The Edge of Freedom #43"
By: Teilani Dane, Chief Medical Officer, [PC]
Craig Witmore, Engineer, [RNPC]
Ally , Nurse , [NPC]

Stardate: 58204.14 1200

Teilani hurried back to sickbay, accompanied by the sound of the yellow alert. As the entered the sickbay doors she felt under her feet how the Zion accelerated to warp.

“Ally, Teilani said to one of the nurses, lets get these supplies stored before they are all over the floor”. “Yes Doctor”. “Also, Teilani continued are there any appointments scheduled for today”? “There are some new civilians onboard, who need to receive a physical, but they need yet to make appointments”. “Right, we need to see if we can get them done today, the sooner the better”.

While Teilani was filing the medications she continued “Has someone from engineering been here to fix the stasis as well as the containment fields on biobed 3”? “We still have problems with it”.

“No doctor, Ally responded, their response was that they were too busy to sent someone over.

Teilani became annoyed, “Jeepers, I probably need to do it myself”. “Ally, tell them I know they are busy, but insist that they sent someone over right now”. “Yes Ma’am, I’ll ask them right now”.

After all the supplies were stored Teilani went to her office. She wanted to review her some personal logs on Cardassians, cause the question was what made them tick?.

=Computer open personal log, Dane 2beta

Cardassians

Home world: Cardassia Prime, 3rd of eight planets orbiting a single type K7V (orange dwarf star). Although these worlds – several class-F and Class H planets – provided much needed resources, their mineral wealth has long since been exhausted. The system lies in the Bajor sector. Cardassia is a planed poor in natural resources having exhausted what little silicated they had a result of their efforts to develop their space fleet. The atmosphere, though composed of nitrogen-oxygen, is thick enough to trap excess heat, making the planet warm (approx. 25 degrees).

History: Long ago, the Cardassians were a peaceful, spiritual people. Their world was home to a splendid civilization known as the First Hebitian civilization. They created incredible works of art, technically sophisticated philosophies, and extraordinary architecture. As the Cardassians exhausted their resources, starvation and disease ran rampant. People died by the millions. In order to survive, the Cardassians focussed their efforts on acquiring new territories and new resources As the military gain more power, the whole of society was reorganize to support military expansion at the cost of the very culture they sought to preserve. Cardassians call this gradual decline of their civilization vereshvar.

Personality The typical Cardassian is xenophobic, arrogant, and paranoid. The believe theirs is the greatest civilization in the universe; other lesser species are intent on preventing Cardassia from taking its rightful place as the most powerful empire in the quadrant. By their nature, they value influence over wealth or power, since the both of them can often bring you both of the latter. They like to be at the centre of a complex web of relationships, from which they can strike without fear of discover or reprisal. Why strike out against a rival when you can have others do it for you? Cardassians respond well to orders, though their instinct for opportunity and influence can compromise their command structures; it is not unheard of for a Cardassian soldier to betray his crewmates as a favor to an influential Gul. They prefer to deal with others from a position of strengths, whether that strength be military, intellectual or social. The average Cardassian makes sure that he has the upper hand.

As Teilani read through the information she was stuck by several questions. - Why gave the Cardassians their loyalty to a human? - Is their a way to influence them to give up this loyalty? - Why “…..

As she was thinking of the next question, she got interrupted by voices in the examination room. She stood up in order to check who made all that noise, O yeah she could have guessed it. It was Mr Craig Witmore.

“Well Mr Witmore, Teilani said, appreciated that you could find some time to get our biobeds fixed”. “He.. Doc, Craig said with a twinkle in his eyes, for you anything”.

He grabbed his tools and went to work.