Chapter 35: The Plan
December 2413
“You’re sure they’ll help you? Once you tell them that you’re…”
“There’ll be no going back, I know,” Kirina said, “The General will be furious. But it’s the only way.”
Aurelia nodded and took a swig of her kali’fal. “Let’s run through this one more time.”
And they did.
The goal: Assassinate Tal Shiar Commander D’Kera Mandukar, and destroy the IRW Okhala, her borg-enhanced adapted battlecruiser.
Step One, would be to obtain the firepower necessary to destroy the formidable battlecruiser. The Republic was not willing to commit resources to hunting down one ship, Starfleet couldn’t be trusted to understand mnhei’sahe, and pirates or mercenaries would be too unpredictable. But there was one group that could be easily predicted, and which Kirina was uniquely positioned to manipulate: The Klingons.
D’Kera was no doubt aware of Kirina’s presence on the Klingon starbase, so Step Two would be to arrange for a single uncloaked Klingon ship, with cloaked backup, to contact Okhala and offer Kirina as part of a prisoner exchange. When the takes place a second, masked, transporter beam would be used to insert a strike team aboard the Tal Shiar vessel.
Step Three involved the strike team disabling Okhala’s shields and cloak, before rescuing Kirina, killing D’Kera, and transporting back to the Klingon ship.
Step Four, the Klingons destroy Okhala and earn their honorable victory over the Tal Shiar.
“Kirina if this doesn’t work…”
“I know.”