Chapter 37 - Introducing Captain Edward Jellico (Patreon)

Captain Edward Jellico’s gaze was locked on the viewscreen, taking in the constant chatter and information sharing his well-oiled crew were engaging in prior to battling the Hur’q. He was both determined and excited to protect a Federation world from the depredations of the alien race that had wreaked havoc across so much of the alpha quadrant.

The sector the Cairo had been ordered to patrol was relatively out of the way and of little strategic importance in normal terms, so the ship and crew had had no contact or reason to engage the Hur’q since their invasion of this galaxy and universe had begun. That, of course, hadn’t stopped the ship and her crew from hearing about the many horrors the Hur’q had perpetrated on the many worlds that they attacked, with little to no regard for what race called the world home. To the Hur’q, they were all enemies, all food and they didn’t seem to care how many enemies they made in the process. This alien way of thinking and waging war was frightening on a very visceral level.