Star Trek Hunter
Episode 27: The Sword of Destiny
Scene 4: lIH
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lIH*
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"The situation on Rising Sun is intolerable."

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Viewscreens throughout the Alpha Quadrant were displaying the new Chancelor of the Klingon High Council, Greta Leifsdottor. She was standing in what appeared to be the council chambers on Qo'noS. The Sword of QeyliS was on a stand in front of her. Her long, blonde hair was braided in a simple, but meticulous series of knots.

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"In the face of the Federation's feeble efforts, xenophobic separatists have taken over nearly half of the colony and have killed thousands of federation citizens and citizens of our Empire. Imperial ships on missions of peace have been targeted in orbit and only four days ago, one of our trading vessels was deliberately targeted and fired upon.

"This unacceptable chaos extends across our borders with both the United Federation of Planets and the Romulan Star Empire. A bloodthirsty religion has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands on Saketh and cult leaders from this religion have tried to convert loyal citizens of the Klingon Empire to the worship of their false gods.

"While we klingons will never again worship any gods - we long ago killed our gods for meddling in our affairs - these zealots have introduced a dangerous and invasive parasite, known as the mogu mogo, to several of our worlds along our border with the Romulan Star Empire.

"On one flank the Empire is under attack by fanatical romulans and their hemra slaves. On the other, our citizens have been targeted with bombs and bioweapons by human, vulcan and andorian hate groups, intolerant of each other but even more virulantly intolerant of my fellow klingons.

"I should not be surprised at the incompetence and apathy of the putatively United Federation of Planets and the Romulan Star Empire in the face of this ongoing aggression. We watched human incompetence and romulan treachery in the disgraceful surrender of the Vulcan homeworld to a romulan invasion. We offered our assistance to remove the invaders, but the Federation sought peace! Peace with a sworn enemy of both the Federation and the Klingon Empire!

"And now to add insult this disgrace, the Federation has entered into not one but two illegal treaties with our enemies - one to surrender the Vulcan homeworld and another to surrender two more star systems in Federation space - the Al Jenova and Al Donovos systems - to the Romulan Star Empire. This is a direct violation of the Khitomer Accords.

"We will no longer tolerate watching our so-called ally align with our sworn enemy, kill our civilians, and stand idly by as their newfound friends attempt to spread their foul, disgusting religion among our people and desecrate our worlds with their vermin."

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Chancellor Greta straightened her already ramrod straight, long, slender body. She laid her hand on the Sword of QeyliS, displayed in front of her. She lifted the sword from its stand and looked at it reverently. Then in a blindingly fast, single motion, she spun the sword and held it aloft. Blade facing forward. Her expression transformed as suddenly from reverence to rage

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"lIH!"

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The transmission ended abruptly.

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Not one second later, the skies around Saketh, Rising Sun, Vulcan and a dozen other federation and romulan worlds flashed brighter than a sun. On the night side, the day side, the polar regions - everywhere on each of these worlds, the skies lit up briefly as though subjected to old fashioned flash photography.

This was the result of cloaked mines exploding simultaneously around each of these worlds, taking down satellite defense grids, obital shipyards, weather sattelite grids, star bases and several hundred interceptors that had, at the beginning of the transmission from Qo'noS of Chancellor Greta's speech, launched to defend their worlds.

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In the next instant, hundreds of Imperial Klingon Vessels decloaked simultaneously in orbit of these worlds and began beaming hundreds of thousands of klingon shock troops into any area unprotected by shielding. At the same time, a massive bombardment of planetary defensive shielding began, lighting up the skies again - this time with massive disruptor beams and, against some facilities, high yield photonic explosives.

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*lIH (thlingn Hol - Commence)

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