yIqIm - ATTENTION:

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This is a translation to the Federation Standard Language pattern. Dates, names and places will follow this
system for a better general comprehension. Klingon natives may find the original report accessing
the Imperial Databanks - Klingon Defense Force - Intelligence Central - Mission Control.

BRIEF TACTICAL BACKGROUND
It is a constant belief that Klingons don't make prisioners. This is not quite always true. We are warriors. We fight fot the Empire. And we let our enemies die honourably in battle. We are not that merciless - at least not when something can be translated as a gain for the Empire - be it in technology, knowledge or having someone important in hands...

In many attack or surveillance missions we have indeed captured a variety of Federation officers from intercepted ships, personnel from colonies and outposts, etc. These people could bring us more knowledge about the ways of the Starfleet to the Empire's scientists, strategists, and negociators. When the relationship between the Klingon Empire and the Federation of Planets was something almost unexistent, except for the constant formal contacts made by ambassadors, a lot more used to happen behind the false curtain of neutrality and non-militar control of the Federation.

Their vessels also made eventual Klingon prisioners from our ships. Prisioners that they used to say were not captured prisioners but saved individuals from crippled ships that, otherwise, would not survive. From this reality, the practice of exchanging prisioners, began to develop. Prisioners from both sides, after being probed and exaustively interrogated, could be returned, exchanged.

This was one of the ways we found to place our spies among the ranks of the Starfleet personnel - and maybe one or two of their spies into our realms... If a spy from our side were discovered Starfleet would use all their methods to discover what the spy had passed to us. He (or she) would probably be probed and interrogated as well as we would do with their spies. That's why prisioner negociations were never easy ones.

MISSION PERSPECTIVES
This mission intended to place a trained warrior into the place of a Starfleet officer, a Captain named Maximiliam Sheridan. Accounted to be exchanged for Klingon officers held prisioners by the Federation. While the real Starfleet officer would remain in our hands, our spy would replace him for as long as possible. As a Captain in rank and being returned to in , our spy would provide us with as much information he could gather.
Excerpts of the Nacarah-Lassador Operation Report
Recorded by Captain Rawk Lizarb Kao.
Klingon Defense Force Registration Number:
9404149185/3956360060.4.
Classified Permission: Priority Three. KDF 5.481/5.
Mission Coordinator: Brigadier Kerla Vlaasak.

Mission Report - Stardate 8417.7: I'm now a Human, at least externally. My compromise with the Empire and its needs is what makes me firmly believe that I MUST think and behave as a Human. As a Klingon warrior it is difficult but the chemicals drugs and all the apparatus that made me look like a Human, help me to hold on. I now believe I can make myself easy among the Humans. It is necessary. For all that I have studied and learned from other warriors who performed similar missions and for what our Human prisoners could teach me, I think I can succeed.

Now I'm on my way to the Federation homeworld. They call it Terra. I'm aboard of a Klingon vessel who is going to make an exchange of prisoners captured in eventual confrontations in space and/or in land-based colonies.

My identity will be the one of a Federation Captain who has been captured two and a half years ago, by the time this mission began to be planned. With the use of the mind-sifter during the countless interrogations, the specialists could obtain all they needed to know. Then his mind patterns were recorded and passed via neural placement to me. I also carry a mind tranquilizer inductor that can be used in the moments I'll need to play along with Humans and be as natural as can be. This micro-device was implanted in my brain by the time the cosmetic surgery was done.

So, now I am Captain Maximilian Sheridan of the former ship U.S.S. Lassador, NCC 5436, lost in combat in Sector 16, Epsilon Delta Four, near the disputed area of Nacarah. I am "returning home". Supposedly, I will be interrogated and will be recommended to take a time for rest, after all, it was "more than two years of imprisonment in a dreadful Klingon prison..." Humans are so weak...

The Exchange of "prisoners"...


My new face, as
Captain Sheridan.


The U.S.S. Natalia.


The Room I was given on the ship.

Mission Report - Stardate 8423.2: I'm already in a Federation vessel called Natalia. The exchange of prisoners was done in space, in the Neutral Zone, watched by security ships from both sides.

After transportation, I was greeted by the ship's captain and his officers as one of the two captains exchanged with more 52 people. Our double agents inside the Federation had previously prevented that no physical tests would be made without prior superior supervision of the Federation Analysis Board of Exchanging Prisoners, as usual. Any internal test could show my disguise and ruin the mission...

As I was led to a quarter for rest - Humans need so much rest - hours later I was invited to dinner with the ship's captain. It would be my first real experience of testing my abilities in the study of Human behavior. Fortunately it was all right. Nobody seemed to notice anything strange and if so, probably they thought it was because the pressure and stress of imprisonment. I was questioned about "the Klingons", the prison and all that, and I had to play myself as sick and tired of all I "had experienced" there... Blessed be the mind tranquilizer inductor...

As traveling at Warp 5, we are about to reach Terra in one and a half day. I'll spend this time reading all the information available in the ship's library computer - a long term prisoner have a lot of things to get updated into.

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pujwI' HIvlu'chugh quvbe'lu'
(There is no honor in attacking the weak.)

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