Episode 50: "Battleplans"

Captain McMillan looked around. How many crewmembers were usually on board a Bird of Prey? 40? 50? It sure looked like it. And now all those Klingons were laying dead at his feet. He and his crew killed them. In self defence, sure, but still! They were already fugitives: now the Klingon empire would consider them murderers as well?

Fighting Klingons

McMillan had killed before, of course. Sadly, it came with the position of Captain. Even more so when you were a fugitive Captain. Still, he couldn't help but wonder if this could have been prevented. All this unnecessary bloodshed. . .

Unnecessary bloodshed...

Still, they *had* helped save this Federation colony. Where there were no Starfleet ships nearby, there was the Gibraltar. They had responded to the distress call, mediated a truce with the Klingon Captain, and now the Klingons of the House of Kar'Tog had violated that truce, by attacking the colony on the ground. These Klingons wanted revenge, that much was obvious. The outpost and ship that the Gibraltar supposedly destroyed, was part of the House of Kar'Tog, and when McMillan and the Gibraltar crew fled, Starfleet couldn't hand anyone over to that House. They were understandably pissed. But that didn't mean they could just attack a colony like this.

Looking for information

The battle had been fierce. Luckily, the Gibraltar crew had received help from the colony's tactical and AAC divisions. They had been invaluable. Without them, it'd be the Gibraltar crew who would lay dead on the floor. 

AAC and Tactical helped out...

McMillan sighed again as he walked off of the battlefield. The Klingon Bird of Prey had been destroyed: a self destruct program had made sure of that, so that the Gibraltar crew couldn't get the information they wanted. It was sad, really. All this, for nothing. Well, almost nothing. The colonists were save. At least that was something.

The Klingon BoP, before it self-destructed.

Now, it was time for the crew to beam back to the Gibraltar. The Klingon fleet which had come here, couldn't have gone far. Perhaps they'd have more information. . .

We survived...