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Captain's Log, Stardate 75365.63. A brazen Klingon attack interrupted the summit on Vulcan, leaving thousands of Vulcans dead and a few dozen Starfleet Vessels destroyed. What few of us survived the battle drove the KDF back across the neutral zone, but at a high cost.
We later learned that Captain Albright of the U.S.S. Ranger would be implicated in selling Federation secrets to the Klingon Empire in exchange for amnesty in the neutral zone. Captain Albright's first officer, a Bajoran named Ra Ketti, relieved him for his complicity in the crime and confined him to the brig. Half the crew attempted to mutiny against the decision, and we were ordered to intervene.
The crew of the Shrike, together with Officers and Crew loyal to Ketti, retook the Ranger. We later learned that it wasn't enough that Captain Albright simply sell the Empire the Federation's secrets. He was carrying an alleged Romulan fugitive the Klingons sought for crimes against the Empire. He abandoned his former Romulan name in the destruction of Romulus, referring instead to be known as Jarek Cyphus. A Romulan of the newly formed Romulan Republic negotiated for Jarek's release, to which the Federation auspiciously agreed in hopes to sweeten relations with his people.
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Stardate 75373.17 supplemental. I've been promoted to Lieutenant Commander and given command of the U.S.S. Ranger, a formidable Exeter-class cruiser; I stand relieved of duty from the U.S.S. Shrike. Confiding in Captain Albright's former first officer—whom I have placed on ship's staff and assigned as Chief Engineer—we selected the U.S.S. Ranger's senior Lieutenant JG to assume command of the Shrike. We ceremoniously promoted the Caitian Ash Nentiss to Lieutenant, and presented him with his badge of command for the U.S.S. Shrike, effective immediately. Before his release to the Republic, Jarek Cyphus remarked of his awe of my crew, saying that the tradition of christening my career of starships after great birds is a trend that should remain—not to detract from the Romulan predilection for birds of prey, of course. As the U.S.S. Ranger hadn't even undergone her formal christening ceremony, we elected to name her "Yatagarasu" in the light that our great fortune as a crew seems to have come on the wings of divine intervention. Before our maiden voyage, I caught notice of Jarek Cyphus shooting an approving grin at her bow.
I doubt very much this is the last we've seen of him, or of "divine interventions." We will be watching and waiting from the final frontier as we stretch our new legs in the great expanses of space.
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