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“For those of you who think our purpose our intent is false then I seek to prove the case for the Cflen in the annihilation of the BEAST and its spawn, I shall prove conclusively that it is the BEAST and its spawn that should be declared a HOSTILE RACE not the CFLEN . but then it is already apparent.
YOU HAVE the BEAST within these walls and the Elect Judiciary herself, is of the BEAST and its spawn, so I..“ She looked around at them. “I call upon the other races to grant the Ambassador of the Cflen, the opportunity as is our right, to defend ourselves, from the allegations the falsehood I have heard this very day that are typical of the BEAST.”
She bowed.There was silence. You could as they say, have heard a pin drop? Suddenly, perhaps, to Holli’s horror, several of those representing the other races stood up to cheer? "Order! I will NOT have this descend into.." Her words were drowned out by the rising number of voices, all echoing the same words.
Murmurs that she, should be allowed to present her case? Ambassador Orbek of the Jade Dynastic. He moved to stand as the room went quiet. He was looking at Ambassador Ariel smiling as he made his way from where he had been sat, towards her.
He extended his hand as one of the beasts went to move she raised her hand. It stopped. Her hand moved towards his.
“Welcome Ambassador Ariel of the Cflen I for one and my people welcome you even if it would appear, within this assembly, the Humana do not.“ She smiled then bowed.
“I am honoured to meet you Ambassador Orbek, my people extend as I do, my hand, their hand to you and your people.”
"The Humana often think they are the only ones entitled to a voice in this assembly. That I can assure you is often met by derision, from those who know different. I assure you we are NOT all of the same mind as that of the Humana."
A lot of other voices agreeing? Noise! Laughter. Murmurs. Holli had heard and seen enough. She called the whole chamber to order. Most felt Orbek had made their point. They sat down. Holli was furious. She glared at Ambassador Ariel.
“You may present your case . despite YOUR falsehoods about the Humana, which I will overlook, to allow proceedings to continue, but I warn you, I will not be the least bit sympathetic to any more of your lies. I am hearing rumors about an attack on the Colony of Cgaris. IF the rumors are true then you may not find this assembly so convivial the next time you appear before us."
There was distinct venom in Holli’s voice, never before, heard in the assembly. She stared at the others “To those who seemed to find it amusing that the Humana should have their rights contested against the evil of the Cflen, let me advise you all.“
Some of them shifted uneasily in their seats, disturbed by the tension.
“The Humana will NOT tolerate, nor any race likewise, the actions of those such as the Cflen. I already know what transpired across several of the Dominions this race has traversed to get here. Hostilities against the innocent Psemon Empire whose vessels, TWO of them, your race attacked and destroyed.“ Ambassador Ariel went to protest. Holli growled at her.
“You will have your chance to explain. The Fendiq who granted you safe passage a TRUST granted by them, that YOUR RACE saw fit to abuse, by attacking two vessels of theirs and threatening the lives of the Haphketsut Princesses and Princes, including the Kal Heiron Kets. Mere children.
Am I right to assume that the Cflen attack and murder, innocent Kets?" Tthere was a murmur. Holli smirked, noting some of the races were appearing to rethink their ideas, about the Cflen. "Yes this council will hear YOUR pleas, as to why we should NOT declare you a HOSTILE RACE. I should warn you if we do, we will make every endeavor to seize your home world. It will NOT be the Humana who face extinction at your behest.
This session is adjourned until tomorrow morning at Earth time 9am “ Holli stepped back to leave. She had watched to see if there was any reaction to what she had said likely to be expressed on Ambassador Ariel face? A sign of how she perceived her threat? Nothing. Not one jot of emotion passed across it. No fear, no apprehension. Nothing. Not that Arial was to leave without making it very clear, the views of the Cflen?
“It is the manner of the BEAST to lie, to deceive to cheat. My people know all too well who the BEAST is, who the race is that should be declared HOSTILES." She bowed. Turned moving towards the other two females, as they replaced her cloak.
Holli was in her private chambers, as the screen illuminated. The Fendiq Ka Absolute Nathan. She told him what had transpired. “I could do with you here, for some support.“ It appeared before he could answer her that he was to be distracted. He turned away, she could hear a conversation before he turned back to apologise.
“We have some updated information, for you from Trime, the Bexian Animorphis, who you will remember has already come across the Cflen. Unfortunately she ran into the Cflen again, however she did manage to acquire some information you may find of some use. Even more extensive than we thought. I would state categorically, of some importance to you personally.
I suspect it would almost certainly convince the council of the true intentions of this race as nothing but Hostiles. As to your other request!" He smiled. "I should be with you, in about a day or so?” “Thankyou.“ “Oh and Cistera sends her regards. Says 'He is Humana after all!'"
Holli laughed. "My son Ocasa says to give them no ground. We should wup their asses. He is rather fond of Trime and their recent treatment of her has tended to make him less than pleasant where they are concerned."
Unknown to either of them, Ariel had been watching and listening to the communication. She looked at the two females, Ankia and Calisa. “This is better news than we could have expected. The Ka Absolute the spawn of the BEAST, comes to g
ive support? My queen will be truly pleased that we have the chance to seize it. A gift to her."
A screen illuminated in front of her. "My Queen, I am honored." "Tell me what has transpired." Ariel was not sparing on the details, including the news on the visit by the Ka of Fendiq. “You have done well. Continue to sow the seeds of confusion as we planned. Be strong enough to make them know we are not weak in our purpose.
Create Fear, sow the seeds of discord, there are many who despise the Humana. Gather them into the fold and use them to bolster your defences. Let the Humana win some, lose as you reveal them within the traps we set for them to fall into. As for the Ka?
The BEAST is NOT to be harmed. When the time is right, bring him to me. UNHARMED! I shall save HIM, as the last of their race, the last drops of the BEAST for us to feast upon." Ariel bowed.
"Send a message to Mirissi, to board the vessel of the Ka Absolute that is enroute to the assembly.“ “Raptor” “Yes. I feel we can ply some further deceptions on our part to gain their confidence. We may discover what they plan for trapping us or revealing about us?
That way we will have the right answers to deflect any such attempts from succeeding in convincing other races. Especially those not liking them? Tell Miniati, she is to observe, listen, learn and relay that information to us.“
Ariel bowed again as now the screen went blank she activated another. "Miriati." The message was conveyed. "Who, is she?" Ariel looked at Calisa. "A Regen but a very special adaptation. Deliberately, NOT Cflen. A means on our part to infiltrate other races. Adapted originally from Pettifers Petties." "Ah! Now I understand."
Petties. The scourge of the Galaxies? Hmm, pretty close. Pettifer had created the things to have his revenge. What for, or why we are not going to go into detail on. Suffice to say, the reason WHY they were called Petties was NOT because of Pettifer.
It was because they created discord, disharmony amongst the colonists. Feeding on and nurturing all of the things that started off as nothing but 'Petty' differences?
They might come upon some poor hapless family and by the time they left, not only broken up the happy home but caused all kinds of mischief and mayhem in its wake. Fights breaking out amongst family menbers. Killing? Murder? Oh yes! As for the Petty that created such scenarios? Move on to the next victims, even shifting to another colony! Yes there could be more than one at a time.
Often the Petty had an astonishing level of reasoning. When it came to arguing a point, in its favor one might add, that would result of coure in a row, disharmony, discontent? It won. Well almost always. IF you could circumvent its logic, you could make the thing totally compliant to your wishes, however deviant and with some colonists not surprising, they might be.
You see Petties were the cutest, most innocent, plain and yet atrractive in their own way, beings ever created. How they managed to weasel their way into families in the first place! Pettifer had discovered the flaws in his creations and the way they were being reprogrammed and abused? So he made changes to the next generation of them.
IF they won an argument, all well and good. A smart brain trying to outwit them, defeat their logic, have the things submit to them? Were in for one helluva of a shock!
The heads on the things exploded! Kaboom! Killing or injuring anything around it, within a good 3 metres. The Galicia Federa outlawed the things. You could if you recognized the thing for what it was, blow its head off. Terminate it. HOWEVER. There were still some who to put it in simple terms. Would play Russian roulette with the dammed things.
Truly believing they were better and therefore capable of beating it and, getting out of the range of that explosion BEFORE it detonated?
In the end, it was an offence to wind one of the things up, knowing it to be a Petty! If you did and others got injured or killed by it, you escape? You would end up as the guilty party facing charges likely to lead to your execution. The bulk of the things were simply terminated. Something that Pettifer realized was not helping him spread the good word, or two, or three.
Blow its head off? Hmm OK. Great bit of sport for some. Take a piece of it? Collectors piece? There would be a horrible whining sound followed by a second explosion. You could say that those into the 'Kill a Petty' sport, were in for an explosive finale. Hundreds died. Now you had to isolate the things and make sure when they did explode the damage was kept to a minimum. Not so easy as you might think!
How did the things get produced in such numbers? They were made using machines that cloned them by the hundreds.
Those devices were called 'Embryonic' machines. But how, you might wonder did Pettifer have enough money to create, develop, produce the things in such numbers?
Big Corporations sought to destroy colonies who had rich resources at their disposal. Send in the Petties, disrupt and cause chaos? Enough to see the downfall of that colony. Unable to feed themselves, clothe, live, exist. Takeover was to follow and the Corporation achieved what it had set out to do. In return Pettifer got paid handsomely for his creations and far in excess of what they cost to produce.
Not that it was money or material wealth he was after. As he got older, he became more and more psychotic. More and more pleasure derived from whatever he could achieve re pain, disharmony, discord, slaughter amongst the colonists.
Holli had fallen foul of him. Discovering one of his Embryonic nests as they called them. She torched the lot. On one search for the nests she had received a call from those who had discovered one. Rows and rows of the things. Already for deployment. When they had removed the covers? They showed her the images. Pettifer was not her favorite person as anyone might have told you. He appeared to have taken a lot of interest in Holli. Every single one of those Petties? Had her face!
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