Begining of the end

[Kane]

Kireg raised an eyebrow.
"Really? Those are my two choises? And it is always we who are at fault, is it?"
Krieg looked like he could have spit.
"Sorry, I don't do sarcasm very well. So, i'm going to tell you what you take for granted... Unlike you, Lord Captain, I think there are more important things in life then your of self-rightousness. I joined the Rhinland Navy because I wanted to serve my nation and my Chancellor. I joined the Black Legion, knowing full well I could give my life up for a futile cause, but that cause was important to me. You, you just hide out in your own empire in the Boarder Worlds, trying desperatly to justify your own power. The Chancellor left of her own power, and wanted to leave. If I had tried to stop her, she would have torn us apart, make no mistake about it. And then she would have been gone, and Rhinland would be worse off. How much of a choise did you think I had!?"
He glared across at Dab, not even trying to mask his intense dislike.
"I was directed by this little thing called loyalty, and patriotism. You should look it up."
He leaned back in his chair and started pulling up more documents on the holo-screen in front of him.
"Whatever Kristy is doing, she is doing it for a reason. And it's NOT..." He spared another glare at Dab. "Because of the Nomad DNA that you continually say was infused with." He looked up.
"The infusions were NOT done in her tank, despite what you seem to think. Preliminary ones, yes, but nothing that would have radicly altered her this way. The transfusions of the Nomad regeneration gene were to be done at the secret base. In an environment where they could have been controled, contained, modified. BUT NO!"
He stood up abruptly, and fixed Dab with a glare that would have melted rock. "YOU had to come in and play some idiotic hero to 'save' her from becoming a Nomad! Despite the fact that our top scientists were waiting for her with the best equipment there is at the base we were going to! Despite the fact that from us 'poor humans' standpoint there was no other way to save the one person who had revived Rhinland after the Nomad Invasion left us compleatly broken and tumbling into Anarchy! Despite the fact that I would have shot her MYSELF if something like that were to happen!"
He drew a breath and visibly calmed himself. Then he spoke softly.
"You have no idea how painful it was to see her like that... Then to let her go... And now this." He sighed. "Try imagining someone reaching into your chest and taking your heart out. Then, while your still living and in pain, stomp on it, chew on it, burn it, then finaly throw it down a black hole. Now multiply that by any large number you care to name. It was worse."
He slumped back down into his chair. "Even if you managed to capture her, do you really think you could stop her? She opened a hyper gate and let a torrent of Nomads through, in the middle of Liberty, no less! I think she has even more power then that."
He leaned back once again, contemplating whatever legal beurocratic document was on his screen. "I still beleive there is some of our Chancellor in her. If she comes to Rhinland, then I seriously doubt that we could stop her. Untill she does, however, I have to run this empire. This conversation is over, Lord Captain, you may leave now."

Two Black Legionairs were called in and stood beside Dab. It was quite obvious that Kreig ment what he said, and the best option would be to leave now.

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