Chapter 41 - What is the deal with Corvan II? (Patreon)

Corvan II was an inhabited planetoid in the Corvan system, near the Aneto system. Rainforests on the planetoid were home to the Corvan gilvo, which were threatened by industrial pollutants during the 24th century. Normally, the Federation was much more careful about pollution and such so I'd not realized that it was a Federation world. Upon further research, I discovered that while it supplied some dilithium to Starfleet back in my new home dimension, it was not actually a Federation Planet.

In this reality, it actually was a full Federation world, probably because of how important the strategic resources it produced were to the continued functioning of the Federation of this dimension. Without the planetoid's vital resources, a sizeable part of Starfleet here would be grounded or wouldn’t exist. By the time the colony managed to get a distress call out, the planetary defense shields had only another six hours before it would fall under the continued Klingon bombardment. With the closest ship too far away to render assistance before the defense shields fell, the Discoveryquickly responded, outmaneuvered, and destroyed the attacking Klingon vessels using its experimental spore drive.