Chapter 21 - Teaser! (Patreon)

The chapter is done, my friends!  It just needs a bit more polishing to be worthy of you guys. :-) Time for the teaser from the chapter!

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The need was pressing though and the timing needed to be perfect considering this operation had so many moving parts that needed coordination to succeed. The Shakaar resistance cell, along with about a dozen other cells, would be taking part in a joint operation in the hopes of liberating the labor camp at Gallitep, a very, very big deal in the show, which was another sign that the Occupation was seeing its final days.

If you wanted to truly understand the true scope and horrors of Gallitep, imagine if Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Occupation Camp in Germany in World War 2, had comfortably been operating for over 50 years, with no war to distract them and plenty of resources, with an entire planetary populations as potential victims and no one to fight for them. On Bajor, every native Bajoran was a Jew, every Bajoran was an undesirable. Canon DS9 only gave the most cursory glimpse of the horrors that were regularly committed on the Bajorans there. Women, old to barely toddlers, raped in front of their families for fun. Husbands, beaten until their wives couldn’t recognize them. Old people buried alive because they couldn’t work anymore. Executions were common and oftentimes for no reason at all. The condemned forced to dig their own mass graves.

There were so many stories of evil that came out of that place. Cardassian soldiers using living targets on the firing range. Babies being thrown into fires. Families forced to rape each other to live another day for the amusement of their Cardassian overlords. When I had learned of that hellish place I had nearly gotten on my ship, hell bent on killing every Cardassian there. Kira had convinced me not to, saying that such an ill-conceived and poorly planned rescue attempt would surely result in my death and the deaths of so many other Bajorans in that place and that served no one.

So, yeah, I was more than happy to do my part in this fight.