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”Gentle-Beings I give you liberated Benzar…and damnation to the Dominion!” - Praetor Neral tr’Vatoth’s toast at the Deneva conference, december 2374. (Artwork by the sublimely skilled @crowlls.bsky.social)

The Deneva conference was the first meeting of the “Big Three” of the alliance, held only a few months after the Romulan entry into the war. Prior to it the Star Navy’s 7th and 9th Expeditionary Fleet Groups had launched an offensive to liberate the planet Benzar from Dominion occupation

At the conference Praetor Neral presented President Min Zife with a trophy, a piece of hull from a Jem’Hadar attack ship fused into rock from the planets Third Moon, decorated with Benzite, Romulan and Federation Emblems.

While the conference would be a diplomatic triumph for the Romulans, securing economic support and basing rights for the fleet (and tweaking the nose of chancellor Gowron in the process) it also committed them to the allies “Cardassia First” policy, which would cause massive fleet losses