ENT - 012 - Kobayashi Maru

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Y A V ANG , H O Dof the Imperial Klingon Battle Cruiser SImyoH,studied the main viewer in silence, watching with fatalistic equanimity as the winged specter of death stalked ever closer.

RomuluSngan, YaVang thought, nearly overwhelmed by his feelings of contempt. Cowards, accomplishing by sabotage and ambush what they never could through honorable combat.Given the improbable pattern of malfunctions that had cascaded through virtually every system aboard the SImyoHover the past kilaan,those green-blooded HaDIbaHcould only be testing some subtle new weapon of wara weapon that appeared to leave its targets essentially whole, yet largely nonfunctional.

YaVang was therefore unsurprised when the other vessel came to a sudden relative stop off the SImyoHs starboard bow, scarcely a thousand qelIqams distant. Despite the swirling emerald-and-ocher-tinged eddies that marked the boundaries of the SuDengNebula, YaVang could see that the hostiles weapons tubes were still hot. What remained of his own crippled vessels tactical systems could detect no sign that the other ship was attempting to establish another weapons lock.

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