01-02-2026, 05:51 AM
Qi wasn’t so sure about the self defense claim. In his experience, ‘they started it’ carried little weight in diplomacy, even when it happened to be true. Still, the captain could be pretty persuasive — at least enough so that the admiralty kept assigning her to important missions, notwithstanding some grousing from both sides. He realized that, at some point, he’d started to trust her instincts too.
Qi’s felt his face harden into a scowl as the captain leveled an accusation. Was Tomer the saboteur, or yet another victim?
“Why would an ambassador sabotage his own assignment?” Qi asked, his stomach twisting into a solid knot. “Maybe he wanted to give the Cardassians an edge in the race, and an advantage in building a relationship with the Wairara going forward. Is one new alliance really worth all the trouble?”
He got to work testing his hypothesis. He remembered hearing that Cardassian Intelligence had been known to surgically alter its operatives. Now that he knew what he was looking for, he might be able to find some evidence in the transporter log.
== Tag Bridge
GM Input: any traces of Cardassian biology in the ambassador’s pattern when he beamed aboard? ==
Qi’s felt his face harden into a scowl as the captain leveled an accusation. Was Tomer the saboteur, or yet another victim?
“Why would an ambassador sabotage his own assignment?” Qi asked, his stomach twisting into a solid knot. “Maybe he wanted to give the Cardassians an edge in the race, and an advantage in building a relationship with the Wairara going forward. Is one new alliance really worth all the trouble?”
He got to work testing his hypothesis. He remembered hearing that Cardassian Intelligence had been known to surgically alter its operatives. Now that he knew what he was looking for, he might be able to find some evidence in the transporter log.
== Tag Bridge
GM Input: any traces of Cardassian biology in the ambassador’s pattern when he beamed aboard? ==