Everyone's had a chance to recover somewhat, to stop reeling or at least try. Now that people are at least somewhat closer to being on balance again, it's time to say goodbye
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Re: Speaker for the Deadcaptain_jtkNovember 18 2009, 03:06:54 UTC
Kirk steps up to the makeshift podium and places his hands on either side of it, surveying the assembled crew. he's done this before, for members of his own crew. However, it's never been on this scale before. He sighs softly and shakes his head. He hopes he'll do.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we're gathered here today to bid farewell to a group of beings that we, unfortunately, never knew. A group of sentients who would've joined us, eventually, on our journey through uncharted waters and into the unknown. They did not come from our worlds and they would not have been familiar to us. However, I would like to think that they would have been welcome, that they would have become as much a part of our crew as we all have."
He paused and then continued, "And while we never will know them, we can at least do them the honor of remembering them. Of knowing that they existed. Of keeping at least that much alive, in all of us. They and their worlds may be gone, but we will carry on. We will move forward. And although we may not mourn them as long nor as deeply as one we knew far longer then they, their loss is still felt by us and by the multiverse."
"My words will never be able to do them justice nor will I be able to explain who they they were. All I can offer to them is a farewell and to let them know that we, at least, will honor them and we will not forget. That we will do our best to ensure that something such as this does not happen again; that we pledge to keep those not yet awakened safe until they do. Farewell... and godspeed."
Kirk steps back from the podium and snaps off a salute to the fallen, before folding his hands in front of him, grim-faced.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we're gathered here today to bid farewell to a group of beings that we, unfortunately, never knew. A group of sentients who would've joined us, eventually, on our journey through uncharted waters and into the unknown. They did not come from our worlds and they would not have been familiar to us. However, I would like to think that they would have been welcome, that they would have become as much a part of our crew as we all have."
He paused and then continued, "And while we never will know them, we can at least do them the honor of remembering them. Of knowing that they existed. Of keeping at least that much alive, in all of us. They and their worlds may be gone, but we will carry on. We will move forward. And although we may not mourn them as long nor as deeply as one we knew far longer then they, their loss is still felt by us and by the multiverse."
"My words will never be able to do them justice nor will I be able to explain who they they were. All I can offer to them is a farewell and to let them know that we, at least, will honor them and we will not forget. That we will do our best to ensure that something such as this does not happen again; that we pledge to keep those not yet awakened safe until they do. Farewell... and godspeed."
Kirk steps back from the podium and snaps off a salute to the fallen, before folding his hands in front of him, grim-faced.
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