Peace

[daiseechain]

This weeks b7friday theme was Peace, Hope, and Joy.

I originally intended to write something jolly. Yeah. Well.

A word of warning:All the fun has fled. Which means this is a melancholy piece inspired by recent events. It's also longer than a usual drabble, as it just kept going and going. It was threatening to turn into a full length fic, but as

Comments

[hafren]

This is interesting, but I think it'd be quite hard for the Feds to convince their world in general that rebels rather than aliens had done for Star One - too many of their own armed forces must know otherwise. But the idea of people trying to escape the past by destroying all their own memories is fascinating and frightening.

[daiseechain]

Thank you for the feedback. While the major damage was certainly done by the invasion, at the time the failures began the Federation wasn't aware of the invasion plan. It seems to me that they would likely have needed a convenient scapegoat for the environmental failures, and the rebels probably would have been as good as any excuse. Certainly, after the invasion there would have been no blaming the rebels, but I assumed there were some months between the floods on Vilka, and the battle at the frontier.
I made some rather large assumptions in this story, and I know I didn't explain many of them adequately, but I think they would require a much larger story to flesh out properly, which I simply didn't have time for.
The idea of voluntary memory supression treatments came from discussion on the news of victims of the tsunami being stuck with the memory of the horror for the rest of their lives. I just wondered how many of them would choose to erase those memories if they could.