Sirs,
During our recent supply mission to Cestus, we encountered an unknown minor house, House Yomot, which appears to have somewhat taken the slack of suspended Federation supply routes. So far, the resources that they’ve supplied to both the Ba’aja and Cestus system appear to be legitimate.
The supplies have been scanned and there’s no immediate threat of previous vulnerabilities exploited by House Mo’kai, and software systems have been retrofitted to Federation standard control, integrating with other defences and systems. All this to say, I do not believe there is an immediate threat from the supplies delivered.
That being said, House Yomot is an unknown quantity, as are their allegiances. Whilst in the mission of mercy commanded by Captain Barid Linore, a House Yomot freighter was seemingly attacked and ultimately destroyed by a B’Rel class of another house, where the loyalties of this Klingon vessel lies are unknown. A M’Chla class vessel warded off the attack, and assumptions are that since this class of vessel are almost exclusively used by House Mo’kai, the B’Rel is loyal to the forces of J’mpok. These are of course all assumptions and conjecture.
I am bringing this to your attention as I believe we may already inadvertently be in a situation where we are at risk of outer colonies and worlds being swayed into influence of a Klingon house one way or another, which may result in the Federation being accused by one side of favouring the other.
Presently I believe there are three main possibilities here;
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House Yomot are a genuine benevolent force, simply offering their supplies to colonies along the border which we are no longer able to readily supply (please see my recommendations on the attached AARs regarding this). They may be doing this for Federation acclaim or not.
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House Yomot are either being used or are a fabrication of another Great House with some sway on either the former or desire to become a key member of a new Klingon High Council, seeking to curry favour with the Federation and the attack on their freighter was a genuine event by elements loyal to J’mpok.
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House Yomot are either being used or are a fabrication of House Mo’kai, seeking to attack Federation colonies, using the chaos of the KCW and banking on Federation neutrality to allow them to expand further areas of space, and the attack on their freighter was staged by elements loyal to J’ula.
Personally I believe the third possibility to be least likely. While Mo’kai attacks such as theorised here are deceitful and covert, there is typically an air of “theatrics” and a direct hostility with their attacks, which has not been the case here.
It is worth noting that the Dallas is currently hosting 5 crew members of the Yomot freighter, and I can have my interim security chief avail them for questioning should that be required. If not, it is my intention to release them with a decommissioned Type 6 shuttlecraft close to the border to make their way back home within the week.
I standby for your orders.
//SIGNED//
Captain Alexandria Holmes
Commanding Officer,
U.S.S. Dallas
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//ATTACHMENT// AAR: Supply run to Cestus: Pickup at Ba'aja // AAR: Supply run to Cestus: Mission of Mercy
