The Deconstruction of Loss - Part Two

Posted on Fri Mar 13th, 2020 @ 5:58pm by Chief Warrant Officer Courtney "Warhowl" Yamaguchi

Mission: Mission 95: Through the Looking Glass
Location: Captain's Quarters - USS Farragut
Timeline: 1730Hrs - July 25th, 2392

Captain Marie Yamaguchi sat down behind her desk in her quarters, she let out a soft sigh as she picked up the large picture placed there, memories of happier times came back, like a gentle scent on the wind of her cousins and her siblings. Before her aunt, Rachael was murdered by her cousin Torilla in the name of justice before her uncle Benjamin was killed at the hands of the Borg. Before One of her cousins was raped and murdered at the hands of several men who wanted their hormones slaked and they got too frisky with Heather Yamaguchi. They killed her when she tried to fight them off. More or less the same thing happened to her elder sister Coral as a year earlier.

Marie remembered the fate of every single member of the family she was a part of, how her own parents both fell in battle against the Klingons, one of them was early in the war against the Klinks and the second was just weeks before the final surrender. Her brother Daniel and her sister in law, plus all of their children were all slain when a Klingon scientist who apparently had been driven mad by the losses he himself had taken, had himself detonated a superweapon in Earth Spacedock. Then there was Torilla herself and her three children along with Talon, all five of them had disappeared on active duty, being condemned as traitors as a result of this.

Her own sister was one of the few survivors of the USS Shield of Vega. for that she was condemned as one step above a full out traitor, she was blamed for the destruction of her own ship even though command had classified the incident as top-level one security, eyes only to a very select few people. For living and not dying as she should have done, she was stripped of her commission and reassigned to the Farragut as a Master Chief, suited now to fight and die in the service of the empire and nothing else. She was now worthless to everyone around her, except to Marie herself. Her family had been whittled down to just her and her sister who one could argue had gone insane from her experiences.

The Federation. Marie had come to realize was turning into something it was never designed to become and yet it was happening anyway, she knew it was wrong yet she did not care about the matter, she only cared about dealing with the enemies of the Empire of Planets rather than helping the member worlds.

Marie smiled. "I care not for the suffering of the minions... I care about their helping us to rid ourselves of the enemies of the Empire." she sighed as she recalled the details of the fall of her family. The Bremer family had simply taken advantage of the situation for their own advantage, they had risen in the place of the Yamaguchi family as they had fallen. This was partly because of the fact that they had more members by far but they also had better chances recently.

Marie knew she would never be able to rebuild her family so she had simply gotten rid of everything and had left nothing to Victoria as she had judged her last remaining sibling far too unstable to be worth anything to anyone, the fact was Victoria had shown she was unstable and couldn't handle anything was self evident and she didn't need to get her sibling checked by anyone.

Marie tapped the display before her, she was master and commander of the USS Farragut and that was how it would remain, assuming her Exec didn't turn on her first but she had several safeguards in place to prevent any uprisings from getting out of hand.

Marie smiled as she began speaking. "Captains Log: Supplemental." she began her log entry. "Today we conducted more drills and training in preparation for our forthcoming assignment to deal with several traitors and to complete their assignment ourselves..." she commented. "We will succeed..." before Marie added. "By Blood and fire, I will quench the thirst of the enemies with the blood of their women and children... By the fire of my weapons, I will quench their rage... Before I slaughter all who oppose me.... in the name of the Empire. We will crush All who stand against us." Yamaguchi growled softly as she finished her log entry with the usual "End log entry."

Marie tapped the display once before she sat back in her chair, a soft smile on her face. However, it was not one of joy but rather it was one of unbridled malice of horrors to come.