The Terran Climax

The Terran Climax was the final battle of the Terran War, where the Federation defeated the Terrans.

## Background

The Terran Empire, generally led by Lucas Williams onboard the *ISS Challenger*, had hostile dealings with the Federation in the past, but nothing matched up to the day formal hostilities began. It all began when a transporter accident caused by a quantum singularity transposed a science team from the Enterprise onto Terok Nor instead of Deep Space 9 as intended, and the Starfleet officers were forced to assist constructing the *ISS Pegasus* in order to return home, which they did.

Not long after, the Klingon/Cardassian Alliance finally took Earth - the last stronghold of the Terran Empire, and the remaining Terran Starfleet troops retreated to Terok Nor. They modulated the wormhole to allow interdimensional pass-through, and Terran forces - the *ISS Challenger* commanded by Lucas Williams and his first officer Owens, the *ISS Pegasus* commanded by Captain Cayde, and the *ISS Ironforge* commanded by Captain Hsaia. They attacked DS9, with only the *Inquisitor* to stop them, quickly disabling it, though it was able to retreat.

They began to enslave the Bajorans, eventually heading to engage the Federation in orbit of Tellar Prime. The Challenger and Pegasus disabled the orbital defenses of Tellar Prime and beamed forces down, though the Enterprise, under the command of then-Commodore Ash Yevel, moved to intercept. After a fierce exchange of fire, the Enterprise lost its shields and was forced to retreat for repairs. It then moved back in, with partial shields, to the far side of the planet, beaming down its own troops. However, the Terrans captured Commodore Yevel and took him to their base. Though Starfleet troops were able to pierce the Terran compound, the Terrans beamed up to the Challenger, then-cloaked in orbit. The Pegasus then attacked the Enterprise, forcing it to separate. With weakened shields, the drive section was destroyed, and the saucer section was forced to retreat to friendly space. The Terrans began deploying orbital defenses, and coordinated with Duras' strongholds in Klingon space - an inexplicable alliance was forming!

Soon, this alliance came to fruition, and acting on intelligence reports of a Terran installation under construction in Duras-held territory, the USS Inquisitor proceeded under cloak on a covert ops mission to the site of the battle. They passed by a Duras-owned Bird of Prey, and reached the installation. Fleet Admiral Buckbeak assembled a boarding party, and after a brief exchange of fire with the Terrans onboard, they received encrypted data from the installation and rescued Yevel, who was being held there. Once decrypted, they found that the station was an artificial wormhole generator, protected by Klingon and Terran ships.

The USS Enterprise and USS Avenger then moved to attack this base, led by Fleet Admiral Buckbeak. Two Klingon Birds of Prey, led by the *ISS Challenger*, engaged the Federation forces, destroying the Enterprise saucer and damaging the then-brand-new USS Avenger. However, the Birds of Prey were destroyed and the Challenger was forced to cloak and move closer to the station. The Pegasus attempted to engage the Enterprise drive and the Avenger, but was damaged and forced to cloak, and the Federation forces managed to destroy the artificial wormhole generator. Meanwhile, the Terrans helped to arm the Klingon rebels in their conflict against the Federation.

The next attempted conquest of the Terrans was in the Romulan Neutral Zone - the planet Iconia. The Enterprise was attacked by two Terran ships immediately, barely managing to fight them off, forced to scrap the saucer section, which was quickly picked off by a Bird of Prey, which was subsequently destroyed by the Enterprise. An away team beamed down to Iconia and battled the Terrans, with several away team members being taken as prisoners. A team from the Enterprise boarded and took control of the ISS Pegasus, but the ISS Challenger remotely activated self-destruct on the Pegasus, so the Federation troops evacuated down to the planet and took out the Terrans, preparing to destroy the Iconian gateway that the Terrans had meant to hijack, creating an anomaly that the Enterprise just barely escaped, while the Pegasus cancelled destruct and escaped.

After a brief and failed attack by the Federation against the main Terran stronghold - DS9, the Federation adopted another strategy, cutting Duras off from the Terrans and separating them, directing a strike at the base of operations used by the Klingon rebels. The Inquisitor and the Enterprise embarked on this mission, managing to force the Klingon rebels out of the war with the huge blow, even still leaving them stronger for it. However, there was a distress call from Earth - the Federation defense perimeter had been ambushed. When the Enterprise and Inquisitor arrived on the scene, the Challenger and Pegasus were in orbit of Earth, bombing it. Hsaia, who had seized control from Williams and become the Terran Emperor, as Williams was on DS9 at the time, claimed Earth, but was killed, Cayde taking his place. The Challenger, commanded by Owens, was destroyed, and the Pegasus narrowly escaped - all remaining Terran forces regrouped at DS9. Forensic analysis revealed that someone gave the prefix codes of the Federation defense fleet - Commodore Yevel, revealed to be a Terran spy, not the real Yevel, as they rescued his counterpart.

## Beginning of Battle

Fleet Admiral James Buckbeak led a tight ship on the Enterprise, with the Inquisitor commanded by Captain R'roa moving ahead under cloak. Engaged by a Terran defense perimeter, they punched through one, and forced another, reinforced by the Ironforge, to pull back. Defeating yet another defense perimeter, they finally reached DS9 itself.

The station's defenses still had not yet been repaired from when the Terrans took it over, leaving it a noncombatant. The Terran and Federation forces quickly exchanged fire - Emperor Cayde retreated to DS9 before the Pegasus could be destroyed, then the Inquisitor was destroyed, leaving just the Enterprise and Ironforge vying for victory, with the Enterprise destroying the Terran ship. The Terrans prepared to make the last stand...

## A Dramatic Rescue

A boarding party beamed aboard DS9 from the badly damaged Enterprise, fighting their way to the security cell and freeing the real Yevel. They faced more resistance at Ops, with a long firefight - the Terrans briefly held a perimeter outside Quark's bar, but the Federation eventually secured the station, and managed to cut the Terran universe off from our wormhole, forever ensuring our safety...