2394

2394 Timeline: The Offering’s New Bait

2394 — Neighbour Against Neighbour

• With Lina Wren’s diary still damaging Dominion propaganda, Prime authorises a new DPI policy designed to fracture occupied communities from within.
• Citizens can now earn temporary exemption from The Offering by providing useful information about Lantern cells, smugglers, safehouses, rebel sympathisers, or suspected insurgents.
• DPI broadcasts spread across occupied space with slogans such as: “A single name can spare your family.”
• The effect is immediate and devastating, as neighbours begin denouncing neighbours out of fear, ambition, coercion, jealousy, or old grudges.
• Innocent civilians are arrested after false accusations, while real resistance members are forced to abandon safehouses, contacts, and entire communities overnight.
• Families split under the pressure, with some protecting loved ones by informing and others joining the resistance after being betrayed.
• The Lantern Network responds by tightening recruitment, reducing cell knowledge, and improving counterintelligence against DPI traps.
• Riker and Troi help shape the Lantern response, with Troi’s understanding of fear, coercion, and collaboration proving vital to protecting vulnerable cells.
• By the end of 2394, The Offering has become more than forced labour. It has turned trust itself into occupied space’s most dangerous commodity.