Empok Nor (mirror)

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In the mirror universe, Empok Nor was a Cardassian-built space station ,located in the Trivas system, that was stripped of technology and abandoned by its Alliance controllers. However, three Cardassian soldiers were left as sentries and alert the Alliance should anyone illegally access the station. Others in the Alliance however refered it as "punishment detail" for unimportant or disgraced soldiers and ignored Empok Nor completely.

In 2375, soldiers of the Terran Rebellion boarded the station and, with no answer from their distress call to Terok Nor (now in Rebel hands) the sentries were killed and the station captured. Rebellion General Zek and General Julian Bashir, defying orders from their leader; General Miles "Smiley" O'Brien to construct twelve individual ship-contruction facilities, turned Empok Nor's docking ring into a massive shipyard for the purpose of making Defiant-class warships for a future attack on the Alliance homeworlds' of Cardassia and Qo'noS. However, the Rebels drastically underestimated the stations structural integrity as it had neither weapons arrays or defensive screens to protect itself against an attack. Furthermore, the stations power core was taxed to the limit to power the industrial replicators being used to construct the warships; making it dangerously unstable.

When the IKS Ya'Vang, under the command of Captain Kurn attacked the station, the fusion core exploded, destroying the station, the warships and many rebels. (DS9 novel: Obsidian Alliances: "Saturn's Children")