[Maketh considers Drake, wondering where to start.]
I don't know how it is in your home, but in mine, we have space travel. And as such, many habital planets. Many different people, many different beliefs and systems of government. And little order.
[She leans back in her chair.]
There was a war when I was young that destroyed most of the infrastructure, on both sides. In the aftermath, the few groups that had any military force to speak of united behind a single leader. That became the Empire. I enlisted as an infantry trooper, but I was recruited into the new officer corps. We were all -- quiet young.
[At this, she's quiet for a moment.]
I don't mean to excuse what was done. But you ought to know people were starving. Bowing to the Empire was better than risking a life with the warlords. We wanted to fix things.
no subject
I don't know how it is in your home, but in mine, we have space travel. And as such, many habital planets. Many different people, many different beliefs and systems of government. And little order.
[She leans back in her chair.]
There was a war when I was young that destroyed most of the infrastructure, on both sides. In the aftermath, the few groups that had any military force to speak of united behind a single leader. That became the Empire. I enlisted as an infantry trooper, but I was recruited into the new officer corps. We were all -- quiet young.
[At this, she's quiet for a moment.]
I don't mean to excuse what was done. But you ought to know people were starving. Bowing to the Empire was better than risking a life with the warlords. We wanted to fix things.