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Josan inclined its head, “..The elimination of any of the experimental natives on any such planets overseen by our stations is without pain or suffering. If or when a time comes that the station deems a completed elimination of an organic species it is done so as quickly and painlessly as possible. In this case usually by seeding a fast acting mass spread use of a deep sleep agent, to the populace at the same time, within minutes all such organics targeted would fall asleep and soon after pass away. Automated drones sent by the station would use high energy lasers to disrupt the remains and any developed structures, technology or the like and then begin replanting and reseeding for the next experiment. Given your interactions with the natives a warning will be issued by the station to any of your Federation ships so you may remove any members from the planet ahead of time. But no information to the natives why you are leaving must be given of their impending end, such information would contaminant their last days or the like and undo suffering that would be avoided otherwise. Otherwise you are free to evolve and expand as you wish, as we have no interest in your Federation or those nearby for our needs or studies..” Josan stated.

Glen was shocked, although he tried not to show it. He had believed that the genocidal idea of elimination of the EP19 species was just a hypothetical question for moral deliberation, but the Ascended was talking now as if it had already been done before, a general practise that had possibly been quite regularly enacted on many different experimental planets. He was at a loss of quite what to say in reply to this.

There followed a silent pause. Not only did Glen not know what to say in reply to this, but none of his staff seemed to know either.

Glen realised that faced with such a powerful race of beings, there was probably only one solution available now. There was precedence for such a solution - General Order number seven that stipulated secrecy and non-contact with Talos IV. He thought that he should recommend to Starfleet Command that a new General Order along the same lines was suitable for EP19.

Salek sat in something of a stunned silence not aiding in the pregnant pause. He had his hands half covering his face, however his eyes shown through breaking his normal mask with his concern. His mind reeled at their indifference.

Faith Hopkins, the Captain’s Yeoman, had entered the Conference Room a little earlier. She crossed the room and handed Glen two PADDs with the background information he had requested while getting changed in his Quarters.

Glen took the PADDs and said, “Thanks!”

Faith couldn’t help but hear the entire conversation. Not one to usually hold back on what she thought about something, she bent over and quietly said to the Captain, “What kind of monster would slaughter a whole civilization?” Glen didn’t reply immediately, but he sympathized with her reaction, and he knew that while there was almost nothing they could do about the situation, trying to sell ‘not doing anything’ to anyone unaccustomed to such diplomacy would be hard. This only hardened his attitude that avoiding this region of space entirely would be the correct course of action. If only it weren’t for the Dilithium crystals. Life would have been far more simple if they had never surveyed the EP19 mines.

“Thank you,” Glen told Faith, “Dismissed!”

Faith wasn’t bothered to have said something uncomfortable to the Captain. She was going to say whatever she felt, and in this case, she thought that every right-minded citizen of the UFP would agree with her. She stood up straight, turned and walked over to the door. She left feeling quite horrified about what she had heard.

• Faith, Yeoman

Josan spoke then, “..Is there anything else you wish to inquire about Captain? Or your crew? If not and you are agreeable to the terms discussed here on continued interaction with the natives of planet 19 I would take my leave, and you may continue on about your mission..” it said, really unless they had any more questions they could likely wrap this up, then have someone beam down quick to return the scrolls accidently brought up, and then finalize their agreement with the natives, and then call their mission complete. While it was not quite complete as Starfleet expected, given what they had discovered any future actions would likely want to be passed up the chain of command.

OOC: Aka we could wrap up this sim then in a few posts here! But if you got more questions etc you wanna ask go ahead.

GM CockRoach