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As Rheema VI approached Warp Capability, the Governments of Trill and Betazed agreed to establish a cloaked Observation Facility with a view to efficiently making First Contact when the Warp Barrier was broken. Primarily facilitated by the Trill government, the Observation team was lead by Lazan Marr and chaired by Kazana Kur, both symbiont-bearing Trill hosts of some political stature on Trill. | As Rheema VI approached Warp Capability, the Governments of Trill and Betazed agreed to establish a cloaked Observation Facility with a view to efficiently making First Contact when the Warp Barrier was broken. Primarily facilitated by the Trill government, the Observation team was lead by Lazan Marr and chaired by Kazana Kur, both symbiont-bearing Trill hosts of some political stature on Trill. | ||
At the time, Rheema VI was under the control of Eastern | At the time, Rheema VI was under the control of Eastern Asaanian Coalition (EAC), from the northwest continent of Asaana and lead by matriarch Selema V'Kar. This brutal xenophobic regime was responsible for the deaths of over 5.6 million non Asaanian civilians on the planet and significantly delayed the planets technological advancement. | ||
The EAC perpetrated many strikes against Warp-Tech Corporation Research Facilities and in the years preceding their First Warp flight, the EAC engaged a citizen lock down on the Asaanian capitol of | The EAC perpetrated many strikes against Warp-Tech Corporation Research Facilities near a town called Veltahr on Asaana and in the years preceding their First Warp flight, the EAC engaged a citizen lock down on the Asaanian capitol of LaCresh. Never before had Selema V'Kar moved against her own, Asaanian People. | ||
This sudden escalation in violence caused a division in the Observation Commission. One side: 'The Reformists', lead by Kazana Kur, argued for an intervention into the genocidal aggression on the planet and the immorality of abstaining from said intervention on a planet that was imminently going to discover Warp technology in the next few years. The other: the so called 'Determinists' argued that to breach UFP Conventions would be an immoral act in itself and that the people of Rheema deserved the right to Self-Determination, as did all other members of the UFP. | This sudden escalation in violence caused a division in the Observation Commission. One side: 'The Reformists', lead by Kazana Kur, argued for an intervention into the genocidal aggression on the planet and the immorality of abstaining from said intervention on a planet that was imminently going to discover Warp technology in the next few years. The other: the so called 'Determinists' argued that to breach UFP Conventions would be an immoral act in itself and that the people of Rheema deserved the right to Self-Determination, as did all other members of the UFP. |
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