"In Darkness There is light
In light there is darkness"
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We are the Vree,
We are one,
We are two,
We are perfect,
We are flawed,
We are the darkness,
We are the light,
We are Vree,
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==/\==Vre'allia, Senate Hall==/\==
Senator Neyal Bre'accoria's shadow moved along the hallway's out side the great Senate hall. His weathered dark brown hair reflected the current state of mind he was in. Neyal could pass for a man twice his age, while his eye sockets were empty he still possessed heavy bags under them and his face was wrinkled from the stress that was wartime. While other members of the senate celebrated at the recent victory at the Vorious asteroid belt, Neyal kept going over the things his friend in R&D had told him.
New weapons he had said, Neyal knew better than to believe that. If the Fleet R&D was up to some project labeled a new weapon, it was something sinister. The recent interest in robotic artificial intel. was curious to say the least.
"Neyal!"
Neyal turned around to see a firmilar face and a welcome sight it was too.
"Arbross my old friend, how are you?" Neyal said as he swung his arm across the old and silver haired man's back.
"Fine my friend, and you? Hows that Daughter of yours, Aayla?" Arbross asked in a warm and friendly tone.
Neyal hadn't heard from Aayla in years and didn't even know where she was, much less how she was. "I'm sure she's made Ensign by now, and Arciss is doing well as a pilot I suppose." Neyal said as he was reminded of his time with Arbross in the diplomatic corps.
Arbross nodded his head. "Good, good, I knew she would go far, but a Starfleet officer, my she's done well!" Arbross exclaimed as he got the feeling that Neyal was going to get nostalgic.
Neyal nodded, half his mind in somewhere else, a far off place somewhere.
Arbross noticed Neyal's detracted tone. "What is troubling you my friend? Kreallia?" Arbross asked knowing the answer would be something he most likely didn't want to hear.
"I'd be lying to you if there wasn't something troubling me my old friend." Neyal stated in a subdued tone. "It's this war Arbross, we launched a premptive strike against a planet with over a Trillion people on it, and let me tell you not all of them were Kree." Neyal stated in a now angered tone.
Arbross sighed. "Do you think the people want this war? It costs us atleast 15,000 people a day and yet we push on, why? Becuase we think that we are right and they are wrong, we are Vree and they are Kree!" Arbross answered sternly.
"But what about the ways of the Old Republic? What about the nameless world? Do you forget the teachings of the gods?" Neyal pleaded.
Arbross stopped at turned to face Neyal. "The Old Republic is gone, their ways forgotten. The nameless world is a myth a fairy tale that you tell your children to teach them to be obidient!" Arbross said sternly.
Neyal stood paralyzed. This wasnt the man he had known for so many years, he had changed and Neyal was sorry he hadnt realized that sooner. The Republic was not what it was, it was a government full of xenophobic and arrogant fools that had forgotten the old ways.
The world he once knew was gone, he realized that now and now under the mighty banner of holy war, nothing anfdno one could stop them, for the Crusade, the Holy War, the Shi'ar, had begun..............
==/\==TBC==/\==
