= Padassa Trading Station - Quorum Space (Romulan Annexed) =
Regina Harker strode briskly down the corridor of the station towards the room where the man she'd come to meet was waiting for her. Though she'd been on the small backwater station many times, she often had trouble navigating her way through the maze-like layout that was common to Quorum architecture.
Though Quorum space was annexed by the Romulans, it remained fairly autonomous in its governance save for the strong presence of the Anx Militia (so named for the militaristic Anxinar species that makes up most of its numbers, a species basically brainwashed by the Tal'Shiar), a group highly loyal to the Romulan Empire of which Regina was once a member. But that was many years ago, before she became disillusioned with the propaganda spread by the Tal'Shiar to keep the Militia in check. So she decided to disappear and join the Anx Rebel Alliance, a group consisting of Anxinar, Quorum races and a strong number of Unificationist Romulans.
Regina's mother, a former Romulan Senator, was one of these Unificationists. Senator Prekata was still in office when she'd met Regina's father, a handsome Starfleet Special Forces major accompanying a Federation delegation to Romulus. They had a brief affair, and when it was over, Major Jonathan Harker returned home to his wife and son, Nicolas. Several years later, shortly after the youngest Harker, Erik, was born, Jonathan was killed in action; he never knew he had a daughter, which was how Prekata preferred it. Still, she gave Regina a human name and taught her as much about human culture as she could before sending her off to a Romulan-run Anxinar school where she spent most of her life until adulthood before returning to the Empire.
Reaching the end of the corridor and her destination, Regina stopped in front of the tall Romulan man that stood in front of the door. "I'm here to see Harker," she told him in a firm tone.
He nodded brusquely and turned a dial on the wall which caused the hexagonally shaped door to swing inwards. She walked into a small antechamber where an armed Romulan was seated at a triangular table and an Anxinar man stood besides a second door. A moment later the door opened and Nicolas Harker stepped out, followed by another Romulan.
"Regina!" he exclaimed as if to an old friend. "Finally, you're here. Please, have a seat."
"I'd rather stand," she said coldly.
"If you insist," Nicolas smiled, a smile that seemed strangely warm. "Shall we get down to business?"
"I got you Summers and the child," Regina said. "They're on the shuttle."
"I know," Nicolas replied. "I had them moved."
Regina felt the blood leave her face, but tried to keep her cool as she glared at her half-brother. "We had a deal. I kept up my end of the bargain, now it's your turn. I want to see my mother."
"You will, in a few minutes," Nicolas said calmly, than gave a quick nod to the Romulan next to him who moved swiftly towards Regina.
She had anticipated some kind of deception; Nicolas may be a Human, but he was just as manipulative and deceiving as any Romulan spy... and criminally insane. Not hesitating, she pressed the button on her chronometer that would transport her back to the shuttle.
But nothing happened.
"Transport inhibitor," Nicolas smiled sweetly, waving his finger in the air. "Besides, there's no one left one your shuttle. Alive, at least."
"We had a deal, Nicolas!" she screamed at him as the two Romulans grabbed her by the arm. "You promised you'd release my mother in exchange for Summers!"
"Oh come now, don't be so," Nicolas chided as he stepped towards her and took her tear-streaked face in his hand. Regina's eyes burned with hatred, but Nicolas looked at her as if they were full of love. "I'm sorry we never had the chance to get to know each other better..."
"Why?" she gasped as she fought against the two men that held her captive. "What clout do you have with the Tal'Shiar!? You're a mere Human! A Federation traitor at that!"
Nicolas laughed heartily and stepped back, turning away from her. He continued to laugh as if she'd just told him the funniest joke she's ever heard. "I don't work for the Tal'Shiar, Regina. And it's laughable to even think that they work for me... can you imagine, the Tal'Shiar, the greatest intelligence force in the Beta Quadrant, working for me? Hah!"
He grew quiet suddenly, his face somber as he stared towards the wall as if seeing something. "You see, it's the whispers... they tell us what to do. We're all just pawns in their endgame. Blindly devoted pawns..."
Without so much as blinking, Nicolas drew his disruptor in one swift motion and fired the bright green beam. In seconds his sister was vaporised, the suddenness of it sending the two Romulan guards reeling backward with shock. The Anxinar militia man just stood watching the space where a moment ago a beautiful woman had stood.
"Say hello to your mother for me," Nicolas said softly as he slipped the disruptor back into its holster.
= End Log =
Regina Harker
Former Cell Leader
Anx Rebel Alliance
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Nicolas Harker
Federation Defector
Romulan Star Empire
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[NPCs by Bren]
