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Slowly the Dominion fleet travelled through the inner space of the Bajorans home system. The fleet comprised only a handful of warships, but for this operation the solitary transport vessel was considered the key.

Kai Baren peered out of the balcony window of the Great Temple. Ever since the Dominion had been forced to react when the protesters turned violent, incidents of revolt had surged. It was getting dangerous to walk the streets of the capital as groups of religious dissidents and other Bajorans roamed about calling for the expulsion of the Dominion forces on Bajor. Kai Baren knew he had been doing the right thing and wished vehemently the rebels could see sense. Know people were massing at the temple gates demonstrating and throwing torn up rocks at the temple. He was disturbed from his observation of the central plaza by an all too familiar sound of chimes as 3 figures appeared from thin air behind him in a shower of light. The Emissary, flanked by two Jem’Hadar guards appeared. Quickly he ran over to them.
“What are we going to do?” he asked nervously “The rebels seem to grow day by day. Even some of my temple guard are said to have joined them”
“Be patient. The Founders, in their wisdom, have decided on a course of action sure to bring the disturbances to an end” the Vorta explained. For a moment the Kai was taken aback by the Emissarie’s choice of words, he would hardly have described the general revolution of the populace as a disturbance, and he was still uneasy at the Vorta’s use of the title Founders in place of The Prophets.
“I have tried talking to them but they are starting to ignore me” the Kai explained nervously.
“Discussion is the natural way to solve disputes between reasonable men, but I fear we must resort to…cruder means to put down the disruptive elements”
“such as?”

The fleet edged closer to the Bajorans home world. What few warships there were tried to halt it’s progress, but a demonstration of the Dominions might soon swept them from space. As the rebels detected the Dominions advance many small vessels rose from the surface intent on halting the dominions progress, but their weapons were little more than an irritation to the warships and soon the fighters joined their larger companions in oblivion, and then the delivery of the transports cargo began.

“Force?” questioned the Kai in astonishment.
“It has become clear disruptive elements of your population are no longer willing to heed the words of your government. We are sure it is a mere minority of your people that have turned on us for no reason, after all have we not done much of benefit for the Bajoran people. We have traded with you. We have offered assistance. Why you have now started to colonise other planets in your system. Surely you can see even that is a result of the assistance we have given you” the Vorta explained calmly “So it has been decided that in the best interests of peace we shall assist your security forces by eradicating the rebels before they cause too much damage to your innocent civilians. Towards that end we are delivering a contingent of troops to put down the rebellion”. Gradually the Kai could hear further commotion outside. The demonstrators seemed to fall silent before there was a suddenly eruption of screaming, much different from the earlier shouts of anger. Rushing back to the window the Kai pulled back the curtains and looked out upon the temple square. Jem’Hadar troops had appeared in force, almost filling the square, and immediately begun to fire upon the demonstrators. The revolutionaries, armed only with rocks barely stood a chance. Already most of them lay dead as the Jem’Hadar shot them down mercilessly, and peering out into the city the Kai could see further Dominion forces strategically placed to finish off the scattered rebels.
“There are additional legions of troops all over Bajor. We judge it to be little more than a month before the rogue elements are hunted down and removed. Of course the effort we make in bringing stability to you takes up precious resources, as a result we plan to initiate long term projects to bring the Bajoran people more closely into the Dominion. In fact we are prepared to offer you full membership of the Dominion rather than work through the alliance which clearly failed to work”. The Kai was silent. He had always believed what he did was in the best interests of the Bajoran people. Now it seemed his opinion no longer mattered.