Chapter 17 - The Badlands (Patreon)

"Luckily or unluckily for me, I suppose, the Enterprise was heading in my direction, for reasons Data couldn't share with me, so I'd left Bajor, with Kira in my co-pilot seat despite intending to leave her behind, and had headed here to a star system close to the badlands, which was on the border between the Federation and the Cardassian Union. The Badlands were known for intense plasma storms and gravitational anomalies avoided by most interstellar traffic. It was an unstable and dangerous area of space to navigate for multiple good reasons and played havoc with modern sensors, which was probably why the major powers tended to avoid it and the Maquis, in the future, would use it as their favorite hiding place and staging area."