[Tlhingan-hol] nuq bop bom: 'ay' cha'vatlh cha'maH vagh: jorbe' nachDu'

[Qov]

vajar and the rebels are engaged in battle in a scrapyard onboard *Warfare*.

CONTENT: Violent death by disruptor.

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jorbe' nachDu'

ghutar HIvlI'bogh loDDaq Qeq vajar 'ej jagh nach 
'o' Qaw'. pum HIvwI' 'ach jorbe' nachDaj. DoS veb 
wIvlI' vajar. QaS ra'taHbogh be''e' ngu'. ghagh 
be' 'ej poSqu'choH mInDu'Daj, roDaj 'elchu'DI' 
vajar nISwI' tIH.[272] poSqu'taHvIS nujDaj Hegh 
be'. ra'wI'chaj chu' ngu'taHvIS jagh loQ mIS 
chaH, 'ach SuvtaH. veQ qIptaH tIHmeychaj. 
lotlhbogh 'op SuvwI'pu' qIp je. HubwI' mI' chov 
vajar. DaH chaH law' law' lotlhwI' law' rap 'e' 
noH 'ach nuplI' jagh. ghIHchoH rav. vajar SumDaq 
SuvtaH Qoreq Sogh[324]. loQ tlhIblaw' 'ach chaq jonwI' tlhIbHa' ghaH.

che'ron pov 'oHbe' choQvam'e'. choQ 
luDoQlaHchu'be' lotlhwI'pu', chobmey SeHbe'mo'. 
Dop chobmey juSchugh, chobvo' lotlhwI' 'o' HIvlaH 
jagh. Dop chobmey juSbe'chugh vaj von'egh 
lotlhwI'pu'. ngugh vajar qech tob wanI'. chobvo' 
yov negh chu'. yoD Sut tuQtaH 'ej vaQqu'. baQa'. 
HoSchaj jeymeH to' lupoQbej lotlhwI'pu'. 
yoD'eghmeH nechtaHvIS vajar, mu' Qoy: 
«taDHa'wI'pu'!» jatlh vay'. va. QaS taD 
taDHa'moHlI'chugh qImyal, vaj chaH ngejbe'bejpu' 
ghutar quv rop'a'qoq 'ej Qu'mey quvHa' qawbe'mo' qImyal lutoy'qangchu'.[170]

Suvbe'choHpu' Qoreq, 'ach rIQbe'law'. ghopDajDaq 
Hoqra'Hey tu'lu'. ghaHvaD jatlh vajar, baS jej, 
nISwI' tIHmey je juntaHvIS, «Qoreq, chaH 'emvo' 
DImermeH, jaS chobvetlh wInaw'laH'a'?»

jatlh Qoreq, «HIja'! HItlha'.» QIt 
che'ronqoqchajDaq nech vajar, Qoreq je. HoDchaj 
lutlha'choH Hota'ro' ghutar je. jeS luneH 
latlhpu', 'ach «mIwvamvaD tlhoy law' vagh,» jatlh 
Qoreq. rav lo'laH lojmIt ngaQHa'moHtaHvIS Qoreq, 
luHub lotlhwI'pu'. «HInung,» jatlh Qoreq. lojmIt 
vegh vajar ghIq loSlI'. choQ jojDaq Hurghchu' 'ej 
QamlaHbe' vajar. joDqu'nIS. 'el Qoreq 'ej 
DevchoH. lurghmey noHlaHbe' vajar 'ach jeQ Qoreq. 
vajar tlha' Hota'ro': tamqu' Hota'ro'. Hota'ro' 
tlha' ghutar: mu'qaDmey bach ghutar 'e' QoylaH 
vajar, ghutar nach qIplaw'taHDI' rav'eq jeqwI'mey.[267]
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SKI: vajar plays sniper for a bit, then asks 
Qoreq for a way to ambush the fresh forces.
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[272] On an editing reread I almost rearranged 
this sentence so that the effect of vajar's shot 
follows instead of precedes the fact that he took 
it. But I like it the way it is. I think it 
mirrors the confusion of battle that this woman 
is dying before the reader is sure what hit her.
[324] Qoreq is the metal specialist whom you met 
in engineering when qaH'eng snuck vajar in, back 
when their main concern was getting *Dugh* repaired.
[267] Whenever I write a sentence of the form, "Y 
verbed X then Z verbed Y," it seems to make so 
much more sense in Klingon than English, because 
in Klingon "X [wot] Y ghIq Y [wot] Z" you can see 
the chain properly, here the verb is tlha' and 
you can see X=vajar, Y=Hota'ro', Z=ghutar all 
following one behind the other. In the English 
they are all mixed up which just seems bizarre. How do we understand it!
[170] Frozen marines: it's a John M. Ford thing. 
Storable, thaw-and-deploy troops. Not much in the 
way of memories or knowledge of current events, though.