Tides of Change

[ophidian]

Moiraine was looking outside of her window. They were stationed in Tau 37 for two days now. However, the trip turned out to be more than a pain in the ass. First the problems caused by Ensign Mara, followed up by her execution, then the security team's excessive search were all tiresome for her.

She was instable to say at best but still, Moiraine was over-intelligent than many when compared to. She knew that sooner or later, paranoia would take a hold on the crew and Order in general. No one was speaking it out loud yet but eyes were looking for conspiracy at every turn. Crewmen were wary of each other, not sure whom to trust. Infected personnel was one thing but having xeno-lovers on board the ship in disguise was unbearable.

She expected to see flames erupting from this spark. Eventually one of the crew members would accuse the other of being a spy, an alien lover and then everything would go downhill fast like a freight train without breaks. Unstopable, and taking a huge effort to regain control.

She couldn't allow the crew to get suspicious of her because she was the holding figure of the ship. If they thought of her will is being bended, they would riot and Immortal would meet with her doom.

No, she had to be precise, cunning, deadly. She decided to create three security teams not aware of each other's existance, and having them running a full time sweep over the crew for hints of another traitor hiding amongst them.

Yes... the freight train was starting to roll down. She wondered how fast they will hit the wall when it all came down to the bottom of the track.

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