Chapter 2 Aboard the Romulan ship
As the Enterprise moves farther into the romulan neutral zone a Romulan ship is about to leave its dock to pursue the Enterprise. On the romulan bridge Captain Felise Comde an experienced female captain addresses her first officer, greack, a klingon,
"Commander, do you possess the information on the new weapon"
"Yes Captain"
"good Meet me in my ready room"
A few minutes later the captain and first officer are sitting the first officer at full attention in the ready room. The captain is nervous about using the new weapon that she is supposed to test on the Enterprise.
The first officer trying to score points with the captain begins "Your decoy distress signal worked wonderfully leading them right to us taking them out should be no problem."
"Bite your tongue it is never easy to take out a federation starship. Especially one lead by captain James T. Kirk." Felise spat. She had, had dealings with captain Kirk before. She had been first officer on the romulan ship that possessed the first cloaking device in which captain Kirk and his first officer Mr. Spock had lead an elaborant scheme to take the device from under their noses. She had been fooled by their trickery once she wouldn't have it again. She began again "What of this new weapon? Why is the empire so keen on testing it? It would seem an unneeded risk to bring in the federation so soon in the weapons development."
"The empire believes that with this weapon and the joining of romulan and klingon forces the federation will be of little or no contest." Greack stated.
Whoever is giving orders must be insane she thought. To want to take on all of starfleet is kamikaze warfare. There must be something amazing in this weapon that she is unaware of.
"can you tell me if the chemical involved in the weapon is really as powerful as everyone has made it out to be?" Felise asked
The first officer hesitated and then began "Well, on Science base 3 while they were testing it one of the science officers put in .000000001 more of the main chemical and caused the whole station to explode costing 252 lives."
Felise shuddered. What power. She understood that there may be a chance on taking the federation over with such strength as that.
"Are there any known drawbacks to the weapon?"
"There are some environmental risks." Greack faltered "In some experiments it has created wormholes and space distortions."
The comm pad beeped calling the captain to bridge. the Captain and first officer leave the ready room and head to bridge. On the bridge the captain is made aware that they are within enterprises scanning range and she has ordered the ship to be cloaked.
"Stay far enough away that the enterprise thinks we are just an energy surge" she adds and sits in the captains chair. "They can't be aware of our existence until the weapon is ready"