Star Trek - Timelines
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In a previous letter, we learned the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance are sworn enemies of the Terran Empire. Did you know the Empire is led by the Vulcan, Spock? Did you know Vulcans and Romulans share many physical characteristics? Take Notes, because there will be a test.
Mirror Garak:
We have an opportunity to capitalize on the turmoil Sweeping Romulus. We could influence the Romulan factions who will appoint the next Praetor Come to Romulus without being detected, and I will share our plans.
Picard convinces a former Romulan security officer to defect, giving the away team insight into procedures.
Data successfully concealed the ship inside the hull of a decommissioned Tarkalean freighter.
Picard expertly maneuvered the ship through gaps and exploits in the Romulan system’s deep space sensor grid.
Picard has successfully reached Mirror Garak’s location without being detected by Romulan forces!
Our crew successfully got he ship to the rendezvous with ‘Mirror’ Garak inside Romulan space. We await his arrival.
We will back Shinzon as the leader of the Romulans in the upcoming congress elections. Shinzon is the clone of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, created to infiltrate the Federation by the Gal Shiar. He was sent to the dilithium mines of Remus, where he became a respected leader among the Romulan subject races.
Your sacrifice will secure his reputation as a great leader!
A pity to have to use you in this way! I respect those who die for an ideal, even if it is not the one they might have chosen. We can make this experience easy for you, or we can make it interesting. I’ll let you decide!
We successfully crippled Shinzon’s impulse deflection array with a lucky shot. Unable to steer, he was forced to withdraw to make repairs.
Sela
Captain, my stronghold on Romulus is under attack by Shinzon’s faction. I propose we join forces to prevent Shinzon and his Klingon-Cardassian Alliance supporters from taking over the Romulan Star Empire. In exchange for your help, I would welcome closer Federation ties.
Why should I become involved?
Sela
You already did when you met with Commander Garak inside Romulan space, Captain. Two wrongs don’t make a right, but you are already deeply involved here. Helping me end this conflict before it turns into a general interstellar war is now your moral obligation.
Without doubt the situation has deteriorated on Romulus. The Senate looks to both Sinzon and myself for leadership so Shinzon of course chose to assassinate me. After you’ve replenished your antimatter, scan the capital city. I may need your help soon to stave off anarchy.
I have a feeling we might regret this but we will intervene to protect you.
Sela
Sinzon’s faction has launched another wave of drones in a suicide attack on my command facility. They’re trying to blast their way through the fortress walls, bit by bit. I need your help, right now, or soon you’ll have to deal with Shinzon in command of the whole Star Empire.
Picard failed to patch into Sela’s command network. Useful Romulan military units were left out of contact.
Picard gave an uplifting speech to the Romulans in the city segments being battered by Shinzon. Morale has risen.
Crusher concocts and vents an incapacitating gas in the location where Shinzon’s forces are congregating.
Kor’s tactics to defeat the advanced drone stations worked. Several phaser shots destroyed the launchers.
Sela
I’m alive. My command post is badly damaged, and I’ll have to find a new base facility, but my forces have prevailed. I’m in a position to start pushing back against shinbone’s loyalists, and reacting to the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance’s aggression, thanks to you.
What can you do to help the Federation with the temporal anomaly crisis?
Sela
We’ve barely been able to cope with the disruptions caused by the temporal anomalies, let alone take time to learn about them. We can discuss pooling our information at some point, we will all find it difficult to maintain order if invaders from other timelines keep appearing.
I expect the Romulan Senate to appoint me as the new Praetor within the next few hours. Then I will have plenty of work to do, both in rebuilding Romulan forces, crushing her enemies, and scouring the Empire for Shinzon and other traitors. I could certainly use your help.
You can count on our help, so long as your requests serve Federation interests.
Sela
One of Shinbone’s warbirds is on a decaying orbit, aligned for an intentional impact in a major city. We don’t have any ships in position that can stop it… so we’re asking for your help. Millions of innocent Romulans could be killed if that ship hits the surface.
Kor plotted a course that brought the ship close enough to the plummeting warbird to take effective action.
Tuvok used pulses from the main deflector dish to alter the trajectory of the suicide warbird.
Tuvok was able to slow the warbird somewhat in Romulus’ upper atmosphere with the tractor beam.
Kor set the Romulan ship’s singularity reactor to implode before it reached the inhabited surface of Romulus.
Shinzon
Do not interfere with our campaign to overthrow Sela. Romulan space will soon be in our control, and a new era will dawn for the oppressed peoples of the Star Empire. With help from the Klingons and Cardassians, the Romulans shall feel our wrath, as we have felt theirs for centuries.
What makes you think that terrorizing the Romulans won’t lead to chaos?
What revolution ever comes without first inflicting chaos on those who presume to rule? We will shake the Star Empire to its foundations, and its people will soon understand that the price of my protection is service.
Sela seems to have found my dreadnought, the Scimitar, under construction. I will have to destroy it, before she can get it operational. I must go, dear Captain… I mustn’t let my friends in the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance think I’ve lost my edge.
We will go and attempt to broker a cease-fire.
Sela
It isn’t you I’m after, Captain. If you won’t stand down, you’ll have to be neutralized.
We have successfully held our own against Sela’s warbird. She has withdrawn to the protection of her starbase.
Shinzon
Sela is trying to keep me away from the Scimitar… That ship, when active, will have as much power as a small fleet, all by itself. Sela will dare to use any weapon at her disposal. This is why I seek help from the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance.
Do you know any other way but the path of violence?
In time, when I have achieved absolute rule, and have cleared Romulan society of all potential adversaries… then perhaps I might turn my attentions toward establishing a new dynasty, perhaps one which will merge with the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance someday.
Sela’s forces still press the attack, but there is no sign of Sela herself. If my ship should be destroyed, Captain, she will likely finish you off as well. Your ship may as well fight at my side, and retrieve any useful components nearby for the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance.
No offense, but we will take our chances and appeal to Sela’s better side.
Shinzon
Stop where you are… your ship has wandered into one of Sela’s minefields. If you want to live, I would suggest taking steps to chart a path through the minefield.
Data successfully adjusted the ship’s helm controls to respond better to sudden course changes.
Data succeeded in rigging our science probes to act as minefield clearing drones.
Tuvok successfully hacks into the mine network, disarming nearly all of them!
Kor correctly saw a potential threat in a dim cluster of sensor contacts, and moved the ship away from them.
Sela
Thank you for helping to draw Shinzon and his Klingon-Cardassian Alliance friends out into the open. I altered the frequency of the temporal anomaly in the Romulus system to re-trigger the Reman uprising of several years ago. It worked perfectly, more Senators support me now.
Would you mind sharing how you were able to ‘tune’ the anomaly in that way?
That will have to remain a Romulan state secret for now, though I suspect it won’t be long before your scientists learn how to perform the procedure. When they do, we’ll be ready to counter any Starfleet attempt to intervene against us using time travel.
Now that Shinzon is dead, and my claim to the Praetorship is secure, I expect you have Starfleet business to attend to. You have thirty-six hours to leave Romulan space. Any deviation, and you will be fired upon.
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