I have no excuse after the events of losing my dearest friend, the husband of my also best friend Admiral Lauren Saint Mauraine. It was a rare assassination attempt with a neuronic grenade which sent her to his side at Beta Opuichi in the Dekka quadrant. When the most powerful man in the ComFederation is dying in a hospital, tongues will wag. Of course I was at home on earth, and the suspect list was a mile long. Of course no one pointed a finger, but my dearest companion Angus Sinclair, who I had recently married in haste was accused. His brother Douglas had been one of a dissident group, and because of the ties between the newly annointed security chief Micheal Garrison there wasn't any clue as to why the great witch hunt had begun.
I knew it wasn't safe, and even after leaving earth for University One, the very fact that Angus was put on trial and summarily executed for the association didn't surprise me. Already the ties were fraying around the quadrants as the Miang, the race of cats along with their hybrid cousins the Khaffiri were raging through the outer rim colonies in the gamma quadrant. How could the new security chief trust the two meter or more tall Miangese who had already claimed their own Jyhad on all humans in their realm.... We would never know... I was still teaching Aldous's son Saul Graham how to be a good teacher in the very department that his father created. A war was started, and now I am slowly losing all ability to teach.
I do look at Saul and wonder again how the ill mannered Myrama D'naing, the ochre to red colored Omegan wife of the late Aldous ever brought this son into the world. Saul is kind and irritating like his father... well irritating anyway. I look to him to soon at the age of twenty one to take over, as my droid chair is being prepared to help me through with a paralysis I never thought would ever happen.
The war is on, as to who will become the next chairman of the ComFederation, will it be D'elanne the Andraurian, or another lackluster earth product? One would not know for now, as the earth congress rags on Willoughby center the axis for all of the ComFed's politics to do something before a power vacuum is created. How will they understand that their own conservative base has created the vacuum to start with....
Well I hope you enjoy this series... more later
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