Star Force: Excursion (SF46)
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Circumstances against the lizards took that choice away from them, forcing them to turn their encounters into a bloodbath. The Archons didn’t like that, but weren’t hesitant when it was necessary. In this situation Morgan could have taken this butcher prisoner and sent him to an isolation cell for the next half century…but she hadn’t, and Davis finally glimpsed the burden she and the others were under. With so much darkness in the galaxy they were taking an overly positive perspective regarding their enemies, not because they hoped they would change their ways, but to give them the chance regardless.
That allowed them to forgo the ‘gray’ areas by risking a miscalculation downside of giving them better than they deserved rather than a potential injustice. In this situation there was no ‘gray’ area, this man was a monster, and while they could have eliminated the threat he posed to others with confinement, Morgan had simply had enough with the kid gloves and fought back at the enemy.
It wasn’t until now that he realized how much she and the others had been holding back for fear of making a mistake. They’d incorporated that ‘safety net’ into their combat procedures, and had ordered their subordinates to employ them as well, but knowing that there was no ambiguity here she’d dealt with the threat how, Davis thought, she and the others wanted to deal with their enemies…fight them head on.
Taking him into custody would have been an injustice, after a fashion, and Morgan, as she’d said, hadn’t felt like it. The murderer got what he deserved, even if it was a breach of protocol. Despite how others might react, it had been the right call.
Which led him to his fourth conclusion…which was how he was going to deal with the ADZ alien population. It’d been top on his priority list ever since he’d started this tour with Morgan, and now it finally dawned on him what he had to do…not the details, which he’d work out later, but the basic premise on which the ADZ would have to be structured.
He had to annihilate the racial divides, destroying their cultures, their beliefs, their traditions, and their phobias…creating a single Alliance culture with Star Force at its core.
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