Union of the Empire - Part One

Posted on Sat Mar 7th, 2020 @ 6:29am by Fleet Admiral Dominique Jes-Tereth

Mission: Mission 68: Unsteady is the Head the Wears the Crown
Location: The Gila System - Gorn Hegemony
Timeline: 0900Hrs, April 3rd, 2392

The Gorn Starbase Shen'gar orbiting the colony of Gila Four was usually a peaceful place most days but the people here didn't know that and neither did the people anywhere else know that either, if one knew what today would wrought, would they have done anything differently?.

Captain Wol'na sighed softly as he turned to his first mate who was also the pilot of this particular freighter, the Moora, as the stars hurtled past the freighter at warp six, the ship was escorted by one B'rel class bird of prey on loan from the Captain's house fleet.

The Captain had a package of secret orders to report to a specific location and take on a consignment of cargo that only he knew about, nobody else on his crew knew about it, he was to take this consignment of supplies to a Gorn separatist cell located on Hanoran Three, apparently the Klingon Leadership had decided to assist these Gorn pirates in liberating their world from the tyrannical grip of the Gorn Hegemony.

Wol'na watched as the starlines faded back to stars as the Starbase appeared on the screen before him. "Com, get us clearance to approach and dock with the starbase."

"Yessir." the aged warrior responded evenly as he turned and went to his task while Wol'na sat down in his command chair, he knew that the Bird of Prey on loan had split off and returned to the empire

The hail came soon enough. "This is Starbase Shen'gar approach control to the Klingon freighter Moora. What is your business in this area?"

Wol'na answered. "I'm delivering a shipment of supplies to Hanoran Three... Why is there a problem.?"

"Come to position one nine five by three one and stop your ship. We are sending an inspection team to verify that everything is in order."

"Very well." he nodded. "First mate you heard the Gorn... Take us there."

"Yessir." the first mate responded while flying the ship to the specified set of coordinates, the Klingons watched as two other ships engaged their warp engines, heading to places unknown as one more ship arrived, then moments later there was a flash as a Gorn Heavy Cruiser appeared out of warp nearby.

The Gorn dispatched a shuttle to board the Klingon freighter, which occurred over the course of several minutes. The lead Gorn was a massive male named She'en'sor. He introduced himself to Kol'na. "Please show us to your cargo bay. We will be as quick as possible.."

"Very well." The Klingon responded. "This way." Kol'na was told that if he was caught, that he was not to resist outside of making the usual noise but above all else, he was not to fight back but let himself be captured, this had offended Kol'na until J'mpok reminded him that honor and duty conflict often and this was one time duty must win out rather then honor.

The inspection detail was fast and quick, then the Gorn got back into their shuttle and left a few minutes later. Kol'na went back to his bridge as the starbase crew hailed him. telling him to surrender and prepare to be boarded for carrying illicit cargo in their number four hold.

The first mate powered up the engines and engaged the drive while the Gorn Starbase simply seized the fighter in a powerfull tractor field, preventing their escape. The Gorn heavy cruiser turned to engage as they hailed the fighter. "Klingon freighter, turn off your engines and surrender or we will shut them down for you."

Kol'na smiled softly. "Stand down first mate.. We have made enough of a show of this charade.."

"You knew of this?"

"I did. I was asked by J'mpok to smuggle some cargo across the border... This is all on me, not any of you... But do not resist when they board us, that is a direct order... None of you need die for what I alone have done... This is for me to atone for.. and I will... but not now."

The freighter dropped its shields and the boarding operation was quick, as Gorn Marines beamed into key areas and proceeded to seize control from the Klingon crew, two of the Klingons were stunned but the rest surrendered quickly. The fighter was seized quickly and then was hauled into the dock where it was promptly inspected a second time, only this one was under a much larger microscope and they found several shipments of weapons, they even found where they were going to. The Gorn separatists on Hanoran Three and most damning of all was that the Klingons were actively supporting the separatists.

The Klingon ambassador to the Gorn Hegemony was summoned to answer for this and the planets leader gave him a rather simple and stark warning to deliver to Kronos. Either stop interfering in Gorn affairs or the Gorn Hegemony would teach the empire some lessons in 'interference.'

The Ambassador, a man named J'hanar simply took the bollocking in stride and went to relay the information to J'mpok.