M Fnord Wrote:Do you really, honestly want to go this way?No. Fenspace must win, and have their happy ending, or it's not fenspace.
But some hidden enemy making a few troubles (of which Ben's may be the most spectacular) has posibilities for drama.
I keep going back to that hidden chinese base -what are they doing? Why? Are they even under the control of the Chiniese government, or a secret faction of then? Because China has been movin at top speed towards a trade economy, and suddenly turning so hostile against a new market (that in all honestly would not care all that much about chinese politics) is suspicious by itself.
For that matter, lets go deeper (underneath the underneath, as the people of certain Asteroid woudl say); there have been sugestions that the Boskone War was scripted by some hidden enemy. The Boskonians stand defeated, but of that hidden mastermind we know no more -not even if they actually are real or paranoia.
What if the War was plan A, and since if failed, it's time for plan B, corruption and civil war? It will fail; the needs of Plot require it. But the attempt may give us the overeaching plot for the new season.