12-31-2025, 10:02 PM
==Wrapping us up!==
Later on, it wasn't a time that any of the crew would want to remember much. After all there was no honor, no peace, no hope in what amounted to murder. A mercy killing, definitely, an ease of suffering. It may have even been for the best.
But that didn't change what it was.
It didn't take much consultation between the few clones left alive for them to decide to end it. They knew what was happening, and that even if the equipment that had sustained them for years before was repairable that it wouldn't help. The two leaders that had first approached Mara, however, told her that they would administer the mercy to their people, taking the burden jointly upon themselves, rather than inflicting it upon the Starfleet crew. They merely asked for peace, and shared the crew's regret that they hadn't arrived in time to do more. Even so, if the Artemis hadn't arrived, they would have ended their days in pain and agony as several of their companions had, rather than being able to exit this world on their own terms, and were grateful for that small mercy.
While the cloning equipment was broken and unrepairable, orders were issued to destroy it completely. After all, there were still numerous pieces of Dominion tech crawling around the Alpha Quadrant, and it wasn't inconceivable that someone would be able to find enough to bring some of the equipment back online. Weapons would be one thing, but there was no such thing as too careful where clones were concerned.
Once the last clone was dead and the Artemis staff evacuated, three torpedo warheads were detonated within the facility, atomizing the most sensitive items and ensuring the rest was beyond recognition, much less recovery.
==Continued on bridge==
Later on, it wasn't a time that any of the crew would want to remember much. After all there was no honor, no peace, no hope in what amounted to murder. A mercy killing, definitely, an ease of suffering. It may have even been for the best.
But that didn't change what it was.
It didn't take much consultation between the few clones left alive for them to decide to end it. They knew what was happening, and that even if the equipment that had sustained them for years before was repairable that it wouldn't help. The two leaders that had first approached Mara, however, told her that they would administer the mercy to their people, taking the burden jointly upon themselves, rather than inflicting it upon the Starfleet crew. They merely asked for peace, and shared the crew's regret that they hadn't arrived in time to do more. Even so, if the Artemis hadn't arrived, they would have ended their days in pain and agony as several of their companions had, rather than being able to exit this world on their own terms, and were grateful for that small mercy.
While the cloning equipment was broken and unrepairable, orders were issued to destroy it completely. After all, there were still numerous pieces of Dominion tech crawling around the Alpha Quadrant, and it wasn't inconceivable that someone would be able to find enough to bring some of the equipment back online. Weapons would be one thing, but there was no such thing as too careful where clones were concerned.
Once the last clone was dead and the Artemis staff evacuated, three torpedo warheads were detonated within the facility, atomizing the most sensitive items and ensuring the rest was beyond recognition, much less recovery.
==Continued on bridge==