Chapter 4-Making Friends
4 Days After Battle of Eridani
It took a whole lot of convincing, mainly by someone actually showing the Vulcans an episode of Enterprise to the Vulcans, but now they were convinced that something was strange here, many of the events depicted never happened. For one they never even heard of earth until 4 days ago, let alone observed them. And many of the species that were told of they had no idea, Klingons? Tellarite? It was a very confusing and frustrating situation, luckily by the Endeavour driving the Aschen off, the Vulcans were more then willing to initiate diplomatic relationships, beginning with the telling of the history between the two races.
Ambassador Su'vok started the meeting, he was an extremely quick witted being, even by Vulcan standards, he took his job seriously and expected his counterpart, the lucky Captain Davis, to do the same
He began with the explanation, "Long ago, when our people first discovered hyperdrive, one of our vessels, the Ser'ak reported they had discovered an alien vessel in orbit a world nearly 200 light years from Vulcan, we initiated first contact with them and the situation turned hostile, the vessel immediately fired on the Ser'ak, and with its limited armament returned fire." He sighed "The entire conflict lasted a few dozen seconds before we lost contact with the vessel, we dared not return to help them, if one of our very few armed vessels was eliminated with such ease then nothing else we had would make much difference."
Davis nodded, understanding the logic behind the situation "please continue"
"Fortunately it was discovered that most of the crew managed to make fall on the planet before ramming into the hostile vessel, and the crew discovered a subjected people, very similar in physiology to yourselves," taking the time to notice the similarities, "yes these people do look like your own, logical dictates that it would be a lost colony captured by those 'jaffa'?"
Davis shook his head "No, from what you describe, this world was a goa'uld slave planet and it was one of their ships that attacked you, they are known for being somewhat….fanatical."
Su'vok nodded slightly, "yes I can very well believe, but continuing on, the survivors managed to spread amongst the population and slowly developed them to a level that they could fight back the goa'uld with, it was a bloody conflict at that, only 6000 people survived, but they prevailed and began to rebuild their society under the teachings of Surak and began to adapt Vulcan technology to their own."
"It was not until 300 of your years ago that the Vulcan Confederation made official contact with these people, apparently their first hyperspace vessel made a direct jump to Vulcan, and a trusting relationship was born between my people….and the Aschen."
This is when Davis raised an eye-brow himself gee, didn't see that coming he thought sarcastically "But that doesn't explain why you've started shooting each other, what happened to cause a war between your two people?" he asked
Su'vok nodded gravely "while our two people prospered as one, the Aschen became arrogant with their power, they believed they should interfere with the younger races development, give them a boost as you would say, but that was not enough for them, for their world was not enough to stabilize their current population, so they covertly turned these worlds under them into farming colonies, by reducing the birthrate of the people down to nearly 1, we could not tolerate such an action and immediately cut relations to the Aschen, in hopes that this would cause them to think over this mistake."
"I take it, it didn't work did it?"
"No, it only caused them to begin research into medical technologies on a massive scale, now that they could not rely on our then extensive knowledge on the subject. By doing so they hoped of accelerating the process of subjection even further, by then their technological growth surpassed ours, and left us in a state of dismay because of it."
Davis pulled out a laptop from his carry-case, entered a few keywords and passed it to Su'vok, "I've been doing some research into the Aschen from our own knowledge, and apparently they tried to pull the same stunt on us about 8 years ago, it failed due a little of temporal manipulation from a group of our people from the future."
Su'vok raised an eyebrow, as if he was going to ask, but shook the thought off and continued reading through the reports made by General Hammond "So you are the people that unleashed the black hole upon the Aschen?" he asked
Davis was taken back, "We didn't intend them to lie to use, it was a failsafe to ensure that they didn't screw us over, I mean how were we sup…." He was cut off by the ambassador
"Your own species are responsible for the downfall of another, if it was anyone but the Aschen, or these goa'uld you speak of, we would cut relations with you completely." He took considered what to say next, it would be illogical to lose such an ally for doing something that his people would do themselves, if only for the greater good, "however we have known of the Aschens arrogance long before you, it is why we left them to their own means in the first place, but because of this act they have begun a campaign of destruction against my people."
Davis sighed "why do I get the feeling you want our help then?"
"Captain, we are no longer a warlike species, we have grown from that stage early in our development, and now it may lead us to our downfall, while we have an armed fleet, you have seen for yourself how ineffective they are against the Aschen. Please if your people were able to spare but 3 more vessels to aid us, we would be eternally grateful, and as such we will offer some of our technology to you." It didn't matter, holding the emotions or not, Davis could see the hopeful glint in his eyes.
"But what sort of technology could you off…." Once again he was cut off when an aide of the ambassador teleported into the room in a flash of light.
The quick and agile Vulcan mind of the ambassador came up with an appropriate conclusion, "I believe Captain that would be an ideal example."