Fransu

"I do know where your mother lives!"

- Fransu, dealing with Cardassian bureaucracy.

Fransu was a Cardassian male introduced in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine book Station Rage.

As a young man, Fransu was a follower of the High Gul. After the High Gul and 3,000 of his elite troops were placed in stasis, Fransu stole the bodies of the High Gul and his closest followers, while murdering the other 3,000 troops. Eventually he placed the bodies of the High Gul and the others in a vacuum sealed chamber on Deep Space Nine.

For the next 80 years Fransu rose steadily in rank in the Cardassian military. In 2371 Fransu was doing a rotation as a requisition officer at Central Command, something that greatly fustrated him. When the High Gul was revived Fransu received a signal reporting that the High Gul and his remaining troops had been reawakened.

Fransu had several drones sent in to Bajoran space to blanket the area with white noise. He kidnapped the High Gul's wife as a hostage, and departed for Bajor on the Galor class ship Rugg'l.

Enroute he decided that even though he had no firm proof that the High Gul was alive he was going to attack and destroy DS9. When he arrived he proceeded with his attack on DS9.

Meanwhile the High Gul joined forces with Benjamin Sisko and Major Kira Nerys and took the Defiant in order to defeat the High Gul. After Sisko was able to disable the Rugg'l Fransu revealed to the High Gul that his wife had survived all these years, and that she was Fransu's hostage. However the High Gul's wife refused to be a hostage, stating that she had lived long enough. The High Gul activated the Defiant's weapons, further damaging the Defiant while Fransu slit the old woman's throat.

At that moment a task force consisting of three Federation starships and one Klingon ship arrived and fired their weapons at the Rugg'l. They beamed Fransu to the Defiant, where he was taken in to custody by Starfleet.

With Fransu in custody the Federation and the Cardassians agreed that Fransu's actions were unsanctioned and that he had no authorization from Central Command to attack DS9. Fransu was imprisoned by the Federation.