Paradise Violated
"Ah good I prefer to debate. So many are always willing to solve problems with violence, this will be a nice change. We can talk in my hut, whoever convinces the other shall take control of the other's followers."
You realize that gaining an army of Lizards would help immensely.
"Agreed."
You both enter the hut sit across from each other, alone. Kruz speaks first.
"Shall I tell you my tale of how I found my destiny? My team was deployed on this planet probably much like yours. We went through the usual motions, until we encountered these natives. Of course as you probably know, they're mostly hostile, but somehow I sensed a certain honor in these scaly natives. They are like the Mazatt. A race of warriors, and they're completely trustworthy unlike all the other races we've encountered. Yes, they were primitive, but they do not deserve enslavement. I wanted to try to do something new, make peace with them and perhaps eventually incorporate them into the Dominion, but not as a slave race."
Interesting point of view for a Mazatt, the Empire of course does this when possible, but the Dominion never does. The Lizards are shorter than the Mazatt, perhaps that's why Kruz had an affinity for them.
"Of course others in my team felt I was being soft. A few tried to challenge my position as leader, I had to slay them, but soon my entire squad rose up against me, not content to just shoot me and get it over with, they beat me, and threw me over a small cliff. They thought me dead I suppose, but I was not out of it yet. Even with my head bad head wound I struggled to get up and I crawled inside a nearby cave, and that's when destiny found me, and I found THIS!
The Mazatt brandishes a coin! One exactly like the ones you obtained from the Elojin.
"I knew what it was; I had heard the legends of the Xont before. I never paid too much attention to them before, but somehow I knew this was real. I just had to find the ruins of the Xont, but then I fell into unconsciousness. That's when the scalies found me. The fact they never ate me and brought me back to full health only confirmed that I had been spared for something greater. When they saw that I held this coin, they made me their leader. My old life was gone; I was discarded by a system that is bound for ultimate destruction anyway. These scalies are my new people, this planet my new home. I have visions that confirm what I know in my heart, that I am destined to find and use the Xont technology on this planet and bring about a new age in the galaxy."
Well you can see he's convinced himself, now see if you can convince him that he's entirely wrong and this is all in his head.
You realize that gaining an army of Lizards would help immensely.
"Agreed."
You both enter the hut sit across from each other, alone. Kruz speaks first.
"Shall I tell you my tale of how I found my destiny? My team was deployed on this planet probably much like yours. We went through the usual motions, until we encountered these natives. Of course as you probably know, they're mostly hostile, but somehow I sensed a certain honor in these scaly natives. They are like the Mazatt. A race of warriors, and they're completely trustworthy unlike all the other races we've encountered. Yes, they were primitive, but they do not deserve enslavement. I wanted to try to do something new, make peace with them and perhaps eventually incorporate them into the Dominion, but not as a slave race."
Interesting point of view for a Mazatt, the Empire of course does this when possible, but the Dominion never does. The Lizards are shorter than the Mazatt, perhaps that's why Kruz had an affinity for them.
"Of course others in my team felt I was being soft. A few tried to challenge my position as leader, I had to slay them, but soon my entire squad rose up against me, not content to just shoot me and get it over with, they beat me, and threw me over a small cliff. They thought me dead I suppose, but I was not out of it yet. Even with my head bad head wound I struggled to get up and I crawled inside a nearby cave, and that's when destiny found me, and I found THIS!
The Mazatt brandishes a coin! One exactly like the ones you obtained from the Elojin.
"I knew what it was; I had heard the legends of the Xont before. I never paid too much attention to them before, but somehow I knew this was real. I just had to find the ruins of the Xont, but then I fell into unconsciousness. That's when the scalies found me. The fact they never ate me and brought me back to full health only confirmed that I had been spared for something greater. When they saw that I held this coin, they made me their leader. My old life was gone; I was discarded by a system that is bound for ultimate destruction anyway. These scalies are my new people, this planet my new home. I have visions that confirm what I know in my heart, that I am destined to find and use the Xont technology on this planet and bring about a new age in the galaxy."
Well you can see he's convinced himself, now see if you can convince him that he's entirely wrong and this is all in his head.