After Action Report- Meroset 347

Posted on Sat Nov 3rd, 2018 @ 5:51pm by Commander Rita Paris & Captain Enalia Telvan

Mission: Hera v Hera
Location: Meroset 347
Timeline: 2395, recovery, Battle of Hera's World

The lost colonies had returned home, to find the planet of their origin changed greatly in the generations they had been cut off. Now an agrarian bronze age culture, it had problems. There were still around 90 Amazons about, armed and armored. They had taken to the mountains to regroup and plan. Advanced scans watched their patterns then coordinated with medical to strategically transport knockout gas bombs that the Amazon's armors didn't help them resist in the least. The Amazons were captured bloodlessly, stripped of their arms and armor, and turned over to the temporary governing body.

Negotiations had broken down when the men wanted a vote, and the women weren't terribly fond of the idea. It was only at the lost colony's insistence that a man have a seat on their burgeoning council that it was settled peacefully.

The minotaurs scattered, spreading out across the world to secrete themselves and wait for the return of their goddess. Bored, many of them would dig labyrinths that would remain long after they were legend.

The science team had some work to do with the statues and transformed individuals. Studying the living marble people's eyebeams, after some work, several technological marvels were discovered in Hera's inner sanctum that seemed to make not only polymorphism possible, but the reverse possible, due to the traces of original DNA inside the people themselves. The petrified stone people were a bit more difficult to handle, but with some work and reverse psychology and re-engineering with the original marble people, it had been possible to transform a few people from stone back into flesh and blood.

The Diplomatic Corps has taken over with the arrival of the USS Forthright, yet another Oberth class ship rebuilt for the modern era. Captain Josie Galsha has delivered a small detachment of scientists and diplomats to oversee the final cleanup efforts, recover the Starfleet personnel that survived, and aid the Merosians in rebuilding their homeworld.

The outer colonies shared some holovids with us of what their world used to look like. The southern continent was always poor and favored the old ways, which is why Hera chose to settle there. That and her temple was there. As for the now barren two northern continents... They were once covered in cities that put the ones on Earth, Trill, and most other Federation worlds to shame, with sweeping farmland and beautiful countryside between them. It was a utopia.

Hera wiped it all out in three days on her own. Those that could, escaped to the colonies or to the southern continent. She had then proceeded to beat the rest of the planet back to the bronze age over the course of a generation, and breed monstrosities from the population.

The Merosians already have terraforming operations underway to reseed life in the northern continents, and things already look promising. Within a few years they should have a semblance of a civilization returning to their home soils.

For all the blood that was spilled, we reunited a people and removed a tyrant. Hera committed mass genocide and our actions were necessary in the end, but I have to wonder about something. Every tyrant feels justified in their actions, and she coherently gave very plausible justification, though did not lay out her plans very clearly. She's mentioned that the Titans are returning and named three of them specifically. Were her actions a means to the defeat of them? Having defeated her, we'll now have to take responsibility for that burden; but this then raises another question.

What will we have to sacrifice to defeat these Titans?

As we depart the Meroset system, we do so with more questions than answers discovered. But we will continue to seek those answers amongst the stars.