History Fanfic / DontSayGoodbyeFarewell

** The SpacePirate scene. The MCDF is conducting cross-border raids against SpacePirates and Orion slavers, and Qua pursues Orions that are attacking what appears to be a freighter. The freighter is actually Eleya's ''Stargazer''-class heavy cruiser USS ''George Hammond'', which is broadcasting a false IFF to [[WolfInSheepsClothing lure the pirates into attacking it]].

* TakeThat: The [[WordOfGod author's notes]] take a potshot at the canon game's {{exaggerated}} use of OverrankedSoldier, pointing out that the reason Eleya is in command of the heavy cruiser ''George Hammond'' (instead of USS ''Bajor'' as in ''Fanfic/BaitAndSwitchSTO'') is that she's only 30 and has been a full captain for a little under a year.

* OffOnATechnicality: [[spoiler:{{Reconstructed}}. Eleya successfully argues on constitutional grounds that she can't be held criminally liable for letting Janice Qua, who is wanted for treason, escape, and [[JustFollowingOrders views any order to the contrary as illegal]].]]

* BiTheWay: Chief Walston was mentioned to have had a wife and child in ''Fanfic/LookingIntoEnemyEyes'', but in this story is mentioned to be having boyfriend troubles. (It's unclear whether this signifies a divorce, an open marriage, [[YourCheatingHeart infidelity]], or if [[SeriesContinuityError the authors goofed]].)

* FantasticRacism: ''Nobody'' likes the Orions. There's also a bit from an Andorian's perspective that evinces dislike of Klingons: Andorians are a ProudSoldierRace where you're expected to keep your passions subordinated to unit discipline, and to break away in pursuit of personal glory used to be a death penalty offense and dishonoring to your entire family.

* DeliberaEvteValuesDissonance: Given her cultural background and the fact that she herself was nearly enslaved by Orions as a nineteen-year-old, Eleya's view of the conflict between Moab and the Orions comes off a little skewed by Federation norms. She evinces some approval of various acts committed by Moabite anti-slavery raiders that would normally be considered war crimes (torture, summary executions, taking ears as trophies and leaving playing cards as calling cards). It's also noted that the Bajorans had to abolish the death penalty and stop hanging Cardassian collaborators to join the Federation. [[spoiler:Using [[ChildSoldier underage soldiers]], however, [[EveryoneHasStandards proves a bridge too far]].]]

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Given her cultural background and the fact that she herself was nearly enslaved by Orions as a nineteen-year-old, Eleya's view of the conflict between Moab and the Orions comes off a little skewed by Federation norms. She evinces some approval of various acts committed by Moabite anti-slavery raiders that would normally be considered war crimes (torture, summary executions, taking ears as trophies and leaving playing cards as calling cards). It's also noted that the Bajorans had to abolish the death penalty and stop hanging Cardassian collaborators to join the Federation. [[spoiler:Using [[ChildSoldier underage soldiers]], however, [[EveryoneHasStandards proves a bridge too far]].]]

* ChestOfMedals: Fuchs is grumbling about what might happen to the fleet Admiral Alcott painstakingly rebuilt now that he's dead, commenting "I can feel the shine on my boots getting ripped right off". Not long after, a group of senior officers, including Eleya, walk in, and the narration says that "the fruit salad of the three admirals and five COs in full dress whites entering the room ought to be enough shine for anyone."

* ArtificialGravity: {{Exploited}}. Peri hacks the SpaceStation's AG and weaponizes it. [[ChunkySalsaRule The results aren't pretty.]]

* OldSchoolDogfight: This kind of turning fight is par for the course with small ships armed with cannons, from ''Defiant''- and ''São Paulo''-class tactical escorts to the Klingon birds-of-prey fielded by the Moabites. Orion corvettes have beam weapons, but fight much the same way.

** [[spoiler:As part of a [[TheCoup coup attempt]] against Melani D'Ian, the outlaw Orion Trade Houses try to get the Good Masters to come back by triggering the Fek'Ihri to come from their AlternateUniverse and attack Moab. Qua attacks their base to try to stop this (she fails) and plants bait to draw Starfleet into backing them up (she succeeds in attracting Eleya's attention).]]

* TheAlcoholic: Eleya admits she drinks too much, but sends Petty Officer Deiter Fuchs to counseling after learning he's drinking even more than she does, self-medicating for PTSD. Eleya doesn't forbid him from drinking; instead she recommends he switch to a better brand of liquor that he can't ''afford'' to drink by the bottle.

* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: {{Averted}}. WordOfGod is that space's distances are reason for Eleya's WolfInSheepsClothing tactics at the start of the story.
-->'''StarSword-C:''' Space is frelling huge. Starfleet only has so many ships and even an uncloaked ship can be hard to detect at a distance. You'll notice that Eleya used fakery to get the pirates to come to HER. This is something she used very successfully during the war in some side stories I've brainstormed: [[StealthInSpace lacking cloaks as they do, Starfleet goes old-school when they need to be stealthy. It's a weird case where old techniques actually work better than new ones: a cloaked ship is easier to detect at warp than at sublight speeds (something it's likely the Moabites aren't fully aware of), whereas a ship that simply returns a signal of something it's not looks the same at any speed.]] And on the off chance any raiders survive to report back, they now know that any civilian ship they attack could in fact be a Federation capital ship in disguise.

'''Tess:''' ''(takes a sniff, makes a face)'' Wow, they should've dropped Romulan ale from the embargo and put that on, it's worse than [[MiltaryMoonshiner Walston's slash]].

* MassOhCrap: Resulting from a GambitPileup early in the story. Janice Qua and her crew when what she thought was a freighter about to be attacked by Orions suddenly broadcasts the IFF of USS ''George Hammond''. Further {{Oh Crap}}s ensue when the second Federation starship Eleya had with her appears, and then when Eleya, who is experienced at fighting Klingons, is able to track Qua's fleeing birds-of-prey through their cloak for a few minutes. Eleya, conversely, has an OhCrap when Qua's bird-of-prey wolfpack decloaks and attacks the Orion ship she was luring in. For their part, the Orions just plain panic and open fire on ''everybody''.

** The Moabites were previously established to name birds-of-prey after people. Qua's flagship ''Astoria'' is unexplained, but another one that gets {{Red Shirt}}ed is named ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B5_Nguy%C3%AAn_Gi%C3%A1p Võ Nguyên Giáp]]''.

** [[spoiler:As part of a {{coup}} against Melani D'Ian, the outlaw Orion Trade Houses try to get the Good Masters to come back by triggering the Fek'Ihri to come from their AlternateUniverse and attack Moab. Qua attacks their base to try to stop this (she fails) and plants bait to draw Starfleet into backing them up (she succeeds in attracting Eleya's attention).]]