The vessel was an older warbird class; The IKS Vortacha was moving on impulse as it approached the Klingon home world of Kronos. It had ordered the others of the patrol group to remain on station, observing the neutral zone between Klingon space and that of the Federation, though secretly, they were actually watching for a old class of freighter. The patrol group, along with its commanding officers had suffered a disgrace amongst the council, and had been reduced to distant patrols. The commanding officer of the group had even gone so far as to be cut off from his family ties; The great house of Tanook.