Emal: yes I was there for a few months. I have never seen anything so terrible. *Takes his arm and leads him to his desk*
Now you know the full thrust of the situation. Perhaps... We could do something to help
Vinrin: perhaps.... But not here..... These walls have ears.
[Audio recording from the archive of the Obsidian Order]
*Dr. Vinrin stumbles through the door a Kanar bottle in his hand *
Emal: Doctor.. you returned from Gallitep?
Vinrin: yes , *takes a swig from the bottle* I have never seen such a forsaken place in my life
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Emal: well he was the first Cradassian I met who didn't try to kill me or hural racist insults at me so I figured it was best to keep a friendly demeanor. Also I ... sensed something in him.. beneath the bluster and state loyalty I could get through to him.
He talked a lot about his favorite Cardassian composers. He expressed great interest in the works of the great Bajoran composers and I was happy to help.
Carpenter: sounds like you were friendly to a person who was persecuting you ?
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I was the first and only candidate for his secretary and we got on well. I found him to be a reasonable man not without his demons.. well reasonable for a camp official. He liked his drink and he liked talking about art and music.
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Carpenter: So what was your first meeting like.
Emal: Warok was slumped over his desk a little out of it. I think he was tipsy but still in full control of his faculties. He looked tired and forlorn almost he was tired of something. Our connection was instant
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Emal: of course, I first met him when I was assigned to the Haziak scientific Labor camp. I was and am no scientist but I had a mind for accounting and paperwork something that the camp was in desperate need of. I First met Warok when I was assigned to be his secretary.
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My wife and I have been enjoying the hospitality of the Federation though I wish we were in better circumstances.
Carpenter: of course Mr. Emal, could you tell us about the first time you met Dr. Vinrin?
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[November 20, 1975]
[Recording of the Federation Subcommittee on the Cradassian occupation of Bajor]
Carpenter: we will now hear the testimony of Emal Bradik.
*There is a light clapping as Emal walks to the podium*
Emal: thank you for having me as your guest
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Interviewer: do you approve of the genocide and the destruction brought upon the Bajoran people?
Vinrin: absolutely not, I never had a problem with the occupation itself i just thought central command went about it the wrong way.
Interviewer: so you approve of the occupation?
Vinrin: Of course it's only what people have been doing since the start of history itself it's not that particular to our history. So I do not see the occupation as some great evil.
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Interviewer: so you think the Cardassians had more of a right to Bajor's resources than the Bajorans?
Vinrin: of course, it's not a matter of morals it's about simple matters of mathematics. We needed them so we invaded. Simple as that
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Vinrin: I did yes.... I helped in the occupation. I gave intelligence to the Cradassian army on where to acquire the best materials.
Interviewer: so you helped central command strip Bajor of its resources.
Vinrin: of course they weren't using them properly.
[Interview recording # 18]
Federation Interviewer: so do you think you bear any responsibility for the occupation?
Vinrin: of course not.... It was central command's decision to invade Bajor. I had nothing to do with that
Interviewer: but you did help in that
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Reading through human history has me... Disturbed....
How much I see my own people's history in it
"The banality of evil" is a horrifying concept
He died of natural causes in 2390 but not before giving his testimony to the Federation Subcommittee on The Bajoran occupation. On behalf of Dr. Vinrin. He was survived by 3 children.
To where conditions were better than other camps under the occupation. He also worked with Dr. Vinrin to ensure the experimental warp program never achieved its goal. After the occupation he and Vinrin parted ways and he retired to a life of obscurity tending to his shop once more
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He quickly struck up a friendship with the doctor who according to his later interviews saw him as a man who was not as loyal to central command as he would appear. With the blind eye and sometimes help of Dr. Vinrin used his position to move prisoners from other to camps to Haziak
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In pottery. He was found out and sent to the Haziak labor camp as he was determined to be more gifted than the average Bajoran. He was quickly assigned to be the secretary of the camp's scientific advisor Dr. Warok Vinrin.
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[Federation file #2368896]
Emal Bradik 2310- 2390
Emal was a simple shop owner in the Opraz district of Bajor dealing in antique pottery untill the occupation of Bajor started and he started working for the Karod resistance cell. He helped the Bajoran resistance by sumgguling supplies
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*sits down at Quark's with a model of a Bajoran lightship that he sits down on the bar and starts drinking Kanar*
What an amazing creation..... Such a marvel for its day
I felt a certain level of resentment. I come from an old aristocratic family. He was more obscure. He felt like he always had something to prove. He was not impressed with our results, he ordered faster results which I protested but he ordered all the same.
I met him on Terok Nor, which is presently called Deep Space Nine. He asked me to personally report on the progress of the warp project,my secretary Br... Emal came with me
Interviewer: what was your assessment of him?
Vinrin: he was ambitious and very class aware
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[Interview recording #12]
Federation Interviewer: so when did you first meet Gul Dukat?
Vinrin: it was a few years after I was recruited. He was a younger man but he was ambitious. By then he had climbed his way to the leader of the occupation and had recently reached the rank of Gul.
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[interview recording #8]
Federation Interviewer: I would talk to you about your relationship with Emal Bradik
Vinrin: what of him? He Bradik was my secretary nothing more.
Interviewer: how interesting you say you were not close but yes but call him Bradik.
Vinrin: I don't want to talk about it
From his build. He has the most dead in the eyes look in his face and just stood there. For a brief moment he turned his eyes to look at me and then turned to stare into nothing again. For a brief moment.... We had an unspoken acknowledgement of what we were both involved in.
The bathroom were I proceeded to empty the contents of my stomach into the toilet. The sights were so brutal..... It made me physically sick. While I don't as in there I saw a Cardassian just staring into the bathroom mirror. He was military but not a soldier. I could tell he was. Clerical worker
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I will never forget the place. It was utterly horrid. The worst sights I have seen in my long life and I will never forget them. After ... Seeing the Bajorans herded around like cattle the screams of the dying and soon to be dead I excused myself from the tour and and headed to the headquarters
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[Interview recording #4]
Federation Interviewer: you have said you had been to Gallitep during the occupation.
Vinrin: I went there once at the behest of Gul Padar, the leader of the work camp I was involved in. We went there to find great Bajoran minds who could help us.
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They offered me a part in the program. I was so excited to test out my new ideas and the government was the only Cradassian organization actively seeking the technology at the yime. I took it