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in the early months of 2375 the Dominion
War was at its most violent with battles
raging across the quadrants almost
incessantly the dominions entrenched
supply lines and famed ability to
construct ships at high speed allowed
them to maintain a level of pressure on
the Federation Alliance that prevented
them from staging a serious
counter-attack it was general Martok of
the Imperial Klingon defense force that
finally proposed a solution to this
problem the general assembled a small
but nimble force of five Braille class
birds of prey at the Federation Starbase
deep space 9 these vessels and their
volunteer crews were considered entirely
expendable and the high probability of
loss even inspired Martok to leave his
usual flagship the IKS rotarran
in drydock instead taking temporary
command of the i KS chat tank
Martok planned a sequence of rapid
attacks on Dominion installations across
the sector none of which were intended
to actually destroy the facilities but
rather to interrupt their normal
functions and forced them to undertake
months of repair creating vital
breathing room for the Federation
Alliance the Federation starship Defiant
was placed at the head of a seven ship
flotilla and stationed at a rendezvous
point in the Calandra sector this would
allow the Klingon raiding force to lead
any hostile craft into the Federation's
line of fire should they fall on the
pursuit the most important target
selected by Martok was a planetside
Starbase on trucker 5 upon entering the
troca System Martok dispatched the
warships mal para and Ning tau ahead of
the squadron to perform a single
strafing run against the base and then
retreat while keeping the rest of his
forces under cloak the purpose of this
move was to deceive the Dominion
garrison into believing the attack was
over prompting them to lower their alert
condition and deploy their damage
control teams the mal para and Ning tau
successfully destroyed two defense
towers in dive-bombing attacks before
withdrawing as planned during their
escape they fell under attack by a
Cardassian Galore class destroyer and
the mal para was lost with all hands as
the Cardassians continued to pursue the
Ning tau they left their ground
facilities undefended and the base
deployed its repair crews exactly as
Martok had predicted decloaking the rest
of his
forces Martok was able to wipe out the
vulnerable repair crews and inflict
major damage on the Starbase facility
during the final strafing run general
Martok was briefly incapacitated and
command fell to the legendary Baha
Master Corps who had requested
commissioned aboard the Chu tank in the
confusion Corps deviated from Martok
strategy by continuing the attack long
after the planned withdrawal this
decision led to heavy losses aboard the
IKS Aramco including their captain and
first officer as well as causing serious
damage to the rest of the Klingon fleet
eventually Kor was removed from command
and the retreat order was given allowing
the four surviving birds-of-prey to
re-engage their cloaking devices and
escape after assessing their losses and
damage Martok elected to move his fleet
to the Federation rendezvous point to
consolidate and recover before moving to
the next target but after a few hours of
travel at warp factor 7 the chi tang
detected a force of 10 Jem'Hadar attack
ships that had used some manner of
advanced sensor system to locate the
fleeing Klingon vessels in spite of
their cloaking devices slowed by engine
damage to their ships the Klingon force
was unable to outrun their pursuers and
estimated that the Dominion fleet would
catch up to them in less than two hours
one hour and forty-five minutes before
they could reach the defiant and its
support ships faced with no alternative
Martok's first officer Worf proposed a
self-sacrificial plan to delay the enemy
fleet and allow the Klingon vessels to
escape he offered to take command of six
volunteers aboard the IKS Ning Tao the
least damaged of the remaining birds of
prey and to break formation with the
intention of engaging the enemy fleet
long enough for the rest of the Klingon
squadron to reach their Federation
allies on his way to take command of the
Ning Tao Worf was ambushed and knocked
unconscious by Corps who had decided to
redeem himself for his actions at trial
k5 by leading the doomed mission in
wharfs place d cloaking and dropping out
of formation core and the Ning tau
closed on the Dominion fleet upon
reaching weapons range they engaged an
inverse graviton pulse that forced the
Jem'Hadar ships to reset their drive
units before they could resume pursuit
the pulse was followed up by a full
spread of torpedoes from the Ning tau
that confused the sensors of the
Dominion vessels and threw them off
balance for the
opening moments of the attack shortly
afterward all telemetry from the battle
was lost but the final reports suggested
the JEM Hadar formation had collapsed
and the crippled Ning tau continued to
hold the enemy fleet in their tracks ten
minutes later the two tank sensors
confirmed the Dominion fleet was no
longer able to catch the three remaining
birds of prey before they reached the
rendezvous point though the specific
details of cause sacrifice could never
be learned there was no doubt that his
actions had saved the fleet and the
lives of every warrior aboard the Chu
tank Aramco and Slevin and as the
remains of Mattox fleet reached the
safety of the rendezvous point the
bridge crew of the Chi Cheng drank a
toast in honor of the Fallen da ha
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