer out to the front of the building to see the impasse and many wounded lying untended.

Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist

“I think you’ve failed to notice something, Athena. Is this the price worth paying for happiness? I believe many individuals sought this very path and the bloodshed rarely ends.” Liam widened his arms to let Athena, the very goddess of wisdom, actually gaze upon the aftermath of this little war. Deep down, the CSO started to wonder if there was deeper reasons for Ares and Hades to resist Athena than originally thought. The way she spoke, it felt like they hadn’t even discussed this at all between each other.

Despite the blood shed, he knew there was at least one reason for resistance. Who would want to forever be forced to serve another after all? Even if the outcome was noble.

“One thing I have learned in my time onboard the Athena is that happiness isn’t something you can give another individual. It is something they need to discover on their own. You can help them of course, but in the end the decision resides with the subject.” He sighed softly, a hint of pain in his eyes.

“In my opinion, I don’t think you need power or others aid in bring happiness. You just need motivation, patience, and time to achieve it.” Liam had hoped that things could’ve panned out differently. It seemed they were about to wipe out a whole race and that didn’t settle well with the man.

-CSO, Liam J. Madison, Sci

Jennifer didn’t like the situation. It was bad, and if they handled this poorly it could turn around and bite them. She glanced over at the CMO, then took the communicator and held it in her hand, considering the situation carefully. “Is it truly symbiotic if one party doesn’t know that they are being used by the other?” she let out a long sigh, glancing at Hades and Ares, narrowing her eyes slightly before turning back to Athena. “People, humans in particular, rarely do well with ‘all their wildest dreams’ being offered to them. And we don’t deal well with finding out that another being has been secretly using us for their own gain, even if we’re supposedly given much in return.”

She looked around at her senior staff. Well, she didn’t have much of a senior staff, but Liam, R’han, and Benjamin were here. “Now, we don’t want you folks to die because you’ve lost the EDOC, but correct me if I’m wrong… you survived before you constructed it.”

Wallace, CO

Surprisingly it was Ares that spoke, “Not all of us survived, we have lost many to lack of belief over the years. That is why the EDOC is so important and must be shared, that is why we fight not to be excluded”.

Athena hissed in frustration at him, “You and yours do not know how to share, you just take, that is why we hid from you.” She looked at Hades and her eyes turned to stone as she addressed Liam, “Motivation we have, but tell me, how can we exist together when others seek to take, how can we trust when eons of history teach us that some are not to be trusted?”

Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist

“You put systems in place to ensure that you do… laws. Rules of conduct. Treaties. Do they always hold? Nope. But at least expectations are managed.” the Ops Chief said flatly.

Benjamin was listening to the argument with half an ear, he was watching the area, looking at the wounded, trying to see why no one was carrying them out, surveilling the area.

Dr. Grey - CMO

Liam was not intimidated by Athena’s stony glare, but he was grateful it wasn’t directed at him.

“And you believe humans, Vulcan, and all other races get along perfectly?” He scoffed at the idea,” I’m sorry to say that’s not the case all the time.”

“Even in this ‘perfect’ era, there are still individuals who hold grudges, radical ideas, and still distrust others. Personally, I think the only reason we haven’t all gone to war is because we learned we benefit more from cooperation than conflict. It is that knowledge of knowing we lose much more than we gain which helps keep the peace.” He let his words settle on the air.

His last statement turned to Hades and Ares. “On the other hand, this only works if both parties agree. Trust is a fragile thing. Once broken, it’s difficult to patch together and leave on display when you fear it’s going to fail again. I will also point that not trying something will ensure failure and eliminates possible outcomes. Both bad and good ones.”

Liam wasn’t sure if this conversation was getting through to any of them. With Hades’ last statement and Ares’ history, he wasn’t even sure if he wasn’t just wasting his energy. However, this conversation at least allowed the CMO to attend to the injured so it was worth keeping up.

-CSO, Liam J. Madison, Sci

Jennifer met Dr. Grey’s gaze and noticed a slight confusion in his expression. She couldn’t spare the attention to talk to him right now, all the way across the area, so she quietly waved a couple NE’s that were standing next to her to go over and check in - hopefully help him out with whatever he needed. Liam spoke wisely. She was glad to have him on the team. Ghubari had chosen well when she appointed him as CSO.

Wallace, CO

The sudden movement of the NE’s caused an immediate reaction in the tense situation. Hades took the distraction as an opportunity to leap at Athena, as did Cerberus.

Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist

Hammor moved in practiced response, positioning himself in front of Cerberus and pulling back a massive green arm and then throwing the stone in his hand as hard as he could at the beast and then bracing his short spear and chain; readying himself to catch the full weight of it on the scalpel-sharp tip of the spear head.

Hammor, Ops

Athena spun to meet the new threat.

Gamemaster Conspiracy Theorist