01-01-2026, 08:07 PM
== After the mission ==
Lucy tried to process what she had seen in the cloning facility. She had seen what was in the refrigeration unit after the door had been unlocked. She wished she hadn’t looked. Now she couldn’t forget. The Klingons were certainly without honor. The reason for the locked door didn’t feel like an intentional act, but she couldn’t be certain.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
The way they had removed the equipment in the main felt more like stupidity, but their treatment of the clones was undeniably malicious. The two that team 1 encountered confused her. She remembered who they had been cloned from and even though they were without their memories Lucy left the conversations to others.
She didn’t know how to make up for her own stupidity. She didn’t know if her apology would be rejected if she never tried. She never seemed to have enough courage and the time always seemed to slip away from her. You could avoid being an idiot by doing nothing, but people got hurt by inaction as much as stupidity.
Lucy couldn’t recall if the Obsidian Order had minimised their role with the Dominion to basic stuff. No race seemed to be without its secret intelligence department. The Romulans had the Tal Shiar, and then there was Section 31. The cloning facility could have been forgotten due to the deaths of those who knew and had taken their secret to their grave without telling anyone.
Now it had been erased permanently. The Artemis had come to this place to secure a nebula from invaders and smugglers and had discovered a forgotten conspiracy and those who decided to loot it for their own gain. Lucy was okay with blood, but she really wanted to forget what she had seen.
Lucy tried to process what she had seen in the cloning facility. She had seen what was in the refrigeration unit after the door had been unlocked. She wished she hadn’t looked. Now she couldn’t forget. The Klingons were certainly without honor. The reason for the locked door didn’t feel like an intentional act, but she couldn’t be certain.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
The way they had removed the equipment in the main felt more like stupidity, but their treatment of the clones was undeniably malicious. The two that team 1 encountered confused her. She remembered who they had been cloned from and even though they were without their memories Lucy left the conversations to others.
She didn’t know how to make up for her own stupidity. She didn’t know if her apology would be rejected if she never tried. She never seemed to have enough courage and the time always seemed to slip away from her. You could avoid being an idiot by doing nothing, but people got hurt by inaction as much as stupidity.
Lucy couldn’t recall if the Obsidian Order had minimised their role with the Dominion to basic stuff. No race seemed to be without its secret intelligence department. The Romulans had the Tal Shiar, and then there was Section 31. The cloning facility could have been forgotten due to the deaths of those who knew and had taken their secret to their grave without telling anyone.
Now it had been erased permanently. The Artemis had come to this place to secure a nebula from invaders and smugglers and had discovered a forgotten conspiracy and those who decided to loot it for their own gain. Lucy was okay with blood, but she really wanted to forget what she had seen.