A Cardassian outpost chosen as the site of a conference on the Klingon threat, which a Klingon bird-of-prey destroys before Kira and Dukat arrive in Return to Grace.
In Return to Grace, set in 2372, Major Kira is sent to a conference at the Korma outpost where Bajoran and Cardassian officials are to share intelligence about the Klingons. Her transport is the freighter Groumall, commanded by a demoted Gul Dukat.
They reach Korma to find the outpost in ruins and the delegates dead. The bird-of-prey responsible is still nearby but ignores the feeble freighter, an insult Dukat feels keenly.
Kira helps him fit the Groumall with a planetary disruptor salvaged from the outpost's defences, and the two set out to hunt the Klingon ship, a pursuit that ends at Loval. The destruction of Korma marks the start of Dukat's private war against the Klingon Empire.