He rested his hands on the tabletop, lacing his fingers together.
"I ask because your agency and mine, their official missions are similar, but the agency I inherited has been on the decline for centuries, lost much of its political power. It used to be feared and respected, and now it has neither. When I was Chief Coordinator, maintaining the status quo and keeping the agency from sliding further into irrelevancy seemed the best path. Now that I've been Chancellor for a while, and on an alternate Gallifrey that sorely needed change, I'm not quite as adverse to the idea of reinvention. Carefully," he added. "And slowly." Nothing would make him have Romana's sort of revolutionary fervour--he's too conservative by nature--but he has learned that some change is good, and he can support it.
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He rested his hands on the tabletop, lacing his fingers together.
"I ask because your agency and mine, their official missions are similar, but the agency I inherited has been on the decline for centuries, lost much of its political power. It used to be feared and respected, and now it has neither. When I was Chief Coordinator, maintaining the status quo and keeping the agency from sliding further into irrelevancy seemed the best path. Now that I've been Chancellor for a while, and on an alternate Gallifrey that sorely needed change, I'm not quite as adverse to the idea of reinvention. Carefully," he added. "And slowly." Nothing would make him have Romana's sort of revolutionary fervour--he's too conservative by nature--but he has learned that some change is good, and he can support it.