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ORIGINS: Serah Riley: Difference between revisions
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Nanclus, on being confronted, unexpectedly took Serah hostage and | Nanclus, on being confronted, unexpectedly took Serah hostage and | ||
beamed away to the cloaked Romulan Warbird TERINAX. There Serah learned | beamed away to the cloaked Romulan Warbird TERINAX. There Serah | ||
that the Ambassador had never been in any danger. The "assassination" | learned that the Ambassador had never been in any danger. The | ||
had been a ruse to destabilize Federation-Romulan relations and the | "assassination" had been a ruse to destabilize Federation-Romulan relations | ||
mastermind of the scheme was a future version of Nanclus himself. | and the mastermind of the scheme was a future version of Nanclus himself. | ||
The future Nanclus and his ship came from a ruined Alpha Quadrant overrun | |||
by overwhelming enemy forces (presumably the Borg and Dominion). This | |||
Nanclus hoped to steer the Empire into a war that would see Romulus | |||
emerge strong enough to deal with the coming threats. | |||
Secretly, however, Ambassador Nanclus did not agree with this plan now | |||
that its full breadth had been made known to him. He was further revulsed | |||
by his Elder self's insistence on killing Serah who had done so much to make | |||
their plans succeed. In order to buy time and bring her under his protection, | |||
he had Serah brought to his quarters on the pretense that he would rape and | |||
then dispose of her. | |||
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