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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: [QB] [q]Snay, I like the stand you are taking. However, I'm not sure it's strictly kosher to ransom the Navilli crew like that and offer their ship to the T'g'nari not least because you may inadvertantly give the Navilli's potential new enemy a good look at their technology and sensitive data. Neither are our allies formally or in any sort of alience with us. It is their own dispute, so while a short sharp shock from the Fed might help, if it goes wrong you may have seriously destabilised the whole system.[/q] I don't think I'm ransoming the Navalli crew - I am willing to have a Federation starship provide assistance by evacuating the crew from a heavily damaged Navalli starship that is going to be overtaken and probably attacked by T'G'Nari warships. In my opinion, were I to evacuate the Navalli crew and scuttle their ship; or tow the Navalli ship, I would almost certainly push the T'G'Nari to open hostility with the Federation. The goal, then, is to defuse the situation by allowing both sides a victory: for the T'G'Nari, the victory is the capture of a Navalli starship, which the Navalli government may be able to reacquire through diplomatic negotiation; for the Navalli, the victory is the safety of their crew. Certainly the acquisition of the Navalli vessel by the T'G'Nari may be regrettable, however, if the situation is looked at with the Federation factor removed, the simple reality is that the T'G'Nari would intercept their opponent before additional Navalli vessels could respond. There are four reasonable outcomes. 1.) The T'G'Nari might destroy the Navalli vessel with the loss of all or most of that ship's crew. 2.) the Navalli might scuttle their own ship. 3.) the T'G'Nari might board and capture the Navalli ship. 4.) the Navalli might be able to outfight and destroy the T'G'Nari attack force (I consider this to be the least likely scenario). Therefore, as the acquisition of the Navalli ship by the T'G'Nari is already a very strong likelihood, the case can be made that the course of conduct I have ordered will not actually affect the outcome of what would otherwise be the result of the internal affairs of two sovereign governments. However - if the T'G'Nari force were able to intercept the Navalli ship, the resulting fight would likely kick off a rapidly moving scenario of events which would result in open hostilities between the T'G'Nari and the Navalli, and I would not be certain that the T'G'Nari would not view the Federation as aligned with the Navalli. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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