Chapter 18 - Verex III (Patreon)

Of all the sectors in the quadrant, the Orion Sector was the most notorious, and of all the systems within that sector, the worst had to be the Verex system.

Strictly speaking the Verex system was part of the Borderlands which was a lawlessregion of space situated between the Klingon Empire and the Orion Syndicate, or at least it had been in the past. Anyone who actually came here and spent any time in the region could see that it might as well be an official part of the Syndicate.

During the very, very long journey to get here, I'd read up on the world in the Federation database and had discovered, well, remembered, that this planet had been featured in an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise. In 2154, a Klingon Bird-of-Prey had been boarded and captured by two Human Augments in the Borderlands, who killed the entire crew. Beyond the obvious reasons, this had been a terrible embarrassment to the Klingons and had nearly led to war between humanity and the Klingon Empire. It had also sparked the Klingons’ interest in Augment DNA. That, of course, had nearly led to their species’ destruction. Those events still had an effect on me today.