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The Speech to End All Speeches
Topic Started: May 4 2016, 03:31 AM (230 Views)
Angel Ryder
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Angel had set up with Claire in the small quarters of the Seraphim yacht, it was quiet and she knew that if the older woman had any hopes of stealing info, she'd be locked out. The yacht was Angel's domain and it was a craft she had built to her exacting specifications. Light instrumental music played in the background while a pot of tea and a pot of coffee sat on a warmer.

"I've been writing speeches for my father since I was in a training bra... why am I so stuck on his opening?" Angel groaned as she erased her padd for the fifth time. "It needs to be powerful to match up with the rest of what we wrote." she tapped her stylus against the desk. "Alright how does this sound... 'Not all wars are won or lost, both sides can claim a victory and yet both sides can still save face. It is when we dehumanize those who do not agree with us, that we have truly lost. Earth and Terra Alpha may not be allies or even friends, but we can respect each other and hope each side can treat their citizens with compassion." She raised an eyebrow. "Too wordy?"
Vice Admiral Angelica "Angel" Ryder
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Claire McKenzie
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"Too weak," she replied absently. "It sounds like you are selling something that you don't even believe in and you want them to think you are doing them a favor." She scrawled something into her PADD and took a sip of coffee without even looking up. "Why would we tell either side we reached a stalemate? If you mustn't declare victory, don't delcare anything. They will know you are feeding them..." She paused to consider her words, "bullshit."

Claire finally looked up, the end of her stylus in her teeth. "How about something like, 'You have all fought hard to crush our enemies, and now it's time to set aside weapons to build a stronger quadrant'."
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Angel Ryder
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Angel nodded her head and hummed. "Sounds good... " wrote a few more things down. "You have proven to your leaders that you have the passion and drive to make things better, even going so far to lay down your lives for what you believed. Now it is time to take that same passion, that same push and rebuild the quadrant. You want to prove your side is better, that your ideals were worth dying for, then prove it. Make Earth strong, make the Alpha Quadrant a safe place once again for everyone. A strong Earth and a strong Terra Alpha are vital for the security and peace of this quadrant."
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Claire McKenzie
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"Not bad," she replied. "I have to admit that I feel it's an error to not mention this Puppet Master the Narlins are going on about. It will give both sides a new enemy to focus on rather than each other."
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Angel Ryder
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"But we know so little about him... or her. And you and I both know that people will ask us for more details." Angel said as she looked at her padd. "Although there are still other threats besides this puppet master. The Klingons are hardly friendly to either of us lately. There are the Lyrans who are feeling bold. The Vidiians have been poking their noses around the Alpha Quadrant. Then there are always the rogue elements on both of our planets... like post Soviet Russia. The USSR folded, but the mobs, the criminal element and the terrorists were able to fill the voids and took advantage of the confusion." she reclined slightly in her chair. "The trick is to give both our sides that it's in everyone's best interest to work together to rebuild things not freak out and get into an 'every man for themselves.' situation."
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Claire McKenzie
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She shrugged, "Perhaps, and that's why I'm a glorified secratary, and not a president."

She returned her attention to the PADD in her hand. "I don't agree with the Imperium you know. Not totally anyway. I was a Starfleet officer, but Earth is my home. Yeah, I know. I'm going to hell. I probably was going to anyway." She shrugged, "But, the Empress is right about one thing. How many of us humans have only human DNA? Hard to know what's in the wood pile without a acan."

She set PADD down and looked at Angel. "Yeah I get it. You hate me. You hate the Imperium. I agree we did it wrong. We can try to blame Kirk, but he could only do what he did with people like me. Like the lowly ensign or the garbage collector. Was it for the greater good? I don't know. But, I know one thing: there is a greater evil. An evil that may have even played a part in the formation of the Imperium. Yeah, we don't know what it is. And we cannot deny that the Klingons have been doing some sabre rattleing. Therr have been raids on our settlements. The Empress blames you publicly. Well not you specifically. The Alliance. I think that emboldens the Klingons. You aren't in cahoots are you?"
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Angel Ryder
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"The Klingons hate me." Angel said bluntly. "I was about seven months pregnant when they tried to ambush me in my convertible... on Terra Alpha, so yeah... the only Klingon that I'm on good terms with is Worf and even he screens my calls."
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Claire McKenzie
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Claire shrugged, "Well, they are a violent folk."
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Angel Ryder
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"For the record though... I don't hate everyone in the Imperium nor do I have a problem with SOME of what you're doing." Angel said and took a sip of her tea. "I only hate the ones that try to kill me and those I care about. The Empress has certainly surprised me. Still not going to call her 'mother' any time soon, but... If she's sincere, I'll respect her."
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Claire McKenzie
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Claire shrugged looking over her glasses, "I can't speak for her, but if she isn't she has fooled me. She's still cold and demanding, but something seems different."
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Angel Ryder
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"If I didn't think she was coming from a place of actually TRYING to make this all right... I wouldn't be here and I wouldn't be sitting with her secretary working on a speech." Angel replied and cleaned her own glasses. "Pretty sure when we both get home there will be people either cheering us on or finding new things to complain about."
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Claire McKenzie
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"Really?" Claire asked sitting back in her chair. She slipped off her glasses and set them on the table. "Even if your dad and president asked or told you to do this?" Claire shook her head in disbelief.
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Angel Ryder
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"Both our people will complain about anything. Nature of politics. It'll be too aggressive, not aggressive enough, gives up too much, asks for too little, they didn't like the tone." Angel rattled off a number of objections as she continued to write. "It's natural for people to feel like they need to be consulted. Just a matter of making the good sound great and the bad sound like an opportunity." She handed off the padd. "What do you think? Of course none of this does any good if they go off script."
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"It's not limited to politics. It's human nature to complain." Reading the PADD she made a few grammer and punctuation edits before adding a few paragraphs of her own. She paused a moment moved a few things around and handed it back. "They won't. They will do as we say as long as it seems resonable. That's why change is often incremental. "
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Angel Ryder
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"Well I hope you're right... but this is pretty epic." Angel said as she looked over the padd. "Someday we're going to look back on all this and be proud of what we did. Even if the Empress and my father will be credited for all this. We'll know." she finished off her tea and gave Claire a look. "So tell me one thing, how did you end up working for... her? It's not as if she's the easiest woman to work for, even if she's an Empress."
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