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Nothing happened that night. It would be the following morning when Cflen Ljne and Ariel were ordered to attend to explain? Before they could they were interrupted by the arrival of..
The Judiciary welcomes Humana Cardinal Xopha.“ 'So this' Thought Ljne is the card you are playing today. What was it she had said?
“The Cflen, are an accursed race, who have done nothing, except wallow in their own deceit.“
Ljne was unflustered by the accusations. “How many worlds do the Cardinals take tithes from, tributes from. Those who they control their trade and influence their economic well being by dictating who will trade with whom and who they will NOT do business with?
Even if it means that colony or planet suffers, to the point of starvation of its people? The word that is echoed across the worlds, WHO will dare to DEFY the Cardinals?“
It was mutual hatred, at first sight. Xopha and Liseane? If they had been let loose they would have gladly ripped each others throats out! Stood opposite each other, their audience transfixed as they battled it out, with accusations and counter accusations.
Xopha was quick, to show the other races all the amazing things that the Humana had done, had created. How they had worked with others, had formed alliances and protected weaker races. “We know the story of how the Cflen came to have such hatred in their hearts. BUT you cannot judge a whole world, a race, by the actions of a few, who are cruel and unjust.Those who were hunted by their own and were it not for the fact that they escaped? Would have been punished!
How many of you, have suffered at the hands of the slavers? the mighty Jogarth or the Vendarans with their Clonectic armies. Was the great war of Sxanq and other great battles a waste when we line up as brother as sister to stand, to link hands, to one purpose.
To be free, to have the right to be US, to be different, whatever our failings, for only a would be tyrant, thinks themselves perfect. No I say to you, the Cflen are an accursed race, who have done nothing, except wallow in their own self pity and deceit.
THEY are the real BEAST amongst us because they have NO FEAR they do not want PEACE they do not SEEK JUSTICE, they seek one thing and one thing only. Tainted and forever blinded by their rage. In their anger, their wrath, their thirst for revenge they cannot see beyond that because they do not wish to. They would have no reason to see the annihilation of the Humana.
That blindness, conceit, arrogance; that will drive them to fulfill the one prophecy, they maintain, is their right to fulfil!
Several colonies have already suffered at the hands of the Cflen, attacked and slaughtered with other races forced to watch their savagery, their evil?
The Cflen are right, we are standing in the very shadow of the BEAST! THEIR shadow..! “ If Xopha had sought to dominate proceedings, her initial entrance had succeeded in doing just that. Not without respite from Ljne.
“The Cardinals, perhaps those present here have forgotten those on Skieja p5 who’s people were almost wiped out by a plague! The anti dote withheld by the Cardinals until it was deemed at the right price to sell it?”
“A lie, a blatent lie! We were cleared by the enquiry into that alleged incident.“
"NO! You were absolved of any blame, by a tribunal, that had been bought and paid for, by the Cardinals.” Ljne stopped turned to beckon as two figures moved forward. Xopha recognised them as Kiepe from Skieja p5? They inserted the disc into the console. The huge screen in front of the assembly flickered into life. All too visible some dubious questionable goings on between a Cardinal and? Clearly the accusation had some foundation in what Ljne had claimed to be the truth!
A blow for Xopha and a hard slap for the Humana. Ljne was more than aware of the murmuring within the assembly.
In HER favor! She removed the disc, to insert another disc. This time it showed a re enactment. “According to the Holy Book of Geanne this is what happened when your race, reached out, touched our world.
Let all of you present see, what the Humana gifted us with. Sport! As they played us against the Fodawke. Let us NOT forget the love and affection, you showed us, as you abused my people, our children. As you butchered our males, maimed, tortured experimented on us, then degraded us further with the final insult as you YOU and YOUR RACE, the Humana, the BEAST.
Played the role of the CREATOR, taking from us our wings, transforming my people forever into the IMAGE of what you saw as YOUR IMAGE, as it should be. The final degradation for us, when you realized it would take, four drops of your blood to seal our fate.
Had we, not, managed to summon courage and strength to hit back what wonderful new experiences would you have indulged in? To treat us to? We won or did we? The BEAST defeated on our home world. Throwing the balance that we had for centuries maintained between us and the Fodawke into chaos. A nightmare even we never dreamt could equal the BEAST itself.
The b'stard adaptation of the Fodawke, spawn of the BEAST, its pet to evolve to a level where we were unable to stop the ever increasing numbers. Hunting us night and day until we were almost extinct. Our only salvation brought about with a twist of fate that saw us seize the opportunity to take our revenge.
Even when we truly believed we were beaten down, to our last. We never gave up hope as a people, fuelled by our hatred of the BEAST and all it had ever stood for.
Let me tell you all. Only when the last of the BEAST is slain will the Cflen find peace. I tell this assembly ‘BE CAREFUL, WHO you invite to dinner as your guest. You may get invited back? Where the Humana, the BEAST are concerned?
DO not be deceived into believing it will be, as their equal."
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