Sacrifice

Posted on Fri Mar 6th, 2020 @ 11:40pm by Fleet Admiral Dominique Jes-Tereth

Mission: Mission 68: Unsteady is the Head the Wears the Crown
Location: Council Chambers - Kronos, OMEGA LEONIS
Timeline: 1145Hrs - March 16th, 2392

The hour was nigh and the time had come, as this event promised to be a spectacle of rather macabre magnificence as many Klingons from far and wide had come to see the first Klingon to ever die while being burned at the stake.

Wohavi was awake as they tied her to the stake, then they broke both her arms and legs so she was also helpless, the appointed time came and went as she was placed into the large stack of wood and the Klingon executioner, simply lit the kindling around her feet. "I hope you rot in Grethor for this.." Wohavi whispered through her agony.

"We may never know Wohavi. I intend to live forever." the executioner responded as the fire took hold with the dried wood that had been treated specially for this occasion. One could hear the fire go up with a soft 'whooshing' sound.

Wohavi began laughing but those laughs soon turned to screams as she burned, first went her feet which were consumed almost instantly, the fire spread as she burned to death, shrieking her guts out while she did so.

About thirty minutes later it was all over and the crowds dispersed, most of the Klingons within were quite disgusted with this new form of punishment. It soon got around that this was the new punishment for treason.

J'mpok meanwhile did not attend the event he had orchestrated as he was busy with the Council. "These are Wohavi's dealings with various foreign powers.. Most notably the Romulans..." as he began handing out PADD's and data slates to the council members assembled before him.

Makar read the paperwork, he was not going to believe it but he found enough credible evidence that he was left asking questions about it.
This has the effect of ruining what little is left of her name. His reverie was interrupted by the voice of J'mpok who regarded those present before him. "I order that an act of attainder be past against House Wohavi and all of her allies during the war. Don't bother with prisoners... Break those houses and their lands and titles will revert back to the Council... We will decide what best to do with it... No one house will profit from this... endeavor."

Meanwhile on Morska. The members of House Wohavi having seen what had happened to their matriarch began packing up all of their things onto the dozen or so ships they still possessed. N'tel was an older female as she was presently the house head, she was the younger sister to Wohavi and now she feared for her family's future. "Staying here will only get us all killed."

"Fleeing will do that too." her younger brother responded.

She turned. "I want a large antimatter charge set up so all one needs to do is set a timed delay, a remote charge or a manual detonation..."
N'tel ordered.

"Right away." one of her house engineers responded before he fled.

"Listen to me, all of you... J'mpok is going to send his stormtroopers for us... and probably make us all burn at the stake like he did to Wohavi... We must save what we can.. Start loading the ships."

"Yessir. right away." several others Klingons went to the task and over the next two days the first ships departed the family spacedock for parts unknown but as the last four ships departed the shipyards, they turned their guns on the base, quickly demolishing it and refusing it to scrap metal. Then the ships decloaked for parts unknown.

This left Hatal, Wohavi's brother who had refused to leave. He watched as the KDF troops began emerging from their dropships as they moved in to ransack his home. He smiled. "Come closer fools.." he commented softly.

"Computer what is the maximum yield with this warhead.?"

"Ten megatons." as Hatal suddenly grinned. "Its still a victory if I die, destroying my enemies..." he then shrugged. "Computer.. Initiate Hatal Protocol, article two. Authorization. Hatal Autumn One." he had programmed the code for a human woman named Autumn Yamaguchi as she had proven herself worthy in his eyes and in his bed, the two had shared a bunk of a couple of occasions but he had been impressed with her strength and her stamina, she was incredible in bed.

"Computer erasure in progress... formatting will be complete in ten seconds."

Hatal waited as the Klingon assault troops began deploying yet more troops into the compound, even though they had yet to find anyone, he then tapped the display. He regarded the large 'DETONATE' Button before him. "I will wait for you in Sto'vo'kor sister..." and with that he tapped the button once as the world went white around him.

The explosion was visible from orbit as ten thousand Klingon troops were utterly incinerated, two large starships were also knocked out of the sky as well. The shockwave also obliterated a small Klingon staging area for this attack too.

Revenge had been had for the attack on House Wohavi's home but revenge for the death of Wohavi would have to wait for another day.