Star Trek Hunter
Episode 27: The Sword of Destiny
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HIv chegh*
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The U.S.S. Ark appeared in orbit over New Romulus on Vulcan. Vulcan was the center of the fighting for several reasons. Chancellor Greta Leifsdottor had announced the opening of hostilities by decloaking 111 Imperial Klingon Vessels in orbit and firing on the Romulan Praetorian Guard warbirds. Ostensibly, the cause for war was the Federation's surrender of Vulcan to the Imperial Romulan Senate – which Chancellor Greta characterized as a violation of the Khitomer Accords.
After two months of fighting, hundreds of thousands of klingon soldiers were engaged in battle all over the dying planet, facing off the entrenched Praetorian Guard forces – the ranks of which included well over two million romulans, humans, vulcans and various hybrids.
The klingon ships were fast and powerful. The romulan ships were big and tough, their weapons even more powerful. For months these ships would cloak and de-cloak, rarely getting a chance to fire on the other before it ran off or vanished. The only time any vessels were truly at risk was when landing ground forces or rescuing crew from the wreck of another ship.
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When the massive U.S.S. Ark – far larger than even the new romulan battlegods – de-cloaked, every other ship in the Vulcan system de-cloaked as well – the klingons in order to attack the Ark; the romulans in order to attack the klingons. A few klingon vessels were unfortunate enough to de-cloak or drift into the firing range of the Ark's linear phaser cannon. With phaser beams the circumference of a bird of prey, the Ark simply obliterated 9 klingon ships in the first few moments of battle.
Bay doors opened in each of the Ark's four saucer sections as well as dozens more ports in the enormous, cigar-shaped engineering section and clouds of 2-man interceptors issued. Nearly a thousand of these headed down into the atmosphere of Vulcan. Klingon birds of prey broke off to hunt and destroy these tiny, lightly armored fighters, only to find themselves tracked and fired on by dark-skinned Prowler class ships coming out of high warp into the system.
Larger klingon cruisers – both the Vor'cha and Martok class – tracked the Prowler class ships, only to find themselves targeted by a mixture of Intrepid and Escort class destroyers. Other klingon vessels that remained on course to attack the Ark found themselves swarmed by tiny interceptors that got inside their shielding and found soft targets. The Martok class cruisers had smaller disruptor emplacements that provided some protection from the interceptors, but the Vor'cha cruisers were largely unprotected and were soon venting plasma and atmosphere from hundreds of small breaches, their control and power systems interrupted and the ships increasingly helpless against what were essentially mosquitoes by comparison.
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On the surface of Vulcan, klingon troops in open encampments found themselves targeted by strafing attacks from hundreds of interceptors. With birds of prey firing disruptors from orbit at these interceptors, the klingon ground forces were increasingly in the way of friendly fire from orbit as well.
All of this fighting served to put a stop to the klingon advance. With their ground forces woefully outnumbered and now under attack from the skies, the klingons retreated to their base camps to regroup. Or so it at first appeared…
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*HIv chegh (thlingn Hol - Counter Attack)
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