Chapter 56: Planning
September 2414
But how?
“How?” was the question that everyone wanted answered. D’Kera Mandukar had managed to gather an impressive number of followers from all three Romulan factions, in such a short amount of time, using nothing but her own charisma and the promise of one thing: the restoration of the Romulus System.
Some assumed she was speaking figuratively: the promise of a new united faction. They were wrong. D’Kera’s plan called for nothing short of the total prevention of the Hobus disaster that spelled the end of the Star Empire. D’Kera made grand promises and spoke of a brighter, more correct future. D’Kera spoke of a timeline in which the Undine infiltrations of the Federation and the Klingon Empire were thwarted in their infancy; of a timeline in which the Iconians were defeated at every turn; a timeline where the galaxy contained 20 billion souls more, lives saved by our intervention. But when the time came to explain how all of this could possibly be achieved, when it was time for science and specifics, rather then rhetoric and promises, the one everyone looked to was Kirina.
And the fact of the matter was, Kirina didn’t know yet. Sure, she had a general idea, taken from D’Kera herself, but implementation would require far more than an idea.
Time travel is a very real thing. Easy, even, if you know what you’re doing. The trouble is in anticipating the effects of your actions. Blindly altering the timeline is a recipe for disaster. No – every variable needs to be accounted for. To achieve the intended goals, the fleet would need to be deposited in exactly the right moment, at the right position in space, with the right people, the right equipment, and the right plan.