.
You ask,
and so I'll tell you that the Hegemony Wars changed everything,
altered the political layout of four entire quadrants of space.
.
And I remember…
I remember the day that Vulcan died as the day on which some of us realized,
that the Gorn Hegemony would settle for nothing less than everything,
and so we readied ourselves to face them,
though it cost us our careers, though the odds against us were dire,
but frankly we were out of options,
for the Gorn don't take prisoners,
or accept surrender.
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For most, those days are nothing but a distant memory now,
but I still remember,
that before the battle of Regulus, I was an explorer,
before Sigma 9, I was a soldier,
before Wolfram, I was a man with hope... but that battle was made bitter by defeat.
Still, at the end of it,
a mix of disparate ships and strategies coalesced into a true fighting force,
and thus the Bands were born,
.
And so we prospered, and rapidly grew in strength and cunning,
becoming a shiv in the Hegemony's back,
and as thanks the Gorn made a massive push to wipe us Humans out.
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The prospect of extinction loomed large in my eyes that day,
so I grabbed hold the reins of power,
and I did those things which needed doing,
to stand against the Gorn,
and eventually give life to Vulcan,
once more.
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— dictated by the Tyrant, to the 3rd of his children, Lydia T'Les Tucker.