A New Empire Prepares to Rise

Posted on Sun Jan 27, 2019 @ 6:59pm by Fleet Captain Rhea Kennit
Edited on on Sun Jan 27, 2019 @ 7:12pm

761 words; about a 4 minute read

Mission: Plaga Navis
Location: Undisclosed
Timeline: Current with events involving the Freighter

Following the Fall of the Terran Empire at the hands of the united Klingon-Cardassian Alliance, a small fleet of survivors successfully managed to evade capture and execution to join forces under the command of Admiral Jason Cartwright, former Commanding Officer of the Imperial Intelligence Service whose advice had been ignored by Commander-in-Chief of the Empire, Spock.

Under constant attack and pursuit by Klingon-Cardassian forces, Admiral Cartwright found a way to take his small but loyal fleet of followers, a mismatched menagerie of military and civilian vessels, to a place where the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance could not follow. At great risk, loosing two civilian ships and one military cruiser, successfully crossed from their own universe, into the Mirror. An entirely different universe from their own, yet at the same time, identical. Where an alliance of worlds calling itself “The Federation” held power and where he planned to claim s piece of this galaxy where they would rebuild rebuild what had been lost.

The Crossing brought the Imperial Fleet into the year 2375. Now 14 years later, having created a stronghold for the New Empire located deep in within the Delta Quadrant, the unexpected and very unwelcome incursion of the Federation into the Delta Quadrant began to push too close. The time for preparation it seems, is over. The time for action is is now close at hand.

Under the guidance of Dr. Quincey Jones, a brilliant paleomicrobiologist unfettered by ideas of morality, a team of virologists worked tirelessly to creat a deadly virus. Cross-bred with a sample strain from their own dimension.. it has the potential to devastate civilian and military populations galaxy wide. Dr. Jones specially designed the virus giving humans from HIS universe a natural immunity, and genetically modified the virus to prevent mutation which could allow it to infect a human from their universe utilizing the quantum differences which separated their people from those native to this dimension. The virus would weaken the Federation and its allied worlds, allowing the Admiral to firmly establish a New Empire. And Jones was determined that nothing will stand in their way, determined to see that the New Empire would rise strong and unbreakable. Determined to watch as the Klingon and Cardassian home worlds burned..

After years of careful genetic manipulation, Dr. Jones was ready to test his virus.. and only lacked a suitable target for the first test. Deciding on a controlled test, Admiral Cartwright ordered his second in command, Captain Katya Ivanov to track Federation and local shipping traffic and select a ship with a suitable mix of human and alien passengers and crew for the first test of the virus’ potential.

After a careful, passive sweep of Federation held territory, a vessel was chosen. The commercial freighter Maharshi Krishnatreya carrying supplies, equipment and fresh personnel to a newly established Federation outpost, DQ-X7Tango located in the Tsoukalos star system with a mixed crew of 87 in total aboard was chosen. While at its last stop to transfer cargo and take on supplies designed for DQ-X7Tango it had been Katya herself who personally selected a member of the freighters crew, a human male named Torres. Luring him into a private room had been all too easy. Once away from prying eyes, Torres had been drugged and the turned to the tender mercies of a Vulcan Intelligence Officer who was an expert at both taking information from a subject’s mind.... And also at implanting instructions to be carried out which the subject would have no conscious awareness that he, or she was doing.

A message had been received a week prior, that the test was under way. The ISS Avenger under Ivanov’s command was flowing the subject vessel and monitoring the events aboard through a link helpfully established to the freighters internal security system which allowed the Avenger to see and hear everything. The Avenger was fitted with a cloak system, taken from a captured Klingon vessel and improved upon by New Empire engineers. They could watch, and listen...and never be seen.

Now, Cartwright had a new report from Ivanov aboard the Avenger. A Federation ship had responded to the distress call sent by the doomed ship’s crew. The USS Victory had arrived too late. After a very thorough investigation of the freighter the Federation ship had fired on the civilian ship and destroyed it before setting course, backtracking the freighters path. Avenger was stalking them, following for now.. to learn what action the Federation would take. Useful knowledge which would help guide future decisions.

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing would stop them.

 

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