Warpath by David Mack
January 2377, Immediately post Olympus Page 1 Jonu, female Klingon Bounty Hunter. Killed on planet Harkoum by a Iliana Ghemor. Jonu gloried in the taste of her own sweat Iliana Ghemor reversed course and rammed Jonu's ship Her heart raced with the joy of the hunt She imagined the blood thirst of her d'k tahg Jonu's d'k tagh black-winged emblem on pommel [nit] No more than a dozen qams away Her voice was deep and rich, like those of many Klingon women Iliana Ghemor knows better than to trust a Klingon who fights her battles for money Silent overload on Breen-made disruptor Steeled her spirit for its journey to Gre'thor She exhaled a whispered prayer to her ancestors Drown her in a river of blood Harkoum, planet in Almatha Sector. Harkoum, Geilod system. Previously Cardassian industrial zone, now Allied protectorate under Romulan oversight. Harkoum as lawless and ungoverned as Chalna. A handful of Klingons and Nausicaans. Almatha patrolled by Klingons or Romulans as a deterrent to smugglers. Ultritium - explosive Runabout sensors can detect cloaked Klingons or Romulans. Within half a light year to penetrate a cloak Page 120 Captain Qurag of noH'pach, War Claw. Gaunt wiry looking. Male. Killed by Jem'Hadar Taran'atar in take-over of noH'pach noH'pach, patrolling Almatha sector, five crew, Sergoz, female, noH'pach pilot and first officer. Killed by Jem'Hadar Taran'atar in take-over of noH'pach Koth, Chief mechanic. noH'pach . Obsessed with human women. Killed by Jem'Hadar Taran'atar in take-over of noH'pach Orruk, science officer and engineering assistant noH'pach. Killed by Jem'Hadar Taran'atar in take-over of noH'pach Why would any Klingon choose an unsturdy mate Page 121 Malk, second officer, noH'pach. Killed by Jem'Hadar Taran'atar in take-over of noH'pach Taran'atar takes hostage Prynn Tenmei on noH'pach on course for Harkoum Page 125 Malk, son of Roloc. Roloc, member of provincial government on Qo'noS. made governor of Mempa. During Duras civil war Roloc had not opposed Gowron, but did nothing to stop Duras sisters form handing him a defeat in Mempa sector. Gowron blacklisted Roloc, and Malk. Fortune is not smiling on me Long narrow boxes of engineering tools Muttered low Klingon curses at each other Wrist communicator What in the name of Fek'lhr are you doing Acute Chalnoth sense of smell Klingons can smell shrouded Jem-Hadar Lorgh, I.I. old friend Elias Vaughn Klingon ships regular check ins with sector command Page 157 noH'pach a Haqtaj-class vessel. Roughly transliterated, it means "Surgery Knife;" "surgical strike" or "scalpel". Warp nine. Class-IV cloak Blood, garbage, uneaten food, there was no end to the variety of festering things one could find in the dark crevices under a Klingon ship's deck Already being hailed in Sto-Vo-Kor Various panels and pipes marked in obscure Klingon alphanumeric symbols Klingons like red. To humans it is a warning color, to Klingons it means security and comfort. they favor a dim red lighting scheme aboard ships when all is calm, and a bright white scheme in emergency modes. Breen privateers Swords with monomolecular edges Ferengi vulgarities; grub-fudu; reepok – a person who doesn't know profit when he holds it; cold-hearted moogi-jokk Cloaks in atmosphere cause ionized particles, wakes of displaced air, superheated gas from impulse engines; electromagnetic disturbances. Cloaks in atmosphere give off neutrinos and graviton spikes Romulan interphasic cloaks give off chronitons Guttural Klingon voices barked orders in short hand shouts Crimson-twilight interior Klingon shi illumination Control device for magnetic manacles – exactly the kind of simple no-frills device one would expect a Klingon engineer to make. One button, push on, push off Nausicaans believe in the Four Winds. at death his tegol, spirit, left prison of the flesh, soared with the wind to the Heart of the Sky where ancestors wait. Nausicaans word venolar; snow blood. Passions run deep among Nausicaans bared his fangs, as close as Nausicaans come to grinning I'm a Trill. I'm used to thinking long-term Lissepian honeycomb Cardassians notorious for their attention to detail |