Re: OOC: Clarifications and Chatter: Four To Doomsday
A piece of fan fic drabble:
She was brought into the large ampitheater. In their finery, the assembled colleges of Gallifrey looked down upon her.
She, the renegade, wasn't dressed in the burnt orange robes of her house, Prydon - she was instead wearing a white blouse, a red tie, a brown vest, and a pleated skirt with flat shoes. She looked at the assemblage defiantly.
Borusa, Lord President of Gallifrey,clacked his staff against the floor thrice. "The assembled colleges are here to judge the renegade known as the Traveller. The sentence has been decided - exile to Earth, of R-Space, for 100 years. In accordance with tradition, however, you will be allowed to address the assembly in accordance with the ancient traditions."
"It was your interference that enabled a primitive culture to leap ahead of their technological development by 1,000 years. Your actions directly contributed to the bio-organic technology known as Robotech to be thrust into the hands of a people who were not prepared to use it. Your hands were involved in the near-genocide of the terran people of M-Space, and their relations, the Zentraedi. Your actions draw the species known as the Invid to that world, bringing about what you had tried to avoid. You have gifted these people with 4 Robotech wars."
"I, as the Lord President, ask - what do you have to say for yourself?"
The youngish looking, somewhat chubby, black haired woman coughed and cleared her throat.
"I did it. Yes, I did. That's in the record."
"Sure, the Robotech Master, the Invid Regent - they're just some local tyrants in another universe. I could have just gone home."
Her cheeks were growing red as the anger was rising in her.
"But if I don't stand for the defense of people's choices, loved ones, and lives, then I'm a hypocrite, just like all of you. If I hadn't intervened, they would have found Zor's ship. That Earth would have become a slave colony so much sooner. I'm guilty simply of giving the locals a gun so they could defend themselves with. And they won their wars, not me. I just gave things a kick at the beginning. I won't even go into the Krayloss, and how they might have combined Robotech with vortex technology."
"I don't just protect people, I protect their choices. You don't. That's what will always make me better than the bunch of you."
Borusa merely hmphed at the girl's words.
"As a Time Lord of considerably greater years than you, Travellendatura of the House of Prydon, a warning - you may find yourself one day regretting those words."
He clacked his staff again, three times, as she was lead out.