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"The Devil You Know"
(Part 1)
Stardate:
58613.58828006087
Old Calendar Date:
12 August 2381
2301 Hours
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"The Devil You Know"
(Part 1)
Stardate:
58613.58828006087
Old Calendar Date:
12 August 2381
2301 Hours
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The U.S.S. Al-Rasheed glid through conventional space at one-third impulse. The crew had been instructed to conduct passive scans of neighboring sectors along the formerly Romulan Neutral Zone where it faces the Cardassian Union. Rumours of a “Typhon Pact” had been spreading like wildfire through interstellar trucks stops. Rumors which carried on to Starfleet Transport Command headquarters and then onto San Francisco itself.
The Dominion and The Borg were every bit as fresh on everyone’s mind today as they’d been six years ago.
Many of the Federation’s military / trading partners still weren’t entirely comfortable resuming business as usual. Captain Ara Bagram brought the Al-Rasheed out of warp upon arriving at the beginning of their search grid. The priority at this point was to track wayward freighters that hadn’t made their estimated times of arrival at Copernicus Station but submitted flight plans at their ports of origin. Their Chief Medical Officer arrived on the bridge with a deck of cards, shuffling and distributing them across hir console.
Tanner 216, A Hermat General Practitioner with movie star looks and a moderately-vulgar, shoot-from-the-hip style that’s won hir popularity contests and bragging rights all over the Academy. But, its also earned hir the rueful attention of Starfleet Medical’s Ethics Committee on more than one occasion. Captain Bagram had no other choice but to accept this motley crew from hell or settle for a desk job administrating “The Boneyard” at Rashanar near the Ontailian Homeworld.
The Norway-Class starship had scarcely left its construction facility four months ago. She was still somewhat of a rattletrap of components strewn all over her deck. Powerful; as she’d been modeled on the Defiant-Class, but a touch more user-friendly in terms of habitable volume and social supports.
The Al-Rasheed’s first officer (whom doubled as the Al-Rasheed’s Tactical Officer,) is a tall, broad-shouldered Tenctonese with a quirky obsession with Terran humor. Don’t sit down without looking for a whoopy cushion, and don’t be surprised if the replicator in your quarters tells you to “get it yourself” every so often. It was mentioned in his transfer request that he’s a fellow transfer from the CoE and considered something of a self-discipline problem.
Their pilot turned out to be an idealistic young Ferengii female; the Chief Engineer, a pudgy Zakdorn with a typical “You’re almost stupid enough to be amusing” hautiness. The reason for this arranged marriage was apparently, “If you can survive this, you can survive anywhere.”
Their long-term assignment: to keep an ear perked for intelligence pertaining to The Typhon Pact while repairing the infrastructure damage taken to Federation and Alpha Quadrant Alliance property over the duration of The Dominion War. Salvage/Towing, Restoring Communications, Offering Medical Assistance, Demolishing Obsolete Navigation Hazards, and frequently escorting relief convoys.
The Typhon Pact was an alliance of six interstellar states formed in the wake of the Borg Invasion of 2381 as an opposing force to the United Federation of Planets and its allies. The pact consisted of the Romulan Star Empire, Tzenkethi Coalition, Breen Confederacy, Gorn Hegemony, Tholian Assembly and the Holy Order of the Kinshaya, all of which had hostile relations with the Federation and/or Klingon Empire in their previous history and all of which had typically previously maintained xenophobic and isolationist policies.
The Pact formed shortly after the Borg invasion, the Tholian Ambassador Tezrene cited the Federation President Nanietta Bacco as the inspiration; when she summoned Ambassadors from numerous states during the invasion to form an alliance to resist the Borg. The Pact states had no desire to ally with the Federation or the Klingons, but could see the wisdom in her suggestion and formed their own government to as a new major power against the might of the Federation.
Vessels from the founding states formed the Pact at meetings in the Typhon Expanse, this included the creation of a new joint currency and sharing of cloaking technology between the member states. One of the Pact's earliest activities was to employ the Ferengi Sekki to orchestrate a number of schemes to destabilise the Federation and slow down their rebuilding efforts, in an act of vengeance against the Federation for outbidding the Tholians to employ mercenaries to defend against the Borg in the invasion.
Sekki's plots included arming the Breen and Kinshaya with new disruptors, shutting down a dilithium mine in the Maxia Zeta system by infecting it with farantine, disrupting work to upgrade a topaline mine on Capella IV by encouraging the activities of a Capellan terrorist and souring relations between the Federation and Zalda by creating a scenario in which it appeared Zalda was refusing refugees. These various plots led Professor Sonek Pran and the U.S.S. Aventine to piece together what was going on and eventually discover the Pact had formed.
Knowledge of the Pact's formation prompted the Federation and Klingon Empire to invite the Imperial Romulan State, Ferengi Alliance, Talarian Republic and Cardassian Union to ally with the Empire and Federation in an expansion of the Khitomer Accords. (From the novel, “A Singular Destiny” by Keith R.A. DeCandido.)
The Dominion and The Borg were every bit as fresh on everyone’s mind today as they’d been six years ago.
Many of the Federation’s military / trading partners still weren’t entirely comfortable resuming business as usual. Captain Ara Bagram brought the Al-Rasheed out of warp upon arriving at the beginning of their search grid. The priority at this point was to track wayward freighters that hadn’t made their estimated times of arrival at Copernicus Station but submitted flight plans at their ports of origin. Their Chief Medical Officer arrived on the bridge with a deck of cards, shuffling and distributing them across hir console.
Tanner 216, A Hermat General Practitioner with movie star looks and a moderately-vulgar, shoot-from-the-hip style that’s won hir popularity contests and bragging rights all over the Academy. But, its also earned hir the rueful attention of Starfleet Medical’s Ethics Committee on more than one occasion. Captain Bagram had no other choice but to accept this motley crew from hell or settle for a desk job administrating “The Boneyard” at Rashanar near the Ontailian Homeworld.
The Norway-Class starship had scarcely left its construction facility four months ago. She was still somewhat of a rattletrap of components strewn all over her deck. Powerful; as she’d been modeled on the Defiant-Class, but a touch more user-friendly in terms of habitable volume and social supports.
The Al-Rasheed’s first officer (whom doubled as the Al-Rasheed’s Tactical Officer,) is a tall, broad-shouldered Tenctonese with a quirky obsession with Terran humor. Don’t sit down without looking for a whoopy cushion, and don’t be surprised if the replicator in your quarters tells you to “get it yourself” every so often. It was mentioned in his transfer request that he’s a fellow transfer from the CoE and considered something of a self-discipline problem.
Their pilot turned out to be an idealistic young Ferengii female; the Chief Engineer, a pudgy Zakdorn with a typical “You’re almost stupid enough to be amusing” hautiness. The reason for this arranged marriage was apparently, “If you can survive this, you can survive anywhere.”
Their long-term assignment: to keep an ear perked for intelligence pertaining to The Typhon Pact while repairing the infrastructure damage taken to Federation and Alpha Quadrant Alliance property over the duration of The Dominion War. Salvage/Towing, Restoring Communications, Offering Medical Assistance, Demolishing Obsolete Navigation Hazards, and frequently escorting relief convoys.
The Typhon Pact was an alliance of six interstellar states formed in the wake of the Borg Invasion of 2381 as an opposing force to the United Federation of Planets and its allies. The pact consisted of the Romulan Star Empire, Tzenkethi Coalition, Breen Confederacy, Gorn Hegemony, Tholian Assembly and the Holy Order of the Kinshaya, all of which had hostile relations with the Federation and/or Klingon Empire in their previous history and all of which had typically previously maintained xenophobic and isolationist policies.
The Pact formed shortly after the Borg invasion, the Tholian Ambassador Tezrene cited the Federation President Nanietta Bacco as the inspiration; when she summoned Ambassadors from numerous states during the invasion to form an alliance to resist the Borg. The Pact states had no desire to ally with the Federation or the Klingons, but could see the wisdom in her suggestion and formed their own government to as a new major power against the might of the Federation.
Vessels from the founding states formed the Pact at meetings in the Typhon Expanse, this included the creation of a new joint currency and sharing of cloaking technology between the member states. One of the Pact's earliest activities was to employ the Ferengi Sekki to orchestrate a number of schemes to destabilise the Federation and slow down their rebuilding efforts, in an act of vengeance against the Federation for outbidding the Tholians to employ mercenaries to defend against the Borg in the invasion.
Sekki's plots included arming the Breen and Kinshaya with new disruptors, shutting down a dilithium mine in the Maxia Zeta system by infecting it with farantine, disrupting work to upgrade a topaline mine on Capella IV by encouraging the activities of a Capellan terrorist and souring relations between the Federation and Zalda by creating a scenario in which it appeared Zalda was refusing refugees. These various plots led Professor Sonek Pran and the U.S.S. Aventine to piece together what was going on and eventually discover the Pact had formed.
Knowledge of the Pact's formation prompted the Federation and Klingon Empire to invite the Imperial Romulan State, Ferengi Alliance, Talarian Republic and Cardassian Union to ally with the Empire and Federation in an expansion of the Khitomer Accords. (From the novel, “A Singular Destiny” by Keith R.A. DeCandido.)
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