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For those that need to know the Picture of the Bok'Nor shouldn't be there, and the text that should be there and on page 7, will soon read;
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The Maquis first struck in 2370, when they blew up the Cardassian Freighter the Bok’Nor leaving DS9, the following investigation led Commander Sisko into the Demilitarised zone were Gul Dukat showed that the recent treaty signed between the Federation and Cardassia had degraded into an increasingly violent war. The body of the Saboteur William Samual’s of the Bok’Nor was returned after his confession was extracted, he had allegedly committed suicide in remorse, but the obvious Cardassian maltreatment drove the Maquis into continued, escalating retaliation, revealing Starfleet Officer Lt. Commander Calvin Hudson to defect from Starfleet and take charge of the Maquis and declare war on the Cardassian Union.
In their heyday between 2370 and 2373 the Maquis had become a serious threat to the Cardassian border security, and turned from a minor irritant harassing lightly defended targets and shipping lanes to a major annoyance, taking on Major Cardassian Navy vessels in open combat. Though never considered a serious threat to Cardassian sovereignty, the constant guerrilla warfare, combined with the famed Cardassian stubbornness and inability to accept fault, they may even have been partially responsible for both the Invasion of Cardassia by the Klingon Empire in 2372, and the following Cardassian alliance with the Dominion in 2373.
As the Maquis racked up minor successes and evaded many Cardassian attempts at bringing them to Cardassian ‘justice’, the war reached it hottest periods, with open combat within the DMZ. Maquis ships would use hit and run tactics choosing their targets carefully, they would appear, striking fast, hard and mercilessly… Then they would fade, often splitting up to make pursuit more difficult and then individual ships would bolt for safety… Often the Badlands offered sanctuary, its strong plasma storms causing havoc for the larger warships of the Cardassian navy, while the smaller vessels, immensely outclassed by their pursuer would find itself suddenly in a superior position, its small size and manoeuvrability making it ideal for navigating the Plasma storms.
The Cardassians suffered defeat after defeat against this ‘irritant’. A small disorganised group of rebels besting the Cardassian navy time and time again. They became increasingly concerned with bringing the Maquis to the full extent of Cardassian justice, and began trying to infiltrate agents into the organisation, and setting Commanders with a reputation as ‘Bloodhounds’ to border patrol duties. It wasn’t long before the DMZ looked like a small scale open war, and yet still the Federation stood by and did nothing.
But it was the discovery of the Dominion in the Gamma quadrant that dropped the first domino in the chain reaction that led to Galactic War. The discovery of the Changelings as leaders of the Dominion shocked the Cardassians. The Obsidian Order had infiltrated hundreds of agents in the guise of alien species over the years, and understood the power that a shapeshifter had in an intelligence war. This made them concerned and paranoid enough to contact their closest rivals the Tal Shiar. From their the two intelligence agents began plotting, the Cardassians shared the information they had on
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