Chapter 15 is Done! Now for the teaser! (Patreon)

Chapter 15 is done my friends!  I finished my first run through and it's already at 16k words and counting with a whole lot more to do before I'm fully satisfied with it. Normally I would have had the chapter long done by now, but my wife and I bought a house and moved in recently so all my time has been sucked up by the move and I've literally fallen asleep at my keyboard writing after I put my kids to bed.  My plan is to take this long Memorial Day weekend and finish polishing it (I live in the US) and then drop the next chapter on Tuesday, June 1st in the evening.  In the meantime, enjoy this snippet draft from the new chapter!

Gothic is going to the Devolin system!  If any of you can figure out where this is going based on those two words, well, you're a more hardcore Star Trek fan then even me!  :-)  Let me know if you figured it out without either looking it up or reading the snippet to get the pretty easy/big clues I've put in there.  You're on the honor system!

Oh, after asking for some advice from some other successful authors, they recommended that I ask my current patrons to spread word of my story and recommend it to anybody they think who might like a Star Trek fic too.  So, please recommend me to your friends and family and neighbors and random strangers on the internet!  :-)

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Low hanging fruit.

Those were the words that kept repeating in my mind. I had a good bit of time to myself while Section 31 prepared the groundwork for the Bajoran mission, the question was what could I do with it. What could I do to improve my life and future in this dimension in the time I had? I had so much knowledge of this universe, secrets from the past, present, and future that I could exploit, and what had I done with it?

Yes, I had gone to Minos and taken over that planet and made it my own. That was a significant step forward and would reap benefits for years and years to come, but what since? Caution and fear had kept me from exploiting some choice opportunities. But was there some low hanging fruit still left that I could tackle in the several weeks I had left before my mission, something my ship could take on with its maximum warp cruising speed.  While the shows had plot speed, my ship's engine did not.

Thinking about my ship led my thoughts to another one off episode in season 6 or…no, it was season 7 of Star Trek: The Next Generation. A cloaking device would be an amazing addition to my ship and would increase its usefulness many times over. The ability to hide my presence, from more than just long-term scans, would mean I could go practically anywhere, do so much more

I could acquire one, possibly, from the Klingons, directly or indirectly. I knew from an episode in DS9 where Quark acquired one that some were floating around on the black market, but I wanted something better and not one I had to pay for or risk getting on some law enforcement watch list trying to obtain illegally.