Julia sees more action and gets a promotion

 The skirmishing with the Klingons continues at the Bezwell Index as they try to retake the planet. Our orders are to keep moving back and forth in this region in an attempt to keep the enemy off balance. Now that the Romulans have joined the war on their side, we cannot allow the Klingons the luxury of a stress-free buildup on our spinward border. Any new construction from the main Federation shipyards will be going to the Romulan Front, but even so it probably will not be enough to stop them destroying large amounts of our military infrastructure. Rumor even has it that a second CVA group has been rushed in that direction.

Bezwell Index

In any case, the next series of combats at the Bezwell Index sees us engage the Klingons twice - once on the approaches to the planet, and again in orbit. They have superior resources, so we are forced to retreat again. We do, though, inflict considerable grief, including two D6CV carriers crippled. As the fleet gathers at the rendezvous point, new orders arrive for the Darius. My CO is promoted to take command of a crippled NCL that has lost its top officers, and I am promoted to take his place as Captain of the Darius, with the rank of full Commander. I have now fought in six battles aboard my Destroyer.

The skirmishing continues throughout the autumn as we move in to retake the planet. There is nothing of any military value there any more, but it is an important strategic location. Three more combats in which I command the Darius sees it return to our hands, but we do not expect to hold it for ong. The Klingons will inevitably return, and they must know as well as we do that this is all a holding strategy on our part. It probably suits them just as much as us because in a very real sense the Klingon Front is, at the moment at least, a sideshow for us. The main events are taking place on the Romulan Front, where the invaders have indeed destroyed our main Starbase.

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