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From: "Jay  P Hailey" 
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Title: Star Trek: Outwardly Mobile
Author: Jay P Hailey (JayPHailey{at}yahoo.com) Series: MISC - TNG OCs
COdes: None
Part: 116/335(?)
Rating:[PG]
Archive: Fine with me, just tell me where. Disclaimer: Paramount owns all
things Star Trek.  I claim Original Characters and Situations for me.
Webpage HTTP://www.phoenixinn.iwarp.com/jayphailey

    The Tallamatrix
    by
    Jay P. Hailey
    And
    The Star Trek Players

    Miriah took a deep breath and organized her thoughts. "The Phoenix
Domain comes from the Great Spiral Sector, nearby. One hundred and twenty
years ago the Federation contacted the Great Spiral. The worlds there had
an alliance, not too unlike the Federation. The relationship began
peaceably enough. Then the subject of joining the Federation came up. Some
of the worlds liked the stability that the Federation represented, while
others saw the Federation as an obstacle on the route to power. The two
factions had a civil war. When it was over, the winners joined the
Federation as The Great Spiral Sector, and the losers fled. They founded a
society based on their ideas of strength and power. That was the Phoenix
Domain."

    "Later, the Federation and the Phoenix Domain began to expand into the
Phoenix Sector and there was some tension. The Phoenix Domain was not shy
about invading worlds that they coveted. Their expansion was halted. They
were stalemated. The Federation didn't want to be put in the position of
exterminating small anti-Federation states, so they compromised and took up
a stance of containing the Phoenix Domain.

    There was a planet named Beehive that contained many examples of silicon
life. The Phoenix Domain and the Federation both claimed the world. The
Federation negotiated a joint administration of the world. Many of the life
forms were found useful for industrial purposes. A species of silicon tree
was found to be very useful for building advanced computers.

    A few years ago I was given my first assignment as a First Officer. I
was assigned to the USS Zaire. She was an old ship, but modernized. She was
good enough to do what we had to do. Mitchell was the Captain. Much of the
crew was the same as on the Endeavor. We were sent to patrol the Phoenix
Sector and prepare to neutralize the Phoenix Domain's attempts to expand in
the sector.

    We put in at Chelsea, the Federation capital of the sector and they
asked us to go to Beehive and secure some samples of crystal trees. They
had sent freighters and free traders but the Phoenix Domain always objected
to the removal of the trees.

    We went to Beehive and secured several samples of crystal trees. The
Phoenix Domain said nothing to us. We warped away back towards Chelsea just
as calm as you please. Then someone hacked into the computer and began a
violent and desperate battle over control of the Zaire. We were able to
hold the main computer, but the invaders got control of the engineering
computers. They took control of the warp drive and turned the ship back
towards Beehive. Then they began to sabotage the Zaire's life support
system.

    We discovered that the trees were not just silicon life forms with
electronic properties. We discovered that they were sentient beings. They
meant to kill us and to use our ship to spread across the sector and to
wage war against organic life.

    We fought as hard as we could to get the trees out of our computer but
we were no match for living sentient computers. We tried to destroy them
physically, but they used the systems of the Zaire against us.

    As the Zaire neared Beehive, Captain Mitchell made a decision that the
Zaire would not be used like that. He vented the hot drive plasma out
through the drive nacelles. That destroyed the Zaire's warp drive.

    Not long after, Watabe discovered the weakness of the trees and we were
able to get them off the Zaire. It was too late for the ship. We were taken
back to Starbase 94 and there we were assigned to the starship Endeavor.
She was a newer ship. Better in many ways than the Zaire. We went back into
the Phoenix Sector.

    Understand that the Phoenix Domain hates the Federation. They don't have
high enough technology to compete with us militarily. The only way they
were able to close the gap with us in terms of computer technology was to
use the crystals harvested from the crystal trees. Essentially they had
been harvesting sentient creatures to run their ships.

    Honestly I don't think that the crystal trees were surprised or
especially outraged by this. It seemed as though they hated organic
creatures anyway and simply expected us to behave this way. I'm told that
afterwards, they even tried to buy weapons and starships using pieces of
their own dead.

    The Federation may have been indecisive in dealing with the Phoenix
Domain, but when it came to genocide, they really got behind us. The
Endeavor was sent to end the Phoenix Domain's presence on Beehive, to
protect the trees from harvest and to protect the rest of us from the
trees. There was a short battle, but the Phoenix Domain had nothing that
could really stand up to the Endeavor.

    Then we set up the Zaire to become a sort of system defense boat. If it
was in impulse range of Beehive, the Zaire could still put up a powerful
fight. With Beehive so covered, we continued with our patrol.

    We stopped at Lungold. This Federation world was once as prosperous and
wealthy as Chelsea. Then they got the blue plague. The population was
decimated, and their civilization threatened to collapse.

    Our Chief Medical Officer, Starcloud-to-Ennienen demanded to be put down
on Lungold with medical equipment. She would not take no for an answer.
Captain Mitchell sent her down and called for a replacement Chief Medical
Officer.

    Starcloud confounded us when she discovered the cure to the blue plague.
Federation medical teams had been struggling with it for years. It seemed
as though there would never be a cure. Starcloud found it in four weeks.

    When she returned to the Endeavor, she hit us with the secret that her
research revealed. The blue plague on Lungold was not natural. It was an
artificial virus. No one knew who had actually done it, but all eyes turned
towards the Phoenix Domain. Accusations were exchanged and tensions began
to run high.

    Then the Phoenix Domain came to us under a flag of truce. They said they
wanted to negotiate but what they really wanted was a chance to eliminate
the Endeavor. They felt that if they could get rid of us, then they could
capture or demolish all of the Federation worlds in the sector before the
next big starship arrived.

    Watabe was too paranoid for them. When they launched their sneak attack,
the Endeavor was ready. We destroyed two of their old dreadnoughts and
captured one more, the Domination. I renamed her the Reformation. She was
my prize ship." Miriah sighed.

    "Anyway, as soon as word of the defeat leaked out, the Phoenix Domain
declared war on the Federation and attacked with everything they had. The
Endeavor was faster than any of their ships. We out gunned any of their
ships. We were busy for several weeks destroying incoming attacks. Several
of the Federation worlds in the sector did not have adequate defenses. We
would spot an invasion fleet and intercept it. After destroying their
escort, we would damage or destroy enough of the transports to ensure that
the invasion of the target world would fail. Then it was off to intercept
another attack.

    They tried to assemble big fleets to attack the Endeavor. Watabe would
always spot the fleets forming up. Then we would do hit and run raids until
the fleet was destroyed or broken up.

    After a while reinforcements arrived from the Great Spiral Sector. Old
destroyers from the time of their civil war. The ships were modernized as
much as possible, but they were still slow in warp. So Watabe arranged them
in defensive formations and the Endeavor went on the attack. No invasion or
major offensive could succeed against the old destroyers, especially if we
were there to cripple it first. This freed us to attack targets inside the
Phoenix Domain.

    Winterjewel, Shiva and Videga were all independent worlds that had been
conquered by the Phoenix Domain. We attacked the occupation forces. After
destroying or driving away anything in orbit, we would spend hours shooting
any Phoenix Domain military targets on the ground. We even destroyed
communications centers, command posts and power systems. Then we beamed
weapons and supplies down to the native resistance. After we were done
mauling the occupation forces it was a much more even match between the
armed rebels and the Phoenix Domain occupation. All three worlds eventually
won their freedom.

    All in all we destroyed more than a third of their fleet and eliminated
a lot of war production. Then the tide turned. The Phoenix Domain launched
the Lucifer. She was as fast as we were and as well armed. We had several
engagements with them, but nothing too serious. Captain Mitchell didn't
want to loose the Endeavor and then have the Lucifer go on a rampage, and
the Phoenix Domain can't build another ship like the Lucifer unless they
retake Beehive and make it stick.

    The Phoenix Domain asked for a cease fire and the Federation was happy
to oblige. Beehive, Winterjewel, Videga and Shiva are all free now and the
Phoenix Domain is stalemated. Unless they can duplicate the anti-proton
cannon. Then they'll put it in the Lucifer and the Lucifer will destroy all
opposition in the sector."

    "How did you feel about the war?" Kevas asked.

    Miriah sighed. "Honestly, I was glad when it was over."

    "Really?" Kevas asked.

    "I may be a Klingon but I'm not a killer." Miriah growled.
"It was no
fun after a while blowing up PD destroyers. They had no chance against us.
The crews were only following their orders. The maniacs who gave the orders
were never hurt, just their hapless flunkies."

    "And that bothers you," Kevas led.

    "Yes. I would much rather beam into Duke Osric's throne room with a
Bat'leth and have it out right there than massacre a bunch of people who
were just following orders."

    "Interesting." Kevas said.

    "Why? What about you? How do you feel about this?" Miriah asked Kevas.

    "I feel much the way that you do." He said. "I am not so
much blood
thirsty as competitive. I would love to face the leadership of the Phoenix
Domain face to face rather than blowing things up all over the
sector."

    "Not the most Klingon of attitudes." Miriah mused.

    "Really?" Kevas asked.

    "No. The average Klingon would revel in mass destruction. They see that
as the mark of the warrior." Miriah said.
    "How many average Klingons have you known?" Kevas asked.

    "I met a few when I visited Qo'noS." Miriah admitted.

    "Who taught you?" Kevas asked.

    "My father taught me the Way of the Warrior." Miriah said, using the
formal name.

    "Was he average?" Kevas asked.

    "No. He emigrated to the Federation to practice his craft. He was a
civil engineer. He found more respect for it in the Federation than in the
Empire." Miriah said. "Who taught you?"

    "My mother." Kevas said.

    "Your mother is Klingon?" Miriah asked.

    "Yes." Kevas looked at her. "You didn't expect that."

    "No. I just assumed..." Miriah said. She tried to imagine a
Betazoid man
wooing a Klingon woman and failed.

    "Not the best of habits." Kevas said.

    "Tell me what happened." Miriah asked. It was the first time they had
discussed family history.


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