Loyalty

Posted on 30 Apr 2013 @ 10:47am by Chief Warrant Officer 3 Amon Mormont

577 words; about a 3 minute read

I think I was born with luck. I was lucky to be a physical man rather than a man of books. Sure, when I was a kid I wished I was more like my brother. I wished that I could look at the financial aspects of my parents' business empire and go 'that's what we need to do'. Instead, I would spend time fencing or horseback riding or just generally causing havoc. The school I went to encouraged it. Rugby. Rowing. Fencing. Sure, my Latin wasn't the best, but I was the best fencer of the school.

So maybe it was natural for me to focus on that when I let my parents down. It just seemed a good choice for them to make Baron the heir. Which is fair enough, he can have the bloody company. As if I really care. It made it easier for me to leave if anything else. And I left.

Starfleet was a world I could relate to and Security was the best department for me. I liked it. I loved it. I even got a kick out of the war. I liked the danger, despite the terror. Some people are better at fighting rather than peace. I was one of those people. I thrived during that time and learned so much. And the nightmares? You can ignore them if you try hard enough. No. I was happy where I was. I was happy as a fighter.

And it kept going. And maybe my knowledge of the rules and regulations, the way I discovered that as I matured I could lead as well...maybe that is why I suddenly found myself a Warrant Officer. I didn't seek it out, it came to me as a reward. And I can't complain, a lot of good things have come from it.

I've served 17 years in Starfleet now, to the date. 17 years. It's almost as long as my teens and childhood. And it has become a part of my identity. I don't think myself as just an Englishman, or just a man. I am in security. I'm part of a ship, part of a community. And quite frankly, I've done more good on ships than I ever could do at work. Because I'm good at this. I'm an honorable man in my own way. Just not the way most see it. I have morals and standards, but not the once that are political correct and not always the ones you expect. I play the game of socializing, of discovering strengths and weaknesses in other people. Because life is a game and at the end we all end up in the same position.

And the USS Galileo is more than just a ship. It's my ship. I'd die for her, for the crew, for the Captain. Not because of some idealistic crap. But because it's what I am. And I think that when I die, someone will say 'loyalty killed him'. Because it won't be a phaser shot, an explosion, an away team gone wrong that kills me.

It will be the loyalty of sticking it out for the people I work with and live with. And that is the truth of Starfleet. We're loyal dogs. We're flawed to our core, but a good member of Starfleet has loyalty. And it sticks. Right until the second you die.

And it's all that remains for people to remember us by.

Amon Mormont, signing off for tonight.

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