[Jmenschenfresser]

I wasn't aware that you lived right above your bookstore! Klingons aren't the type to steal books, you know. You are quite the stoic for a Klingon, my friend. Ah, yes, there are a few things going on in the empire. Nothing which threatens us, but nevertheless, drama can be found in little things, as I am sure a book worm like yourself is well aware.

The Jraenar have sent through so many doomed vessels several of our mine fields along the blockaded zone, which now stretches through four systems, are damned near dry. Ship after ship, they throw them at our fields. The High Council underestimates them...I do not. I have seen the new reports from our deep space scout skirting along the southern edge of the galaxy. I estimate the populated systems of the Jraenar to nearly equal ours, and the systems they control to exceed ours...that is not counting the recently charted southwestern area. You see, we now know, thanks to the Fluidic Imperium, that the galaxy is roughly a circle. The southern section reduces through several systems to a single chain of WPs lying in a straight line. Here the Jraenar can propel themselves into the other half of the galaxy, yet contain insurgents through a series of heavily armed planets. We are sure the Jraenar are tracking our scout, but they have yet to attack it.

We continue to send scouts through the....ah, is that Romulan Ale?...yes please....ummm....through the Blockaded Zone. In the Last few months we've noted a lack of activity in the border regions. Gergan for instance has built it's own little fleet containing two of the most sophisticated ships in the entire Klingon empire, but they haven't seen a single Jraenar ship in months. I doubt the Jraenar are planning an attack. That is not underestimation friend. I have seen what is left when their ships take on ours in combat. Our fleets keep getting older and older. Perhaps four of the more than 30 ships in the Klingon empire have seen any kind of retrofit. Shameful. How can a Klingon fight with honor, when he feels the shame and neglect flying around in a bucket of rust.

Yoshri is up and running, but still it lacks a coherent degree of infrastructure.

While scouting the southwestern quadrant, our unarmed scout ship found several colonies of the Drushocka. We now know the location and subsequent entrapment of the Druschocka. THeir empire lies in an outlying arm of the galaxy. The single exit from this area opens right into the middle of our empire...and fat chance we will let them out.

The High Council is debating whether or not to give them another chance at peace or simply force them into some kind of subjugated pact...or possible surrender. The thing I find funny, is that the High Council isn't making this debate a secret. They want the Drushocka to know. Either way, they do not come out ahead. The intent is to reduce negotiations and produce fear. Until the debate of the Drushocka is over, the colonies' future in the southwest is in question. By analysing the state of the colonies, we believe that their colony ship must have run out of fuel and drifted for years before finding the world they are on. I can't imagine the hopelessness. And now, we come along and claim the whole thing for ourselves...They have not had it easy. I personally hope we do not destory them...even if the rest of the Drushocka are burned from the galaxy.

As far as the Jraenar invasion is concerned...I think a preliminary force may be ready within a year. Already several newly created transports are loading troops. I think the initial invasion will be east to link up with Gergan and south. Many have argued taking the second force farther south and then move in to the east, thus dividing their empire. I think that is a bad idea. The Doctrine of Warp Point Defense, written by Quar'qok states that all movement forward should be to the ultimate goal of reducing the number of warp points defended. Unless the Klingon empire is willing to change it's policy of static defense, then a divide and conquer is not the way.

No I cannot stay. I shall soon be off again. I am first off to several colonies in the north to take command over the front against the Norak. Ah, I almost forgot that. The Norak have not been easy...so the local commander, without orders, sent his fleet through the WP and into Norak space. He defeated a small Norak Fleet and proceeded to bloacked the single Norak colony in that system. I am to oversee the invasion of this planet...it is to be a proto-type for our Jraenar invasion. I have to be there to rethink everything that goes wrong, and graft ideas about the future of this bothersome northern front.

Until next time. No, you are right, I doubt the human Clausewitz will help much against the Norak, but then again, war is war.