Star Trek - Non Federation timeline

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Star Trek - Non Federation timeline

Chapter 1 - Prelude

In the early 1980's Britain was experimenting with a space system called HOTOL. HOTOL, stands for Horizontal Take-Off and Landing, was a realised British space shuttle proposal.

Designed as a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) reusable winged launch vehicle, it was to be fitted with a unique liquid air cycle engine (LACE), the RB545, built by Rolls Royce. The engine was technically a liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen design, but by collecting and liquefying oxygen from the air as the spacecraft climbed, the amount of LOX (liquid oxygen) carried onboard was dramatically reduced. Since LOX typically represents the majority of the takeoff weight of a rocket, HOTOL was considerably smaller than normal all-LOX designs, roughly the size of a medium-haul airliner such as the McDonnell Douglas DC-9/MD-80.

HOTOL was 63 metres long, 7 metres in diameter and with a wingspan of 28 metres. The unmanned craft was intended to put a payload of around seven tonnes in orbit. It was intended to take off from a runway, mounted on the back of a large rocket-boosted trolley that would help get the craft up to "working speed". The engine was intended to switch from jet propulsion to pure rocket propulsion at 26-32 km high, by which time the craft would be travelling at Mach 5 to 7. After reaching orbit, HOTOL was intended to re-enter the atmosphere and glide down to land on a conventional runway. The internal landing gear were too small to carry the weight of the fully fuelled rocket, so emergency landings required the fuel to be dumped.

Development began with government funding in 1986. The design team was a joint effort between Rolls Royce and British Aerospace led by John Scott and Dr Bob Parkinson.

The first version of HOTOL was called HOTOL1 this would be unmanned the second version would be called HOTOL2 would be a manned version.

By the mid 1990's the HOTOL project was well under way and a launch site in Australia was chosen Woomera is a town in South Australia, 488 km north of Adelaide, along the Stuart Highway. This was expanded and upgraded to handle HOTOL.

Also at this time 3 other countries joined the British in the space program, these are Australia, New Zealand and Canada. These countries would have a percentage of the investment and would also receive the same percentage of any profits from this space program. The percentage breakdown was as follows Britain 50%, Australia 20%, Canada 20% and New Zealand 10%.

By 2005 the HOTOL 1 & 2 were operating with and HOTOL 3 & 4 with a much larger cargo/passenger capacity. The difference between is the stronger under carriage and stronger rocket motors witch allows to removal of the large rocket-boosted trolley.

The income would grow until the HOTOL program in 2010 was making 3 Billion pounds a year with a 1 Billion-pound profit for the 4 member countries involved.

In Britain at this time there was increased hostility to the European Union, the British government decided to hold a referendum on weather Britain stays in the EU of leaves. The results were staggering 78% for leaving the EU. This caused a run on the Euro but strengthened the British pound.

Britain withdrew from the EU on the 1 January 2012 the fears that the British economy would collapse did not happen, the opposite happened the British economy began to strengthen.

Britain would use the 1% of Britain's GDP that was going into the EU to fund a rearmament program with the world getting increasingly hostile. Most of the money would be put in to designing Deep Space Exploration Vessels what was left over would be put into the rest of the UK economy.

Between 2015 and 2025 Britain and its the partners expanded beyond the space program to all other areas including trade and defence. In the defence area they began would on a ground based laser defence system with the first until becoming operation by 2025.

Britain, Canada and Australia would be construction a new generation of nuclear power stations of the Pressurised Water Reactors (PWR) type, to provide power not only for the laser defence system by also to reduce the dependence on imported fuels.

In 2020 the construction starts in geo stationary orbit of two dry docks for the construction of Deep Space Exploration Vessels, construction of these two dry docks takes 4 years. On the 1 June 2024 King Charles III of Britain christens the first section of the new Deep Space Exploration Vessels. This will be called HMSS (His or Her Majesty Space Ship) Great Britain this ship will be followed by HMSS Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

Also in 2020 will see the formation for the Royal Space Navy consisting of military personnel from all 4 countries under a joint command.

This design of these ships will be an elongated saucer shape with two new designed Ion engines as the rear between the small shuttle bay. The armament will consist of two forward firing rail guns and two aft firing rail guns, also there will be 8 lasers with 4 mounted dorsal and four mounted ventral covering 45 degrees each. There will also be a very primitive "navigation deflector" to deflect space dust etc. With a crew of 60, of these 10 are scientist and the rest are military personnel. They are designed to be away from earth for up to 5 years. With a length of 100 meters and a height of 25 meters and a beam of 70 meters and having 5 decks. These ships are powered buy 4 fusion reactors.

During this time the US space program is going though a lot of problems with the tragic loss of two space shuttles and the withdrawal of the space shuttles from service from 2010. The US goes back to using the Orion Spacecraft (formerly known as the Crew Exploration Vehicle or CEV) is NASA's series of human space flight spacecraft, replaced the Space Shuttle fleet. Together with the Earth Departure Stage (EDS), the Lunar Surface Access Module (LSAM), and the Shuttle Derived Launch Vehicle.

This US space program is far behind the British, Australia, Canadian and New Zealand joint space program. This is manly due to the constant shifting political situation in the US from on political party to an other every 4 years or so.

When the joint British, Australia, Canadian and New Zealand space command was set up it was made independent of political control. But did have to answer to the 4 ministers from each country that formed the space commission. Each of the four members had the power of veto but could be overruled by the other 3 if they were in agreement. This allowed the "Space Command" later called the "Royal Space Command" to remain virtually independent.

By 2029 all 4 Deep Space Exploration Vessels were operational and had begun exploration of the solar system.

The US and NASA had been watching this with envy and begin construction of there own Deep Space Exploration Vessels. These are not as elegant as the Royal Space Commands vessels. They are a series of tubes and pods joined together with one forward firing rail gun a 4 lasers 2 ventral and 2 dorsal. They called the USSS (United States Space Ship) America, Freedom, Kitty Hawk and Constellation these last two are not started until after World War III. These vessels are also buy 2 fusion reactors. This would be under the United States Space Command.

At the end of 2029 a certain young Zephram Cochrane and his family would emigrate from the US to the UK. Later Zephram Cochrane would be given a job at Britain's Space Research Institute. To develop his theories of a faster that light drive called Warped Drive, later to become Warp Drive.

By 2029 the HOTOL program has about 70% of the world’s satellite launch program and 100% of the satellite recovery and overhaul program. Also the space program was doing a healthy space tourism with the cost of going into space even for just a day coming down, the price was within reach of most middle class families (even though it was still only a once in a lifetime thing to do).

The profits from the space program have risen from 1 billion pounds in 2010 to 5 billion pounds by 2029 making the Royal Space Command financially independent of government funding.

But in 2030 that would all change as the 4 Royal Space Command ships would be used for a different purpose.

A further 12 Deep Space Exploration Vessels also to follow the Deep Space Exploration Vessels were vessels designed to carry colonists to the Moon and Mars. The production rate was 2 Deep Space Exploration Vessels and 3 colonist vessels per year. Also with a major colonisation of most of the solar system within the next 50 years and the setting up of mining outpost in the asteroid belt. But with the advent of World War III this program was put on hold.

Next - Part 2 - World War III




Part 2 - World War III

Note - This chapter is a bit brief, but if I went into detail it would take too long to do!

In 2030 various conflicts would boil over in to full-scale wars.

The first of these would be India and Pakistan they would start of over the disputed Kashmir and steadily escalate until both sides conventional forces would be locked in a deadly fight that neither side would back down. By the end of 2032 both sides had gone to a full nuclear exchange, decimating most of the populations of both countries.

The second conflict to start up just after the India and Pakistan was China and Taiwan. Taiwan declared independence from China on the 1 June 2030 after a referendum. China would launch a massive conventional attack on Taiwan to "reclaim" there "lost" territory. The US and Japan along with the EU supported Taiwan's independence. With Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada remain neutral. The Russian federation would support China.

Most of the conventional fighting was in the Taiwan Strait over navel and air superiority. The US, Japan and the EU had superior air and navel technology while China and Russia had numbers on their side. The conventional fighting would go on for 18 months of continuous fighting and the causalities on both sides were very high especially for Russia and China.

While all this was going on Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada would remain neutral in any conflict. They would continue to build up their defences against any attack on them. The defences would also be enhanced by the 4 Deep Space Exploration Vessels of the Royal Space Command. These 4 vessels would take up geo stationary orbit above the 4 member countries to shoot down any missiles that threaten them.

When India and Pakistan launch their nuclear weapons the vessels of the Royal Space Command did not intercept any of the warheads, as they were not attacking them. Thus in the space of a few hours 70% of the population of India and Pakistan were wiped out. Most of the casualties were in the large cities and most of rural India and Pakistan were left unscathed by nuclear strikes.

On the 15 January 2032 China launched a limited number of nuclear missiles at Taiwan. Some of these missiles were shot down by sea and land based ABM systems around Taiwan. But 6 warheads detonated killing 30% of Taiwan's population.

The US responded with a limited nuclear strike against China and China upon seeing this launched all its nuclear weapons against the US, Japan and EU. To witch the US responded with a full counter strike against China. Russia then responded by launching it missiles against the US, Japan and EU. The US also launched against Russia in response against Russia launches added to that France also launched her sub-based missiles against both Russia and China.

Most of the US strike against China was against military targets and several major cities. Thus most of the rural population survived the nuclear strikes against China.

The missile attacks against china were devastating, destroying most of Chinas infrastructure and population. The attacks against Russia were less successful as Russia had a basic form of missile defence around the major city's and industrial centres. The attacks against the US and Japan were not as devastating as the attacks against Russia and China as the US has deployed its ABM defence systems to defend the US mainland and over seas bases, but several nukes did manage to penetrate the defences and destroy several city’s in the US. As the US had only two spaceships in orbit to intercept warheads coming towards the US and its allies, this reduced the effectiveness of these defences.

The EU had mixed results due to the fact the in geo stationary orbit over the UK was HMS Great Britain. HMS Great Britain was under orders to destroy and weapons that were coming in the UK direction this had the added "benefit" of also protecting most of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands and western Germany the rest of the EU was not so "lucky" and would receive several nuclear strikes. HMS Great Britain used her rail guns at long range and lasers at medium range to shoot down 90% of the approaching warheads the rest were destroyed by the land based laser defence system.

The same cover applied to Australia, New Zealand and Canada were no nuclear weapons detonated due to the cover provided by the ships of the vessels of the Royal Space Command. Also the use of the ground based laser defence systems based in these countries.

This would leave the 4 countries of Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada unscathed by the war and with their economies in one piece.

The US economy was also partially intact with France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands and western Germany's economy's also. The damage to Russia was limited to those nukes that got though Russia missile defence system.

Most of the destruction was in India, Pakistan and China with a death toll of over 1 billion dead. There would be problems with radiation, but surprisingly there was not a nuclear winter as most of the nukes that got though the defences ended up hitting either, the cities or military bases, this lead to the large number of causalities for a small number of nukes used. All of the missile aimed at Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada were shot down, thus reducing the amount of damage done. As were the majority that were fired at the US.

World War III would come to an end on the 1 May 2033 with a peace treaty with remaining government leaders of the surviving countries was signed.

Next - Part 3 - Aftermath/Space/Warp Drive/First Contact.




Part 3 - Aftermath/Space/Warp Drive/First Contact

Aftermath

China descended in to a feudal system and the only good thing to come out of the war was that Tibet became an independent country.

Russia with most of its cities in tacked Russia would slowly get back on its feet over the next 3 decades.

The US having suffered some of the fewest nuclear strikes of all the countries, economy was now devoted to rebuilding over the next 2 decades. Its space program would continue at a much-reduced rate.

The European Union countries varied in the amount of damage was done from country to country. With HMSS Great Britain in geo stationary orbit over the UK all of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands and western Germany's were protected from attack. This allowed these countries to help the other EU countries recover from the war.

Japan was well defended against attack therefor its economy also survived mostly in one peace.

The four members of the Royal Space Command survived with their economies in one peace. They also were very strong trading partners with each other. This would allow these four countries some limited growth.

Space

The Royal Space Command four Deep Space Exploration Vessels had proved very good a defending themselves against attack. Therefore the space program would resume but at a much slower pace than before the war.

HMSS New Zealand would be refitted for a five-year mission to explore the solar system, especially the asteroid belt for raw materials. The mission departed earth on the 25 April 2035.

The other three Deep Space Exploration Vessels would remain in orbit for defence.

The construction of new vessels would start at the end of 2035 with a production rate of 1 Deep Space Exploration Vessel and 2 mining/colonist vessels per year.

By 2037 the six mining/colonist vessels would be sent to the asteroid belt to set-up mining facilities these would be escorted by 3 Deep Space Exploration Vessels who's job would be to protect the mining facilities and escort the ore back to earth for processing. By 2042 several mining colonies had been set-up and were sending ore back to earth for processing.

In 2045 an ore processing facility would be set-up near the asteroid belt mining facilities to process and refine the ore. This would allow the construction of a new dry dock facility near the ore processing facility to produce new warp spaceships, as well as shipping the remaining ore back to earth.

In December 2040 HMSS New Zealand returned to Earth from her 5-year mission to a heroes reception. HMSS New Zealand would go into dry dock for an 18-month overhaul and refit before becoming the flagship of the RSC.

During this time there was a debate amongst the members of the Royal Space Command weather or not to colonise the Moon and Mars. The invention of the warp drive and testing by Zephram Cochrane in 2063 the decision was to bypass the Moon and Mars and to focus on colonising other systems beyond Earth.

The US space program would be limited to two programs over the next 3 decades of establishing a moon base and a colony on Mars in 2050. It's space ships of the United States Space Command the USSS America, Freedom, Kitty Hawk and Constellation (the last two ships would be completed in 2035 and 2036) would be used in duel roles of warship and colony ships. The US space program would produce one new vessel per year coming out of the USSC dry dock on geo stationary orbit over the US.

Warp Drive

In 2050 Zephram Cochrane started work on his Warp Drive theory and began construction of the first warp-capable vessel, the Phoenix. The Phoenix was a spaceship launched in the 21st century. The Phoenix was constructed from an old Titan V nuclear missile purchased from the US as a cost saving measure rather than launching the Phoenix on top on a HOTOL.

It would take Zephram Cochrane 13 years to construct the Phoenix. The Phoenix itself would have a crew of three 1 pilot, 2 crew and would have a length of 20 meters (excluding the lower half of the Titan V launch rocket) and would reach just over warp 1.

On April 5, 2063 at 11:15am (Australia time) Cochrane made Earth's first warp flight, the first flight lasted on 40 seconds, but it propelled the Phoenix to a speed of just over Warp 1. When the Phoenix came out of warp it was just past the moons orbit. The second warp trip was a return flight back to earth orbit and docking with the orbital dry docks and then by HOTOL back to Woomera launch site.

First Contact

When Zephram Cochrane made his first warp jump in the Phoenix he was being monitored by a passing Vulcan ship, the T'Plana-Hath. First Contact took place on the evening of April 5, 2063, when a Vulcan survey ship, the T'Plana-Hath, having detected the warp signature of the Phoenix. The Vulcan ships captain decided to make first contact with earth.

The Vulcan ship T'Plana-Hath entered earth's solar system at impulse speed and headed towards the dry docks in geo stationary orbit over Australia. The two HMSS Deep Space Exploration Vessels HMSS New Zealand (flagship) and Canberra detected the Vulcan survey ship approaching and went to "action stations" and sent a signal to the Vulcan survey ship asking what its intentions were.

The Vulcan survey ship reply was that it had detected a warp signature as was investigating and that they came in peace. A quick series of communications between the HMSS New Zealand and Canberra and the Woomera launch site stating that the Vulcan survey ship was welcome. Woomera launch site gave co-ordinates for the Vulcan survey ship to send a shuttle down to the Woomera launch site to meet the pilots of the warp vessel.

On April 5, 2063 at 11.30pm first contact between Earth and Vulcan was established.

After several days of negation diplomatic relation between Vulcan and Earth were formed. But Vulcan would not interfere in Earth’s development by giving them advanced technology. This annoyed the US delegation but the member countries of the Royal Space Command accepted this and ask the Vulcan’s if they could exchange cultural items, the answer came back, yes.

On the 1 May 2063 the Royal Space Command issued orders for all spacecraft under construction to cease and the design and production of warp capable spaceships to begin.

The basic warp dive was shared with the US but not the planned improvements, so as to keep the US one step behind the Royal Space Command.

Next - Part 4 – First Steps




Part 4 – First Steps


Earth would be divided in to two space fairing power blocks, one under the Royal Space Command and the other under the United States Space Command.

By 2065 construction of these new ships had begun.

The Royal Space Command would come in several classes.

Frigate – This would be an enlarged version of the Great Britain class to accommodate the warp drive and the new matter anti matter power core. The Great Britain class had a length of 150 meters and a height of 30 meters and a beam of 85 meters. The warp drive nacelles rather that being on pylons stretching out from the hull of the ship the warp drive nacelles were made flush with the hull and were mounted on the port and starboard sides of the saucer.

This design would allow greater protection of the warp drive nacelles. The armament would consist of two forward firing rail guns and two aft firing rail guns, also there will be 8 lasers with 4 mounted dorsal and four mounted ventral covering 45 degrees each, these ships would be upgraded as new weapons were designed. The hull would be covered with polarised armour that would provide the ship with some protection; this armour would be 5cm thick. The frigates would have a crew of 60 with a detachment of 30 Royal Space Marines for on board security.

The frigate would be used to do many roles including planet defence, convoy escort and patrol duties. The class name would be the Leander class frigates. These frigates would be formed into squadrons of 6 frigates under the command of a captain with each frigate being commanded by a commander.

Destroyer - This would be an enlarged version of the Leander class frigates to accommodate the warp drive and the new matter anti matter power core. The Leander class frigates had a length of 250 meters, height of 45 meters and a beam of 95 meters. The armament will consist of four forward firing rail guns and two aft firing rail guns, also there will be 14 lasers with 4 in pairs mounted forward dorsal and ventral positions and 4 in pairs mounted port and starboard dorsal and ventral positions, these ships would also be upgraded as new weapons were designed. The hull would be covered with polarised armour that would provide the ship with some protection; this armour would be 5cm thick. The destroyers would have a crew of 95 with a detachment of 50 Royal Space Marines for on board security and to escort landing parties when exploring new worlds.

The destroyer would be used mainly for the duel roles of exploration and planetary defence, with a secondary role of convoy escort as needed. The destroyers would be formed in squadrons of 5 destroyers under the command of a commodore with each destroyer being commanded by a captain. Destroyers would also operate individually, such as diplomatic missions to other worlds such as Vulcan

The destroyer would be the main exploration vessel for the RSN for the next 4 decades from 2065 onwards. The class name would be the Dauntless class destroyers.

Both of these star ships would have a maximum speed of warp 3 with burst of up to warp 3.5 for just over 1 hour.

There would also be a modular freighter/passenger warp ship. This looked like a flying brick, with various modules bolted on to the end depending on what was needed. These would have minimal armament, but would be escorted in convoys form system to system by RSC frigate squadrons.

The production rates for these ships would be 12 frigates, 6 destroyers and 30 modular freighter/passenger ships per year. This production would go up as new colonies would set-up their own shipyards to add to the production, overhaul and repair. This would take the strain of the RSC production, overhaul and repair facilities in orbit over earth and near the asteroid belt.

The United States Space Command would only have one class of warship.

The type of warship is a cross between of frigate and a destroyer but with less firepower than both. The class name would be the Intrepid Class. The Intrepid class would be used by the USSC as a combination of warship, exploration and escort vessel rolled into one. The design is a saucer with warp drive nacelles coming out of the hull. The armament would consist of 2 laser cannons forward and 2 rail guns one forward and one aft. The hull would be covered with polarised armour that would provide the ship with some protection; this armour would be 5cm thick.

The production of freights would be left up the commercial companies that were part of the USSC. This would lead to many incompatible designs and production would vary from company to company.

The production of the Intrepid Class would run at 14 per year.

The first steps take to form colonies were done by the RSC fleet in 2070 the system of Alpha Centuria was claimed by the RSC and the plants in the system were colonised. The main colonisation effort by the RSC would be towards Vulcan controlled space. Between 2071 and 2100 would see 19 other colonies set up between on worlds that lie between Earth and Vulcan.

The expansion would be suspended by 2100 to allow the colonies to firm up and the construction of solid colony facilities. All colonised systems would have a least one frigate squadron to defend it, also would have a least one dry dock facility available. Some worlds would have much larger facilities depending on the resources in that system and its strategic location. Some of these strategic systems would be heavily defended by orbital defence stations, these systems would by bases for the ships of the RSC to be based, it would also allow them to respond in force in case of attack.

There would be a large movement from earth to colonise the new systems reducing the population of the member countries of the RSC between 2070 and 2100 by 50 million.

The USSC took a different approach; they would base most of their facilities in and around Earth, Moon and Mars with only small outposts that could top up the USSC star ships supplies, but and major repairs or overhaul have to be done back in Earths solar system. This approach would cause the USSC problems in the long term.

The USSC provided support for companies to colonise systems under the USSC banner. Between 2070 and 2100 put colonies or small out posts on 50 systems. But these had very limited means of defence or in some cases no defence, only 3 systems were given permanent defences this would lead to problems when the USSC encountered the Romulans in early 2100’s.

Most of the countries on Earth joined with the USSC but several joined up with the RSC these were Malta, Nepal and Tibet. Some would just remain neutral like the United Regions of China and the Russian Federation these two countries would trade with both sides between 2070 and 2100 while the expansion into space was going on.

Earth would also have two main currencies the US dollar and UK pound.

Technology between 2070 and 2100.

The RSC would concentrate on weapons, warp drive and improve polarised armour for the star ships. The first breakthrough was the invention of plasma weapons, these weapons starting replacing laser from 2080 onwards; they would also replace all pistols and rifles with plasma versions. Also by 2100 the theory of transporters was put forward, but it would be another 30 years before transporters would become a reality.

In 2090 the discovery of a derelict space ship brought the development of a form of disruptor technology to the RSC. These new disruptor weapons technologies were not shared with the USSC but kept for the RSC own Royal Space Navies use. It took only 8 months to reverse engineer the technology and begin fitting the disruptors to RSC RSN ships. These weapons discharged differed from plasma weapons in that the beam was more powerful and also was a light blue colour instead of red.

USSC would also concentrate on weapons, warp drive and improve polarised armour for the star ships and also develop plasma weapons, these weapons starting replacing laser from 2080 onwards. Unlike the RSC the USSC would rename itself the United Earth Space Probe Agency (but would not include all the nations on earth some would remain neutral) in view of the number of countries taking part in space missions.

By 2100 the RSC was ahead in terms of technology but the UESPA was ahead in the number of colonies. But the RSC colonies were better protected against attack than the UESPA colonies.

Next - Part 5 – New Friends and New Enemies.




Part 5 – New Friends and New Enemies


Between 2100 and 2150 saw a leap forward in warp design with the coming of the warp 4 engine in 2110 for the RSC and 2120 for the UESPA. By 2030 the warp 5 engine was in service with the RSC, but it would not be until 2151 before the UESPA would have its first warp 5 engine in its new NX class of star ship. The NX series would include the new Photonic Torpedoes and Phase Cannons.

The RSC would keep with the design of its Frigate/Destroyer designing and incorporate the new technologies in to new ships coming out of the shipyards. These new ships would replace the older versions.

There would be two new designs from the RSC and the UESPA.

The RSC Excalibur Project in 2145. This project was designed to produce a combat cruiser of an equivalent size to the Vulcan combat cruisers; it was also designed to incorporate all the technological improvements over the past 100 years. The design of these ships would be a change from the saucer design of the past 100 years. The ship would have a saucer and a secondary engineering section with the warp drive and navigational defector with room for an enlarged shuttle bay. The engineering section was mated directly to the saucer section with no connecting "neck" as with the UESPA Horizon project ship design. This ship class would be 600 meters long.

The warp nacelles were fixed almost flush with the engineering section this made of the appearance of a blister running along the engineering section, this was for improved protection against attack. The warp speed of this new call of ship would be warp 6 with speeds of up to warp 7 for short bursts.

The RSC Excalibur project also included the latest weapons; these included Matter/Anti matter torpedoes (called Tigerfish torpedoes), Phasers and 1st generation shield generators but also retained polarised armour for added protection.

The size of the RSC Excalibur would be 600 meters in length and have a crew of 550 and a Royal Space Marine unit of 200.

The UESPA Horizon project in 2151. This project was designed to give a longer ranged star ship than the NX series. This design would have the new Photonic Torpedoes and Phase Cannons from the NX series. This ship class would be 450 meters long.

The UESPA Horizon would be a different design to the RSC Excalibur in having a saucer section and an engineering section connected together by a neck. The warp nacelles were mounted on pylons extending from the engineering section.

The UESPA Horizon class star ship would have a maximum speed of warp 5 with speeds of up to warp 6 for short bursts.

Of the two designs the Excalibur class was more powerful than the Horizon class. Both of these ship types would see action during the war with the Romulans.

Both the RSC and the UESPA introduced transporters at this time. The RSC would use them only for transporting cargo and the UESPA would use them for both people and cargo. The RSC did not consider the technology safe for people to use transporters except in emergencies.

New Friends

The RSC RSN would make contact with the Andorians in 2135 when a RSN exploration group skirting the edge of Vulcan space encountered a ship of the Andorian Imperial Guard. The first contact between RSC and the Andorians went well with the forming of diplomatic relations in 2139.

Also the RSN made contact with Tellarites the 2141 and also established relations with the RSC.

By 2143 RSC had ambassadors on three other space fairing nations Vulcan, Tellarite, and Andorian home worlds.

The UESPA also established relations with Vulcan, Tellarite, and Andorian home worlds, but to a lesser extent than the RSC, due to the rapid expansion of new colony worlds.

Conflict

Between 2100 and 2150 there was a number of border disputes between Vulcan and Andorian military over the control of worlds along there borders. The conflict would be an on off conflict and not a continuous war. Both sides would not gain an advantage over or able to gain any territory without loosing the territory they had gained at great cost in lives.

The Vulcan's would have a small advantage in terms of technology but the Andorians would counter this with numbers of ships.

In 2150 a peace deal between Vulcan and Andorian races with mediation from both the RSC and UESPA ending in a peace treaty being signed on the RSC colony would of New Gibraltar on the 8 November 2150.

This would lead to the Vulcan's and Andorians leaving negotiating team on New Gibraltar to iron out any differences. The Tellarites also did not want to be left out so they were added to the loose partnership. Each of the three governments would have one of their ships in orbit for use as diplomatic vessels.

New Enemies

The UESPA encountered the Romulans in 2152 when the NX-112 USSS Colombia encountered 4 Romulan birds of prey. With shot being fired both sides withdrew figuring that it was each other space.

This sort of limited action would continue until 10 March 2156 when the Romulans attack the UESPA colony of New Paris was at the edge of UESPA space. This was a new colony only recently set-up and the colony only had a few hundred colonists. New Paris did have 2 NX class ships in orbit for defence.

The Romulans attacked New Paris with 50 birds of prey destroying the 2 NX ships and bombarding the colony from orbit. Because of the suddenness of the attack no distress signal was sent. Also when the 2 NX ships failed to make a regular report 3 ships were sent to investigate, these were 1 Horizon class and 2 NX class ships.

When these 3 ships came out of warp as the edge they saw the destruction and the orbiting Romulan birds of prey, the Romulans attacked the 3 UESPA, but this time the outcome was different in that the UESPA vessels had time to go to battle stations. The Romulans dispatched 12 birds of prey, this was a mistake by the Romulan commander as the three ships that he faced were fully alert and the Romulan commander did not have the element of surprise. The engagement was spectacular in the first pass 4 Romulan birds of prey were destroyed for no loss, three of the kills going to the Horizon class ship USSS Lexington.

The second pass by the Romulan birds of prey concentrated on one of the NX class ships and destroyed it for the loss of one bird of prey. The Romulan commanded realising his mistake dispatched the rest of the birds of prey to destroy the two remaining UESPA ships. The Romulans only succeeded in destroying the other NX ship while the Horizon class ship USSS Lexington escaped at high warp to raise the alarm.

On hearing of the attack on one of is colonies UESPA mobilised a task force to retake the occupied system. The task force would consist of 9 Horizon Class and 25 NX class ships, this attack took place on the 1 December 2056.

At the same time the UESPA informaed the RSC of the "small problem" and said that they could "deal" with problem without help. This would be proved VERY wrong for the UESPA.

The first major engagement of the Romulan Earth war would be for the control of New Paris. For the UESPA it would be a major test of the new weapons and ships. What the UESPA did not know is the Romulans were using New Paris as a forward base of operations and rally point for the Romulan fleet for an attack on UESPA colonies. In the system there were 600 Birds of Prey not the 50 odd that the ship USSS Lexington had reported. The UESPA was in for a very nasty shock when they arrived.

The Romulan fleet consisted of Birds of Prey they were not as large as the NX series but they were being produced in sufficient numbers to overwhelm an enemy ship. Their armament consisted of disrupters and missile launchers.

To be continued.......

Next - Part 6 – Earth Romulan War





Part 6 – Earth Romulan War

The second battle of New Paris started on the 1 December 2056 the 9 Horizon Class and 25 NX class ships moved in to combat formation with a certain NX-111 USSS Enterprise commanded by Captain Jonathan Archer on the right had side of the UESPA task force.

The commander of the task force saw that the Romulans had a larger number of vessels, but ordered the attack confident that the ships under his command had superior firepower. In the first exchange between the two fleets the NX-111 USSS Enterprise took the brunt of the attack and was destroyed, The Romulans lost 11 Birds of Prey with another 25 damaged.

The battle would go back and forth for the next few hours, but the Romulans having the numbers would gradually wear down the UESPA ships. By early on 2 December 2056 the Task force commander ordered a withdrawal of the remainders of the UESPA task force of the 6 Horizon Class and 11 NX class ships, with all of these ships having various forms of battle damage. The Romulans lost 78 Birds of Prey with another 107 damaged to various degrees.

The UESPA ordered a withdrawal from 21 colony worlds over the next 8 months knowing that these worlds could not be defended. The Romulans would occupy the systems but not land any forces of the surface of the planet(s) in the occupied systems.

The UESPA would form its main defence around the colony of New Berlin. This was one of the three colonies that were defended unlike other systems. The defences of New Berlin were rapidly reinforced with additional ships and orbital defence platforms over the 8 months since the defeat at the second battle of New Paris.

During this time the RSC/RSN continued to offer support in the defence of the UESPA but this was repeatedly turned down, also the Vulcan's, Andorians and Tellarites. This is because the UESPA thought that they could defeat the Romulans without any help.

The first battles for New Berlin were inconclusive, as neither side would commit to a full strike against; rather they were waiting for the other to make the first move. This meant the casualties on both sides were very light. This odd stalemate would go on for 6 months with either side not wanting to go first.

The Romulans sent a scout force of 75 Birds of Prey to nearby system to see if they could provoke a response from the UESPA. What they found in one system would change the course of the war.

In a system on the edge of UESPA space the 75 Birds of Prey came upon 3 NX class ships scouting the system. The Romulan commander attacked destroying 2 of the NX class ships, but one ship got away. The Romulan commander decided to pursue as the NX-134 USSS Hornet, as the USSS Hornet seemed to be going a way from UESPA.

The USSS Hornet was in fact heading for the RSC/RSN base a New Gibraltar to ask for help with repairs. The Pursuing Romulan command thought that he might find a secret UESPA base. The Captain of the USSS Hornet could not detect the pursuing Romulans as the Hornets long-range sensors were down and so did not know that he was being pursued.

The RSC/RSN base a New Gibraltar was one of the most heavily guarded RSC/RSN bases out side of Earth. The USSS Hornet came out of warp asking for help and was told to go to the dry dock facility in orbit around the planet of New Gibraltar.

In the New Gibraltar system there were 4 squadron's of Leander IV class frigates and 2 squadron's on destroyers, also in system there were 7 of the new Excaliber Combat Cruisers and single warships from Vulcan's, Andorians and Tellarites their on diplomatic duty. The pursuing Romulan commander did not wait to see what the strength of the colony was and attacked.

In the initial attack the Romulans destroyed one squadron of Leander IV class frigates on patrol on the edge of the system. The time it took to destroy the frigates, this allowed the other RSN ship to go to "action station" and prepare for the Romulan attack.

As the Romulans made there way towards the planet they found coming around from the other side of New Gibraltar the 7 Excaliber Combat Cruisers armed and ready for combat, followed by the three cruisers on diplomatic duty. Also converging was the 3 remaining squadron's of Leander IV class frigates and 2 squadron's on destroyers.

The 7 Excaliber Combat Cruisers were the first to engage the Romulan Birds of Prey, using a combination of the 4 forward firing Tigerfish torpedo launchers and Phasers, they destroyed in the first pass 25 Romulan Birds of Prey and damaging 10 others. The Romulan commander now new that he was out numbered and ordered the Birds of Prey to fire all there missiles at the planets surface to cause maximum damage.

The defence platforms engaged the on coming missile and destroyed most of the incoming missile, but a few go though and struck the planets surface causing heavy casualties including the embassies of the Vulcan's, Andorians and Tellarites. Then the Romulans tried to disengage and withdraw. The Romulan withdrawal was not very successful and only 22 Birds of Prey managed to withdraw out of the total attacking force of 75 birds of prey/

On the 31 December 2057 the RSC, Vulcan's, Andorians and Tellarites sent an audio message declaring war on the Romulans.

The Romulans on hearing this mobilised the majority of there fleet increasing the number of Birds of Prey from 600 to 1,200 to try to hold onto the space that they had acquired in the past 12 months.

By May 2058 the combined fleet of RSC, Vulcan's, Andorians, Tellarites and UESPA ships began an offensive to retake the lost UESPA worlds.

The first action was to break the attack on New Berlin, this attack succeeded in driving of the Romulans from the attack on New Berlin.

Over the next 3 years the combined fleet took back system after system but at great losses to both sides. The Romulan Birds of Prey that were unable to withdraw from battle used suicide tactics to take out the ships of the combined fleet.

By January 2060 the combined fleet had reached the edge of Romulan space. By this time the Romulan fleet along the boarder was up to 2,500 Bird of Prey with another 1,000 on their way from the rest of Romulan space.

In February an audio transmission was received from the Romulans asking for a cease-fire. The UESPA wanted to continue in to Romulan space but the RSC, Vulcan's, Andorians and Tellarites all agreed that they had achieved their objectives by recapturing all UESPA worlds lost during the war.

The Romulans had sent the request for a cease-fire because they knew that they could not win against the combined firepower.

The RSC, Vulcan's, Andorians and Tellarites members thought that the Romulans would get increasing desperate once they had entered their space; also they were not very keen on being an occupying power.

In 2160, the Romulans and the humans signed (electronically) a treaty ending the war and establishing a neutral zone one light-year wide between their territories. The treaty was negotiated via subspace radio, again with no visual contact between the parties.

Next - Part 6 – "To boldly go were no man has gone before"




Part 6 – "To boldly go were no man has gone before"

In early 2161 the RSC and UESPA were still going their own ways, although they had been united against a common enemy. Once the treaty was signed they when there own separate ways as normal.

In mid 2161 the formation if a loose alliance between the UESPA, RSC, Vulcan's, Andorians and Tellarites for mutual defence, trade etc. This would be called The Alliance, the UESPA wanted to form a United Federation of Planets but this was rejected by the other races.

The Alliances headquarter would be based on New Gibraltar and not on Earth as the UESPA wanted.

The RSC/RSN would in 2161 establish a new dedicated exploration division to see out new life form and to boldly go were no man has gone before. For this endeavour the RSC/RSN created a modified version of the Excaliber Class Combat Cruisers. This new class would be the Scott class exploration cruisers. These new ships would be the same size as the Excaliber Class Combat Cruisers but with a slightly reduced armament of 2 forward firing Tigerfish torpedo launchers instead of the Excaliber's 4 launchers. The extra space would be dedicated to a Stella cartography and enhanced diplomatic facilities to help with first contact with new races.

For 2163 onwards join crews would be established between the RSC/RSN and the Vulcan's, Andorians and Tellarites also the UESPA would also have joint crews, but there would be little exchange of crews between RSC/RSN and the UESPA.

The other main change to the RSC/RSN would be the removal of the Destroyer class from RSC/RSN inventory over the next 2 decades. The RSC/RSN would concentrate on producing improved versions of the Leander class frigates in various forms and the Excaliber Class Combat Cruiser also in various forms.

The final change was the construction of a one off special versions of the Excaliber Class Combat Cruiser. This would be the Royal and Diplomatic Combat Cruiser HMSS Britannia, this ship was extensively outfitted for diplomatic duties. The ship was 100 meters longer than the Excaliber Class Combat Cruiser. This ship would be escorted by a minimum of 4
Excaliber Class Combat Cruiser and 6 Leander class frigates. This ship would prove an excellent place for host diplomatic and trade negations for the RSC and Alliance members.

The mistrust between the RSC/RSN and the UESPA would grow as the UESPA wanted the technological advances that the RSC/RSN, but the RSC/RSN was not will to share its advances with the UESPA.

The UESPA would use their Horizon class ships with very little modifications, as the resources were not available to build a new sub class of star ship.

The Horizon class would go on to be the main star ship of the UESPA until the new Constitution-class heavy cruiser in 2245. The Horizon class would receive numerous upgrade and enhancements during its 90 years of service, lost and destroyed ships would be replaced along with new Horizon class making this the most produced star ship.

Between the end of 2161 and 2200 numerous new races were contacted, some would join the Alliance some would remain neutral and some would just not want to know and a small number would be hostile.

The races that would be most receptive included the Denobulians, Betazoids and Bolians amongst the many races that would that the Alliance would make contact with and would join the alliance.

The races that would remain "neutral" would be races like the Romulan Star Empire, Tholian Assembly, Cardassian Union. These races would have some sort of conflict with either the alliance or and alliance member over the next few years or even in some cases decades.

The main cause of problems for the alliance would be the Klingon Empire. A RSC Excaliber Class Combat Cruiser while patrolling the neutral zone in 2166 first encountered the Klingon Empire. The Klingons are roughly humanoid in appearance; Klingons typically sport long manes of luxuriant hair with moustaches and beards common among males. Perhaps their most prominent external feature is their ridged forehead. These intricate, bony patterns, which are also visible on their feet, vary by family line and are an evolutionary remnant of their prehistoric crustacean forms, when Klingons had a more extensive exoskeleton.

Most Klingon body functions incorporate multiple redundancies, such as redundant stomachs, lungs, livers, an eight-chambered heart, and twenty-three ribs. This characteristic, known as "brak'lul," makes Klingons incredibly resilient. Klingon ribs are arranged in a latticework; the structure might be compared to chain mail. The Klingon expected life span is at least 150 years. However, it is typical that male Klingons die young while in battle and not of natural causes.

Klingon Technology at the time of the first contact was on par with the Vulcan's, but much more orientated towards combat that the Vulcan's. Klingon ships are able to with stand much more punishment in combat than any alliance member's ships.

The RSC Excaliber Class Combat Cruiser HMSS Victorious encountered a Klingon bird of prey. This first encountered went well as the bird of prey captain was clearly out gunned by the Victorious so a fight was out of the question.

Over the next few months an agreement was come to with the Klingon Empire and the alliance, that each side would respect each other's boarders. The RSC in private what the UESPA had asked the other members of the alliance to keep from the Klingons for now. Warned the Klingon Empire about the Romulans and that the Romulans boarded Klingon. This was not news to the Klingons as they had encountered the Romulans in 2163 and had an on going boarder dispute with the Romulans, though the Klingons did not tell the Alliance or the RSC about this. But this did help in the relations between the RSC and the Klingon Empire and some of the other members of the alliance but not the UESPA after the Klingons found out that it was the UESPA that had suggested not telling the Klingons about the Romulans.

The semi peaceful existence between the Klingon Empire and the UESPA would continue until around 2223, tensions thickened between the UESPA and the Klingon Empire. This would become a cold war until the Khitomer Accords were signed in 2293.

During the period between 2223 and 2293 there would be a brief alliance between the Romulan Empire and the Klingon Empire in witch a technological exchange took place. In exchange for cloaking technology, the Romulans received several D7 battlecruisers, which were upgraded into extremely deadly war machines. This alliance would last less than 12 months and would see the restarting of hostilities between Romulan and Klingon Empires.

During this period of tension between the UESPA and the Klingon Empire the rest of the alliance members kept their distance. As the alliance did not know who started the cold war between UESPA and the Klingon Empire the alliance decided to keep its distance in this conflict in case the Klingon Empire felt that they had no choice but to attack before the alliance did. This decision did not go down well with the UESPA and it led to a cooling in relations with the other alliance members.

The Klingons would employ "rouge" Klingons to raid UESPA space. At the same time assuring the rest of the members of the alliance that these "rouge" Klingons would be brought to justice. The Klingons would step up patrols along the boarder to try to catch these "rouge" Klingons but they did not have much luck. Though in reality the Klingons were not trying to capture the "rouge" Klingons at all.

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Part 7 - Growing pains

From 2200 there would be a large number of new races joining the alliance though out 2200 to 2300. For trade and mutual defence, also during the late 2200 some new members were actually seeking the alliance out and asking to become members without having to be asked themselves.

The RSC/RSN was leading the push in exploration encountering races like the Tholian Assembly in early 2200's who guarded their space against and out side intervention. Tholians are a star faring and extremely territorial. The Tholians very rarely went outside there own space, but when they did they always went in-groups.

Also encountered were the Cardassian Union mid-to-late 2200's . Cardassians are humanoid in form, but have distinctive ridged arches connecting their shoulders to the top of their necks. They also have ridges on either side of their forehead, ridges surrounding their eyes and protrusions on their chin and below their nose. They also have a spoon-shaped feature starting in the centre of their forehead and running down the length of their nose. This has earned them the derogatory name of "spoonheads." The spoon shape is also on their chest.

Cardassians tend to be predatory in nature, like wolf packs, always seeking out the dominant position in any social gathering. In normal courting behaviour, Cardassian couples routinely act bitter and snap at each other. Cardassian society is generally non-sexist - both men and women can rise to high ranks in the military, for instance. However, some fields are not so diverse, such as the scientific community that is mostly female.

Cardassia's educational system is legendary throughout the quadrant. From a very young age, Cardassian children are trained in techniques such as photographic memory, which allow them to retain vast amounts of information. Cardassian mental disciplines are rumoured to be so complete that a Cardassian will prove almost totally resistant to torture; a Vulcan mind meld is also usually ineffective against a Cardassian who is properly trained.

The Cardassian Union in terms of technology are slightly behind the RSC but have more ships. Cardassian Union ships are armed with two large phaser cannons (or it may be a plasma cannon), one forward and one aft. They are also armed with numerous secondary phaser cannons mounted at other points across the hull, and they may carry a complement of photon torpedoes.

A mutual understanding between the alliance and the Cardassian Union that each side would respect each others space. The Cardassian Union was busy at this time building its own colonies on the other side of Cardassian space and this would not change until 2328.

The RSC/RSN would continue to expand and upgrade is fleet with the latest technologies including the new Spearfish heavy weight torpedo, that would replace the Tigerfish torpedo.

The RSC/RSN would start work on a new type of ship in 2235. This would be the Dreadnought class battle cruiser. This would be an attempt to keep pace with the Vulcan's in terms of ship size (if not in technology), with the Vulcan's deploying a new enlarged type of combat cruiser with an increased length from 600 meters to 900 meters. This new Vulcan combat cruiser incorporated the latest advances in warp drive, allowing the new ship to travel at warp 9.9 for extended periods.

The Dreadnought class was an enlarged version of the Excaliber Class Combat Cruiser. The layout was similar to the Excaliber Class Combat Cruiser but the Dreadnought class was 50% bigger than the Excaliber Class Combat Cruiser. The Excaliber Class Combat Cruiser could attain a cruising speed of warp 8.5 with bursts of up to warp 9 for short periods. Its armament consisted of the latest phaser and the new Spearfish heavy weight torpedo also with improved shields and next generation polarised hull plating.

The UESPA would start work on a new type of star ship to replace the Horizon class ship. Constitution-class heavy cruiser in first launched in 2245. The Constitution-class also served as a mighty deterrent to both the Klingon and Romulan Empires. With a length 305 meters, crew of 500 (72 officers, 428 enlisted) and an armament of 18 phaser emitters (9 banks of 2), 2 forward and 2 aft photon torpedo launchers and deflector shields and screens.

In 2266 one of the Constitution-class heavy cruisers USSS Enterprise patrolling the neutral zone between the alliance and the Romulans empire encountered an unidentified alien ship with the ability to render itself invisible (later know as cloaking device) attacks a series of UESPA outposts along the Romulan Neutral Zone. The Enterprise was in the vicinity and investigates. The unknown enemy reveals itself as being of Romulan origin, and it is soon believed they are trying to test Alliance resolve.

The USSS Enterprise sends out an alert to warn other ships and then engages the Romulan ship. For the next few hours both ships played a game of cat a mouse, each trying to out think the other. The USSS Enterprise was using her photon torpedoes like depth charges hoping to force the Romulan vessel to drop her cloak. During this engagement the Romulan vessel sent a transmission to the Romulan home world and the crew of the USSS Enterprise got their first look at a Romulan. This came as quite a shock to the crew of the USSS Enterprise as the Romulans looked like Vulcan's.

One near miss caused the death of several members of the Romulan ships crew, these were jettisoned into space with any other rubbish to make the USSS Enterprise that the Romulan vessel had been destroyed. But in the debris there was an old fashioned nuke as the USSS Enterprise closed on the debris field the nuke detonated causing the forward shield to weaken, at the same time the Romulan vessel de cloaked and fired her primary weapon as the USSS Enterprise. The captain of the USSS Enterprise ordered full reverse to try and outrun the Romulan plasma bolt. After a short chase the bolt began to disperse, but it still struck the USSS Enterprise disabling the ship.

As the Romulan vessel was closing in for the kill another star ship came out of warp. The ship was HMSS Hood one of the new Dreadnought class battle cruiser, putting itself between the Romulan vessel and USSS Enterprise while opening fire on the Romulan vessel. HMSS Hood had disabled the Romulan vessel and sent a signal to the Romulan vessel to prepare to surrender. The commander of the Romulan vessel ordered his ships destruction to avoid being captured.

Within a few hours of the arrival of HMSS Hood additional reinforcement arrived.

The crews of the USSS Enterprise and HMSS Hood were treated as heroes.

The revaluation that the Romulan were a Vulcan offshoot that went in to space before the time of Surak. The Vulcan's explanation of their Romulan cousins that they had lost touch with them during a world war on Vulcan was for the most part accepted. The UESPA would remain suspicious of the Vulcan's. This revaluation also had the affect of cancelling out any counterattack against the Romulan Empire.

One other event that happened in early 2200 on earth was the formation by the original 4 members of RSC (Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada) of a secret intelligence organisation under the joint intelligence charter. The secret part of the intelligence charter was referred to as Article 14, Section 31, from which its name is derived. This give's Section 31 extraordinary powers under certain circumstances. This organisation is known only to a few people within the original 4 members of RSC. Even the members of Section 31 do not know the number of people who work for Section 31, they worked either as individual agents or in cells or agents. Section 31 has intelligence agent(s) abroad every ship in the RSN also most member worlds have Section 31 operatives located on their home world. This organisation would remain secret from the other members of RSC and alliance members.

Also the RSC added three new earth governments to its own alliance, these were India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. These three countries did not have space programs of there own so they decided after much debate that they would join forces with the RSC. The main reasons why these three counties took so long to join was that they took a long time to recover from world war 3. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh would all be given a system each to colonise that would be guarded by the RSN.

Each member of the RSC would pay a percentage in ether money, goods or services to maintain the RSN.

The UESPA was a looser organisation, as there were so many countries competing for there own colonies. The UESPA "Star fleet" was well funded like the RSN; it also had a major disadvantage of trying to defend over 50 colony systems. Were as the RSN had only 23 colony systems to defend. At the end of the 2200's UESPA stopped all new colonisation of new system to consolidate its holdings, something that the RSC had done nearly 100 years earlier.

The majority of Earth had joined with the UESPA in a loose alliance with many conflicting needs. Were as the RSC was formed under a mutual defence a trade agreements with very clear goals.

Also in 2270 so the introduction of a new frigate class ship in the UESPA/Starfleet, this would be the Miranda-class.

The configuration of the Miranda-class shares a similar design lineage and features with the Constitution-class, implemented in 2270.

All Miranda-class star ships have a saucer section making up the majority of the vessel. The saucer is similar to that of a Constitution-class, but with a bulkier aft end with shuttle bays and a Warp core. Below the saucer, at the aft edges, are the nacelle pylons connected to the warp nacelles.

There are three configurations of the Miranda-class.

The most common configuration which had a "roll bar" immediately above the nacelle pylons. The "roll bar" had two phaser emitters on each side that can fire forward and aft, along with 2 forward and 2 rear firing photon torpedo launchers.

Another configuration, which lacked the "roll bar" and featured only Class 3 defensive armaments. This type of Miranda class was apparently suitable for transport duty.

The last configuration, which lacked the "roll bar", and had two large sensor pods installed on the port and starboard sides of the ship. It also had a phaser array mounted on the lower part of the sensor dome; and

Next - Part 8 - Problems, problems and more problems




Part 8 - Problems, problems and more problems

The first problem to hit was the V'ger incident in 2272 An immense cloud of controlled energy passes through Klingon space. Three K't'inga-class battle cruisers led by the IKS Amar respond to the incursion. After the cloud without effect swallows their photon torpedo volley, the squadron tries to pulls back and is destroyed.

A nearby UESPA/Starfleet listening post, Epsilon IX, observes the engagement, including the effortless annihilation of the remaining Klingon K't'inga-class battle cruisers by the cloud's energy weapon. Unhindered, the cloud continues on a course that will take it into UESPA space, headed directly for Earth.

Chief of Starfleet Operations Rear Admiral James T. Kirk arrives at the Presidio campus of Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco, is given the assignment of intercepting and stopping the energy cloud with the newly refitted USSS Enterprise.

After making contact with the "cloud" the USSS Enterprise gradually journeys to the centre of V'ger, where V'ger is revealed to be the unmanned scientific probe Voyager 6, which was part of the Voyager program, and launched in the twentieth century by NASA. The damaged probe was found by an alien race of living machines that interpreted its programming as instructions from God to "learn all that is learnable" and return that information to its creator.

These machines made V'ger into something capable of fulfilling that mission, and on its journey back it gathered so much knowledge that it achieved consciousness itself! Having learned all that is learnable on its journey home, which took V'ger across the Universe, V'ger finds itself empty and without a purpose. Only through the creator can V’ger begin to explore illogical things, such as God, other dimensions, or higher planes of being.

The probe has become sentient and wants to continue to explore, but lacking the ability to think beyond logic, so V'ger links with Commander Willard Decker to acquire the ability to think beyond logic to continue its voyagers and the threat to Earth is ended.

The next problem that come along is the Project Genesis. Genesis Project was first proposed to the UESPA/Starfleet in the late 2270s. Over several years, the scientists developed a Genesis matrix and a three-stage test. The first stage was conducted in their laboratory in orbit around Regula. Project Genesis was a process of rapidly terra forming worlds to make them suitable for settlement and food production. The Genesis Project was developed by a team of UESPA scientists, led by Dr. Carol Marcus and her son Dr. David Marcus, working in an orbital laboratory in orbit around the Class D planetoid Regula.

When some renegade Klingons sized a UESPA/Starfleet Miranda Class Frigate USSS Reliant and in set-up to steal the Genesis device. They were intercepted by the refitted Constitution Class Heavy Cruiser USSS Enterprise under the command of Admiral James T Kirk. During the fight the Klingons activated the Genesis device to try and destroy the USSS Enterprise. This created a new world and destroying the USSS Reliant in the process, just as the USSS Enterprise managed to escape. The USSS Enterprise took heavy damage during the conflict but survived, this seemed to underline the effectiveness of the Constitution Class refit program.

A science vessel sent to observe the new world that the Genesis device had created was attacked by another group of Klingons in a Klingon bird of prey. The partially repaired USSS Enterprise was "acquired" by Admiral James T Kirk and a small crew to return to the Genesis would. In the ensuring battle the USSS Enterprise was destroyed and the Klingon bird of prey was captured and Admiral James T Kirk returned to earth a hero.

As a reward a now demoted Captain James T Kirk was given command of USSS Enterprise 1701 - A to replace the original lost in combat. With orders to continue to "boldly go were no man has gone before"

Examination of the captured Klingon Bird of Prey found that the cloaking device was damaged so could not be reverse engineered. But the Klingon Bird of Prey did give the UESPA/Starfleet information on Klingon weapon systems and warp drive.

The revaluation of the Genesis device caused shock amongst the other members of the alliance. The Genesis research project was cancelled and the Alliance banned research into this area.

During these incursions the RSC/RSN did not intervene in UESPA/Starfleet responses, but did maintain a task force to intercept (with the exception of the Genesis problem). The main thrust of the RSC/RSC was an anti piracy drive against the Orion Syndicate. This proved remarkably successful and a large number of the Orion Syndicate's vessels were either captured or destroyed. The Orion Syndicate pirate operations against the RSC/RSN was reduced to virtually zero. One of the main reasons for the success was that Section 31 had infiltrated into the lower levels of the Orion Syndicate organisation and was able to provide very useful intelligence.

This led the Orion Syndicate to choose less well protected areas such as the UESPA and other alliance members as the picking in the RSC area of space did not make it worth the effort.

Relations between the UESPA/Starfleet and the Klingon Empire would hit an all time low, but the relations between the other members of the alliance would remain stable especially with the RSC/RSN. The RSC/RSN and the Klingon Empire would actually come closer during this time and would continue to expand their ties that would include a technological exchange and improved trade between the two, also several members of the alliance took advantage to also expand their relationship with the Klingon Empire. This would included Vulcan, Andorian and the Tellarite.

The RSC/RSN would commence a large refit program to bring all its current ships in line with the most up to date technology available. This would include a technological exchange between the RSC/RSN and the Klingon Empire this would include the Klingon Empire giving the cloaking technology and weapons technology to the RSC/RSN on condition that they did not share this with the other members of the alliance. The Klingon Empire would receive information on the latest warp drives and weapon systems from the RSC/RSN.

The main reason for the technological exchange between the RSC/RSN and the Klingon Empire was that the relations between the Klingon Empire and the Romulan Empire were again dissolving in to a conflict between the two empires. The Klingon Empire was seeking to expand its friendship that its had started with the RSC/RSN, the Klingon Empire also knew that there was no love lost between the Romulan Empire and the RSC/RSN.

This new technological exchange would allow the RSC/RSN to start equipping their ships with cloaking technology from early 2300's. This would give the RSC/RSN a considerable advantage over other races. The RSC/RSN was as good as there word; they did not share the technology with any of the other members of the alliance.

The other peace of technology was the heavy disrupter, this weapon replaced the forward torpedo launcher in some Klingon warships. The RSC/RSN applied this technology to their phasers and came up with the heavy phaser cannon. This new weapon could only be mounted on the Dreadnought class Battle Cruiser due to its size and only one per ship due to the heavy phaser cannons power requirements. This was mounted underneath the saucer section firing forward.

Using the cloaking technology the RSC/RSN would build a small number of stealth ships. These new stealth ships would be known as the Shadow class vessels. These vessels would be used for intelligence gathering. Their construction would not be reviled to the other members of the alliance.

The Shadow class is a usual design that it departs from the saucer design of the current RSC/RSN ships. The front half of the ship is shaped like an arrowhead and the rear half is squared of, the warp nacelles run the length of the rear half. The Shadow class is coloured black and has sensor bafflers along the hull and its sublight engines are muffled to reduce to a minimum any emissions when cloaked. The armament consists of only phasers and no Spearfish torpedo launchers. The Shadow class is equipped with a cloaking device. Length of 211 meters and a maximum warp speed of warp 9 with burst of warp 9.6 for short periods. This ship is virtually impossible to detect at low warp and at impulse speeds.

Shadow class would be built in small numbers (about 70) for the RSC intelligence also Section 31 would receive 20 of these ships for there own use.

The timing of the technological exchange RSC/RSN and the Klingon Empire was also good as the other alliance members attention was focused of the Genesis project problem.

Towards the end of 2200's the UESPA/Starfleet began to expand and add a new class of star ship the Excelsior-class with the first ship coming of the production line in 2285. With a Length of 467 meters and an armament 12 dual phaser banks and 4 torpedo launchers.

The Miranda-class ship is one of the easiest star ships to build and would be built in large numbers by UESPA/Starfleet, also the Miranda class would be refitted to keep pace with the latest technologies. This would match the RSC/RSN Leander class frigate's multi role capability many commentators said that the UESPA/Starfleet was on the right track, by copying the RSC/RSN Leander class frigate idea witch is something that UESPA/Starfleet should have done from day one.

UESPA/Starfleet was now stopping it colony expansion and focusing on securing the 58 colonies that is has and exploration. The exploration was not for new colonies but to seek out new life forms and new allies for the UESPA and the Alliance, again something that the RSC had been doing from day one.

Next - Part 9 - Interlude




Part 9 - Interlude

By the end of 2200's the sizes of the major ships in the RSC/RSN and UESPA/Starfleet. This does not include support vessels, long range shuttles or civilian freighters.

RSC/RSN

Leander Class Multi Role Frigates (various versions and types) - 6,500 (more building)
Excaliber Class Combat Cruiser (including Scott and Britannia classes) - 3,950 (more building)
Dreadnought Class Battle Cruiser - 1,211 (more building)
Shadow Class Stealth Ship - 50 (with an additional 20 being operated by Section 31)

Most of these vessels are fitted with a cloaking device. The exception being those forces assigned to system defence.

UESPA/Starfleet

Miranda Class Frigate - 2,700 (all versions and more building)
Horizon Class Heavy Cruiser (relegated to second line duties after 2255 phased out of service after 2310) - 4,350 (out of production and being replaced by the Constitution Class Heavy Cruiser)
Constitution Class Heavy Cruiser - 2,200 production ceased when the Excelsior class starts in 2285 and are refitted to extend service life.
Excelsior-class Heavy Cruiser - 850 (more building)

Major systems of the RSC

RSC has 23 colonised systems.

The most important system outside of Earth is New Gibraltar. New Gibraltar is the location of the largest orbital shipyards and dry docks in the RSC. New Gibraltar in also the headquarters and meeting place of the Alliance and contains a diplomatic mission from the Klingon Empire to the RSC, this also includes a Klingon cruiser in orbit.

In this system there are two rapid reaction task forces ready for deployment, these are force H and force M, each of these task forces contain a least 5 Dreadnought Class Battle Cruisers, 12 Excaliber Class Combat Cruiser and 30 Leander class frigates. These do not include New Gibraltar's own defences and the alliance members who also have ships in system.

The other four systems that have large shipyards and dry docks these are New Sydney, New Wellington, New Toronto and New Quebec.

The 15 other systems also have dry docks and a smaller shipyard capability; these systems tend to concentrate on Agriculture, Mining, manufacturing and producing consumer goods rather that the military goods.

There are three newly colonised systems New Pakistan, New India and New Bangladesh. These three systems have very strong system defences courtesy task forces guarding each system. Until they have build there own orbital defences and have their own RSN system defence task force deployed. These will come on line as the colony grows and expands its own industrial base and more ships are produced from the main shipyards to provide a system defence force for all three systems.

All these systems have a system defence force defending. There are also several task forces patrolling from system to system, and there are convoys going from system to system that also have an escort force of frigates.

Most of the frigates are used to protect convoys of freighters going between RSC systems and Earth, also there is a large amount of trade between the RSC and Alliance members and the Klingon Empire. The rest of the frigates are split between system defence and being part of patrol task forces.

All member countries of the RSC have at least one colony.

All the 23 colonies system in RSC space has at least one class M world to support a population in the system and to ensure long term growth.

Militarily, financially and economically the members of the RSC are better off than the UESPA with a strong emphasis on trade and growth with other members of the Alliance and with their growing friendship with the Klingon Empire. The RSC has limited trade with UESPA, due to the fact that the trade is limited to non-military items only.

Each RSC system was considered a dominion of the country back on Earth, but due to the distance from Earth most colonies had some form government that was similar to its own country back on Earth. This also was the same for any mining operation in that the company had to register what country the mining was under, and was assigned a law enforcement unit from the RSC. This did not lead to the problems encountered by the UESPA, as the RSC was only made up of a few nations from Earth.

The RSC had a council set-up in London that represented each country of the RSC and each member had one vote on this council. These members are Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Tibet, Malta and Nepal, along with their membership in the Alliance and their treaty with the Klingon Empire.

The RSC has its own military in the form of the Royal Space Marines made up from volunteers of each member of the RSC. The RSM has 25 Divisions based on the 23 colonies (one division per colony) and RSM detachments on every RSN ship and star base. The RSC can also call on the regular army units of the member countries for reinforcement if necessary that are based on Earth and the countries colonies. This creates a very strong military force for each of the 23 colonies in the RSC and Earth.

On Earth the Royal Space Marine maintains 5 Divisions as a strategic reserve along with training units as well as Special Forces units such as Royal Space Marine Commando Division.

Each Royal Space Marine Division has a combat strength of 18,950 personal and is equipped with the latest weapons; these Divisions are extremely well trained in planetary warfare and space warfare.

RSC is also a member of the Alliance with one vote in the Alliance just like the UESPA.

Major systems of the UESPA

UESPA has over 50 colonies.

There are only three major systems in the UESPA. These are New America, New Berlin and New Paris. These systems are the most strongly defended as they contain major shipyards and dry dock facilities and are well populated. These three systems have several dozen Constitution Class and Excelsior Class Heavy Cruisers to defend them.

The remaining 50 odd systems vary depending on location and colony development. The minimum defence for these systems would be a mix of Horizon Class Heavy Cruiser(s) and Miranda Class Frigates.

These 50 odd systems are a mix of Agriculture, Mining and Manufacturing producing military and consumer goods for sale to UESPA and Alliance members in trade. Some of these colonies are based on moons or lifeless worlds, as they are really just large mining outposts.

The UESPA is spending most of its time and resources either defending these systems or continuing to expand the colonisation of the M class worlds in these systems. That is the main reason for stopping at creating new colonies and concentrating on growth within the existing colonies, rather than trying to grab a much territory as possible. So that over the next few decades most systems with an M class world would be 90% self-sufficient and also have their own system defences.

The UESPA should actually be pulling back from some systems to concentrate on systems that are more established and are still trying to do too much at once.

USEPA is also using this time to stabilise its relation with other members of the Alliance and improve and create me trade deals.

The UESPA colonies were directly controlled by the country that set-up the colony from Earth. Also some mining systems were directly controlled by the large corporations that were based on Earth. This sort of corporate control lead to large-scale problems with jurisdiction over what country should prosecute a corporation when it broke the law.

This lead to the UESPA setting up its own law enforcement units to police this growing problem. These corporate mining operations took up a lot of resources to monitor and police, that in turn lead to the UESPA spreading itself very thinly until more ships and trained personnel were available. This is another reason why the UESPA stopped colonising new systems and new worlds.

The UESPA had set-up a UN stile council with a small Security Council that was US lead with the power of veto along with France, Japan, Germany, China and Russia. This was a bureaucratic nightmare. Fortunately Starfleet had its own funding and resources allocated so the ship building and recruitment programs were not affected as this required the full agreement of all members of the Security Council to cut the resources of Starfleet.

Military power in UESPA/Starfleet was under Starfleet security and had no army units of its own. Though it member countries had their own armies that were equipped to various standards.

UESPA is also a member of the Alliance with one vote in the Alliance just like the RSC.

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Problems on Earth

In early 2304 China started making noises about retaking Tibet back as part of China and began mobilising troops along the China/Tibet boarder. Tibet moved its own small army to counter China's military along the boarder. Tibet also appealed to the other members of the RSC for help; the RSC deployed all five RSM divisions to Tibet to reinforce the Tibetan Army.

These five RSM divisions were beamed from their camps right to Tibet via the orbiting star ships and dry-docks; the whole process only takes of a few hours. Also made ready were several British, Australian, New Zealand and Canadian divisions to support Tibet in defence of its country.

In orbit over Tibet there was a RSC/RSN task force to provide cover and observation on China's military moments. Also provided jamming against China beaming troops into Tibet after the arrival of the five RSM divisions. The rest of the reinforcement would come by more conventional means.

China had assembled a force of one million troops along the border compared to RSM/Tibet forces of 400,000 odd troops along the border. The Chinese troops were armed with second hand first generation Phase Pistols and Rifles while the to RSM/Tibet forces were equipped with advanced second generation phaser Pistols and Rifles. Thought the RSM/Tibet forces were greatly out-numbered by the Chinese army the RSC had superior firepower and combat capability at their disposal.

China also deployed 50 second hand Horizon Class Heavy Cruisers purchased from UESPA for colony defence. These Horizon Class Heavy Cruisers would be used to clear the space over Tibet and would be used for orbital bombardment. These were equipped with the old Phase cannons and Phontic Torpedoes and first generation shields.

The RSN deployed 3 Dreadnought Class Battlecruisers and 8 Excaliber Class Combat Cruisers in geo stationary orbit over Tibet, to defence Tibet's space.

The "war" between China and Tibet lasted only 5 hours. China launched a series of attacks against Tibet on the morning of the 5 April 2305. These attacks were designed to encircle portions of the RSM/Tibet forces, but the Chinese army was not well equipped as the RSM/Tibet forces and were out manoeuvred and destroyed or driven back to their boarders.

In space the 50 Horizon Class Heavy Cruisers faired even worse as the 11 RSN warship had a greater margin of firepower than the Chinese's space fleet. The 3 Dreadnought Class Battlecruisers used their Heavy Phaser Cannon's to destroy the 50 Horizon Class Heavy Cruisers without having to resort to using their "normal" armament or the need for the 8 Excaliber Class Combat Cruisers to fire one shot. The return fire from the Horizon Class Heavy Cruisers easily shrugged off by both the Dreadnought Class Battlecruisers and Excaliber Class Combat Cruisers. This space "battle" lasted lest than finish 1 hour from start to finish it would go down as the fastest space battle in history.

The UESPA declared that they would not intervene in this war to help China as China had attack Tibet first, also no one on Earth wanted another world war.

Thus isolated on the morning of the 6 April 2305 China signed an agreement of cease-fire and also recognising Tibet as an independent country.

Discoveries

Between 2290 and 2318 a number of new civilisations are discovered including the Cardassian Union.

In the year 2318 while skirting the Cardassian boarder with a joint long-range exploration between the RSC, Vulcan's, Andorains and the Klingon Empire discovered the Bajoran system. The Bajorans had recently had developed warp drive and the four ships from the joint exploration group made first contact with the Bajorans. The first exchanges between the Bajorans and the four members representing the Alliance went very well.

This lead to a cultural exchange between the Bajorans and the four members of the joint exploration group. The Bajorans left a very favourable impression on both the RSC and the Klingon representative, also the Vulcan's and Andorains were both pleased with the way the first contact went.

The joint exploration group was at this time several weeks away from any major base at maximum warp. This meant that the joint exploration group would not return for some years, but promised to do so.

The Cardassian on seeing that the Alliance and the Klingon Empire had made contact with the Bajorans were not pleased. The main reason was that the Cardassian were paranoid about the possibility of the Bajorans forming a pact with the Alliance and the Klingon Empire, this would allow the Alliance and the Klingon Empire to place ships right on the Cardassian boarder. This led the Cardassian Union to begin preparations to invade Bajoran system and occupy it.

In 2328 the Cardassian Union invaded the Bajoran system with ease and conquered the plant of Bajor within a few days. Bajoran home world of Bajor was under the control of the Cardassian Union. During the Occupation, the Cardassians perpetrated a co-ordinated scheme of strip-mining, forced labour, and genocide across the planet. The Occupation gave rise to the fierce Bajoran Resistance. Both the RSC and the Klingon Empire would secretly support the Bajoran Resistance.

The Cardassian Union in an attempt to divide the Alliance attacked two small Klingon colonies. These two colonies were not inside Klingon space but were out side the boarders of the Klingon Empire. The Klingons reacted by sending reinforcements to the two small Klingon colonies and to mount a counter attack. For this they had to withdraw their forces from RSC space were they were on joint patrol and exploration missions.

The Alliance condemned the attack but did not declare war for the invasion of Bajor or the attack on the Klingon colonies. The only member of the Alliance to come out on the side of the Klingon Empire was the RSC who offered help to the Klingon Empire to protect their colonies with ships and troops. These was also logistic support from the Vulcan's, Andorians and a few other members of the Alliance, but these members would not get involved in the war directly.

There would be an ongoing conflict between the Cardassian Union and the Klingon Empire/RSC over these two Klingon colonies for the next 10 years. The main problem with this conflict is that neither side could gain the advantage over the other. The Cardassians had the numbers but not the technology of the Klingon Empire/RSC and the Klingon Empire/RSC had the technology but not the numbers due to the two Klingon colonies being to far away to properly support by either the RSC or the Klingon Empire.

The other main reason was that the Cardassian Union was also using the war between themselves and the Klingon Empire/RSC to secure its hold on the Bajoran system.

The war would drag on for 10 years until the peace treating was signed in 2339. Both sides new that neither was going anywhere, this lead to the peace treaty being signed between the Cardassian Union and the Klingon Empire/RSC. This peace treaty did not solve the problem of the Bajoran occupation. Causalities during the war were fairly light, as either side did not possess a significant advantage over the other. Also the Klingon Empire/RSC were supplying resources covertly to the Bajoran Resistance during the war.

The Bajoran Resistance had grown in strength during this time as was becoming more formidable day by day, by being supplied covertly with the ability to manufacture their own weapons and small warp capable ships called raiders.

The Bajoran Resistance set-up a refugee camp on Valo II that was midway between Bajor and RSC space. The Klingon Empire/RSC gave the Bajorans replecators to manufacture weapons of Bajoran design, but would not give them their own weapons to manufacture. The refugee camp on Valo II was protected be the Klingon Empire/RSC as a "protectorate" and always had a strong defence fleet protecting the system from attack. The Cardassian Union on hearing of this was outraged but there was nothing that they could do about this as Valo II was well supplied and defended.

This allowed the Bajorans to develop their own warp capable spacecraft and build them in orbit around Valo II. These spacecraft were very limited in there capably and could only ever cause pit prick attacks. The

The Bajorans would use their small space fleet to conduct hit a run raids against the Cardassian outposts and convoys between Bajor and Cardassian space. The intelligence for some of these raids was provided by the Klingon Empire/RSC intelligence services. Even with this support the Bajorans were well behind the Cardassians in terms of technology.

UESPA/Starfleet exploration

During 2300 to 2338 UESPA/Starfleet begin its own exploration of the stars, but this time it was not for new colonies but to "seek out new life form and new civilisations". To invite them into the Alliance and to form trade agreements that would be beneficial to UESPA.

During this time UESPA/Starfleet boosted the number of members in the Alliance or that would be trading partners with Alliance members to over 100 different civilisations.

Upgrades

During this time the RSC introduced upgrades into their Leander X Class Frigates, Excaliber III Class Combat Cruisers, Dreadnought II Class Battle Cruisers and Shadow II Class Stealth Ships. These classes old classes would be upgraded to the new levels of technology; along with new ships would come of the production line.

The RSC did not sell and of its old star ships they would all be scrapped after being decommissioned at the end of their service life.

The UESPA/Starfleet would start upgrades on the Miranda Class Frigate and Excelsior-class Heavy Cruiser also production of these two ships would continue. UESPA/Starfleet would introduce new ship types including the Constellation/Ambassador class star ships. The UESPA/Starfleet would continue to sell its used space ships to UESPA members to help defend their colonies, even though China had used their ships to try and conquer Tibet.

The Constellation-class star ship was similar in overall size to a Constitution class star ship. Constellation vessels were equipped with four nacelles and were suited for both deep-space exploration and defensive patrol duties. The Constellation-class was introduced in service in 2302.

The Ambassador class star ship follows a conventional approach to UESPA/Starfleet star ship design, with a saucer attached to a tubular engineering section and two warp nacelles attached to the rear of the secondary hull. At the bow of the engineering section is the navigational deflector, while the shuttle bay is at the stern. The main bridge, lifeboats, and dorsal phaser arrays are embedded into the top of the saucer section, while the ship's ventral phaser arrays, a sensor dome, and more lifeboats occupy the bottom half of the ship. With a Length of 526 meters and a crew of 700 an Armament of ten phaser arrays (original), eleven phaser arrays (upgrade); two photon torpedo launchers. The Ambassador class was introduced in service in 2320.

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Part 11 - Dr. Noonien Soong/Narendra III/Khitomer

In 2310 K'mpec sworn in as Klingon Chancellor of the High Council and would be the longest-lived Klingon Chancellor in Klingon history. K'mpec rules with an iron hand and managed to keep peace within the Klingon Empire, and also would bring peace between the Klingon Empire and UESPA.

In 2030 Dr. Noonien Soong created the first working android that he call data, this was his third attempt at producing a working android, while working for RSC research and development department. Dr Noonien Soong had been kicked out of the UESPA research program in 2025 after several failures in android research, but was recruited by the RSC research arm in 2026 and put back to work on android research, as the RSC could see merit in Dr Soong's work.

Data was the third android creation by Dr. Noonien Soong after the first two prototypes failed (B-4 and Lore). Data would go on to graduate from the RSC/RSN academy and achieve the rank of Captain in the RSN commanding his own star ship. Data's "bothers" and "sisters" would follow in the decades to come, these androids would go on to serve in all branches of the RSC and the RSN with distinction and would continue to be upgraded and also upgrade themselves.

The UESPA began to regret its decision to fire Dr. Noonien Soong from their employ and put a ban on firing any one just because of a failed experiment failed. Only the UESPA research board could fire any scientist and then only after a long review process, this process was hopped that it would stop the "brain drain" of top scientist and engineers going over to the RSC research and development department.

Narendra III, a Klingon outpost attacked by four Romulan warbirds, the outpost was saved by the Ambassador class Enterprise-C that helped save the outpost from destruction, but the Enterprise-C was destroyed in the process. This helped end decades of hostility between the UESPA and the Klingon Empire. In 2344 a peace treaty was signed between UESPA and the Klingon Empire bring to an end to decades of hostility.

This peace treaty also freed up Klingon forces in defence of the Klingon/Romulan boarder and the two colonies along the boarder with the Cardassian Union.

In 2346, the Klingon colony on Khitomer fell victim to a Romulan attack that became known as the Khitomer Massacre were over 4,000 colonists were killed. The total destruction of the colony was averted by the intervention of the RSN Dreadnought II Class Battle Cruiser HMSS Trafalgar. The Romulans used 34 warbirds to attack the Khitomer system catching the Klingons by surprise.

The battle between the Klingon Colony defences and the Romulan warbirds was in to its third day of fighting before the RSN Dreadnought II Class Battle Cruiser HMSS Trafalgar intervened. HMSS Trafalgar approached the battle under cloak, when HMSS Trafalgar opened fire with her heavy phaser cannon destroying three Romulan warbirds in the first pass. This action caught the Romulan commander of guard and allowed the Klingon defenders to catch their breath.

The remaining 21 Romulan warbirds left continued to fight as the Romulan commander thought that he could easily defeat the weakened Klingon defences and one RSN warship. But the Romulan commander was wrong because all that the Klingons and the RSN warship had to do was hold out for a few hours before more RSN warship would arrive and within a day their would also be Klingon reinforcements arriving.

The RSN ship HMSS Trafalgar was staying at maximum weapons range so that the Romulan warbirds fire did not cause any significant damage, as the Captain of HMSS Trafalgar was just trying to pin down as many Romulan ships as possible. So the Romulans would have to split their forces fire between the Klingon colonies defences and HMSS Trafalgar.

This tactic worked as the hours dragged by with out either side being able to gain advantage over the other. Then just as the Romulans thought that they had the RSN warship cornered the RSN reinforcement arrived forcing the Romulans to flee. Within a day of the attack on the Klingon colony on Khitomer more reinforcements from not only the Klingon Empire/RSC but also the UESPA/Starfleet and several members of the alliance would send warships to help defend the Klingon colony.

This action by the RSC/RSN would solidify the relationship between the RSC and the Klingon Empire. Also the Klingons would see the Alliance as allies rather than enemies because of the alliances help with the defence of Khitomer.

In the aftermath of the attack on Khitomer a Klingon baby called Worf and his nanny Kahlest both survived Khitomer and being rescued by crew from the UESPA USSS Intrepid and would be raised by them as the baby Worf was thought to be an orphan.

On Valo II orbiting moon the RSC/Klingon Empire set-up a military base and some orbital dry-dock facilities for their ships.

Ship developments

The RSC decided that the RSN need a more powerful warship to supplement the RSN Dreadnought II Class Battle Cruiser, so the design for the Invincible Class Battleship came to be. The Invincible Class Battleship had a length of 1,012 meters long with an armament of two forward firing heavy phaser cannons, 26 dual phaser banks, 10 spearfish heavyweight photon torpedoes (6 forward and 4 aft) and with a maximum warp speed of warp 9.9. Also equipped with a cloaking device, improved polarised hull armour, improved shield generators and a battalion of 800 RSM for on board security and combat missions.

The Invincible Class Battleship was extremely expensive to produce so the production rate would only be one every 6 months. The Invincible Class Battleship would be used as flagships by Admirals of RSN task forces and system defence forces such as those around New Gibraltar. Between 2346 and 2351 only 10 of these powerful battleships are produced with more being produced at the rate of one every 6 months. The RSN had now become number one in terms of ship firepower even eclipsing the Vulcan's.

The UESPA on seeing this new class of warship ordered the development of its own different design that would become the Galaxy Class star ship, this would not enter into production until 2061. This star ship would not be a battleship but a Heavy Cruiser/Explorer type of ship.

Alliances as of 2345

The biggest alliance was the Alliance itself members that included RSC, UESPA, Andorians, Tellarites and over 100 other races.

The RSC and the Klingon Empire has its own mini alliance.

The UESPA has only trading agreement within the Alliance and no mini alliance of its own. The UESPA has a peace treaty with the Klingon Empire.

The Romulans are not allied to and of the Alliance members or have any form of trade agreement with them since the peace treaty of 2160. There has only been one major boarder incident between the Romulan Empire and the Alliance in 2266 that is known as the Enterprise incident.

Neutral races include the Tholian's and the Breen were those races that wished no involvement at all with outside races at all and some that were xenophobic.


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Part 12 - Different Opinions

2345 to 2360

The RSC would continue to expand its own alliances as well as invite new members into the Alliance as well. With only 23 colonised systems the RSC was much smaller than the UESPA but the RSC colonies were more developed than the UESPA colonies.

In trade the RSC was also ahead due to its more secure trade routes and long term trade agreements with other governments.

The RSC military was also much stronger than the UESPA/Starfleet as the RSC had less space to defend than the UESPA that was spread over a large number of colony worlds. The RSC would concentrate on producing upgraded versions of existing designs rather than producing new ship designs. The RSC also had an integrated army were as the UESPA/Starfleet did not have a standing army but instead have a security force to guard its star ships and facilities.

The RSC main ships are still variants of the Leander Class Multi Role Frigate, Excaliber Class Combat Cruiser (including Scott and Britannia classes), Dreadnought Class Battle Cruiser, Invincible Class Battleship and the Shadow Class Stealth Ship. All of these ships have at least 80% compatibility in there systems.

While the UESPA had a large number of different designs and sub designs Miranda Class Frigate, Horizon Class Heavy Cruiser, Constitution Class Heavy Cruiser, Excelsior-class Heavy Cruiser, Ambassador Class Heavy Cruiser and after 2060 the new Galaxy Class Explorer/Heavy Cruiser. All these ships have different systems that are not easily interchangeable this causes the UESPA/Starfleet supply problems, although replecators do solve some of these problems.

In 2346 the Alliances own Security Council made up of the permanent members witch are RSC, UESPA, Vulcan, Andorian and Tellarite. The remaining seven seats occupied by Alliance members rotating into the Security Council on a 12 month basis. The Klingons were also represented on the Alliance Security Council but as a non voting observer. The Klingons got this seat was mainly due to the RSC insistence and was not well received by the UESPA who did not trust the Klingons.

All of the Alliance members have various forms of trade deals with each other and with non Alliance members. The main trade deals are with the five permanent members of the Security Council.

The Klingon Empire has and alliance with the RSC and also has separate peace agreements with the Alliance and the UESPA.

In early 2347 the UESPA again began to expand its colonies by placing them along the Cardassian boarder in a hope that the Cardassians would see this as a trading opportunity, all that Cardassians did was view lodge a complaint to the Alliance Security Council.

The main problem occupying the Cardassians at this time was Bajor and the problems caused by the Bajorian resistance and trying to quell the resistance attacks of Cardassian facilities.

The UESPA wanted a negotiated settlement with the Cardassians over Bajor the RSC wanted the Cardassians to leave Bajor without protracted negotiations and the Alliance Security Council was also in favour of negotiations as long as they were moving forward. Even thought the Cardassians were committing atrocities against the Bajoran people.

The RSC and the Klingon Empires protectorate of the Valo system were the Bajoran Government in exile was based and a large number of Bajoran refugees. This system was is one of the major sticking points in a solution between the Alliance and the Cardassians as the Cardassians want control on the Valo system before they give back Bajor, but the RSC and the Klingon Empires will not give up Valo as a protectorate until the Cardassians have left the Bajoran system.

With the resources supplied covertly by the RSC and the Klingon Empire the Bajoran resistance and the Bajoran refugees Valo II was considered a Bojoran colony in all but name. The Cardassians dared not attack Valo II as both the RSC and the Klingon Empire had bases in the Valo system and also as it was listed as a protectorate it would be deemed as an attack on the Allience because of the RSC presence and an attack on the Klingon Empire because of the Klingon presence in the Valo system. All the Cardassians could do was protest a lot and be ignored by the RSC/Klingon Empire over there protectorate, as the Alliance treaty that this was an internal matter for the RSC/Klingon Empire as Valo system was a joint protectorate.

The atrocities that the Cardassians committed in the Bajoran system were horrific and caused wide spread condemnation from the Alliance, but majority of the Alliance did not want war with the Cardassians. Only the RSC, Vulcan, Andorian and Tellarite with a small amount of support from the UESPA called for action in various forms but nothing could be decided.

The RSC, Vulcan, Andorian and Tellarite wanted to use the threat of force to remove the Cardassians from the Bajoran system. The UESPA wanted to use negotiations and use the threat of force as a last resort. The rest of the Alliance was split between the two factions and it would take a serious tragedy to move the Alliance to use force against the Cardassians.

The difference of option between the RSC and UESPA was growing wider and neither side wanted to unite Earth under one banner as the RSC did not want to come under the UESPA banner and the UESPA did not want to come under the RSC banner.

In 2311 the Treaty of Algeron was signed between the Romulan Empire and the UESPA. The main point of the Treaty of Algeron was the recognition of the Romulans of UESPA territory and in return the UESPA/Starfleet agreed not to develop cloaking technology and also recognise Romulan territory. This treaty did not apply to the Alliance as a whole this treaty was only between the UESPA and the Romulan Empire.

The Treaty of Algeron was extended to most of the Alliance with the exception of the RSC that would only accept the Treaty of Algeron without the ban into cloaking technology, the Romulan Empire eventually gave way with the RSC being exempt from the cloaking technology clause. This would allow the RSC to continue to develop cloaking technology without being in breach of the Treaty of Algeron.

This did mean that UESPA/Starfleet could call the treaty a success in one way but a loss in another due to the fact that Starfleet and most of the Alliance could not develop cloaking devices but the RSC could develop clocking devices as they had not signed that part of the Treaty of Algeron with the Romulan Empire.

In 2360 the UESPA launched its largest ship the Galaxy Class Heavy Cruiser/Explorer this class of starship would be come the flagship class of the UESPA. The Galaxy Class Heavy Cruiser/Explorer with a length of 641 meters a crew of approximately 1,000 (officers, enlisted, and civilian) and an Armament of 12 Type-10 phaser arrays and 3 photon torpedo launchers.

Next – Part 13 – Bajor

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Part 13 – Bajor

In 2361 the RSC made the decision to force the Cardassians out of Bajoran space and began a slow build up of its military forces in darkness of space between systems. RSC intelligence also began to increase its intelligence missions in the Bajoran system; this included the use of the cloaked Shadow Class Stealth Ship. The Klingon Empire also would provide military forces for this attack.

Alliance members were now well aware of the military deal between the RSC and the Klingon Empire, especially the acquisition of cloaking technology by the RSC. The UESPA treaty with the Romulan Empire was looking like it was a bad idea, but the UESPA was going to keep with the treaty as it ensured the peace between them and the Romulan Empire.

The UESPA, Vulcan, Andorian and Tellarite were also informed about what the RSC/Klingons were about to do and they gave their support for the attack and they would send 100 warships each. The UESPA was not too happy about what the RSC was doing but the UESPA would also send 100 warships to help with the liberation of the Bajoran system.

The gathering of so many starships in one place would take time and a lot of coordination between Alliance members.

The RSC would also provide five of its RSM divisions to assault Bajor and to provide military assistance to the Bajoran resistance. The Bajoran resistance would at the same time launch a series of attacks to disrupt the Cardassians on the surface of bajor.

The plan did not go as planned as the Cardassians got to hear about the attack and withdrew their troops back to their main military bases on Bajor and reinforced their fleet in the Bajoran system. The man defence of the Bajoran system would come for the Cardassian space station of Terok Nor. The commander of Terok Nor Gul Dukat who would oversee the military aspects of the defence of Bajor. Though Gul Dukat did not get all the resources that he wanted to defend the Bajoran system, so Gul Dukat had secretly being prepared to evacuate the system in the event of an attack by an overwhelming force.

Gul Dukat had managed to convince his superiors that all non military personnel to be evacuated back to Cardassian space. This looked like the Cardassian were reinforcing their positions rather than preparing to withdraw.

When the Alliance saw this information they came to the wrong conclusion that the Cardassians were reinforcing their positions. This did not mean that the attack was going to be postponed.

The Alliance and the Klingon Empire would issue and ultimatum to the Cardassians ordering them to leave the Bajoran system by 1 January 2362 the Alliance and the Klingon Empire would take the Bajoran system by force and restore the Bajoran government.

The ultimatum was ignored by the Cardassians so the Alliance and the Klingon Empire would attack.

The attack force would consist of several waves. The first wave would be cloaked ships of the RSC and Klingon Empire, these ships would hit the first line of Cardassian ships defending Bajor. The remaining waves would be those Alliance members who do not possess cloaking devices. The final wave would be the RSM ground troops and the Bajoran militia.

The first wave attacked the first line of the Cardassian ships defending the Bajoran system and the Cardassian ships were rapidly destroyed by the combined forces of the RSC/RSN warships and the warships of the Klingon Empire. The first line of Cardassian ships defending the Bajoran system was of an older design and they were crewed by less efficient crews.

As soon as this first wave struck Gul Dukat began ordering the withdrawal of the Cardassian military forces on Bajor. These military forces destroyed everything that they could not take with them. The Cardassian space forces were ordered to cover the withdrawal from Bajor while not engaging the Alliance or the Klingon Empire in a major space battle, the overall objective was to withdraw Cardassian military forces in tacked.

As the Cardassian begain to withdraw from Bajor the Alliance or the Klingon Empire switched their attacks from the Cardassian forces defending the withdrawal to supporting the RSM and the Bajoran militia that would be landing on Bajor.

After the first 24 hours the battle had settled down into minor skirmishes between the opposing sides. The Cardassian withdrawal was now well under way and the Alliance or the Klingon Empire was quite happy to let them go. This was much easier as they did not have to force them out of the Bajoran system.

Within 12 days the Cardassian had withdrawn from the Bajoran system and had abandoned the space station Terok Nor though the station had been stripped of anything of value.

The freeing of Bajor from Cardassian occupation was greeted with great joy from the Bajoran people. A provisional government would be set-up until elections could be held. Also a small take force would be left just in case the Cardassians decided to try and take back the Bajoran system.

The Alliance and the Klingon Empire took over the defence of the Bajoran system until the Bajorans could defend the system themselves and helping in reconstructing Bajor.

The UESPA took over responsibility for the space station Terok Nor and renamed it Deep Space Nine. Deep Space Nine, over a kilometre in diameter, is composed of a broad outer docking ring; an inner habitat ring containing residences; and a central core containing the promenade, the fusion reactors, and the operations centre, known as "ops". Three sets of docking pylons sweep up and down equidistantly around the docking ring, defining a spherical shape.

Exploration of the Bajoran system would be postponed until the Bajoran government was up and running, this would not happen until 2369 this was due to Alliance assets needed elsewhere that would lead to several major discoveries.

Early in 2363 the UESPA USSS Enterprise-D under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard was sent to investigate a number of outposts have been completely obliterated in the neutral zone between the Alliance and the Romulan Empire. There is no evidence of conventional weapons or attack.

In the ensuring investigation the Enterprise would encounter a very powerful race…….

To be continued……..

Next – Part 14 – The Neutral Zone

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Part 14 – The Neutral Zone

The UESPA/Starfleet vessel USSS Enterprise-D under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard is sent to investigate a number of outposts have been completely obliterated in the neutral zone between the Alliance and the Romulan Empire.

Unknown to the captain of the Enterprise he was being shadowed by a RSC/RSN intelligence Shadow Class stealth ship under cloak. Behind the Shadow Class stealth ship was an Invincible II Class battleship under cloak HMSS Invidious. The RSC had come to this decision without telling the other members of the Alliance.

The Alliance was also gathering several large fleets together to defend against a suspected Romulan attack on the outposts. This gathering for Alliance warships would take time as some members would have to send warships form their own space to the rendezvous points. It also did not help that a large number of Alliance warships were still involved in protecting Bajor, some of these warship would be withdrawn and moved a high warp to the rendezvous points. But all this would take time because of the distances involved.

The Enterprise D arrived to begin its investigations of the outpost’s destruction and found that the outputs had not been destroyed but scooped up as if a giant hand reached down and taken the outposts. The Enterprise was making regular reports back on what they have found out. These reports were monitored by HMSS Invidious following under cloak, also making regular reports was the Shadow Class stealth ship monitoring the Enterprise D, and these reports were made to RSC command and not to the Alliance, as some of the RSC intelligence assets were not know to Alliance members.

As the Enterprise D continued along the neutral zone the Enterprise detected that it was being shadowed along the Romulan side of the neutral zone by a partiality cloaked warship that was following the Enterprise.

The Romulan warship then de cloaked and opened communications with the Enterprise and during the first set of talks between them. In the talks the Enterprise captain learned that the Romulans had also lost outposts along their side of the neutral zone and agreed a joint investigation along the neutral zone.

The communication about the Romulans also losing outposts was met with a mixture of shock and some disbelief amongst Alliance members, but the build up of forces would continue and would be available against whatever the investigation found.

The Enterprise and the Romulan warbird discovered a cubed shaped vessel moving along the neutral zone and moved to intercept. The cubed shaped vessel also altered cause to intercept the Enterprise and the Romulan warbird.

On board the Enterprise a crew member know as Guinan identified the race as Borg and advised a strong defensive posture. This was a little late a both the Enterprise and the Romulan warbird had been boarded by Borg scouts to examine the technology of both ships. The initial scouts were killed but when new scout appeared they had adapted to the Enterprises phaser pistols and the Romulan disruptors. Thus allowing the Borg scout drone to complete its task.

After the Borg scout left the following message was sent to the Enterprise and the Romulan ship - "We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."

The Borg ended the communication without waiting for a response.

Guinan who is an El-Aurian and who’s home world was destroyed by the Borg, but not before a large number of refugee ships escaped. Guinan states that - "You can't outrun them, you can't destroy them. If you damage them, the essence of what they are remains. They regenerate and keep coming. They are relentless."

Guinan stated that also stated that the Borg has no culture in the traditional sense of the word. Their sole purpose was the assimilation of other beings in their pursuit of perfection. Being a Collective, members lose any sense of individuality. The moment someone was assimilated his or her individuality was integrated within the Borg hive mind and they would be a part of the Borg Collective.

Their organic bodies are enhanced, and some parts completely replaced, with cybernetic implants. The nature of these implants is determined by the drone's intended function, for instance a tactical or medical repair drone would be fitted with appropriate hardware. Every drone is equipped with a homing device and has the ability to assimilate beings by means of nanoprobes, dispensed through three tubule-like structures located in the hands or forearms.

Borg vessels were among the most powerful in the galaxy. Highly decentralized, they had no bridge, living quarters or engineering section. All drones collectively operated the vessels under the general direction of the Collective. While each of their vessels is highly unique in its design, all Borg vessels shared common elements. These included the ability to repair any spacecraft structure that was damaged in battle, as well as a Vinculum (which is the core of every Borg vessel) that was used to interconnect all the drones on board and to purge any individual thought. A critically-damaged Borg vessel would self-destruct, destroying all vital technologies, such as any transwarp coils.

The Borg then locked onto both the Enterprise and the Romulan vessel with a tractor beam, both the Enterprise and the Romulan vessel opened fire and managed to free themselves and damage the Borg cube. The Enterprise and the Romulan vessel sent a joint away mission to explore the apparently lifeless Borg vessel. They were able to learn that the Borg are able to use their collective power to regenerate their ship, the away team is immediately beamed back.

The Enterprise and the Romulan vessel attempts to flee, but the Borg cube follows them. The Enterprise and the Romulan vessel are rapidly losing the chase with the Borg ship, after getting within firing range, the Borg vessel fires a shield-draining weapon twice on the Enterprise and the Romulan vessel, now with very low shields, the Enterprise and the Romulan vessel fires torpedoes again, with the same result. The Borg fires twice more, and the Enterprise and the Romulan vessel loses both shields and warp drive.

With the Borg tractor beam locking on the Enterprise and the Romulan vessel look doomed, but suddenly a vessel de cloaks and opens fire, it is the Invincible II Class battleship HMSS Invidious. HMSS Invidious opens fire with a deadly combination of her two forward firing heavy phaser cannons and photon torpedoes that manage to punch though the Borg ships shields and knock out the tractor beam and severely weaken the Borgs shields and weapon systems. The Enterprise and the Romulan vessel also add their firepower and manage to destroy the Borg cube, but this takes all the firepower of all three ships as is considered a close run fight.

HMSS Invidious with its combination of superior firepower and cloaking device tipped the balance in their favour, but the Borg won’t fall for the same trick twice. Also HMSS Invidious has raised the alarm and more ships are on their way.

Within a few hours more and more reinforcement arrive at the neutral zone both Alliance warships and Romulan warships, both sides agree to search their sides of the neutral zone to make sure that there are no more Borg vessels. The search reveals that there are no signs of any other Borg vessels in the neutral zone.

The Enterprise's now compromised computers revealed the location of Earth. Picard and Guinan surmise over a game of 3D chess that it would then only be a matter of time before the Borg arrived at Earth in force, ready to assimilate humanity and then the Alliance and after that the Klingon and Romulan Empires.

Next time the Borg will come with more than one ship to assimilate the major powers of the alpha quadrant, they would have to be ready for the Borg.

One of the Benefits of the Borg attack was that the Alliance and the Klingon Empire opened up diplomatic relations with the Romulan Empire. This did not leave to the end of all the hostility between these powers but it did help to ease the tension. This diplomatic start was seen a crucial if they were going to fight the Borg.

This did prove one other thing that when necessary all members of the Alliance could work very well together when sufficient motivation was provided, and for a short time the RSC and the UESPA could work well together. But once the crisis was over it was back to business as usual with the RSC and the UESPA unable to agree on all issues between them with no likelihood of any change.

Next – Part 15 – Aftermath

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Part 15 – Aftermath

In the aftermath of the Borg incident all the major powers of the Alliance began to upgrade their warships to better deal with the Borg threat.

United Earth Space Probe Agency - Starfleet

The UESPA went with several new designs –

Akira-class heavy cruiser – Length of 465 meters, Crew of 500, maximum speed of warp 9.8 for 12 hrs and an armament of 6 type-10 phaser emitters; at least 11 photon torpedo launchers. An unusual feature of the Akira-class was the shuttle bay arrangements. There were two large shuttle bays in the saucer section, one at the forward edge of the saucer section and one at the rear.

Sabre-class - Starfleet star ship was first introduced in the late 24th century. The ship featured a design more compact than other Starfleet vessels, and was fairly well armed despite its small size.

Steamrunner class - This unconventional ship has an angular saucer-shaped hull, and like the Saber class, the Steamrunner has two warp nacelles embedded in the saucer. Instead of an engineering hull, an under slung secondary hull with a blue navigational deflector at the forefront is attached to the nacelles by a pylon running downward and inward at the aft end of each. The main bridge and the dorsal phaser array are embedded into the saucer to provide for better protection from enemy fire by blocking against attacks from the side. The primary hull's ventral side is dominated by the ship's ventral phaser array and lifeboats. Two impulse engines are located between the nacelles with one on each side of the ship.

Nebula-class - Its design is closely related to that of the Galaxy-class. Atop the engineering hull is a superstructure which can support a variety of equipment, such as sensor platforms, additional warp nacelles, and torpedo launchers. With a length of 442 meters, crew of 750, maximum speed of warp 9.5 and an armament of 7 Type-X phaser arrays; 2 photon torpedo launchers. The Nebula-class is designed to replace the Miranda Class Frigate in its many roles.

Danube-class runabout - The Danube-class was first commissioned by Starfleet in early 2366 for use as a light multipurpose craft in situations that demanded a vessel more capable than a standard shuttlecraft, but lower profile than a full-sized starship. With this flexibility, a runabout could be utilized as a long-range personnel/cargo transport, an agile mobile defence platform, or high-speed reconnaissance vehicle.

The large number of different designs slows UESPA/Starfleet production down but does produce a very varied fleet. This would produce a varied fleet if not a large production capability of these new types of starships.

Starfleet did not have any permanent fleets or task forces etc, these would be formed as and when necessary.

The UESPA also instituted project “Defiant” for a warship to fight the Borg. This project would slow and become a back burner project as several flaws are found in the design.

Royal Space Command – Royal Space Navy

The RSC went with what it knows best. That is upgrading existing designs, by incorporating new weapons, warp drive and shields. Also the RSC/RSN was building new ships of these upgraded designs to replace ships that cannot be upgraded for structural reasons etc.

Leander Class Multi Role Frigates Mark XII (various versions and types). The Leander was mainly used in it tradition role of convoy escort and planetary defence. Most of these ships have a maximum speed warp of 9.0 with bursts of up to 9.5 for short periods.

Excalibur Class Combat Cruiser Mark V (including Scott and Britannia classes). The role of the Excalibur Class Combat Cruiser has lessened slightly over the past few decades as the Dreadnought Class Battle Cruiser has superseded it in its combat role. Many of the Excalibur Class Combat Cruiser has been refitted to the sub classes Scott (explorer) and Britannia (diplomatic). These ships have a maximum speed warp of 9.7 with bursts of up to 9.9 for short periods.

Dreadnought Class Battle Cruiser Mark IV. The Dreadnought Class Battle Cruiser is the backbone of the combat power of the RSC/RSN and is replacing the Excalibur Class Combat Cruiser as the most numerous cruiser class in the RSN. These ships have a maximum speed warp of 9.7 with bursts of up to 9.9 for short periods

Invincible Class Battleship Mark III. The Invincible Class Battleship is used as a flagship of RSC/RSN task forces and battle groups there are also three permanent squadrons of Invincible Class Battleship with five ships per squadron. The large battleships come of the production line very slowly but they are worth the wait as not many other warships can stand toe to toe with one and survive. These ships have a maximum speed warp of 9.9 and can run at this maximum warp speed for several months if needed

Shadow Class Stealth Ship Mark III. The Shadow Class Stealth Ship is the premier spy ship of the RSC/RSN. While on mission the Shadow Class Stealth Ship always remains under cloak. Also the super secrete Section 31 sub branch of RSC intelligence operates at least 20 of these ships, but their existence is not acknowledged by the RSC or the existence of Section 31. These ships have a maximum speed warp of 9.9 and can run at this maximum warp speed for several months if necessary, but these ships tend to run at low warp speeds as running at high warp negates the cloaking system as running at such speed drain power from the clocking device rendering the ship detectable. Though the ship will still be “cloaked” but not fully at such high speeds and could be detected.

Longbow Class Courier Ship Mark I. The Longbow Class is and offshoot of the Shadow Class Stealth Ship from the outside the design of the ships was the same but without the black stealth material over the hull. This class of ship was used as a type of light multipurpose craft in situations that demanded a vessel more capable than a standard shuttlecraft, but lower profile than a full-sized starship was needed. The armament consists of 6 twin phaser banks and two Spearfish torpedo launchers one forward and one aft. Length of 211 meters and a maximum warp speed of warp 9.7 with burst of warp 9.9 for short periods. The use of the design was not a coincidence because if a Shadow Class Stealth Ship it could be mistaken for a Longbow Class thus giving the RSC/RSN deniability.

The production rates for the RSC/RSN would continue to rise and newer versions of the older ships would rapidly replace the older designs.

The RSC instituted project “Vanguard” for a warship to fight the Borg. This project would slow up but would not be abandoned or put on the back burner.

In 2365 Captain Data was promoted to the rank of Commodore and given command of one of the new Invincible III Class Battleships HMSS Indefatigable as flagship of one of the new rapid response groups (RRG). Commodore Data’s group was the first formed with one Invincible III Class Battleships (flagship), two Dreadnought IV Class Battle Cruiser, fifteen Leander XII Class Frigates and five Longbow I Class. These smaller rapid response groups (RRG) would to be used as a holding force until one of the RSC Task Forces or Fleets could deployed. Commodore Data’s RRG 1 was the first of many RRG to be formed and would patrol the boarders of not only RSC space but Alliance space as well. RRG would also be used as roving patrols within RSC space and the boarders of RSC space.

The RSC/RSN did have permanent Task Forces and the newly formed RRG such as those defending all colonies and on patrol in RSC space and along the Romulan Neutral Zone. The RSN had several fleets these were based on geographic locations in RSC with each individual controlling a certain area of space and most of the RSN ships in that area come under that fleets authority. The exception being the RRG, convoys and those ships assigned to planetary defence. Fleets did vary in size and composition from fleet to fleet, but each Fleet Admiral did have an Invincible III Class Battleship as flagship.

2363 - 2366

During the years 2363 to 2366 no sign of the Borg invasion was encountered and the priority of the past few years slowed and the effort to build new ships slowed both with the RSC and UESPA and Alliance members.

The UESPA again stopped colony growth to concentrate of building up the defences of the colonies that they had rather than expanding. The number of colony systems that the UESPA needed to protect now stood at 78. These new colony’s were not very well defended and were spread out over long distances. Those UESPA colonies that were well established were showing strong growth, but those that were still forming was slowing these established colonies growth, as the established colonies had to support the large number of newly formed colonies. Several of these new colonies were along the boarder with the Cardassian space and they were lightly defended.

The RSC has only 30 colony systems by 2366 and all were well defended by the RSN and had growing economic strength within the RSC colonies and with other members of the Alliance, also there strong economic ties with the Klingon Empire were also proving very successful. The RSC would only colonise a new system if there was sufficient production capacity to cope. The RSC industrial base was still growing due to the introduction of upgraded warships and an expanding civilian population. The RSC had only one colony on the boarder with Cardassian space and this colony world unlike the UESPA colonies was heavily defended.

The economies of the Alliance members and that of the Klingon Empire boomed as trade increased, also to benefit was the Romulan Empire that had opened up diplomatic relations with both the Alliance and the Klingon Empire with an Romulan embassy on New Gibraltar. This allowed for some limited trade deals between the Alliance members and Klingon Empire and the Romulan Empire. This lead to a semi thawing of relations between the three major powers of the Alpha quadrant.

The diplomatic relations between the Romulan Empire and the Alliance/Klingon Empire would only last a few years before it would breakdown. This would lead to a cooling of relations, but the Romulan Empire did not withdraw its diplomatic mission from New Gibraltar. The Romulans would keep taking but not

Next – Part 16 – The Next Phase

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Part 16 – The Next Phase

Section 31

RSC Section 31 is working on new ways of improving the cloaking technology to their own Shadow Class Stealth Ships. The interphase cloaking device was an advanced type of cloaking device that allows a star ship to travel through solid matter and high-energy fields. A molecular phase inverter moves the ship out of phase with the spacetime continuum.

This device would be kept secrete form the rest of the RSC/RSN and only a very few people would know of its development or even of its existence.

A new sub version of the Shadow Class Stealth Ships is developed around the interphase cloaking device. Only one of these ships is operational in 2367, this ship is also equipped with interphase Spearfish torpedoes that can pass though a ships shields and detonate inside the ship, thus in theory only one or two torpedoes would be needed to destroy and enemy warship.

The enhanced Shadow Class Stealth Ship would have one other ability, the ability fire while cloaked. This ability would only work when the ship was in normal cloak mode and not in phased cloak mode. This would give this class of ship a considerable tactical advantage in combat, though the Shadow Class Stealth Ships were never intended to be used in direct combat.

This prototype would spend the next few years undergoing extensive testing and evaluation in quiet and deserted areas of RSC space. The results of the test would change the power balance in the Alpha quadrant for a long time to come.

The Borg Return

In 2367 suspecting that the Borg are responsible for the destruction of the New Providence colony at the edge of UESPA space, Starfleet dispatches the Enterprise D to investigate. To examine what was left of the colony, an away team to beam down and find out if it is the Borg An electromagnetic signature, a "Borg footprint", confirms that the colony was razed by a Borg cube. The Enterprise finds the Borg cube and plots and intercept course, in a brief encounter the Enterprise escapes and takes refuge in a sensor-blinding nebula to give Commander La Forge time to modify the main deflector dish into a weapon.

Once this weapon is ready Captain Picard leaves the nebula at high speed and the Borg cube follows. Captain Picard orders the main deflector dish into a weapon to be charged when ready the Enterprise does a 180 degree turn and prepare to use the Picard Manoeuvre. The Picard Manoeuvre is a battle tactic invented by Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard. In 2355, Picard was in command of the USS Stargazer when it was attacked by an unknown alien vessel, later determined to be of Ferengi origin. During the battle, the Stargazer, which was holding station several million kilometres away from its adversary, suddenly accelerated to warp 9 directly towards the Ferengi ship. Because the enemy was unable to determine in time that the Stargazer had changed course. The Stargazer succeeded in launching a full assault on the Ferengi ship, completely destroying it.

Using the Picard Manoeuvre the Enterprise for a very few seconds appears in two places at the same time, fooling the Borg and allowing the Enterprise to destroy the Borg cube with the modified main deflector dish weapon. Though the Enterprise will be unable to get underway for sometime the crew are relived that the Borg threat had been neutralised. But a communication from Starfleet command says that there are nine other Borg cubes heading towards RSC colony of New Gibraltar at warp 9.9. The RSC along with the Alliance is going to make a stand at New Gibraltar to try and defeat the Borg.

When the Enterprise had completed its repairs the Enterprise sets course for New Gibraltar to assist in the defence at maximum warp, but it will be several hours behind the Borg ships heading for New Gibraltar.

When the Borg was only a few hours away from New Gibraltar one of the nine remaining cubes alters course towards Earth. The Enterprise on hearing this alters course towards Earth in an effort to intercept the lone cube.

UESPA/Starfleet scrapes together a task force forty ships under UESPA/Starfleet Admiral Hanson they managed to scraped together to intercept the cube at Wolf 359. No more ships could be speared as the bulk of the Alliance fleet is deployed to defend New Gibraltar or to far away to help in such a sort time period.

Battle of New Gibraltar


The defence of New Gibraltar is covered by over 1,000 warships of all classes from UESPA/Starfleet, RSC/RSN, Vulcan and other members of the Alliance, also included are 30 Klingon warships with a large war fleet on the way from the Klingon Empire to help their RSC allies.

The Borg ships come out of warp at the edge of the New Gibraltar system. The fleet guarding the system engages the Borg cubes.

This initial battle does not go well as the fleet splits its fire between the eight Borg cubes, the Borg are able to adapt to the weapon changes made by the Alliance vessels. The RSC/RSN commander Fleet Admiral Neelson orders the fleet to concentrate its fire on one Borg vessel at a time. This succeeds in destroying the first Borg cube but it does take time and also a lost of ships are either destroyed or disabled.

The Alliance continues to destroy the Borg cubes one at a time, each one is more difficult to destroy the previous one but eventually all the Borg cubes are destroyed.

The cost on ships is terrible over half the fleet has either been destroyed or disabled the rest of the fleet has various levels of battle damage.

A task force is prepared under Commodore Data and his RRG that has survived the battle with very little damage and is ordered to Earth to try and halt the assimilation of Earths population.

The Battle of Wolf 359 and Earth

UESPA/Starfleet task force under Starfleet Admiral Hanson will intercept the lone Borg cube at Wolf 359. Their orders are to try and destroy the Borg cube or at least hold the Borg cube at Wolf 359 until reinforcements can arrive.

Within a few hours the Borg cube had obliterated the armada at Wolf 359, killing Admiral Hanson as well as thousands more, but this sacrifice has allowed the Enterprise to close the gap between the Enterprise and the Borg cube and the Enterprise is now only 20 minutes behind the Borg cube.

As the Borg cube breaks through the UESPA/Starfleet Mars Defence Perimeter and is heading to earth, too far ahead for the Enterprise to intercept in time.

In geo stationery orbit around earth the RSC/RSN have one of their largest orbital battle stations it is hoped that this battle station will be able to hold the Borg cube until reinforcements can arrive. The Battle station opens fire on the Borg cube with its main weapons arrays, the Borg cube responds with its energy draining weapons but this does not help the Borg as the battle stations energy reserve is much larger than any star ship and the Battle station can hold out for much longer.

Within 20 minutes the Enterprise arrives and begins to power its modified main deflector dish weapon and fires the weapon, but this time it has no affect the Borg have adapted to the weapon. The Enterprise is forced to switch to more conventional weapons and join in with the RSC/RSN orbital battle station in pounding the Borg cube.

Unknown to anyone in the system is the prototype Section 31 Shadow Class Stealth Ship with the prototype interphase cloaking device and interphase cloaked torpedoes has entered the solar system.

Approaching the battle the captain of the Section 31 Shadow Class Stealth Ship orders that the ship be moved from phased cloak to normal cloak and prepares to fire two phased Spearfish photon torpedoes at the Borg cube. These two torpedoes will be timed so that they will explode at the same time as the Enterprise fires her torpedoes, so that it will appear that the Enterprise punched though the Borg cubes shields.

The timing is perfect and as the Enterprises torpedoes hit the Borg shields two phased Spearfish photon torpedoes detonate inside the shields blowing a large hole in the Borg cube vastly weakening the Borg shields allowing the Enterprise and the orbital battle station to destroy the Borg cube.

The Section 31 Shadow Class Stealth Ship goes back in to full phased cloak mode and departs the sol system without being detected. This is considered a good test and the remaining Section 31 Shadow Class Stealth Ships will be converted to this standard over the next few months.

Within an hour Commodore Data’s task force arrives to assist along with the Klingon battle fleet a few hours later to help with the clear up and system defence just in case of further Borg attacks.

Within several days it become apparent that there are no more Borg on their way so the Klingon fleet returns to Klingon space with the thanks of the Alliance.

It will take several months to clear up the battle damage from the three battle zones.

The rebuilding of the Alliance fleets would take a number of years be fore they would be back to full strength. The RSC/RSN would be back to full strength first because of their more industrialised colonies than the UESPA/Starfleet.

Next – Part 17 – Aftermath II

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Part 17 – Aftermath II

In the aftermath of the battles with the Borg the Alliance once again began to build replacement ships that were lost in the battle with the Borg.

Between 2367 and 2369 would see another phase of shipbuilding and ships improvements to all the members in the Alliance.

Royal Space Command – Royal Space Navy

The RSC/RSN continued with their program of building enhanced versions of existing designs rather than designing new ships from scratch. This would lead the RSC/RSN being the first member of the Alliance to recover from the Borg attack.

The exception to the rule was project Vanguard. This project was to produce a ship designed to fight the Borg or and other type of high treats. The latest technologies would be included into project Vanguard these included regenerative shields, enhanced heavy phaser cannons, upgraded phaser emitters and Spearfish photon torpedoes.

The first ships HMSS Vanguard was launched in 2369, with a length of 2,008 meters a height of 503 meters and a width of 711 meters it was the largest warship ever produced by any of the major powers in the Alpha quadrant. With an armament of two forward and two aft firing heavy phaser cannons, 36 dual phaser banks, 10 spearfish heavyweight photon torpedoes (6 forward and 4 aft) and with a maximum continues cruising speed of warp 9.9. Its size lead to this type of warship being classified as Vanguard Class Super Battleship, also equipped with a cloaking device, improved polarised hull armour, improved shield generators and an enhanced battalion of 1,200 RSM for on board security and combat missions and with a crew of 2,135.

HMSS Vanguard was also equipped with automated point defence system that was designed to destroy incoming missiles and torpedoes, the Vanguard class would be the only ship class equipped with this new form of point defence system. This system was made up of 40 low powered phasers distributed along the ships hull, while the power of these weapons was insufficient to damage another ship it was more than enough to detonate a missile or photon torpedo.

The production rate of this new class of warship was very slow at one new ship coming of the production lines every 11 months.

The first ship HMSS Vanguard would be assigned to Commodore Data’s RRG in 2370 as his new flagship and would lead to Commodore Data being promoted to Rear Admiral by the end of 2370.

Production rates in the RSC would remain at a very high level for the next few years to replace the losses, also this would boost the RSC economy and would lead the RSC to it greatest period of growth so far.

Section 31 would refit all its enhanced Shadow Class Stealth Ships with the interphase cloaking device and interphase spearfish photon torpedoes. This technology would not be given to the RSN; the number of people who know about interphase clocking technology are kept to a bare minimum.

United Earth Space Probe Agency - Starfleet

The UESPA/Starfleet would continue to produce a diverse number of starships this would still affect their production rates and keep them on the low side.

Project Defiant was designed in 2366; the Defiant was the first of what was to be a new class of heavily armed Starfleet starship. Officially designated an escort vessel, the Defiant-class was specifically designed to counter the Borg. Soon after the first vessel was completed however, a combination of a less urgent Borg threat and several design flaws caused Starfleet to suspend the project. Among the flaws was the fact that the Defiant's engines were overpowered relative to the size of the ship so much that the Defiant nearly "tore itself apart" during its shakedown cruise. With an armament of Pulsed and beam phasers, Photon torpedoes and the new Quantum torpedoes

Commander Benjamin Sisko became intimately involved with the project while stationed at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards after the destruction of the Saratoga at Wolf 359. Early in 2371, as Dominion hostility escalated, the Defiant was taken out of storage and assigned to Deep Space 9 to protect the station from the Dominion.

This would lead to the Defiant class entering full scale production in 2372 at the rate of 50 ships per year.

The other new class of starship to come of the UESPA/Starfleet production line was the Sovereign-class starship was introduced in the late 24th century, showcasing some of Starfleet's most recent technological advances. The Sovereign Project was one of the new defensive technologies initially intended for use against the Borg threat. The prototype USS Sovereign was still in the design phase during the Battle of Wolf 359.

The Sovereign-class followed the heavily armed; the design philosophy for the Sovereign-class was shaped by the discovery of the Borg. The Sovereign Project attempted to push the envelope as far as possible when it came to computer power, shields, armament, and systems capabilities. With a length of 685 meters and a crew of 800 and maximum warp speed of 9.9 and an armament of 16 Type XII phaser arrays, 4 forward torpedo launchers, 6 aft torpedo launchers, firing both Photon torpedoes and Quantum torpedoes. This Sovereign-class was not as powerful as the RSN Vanguard class but was considered the most powerful of all the UESPA/Starfleet warships.

The Sovereign-class would soon eclipse the Galaxy class as the flagship class of the UESPA/Starfleet fleet.

The number of colony systems was now steady at 72 and would remain at this level for the next few years while UESPA was rebuilding its fleet.

Bajor

In 2369 saw the appointment of UESPA/Starfleet Commander Benjamin Sisko as permanent commander of the former Cardassian space station Deep Space Nine formally know as Terok Nor. The post was considered a backwater posting and that is one of the reason that the post went to a lowly Commander rank rather than to a higher rank such as Admiral.

The UESPA/Starfleet did give Commander Sisko three Starfleet runabouts that were delivered by the Enterprise D in 2369. These would be used to explore the Bajoran system and surrounding space. Deep Space Nine would also begin to receive weapon system upgrades and a general overall to repair the remaining damage that was done when the Cardassians withdrew.

Only days after the Starfleet took control of the station, a momentous discovery changed Deep Space Nine’s purpose forever. With encouragement from Kai Opaka, Sisko and his science officer, Lt. Jadzia Dax, searched for the mythical Celestial Temple of the Prophets, hoping to find a cause or idea to help unify the Bajoran people. While aboard the runabout USSS Rio Grande, Sisko and Dax found the only known stable wormhole in the galaxy, which crossed over 70,000 light years from Bajor in the Alpha Quadrant to the Idran System in the Gamma Quadrant.

This discovery would cause shockwaves thought the major powers of the Alpha quadrant, the RSC/RSN from their near by colony of New Quebec along the Cardassian boarder area dispatched Commodore Data’s RRG to investigate the wormhole. On finding that the wormhole or its occupants posed no threat the RSC/RSN command withdrew Commodore Data’s RRG back to protecting New Quebec that was considered more important.

The initial exploration of the Gamma Quadrant would be left to Starfleet to do with the three runabouts to do the scouting.

The Alliance would in due course send its own exploration vessels in to the Delta quadrant to explore, but they would not start sending and vessels until their fleet size has been restored to the pre Borg attack strength.

In 2371 saw the destruction of the Enterprise-D at Veridian III were an El-Aurian Dr. Tolian Soran is trying to alter the cause of the Nexus ribbon, in order to bring the ribbon to Soran so that he could enter the Nexus ribbon. But in order to do this Soran must destroy the Veridian sun and all the planets in the Veridian system. During the ensuing battle the Enterprise destroys the Klingon bird of prey before the bird of prey can launch the weapon at the Veridian sun. The Enterprise is severely damaged, and the warp core is about to breach. The saucer is separated before the warp core breach and crash-lands on Veridian III with only light casualties.

After the destruction of the Enterprise D at Veridian III Starfleet orders the one of the new Sovereign class starships to be named Enterprise E under the command of Captain Picard with The Klingon Worf is promoted to Second officer, chief operations officer and given the rank of commander.

Next – Part 18 – Change and Resistance

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Part 18 – Change and Resistance

Maquis

The Demilitarized Zone (sometimes referred to as the DMZ) was a buffer zone established between the UESPA and the Cardassian Union, by the terms of the UESPA-Cardassian Treaty of 2369. According to the treaty, neither side was permitted to deploy armed starships, or establish military bases in the Zone. In addition, the border between the two powers was redrawn, such as that ownership of several colonies was exchanged both ways — some Cardassian colonies were transferred to UESPA control, and vice-versa. The colonists on the affected planets were given the option of resettlement, though most refused. Dorvan V was one of the UESPA colonies that were turned over to the Cardassians.

However, many civilian colonists on both sides of the border objected to the transfer of control and secretly armed themselves, violating the peace terms that established the DMZ. The Cardassian Central Command began secretly shipping weapons to their colonists in the DMZ so as to oust the UESPA colonists, using neutral species such as the Xepolites as intermediaries. In response, the UESPA colonists banded together and called themselves the Maquis, dedicated to freeing themselves from Cardassian control. Although the Maquis gained no official support from the UESPA, many in the UESPA (including Starfleet) were sympathetic to their cause and covertly provided aid.

However, by late 2370, to help reduce illegal shipments, the UESPA had established a series of checkpoints and sensor buoys along their side of the border. Any ship that crossing anywhere other than a checkpoint would be investigated by Starfleet ships on patrol. For the next three years, the DMZ was a hotbed of small-scale warfare as the Cardassian and UESPA colonists conducted terrorist operations against each other.

The rest of the Alliance was not involved in the treaty between the Cardassians and UESPA as it was considered a matter between the two powers and seemed to be being solved. The only RSC colony near the Cardassian was the colony of New Quebec and was not involved in the new boarder between the Cardassians and UESPA so was not affected by this.

The newly formed Maquis had access to a large number of second had Starfleet ships and equipment. The main ship if the Maquis was the Maquis Raider is a courier or attack fighter type of vessel with a length of 80 meters (approximate) and an armament of 2+ phaser banks, 4 torpedo launchers, these ships did vary quite a bit but this layout was consider the “basic” armament of a Maquis raider.

The main UESPA/Starfleet officer who was assigned to coordinate the various UESPA/Starfleet units to with this problem would be Commander Benjamin Sisko onboard Deep Space Nine, this lead to Deep Space Nine becoming a target not only of the Cardassian resistance but also the UESPA settlers as well. With only three runabouts at his disposal his ability to control the UESPA settlers was limited to non existent.

The Maquis continued to gain strength, and continued to launch attacks against Cardassian and neutral shipping in the region. In one of their boldest offensives, a Maquis cell launched a massive attack against Gul Evek's flagship, the Vetar, crippling it before being driven off by the Enterprise-D that was on patrol along the DMZ.

By the end of 2370, a precarious stalemate had developed inside the Demilitarized Zone. As critical as the Maquis' offensives were, even more embarrassing were the continued stream of Starfleet officers who resigned their commissions in the UESPA to join the Maquis in their fight against the Cardassians. The Maquis managed to portray themselves as the innocent victims, with their homes under attack and carelessly given away by the UESPA authorities. In addition to Calvin Hudson, other Starfleet officers such as Ro Laren, Chakotay, and Thomas Riker also resigned or deserted their posts to fight "the good fight". The Maquis also served as a haven for those disgraced from Starfleet and the UESPA, such as Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres. Others were simply seeking an outlet for violent tendencies, like Lon Suder. Eventually, the Maquis included members of the Human, Vulcan, Bajoran, Betazoid, Bolian, and Klingon species.

The Dominion

At the end of 2370 Commander Benjamin Sisko takes a runabout in to the Gamma Quadrant to conduct a planetary survey with Jake, Quark and Nog.

On the planet Sisko and Quark are captured by the Jem'Hadar along with and alien prisoner. Quark, Sisko, and the alien are placed in a large cave, surrounded by a pinkish circle that appears to be emitting a force field. They are informed that they are prisoner of the Dominion for coming though the wormhole and trespassing on Dominion territory.

On the station, the USSS Odyssey is due to arrive in eight hours when something begins coming through the wormhole. Kira tells Dax to display it on the view screen and it is a Jem'Hadar attack ship. Dax hails the vessel and raises the station's shields, but a Jem'Hadar beams into Ops despite the shields. O'Brien activates a containment field around the intruder and Kira introduces herself before telling the Jem'Hadar it is "customary" to identify oneself before beaming into someone else's command center.

The Jem'Hadar introduces himself as Third Talak'talan of the Jem'Hadar and informs Kira that Commander Sisko has been detained indefinitely. Sisko, he says, will serve as an example to anyone who interferes with the Dominion by coming through the wormhole. Dax defiantly tells him that idle threats will not stop the UESPA from exploring the Gamma Quadrant, so he walks through the force field and gives Kira a Bajoran PADD with a list of vessels he says have been destroyed for violating Dominion territory. The PADD came from New Bajor, he tells her, adding that they fought well for a "spiritual" people. He beams back aboard his ship and O'Brien attempts unsuccessfully to lock on with a tractor beam as it re-enters the wormhole.

Back in the cave a telekinetic suppression collar is around Eris' neck, and without it she says she might be able to break through the force field. However, she believes that escape would be impossible even if she did break through, as no one escapes from the Jem'Hadar. Sisko points out the limited number of guards, indicating overconfidence on the Jem'Hadar's part. He attempts to take the device off, believing it is the only thing between them and freedom.

Meanwhile, the Odyssey has arrived at Deep Space 9 and Captain Keogh informs the crew that traffic through the wormhole has been suspended until the Odyssey can investigate what kind of threat the Jem'Hadar pose. Dax insists that the remaining runabouts go with him and he notes the lack of combat experience among most of the crew. When Bashir reminds him that they have fought the Maquis before, Keogh tells him he expects the Dominion to have "sharper teeth." Kira points out that in that case he needs all the help he can get and Keogh reluctantly agrees to let them come along. O'Brien reports that he has already begun to refit the runabouts with extra banks of photon torpedoes and that they will be ready within a few hours; Dax notes that it will take at least that long to offload nonessential personnel from the Odyssey. The Odyssey and the runabouts Mekong, and Orinoco travel to the Gamma Quadrant to find it surprisingly void of Jem'Hadar activity.

Meanwhile back in the cave picking at the collar around Eris' neck, Quark remarks that the device is very sophisticated and much slimmer than most telekinetic suppression collars he has seen. Eris complains that he is hurting her, but seconds later he manages to break through the lock and she removes the collar.

The Odyssey and the runabouts assume an attack formation as they detect three Jem'Hadar attack ships on long-range sensors. However, O'Brien informs Keogh that he will have to break formation as half of the runabout's systems are non functional. Keogh tells him to head for the wormhole but gives him ten minutes to try to locate Sisko. The Jem'Hadar ships come within firing range and Keogh orders them to use attack pattern delta, but when they engage the ships, the Jem'Hadar use a phased polaron beam to penetrate the Odyssey's shields.

Eris, Quark, and Sisko run through the woods looking for Jake and Nog. They are transported off the surface as they talk. Once in the runabout, Sisko greets Jake warmly, while Quark grabs Nog's ear and tells him he is never going on a field trip again.

As the Mekong's sensor array has been damaged, it is forced to initiate evasive manoeuvres, and the UESPA forces appear to be losing the dogfight. Fortunately, O'Brien contacts the Odyssey to inform them he has rescued Sisko and the others. Keogh tells the runabouts it is time to leave, but as the ships retreat, one of the Jem'Hadar ships heads straight for the Odyssey. Kira and Bashir try to intercept it with no success, but rather than fire at the larger vessel, the Jem'Hadar intentionally rams the Odyssey's secondary hull at the deflector dish, initiating a chain reaction that causes the ship to explode. There is a momentary silence, as no one can believe what they have just seen. O'Brien, still stunned, wonders aloud why anyone would ram a retreating vessel. Sisko realizes the unfortunate answer: The Jem'Hadar were sending the UESPA and the rest of the Alliance a message about the Gamma Quadrant. With the other Jem'Hadar vessels gone, the runabouts solemnly return to the Alpha Quadrant.

Back one Deep Space Nine Eris in Ops. She comments on how disorienting it is to think she is on the other side of the galaxy, but Sisko enters, armed and tells her she will have to get used to it. The rest of the crew backs away from Eris as Sisko approaches her, accompanied by Quark, still holding the collar. Quark explains that he believed there might be a market for the suppressor in the Alpha Quadrant until he realized the collar was nothing but a sophisticated locking device. Sisko notes that she could have used her telepathic abilities at any time and asks why she did not; as Eris points out, he already knows the answer.

The Jem'Hadar wanted Sisko and the others to escape in order to plant Eris as a spy. "Well done, Commander," she replies arrogantly as he hypothesizes. However, she is not a founder she is a Vorta a servant of the founders. As Odo moves to arrest Eris, she transports off the station, although to where it is uncertain. As she did not rematerialize on the station and there are no nearby starships, there is no way to track the Vorta. Only one thing is certain: the Dominion will be back.

The rest of the alliance must be informed of the danger of the Dominion…….

To be continued……..

Next – Part 19 – The Gathering Storm Clouds

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Part 19 – The Gathering Storm Clouds

Deep Space Nine

In early 2371 Commander Benjamin Sisko arrives back a Deep Space Nine after a meeting with UESPA/Starfleet command with the USSS Defiant to reinforce the defences of Deep Space Nine and help defend the station against suspected attack from the Dominion.

After a few days the Defiant leaves Deep Space Nine to try and find the founders and try to negotiate a peaceful relation with the founders. To the rest of the Alliances surprise the UESPA in negotiations with the Romulans have been given access to a single cloaking device as long as it is only fitted to the Defiant and several Romulans will onboard the Defiant to oversee its use and maintenance.

During this mission the crew of the Defiant finds out that the founders are Odo’s people the changelings who run the Dominion.

Unknown to the crew of the Defiant or the rest of the Alliance a Section 31 Shadow Class Stealth Ship is following the Defiant into the Gamma Quadrant and observes what happens to the Defiant during its mission, as usual with orders not to intervene.

When the Defiant returns to the Alpha Quadrant the Section 31 Shadow Class Stealth Ship stays in the Gamma Quadrant to conduct a six month survey of as much of Dominion space as they can and return to the Alpha Quadrant via an RSN ship that will be making a sweep of the Gamma Quadrant entrance of the wormhole. This will enable the Section 31 Shadow Class Stealth Ship to stay fully cloaked for the six months of its mission and allow the stealth ship to return to the Alpha Quadrant without being detected.

UESPA/Starfleet starts production of the Defiant Class now that most of the bugs have been worked out. Production of this class will eventually run a 50 per year once full production is underway in a few years time if everything goes to plan.

The Alliance on seeing the report from the Defiants mission rules that the Dominion is not that big a threat and that if they did come though the wormhole it would be a simple matter of moving the Alliance fleet to the entrance of the wormhole and destroy the Dominion ships as they come though.

Royal Space Command

RSC Section 31 Shadow Class Stealth Ship returns after its six month survey of Dominion space to reveal that the Dominion is vast and has the combined production capacity of all the Alliance members rolled into one. Also with the ability to breed new Jem'Hadar soldiers at a frightening rate as well as a unified shipbuilding capability.

With this information the RSC leadership began reinforcing their colonies near the wormhole with special attention being paid to New Quebec as this colony was the closest to the wormhole. This information is not shared with the other members of the Alliance or the Klingon Empire as it would reveal the existence of the Shadow Class Stealth Ships and possibly Section 31, the RSC leadership cannot allow this to happen.

The defence of the New Quebec system is under the command of Rear Admiral Data on board his flagship HMSS Vanguard. The defences of New Quebec over the next few years would be enhanced with additional orbital battle stations and additional warships as a mobile reserve; this would also lead to the orbital dry dock facilities being upgraded to cope with the additional warships.

The colony of New Quebec within three years would become almost self sufficient in most items only some hard to produce items would need to be shipped in. This would make New Quebec one of the most heavily defended colonies in RSC space, outside of New Gibraltar and Earth.

Maquis

In 2371 William Thomas "Tom" Riker, is a duplicate of William Riker created by a transporter accident when Riker served as second officer aboard the USS Potemkin. The duplicate goes by their middle name Thomas (Tom) to distinguish himself from "Will" steals the Defiant so that it can be use by the Maquis against the Cardassian settlers in the DMZ.

The first thing that Tom Riker does is rendezvous with several Maquis raiders to transfer supplies and personnel across. Also unknown to most of the Maquis Tom Riker also downloads a copy of the Defiants schematics so that his Maquis cell can build their own version of the Defiant.

The Maquis have several small concealed shipyards in the badlands area of the DMZ to upgrade Maquis Raiders; one of these small shipyards has been upgraded to produce a Maquis version of the UESPA Defiant class. It will be 12 months before the first of these ships comes of the production line.

Tom Riker then leads the perusing UESPA/Starfleet on a merry chase for several days, in the process destroying several Cardassian armed colonist vessels, before abandoning the Defiant near the badlands with an injured Major Kira and escaping into the badlands in a Maquis raider. UESPA/Starfleet ends the pursuit as they have retrieved the Defiant from the Maquis and put Tom Riker on UESPA/Starfleet most wanted list.

After this action the Maquis as a whole goes quiet except for the occasional raid against a Cardassian colony or Cardassian armed colonist vessels.

The Maquis acquire most of their resources from the badlands area of the DMZ. The Badlands are a region of space along the border between the UESPA and the Cardassian Union that are known for intense plasma storms and gravitational anomalies. For that reason, it is commonly avoided by most interstellar traffic. There are several uncharted systems in the badlands and a large number of asteroids for the Maquis to acquire the raw materials from and to setup small shipyards and bases.

Cardassian democracy

At the end of 2371 the Cardassian dissident movement to overthrow the Central Command's authority. The movement saw the restoration of the Detapa Council and civilian rule.

Having been suppressed for so long, the civilian population's ability to restore the Detapa Council was believed to be influenced by the Founders in the eyes of the Klingon Empire. Because of this, as well as Chancellor Gowron being influenced by an actual changeling, the Klingon Empire launched an unprovoked and abrupt invasion of the Cardassian Union, thus beginning the Klingon-Cardassian War.

The RSC supported the Klingon invasion but stopped short of committing troops to the invasion of Cardassian space, but the Klingon Empire was allowed to use the colony of New Quebec as a jumping off point for their invasion of Cardassian space.

The Alliance condemned the Klingons and the RSC support for the Klingons but stopped short of kicking the RSC out of the Alliance as the RSC said that it would join the Klingons in their invasion of Cardassian space with their own military forces. This forced the Alliance to back down and just keep sending strongly worded letters of protest to the Klingon Empire that were ignored by the Klingons.

The initial phase of the invasion goes well for the Klingons capturing several border colonies and outpost, but as the Klingon fleet goes deeper into Cardassian space they encounter more resistance and the offensive grids to stop.

It was later proved that the Cardassian government were not changelings but the Klingons decided not withdraw from Cardassian space, so for the next year or so several Cardassian colony worlds would be under Klingon occupation.

The war between the Klingon Empire and the Cardassian Union would develop in to a series of minor battles that always seem to end indecisively.

The only people to have any real gain were the Maquis in the form of support from the Klingon Empire. This allowed the Maquis to push the Cardassian colonist from the DMZ completely giving the Maquis complete control of the DMZ under the watchful eye of the Klingons. The Klingons would give the Maquis 50 old cloaking devices for their use these cloaks would be installed into the Maquis version of the UESPA/Starfleet Defiant class called the Warlock class.

With the support of forma UESPA/Starfleet engineers and technicians that had defected to the Maquis. The Maquis had a considerable boost to its ship repair capability and now with the plans of the Defiant Class it could start building their own version with the covert help and support of the Klingon Empire.

These Warlock class were almost exactly the same as the Defiant class except that they could only fire photon torpedoes because the Maquis did not have access to any of the new UESPA/Starfleet Quantum torpedoes or the ability to build Quantum torpedoes.

Within 24 months of the first of the Maquis Warlock class warships coming of the production line, the Maquis would have a total of 50 of these Warlock class ships along with over 100 Maquis raiders, the Maquis raiders are assigned to planetary defence and convoy escort. The main reasons for stopping at 50 was the Kingons were unwilling to give the Maquis any more cloaking devices or the resources to help Maquis build any more Warlock class ships. Also the Maquis did not have that level of manpower to equip a larger fleet of even the relatively small crew complements of the Warlock class.

The Maquis main tactic would come from the Klingons; this would be approach the target under cloak, drop cloak attack, and raise cloak and escape. These tactics work very well for the Maquis also using this tactic ensured that the Maquis did not loose and of the new Warlock class ships in combat.

The first ship of the new Warlock class would be commanded by Tom Riker as a reward for bring the plans of the Warlock (Defiant) class to the Maquis in the first place. Tom Rikers ship the Warlock would lead the attack to drive the Cardassian out of the DMZ along with some Klingon help.

Even with this small fleet of ships the Maquis could still not go head to head with the Cardassian military and would continue its hit and run tactics to keep the Cardassian military of balance and with the Cardassian military having to deal with the Klingon invasion this helped the Maquis. The Maquis raids also helped the Klingons by keeping sufficient Cardassian military forces near the DMZ so that the Cardassian military could not concentrate all of its military power against the Klingons.

The Cardassian central commands response to this attack by the Klingon empire and the Maquis gaining control of the DMZ would be very unusual……..

To be continued………

Next – Part 20 – Strange Bedfellows

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Part 20 – Strange Bedfellows

Cardassian Union joins the Dominion

Unknown to the Alliance or almost anyone else in the Alliance except RSC Intelligence sub division Section 31. The head of the Cardassian central command Legate Dukat was in secret negations with the Dominion about joining the Dominion. These talks were held without the knowledge of the ruling Detapa Council and all of the Detapa Council and the members of the Cardassian dissident movement were either killed or imprisoned by Legate Dukats new government.

Several weeks later, however, the Dominion gained a physical foothold in the Alpha Quadrant through an alliance with Legate Dukat and the Cardassian Union, arranged in mid-2373. The Dominion immediately began sending fleets of warships and supply vessels through the Bajoran wormhole and into Cardassian territory on a weekly basis. The Klingons could not stand against such a foe, and withdrew from Cardassian space. Every week for the next few months more and more convoys of Dominion warships and transports would pass though the wormhole and set a course for Cardassia.

The Maquis worlds were also attacked in the DMZ by the combined Dominion/Cardassian fleet and were driven back into the badlands and to the secret military bases. The Dominion/Cardassian fleet could not peruse in great numbers as the badlands intense plasma storms and gravitational anomalies did not allow large fleets to enter the badlands.

The Maquis took a terrible loss in ships and personal, in ships the lost 90% of the Maquis raiders and 20% of the Warlock class. The reason why so many Warlock class survived is that they used their cloaking devices to hide from the Dominion/Cardassian fleet. When the Maquis entered the badlands they were able to use the Warlock classes’ relatively small size and high manageability to evade the Dominion/Cardassian fleet.

Most of the Maquis colonist were saved and were moved deep into the badlands onto worlds within the badlands. These colonies were not heavily defended but were well concealed from even the most determined sensor scan. This is where the Maquis paid a heavy price in ships covering the withdrawal of the civilian colonist from those Maquis worlds in the DMZ to the badlands.

The Dominion/Cardassian could not send a large fleet of ships into the badlands as the intense plasma storms and gravitational anomalies world destroy a large fleet of ships. The only ships that could be sent in to the hart of the badlands were Jem'Hadar attack ships. These are small attack fighters that form the bulk of the Dominion fleet. These attack ships are only 92 meters in length and carry an armament of fore and aft phased polaron beam emitters and torpedo launchers. These ships are no match for the Maquis Warlock Class and the Dominion cannot send in larger ships as that would be torn apart by the plasma storms and gravitational anomalies.

Inside the badlands the Maquis would repair the damage to their remaining ships and conduct hit and run raids against the Dominion/Cardassian fleet from the relative safety of the hart of the badlands. The Maquis would also attack any Dominion/Cardassian ships entering the badlands and either destroying the hostile ships or forcing these ships to withdraw from the badlands. This would leave the badlands in de facto control of the badlands, but they would restrict themselves to the hart of the badlands except when conducting patrols or raids.

By the end of 2373 the combined Dominion/Cardassian fleet had retaken all of the territory lost to the Klingon Empire and had almost complete control of the DMZ, except for the badlands area of space.

Their was only one bit of territory outstanding that Legate Dukat wanted back, this was Deep Space Nine (Terok Nor) but attacking Deep Space Nine would mean going up against the Alliance and not just UESPA. The combined Dominion/Cardassian fleet was not yet powerful enough to attack the Alliance.

The excuse for attacking Deep Space Nine (Terok Nor) was given to Legate Dukat by the Alliance in 2374.

USSS Voyager/HMSS Echo

In 2371 the Intrepid Class USSS Voyager along with the Scott Class HMSS Echo while on the hunt for Maquis was lost in the badlands also the Maquis vessel was lost. These ships were listed as missing presumed dead, but they were pulled 70,000 light years from the Alpha quadrant to the Delta quadrant by a mysterious alien force, the Caretaker.

What would happen to them on their voyage back home and how they would get home would change the balance of power in the Alpha quadrant for the next several hundred years.

Dominion/Cardassian Union

In the middle of 2373 the Alliance Security Council was in the middle of a heated debate about the Cardassian Union joining the Dominion and how to stop the Dominion during reinforcements into the Alpha quadrant without provoking a war.

The decision that was made was to mine the entrance to the wormhole and try to use the minefield as a negation leaver in the hope that war could be avoided.

The Bajorian Government was in the process of negating a non aggression pack with the Dominion in witch the Dominion will guarantee the independence of Bajor and Bajorian space and no Cardassian or any other power will occupy Bajor ever again. For the right of the Dominion to have unrestricted access to the wormhole and the use of Deep Space Nine (Terok Nor) as a trade outpost.

The Alliance on hearing of this decided to go with mining the entrance to the wormhole to prevent and more Dominion reinforcements coming though.

The self-replicating mine is a defensive explosive device invented by Miles O'Brien, Rom, and Jadzia Dax in early 2374. The mines were deployed in a field around the entrance of the Bajoran wormhole, to prevent any further Dominion reinforcements from coming through. Each mine was cloaked and extremely small, no more than a meter across, which prevented advanced Dominion sensors from detecting them. More importantly, the mines were equipped with a replicator unit, such as that every mine that was detonated or deactivated would be immediately replaced by its neighbour, using debris from whatever was destroyed as replication mass. The mines were programmed to swarm-detonate, to compensate for their small size.

Due to the possibility of the mines' proximity sensors causing premature detonation, the entire minefield had to be put in place before the mines could be activated. The Dominion sent a fleet to prevent this from happening, but the Dominion arrived too late and the minefield was activated.

The first battles of the Dominion war would be fort over the possession of Deep Space Nine and the RSC colony of New Quebec.

To be continued…….

Next – Part 21 – First Engagements

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Part 21 – First Engagements

With the commencement of the mining of the entrance to the wormhole the combined Dominion/Cardassian fleet would attack the nearest Alliance worlds including the strong points of Deep Space Nine and New Quebec along with several UESPA colonies along the DMZ.

Section 31 new of these attack and warned the RSC Intelligence committee that would forward the intelligence to the RSC and the RSN. As the Alliance had suspected that the Dominion/Cardassian fleet would attack news of this was not greeted with any surprise by Alliance members.

The RSC gave the intelligence as a list of suspected targets that the Dominion/Cardassian fleet may attack as in the form of an intelligence assessment rather than a form of solid intelligence thus keeping Section 31 secret from the other members of the Alliance. This was done under the orders of the RSC member government leaders.

The Alliance was able to begin mobilisation of their various fleets to wards the Cardassian border, but all of this would take time and the combined Dominion/Cardassian fleet was already on the move.

New Quebec

The colony of New Quebec is one of the best defended in this sector of space the combined Dominion/Cardassian fleet assault would be very costly.

The defence of New Quebec is under the command of Rear Admiral Data. The forces in the New Quebec are formidable, they include Rear Admiral Data’s flagship the Vanguard Class Super Battleship HMSS Vanguard along with 4 Invincible III Class, 25 Dreadnought IV Class Battle Cruiser, 220 Leander XII Class Frigates and 75 Longbow I Class. Along with 200 Klingon warships that had been forced out of Cardassian space and were repaired at the New Quebec shipyards. The rest of the Klingon fleet that could not be repaired at New Quebec had returned to Klingon space for repairs and to gather reinforcements.

Along with 32 orbital battle stations around the colony planet of New Quebec and on the surface of the planet are the surface to space defence batteries of phaser cannon and spearfish photon torpedo launches. Also on the planet are anti transporters jammers so that enemy troops cannot just beam on to the surface from orbit, thus forcing the ships to land on the planet this make the landing extremely venerable to the surface based defence batteries (assuming they get that far!).

The RSN and Klingon fleet defending of New Quebec faced a join Dominion/Cardassian fleet of over 1,000 vessels with nearly 500 of them being the Jem'Hadar attack ships, the remaining 500 being a mix of Cardassian and Dominion cruisers and destroyers.

The first wave of Dominion ships to attack the fleet defending was 200 Jem'Hadar attack ships to try and break up the RSC/Klingon combined fleet. The Jem'Hadar attack ships drove at the RSC/Klingon ships trying to break up the forces up this tactic did not work as wave after wave of Jem'Hadar attack ships were destroyed by the RSC/Klingon fleet maintaining battle formation and interlocking defensive and offensive fields of fire.

The flagship Rear Admiral Data’s ship the Vanguard Class Super Battleship HMSS Vanguard was singled out for destruction but the Vanguard alone accounted for 25 of the Jem'Hadar attack ships destroyed without HMSS Vanguard being damaged. The Vanguards new point defence system (PDS). This system was made up of 40 low powered phasers distributed along the ships hull. This PDS was used very effectively by the Vanguards crew to destroy incoming photon torpedoes, thus forcing the Jem'Hadar attack ships to use the phased polaron beams to try and destroy HMSS Vanguard. This was met by a hail of fire from HMSS Vanguards 36 dual phaser banks, 10 spearfish heavyweight photon torpedoes (6 forward and 4 aft) to destroy the Jem'Hadar attack ships.

During this first attack 25 of the 200 Jem'Hadar attack ships managed to punch though the RSN/Klingon ships and make a run for the planet, but were destroyed by the battle stations around the planet, this one sided fire fight lasted less than 30 seconds from the first shot to the last.

The next wave was a mixture of Jem'Hadar attack ships and Jem'Hadar battle cruiser along with Cardassian cruisers. The Rear Admiral Data moved his flagship HMSS Vanguard along with the 4 Invincible III Class Battleships and the 25 Dreadnought IV Class Battle Cruiser to the front so that their heavy phaser cannons would have a clear field of fire to engage the Dominion/Cardassian fleet. As the Dominion/Cardassian fleet approached firing range the 30 warships opened fire with spectacular results destroying 30 enemy capital ships with the first salvo. The 30 RSC warships managed to destroy 150 Dominion and Cardassian cruisers and destroyers before they got within normal weapons range.

When the Dominion and Cardassian fleet got in to normal weapons range the RSN warships switched to more conventional weapons. The RSC/Klingon fleet ships engaged with the Klingon Birds of Prey and the RSN Leander Frigates and Longbow I Class engaging the remaining 300 Jem'Hadar attack ships. While the 100 Klingon Vor'cha-class attack cruisers and RSC Vanguard along with the Invincible III Class and Dreadnought IV Class warships engaged the remaining 325 Dominion/Cardassian capital ships engaged in point blank ranged combat.

Again a large number of Dominion/Cardassian capital ships managed to break though the RSN/Klingon warship line and head towards the planet. But the attacking ships were met by the fire from the orbital battle stations, the Dominion/Cardassian capital ships already weakened by the fight to punch though the RSN/Klingon fleet were no match for the undamaged battle stations and were dispatched by a hail of weapons fire from the orbital battle stations.

The battle would last for several hours before what was left of the Dominion/Cardassian fleet withdrew from the battle of New Quebec. The RSN/Klingon fleet had been victorious but at a high price.

The Klingons had lost 75 of the 100 Birds of Prey and 50 of the 100 Vor'cha-class attack cruisers with the remaining warships having suffered various levels of battle damage.

The RSN had lost 50 of the 75 Longbow I class, 111 of the 220 Leander XII Class Frigates and 10 of the Dreadnought IV Class Battle Cruisers the remaining warships having suffered various levels of battle damage.

Priority was given to those ships with the smallest amount of battle damage to be repaired first and would work upwards to the most badly damaged being last.

For now New Quebec had survived the first battle of the war under the command of Rear Admiral Data. With the shipyards intact all of the damaged warships could be repaired and using the parts and materials salvaged from the New Quebec system some new ships could be built in the long term, but most of the replacements would come from other RSC shipyards.

The debris from the destroyed Dominion/Cardassian would be analysed by RSC intelligence for any useful information about Dominion/Cardassian ship construction and weapon systems etc.

The Dominion/Cardassian fleet had suffered 700 ships lost with the remaining 300 ships suffering various forms of battle damage. This loss included all 500 Jem'Hadar attack ships attack ships were lost. This was a terrible price to pay for no gain and it would go down as the first defeat in battle for the Dominion in this war.

Deep Space Nine

The attack on Deep Space Nine was not as heavy as the attack on New Quebec. The Dominion assault force comprised nearly 300 Jem'Hadar and Cardassian warships. Captain Sisko confidently rejected Dukat's offer to surrender, and both sides prepared for the onslaught.

With the only mobile ships available for Deep Space Nines defence being the three runabouts and the USSS Defiant, under the command of the newly promoted Captain Sisko. The Alliance command could not spare any ships as they were needed else ware and Captain Sisko would have to make do with what he had.

The initial attack were beaten off by the upgraded stations defences and all of the non essential personnel evacuated from the station before the attack and the station only had a skeleton crew on board with orders to do as much damage to the Dominion/Cardassian fleet as possible and them withdraw to an Alliance fleet rendezvous point in deep space. The three runabouts were transferred to a near by UESPA colony world.

Once the Defiant and the three runabouts had safely departed the station, Major Kira Nerys, now the Bajorans' representative to the Dominion activated Program Sisko 197. The program completely sabotaged the station's computer and power systems, leaving the station a nearly lifeless hulk. The Dominion and Cardassian troops boarded the station without resistance, officially reclaiming Terok Nor, the station they had abandoned in orbit of Bajor five years before.

Dukat and the Dominion may have captured Deep Space 9 from the UESPA, but the price they paid of more than 75 Dominion warships destroyed and 50 damaged warships ultimately won them nothing more but a pyrrhic victory. The minefield operated independently from the station and proved resistant to all initial attempts to dismantle it. Likewise, the sabotage of the station itself meant that in the short term it would serve little function other than as a command and supply outpost behind the front lines.

In addition, while the Dominion had thrown its full force towards capturing the station, a combined Alliance battle fleet crossed the border into Cardassian territory and destroyed the Cardassian shipyards at Torros III, nearly unopposed. This victory would have much greater impact in the short- and mid-term course of the war, as the Dominion's shipbuilding capabilities were seriously affected by the loss of this major facility.

The war with the Dominion had only just begun….

To be continued…..

Next – Part 22 – War

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Part 22 – War

By the end of 2374 the Dominion had managed to push the Alliance back to Betazed and the Argolis Cluster acquiring a foothold in Alliance space. The only exception being the RSC colony of New Quebec, that was holding out against repeated probing attacks by Dominion/Cardassian warships. The losses to the Alliance members had been heavy, but also the Dominion and Cardassians had taken losses in their offensive.

The other RSC colonies had yet to come into range for the Dominion/Cardassian fleet to attack yet. This colony would become a thorn in the side of the Dominion throughout the war.

The UESPA was the biggest looser of colony worlds up to the end of 2374 with only a few of the other Alliance members having colonies in this area of space near the Cardassian boarder. The most vulnerable Alliance member was Betazed, the Betazed system was now right on the front line and was defended by the Alliance eighth fleet.

The RSC/RSN operated their own fleets separately from the Alliance but did coordinate the defence with the Alliance defence council. The RSN was manly concentrating on keeping the colony of New Quebec supplied, by using very heavily guarded convoys.

By early 2375 the war had ground to a halt as the Cardassians and the Dominion had to wait for reinforcements to be produced, after the destruction of the Cardassian shipyards at Torros III Cardassian ship production was severely dented. The Cardassian shipyards were bailey able to produce replacement warships let alone expand their fleet size.

The Alliance ship building capability varied from member to member. The RSC was acknowledged as the best followed by Vulcans and Andorians and then the UESPA followed by the rest of the Alliance. It was estimated that the rest of the Alliance would not be a full war production capacity until the end of 2375.

The Klingon Empire had a production capacity equal to the RSC but due to the distances involved between the Klingon Empire and the front line it could take months for reinforcements to arrive. The Klingons were at the limits of their supply capability and could only commit 30% of their fleet as they could not supply a larger force over such a long distance. The Alliance could only give limited support to the Klingons and they were trying to supply their own military forces.

In March 2375 a Dominion/Cardassian fleet made a daring attack against Betazed and after a pitched battle lasting several weeks the Betazed system fell to the Dominion. This was the first Alliance member home world to fall to the Dominion and sent shockwaves though the most Alliance members. This attack would lead to the Alliance adoption of a much stronger defensive posture by most Alliance members, as with most matters the RSC/RSN disagreed with the other Alliance members and continued to mount attacks against the Dominion/Cardassian warships and bases wherever possible.

The Klingon fleet would also mount hit and run raids into Cardassian space with varying levels of success. These raids also provided and opportunity to run some supplies to their Maquis allies in the badlands who were raiding whenever possible the supply lines of the Dominion/Cardassian fleet.

It would take the Dominion and the Cardassians several months to secure Betazed and subdue the population, another attack could not be mounted until new ships had been produced and damaged ships had been repaired. The estimate was that the Dominion and the Cardassians could not mount another major offensive until the fourth quarter of 2374 unless they received more reinforcements.

New Quebec

In the New Quebec system by March 2374 a newly promoted Vice Admiral Data was secure in the knowledge that the defences of New Quebec could hold out against the heaviest attack. The RSN fleet in the New Quebec system consisted of Vice Admiral Data’s flagship the Vanguard Class Super Battleship HMSS Vanguard along with 5 Invincible III Class, 30 Dreadnought IV Class Battle Cruiser, 250 Leander XII Class Frigates and 110 Longbow I Class warships along with 250 Klingon warships to defend the system. Also this large fleet would be used to conduct raids against various Cardassian and Dominion installations.

Vice Admiral Data’s fleet was not being reinforced just to defend the New Quebec system but also to launch a new offensive in due cause.

To take New Quebec the Dominion was going to need reinforcements and also to continue the attack against the rest of the Alliance and the Klingon Empire. At the moment the Dominion were just trying to contain the forces in the New Quebec system, this was not working very well as the forces assigned to do this were insufficient for this task.

Dominion Alliances

By the end of 2374 the Dominion had non aggression pacts with several Alpha quadrant powers including the Breen, Romulan Empire, Tzenkethi, Talarlins, Tholians and the Gorn. These pacts would ensure the no other major Alpha quadrant power would get involved in the conflict. The non aggression pact with the Romulan Empire came as a surprise to the UESPA as they were getting along very well, especially with the loan of a Romulan cloaking device for the USSS Defiant.

The Ferengi would not sign a non aggression pact with the Dominion or with any other power in the Alpha quadrant they just wished to be left alone to make money. They would trade with anyone who had the money to buy the goods from them. The Dominion took the view that this was just as good as a non aggression pact.

Terok Nor (Deep Space Nine)

Since the capture of Terok Nor in late 2373 the Cardassians had been trying to deactivate the minefield at the entrance of the wormhole without much success. This was monitor be a RSC Section 31 Shadow Class Stealth Ship in to full phased cloak mode; this ship would briefly leave the Bajorian system to send reports back to RSC Intelligence command so as not to give away that any cloaked ship in the Bajorian system.

By March 2374 the Section 31 Shadow Class Stealth Ship was able to see that the Cardassians were starting to have some success in bring down the minefield at the entrance to the wormhole and it would be only a matter of weeks before the minefield was completely dismantled. This information was relayed to RSC Intelligence who relayed the information to the Alliance stating that the information had been gained from signals intercepted from the RSC colony on New Quebec thus keeping Section 31 secret.

RSC/RSN command informed Vice Admiral Data that the intelligence information was being credited to his command to keep spies in the field safe, though this was a lie it did have the desired affect of keeping Section 31 secret and allowing the information gained by Section 31 to be used and passed onto Alliance members with out RSC intelligence having to answer any difficult questions.

The Alliance decided to retake Deep Space Nine before the Cardassians could take down the minefield. The RSN would lead that attack with a contingent from the UESPA/Starfleet being the second largest part of the attack fleet.

The attack would take place on the 31 March 2374 and would involve two phases. Phase one would be the breakout of part of Vice Admiral Data’s fleet to draw off part of the fleet defending Deep Space Nine and Cardassian and Dominion forces in the area. Phase two would involve the combined fleet launching an attack to retake Deep Space Nine and not to destroy the station. The combined fleet would carry a brigade of Royal Space Marine Commandoes to capture Deep Space Nine.

To be continued…..

Next – Part 23 – The second battle of Deep Space Nine

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Part 23 – The Second Battle of Deep Space Nine

On the 31 March 2374 several fleets of the Alliance gathered at a rendezvous point in deep space in preparation to retake Deep Space Nine from the Cardassian and Dominion forces. The Cardassian and Dominion military had picked up this large for gathering and placed its own reserves to create a blockade in space, thus forcing the combined Alliance fleet to fight its way though to Deep Space Nine.

The Cardassian and Dominion was not strong enough to destroy the combined Alliance fleet but was of sufficient strength to delay the combined Alliance fleet long enough to bring down the minefield, thus allowing the Dominion reinforcements to come though the wormhole.

The Alliance fleet strength was about 5,000 warships of all types, with 2,000 of these ships from the RSC/RSN and 1,000 from UESPA/Starfleet and 500 from the Klingon Empire and the rest from various Alliance members. This was the most formidable fleet assembled by the Alliance.

The Cardassian and Dominion fleet comprised of just over 3,000 warships of all types, also their was 150 Cardassian and Dominion warships guarding Deep Space Nine against any form of cloaked attack to try and recapture the station be stealth. It was known by the Cardassian and Dominion commanders that the Alliance fleet would break though. The Cardassian and Dominion was not out to destroy the Alliance fleet but were under orders to delay the Alliance fleet until the minefield was destroyed.

The day would bring several surprises for both sides in this battle.

Early in the morning of the 31 March 2374 the Alliance fleet began its move towards Deep Space Nine, the defending Cardassian and Dominion fleet moved to intercept.

The battle began with a large number of skirmishes on both sides this would go on for about an hour before the main battle began. The main battle was devastating the amount of firepower on both sides that was unleashed was tremendous, smaller ships such as Frigates, d Klingon Bird of Prey along with Jem'Hadar attack ships where the first ships to be destroyed as they had the weaker shields. The larger ships like the RSN Vanguard Class Super Battleships, Invincible III Class Battleships and Dreadnought IV Class Battle Cruisers, UESPA/Starfleets Sovereign Class Heavy Cruisers.

As the battle raged on during the morning Vice Admiral Data moved his entire fleet from New Quebec and moved under cloak to attack the Cardassian and Dominion fleet from the rear. New Quebec would now only be defended by the orbital battle stations and the planet based surface based weapons batteries. But as most of the Cardassian and Dominion warships were engaged Vice Admiral Data had correctly calculated that the Cardassians and Dominion did not have enough warships spare to attack New Quebec. This did deviate from the plan of using Vice Admiral Data’s fleet to draw of some of the Cardassian and Dominion fleet from the battle, but as this was not working Vice Admiral Data had modified the plan.

The attack by Vice Admiral Data’s fleet on the rear of the Cardassian and Dominion fleet came as a complete surprise to the Cardassians and Dominion as they had expected the attack to come against Deep Space Nine and not against their fleet as they thought that the capture was of more importance.

By mid afternoon the Cardassian and Dominion fleet was in full retreat back to Cardassian space. The remaining Alliance combined fleet warships that were combat capable were now down to 3,375 including Vice Admiral Data fleet from New Quebec and reorganising themselves to set course for Deep Space Nine.

On board Deep Space Nine a small team of saboteurs lead by Major Kira Nerys was trying to disable the advanced antigraviton emitter was in the process of deactivating each mine individually, when this process was completed the minefield could be destroyed.

The last mine's self-replication unit was deactivated and Deep Space Nines weapons immediately opened fire on the minefield, eliminating the only impediment to ultimate Dominion victory just seconds before the Defiant arrived.

But time has run out for the Alliance. As Damar had neutralised the last mine, and the field is ready for detonation. Rom strains to make the last adjustment, as Dukat gives the order to fire. With a brilliant flash, the array of mines is wiped out.

The various resistance elements had not been idle inside the station. Although they had been unable to act in time to prevent the destruction of the minefield, Kira and Rom managed to sabotage the station's power grid, disabling the entire weapons array and leaving the station completely defenceless against the incoming Alliance fleet.

Under cloak and waiting for the opportunity to strike were a dozen Maquis Warlock Class warships de cloaked and began a series of hit and run attacks against the now defenceless station. Dukat and the Vorta Weyoun ordered the evacuation to the station to the warships defending Deep Space Nine. The Dominion and the Cardassians had not considered the Maquis capable of launching such an operation but the RSC and the Klingon Empire had and in secret negotiation with the Maquis had asked for their help.

Once on board the Cardassian and Dominion warships Dukat ordered the warships to destroy the Maquis Warlock Class warships attacking them. But just as Dukat gave the order the first wave of Alliance warships appeared out of warp in front of the station. Dukat was forced to order a withdrawal from the Bajoran system as the 150 warships were no match for the 3,000 odd Alliance warships.

Half an hour after the arrival of the Alliance fleet the wormhole opened and a fleet of 2,500 Dominion warships started to come though. As they did the Alliance fleet opened fire a maximum range, trying to pick off as many as possible before all the Dominion warships had come thought the wormhole. The Alliance fleet managed to destroy 223 Dominion warships before the entire Dominion fleet had come though.

The Dominion fleet then set a course for Cardassian space and did not engage the Alliance fleet. With the losses suffered at the Second Battle of Deep Space Nine the Cardassians and Dominion thought that it would be better to regroup and repair the damaged warships. The replacement Dominion warships headed for the front line to reinforce the defences along the captured Alliance territory.

Vice Admiral Data fleet detached itself for the Alliance fleet and returned to New Quebec as soon as Deep Space Nine was secure to take up its defensive mission as before around the New Quebec system.

Losses

In the aftermath of the Second Battle of Deep Space Nine both side would pause to asses and repair their damaged warships.

The combined Alliance fleet had taken heavy losses.

The RSC/RSN losses had been out of 2,000 warships sent 500 had been destroyed or disabled and the rest had suffered some form of battle damage. The disabled ships would be taken back to RSC/RSN shipyards for repair.

The UESPA/Starfleet losses had been out of 1,000 warships sent 475 had been destroyed or disabled and the rest had suffered some form of battle damage. UESPA/Starfleet was not designed for combat as their sole role. The only UESPA/Starfleet ship in the battle that stood out was the new UESPA/Starfleet Sovereign Class Heavy Cruiser; these ships were in the thick of battle and survived with the least battle damage of any UESPA/Starfleet warship.

The Klingons had suffered very few losses in their capital ships, most of the Klingons losses were in the Bird of Prey class.

The Alliance fleet had in total suffered losses of just over 2,000 ships lost.

The only group to suffer no casualties were the Maquis Warlock Class warships as they had entered the battle at the end. The RSC and the Klingon Empire would not forget the role the Maquis had played in the Second Battle of Deep Space Nine. After a few days near Deen Space Nine the 12 Maquis Warlock Class warships would return to their bases in the badlands under cloak.

The Maquis would received addition resources to increase the number of Warlock Class ships that they can construct, by the end of 2375 the Maquis would be able to increase the number of these ships from 30 to 60. All of these additional warships would contain Klingon supplied cloaking devices.

The Cardassians and Dominion losses were out of the 3,000 ships that engaged the Alliance fleet in battle only 1,500 returned to Cardassian space and all of these ships had some form of battle damage. It would be at least 6 months before all 1,500 warships would return to the front line. If the Cardassians and Dominion had not received the Dominion reinforcements then the out look would be bleak for the Cardassians and Dominion in the Alpha quadrant.

The Cardassian shipyards would take a year to replace the ship losses from the Second Battle of Deep Space Nine. The Dominion would send word to their out posts in the Gamma quadrant to call for additional reinforcements to be brought to the Alpha quadrant.

To achieve this they would use 21 Jem'Hadar attack ships on a suicide mission. One of the Jem'Hadar attack ships would be the messenger and the remaining 20 would provide a diversion thus allowing the one Jem'Hadar attack ship carrying the message to get though to one of the Gamma quadrant Dominion outposts and call for reinforcements. This plan worked and a single Jem'Hadar attack ship got though to the Gamma quadrant.

The Alliance would have to respond to this. As the Alliance knew that it would only be a matter of time before Dominion reinforcements would be on their way. The answer came from the RSC/RSN command.

To be continued……..

Next – Part 24 – Counterattack

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Part 24 – Counterattack

The gathering


In mid 2374 the Alliance was for reinforcing the entrance to the wormhole so no more Dominion reinforcements could come though. The RSC/RSN was for launching an attack into Dominion space and destroying the Dominions forward staging area in the Gamma quadrant.

This base had been identified by Section 31 in its six month survey the Dominion in 2371. Much of the information is still valid as the Dominion would not move a major forward supply base.

The RSC argued that the Alliance should attack the Dominion forward base and destroy it before the Dominion reinforcements could assemble. The RSC said that the RSN would attack alone if necessary but the RSC/RSN would attack, the Klingons immediately said that they would support the attack the Vulcan’s and the Andorinas would also support the attack. The UESPA/Starfleet said that they would support the attack but would only supply a small group of warships for the attack.

The attack group would be commanded by the newly promoted Admiral Data and would consist of Admiral Data’s flagship the Vanguard Class Super Battleship HMSS Vanguard along with 4 other Vanguard Class Super Battleships, 15 Invincible III Class Battleships, 40 Dreadnought IV Class Battle Cruiser and their would be no frigate class vessels or smaller going on this attack mission as it was felt that they would not be needed. The Klingons would supply 4 of their new Negh'Var Class Battleship and 60 of the Vor'cha Class Attack Cruisers. UESPA/Starfleet would provide only 11 of their new Sovereign Class Heavy Cruisers. The Vulcan’s and the Andorinas would provide 50 Combat Cruisers each. This would give Admiral Data a total of 235 warships for the attack on the Dominion forward base in the Gamma quadrant.

The command of the 11 Sovereign Class Heavy Cruisers will be given to the newly promoted Fleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard aboard the USSS Enterprise E.

Also going along would be a Section 31 Shadow Class Stealth Ship would go thought the wormhole at the same time as the attack group. This Section 31 would not be known to anyone in the attack group, but would lend its support during the battle just as one of its class did during the Borg attack on Earth. By being moved from phased cloak to normal cloak and firing phased Spearfish photon torpedoes at the enemy warships, these torpedoes will be timed so that they will explode at the same time as the attacking ships fire their torpedoes, so that it will appear that the attacking ships destroyed the Dominion vessels.

The attack

The attack group moved though the wormhole, one in the Gamma quadrant about half the warships that had cloaking devices used them to cloak. Their true numbers would be concealed by the rest of the attack group.

It took several days at high warp to reach the outer edge of the system that contained the Dominion forward base.

The attack group attacked the Dominion forward base and the ships with complete surprise. The first wave of the attack group were the warships that had not been cloaked followed by the second wave using the tactic of approach de cloak and attack with devastating results. As the battle wore on the Dominion forces managed to regroup and launch a loose form of counter attack.

The counter attack was centred on the 37 remaining Dominion Jem'Hadar battle cruisers. This was the opportunity that the Section 31 Shadow Class Stealth Ship commander had been waiting for, using the stealth ships ability to switch between phased and normal cloak to fire phased Spearfish photon torpedoes at the enemy warships when the attack fleet fired. Thus it looked like the attack fleet was destroying the Jem'Hadar battle cruisers rather than the cloaked Section 31 ship.

After about 3 hours the Dominion warship in the forward base had been destroyed. The base itself was also destroyed by orbital bombardment of the plant and the destruction of the orbital dock facilities.

The Dominion in this battle had lost 300 warships and their only forward base within a few days travel of the wormhole.

The attack fleet only lost 33 warships destroyed and was able to rescue the crews of those ships who had managed to get to the life pods. None of the RSC/RSN or UESPA/Starfleet ships are lost in this battle.

After the battle the attack fleet made a high speed and uneventful run for the wormhole and returned back to the Alpha quadrant. Once the attack fleet returned to the Alpha quadrant the various ships returned to their previous duties.

Admiral Data would return to commanding the wormhole sector onboard his flagship HMSS Vanguard.

The loss of the Dominion forward supply base in the Gamma quadrant was a major blow to the Dominion/Cardassian alliance and by the end of 2374 the war was gridlocked with neither side able to get advantage over the other.

Changes in command

In the aftermath of the successful attack on the Dominion forward base. Admiral Data was given command of the wormhole sector and the Alliance fleet in that wormhole sector. This would also include the RSC colony of New Qubeic and surrounding space. Also would be responsible for ferrying supplies to the Maquis in the badlands along with the Klingons.

The RSC/RSN would now be leading the war against the Dominion and the Cardassians as the RSC/RSN had shown success in dealing with both the Dominion/Cardassian alliance forces.

Maquis

In 2371 the Maquis had captured a Cardassian weapon called “Dreadnought”. This was called by the Cardassians an ATR-4107. The ATR-4107 was an automated Cardassian weapon capable of unleashing massive destruction. Although officially referred to as a missile, it can also be considered a completely autonomous warship in its own right. It was a warp-capable vessel carrying 1,000 kilograms of matter and 1,000 kilograms of antimatter — enough to destroy a small moon. The missile also carried a large cache of conventional weaponry, including disruptors, prototype quantum torpedoes, a thoron shock emitter and a plasma spread. On board was a sophisticated computer system that could predict and counter hostile actions.

The Cardassians launch 10 of them against the Maquis and their bases in the DMZ and the badlands in 2371 only one weapon made it though to its target. However, the missile failed to detonate upon reaching its target the Cardassians had used an old-fashioned kinetic detonator in the design, which malfunctioned; the missile simply drifted into orbit around the planetoid instead of destroying it.

The Maquis having spent the next three years trying to repair the weapon, but as other things had taken priority the Cardassians ATR-4107 had taken a back seat. But now with the resources coming in from some members of the alliance the Cardassians ATR-4107 (now called “Dreadnought” by the Maquis) was ready for use.

The question was what target should be attacked?
Early in 2375 several events would change the wars direction.

To be continued…….

Next – Part 25 – Changes

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Part 25 – Changes

New allies

Early in 2375 Section 31 started a program to bring the Romulans into the war on the Alliances side.

Though RSC intelligence, Section 31 used the forma Cardassian obsidian order member Garak. Garak obtains the a memory rod and begin preparing a convincing recording in which Weyoun and Damar plan the invasion of Romulus, making sure to having the two squabble with each other and appear as "real" as possible. The program is recorded onto the rod, and the forgery is complete.

Though RSC intelligence Admiral Data (knowing that the data is fake) is ordered to greet Senator Vreenak and present Senator Vreenak with the evidence. Senator Vreenak comes to the station in a cloaked Romulan shuttle. After seeing the data rod Senator Vreenak furiously confronts Admiral Data, declaring the rod to be an absolute fake, and promises to expose the Alliances treachery and deception to the Romulan Senate, which could easily drive the Romulans to the Dominion's side, dooming the Alliance for good.

While Garak did have hopes that the rod would pass inspection, he realized that the opposite was very likely, that the forgery may well not pass Vreenak's inspection. Garak had planted a bomb on the Romulan shuttle, and he had made its destruction look like Dominion sabotage. To the Tal Shiar it will appear that the Dominion destroyed the shuttle. And in the wreckage they will find a badly-damaged data rod containing damning evidence that the Dominion was going to betray the Romulans, the damage to the rod masking the imperfections in the forgery. It will appear that Vreenak was on his way to expose the Dominion before being blown up. The Romulans declare war on the Dominion the next day.

The Romulans strike 15 bases along the Cardassian border with nearly 3,000 warships causing a large amount of damage and destruction.

New Enemies

In 2375 the Dominion had been making diplomatic overtures to various Alpha quadrant powers to join the Dominion in conquering the Alliance.

In an announcement that stunned the Alpha quadrant power the normally reclusive Breen joined the Dominion and launch an attack on Earth causing millions of deaths. On the positive side the attacking Breen warships were destroyed.

The Breen entry into the war more than made up for the losses.

The shipyards at Torros III had now been repaired and improved so that the shipyards could produce five times the numbers of warships than before the shipyards were destroyed. Also the defences were vastly improved over the previous defences.

Armageddon

The Maquis would use “Dreadnought” against the recently repaired Cardassian shipyards at Torros III by destroying the planet Torros III with “Dreadnought”. The 2000 kg main warhead of the missile (1000kg each matter/antimatter) would have an explosive yield of approximately 42,960 megatons.

The “Dreadnought” was released against Torros III just after the Breen had attacked Earth. “Dreadnought” made it though the defences of Torros III and detonated. The effect could only be described as earth shattering. The blast and shockwave destroyed the planet, the orbiting shipyards and most of the warships guarding the Torros system.

The causalities were estimated to be in the tens of millions and the destruction was overwhelming. The Torros system would never be used again and it was estimated that it would take several hundred years before the planets debris would settle into orbit around the Torros systems sun.

The Maquis warned that they had 9 more of these missiles and would use them if they were attacked in revenge. After a few months Dominion intelligence found out that it was a bluff but by then it was too late to do anything about the Maquis as the war was moving into it final stages.

The Alliance was horrified by the attack and condemned the Maquis, but stopped short of cutting of the supplies to the Maquis.

The ongoing war

By June 2375 the war has again started to drag on with both sides again deadlocked. The RSC/RSN shipyards are now working a full capacity and have increased the number of warships from a pre war level of just over 8,000 of all types to the current level of nearly 20,000 warships of all types.

The RSC/RSN has been able to achieve this by having a Royal Space Navy Reserve (RSNR) that can be called upon in time of war to boost that front line personnel strength of the RSN. The RSM also has its own reserve Royal Space Marine Reserve (RSMR). This reserve force has allowed the RSC to expand its military forces quite dramatically, along with a strong drive in recruiting new personnel to the RSN and RSM.

The production of new warship from RSC production facilities has also been possible because of the RSC policies of creating stable colonies with strong military and civilian production centres.

The RSN is now able to deploy its own fleets without the need for other members of the Alliance. The RSN now has five large independent battle fleets numbered one to five. The first battle fleet along with other Alliance warships is at the Bajoran wormhole sector under Admiral Data’s command guarding the wormhole entrance and surrounding space. The first battle fleet is considered the most powerful the RSN/Alliance combined fleet and has 2,500 warships available. The second to fifth battle usually operate on their own along the front as they are considered powerful enough to operate on their own without other Alliance members needing to support them. The four other RSN fleets have between 750 and 900 warships in each battle fleet.

The UESPA/Starfleet is having trouble recruiting replacements for their ships and with the Breen attack on Earth and the damage to the main UESPA/Starfleet shipyards in orbit around the Moon and Mars colonies badly damaged it will be a while be for their production capacity is back up to full strength. The only warships that the UESPA/Starfleet shipyards are producing in any great numbers are the Defiant and Sovereign Classes, which have proved themselves in combat and combat survivability. The rest of the production capability are taken up with other deigns like the Galaxy, Nebula, Steamrunner, Sabre and Akira classes of warship.

The Klingon Empire has taken no direct strikes on its territory during the war and its ship building capability remains unaffected. The Klingon fleet has been able to increase its size by 40%, but has only been able to support a small percentage of its fleet at the front line due to its long supply line. The Klingon Empire currently has only forty percent of fleet at the front line.

The Dominion is able to bring some reinforcements though the wormhole, but due to the large fleet protecting that sector of space. Each time the Dominion brings reinforcements though the wormhole they take at least 50% of the warships coming though are destroyed and the rest receive some form of battle damage.

The combined Dominion and Cardassian numbers just over 40,000 warships of all types. The Cardassians part of the combined Dominion and Cardassian is about 16,000 warships. Dukat is beginning to feel that it was not a good idea in joining with the Dominion, but on the surface Dukat continues to support the war. But Dukat has secretly been redeploying Cardassian forces to protect key Cardassian positions under the pretext that the Cardassian forces will fight harder protecting their own territory. By doing this Dukat has managed to move nearly 70% of the Cardassian military forces away from the front and move the Breen and Jem'Hadar troops and warships to the occupied territories.

Both sides feel confident that they can hold out against each others attacks, only time will tell which side is right.

To be continued…….

Next – Part 26 – Redemption

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Part 26 – Redemption

In September 2375 the Alliance high command decided to try and take back Betazed from the Dominion. With the Betazed system controlled entirely by the Dominion and the Breen there would be no Cardassian involvement in this coming battle.

The Alliance assembled and attack force of 4,000 warships for the attack on the Betazed system. This did not include the troop transports and support ships for the attack on the planet of Betazed itself.

The Dominion and Breen forces defending the Betazed system consisted of just over 4,500 Breen and Dominion warships. With 1,800 being the Jem'Hadar attack ships these forces defending the Betazed system were not that strong in capital ships as the Alliance was.

The main attack was launched on the 10 September 2375 against the main defences of the Betazed system. The space battle would last from the 10 September 2375 to the 19 September 2375 before the withdrawing from the Betazed system with greatly depleted forces. The remaining Alliance fleet warships began to take up defensive position around the Betazed home world while the Alliance sent in ground troops to capture the plant itself.

The ship losses to the Alliance were 1,800 destroyed and another 500 damaged. The Breen and Dominion warships loses were 2,300 destroyed and the remaining 1,700 warships had various forms of battle damage.

The taking of the planet Betazed would last from the 23 September 2375 to the 5 of November 2375 as the Jem'Hadar troops had orders not to surrender and to keep fighting until killed. From the 5 of November 2375 to the end of December 2375 the Alliance ground troops would be still clearing up pockets of Jem'Hadar resistance.

The land battle would cost the Alliance 750,000 killed or injured with a further 65,000 killed or injured in the space battle for the Betazed system. The Jem'Hadar casualties were estimated to be a least one million possibly more in both the space and land battles for the Betazed system.

In the aftermath of the battle for Betazed the horrific discovery’s of what the Dominion troops had done to suppress the Betazed people. This information was released to the Alliance media and caused great shock and revulsion against the Dominion and the Breen to a lesser extent. Bu there was no out rage against the Cardassians as they had not participated in the occupation of Betazed.

The battle for Betazed did exclude the RSC/RSN and Klingon ground troops from this battle, though they did provide some warships for the space battle. The main thrust of the RSC/RSN and Klingon assault was to launch the RSN 4 fleets along with the Klingon warships from New Quebec near the Cardassian all the way up to the furthest point on Dominion penetration into Alliance space.

The initial battles went very well for the RSN and Klingon fleets and allowed them to capture a large chunk of space back from the Dominion between 10 September 2375 to the 19 September 2375. While the Alliance was taking back Betazed the RSC and Klingon fleets were attacking by using the Alliance attack on Betazed as a diversion.

This initial attack by the combined RSN and Klingon fleets lead the attack to be continued so that the momentum of the attack would not be lost. The RSN and Klingon fleets would be joined by the Alliance fleets in the attack to keep the momentum going. As the Dominion and the Breen warship numbers had been greatly reduced by the Alliance attack on Betazed. Most of the battle were fast a furious and lasted no more than an hour. The momentum of the RSN and Klingon fleets would continue rolling on until all the lost Alliance territory was recaptured by June 2376.

The momentum of the offensive finally ran out in early July 2376 with both sides needing time to rest and refit them warships and rebuild their military strength up.

The Switch

In late July 2376 Dukat was secretly planning to switch sides and join the Alliance against the Dominion and the Breen. With 70% of the Cardassian military forces away from the front and guarding the strategic points within the Cardassian Union. By August 2376 Dukat was ready to strike, on Dukat’s command all Cardassian military units would attack and destroy the Dominion and Breen military forces within the Cardassian Union and forcing any leftover troops and other military units to the boarder.

When Dukat struck it caught the Dominion by surprise and forced them to withdraw their scattered military forces to the Chin'toka system were they could make a final stand against the Alliance and the Cardassians. The Cardassians took very few causalities during this rebellion against the Dominion as there were so few Dominion troops in Cardassian space, and the Dominion could not transfer troops from the frontline with the Alliance.

The Cardassian Union had also deployed a new type of Orbital weapon platforms to defend their colony worlds within the Cardassian Union. The Orbital weapon platforms are a type of powerful, automated planetary defence system developed by the Cardassian military during the Dominion War. They were protected by regenerative shields and equipped with three heavy disruptors and 1,000 plasma torpedoes. This allowed the Cardassian fleet to be freed from defending their colony worlds and to be able to engage the Dominion and Breen fleet.

The Alliance was not happy about recognising Dukat as the head of the Cardassian Union, but with little choice they agreed to honour the Cardassian Union’s pre war boarders, with the exception of the badlands.

The Dominion and Breen military forces had with drawn from most of the Cardassian Union and most of Alliance space and now centred themselves in and around the Chin'toka system and the surrounding space. With around 30,000 warships and tens of millions of troops on the ground the Chin'toka system was considered a fortress system and the cost in taking the Chin'toka system by force was considered to be high.

There would still be a large number of skirmish battle along the border, these would continue until the end of the war.

What would happen next?

To Be Continued…….

Next – Part 27 – Endgame

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Part 27 – Endgame

By December 2376 the Dominion had put out peace feelers to several members of the Alliance like UESPA, Vulcans and the Telleriates, but not all members as the Dominion felt that not all members would be pleased with any peace deal that the Dominion would lay down.

The UESPA wanted to end the war as soon as possible and were willing to cut a deal with the Dominion. The deal would be that the Dominion forces would leave the Alpha quadrant for their own space in the Gamma quadrant. The Dominion would recognise the boarders of all the powers in the Alpha quadrant and guarantee that the Dominion would never again attack any of the powers in the Alpha quadrant.

When the remaining members of the Alliance found out that some of the Alliance members had been trying to make a peace deal with the Dominion behind their back they were outraged, the RSC lead the outrage against those members who wanted peace, but they were in the minority in the Alliance. The UESPA had gotten to one of the Dominion wars newest partners, the Romulans and they were for the peace deal and if the Alliance did not sign the peace deal as a whole, then individual members would sign. Thus the remaining members were forced into a peace deal or go on fighting the war by themselves.

The RSC and the Klingon Empire did get their own way in one area that was the Maquis would be recognised as an independent power and not a member of the Alliance in recognition of their help during the Dominion war. The UESPA was not happy about this decision and neither were the Cardassians, but both the RSC and the Klingon Empire formally recognised the existence of the Maquis as a free state. The boundary of their territory would be the area known as the badlands. The leader of the Maquis would be Tom Riker the forma head of the Maquis fleet.

The cease fire and peace treaty took over a month for the details to be ironed out. The treaty was eventually signed on the 1 February 2377 thus bring the Dominion war to and end.

Cleanup and Aftermath

It took the Dominion six months after the signing of the treaty with the Dominion to return all its forces back to the Gamma quadrant and Dominion space. Then a new cold war developed between the Alpha quadrant and the Gamma quadrant.

None of the Founders or any of the Vortas or and member of the Dominion would be charged with any war crimes.

The Breen and Cardassian would also not be charged with any war crimes, for the Cardassian leader Dukat was a good outcome. The Cardassian Union was still intact and had benefited from a technological boost from the Dominion technology that the Cardassian had benefited from in the early days of joining the Dominion. The Breen had lost a lot of warships and troops for no gain and they were back to their original boarders before they joined the Dominion.

The RSC was left with the most powerful battle fleet in the Alpha quadrant and was consider the most powerful of all the Alliance members. The RSC had managed to field up to 150 divisions of ground troops at the peek of operations against the Dominion. The RSC Research and Development arm was given additional funding to improve existing weapon systems etc, also to design new systems for the RSC. After the Dominion war was over a gradual demobilisation was instituted throughout the RSC military and a mothballing part of the RSN fleet was instituted. Production of the current classes of warships and other vessels would slow to a peace time level of production and the number on colonies would grow from 31 to 35 in the next few decades.

RSC Research and Development is designing several new systems to be incorporated into a new class of warship, this would be known as the Royal Class with the first in the class being Ark Royal. This new class of warship would not come of the drawing board until 2390 and the first ships HMSS Ark Royal would not come into service until 2392.

RSC Intelligence had done very well during the war and especially its secret sub division Section 31. Section 31 has its own set of secret “Black” projects including Project Mirror that if it works would make the RSC undisputed masters of the Alpha quadrant. Very few details are known about Project Mirror and only a small number of researches on the project know its full potential.

The UESPA was now trying to rebuild is colonies along the Cardassian boarder, this would take several decades to accomplish. The rebuilt colonies would have a permanent defence force of starships guarding each system with a colony in it. UESPA/Starfleet would use the Defiant Class as the core of a system defence force as they were quick any easy to build and did not require a large orbital dry-dock system to maintain them. The Defiant Class would become UESPA/Starfleet’s most numerous warship. The Sovereign Class starship would become the second most numerous warship in the UESPA/Starfleet’s fleet over the next few decades. The UESPA would halt its colonisation program until all of if colonies were secured, it was estimated that this would take over 50 years to achieve as most UESPA colonies were very poorly defended or not defended at all. The UESPA would stabilise at 70 colony systems spread over a large amount of space, these would be in the form of “islands” of UESPA space with routes between each “islands” though Alliance controlled space.

The Klingon Empire had benefited from helping the Alliance in battle against the Dominion, in the form of improvements in technology and improvements in trade relations with most Alliance members. The Klingon Empire and the RSC would remain the closest of allies in the Alpha quadrant and would continue to share most of each other technical advances with each other.

The Romulan Empire also benefited from increased trade relation with some Alliance members. The war also allowed the Romulan Empire to introduce a new type of warbird, the Valdore Class Warbird that would be replacing the old D'deridex Class Warbird over the next few decades. The Romulan Empire would remain relatively aloof from the Alliance preferring to have individual trade deals with individual members rather than joining the Alliance as a whole. These trade deals would benefit both sides and would show the Romulan Empire that working with the Alliance was better of the Romulan Empire than working against the Alliance. This also helped in relations with the Klingon Empire and a warming of relations between the two empires, this allowed for some trade deals between the two empires.

The wormhole would be considered of limits to both sides until 2380 when the RSC/RSN sent a heavily armed survey group though the wormhole to scout the area near the wormhole for any signs of Dominion activity.

Next – Part 28 – The Caretaker (2371)

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Part 28 – The Caretaker (2371)

In 2371 the UESPA/Starfleet vessel USSS Voyager and the RSC/RSN vessel HMSS Echo would go on a joint mission into the badlands against the Maquis.

The USSS Voyager is an Intrepid Class Starship with a length of 344 m and a crew of 150 with a cruising speed of Warp 6 and a maximum speed of Warp 9.975 and an armament of 13 Type-10 phaser arrays, 5 Photon torpedo tubes. The Intrepid-class is sleek and long, sporting the fastest top speed on record for a UESPA/Starfleet vessel with the exception of the new Sovereign class cruisers. The Intrepid-class serves multiple functions based on its load out and size, ranging from patrol or escort duty to long-range exploration or survey. State of the art computer systems give the class unprecedented storage capacity, access speed, and rigor conditioning. This, combined with a wide array of sensors covering a large amount of the exposed surface, makes the Intrepid-class a premier ship of the line for Starfleet's scientific endeavours.

USSS Voyager is under the command of Captain Kathryn Janeway.

The HMSS Echo is a Scott Class (Mark VI) Explorer Cruiser. This is based in the old Excalibur Class Combat Cruiser chassis, the Mark VI Scott Class Explorer Cruiser has a length of 900 meters and a crew of 750 (with 300 Royal Space Marines for a total crew of 1,050) and a maximum continuous speed of warp of 9.99 and an armament of 26 dual phaser banks, 6 spearfish heavyweight photon torpedoes (4 forward and 2 aft) and also has the new regenerative shields and next generation polarised hull plating armour. The Scott Class Explorer Cruiser combines the best exploration equipment the RSC/RSN has and this is backed up by state of the art firepower. The Scott Class Explorer Cruiser could operate a long way from any base of operations and was designed to last for up to 10 years without re-supply if needed. The Mark VI Scott Class Explorer Cruiser is the state of the art explorer vessel for the RSC/RSN including the latest version of the RSN cloaking technology.

Unknown to Captain Lore there is a cell of six Section 31 agents onboard HMSS Echo, these agents were supposed to be dropped of at New Quebec as crew “replacements” for ships at New Quebec. In fact these “RSN personnel” are team of infiltrators who’s mission was to infiltrate the Maquis to see of they posed a threat to the RSC. The only member of HMSS Echo‘s crew who knows that they there are Section 31 agents on board, but not who they are is the commander of the Royal Space Marine detachment, Major Clive Wreford-Brown an ex member of the RSC/SAS and had done several “Black Ops”, who is one of a small number of people outside of RSC Intelligence who knows of Section 31 existence. The six Section 31 agents onboard HMSS Echo are well aware of Major Clive Wreford-Brown knowledge of Section 31 existence, and can make themselves known to Major Wreford-Brown by using certain code words and phrases.

HMSS Echo is under the command of Captain Lore one of Admiral Data’s android brothers.

In the late 24th century, a renegade group known as the Maquis operate outside the law to right what they see as UESPA injustices. After infiltrating a Maquis cell to appraise UESPA/Starfleet of the group's activities, Lieutenant Tuvok, along with the crew of a ship commanded by the Maquis captain Chakotay, disappear in an area of space known as the Badlands. Tuvok's commanding officer, Captain Janeway, leads a mission to find the Vulcan lieutenant, enlisting the aid of Starfleet prisoner Tom Paris, a former Maquis member, to guide her ship, the USSS Voyager and the RSN ship HMSS Echo, through the Badlands as part of an experimental joint RSC/UESPA mission.

After reaching the Badlands the USSS Voyager and HMSS Echo encounters an inexplicable phenomenon that sends the ship hurtling to the Delta Quadrant, 70,000 light years from home.

No sooner than both ships have arrived when the entire crews of Voyager and Echo are transported to what appears to be a pastoral farm, populated by friendly humans. But it's only an illusion; the farm is actually the interior of the Array, a huge space station, and the residents are holograms. The crews are imprisoned within a strange laboratory facility, alongside the missing Maquis.

The transportation of the crews of both ships does not include Echo’s Captain Lore or Voyager’s EMH; Captain Lore begins to repair the damage to HMSS Echo’s more crucial systems after a few hours of work Captain Lore succeeds in achieving his goal of restoring HMSS Echo’s more crucial systems. Captain Lore beams over to Voyager to attempt to repair Voyager’s systems and encounters the EMH still online and informs the EMH of the situation. The EMH is willing to help Captain Lore restore the more crucial systems on Voyager, but the EMH cannot leave Voyager’s sick bay so Captain Lore transfers some system controls to the medical bay and after this is done Captain Lore returns to HMSS Echo to coordinate with the EMH on Voyager in retrieving their crews.

After being subjected to a painful examination over several hours, the crews of Voyager, Echo and the Maquis vessel are returned to their respective ships outside the Array. But three crewpersons are missing: Harry Kim from Voyager and B'Elanna Torres, the half-Klingon, half-human engineer from the Maquis vessel and Lieutenant James Walters from Echo. Returning to the "farm," Captain Janeway and Captain Lore confronts the only remaining inhabitant, an old man playing a banjo. But the man cares nothing about their dilemma and offers them no information about the missing officers.

The two Captains are returned to their respective ships. There is a disagreement between the to Captains, Captain Janeway wants to return to the Array and try again but Captain Lore in for investigating were the Array is sending the energy pulses and why. In this moment Captain Lore quotes Alliance Emergency Regulation 191 (Article 14): In a combat situation involving more than one ship from the Alliance where there is either no flag officer present or communication with higher command cannot be establish, command falls to the vessel with tactical superiority. Thus until they return to Earth or communication is re-established Captain Lore will be in command of the two vessels.

As Captain Lore orders the three ships set a course toward the fifth planet of a neighbouring system the three ships set a course in that direction. Far beneath the surface of that planet, an ailing Kim, Torres and Walters regain consciousness in a medical facility. But what they're doing there and why they have yet to discover.

En route to the fifth planet of a neighbouring system, the three ships crews encounter Neelix, a Talaxian scavenger. He explains that the Array has been bringing ships into the region for many months. Neelix guesses that the "Caretaker", who controls the Array, may have sent the missing crewmembers to the Ocampa, a race that lives two miles below the surface of the fifth planet. Neelix volunteers to be their guide and they accept.

As the Array increases the rate of the energy pulses that power the city, Kim and Torres begin their journey, narrowly missing the search party from Voyager and Echo. Tuvok theorizes that the increased activity of the Array may indicate that the Caretaker is dying; he is clearly attempting to give them a surplus of power that will sustain the Ocampa after he is gone.

After a search they find the missing crew members who have been looking for a way to escape from the underground city of the Ocampa.

The Array is now firing a weapon at the planet to seal up all of the energy conduits, the tunnels that provide the only access to the city. This will protect the Ocampans, but also prevent the others from escaping from the Ocampa underground city.

Returning to the Array, Captains Janeway and Lore again encounters the old man, whom they realize is the Caretaker. He explains that he was bringing beings from across the galaxy to the Array in the hopes of finding a compatible species with which he could procreate, thus providing the Ocampa with someone to care for them after he dies. But no species has been a match so far. The Caretaker says that he has activated the Array’s self destruct so that the Array will not fall into the hands of the Kazon and also informs both Captains that he has removed the ability to deactivate the self-destruct and will die before the self-destruct finishes its countdown.

The Caretaker beams both Captains back to their ships for the final time were they find the Kazon have arrived in force to claim the Array for themselves. Both Captains agree that the Array cannot fall into the hands of the Kazon and they must defend the Array and drive of the Kazon.

The battle of the Caretaker’s Array would be a one sided one as Voyager and Echo combined firepower out gun the Kazon ships. With HMSS Echo’s blue phaser beam’s destroying the Kazon ships one after another and red phaser beams of Voyager and the Maquis ships also are destroying Kazon ships. The large Kazon carrier vessel was sent as reinforcements; this ship was engaged by HMSS Echo and was destroyed by a hail fire of blue phaser beams and the blue spearfish heavyweight photon torpedoes fired from HMSS Echo ripping the large Kazon carrier vessel to pieces. The remaining Kazon warships are forced to withdraw from the battle or be destroyed by the superior firepower of the Alpha quadrant vessels.

Just as the Kazon ships are retreating the Array explodes as its self-destruct has finished its countdown.

With Chakotay's Maquis raider ship is destroyed in the battle with the Kazon the crew are rescued by Voyager, Janeway asks the Maquis to become part of Voyager's crew. During the Caretaker’s capture of Voyager Captain Janeway had several crew members killed. She also allows Neelix and Kes to stay aboard. Captain Lore and his crew and Captain Janeway and her new crew set course for the long trip home, 70,000 light-years away. The two ships would be under the command of Captain Lore as the Alliances Emergency Regulation 191 (Article 14) would remain in affect until their return to the Alpha quadrant or until contact could be re-established with their respective commands.

To be continued…..

Next – Part 29 – The Delta Quadrant

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Part 29 – The Delta Quadrant

Aftermath of the Caretaker battle

In the days following the battle with the Caretaker both ships would take stock and repaired the damage caused not only with the battle with the Kazon but also the affects caused by the Caretaker’s dragging them 70,000 light years from the Alpha quadrant.

A detachment of 50 Royal Space Marines were sent over to Voyager to provide additional security. They would set-up two marine roving patrols of six marines each, there would also be two marines on the bridge and two in engineering on guard duty. Captain Janeway would also have a marine assigned as bodyguard. Captain Janeway reluctantly agreed to these measures as Captain Lore would make it an order in necessary, but as Captain Janeway agreed this was not necessary and would agree to having a personal bodyguard assigned to her.

The marines onboard Voyager would serve on shifts of 90 day rotation from Echo’s complement of 300 marines. Also several of Echo’s and Voyager’s will do crew exchange program to give variety to both crews.

The Royal Space Marines were assigned quarter onboard Voyager. When on patrol each marine had the following - full body armour, phaser pistol, phaser rifle, personal force field generator, stun baton, marine frequency communication system and bayonet/survival knife. When off duty the marines would just carry their phaser pistols sidearm with them at all times.

Kazon Attack

Two months after the destruction on the Caretaker both Voyager and Echo were attacked by a large Kazon attack group consisting of several Kazon sects, with an attack group of 33 Kazon raiders and 6 Kazon boarding shuttles. The attack was to concentrate on Voyager as the Kazon had realized they could not capture HMSS Echo as this ship’s combined are to powerful for the Kazon to capture.

The attack come in two phases, phase one was to draw HMSS Echo away from USSS Voyager and then phase two was for an assault force to attack and capture Voyager.

A diversionary raid by the first wave of 13 Kazon raiders draws of HMSS Echo from USSS Voyager. The second wave of 20 Kazon raiders and 6 Kazon boarding shuttles attack USSS Voyager and after half an hour of combat manage to bring down Voyager’s shields so have the boarding shuttle can attach themselves to Voyager’s hull and cut though Voyager’s hull and enter. Each Kazon boarding shuttle carries 30 Kazon, these Kazon are not troops just Kazon with weapons and no real coordination between each boarding shuttle.

The RSM detachment on board Voyager splits into two 15 marine teams these two teams along with some of Voyager’s own security begin the process of eliminating the Kazon intruders from Voyager. The battles between the Kazon and the two RSM teams are short but furious fire fights and one by one the Kazon intruders are eliminated. The superior combat equipment of the RSM ensures that the RSM have no casualties due to the use of their personal force field generators and the fact that the Kazon weapons are not powerful enough to penetrate the RSM personal force field generators and their combat tactics are rubbish to none existent.

The space battle between the 13 Kazon raiders has ended by the time the RSM onboard Voyager has eliminated the Kazon intruders HMSS Echo has returned to aid Voyager. The remaining 20 Kazon raiders decide to break of the engagement and flee.

Retribution

Several days after the attack most of Voyager’s battle damage has been repaired and the Kazon boarding shuttles are being used as raw materials to repair the damage to Voyager’s outer hull. This enables Voyager to move to a nearby system to make more extensive repairs and bring Voyager’s systems back up to full strength.

Captain Lore decides that the Kazon need to be taught a lesson. Using the information captured from the Kazon boarding shuttles Captain Lore is able to locate the Kazon base where this attack is launched from. Captain Janeway is invited to come on board to see the attack by HMSS Echo on the Kazon “military” base.

On board HMSS Echo’s bridge Captain Janeway see the differences between Voyager’s bridge and Echo’s bridge. This bridge is different to Voyager’s bridge as it is in the centre of HMSS Echo’s saucer section rather that on deck one also the crew are all seated in chairs fitted with old style racing car seatbelts, also on Echo’s bridge are four RSM guards. HMSS Echo is primarily designed for exploration but has the firepower of a combat cruiser to deal with any problems that this class of warship may encounter while exploring.

Using HMSS Echo’s cloaking device to approach the Kazon base unseen. When in range HMSS Echo’s uses the classic de-cloak and attack strategy learnt from the Klingons. This proves to be very successful and the Kazon are caught completely unawares. Within a matter of a few minutes the Kazon vessels in orbit are destroyed and the small orbital space station is disabled.

Then HMSS Echo turned its weapons onto the planet surface destroying the planets military installations from orbit using spearfish heavyweight photon torpedoes in orbital bombardment mode. The casualties suffered by the Kazon were just over 350,000 killed or injured and the lose of all the Kazon space craft in orbit, only the small Kazon space station was spared complete destruction so that the survivors would let the other Kazon sects what happened here and that if the Kazon tried this again the retribution would next time be worse.

During the attack Captain Janeway watched in stunned disbelief of what Captain Lore was doing and after the attack on the Kazon base Captain Janeway told Captain Lore that she was shocked by what Captain Lore had done. Captain Lore said that it would have the desired effect that the Kazon would not bother them again while they travelled through Kazon space. This turned out to be the case as their were no further Kazon attack on either HMSS Echo’s or USSS Voyager over the next few months as they passed though Kazon space.

Also unknown to both Captains this had a knock-on effect on another race called the Vidiians who would keep well clear of the two Alpha quadrant ships in fear of the consequences of attacking these ships. This would lead to an uneventful first few months in the Delta Quadrant without attack from anyone until they had cleared Kazon space.

A certain member of Voyager’s crew who was going to go over to the Kazon but with the defeat of the Kazon this crew member decided not to proceed, but Voyager crew member’s preparation had not gone unnoticed by one of the Section 31 agents on rotational duty on Voyager.

To be continued…….

Next – Part 30 – Spies

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Part 30 – Spies

Early in 2372 one of the undercover Section 31 Agent is posted to Voyager on a crew exchange program under her cover identity of Lieutenant Samantha Jones a sensor specialist with the RSN. While on Voyager Lieutenant Jones spots a known Cardassian agent called Seska as a Cardassian operative, genetically altered to appear Bajoran in order to infiltrate the Maquis. She was assigned to Chakotay's Maquis raider, the Val Jean, and used her relationship with him in order to steal Maquis secrets.

Section 31 was keeping track of all the known Cardassian agents and their whereabouts and current appearance, Seska was one of these agents that Section 31 had been aware of for sometime.

When Lieutenant Jones period of duty was up on Voyager and returned to Echo, Lieutenant Jones contacted the other five members of the Section 31 team on board HMSS Echo. After some discussion a decision was made that Lieutenant Jones would go and see Major Wreford-Brown who was the only member of Echo’s crew that could confirm a Section 31 agent’s identity.

Lieutenant Jones contacted Major Wreford-Brown using pre arranged code phrases and informs Major Wreford-Brown of the Cardassian agent onboard Voyager, Lieutenant Jones also says that Section 31 must remain secret at all costs. Major Wreford-Brown suggested that when they inform Captain Lore that they tell Captain Lore that Lieutenant Jones is a member of RSC Intelligence and not Section 31. Lieutenant Jones agrees that this is the best course of action and Major Wreford-Brown makes an appointment to see Captain Lore.

Captain Lore in informed of the Cardassian agent Seska on board Voyager and of the “true” identity of Lieutenant Jones as an agent of RSC Intelligence, Captain Lore accepts Major Wreford-Brown assurances that Lieutenant Jones as an agent of RSC Intelligence and the information that Lieutenant Jones can easily be checked by a medical scan by Voyager’s doctor. Captain Lore orders Major Wreford-Brown to inform his marines on Voyager but not to inform Captain Janeway as he will beam over and inform Captain Janeway himself.

Captain Janeway is informed of Seska true identity and agrees that this must be verified, one of the marine roving patrols captures Seska to Voyager’s sick bay were Voyager’s EMH doctor informs both Captain’s that Seska is a Cardassian. Confronted by the evidence Seska admits to being a Cardassian agent. On hearing this Captain Janeway confines Seska to her quarters with a Starfleet security guard outside until Seska fate can be decided and gives permission for Voyager’s doctor to restore Seska Cardassian appearance.

After some debate between Captain Janeway and Captain Lore it is decided that Seska can resume limited duties onboard Voyager but will be kept away from critical areas and will not participate in the crew exchange between Voyager and Echo. When informed of this decision Seska is not happy but in time if Seska does not do anything to cause concern then Seska’s duties will be expanded, after several days of thought Seska accepts the decision. Seska will remain as part of Voyager’s crew.

Captain Lore during this time did not let on how he got hold of the information on Seska, just that it was information gained though RSC Intelligence and did not reveal the identity of the source of the intelligence to Captain Janeway, thus preserving the cover identity of Lieutenant Jones as not only a member of “RSC Intelligence” but also Lieutenant Jones true identity as a Section 31 agent and the cover of the five members of the Section 31 team on board HMSS Echo, thus keeping the UESPA/Starfleet personal “in the dark”.

In the aftermath of the revelations about Seska being a Cardassian agent Captain Janeway had suspicions that the RSN had spy(s) onboard Voyager keeping an eye on Voyager’s crew, but Captain Janeway had no proof of such activity onboard Voyager and would keep these suspicions to herself.

The Encounter

Still en route to Earth, the starships USSS Voyager and HMSS Echo detects traces of rust in space. Because the absence of oxygen in space prevents iron from rusting, Captains Lore and Janeway decide to follow the particle trail. They discover an old Earth automobile, a 1936 Ford truck, floating in space. When investigating their find Tom Paris manages to start the vehicle (old Earth cars are his hobby) and discovers a signal on the vehicle's AM radio. This signal turns out to be an old Earth distress call, called "SOS".

The decision is made to follow the signal to its origin, but the planet it emanates from is Class L. The planet's atmosphere is charged with trinimbic interference making communications on the surface and use of the ship's transporters difficult and dangerous. So, Captain Janeway with Captain Lores permission decides to land Voyager on the planet. This is the first time Tom Paris, Voyager's helmsman, lands the Intrepid Class ship on a planetary surface. While HMSS Echo remains in orbit prepping one of its two planetary assault combat shuttles just in case Voyager needs back-up.

An away team with a RSM contingent as back-up is sent out to locate the source of the signal and finds an old Earth airplane. Investigation of the plane leads to an alien power source which is powering its AM radio, still sending the SOS. Meanwhile, other members of the away team have found a mineshaft that seems to be the source of the trianium readings detected by their tricorders. After entering the mineshaft, they find five cryostasis chambers. One of them contains eight bodies, Human, although with minimal life signs. When Janeway rubs off some dirt of the stasis chamber containing a human female, she notices a name tag on her jacket. "A. EARHART", Amelia Earhart one of the first female aeronautical pioneers from Earth's 20th century.

When the away team returns to Voyager they discuss their findings in the briefing room with a communications link to HMSS Echo. Because it is thought that the technology which brought the abducted humans to this Delta Quadrant world might be used to return Voyager and Echo to Earth, the decision is made to remove the humans from stasis. As a precaution only human crew members will be present. The exception is Kes, who can easily pass as a human, as she needs to be present to check their medical status.

When all the humans are removed from stasis, they wonder about the people who found them. They are told they were believed to be abducted by aliens from Earth in the 1930s but they only seem to remember the day before. After leaving the mineshaft, they find Tuvok's security team and the RSM contingent pinned down by alien weapons fire. In this skirmish Fred Noonan is hit but dragged to safety by Harry Kim. With the help of the away team the aliens are overpowered. It turns out the aliens are actually humans, descendants from the humans abducted from Earth in 1937 by the Briori. Back on Voyager, one of them, John Evansville explains to Janeway and Lore via the communication link with HMSS Echo that the people they revived are the 37's revered by them as monuments to their ancestors, who were held as slaves. They managed to free themselves from Briori oppression, destroying the Briori ship and its technology in the process.

Captains Janeway and Lore hope of using the ship or its technology to get back to Earth is thus in vain. Meanwhile, Fred Noonan has been treated for his wounds by The Doctor. Thinking he will die, he confesses to Earhart his love for her, but takes it back when he finds himself cured. Earhart promises to forget what Noonan said to her.

Since defeating the Briori, the former human slaves have built a society, by now over 100,000 souls, and three beautiful cities. The both crews and the 37's are invited by Evansville to tour those cities, Captain Lore will come down in a combat shuttle to tour the cities. The tour itself is impressive and reminds a lot of Voyager and Echo crewmembers off their home back on Earth.

After several days of discussion Voyager and Echo will continue their voyage back to Earth, but not before taking on as much supplies as possible that have been given by the colonist, in exchange they are given designs for small scale warp drive ships that can be used to defend their colony.

What will both ships will encounter next……

To be continued…….

Next – Part 31 – Distant Origin

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Part 31 – Distant Origin

In 2373 HMSS Echo and USSS Voyager encounter the Voth. The Voth are a saurian species, native to the planet Earth, but residing in the Delta Quadrant. The Voth are a significantly advanced race, they are cold-blooded creatures, have a superior sense of smell and skin pigmentation which alters according to moods. Adult Voth are slightly taller than adult Humans, have six clawed manipulator digits (three on each hand), and their eyes are protected by heavy bony brow ridges which have a central crest rising to a conical protrusion on the back of the skull. This is the extra-cranial area which probably accounts for the fact that a Voth's cranium capacity is 28% greater than that of a typical Human. Most importantly, they have 47 genetic markers which are identical to Humans and many Terran creatures throughout Earth's history.

Technologically advanced, they possess transwarp capabilities, as well as being able to scan from a distance of over ninety light years with significant accuracy, even down to the individual life form readings. The Voth also have spatial displacement capabilities - a form of cloaking technology that moved their starships or even individuals out of phase. Their personal spatial displacement system could be disrupted by altering a phaser to a dispersion frequency of approximately 1.85 GHz.

Based on the remains of Voyager crewmember Hogan (A causality on an away mission), Voth scientist Forra Gegen concluded his long worked-on Distant Origin Theory, stating that the Voth had evolved on Earth.

The Ministry of Elders arrest Gegan for heresy, accusing him of preaching against Doctrine. Despite Gegan's protests that he was merely conducting a scientific expedition, the Elders tried to accuse him of being reckless, that his "casual theorizing" was damaging the Doctrine, intentionally or otherwise. Scientists loyal to the Elders wanted to say that although the data were compelling, Gegan's interpretations weren't clear. The Elders were reluctant to punish Gegan as such, but were more concerned in getting him to retract his claims. Voth society was not willing to accept such a radical concept.

Ministry of Elders decided to capture Voyager and Echo and to imprison them on a distant prison colony world controlled by the Voth.

The attack on the USSS Voyager went quite well until the Voth boarding party encountered one of the RSM patrols, the Voth tried to use their tranquiliser darts on the RSM patrol but the RSM used their personal force field generators to deflect the darts. By using this technology the various RSM contingents on Voyager were able to group together and holdout along with a number of Voyager’s crew. By the time the RSM had grouped together most of Voyager’s crew had been captured with the exception of the bridge crew who fought a series of running battles to join up with the RSM near the RSM quarters on deck 5.

On HMSS Echo the Voth attack encountered more resistance than even the Voth though possible from a supposedly inferior species, with the remaining 250 RSM on HMSS Echo and the counter intrusion system, the Voth were in for a hell of a fight.

When the Voth tried to gain control of HMSS Echo’s main computer Captain Lore encrypts the ship's computer using a fractal encryption so that the Voth can't access Echo’s main computer or use the ships systems against Echo’s crew. The Voth are unable to beam into several areas of HMSS Echo’s as certain areas have anti transporter shield set-up, so the Voth try to use force against these areas and manage to gain access to HMSS Echo’s main bridge in the centre of the saucer section, but this is a short lived victory as the first Voth come onto the bridge they are confronted by the four RSM on guard duty and Captain Lore. The RSM open fire with the phaser rifles and to the Voth’s surprise Captain Lore move with the speed and power of his android body and with an almost casual motion snaps the necks of several on the Voth intruders, much to the surprise of the Voth (until the were killed) and the bridge was soon secure again.

While the attempts to capture USSS Voyager and HMSS Echo were underway both ships were brought inside one of the Voth’s city ships.

With critical areas on HMSS Echo secure Captain Lore orders that the forward and aft Spearfish Heavyweight Photon Torpedo launches be loaded and ready to fire on his command. Captain Lore also orders the bridge crew to monitor and record the conversation between the Ministry of Elders and Lieutenant Commander Chakotay, these talks were being monitored and transmitted by a RSM who was observing the conversation with Voyager’s and Echo’s other crew members.

Once Captain Lore had heard what all this was about, Captain Lore ordered the entire conversation to be ready for broadcast on all Voth channels. Using Echo’s holographic transmitter Captain Lore appeared before the Voth Ministry of Elders and demanded immediate release or Captain Lore or else he would order Echo’s torpedoes to be fired, the Voth Ministry of Elders called Captain Lore’s “bluff”, to their surprise the Voth’s city ship shook with the explosions caused by Echo’s torpedoes striking the inside of the Voth’s city ship.

The Voth Ministry of Elders were forced to give in and ordered both Voyager and Echo’s crews and both ships to be sent on their way. Once both crews were back onboard their ships and free of the Voth city ship, Captain Lore ordered the transmission of the evidence on the Voth Ministry of Elders cover-up of the distant origin and the truth.

This would cause the Voth to become embroiled in a civil war between the two Voth factions and allow both Voyager and Echo to exit the Voth’s area of space without any more attacks or interference from the Voth.

The Voth civil war would see the end of the Ministry of Elders. The Ministry of Elders would be replaced by a new leadership under the Ministry of Scientists, who would confirm the distant origin theory and prove that the Voth did come from a planet in the Alpha quadrant called Earth.

The Voth Ministry of Scientists ruled was Captain Lore of the RSN had done was lawful in showing the truth, even though the Voth had to go though a civil war this was considered “worth it” for the truth.

A Find

By March 2373 Voyager and Echo came across a small derelict space ship no bigger than a shuttlecraft, they discovered that it was from the 26th century by metallurgical analyse, though most of the equipment was destroyed one peace of technology was retrieved a portable holo emitter this that could be used by Voyagers EMH this would allow the EMH doctor complete freedom of movement from Voyager’s sickbay and also permit the EMH to go on away missions with Voyager’s and Echo’s crews.

The rest of the derelict space ship yielded no more clues on the ships origin just that it was from the 26th century. The reason the 26th century ship came to be in this part of space would be a mystery for the next few hundred years.

The derelict space ship will be held onboard HMSS Echo for further study by a joint team from both Echo and Voyager one of the Section 31 agents gets themselves assigned to the joint study team to take copies of any information that they discover and to keep an eye on the Voyager members of the study team.

New Territory


In June 2373 while looking for mineral supplies on a planet a joint away team discovers to Borg corpses both Captains Janeway and Lore agree that they are on the edge of Borg territory, which consists of thousands of systems. HMSS Echo and USSS Voyager launch a series of long ranged probes to scout out the space ahead of them and finding large amounts of Borg activity ahead of them. After a series of meetings between Captain Lore and Janeway they come to the conclusion that they have been in Borg space for at least 3 months and going back is not and option, so they decide to push on though Borg space.

As both ships go though Borg space, both ships continue to launch probes to scout the area ahead, these probes discover a narrow passage devoid of Borg activity. Dubbed the "Northwest Passage," it is filled with gravometric distortions, but as Tom Paris puts it, "Better to ride the rapids than face the Hive." While the Northwest Passage appears safe, Captains Janeway and Lore tell their reactive crews that a confrontation with the Borg may be inevitable and instructs them to prepare for one. While Kes and the EMH Doctor work on an antibody to combat the Borg assimilation nanoprobes.

What will lie ahead for both crews……

To be continued……

Next – Part 32 – Borg space

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Part 32 – Borg space

While heading towards the "Northwest Passage", both ships sensors pickup twenty five Borg cubes are headed their way. The crew prepare for a fight but the cubes do a quick sensor scan but pass them by. Both crew wonder what is going on that is so important to the Borg, Captain Lore orders both ships to follow the twenty five Borg cubes at a discrete distance,

Suddenly all the Borg ships' power signatures have stopped and the Borg armada appears’ to be dead in space. They follow the cubes' path only to discover that most of the cubes have been destroyed and several ships have been disabled by an unknown type of weapon.

Further scans reveal there is an alien bio ship of unknown design attached to the hull of one of the remaining damaged Borg cubes. Chakotay, Tuvok, and Kim and a RSM detachment from Voyager beam aboard the damaged cube to investigate, while Echo will provide cover for Voyager. They see no aliens but can hear roars coming from elsewhere within the Borg cube. As they scan the bio ship, Kes has a vision of Harry screaming in pain. B'Elanna Torres beams the joint away team back, but not before the alien returns and injures Harry just as Kes predicted.

Despite the possibility of this new threat, Captain Lore decides they must maintain its original course as the Northwest Passage is only a day away. The EMH Doctor discovers along the way that an infection caused by cells from the alien is consuming Harry's body. He is unable to combat the infection with traditional medicine but thinks he can modify Borg nanoprobes to destroy the alien cells; however, it may be too late for Harry. Meanwhile, an analysis of the information recovered from the damaged Borg cube, discovered that the Borg call the alien Species 8472 and have been defeated by Species 8472 several times, also the Borg cannot assimilate Species 8472 as these aliens are immune to Borg elimination technology. Upon reaching the Northwest Passage, Echo and Voyager are greeted by hundreds of Species 8472 bio ships coming through some kind of quantum singularity.

As before, Kes is able to hear the aliens say, "The weak will perish." They are arriving through some kind of quantum singularity, although it is unclear where they come from, they intend to destroy everything. Captain Lore considers the possibilities and comes up with a radical idea: an alliance with the Borg. Captain Lore’s plan is to offer Voyagers EMH Doctor's cure to the Borg but withhold it until the Borg escort Echo and Voyager through their space. The crews do not question Captain Lore’s judgment, and Captain Lore admits that it is a great a risk that he is taking.

Echo and Voyager travels to the nearest Borg star system, where a cube announces that it will assimilate the ship and places a tractor beams on the two ships. Captain Lore explains the situation and the cube beams Captain Lore aboard. Captain Lore and the Collective's voice are close to coming to an agreement when a quantum singularity opens and ten bio ships emerge. Ignoring several Borg cubes, the bio ships head straight for a nearby planet.

Captain Lore asks to be beamed back to his ships to help in the battle, the Borg agrees. Back onboard Captain Lore orders his helmsman to rotate Echo 180 degrees and orders Echo’s tactical officer to open fire on the nearest bio ship with a blaze of blue phaser and photon torpedoes hitting the bio ship, Voyager also joins the attack on the bio ship Echo is engaging along with the Borg cube. The combined firepower of all three vessels manages to destroy one bio ship, but another 10 more come though the quantum singularity, making a total of 19 bio ships. The Borg says that they must leave the system to protect the weapon against Species 8472.

All three ships exit the system at warp nine while the remaining Borg cubes by time for the three ships to escape as the Borg world in that system is destroyed by Species 8472. Once clear of the destroyed Borg world all three ships slow to warp 7 and set course though Borg space.

Captain Lore hails the Borg vessel and suggests that a single Borg come onboard Voyager as a liaison between the Borg and the two Alpha quadrant ships, the Borg agree to this proposal. A vaguely Human Borg beams over to Voyager to speak for the collective designated Seven of Nine.

Suddenly a bio ship appears and begins firing on Voyager and Echo. The Borg cube is hit as well. To prevent the destruction of Voyager and Echo the Borg cube sacrifices itself and rams the bio ship destroying both ships. Tuvok signals from Voyager's cargo bay that some of the Borg from the cube has beamed into Voyagers cargo bay. Seven of Nine explains that this was necessary as this was the only way the collective could maintain a strong link. Captain Lore and Captain Janeway are initially sceptical but allows the Borg to remain in Voyagers cargo bay for the time being while the nanoprobes are developed and manufactured on Voyager.

The first batches of nanoprobes are used to cure Harry Kim of the alien cells that have infected Harry Kim’s body. With the successful test Voyager and Echo begin to manufacture more nanoprobes. This information is passed onto the Borg, so that the Borg can also use the modified

With production underway and a large number of both Echo’s and Voyager’s photon torpedoes being modified with the modified nanoprobes, also several old style projectile weapons are manufactured with the projectiles modified to carry the nanoprobes for use against and of Species 8472 that manage to try and board either vessel.

After several weeks the production of the modified nanoprobes is well underway and the Borg are keeping their end of the agreement, as both Voyager and Echo are travelling though Borg space at warp 8 passing cube after cube and Borg world after Borg world unharmed.

Suddenly after several uneventful weeks of travelling though Borg space a quantum singularity appears in front of both ships and several dozen bio ships come though, Species 8472 have found them. Captain Lore orders Echo and Voyager to action stations and to transfer power from the phasers to the shields as they are only going to use the modified photon torpedoes against Species 8472 bio ships, as phaser would not be much use against Species 8472 bio ships.

The first use of the modified nanoprobes against Species 8472 bio ships, the first modified photon torpedo warhead used seems to have little effect, but after a short delay the first attacking ship is destroyed. The remaining Species 8472 bio ships continue to press the attack, Captain Lore hails Voyager and suggests to Seven of Nine that now would be a good time for more Borg reinforcements, Seven of Nine agrees and says that the collective is sending reinforcements to help in the battle against Species 8472.

In the mean time Echo and Voyager are on there own. The battle between the two forces is short and furious with both Echo and Voyager using the modified photon torpedoes with great effect against Species 8472 bio ships. During the battle the cargo bay were the Borg are on Voyager is hit and depressurises sucking all the Borg into space, also during the battle Seven of Nine is his by an electric discharge on Voyagers bridge and taken to Voyagers sick bay.

The battle is looking bad for the to Alpha quadrant vessels until the arrival of several hundred Borg cubes arrive to fight Species 8472. During the battle between the Borg and Species 8472 the Borg signal Echo and Voyager to go as the Borg will deal with Species 8472 with the modified nanoprobes created by Voyagers EMH. The Borg will keep to their end of the agreement and allow the two ships though Borg space without interference.

The temporary alliance with the Borg appears to be working and will continue until the two vessels leave Borg space.

In Voyagers sickbay the EMH has managed to heal Seven of Nine injuries, but the Doctor discovers that Seven of Nine's human immune system is starting to re-establish itself and a war between the organic and the synthetic is being waged inside her body. The Doctor wants to remove many of her Borg implants so that Seven of Nine can survive. Seven of Nine allows this procedure but only very reluctantly. When the operation is over Seven of Nine looks more human but still has several Borg abilities, but is no longer connected to the collective, Seven of Nine is now an individual. Though Seven of Nine must use the Borg regeneration alcove to “sleep and regenerate”, also Seven of Nine does posses the knowledge of the Borg collective, though is no longer linked to the collective.

Captain Janeway talking to Captain Lore several days after the battle with species 8472, Captain Janeway is sceptical that the alliance with the Borg will last long enough to get though Borg space. Captain Lore says that the Borg will be so busy with Species 8472 that the Borg are unlikely to bother with two ships and the Borg may need their help again, but only time will tell what the Borg’s true intention or reasons are.

To be continued………

Next – Part 33 – July 2373 to December 2376

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Part 33 – July 2373 to December 2376

By the end of July 2373 both HMSS Echo and USSS Voyager were steering clear of any Borg sightings just in case the Borg changed their collective mind.

The Srivani

While HMSS Echo is scouting ahead of USSS Voyager under cloak, the crew of the USSS Voyager are charting a binary pulsar they'd discovered in the region. The Captain complains of headaches, and goes to bed for the night. Chakotay goes to bed as well, but when he gets there, he brushes his hair and it starts to fall out.

In sickbay, Chakotay's condition has worsened considerably. He shows all the signs and symptoms of adult progeria (rapid aging), which has been brought on by over-stimulation of a gene. The Doctor relieves him of active duty whilst his investigation continues. In the mess hall, Neelix falls over in agony as his face changes colour.

Back in sickbay, Neelix has large patches of pigment all over his face. The Doctor is surprised by his scan - the effect has been produced by over-stimulation of a gene again. Neelix reveals that his great-grandfather was a Mylean, so his Mylean genes are asserting themselves. Neelix and Chakotay complain about their ailments to each other, competing for the most sympathy.

The Doctor and B'Elanna Torres are working on a sample of Chakotay's and Neelix's DNA. Looking at full magnification, the Doctor discovers a genetic tag on a part of both of their samples. Torres studies it, and discovers that it is transmitting a signal to somewhere. However, just as they're about to see where it's transmitting to, the Doctor's program begins deleting for no apparent reason. Torres falls over, spasming in agony, and he transfers himself back to sickbay.

Torres is stabilised in sickbay, but soon more injuries arrive and the room is quickly filled with people. Tom Paris and the limited medical staff are not helped by the loss of the Doctor somewhere between the experiment room and sickbay. Suddenly, Seven of Nine hears the Doctor's voice. He's tapped into her cortical implant and is transmitting from the da Vinci program in the holo deck. Seven leaves sickbay and goes to see the Doctor.

When she arrives, the Doctor suggests that the injuries of the crew are related to each other, somehow. Just before he transferred himself to the holo deck, he saw the frequency the signal was transmitting at, and adjusts Seven's optical sensors to that frequency. She looks around, but sees nothing out of the ordinary in the holo deck. She leaves, and conducts a ship-wide search for any anomalies.

Very quickly, she spots some unusual things. A few crewmembers have odd contraptions on their heads, and there is an unusual person walking the corridors, which no one appears to notice. She pretends not to see the alien, and he enters a turbo lift with her. He probes her in the neck, and then leaves at the next deck. Seven continues her search, and soon discovers that most of the crew have various monitoring and testing devices attached to them. There are also a number of the aliens walking around with them, scanning and taking notes.

Reporting back to the Doctor, Seven suggests producing an electrical pulse within the ship to knock out the genetic tags. The Doctor agrees, but is aware of the pain of such a procedure. Seven gets to work on her idea. However, in engineering, she is stopped by Tuvok because she has had to bypass certain security protocols. She tries to explain to Tuvok, but is suddenly joined by three aliens. She fires a modified phaser at one of them, bringing it into phase with the rest of the crew.

In the brig, the alien, known as Alzen, describes herself as a Srivani medical researcher, on a scientific mission to investigate the crew of Voyager. This enrages Captain Janeway. The Srivani, however, says that the experiments will go on without her, and that there's nothing that they can do about it.

Also reviled and several small ships attached to Voyager’s hull, the RSM Lieutenant in charge of the RSM detachment warns Alzen the her and her entire team will be destroyed. Alzen says that there are no other ships like Voyager with their scanning distance and they know that Voyager is on it own.

Just then HMSS Echo de-cloaks in front of Voyager and using HMSS Echo’s phasers Captain Lore begins to destroy the Srivani ships attached to Voyagers hull. Alzen and the rest of the Srivani medical researchers beam back to their ships to try and flee but HMSS Echo continues to pick of the remaining Alzen ships with ease, all the Srivani ships are destroyed by HMSS Echo.

With the technology gained from Voyagers EMH both Voyager and Echo will run random phaser sweeps, both on the inside and outside of their ships just in case the Srivani decide to return. Throughout the remainder of their voyage home the Srivani are not encountered again.

Message in a Bottle

In December 2376 Seven of Nine discovers an operational alien subspace relay network, and uses it to scan an area in the Alpha Quadrant. She discovers that two vessels one RSC/RSN and one UESPA/Starfleet, and informs Captain Janeway and Captain Lore that it may be possible to send a message. Both Captains try to hail the two ships but none of the two Captains hails get through, however; instead they are bounced back.

Torres informs Captain’s Lore and Janeway that it may be possible to send a holographic data stream, as it would not degrade as quickly. Since they have no time to design a hologram to send the message, the Doctor is asked to volunteer. He agrees, and is sent through the relay network just before the ships in the Alpha Quadrant moves out of range.

The Doctor is activated inside the ship's sickbay, the computer identifying the vessel as the USSS Prometheus, a prototype for a new class of long-range tactical cruiser, along with HMSS Fearless an advanced version of the Vanguard class Super battleship on a long range tactical reconnaissance mission at the edge of the Alpha quadrant.

When the EMH from Voyager explains where he is from and gives a general account of what had happened in the past few years to both HMSS Echo and USSS Voyager. Voyagers EMH also says the HMSS Echo’s Captain Lore has invoked Alliance Emergency Regulation 191 (Article 14): In a combat situation involving more than one ship from the Alliance where there is either no flag officer present or communication with higher command cannot be establish, command falls to the vessel with tactical superiority.

The arrival of Voyagers EMH on the USSS Prometheus causes both joy and shock back at RSC/RSN headquarters and UESPA/Starfleet headquarters.

Meanwhile, in the Delta Quadrant, the Hirogen, the builders of the subspace relay network, contact Voyager and Echo and instruct them to discontinue their use of the network. They do not respond to diplomacy, so Seven of Nine gives the Hirogen a mild shock, in order to give the Doctor enough time to get back to Voyager.

After several hours of briefings, Voyagers EMH doctor is told that they will send the Doctor back to Voyager/Echo through the subspace relay network with a message for the captain’s of Voyager and Echo that they are longer alone and every effort will be made to help them.

On the return of Voyagers EMH and the news that both RSC/RSN and UESPA/Starfleet are aware that they are not dead and every effort will be made to bring them home. Both crews are now more than ever, confident that they will get home.

Also both Echo and Voyager have not seen any Borg activity for several months and they draw the conclusion that they maybe clear of Borg space.

What lines ahead for the two alpha quadrant ships…….

To be continued…….

Next – Part 34 – The Hirogen/The Omega Directive

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Part 34 – The Hirogen/The Omega Directive

The Hirogen

Hirogen adult males are quite large, standing above the average height of other known humanoid species. Their sensory perception is acute and quite useful for a hunting species. The Hirogen also possess an impressive immune system for attacking foreign bodies. They use an enzyme to break down the bones and muscle tissue of their prey. This suggests that the Hirogen use some of their victims as food.

The Hirogen have started to hunt both Voyager and Echo as part of their hunting ritual a pack of Hirogen ships successfully claimed the starships Voyager and Echo and forced them to participate in vast holodeck hunting simulations. This unique technology offered the Hirogen a better chance to study their prey, and the Alpha believed it represented the next stage of Hirogen social evolution. When the two crews fought back and forced the Hirogen to a standoff resulting in the death of the Alpha, Captain Janeway and Captain Lore gave the new Hirogen Alpha the data necessary to make holographic technology, in the hopes that it would calm Hirogen society and stop them from hunting sentient beings.

In 2377 the Hirogen have gone on to make holographic prey in huge space stations fitted with holoemitters. In order to make the prey more challenging they had programmed the holograms not only with the ability to feel pain so that they would avoid the hunters with more desperation, but also to learn and the ability to retain knowledge after being killed. When they were reactivated for another hunt, they would remember the last one. The result was truly worthy prey. This technology would stop the Hirogen from hunting sentient beings and lead to the Hirogen being a slightly calmer race.

The crews of HMSS Echo and USSS Voyager have another new friend in the Delta quadrant and a new treaty between the Alliance and the Hirogen is sealed.

The Omega Directive

Both Voyager and Echo have suddenly dropped out of warp as a result of a subspace disturbance. Asked to track the disturbance, both crews are surprised when they suddenly loses all sensor readings. All the information on both bridges monitors suddenly disappears, replaced with the Greek letter omega (Ω). Neither Voyager or Echo’s senior staff can access the message the symbol denotes, also in communication with Echo’s first officer cannot get an override either, with even Voyager and Echo first officers command authorization code is rejected. Captain Janeway suddenly appears on Voyager’s bridge and at the same time as Captian Lore appears on Echo’s bridge, both Captains order their bridge crews to do nothing. The two Captains make the symbol disappear, but no data returns to the monitors. Both Captains go to their ready rooms, saying instructions will be forthcoming.

In their ready rooms, they both order their doors sealed. Using their level 10 security codes, the computers on both ships report to both Captains the data; the Omega Phenomenon has been detected just over a light year from Voyager/Echo. Both ships computers informs’ both Captains that they are obligated to initiate the Alliance Omega Directive immediately - all other orders are rescinded.

On HMSS Echo all six members of Section 31 have gathered in the quarters of Lieutenant Samantha Jones to review the Omega Directive and confirm the data, that the Omega molecule has been detected. Now the six members of Section 31 must make a decision on weather to inform Captain Lore of Section 31 existence and how the Omega Directive came about, the decision is made not to tell Captain Lore or any one else about section 31’s involvement about the Omega Directive.

The Omega Directive came about because in the 2270s a scientist called Katteract was researching the Omega molecule under one of Section 31 black projects (though Katteract was unaware that he was be funded by Section 31), the molecule existed for a fraction of a second before exploding, killing Katteract and 126 of his colleagues. This helped cover up any Section 31 involvement as all the scientists involved were killed. A secondary effect of the explosion was that subspace fractures appeared in a region of several light years from the space station it is now impossible to create a stable warp field anywhere within a 3.2 light year radius from the station.

The Alliance created a cover story that these instabilities were a natural phenomonen. They'd quickly realized that a small chain of these could destroy a space faring civilization, and/or be a doomsday weapon. Though the Alliance members were unaware that it was RSC Intelligence Section 31 that caused this in the first place, only that this was a terrible scientific accident.

The RSC informed the Alliance council of the accident of this scientific experiment that had gone wrong and the terrible loss of life. The Alliance accepted that if was just an experiment gone wrong and nothing more.

The Omega Directive was issued by the Alliance, and knowledge kept only to those of a rank of Captain or above. The molecule is to be neutralized at all costs. Normally, a specialized Alliance squad would be sent in to do this, but the two crews will have to do this job themselves, or they may never be able to achieve warp speeds again.

A joint mission with both Voyager and Echo is needed and both crews are informed of the Omega Directive though giving just enough detail to get the job done.

After several days of work the crews of Voyager and Echo manage to eliminate the Omega particles from the system that a pre warp civilisation were trying to use the Omega particles to create a power source for them selves.

Both crews continue their voyage back to the Alpha quadrant.

To be continued……..

Next – Part 35 Project Lifeline/Equinox

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Part 35 – Project Lifeline/Equinox

Project Lifeline (Alpha Quadrant)

On the 28 March 2377 is the date when Admiral Data from the RSC/RSN and Admiral Paris from UESPA/Starfleet visits Starfleet headquarters to be informed on the progress in contacting Voyager and Echo under Project Lifeline.

Lieutenant Reginald Barclay wants to brief Admiral Data and Admiral Paris on his theory about using a pulsar passing within four billion kilometres to create an artificial wormhole and then using it to communicate with Voyager. Commander Harkins rejects the idea, recalling that several weeks were wasted on trying to develop a transwarp probe, based on Barclay’s simulations. Commander Peter Harkins says that he will do the talking during the briefing for Admiral Data and Admiral Paris and for Lieutenant Barclay to keep silent during the tour.

When Admiral Data and Admiral Paris arrive, Commander Harkins start’s the briefing on how the project is going, and then Lieutenant Barclay speaks up. He tells the two Admirals that there might be a way to establish two-way communication with Voyager. He tries to tell the two Admirals about his plan, but Commander Harkins cuts him off. But Admiral Data cuts Commander Harkins off and asks Lieutenant Barclay to continue his briefing and orders Commander Harkins to silent, when Lieutenant Barclay is finished Admiral Data asks Lieutenant Barclay to proceed and to demonstrate his theory and try to contact Echo and Voyager in the Delta quadrant, Admiral Paris agrees with Admiral Data.

In the Delta quadrant Voyager and Echo detects’ the micro-wormhole. Only part of the message is received, Lore and Janeway respond straight away, as the wormhole is collapsing. Back on Earth, everyone in the lab suddenly hears a beeping noise. Lore and Janeway transmission is garbled, but Barclay mangers to clean it up. Barclay replies, and Lore and Janeway says they been waiting a long time for this since they got Voyagers EMH to back from the alpha quadrant. Barclay tells both Captains the feeling is mutual, but the wormhole is collapsing. Lieutenant Barclay sends both Captains information on the hyper-subspace technology, and Lore and Janeway transmits the ship’s logs, crew reports and navigational records, these records will reviewed be their respective commands.

Then Admiral Paris speaks. He asks her how the crew of Voyager is holding up. Janeway replies that the crew has been exemplary, Tom included. The Admiral says he misses him, and that he’s proud of him. Tom listens in silence and shock aboard Voyager. Admiral Paris tells her they’re doing everything they can, before the wormhole collapses. Harkins says he’s sorry he doubted Barclay, and Admiral Paris tells him that thanks to Barclay, Project Lifeline is just beginning.

Lastly Admiral Data speaks to his “brother” Captain Lore and asks how Lore is, Lore replies that he is functioning within normal parameters and that the crew of HMSS Echo have preformed their duties very well.

Then the link is lost, and the room goes quiet for a few seconds.

After the link is lost Admiral Data asks to speak to Admiral Paris and Commander Harkins in private. Admiral Data says that the RSC/RSN will continue to fund this project on one condition that Lieutenant Reginald Barclay is placed in charge. With some reluctance Admiral Paris agrees, leaving Commander Harkins in a stunned silence. After the losses during the Dominion war UESPA/Starfleet lacks the full resources of the RSC/RSN and needs the RSC/RSN to continue Project Lifeline, as most of the resources of UESPA/Starfleet are being concentrated on repairing or rebuilding its damaged colonies and ships.

Later at UESPA/Starfleet orbital headquarters Lieutenant Reginald Barclay is promoted to Captain (of engineers) and placed in charge of Project Lifeline, and Captain Barclay will get all the resources he needs, mainly from the RSC and some resources from the UESPA to continue with Project Lifeline.

Captain Barclay says that once the final tests are carried out that they should be able to send a message between Earth and the two vessels in the Delta quadrant once and month, also both Voyager and Echo will be able to reply during the time the micro wormhole is open.

Equinox

Delta Quadrant June 2377, the USSS Voyager picks up and emergency message from the USSS Equinox a Defiant Class warship. This information is relayed to Captain Lore on Echo who orders a course change and both ships to go to action stations. The USSS Equinox was lost in the badlands a few weeks before the Caretaker captured Voyager and Echo on a reconnaissance mission seeing how much Maquis activity their was.

The USSS Equinox is one of a small but growing number of Defiant Class warships with a length of 120 meters a crew of 47 a maximum warp speed of just over warp 9.5 and an armaments of 4 pulse phaser cannons; 2 phaser beam emitters; 2 forward torpedo (photon and quantum torpedo) launchers; 2 aft torpedo launchers and is fitted with ablative armour on the ships hull. The Defiant Class is a very spartan design as UESPA/Starfleet engineers had to pack as much firepower into the smallest ships design possible.

After several hours a high warp Echo and Voyager arrive to find the USSS Equinox under attack by a large number of small fighter like spacecraft. Hailing the USSS Equinox Captain Lore finds out from the USSS Equinox Captain Rudolph Ransom that they attacking vessels are part of a group of pirates called the Zon.

Both Echo and Voyager engage the pirate vessels along with the damaged Equinox. With their combined firepower, the three ships mange to drive of the pirates, but more pirates will be coming for them. After the battle Captain Ransom hails the two ships to thank them for saving his ships from being captured by the Zon.

Captain Lore says that Voyager will be responsible for looking after the Equinox’s casualties while HMSS Echo stands guard.

The initial damage assessment by Voyagers chief engineer says that the Equinox can be saved. It will take a few hours of work to restore the warp drive, then the Equinox could only achieve maximum of warp 7 for short periods, and can run at warp 6 for several days so the Equinox can get out of the imitate area and find some ware safe to do more extensive repairs. It will take a least 3 weeks worth of work to restore the Equinox to full operational capability. Captain Lore says that having an extra ship will be useful and it will be worth the time and effort, if only that can elude the pirates called the Zon.

After several hours work the Equinox’s systems are restored to a basic level of operation, allowing the Equinox to go to warp and also allowing the shields to be at maximum of 50% and some limited weapons capability. In a brief ceremony on Voyager Captains Lore and Janeway welcome Captain Ransom to their group. Initially Ransom is disappointed to learn that the advanced vessels Echo and Voyager are not ships sent from the Alpha Quadrant to find him and his crew, but shared their fate of having been pulled to this side of the galaxy by the Caretaker. But Captain Ransom is happy about not being alone in the delta quadrant any more.

Over the next few days the three ships play a game of cat and mouse with the pirates, also having a series of short pitched battles with the pirates. The three ships make for a dense asteroid field for cover and a place to restore the Equinox to full capability and to take stock of the situation.

In a briefing onboard HMSS Echo Captain Lore points out that he has invoked Alliance Emergency Regulation 191 (Article 14). When the Equinox is restored to full operational capability, Captain Janeway will be pushed into third place as the Equinox has tactical superiority over Voyager and this will make Captain Janeway subordinate to Captain Ransom, Captain Janeway has no choice but to accept this decision and is not very pleased about being pushed into third place. Captain Ransom accepts being second in command of the three alpha quadrant ships’ and acknowledges that Captain Lore is in command under Alliance Emergency Regulation 191 (Article 14).

By July 2377 the Equinox has been restored to full operational capability with a full load of photon torpedoes being manufactured onboard Voyager to replace those used against the Zon pirates, the raw materials have come from the asteroids to manufacture the torpedoes and replacement parts that are needed, using Echo and Voyagers replicators.

But the Zon Pirates have found the three ships. The alpha quadrant three vessels now prepare for another battle with the pirates known as the Zon. The battle between the three Alpha quadrant ships and the Zon pirates will be the hardest battle between the two groups. The battle lasts for several hours with battle swinging one way then the other, space was filled with a spectacular light show as beams of energy interspersed with blue and red balls of photon torpedoes and the small novas when one of the Zon vessels is destroyed. The small size of the Zon pirates would be their downfall as it would only take one direct hit from a phase or torpedo to destroy one of the pirate vessels, the pirates could not concentrate enough firepower onto one of the Alpha quadrant ships with out taking it away from the other two. After several hours of trying the pirates decided that it was no longer worth the effort or the causalities that they were taking and the pirates withdrew from the battle.

Once the battle damage had been repaired and the ships had been brought back up to full capability the three ships set a course of the Alpha quadrant and resumed their course back home.

By August 2377 Captain Barclay has managed to get project lifeline working properly and they manage to contact Voyager and Echo, also much to everyone’s surprise at Project Lifeline base, they also hear that the USSS Equinox has also been found in the Delta quadrant safe and sound.

Captain Lore is confirmed as leader of the group of ships until they return to earth as under Alliance Emergency Regulation 191 (Article 14). Also once a month they will be able to send and receive brief messages to loved ones back in the alpha quadrant.

Back in the Alpha quadrant on the RSC colony of New Edinburgh, in the orbital shipyards of New Govan a discussion is underway on weather or not to use the two black projects in combination (Eclipse and Mirror) to get the three ships home.

The outcome of the meeting will decide weather or not to revile what level of technology the RSC really has be researching. This would shift the balance of power in the alpha quadrant to the RSC and give the RSC a large technological lead over the other races in the alpha quadrant.

To be continued……

Next – Part 36 – Projects Eclipse and Mirror

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Part 36 – Projects Eclipse and Mirror

Eclipse

The Eclipse was initially a concept of what a future RSN warship might look like, but Eclipse turned into a full blown project. With the coming of the Dominion war the Eclipse project slowed down to allow resources to be concentrated into tried and tested designs. With the peace treaty being signed on the 1st February 2377 project Eclipse was back.

During the Dominion war the Eclipse had begun construction at a shipyard of New Govan in the RSC colony of New Edinburgh, by the time the Dominion war was over the basic ships was constructed all that was needed was to fit the ships systems.

The Eclipse design was based loosely on the Vanguard class design. With a saucer section and a new secondary “engineering” hull, this new secondary hull not only went from the centre of the lowed part of the saucer section but also the upper part of the saucer section, creating a saucer section wedged between the secondary hull. The lower part of the secondary hull held the navigational deflector and the shuttle bays as well as main engineering, the upper part of the secondary hull contained the fore and aft spearfish heavyweight photon torpedo launchers. The secondary hull also held the four warp nacelles, two on the lower and two on the upper part of the secondary hull, the four warp nacelles were necessary to more such a large warship at high warp.

The length is 3,020 meters and a height of 775 meters and a width of 895 meters; this was an increase of 50% in size and mass over the Vanguard class design and allowed for more storage space especially for the large number of torpedoes. The Eclipse is largest warship ever produced by RSC/RSN command.

The Eclipse has an armament of four forward firing and two aft firing Mark 4 heavy phaser cannons, 46 dual phaser banks, 20 spearfish heavyweight photon torpedo launchers (10 forward and 10 aft) with 1,500 torpedoes “ready to use” and another 3,000 “stored. The spearfish heavyweight photon torpedo launcher can hold 12 torpedoes at a time thus if all 20 launchers are loaded this gives a total of 240 torpedoes in one salvo. The shields were the latest on regenerative shielding technology the Eclipse was also fitted with back-up shields and the latest in polarised hull armour. The upgraded Mark 2 point defence system (PDS) of the successful Mark 1 that is fitted to the Vanguard class is also fitted the HMSS Eclipse.

The Eclipse’s uses bio neural circuitry rather than the current bio neural jell packs. This bio neural jell packs improves reaction time on the ships systems. The main computer was based on positronic from the Noonien Soong institute on Earth; this technology was designed to improve computer processing time. Though the Eclipse’s main computer did not have the ability of Dr. Noonien Soongs androids.

The Eclipse’s could maintain a maximum continuous speed of warp 9.99 until fuel exhaustion without putting any strain on the ships systems while being at high warp for long periods of time.

The crew numbers on the Eclipse were not much larger that the Vanguard Class, having a crew of 2,575 and can carry up to 1,800 RSM the equivalent of a light regiment, normally only up to 900 RSM are carried on board for ship security.

The Eclipse would be used as a test bed for new systems and technology coving all areas of ships systems, equipment and operation.

Between February and the May 2377 the Eclipse is out fitted with its improved equipment and the latest technology. The Eclipse is launched on the 1 June 2377 with no publicity and little ceremony to keep the Eclipse secret until the ships trails and testing are completed.

The Eclipse will be for the next few years a one of a kind as there are not enough shipyard capacity to build and more Eclipse’s, though later on it will be decided that no more Eclipse class ships will be built after an event in 2385.

The main emphasis of the RSC shipyards will be to concentrate on keeping tried and test designs coming of the production lines and updating the currents ships with the latest technology.

Mirror

The mirror project was designed to develop the Iconians gateway technology for RSC and RSN use.

The Iconians were an ancient and highly advanced civilization that was destroyed about 200,000 years ago. The Iconian gateway was a technology developed by the ancient Iconians, whose underlying principles remain well beyond RSC science. The gateway allowed instantaneous travel over enormous distances; at least 70,000 light-years was possible, even much further in theory. Physically the gateway appeared literally as a "door", either suspended in space or on a planet surface surrounded by a frame, through which was the destination. An individual could simply step through the gateway as they would an ordinary door and emerge on the other side.

Though the underlying principles remain well beyond RSC science, the RSC Research and Development division can copy the technology and use the Iconians gateway technology for short periods before the copy burns out and is destroyed. The RSC do not have the ability of technology to exactly duplicate Iconians gateway technology for a least another 50 years or more. Until then the RSC Research and Development division can only build copies that last for no more than 1 hour before being destroyed.

The RSC found an abandoned Iconian outpost in a system within RSC space, on a moon orbiting a dead planet. The RSC Research and Development division would use this moon as it main base for studying the Iconian technology and trying to reverse engineer the Iconian gateway technology. So far they can only get one of their gate copies to last for about 1 hour before the gates control panel and then the power source explodes, also once activated the copy seems to locked onto the on position and cannot be switched off, though during the time the gate is working anyone can be transported anywhere as long as the RSC R&D staff have a location coordinates in space or on a planet.

This system has been successfully tested several times, they only other flaw is that you need a gate at the other end to come back as the Iconians gateway technology is one way, you cannot come back though the gate you came though. All these tests were carried out in space and not on a planet as the power core detonation would cause no damage in space.

The RSC have also been successful in transporting shuttlecraft and small star ships from the Iconian outpost to anywhere within RSC space, they have also been able to send probes over longer distances, once the probe has confirmed it has arrived it self destructs to avoid detection.

The debate

On the RSC colony of New Edinburgh, in the orbital shipyards of New Govan a discussion is underway on weather or not to use the two black projects (Eclipse and Mirror) to get the three ships home.

The RSN ship HMSS Eclipse could carry an Iconian gateway device/power plant to the Delta quadrant. Deploy the Iconian gateway device then all four ships could return, once the four ships have gone though the Iconian gateway, the Iconian gateway device would self-destruct leaving no trace of the Iconians gateway technology behind in the delta quadrant.

The debate between the 30 RSC member representative heads of the 10 RSC countries, 10 RSC Intelligence and 10 from RSN command would continue for several weeks in an on off discussion until a decision has finally been made. Also present are members of the RSC Research and Development division to brief the 30 RSC representatives on the technology and how it works.

This decision could have a profound effect on the balance of power in the alpha quadrant for a long time to come and have considerable repercussions for the RSC.

To be continued………

Next – Part 37 – The Decision

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Part 37 – The Decision

Buy November 2377 the decision is made to use the Iconian gateway device to send HMSS Eclipse to the delta quadrant with a second Iconian gateway device to bring all the ships home. There is one clause that the rest of the alliance will not be told about the Iconian gateway device until after all three ships have returned to the alpha quadrant and the RSC will deal with the repercussions afterwards.

A deserted and out of the way system on the edge of RSC space is chosen as the start point for the mission and when the copy of the Iconian gateway device explodes after one hour after activation the detonation will harm no one. Also well away from were the Iconian gateway technology was found.

HMSS Eclipse is full armed and equipped for the mission, just in case there are any problems, this preparation takes several weeks. The second Iconian gateway device is safely stored onboard HMSS Eclipse main cargo bay. The Captain of HMSS Eclipse will be Rear Admiral James West a combat veteran of the Dominion war and has extensive knowledge of starship engineering.

The crew of the Eclipse will not be told of what the mission is until just before the Eclipse goes though the Iconian gateway.

In the December transmission from Project Lifeline the RSN transmit a coded order to Captain Lore to go to a certain location in the Delta quadrant and await instructions, no reasons are given except that their might be a way home.

Captain Lore receives the order, though he does not fully understand the order he will obey the order and instructs that all three ships will make for the coordinates indicated. Captain Lore tells Captains Ransom and Janeway that he has received these orders and that he intends to follow them. Captain Janeway questions the orders, but Captain Ransom agrees with Captain Lore that this may be a short cut that they have found or even a way home and this order will be obeyed, thus Captain Janeway is sidelined and will follow the orders.

In the Alpha quadrant the Eclipse now is ready for the mission and proceeds under cloak to the start location codenamed “gateway”. Once at the location the crew is informed of the mission. The first Iconian gateway device is powered up remotely and the coordinates are set for the delta quadrant rendezvous point.

A discharge from the first Iconian gateway device, this creates a gateway to the delta quadrant, looking though the Iconian gateway the bridge crew can see the three ships waiting on the other side, so that they know they have the right coordinates.

The Eclipse is given the go ahead from the ship that is controlling the Iconian gateway by remote control, to proceed though the gateway and in to the delta quadrant.

HMSS Eclipse moves slowly towards the Iconian gateway and goes though the Iconian gateway in to the delta quadrant. An hour after activation the Iconian gateway device overloads and explodes causing the Iconian gateway to close.

In the delta quadrant HMSS Echo along with USSS Equinox and USSS Voyager are waiting at the coordinates that the RSC/RSN command indicated, with a series of scans the three alpha quadrant vessels have determined that there is nothing at these coordinates.

After waiting there for several days Captain Janeway is about to contact Captain Lore to suggest that they move on, when Harry Kim reports a disturbance in the area of space in front of them. Suddenly the front of very large space ship begins to appear in front of them as more and more of the ship appears until the whole vessel has completed is journey though the Iconian gateway.

Captain Janeway is staggered at the size of the vessel; the IFF identifies the vessel as HMSS Eclipse of the RSN. This warship is so large that it dwarfs the three ships. Captain Janeway comments that HMSS Eclipse was built for war and not for exploration.

Rear Admiral James West commanding the Eclipse hails all three ships says that the Eclipse has brought a way back to the alpha quadrant. The Eclipse is carrying a crude copy of an Iconian gateway device. This will take several days to set-up, but once the Iconian gateway device is set-up all four ships will be able to go home. Both Captain’s Janeway and Ransom are astounded that the RSC has been able to copy the advanced Iconian gateway technology even at this crude level that allows even limited operation.

All four ships crews set to work in setting up the Iconian gateway device, this work takes 15 days for solid work to set-up the Iconian gateway device and a further 5 days of testing to make sure that the device is working properly, as they only have one shot at this. If the Iconian gateway device and is not working properly the Iconian gateway device will overload and explode within one hour of activation, loosing their only way home from the time being.

By the 6th January 2378 the Iconian gateway device is ready to be activated all four ships prepare to go home. The Iconian gateway device is activated and the coordinates are set for the location were HMSS Eclipse departed from 20 days ago. The gateway works and the doorway show the destination, first though the gateway is USSS Equinox followed by USS Voyager then HMSS Echo and finally HMSS Eclipse. One hour after activation the Iconian gateway device overloads and explodes, though no one is around to see the explosion.

The Return and Repercussions

With all four ships back in the alpha quadrant there is a tremendous celebration’s at the three lost ships return from the delta quadrant from the general UESPA and RSC population. The three crews get a hero’s welcome when they arrive at Earth, all three crews will over the next few weeks receive awards and promotions and go to numerous award ceremonies.

The political fallout is less severe as the RSC states that it is under no obligation to reveal it secret projects or is technology to anyone. The RSC get support from the Klingon Empire, also quite surprisingly the RSC gets support from the Vulcan’s and the Andorians both support the RSC in the Alliance council. With the support of the Klingon Empire, Vulcan and the Andorians the motion by the UESPA to get the RSC to share Iconian gateway technology with the rest of the Alliance is defeated in the Alliance assembly by the RSC, Vulcan and the Andorians using their veto on the council. The Klingons do not have a vote on the Alliance council but they are allowed to voice there option at the Alliance council.

Even though most of the members of the Alliance members wanted a share of the Iconian gateway technology, none of the Alliance members wanted to force the issue as this could lead to civil war within the Alliance and after the Dominion war no one wanted another war. Also there was nothing in the Alliance charter that says that the RSC should hand over the Iconian gateway technology and this would also set a dangerous precedent by allowing the Alliance to control any technology they wanted, this is something no one wanted even the UESPA. This is probably one of the main reasons the Vulcan’s and the Andorians used there veto along with the RSC, as the Vulcan and the Andorians did not want the other Alliance members to have access to there advanced technology.

Even though the UESPA motion has been defeated in the Alliance assembly, the UESPA still has a small number of Alliance members that will continue to press the RSC to release the Iconian gateway technology to be placed under Alliance control. The RSC along with the Vulcan’s and the Andorians will continue to use there veto to thwart all attempts at getting the Iconian gateway technology placed under Alliance control or anyone else’s control.

The Vulcan’s and the Andorians during these sessions have never stated there reason for not supporting putting the Iconian gateway technology under the Alliance council control.

This political back and forth will continue in to 2380’s and beyond but to no avail as the RSC will not release the technology. The UESPA will eventually release this and give up the fight to obtain the Iconian gateway technology from the RSC.

Promotions and Changes for Echo, Voyager and Equinox crews

Captain Janeway is promoted to Rear Admiral and given a desk job in UESPA/Starfleet headquarters on Earth. With responsibility for UESPA/Starfleet exploration command, Rear Admiral Janeway will third in the chain of command in the UESPA/Starfleet exploration command.

Captain Ransom is also promoted to Rear Admiral and it put in charge of the UESPA/Starfleet forces guarding the colonies along the Cardassian boarder and is given one of the new upgraded Sovereign class star ships as his flagship.

Lieutenant Tom Paris is promoted to Commander and will become Voyager’s new first officer once Voyager is refitted with Harry Kim promoted to Lieutenant Commander and becoming operations officer on Voyager also B'Elanna Torres is confirmed as Voyager chief Engineer with the rank of Commander. Tom Paris previous criminal record is forgotten this is mostly due to his farther Admiral Paris intervening on his son’s behalf and RSN Admiral Data supporting this and the fact that the three crews have so much public support no one would dare day no to this.

Voyagers EMH would remain Voyagers chief medical officer with the rank of commander and would be granted full rights as a sentient being within the UESPA. This would of set the mess that the UESPA made with Seven of Nine (Annika Hansen) being treated as a lab rat.

The rest of the Maquis crew on Voyager decide to return to their new homeland in the badlands and settle down and try and find is the have any family left after being away for so long.

Seven of Nine (Annika Hansen) is treated by UESPA as more like a lab rat than an individual after enduring six months of prodding, poking and testing by UESPA scientist. Seven of Nine (Annika Hansen) leaves the UESPA and renounces her American citizenship and becomes a citizen of the RSC with New Zealand citizenship with no intention of returning to the UESPA. The RSC treat Seven of Nine (Annika Hansen) much better than the UESPA ever did and Seven of Nine (Annika Hansen) becomes a specialist in stellar cartographic among other things.

Neelix and Kes leave Voyager and settle down on one of the many colony worlds within the Alliance controlled space.

Captain Lore is promoted to Vice Admiral and is made deputy commander of RSN exploration division and will retain command of HMSS Echo as his flagship once refitted with the latest technology.

Major Wreford-Brown is promoted to Brigadier and given command of the 18th Royal Space Marine Brigade within the 6th Royal Space Marine division and will be promoted to Major General with 18 months and given command of the 6th Royal Space Marine division when the current 6th RSM division commander retires.

Rear Admiral James West is also promoted to Vice Admiral and retains command of HMSS Eclipse as his flagship also 30 other RSN warships are added under the designation Battle Group Eclipse. This task force will be used as a diplomatic tool in sending Battle Group Eclipse on showing the flag to both none Alliance members and Alliance member’s worlds.

The mission that retrieved the three ships stranded in the Delta quadrant does have one long-term benefit it brings RSC and UESPA closer together with both Earth based governments doing more joint missions together in the future. This is even with the problems over the Iconian gateway technology. Though the two Earth governments will never be allied under a joint Earth command, this does help in the warming of the relations between the two Earth governments.

What will the future bring for both RSC and the Alliance as a whole?

To be continued……

Next – Part 38 – Organisation of the RSC and the RSN

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Part 38 – Organisation of the RSC and the RSN

Royal Space Command

The RSC is made up of 10 member countries – Britain, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Malta, Nepal and Tibet. Each member country has one vote on the RSC council no matter how many colonies etc each country has in the RSC. This makes the decision making process very easy as all that is needed is a majority vote and as no county has the power of veto this also levels the playing field.

The RSC has two headquarters one in London on Earth and the other is based in the colony system of New Gibraltar. New Gibraltar is also the headquarters of the Alliance.

Each country’s ambassador on the RSC council is chosen by that counties government, the head of the RSC is the King or Queen of Britain, and this post is purely a ceremonial role befitting a constitutional monarchy.

Each member country within run their own colony(s) with their own laws, colony defence comes under each countries military and also the Royal Space Navy witch is responsible for the defence of the RSC colonies and orbital defences. Each country maintains its own military forces on Earth and its colonies, but does not possess and combat spacecraft as this comes under the jurisdiction of the RSC.

The RSC liaises with the military of each member country and conducts joint exercises with various units of the RSC military. This also allows the RSC military to conduct recruiting campaigns within RSC member countries on Earth and their colonies.

Each member country and its colonies pays a percentage of its GDP in to the RSC to provide funding for the RSC various branches this is 5% of each countries and its colonies GDP. This is used to fund the RSN, RSM, RSC Intelligence (including Section 31) and RSC Research and Development, this funding also partly pays for colony expansion the remaining funding for colony expansion comes from RSC member countries.

The current number of RSC colonies is 31 this is expected to grow to 35, with four new systems earmarked for colonisation within the next few decades to handle population growth within the RSC member countries.

The total population of the RSC is just over 50 billion people spread over Earth and its 31 (soon to be 35) colonies, population growth has been very high as the RSC has founded new colonies and expanded as needed rather than grabbing as much as possible without the ability to defend the new territory.

The RSC uses the pound sterling as its currency as the British pound, Canada pound, New Zealand pound and Australia pound etc. The total GDP of the RSC members countries and there colonies is 90 trillion pounds a year with 5% of the GDP going to the RSC to fund the RSN, RSM, RSC Intelligence and RSC Research and Development division etc. This gives the RSC an annual income of 4.5 trillion pounds plus additional funding for setting up new colonies for RSC member counties as needed. Economic growth within the RSC is currently running at 3.2% per year with no signs of the economic growth slowing.

The RSC is one of founding members of the Alliance and also had a separate alliance with the Klingon Empire. The RSC has a large number of trade agreements with both Alliance and none alliance members this brings in a large amount of trade of the various companies within the RSC member countries and also gives the RSC member countries a very large export market for a wide range of products.

The RSC does not sell it weapons or warships to any other race except the Klingon Empire for witch the RSC as a limited technological exchange treaty between the two alpha quadrant powers.

Royal Space Navy

The RSN has a force of just over 20,000 warships of various types. The main warship types are the Vanguard Class Super Battleship, Invincible III Class Battleships, Dreadnought IV Class Battle Cruisers, Leander XII Class Frigates and Longbow II Class scouts. These 5 classes form the backbone of the RSN warships. The size of the RSN still remains at it war level of 20,000 warships and shows no signs of decreasing. There are two sub classes in the RSN, the Scott class explorer cruiser and the Britannia class diplomatic cruiser, these two sub classes are only built in small numbers, with a combined total of just of 425 vessels.

The RSN in conjunction with the colonies operate the orbital defences around all of the 31 RSC colonies the RSC also operate manned and unmanned outposts along the RSC boarded and along the boarder with the Romulan Empire along with the rest of the Alliance.

The RSN also operate 26 standing task forces A though Z each of these task forces have on average 100 warships and support vessels assigned to each task force. These task forces are part of the RSN roving patrols within its space, these task forces are also assigned guard duties e.g. four of these task forces are assigned to guarding the Bajoran system and the wormhole as part of an Alliance standing fleet in that area of space.

The are also a large number of the smaller Rapid Response Groups (RRG) these RRG’s have on average 15 to 20 warships in each group. These RRG are formed/disbanded as need by the RSN, there are no standing RRG.

The RSN command is divided in five fleets, the most powerful of these fleets is the fifth fleet centred in the New Quebec system. This fleet is commanded by Admiral Data, the fifth fleet not only has its 950 warships but also commands the four task forces assigned to the defence of the Bajoran wormhole. The fifth fleet covers about 20% of the RSC controlled space and the RSC/Cardassian boarder area.

There are also the System Defence Forces, these are responsible for patrolling and defending RSC colonies from attack and maintaining a steady flow of space traffic into and out of the various systems that the SDF guard. The SDF is usually made up of mostly locally recruited colonist with a core of RSN personal. The SDF is mainly a law enforcement and system security organisation made up of law enforcement personal. The SDF use system patrol cutters and upgraded shuttlecraft to patrol their home system, in time of war the SDF will come under the full control of the RSN, in peacetime they come under the control of the systems civilian authority RSC member government.

The last part of the RSN is the convoy escort groups; these groups not only protect military convoys but also the civilian freighters that tag along with the convoy for added protection.

The RSN is command by a Fleet Admiral.

Royal Space Marines and Royal Space Marine Commandoes

The RSM has 30 standing divisions (one per colony except New Gibraltar that has 4 divisions) and 12 reserve divisions based on Earth. The Royal Space Marine Reserve is capable of increasing the number of marine divisions to 52 in time of war.

A RSM Division is made up of 3 brigades of 4,500 marines giving a total of 13,500 with a divisional support regiment of 2,500 bring a RSM Division to the grand total of 16,000 personal. A Major General commands each division and a Brigadier commands each brigade. Several of the divisional brigades operate interdentally of their divisional command. A Lieutenant General commands a RSM CORP. A General commands an RSM ARMY GROUP and as a whole a Field Marshal commands the RSM.

The RSM also provides marines for shipboard security and for ceremonial duties the numbers varies from ship to ship and also what sort of mission the RSN warship is going on.

The RSMC have only one division this division is separate from the normal RSM divisions and is used for raids against enemy rear lines of supply and to conduct commando operations against the enemy’s rear areas. The RSMC division has 3 brigades of 5,500 commandoes giving a total of 16,500 with a divisional support regiment of 3,200 bring the RSMC division to the grand total of 19,700 commandoes. A Lieutenant General commands the RSMC division and a Major General commands each brigade.

Ranks within the RSN and RSM

Admiral of the Fleet…………Field Marshal
Admiral……………………...General
Vice-Admiral………………...Lieutenant General
Rear Admiral………………...Major General
Commodore………………….Brigadier
Captain………………………Colonel
Commander………………….Lieutenant Colonel
Lieutenant-Commander……...Major
Lieutenant……………………Captain
Sub-Lieutenant……………….Lieutenant
Ensign………………………...Second Lieutenant
Warrant Officer………………Warrant Officer Class 1
………………………………..Warrant Officer Class 2
Chief Petty Officer…………...Colour Sergeant
Petty Officer………………….Sergeant
Leading Rating……………….Corporal
………………………………..Lance Corporal
Ordinary Rating………………Marine
Please note that some RSN ranks do not have a RSM equivalent.

The RSM division have their own troop carrying ships these are converted freighters, the converted freighters are not very good so the RSM along with the RSN will start receiving the Ark Royal class troop carriers. The Ark Royal class is based on the Vanguard class Super battleships but with most of the heavy armament removed. The removal of the heavy phaser cannons and most of the photon torpedo launchers releases a large volume of internal space and with a shifting of the internal layout of the vessel; this allows a RSM Brigade to fit into the new Ark Royal design.

The RSM will eventually start to receive 100 of these Ark Royal class troop carriers from 2391 onwards.

In times of war the RSM can call upon the regular army units of the RSC member countries to provide additional

RSC Intelligence (including Section 31)

RSC Intelligence was set-up when the RSC was formed in the early 21st century and a combined intelligence unit pooling the intelligence resources of the RSC member countries. The RSC Intelligence has is main headquarters on Earth London with secondary headquarters in all the capitals on Earth and also on all 31 colony systems.

RSC Intelligence also has 50 Shadow class stealth ships. The Shadow class is a usual design that it departs from the saucer design of the current RSC/RSN ships. The front half of the ship is shaped like an arrowhead and the rear half is squared of, the warp nacelles run the length of the rear half. The Shadow class is coloured black and has sensor bafflers along the hull and its sublight engines are muffled to reduce to a minimum any emissions when cloaked. The armament consists of only 8 twin phaser banks and no Spearfish torpedo launchers. The Shadow class is equipped with a normal cloaking device. With a length of 211 meters and a maximum warp speed of warp 9 with burst of warp 9.6 for short periods. This ship is virtually impossible to detect at low warp and at impulse speeds.

Section 31

The four founding members of the RSC Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia formed the RSC Intelligence off shoot intelligence organisation Section 31. The existence of this organisation is not known to very many people outside the Section 31 inner circle even within the other RSC members have very little knowledge of Section 31 existence or what sort of operations Section 31 carries out.

Section 31 also operates its own version of the Shadow class stealth ships 20 of these ships are operated by Section 31. These are identical in design to the RSC Intelligence version but they have a phasing cloak and they also have modified Spearfish torpedo launchers fitted that can fire phased torpedoes, each ship carries 50 phased spearfish torpedoes. The Section 31 Shadow class stealth ships cloaking device has two cloaking modes Phased and Normal, in normal cloak the Shadow class can fire its phased spearfish torpedoes. In Phased cloak the Shadow class cannot fire its torpedoes. When a Section 31 Shadow class stealth ships is on a mission the ship will spend the entire mission cloaked.

Section 31 officers wear no uniforms or any form of identification to identify them as Section 31 officers. They normally will identify themselves as RSC Intelligence officers or as RSN personal using one of their many cover identities.

Corporations and Company’s with the RSC


The RSC has a large number of company’s that not only operate on a planetary scale but also a multi planetary scale within the RSC and also within the Alliance and outside the Alliance with none Alliance members. As the RSC in 60% of the cases got their first the RSC member companies have managed to secure a large share of the markets with those alien races.

The RSC company’s operate a space based merchant marine with the ability in time of war to draft these ships into the Royal Space Navy Merchant Marine (RSNMM) under the Ships Taken Up From Trade (STUFT), these are a wide range of freighters, space liners and other types to provide the RSC and the RSN with an enlarged logistics chain.

The RSC and the Alliance

The RSC is one of the founding members of the Alliance along with the UESPA, Vulcan’s, Andorians and the Tellarites, these four member races make up the Alliance security council and each one of the four members has the power to veto any motion put before the Alliance security council. The Alliance consists of over 100 members and a lager number of none members who just trade with either the Alliance as a whole or with individual Alliance members. The RSC has seen its influence go up after the end of the Dominion war and is continuing to expand its diplomatic sphere of influence steadily.

The size of the Alliance is slowly growing by adding up to one or two new member species per year.

To be continued……..

Next – Part 39 – Organisation of the UESPA and Starfleet

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Part 39 – Organisation of the UESPA and Starfleet

The UESPA was formed out of the remaining members of the old UN after Earths third world war with the RSC countries breaking away. The UESPA Security Council is composed of four permanent members China, France, Russian Federation and the United States and ten non-permanent members on a rotating 2-year term. Each of the four permanent members can veto any decision made. The four permanent members can veto any decision that they don’t like so the decision making process can be a long one and sometimes not lead to a decision at all.

Starfleet headquarters are based in San Francisco and the UESPA are in New York and Geneva on Earth. The Geneva headquarters was a compromise by the US to the old EU, rather than having all the headquarters in the US it was decided to split them and have Starfleet headquarters in San Francisco and the UESPA in New York and Geneva for political reasons.

The UESPA has 70 colony systems made up from the various member countries each member countries is responsible for setting its own colony and must find all of the funding from its own countries income and resources. Most of the UESPA member countries club together to colonise a planet to spread the cost between them. The main reason why the UESPA expanded too quickly is because every member of the UESPA wanted a colony of its own or at least part of a planet shared with other UESPA member(s). The four permanent members each have their own colonies.

The UESPA would stabilise at 70 colony systems spread over a large amount of space, these would be in the form of “islands” of UESPA space with routes between each “islands” though Alliance controlled space. The current focus is to rebuild those colonies that were occupied during the Dominion war this is occupying much of the UESPA time, money and resources.

There is no one currency within the UESPA each member country uses its own currency with the Alliance and beyond though the US dollar and the EU Euro are to of the most promonent currencies within the UESPA.

The population of the UESPA is just over 62 billion people.

The UESPA still sell its second hand star ships to UESPA member countries for use in there our system defence forces. This has to be done to raise the extra income to partly fund new ships and to upgrade existing ships. This means that not only does Starfleet have to keep an eye on its enemies but it also has to keep an eye on its own people to make sure that they do not start a war with anyone else (though this is unlikely to happen).

This is a large drain on Starfleet resources but they have found a solution by the building the new Defiant Class ships that will be used for system defence but also to keep an eye on each countries on space forces and what they are up to. The UESPA fully backs Starfleet in its building program and has even provided some extra funding over the next few years so that they do not get a repeat of the Cardassian occupation of any UESPA colonies ever again.

Starfleet


Starfleet is charged with protecting UESPA space and the colonies with the UESPA sphere, Starfleet command answers to the UESPA Security Council.

When the Dominion war start had a large number of different types of star ships, during the Dominion war starlet command reduced the number of different types of star ships being produced to the three main types Defiant, Sovereign and the Nebula this is something that they should have done a long time ago by the politics got in the way.

Starfleet has grown in size since the Dominion war to just over 13,500 ships of all types. The three main classes are the Defiant, Sovereign and the Nebula. These three ship classes would form the backbone of Starfleet for the next few decades. The size of the fleet will increase over the next few decades with the majority of Starfleet vessels being the Defiant Class. The Defiant Class will primary be used for system defence and convoy escort.

Starfleet command receives one percent of each countries GDP to fund its fleet and the shipyards that build them.

Starfleet do not operate any kind of marine force, they do have Starfleet Security as an on board force and to be used to protect away teams on a planets surface. During the Dominion war Starfleet Security had to act as a marine force in every way but name as it was judged by Starfleet command that calling Starfleet Security marines would have political consequences and could not be done. Starfleet Security has no formal divisional structure the security forces that are based on a ship or a planet will be considered one unit whatever the size of that unit.

So now Starfleet Security is in reality a marine force but still referred to as Starfleet Security.

Ranks within Starfleet and Starfleet Security

Fleet Admiral
Admiral
Vice Admiral
Rear Admiral
Commodore
Fleet Captain
Captain
Commander
Lieutenant Commander
Lieutenant
Lieutenant (Junior Grade)
Ensign
Master Chief Petty Officer
Senior Chief Petty Officer
Chief Petty Officer
Petty Officer 1st Class
Petty Officer 2nd Class
Petty Officer 3rd Class
Crewman 1st Class
Crewman 2nd Class
Crewman 3rd Class
Cadet

Starfleet Intelligence


Starfleet Intelligence is an intelligence agency of the UESPA. Starfleet Intelligence is entrusted with foreign and domestic espionage, counter-espionage, and state security. Though it cannot deal with internal disputes within the UESPA it is charted to keep an eye on all none UESPA governments. But Starfleet Intelligence dose keep an eye on the member countries on space forces and what they are up to as well as external threats.

Currently Starfleet Intelligence spends 45% of its time keeping an eye on UESPA members to make sure that they are not about to do anything daft or illegal that some UESPA member try and do an a regular basis such as sell arms to planet that have not achieved warp capability yet, as this sort of business is illegal not only within the UESPA but also within the Alliance.

Starfleet Intelligence did quite well during the Dominion war as has seen it funding increase by fifteen percent during and after the Dominion war.

Corporations and Company’s with in the UESPA


The UESPA also has a large number of company’s that not only operate on a planetary scale but also on a multi planetary scale within the UESPA and also within the Alliance and outside the Alliance with none Alliance members. The UESPA had to make do with the 40% the remaining market after the RSC companies had got their first.

The UESPA and the Alliance

The UESPA is one of the founding members of the Alliance along with the RSC, Vulcan, Andorians and the Tellarites, these four member races make up the Alliance security council and each one of the four members has the power to veto any motion put before the Alliance security council. The Alliance consists of over 100 members and a lager number of none members who just trade with either the Alliance as a whole or with individual Alliance members.

The UESPA has seen its influence go up slightly after the end of the Dominion war and is continues to try and expand its diplomatic sphere of influence within the Alliance.

The UESPA must go the RSC colony of New Gibraltar where the Alliance headquarters are based.

Next – Part 40 – Darkest Hour

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Part 40 – Darkest Hour


In 2384 the Borg returned to attack the Alliance, the first stages of the Borg attack would come though a new transwarp hub to the Alpha quadrant after Species 8472 retreated back into fluidic space.

A transwarp hub was a structure used by the Borg to connect their network of transwarp conduits and to keep them open for immediate use. The transwarp conduits made it possible for the Borg to travel much faster than warp. As a result, the transwarp hubs were of vital strategic and tactical importance to the Borg because they made it possible to deploy vessels very quickly to anywhere in the galaxy. Each hub could connect to thousands of transwarp conduits with possible endpoints in all four quadrants of the galaxy, giving the Borg an enormous strategic advantage. The structure was supported by a series of interspatial manifolds.

With the war with Species 8472 a large number of these transwarp conduits were damaged not allowing the Borg to transport large numbers of vessels from Borg space in the Delta quadrant to other parts of their space and to other quadrants.

Early in 2384 the Borg sent two cubes to the Alpha quadrant to confirm that the rebuilt transwarp conduits were working ok. Both Borg cubes emerged in the Alpha quadrant and were spotted by a Vulcan science vessel that sent out an alert and calling for assistance.

The Alliance responded very quickly to the Borg threat and dispatched a task force of several hundred Alliance member ships to deal with the Borg incursion into Alliance space. The Alliance task force dealt with the two Borg cubes very quickly, but that was not the end of the Borg invasion of Alliance space. The Borg had dispatched four more Borg cubes though the transwarp conduit to the Alpha quadrant, the Alliance task force also destroyed these four cubes.

After several communications between the task force commander and Alliance headquarters on New Gibraltar additional ships would be sent to reinforce the task force that was at the Borg transwarp conduit exit point. Over the next few weeks the Alliance task force would be enlarged as more and more Borg vessels came though the Borg transwarp conduit exit point until the number of Borg cubes forced the Alliance task force to withdraw from that area of space and regroup at New Gibraltar.

At this point there were now several hundred Borg cubes at the transwarp conduit exit point consolidating their position. The Borg foothold in the Alpha quadrant and in Alliance space was being established. With more Borg vessels coming out of the transwarp conduit exit point every day.

In a meeting in the Alliance headquarters on the RSC colony of New Gibraltar the Alliance senior command and the Alliance Security Council assumed that the Borg would use the same tactic as last time, in that most of the Borg fleet would head for the Alliance headquarters on the RSC colony of New Gibraltar and a smaller group would head for Earth, this assumption would be proved very wrong.

The Alliance gathered as many warships that could get to the defence of New Gibraltar in time from the different member races of the Alliance. The bulk of the defence forces would be the two RSN task forces based in the New Gibraltar system for system defence. The rest would come from Alliance member worlds whose ships could get to New Gibraltar in time. On the RSC colony of New Gibraltar a state of emergency had been declared and all military units were mobilised this included the British Army garrison on the colony.

The Borg move out from their transwarp conduit exit point to what appeared to be a direction for New Gibraltar in large numbers estimated to be several thousand strong. The Borg on reaching a point where they should have turned towards the RSC colony of New Gibraltar instead the Borg turned towards Earth.

On hearing the news that the entire fleet Borg has turned towards Earth the Alliance orders all available ships to Earths defence. On Earth the RSC issues an order to all 10 of its member countries to fully mobilise its military forces to defend itself. The UESPA also issues similar orders but due to the fragmentary nature of the UESPA command this order is carried out to various degrees.

Earth


On Earth the RSC head of the Imperial General Staff Field Marshal Mark Matthews from his underground bunker complex in Northwood begins the task of organising the defences with the other RSC countries and trying coordinate with the UESPA. The first line of defence will be the multiple orbital battle stations’ in geo stationary orbit above each RSC member country. The next line will be a combination of shield generators and anti transporter generators to prevent the Borg from just beaming into a major city or onto any military base. This will force the Borg to assault any RSC military or civilian stronghold by ground assault, which will be very costly on Borg drones. The final line will be the ground troops defending the various RSC military and civilian stronghold locations. Every reserve solider, marine and even police are put in to the defence lines for the various stronghold locations throughout the RSC member counties.

The evacuation of most of the British royal family (except Prince Albert and Princess Mary who both insist on staying with their troops in London) is ordered as well as several key political and military leaders. After this is done the evacuation of the civilian population is ordered and almost every ship available from the Royal Space Navy Merchant Marine (RSNMM) under the Ships Taken Up From Trade (STUFT) is ordered to Earth to begin the evacuation of the civilian population before the Borg’s arrival

The UESPA member countries would make similar preparation on their own defences and begin fortifying their own strongholds all over the planet; also the UESPA Moon and Mars colonies were being fortified against attack in a similar way to Earth. The UESPA also hired in a large number UESPA member counties to begin evacuation of a large proportion of the civilian population as possible before the Borg’s arrival.

The UESPA member countries also placed their defences around their large population centres and major military bases, with their own versions of the shield generators and anti transporter generators to prevent the Borg from just beaming into a major city or onto any military base.

Space


Section 31 leadership makes the decision to use all 15 of is Shadow class spy ships that are available for operations and within range to intercept the Borg armada and try to slow its advance to give the RSC and the Alliance a chance to get their combined fleets into place to defend Earth.

The fifteen Section 31 Shadow class spy ships intercepted the Borg fleet at high warp while under phased cloak. Each ship targeted a Borg cube and fired destroying fifteen Borg cubes with the first salvo then another fifteen Borg cubes with the second salvo. The Borg reacted by dropping out of warp, for the Borg this was a bad idea as it would be more difficult to try and locate the fifteen Section 31 Shadow class spy ships as these ships would be at impulse speed rather than warp which would make them harder to detect. This would leave the fifteen Section 31 ships relatively free to engage the Borg cubes.

Over the next few days the fifteen Section 31 ships destroyed just over 200 Borg cubes before running out of torpedoes forcing the Section 31 ships to break off the engagement to rearm. This action gave the RSC and the UESPA and the Alliance time to bring the combined fleet to Earth. But the Alliance was unaware of this action by Section 31.

There were just over 30,000 Alliance warships of all classes gathered to defend the Earth against 25,772 Borg vessels. With half the Alliance fleet made up of the two Earth members the RSC and UESPA the rest where Alliance member vessels and 80 Warlock II class from the Maquis and several hundred Kingon vessels had also arrived in time before the Borg’s arrival. The further away from Earth the fewer ships other Alliance member races could send in time to help in the battle.

None of the ships from the RSN fifth fleet would be coming to the battle for Earth, this force would act as a reserve force to not only guard the 35 RSC colonies but to form the core to rebuild the RSN fleet is the worst happened and to carry on the fight against the Borg.

On the 20th July 2384 the Borg approached the Pluto defence line, the battle of Pluto was about to begin.

The battle started gradually with a few skirmishes and then escalated into a full-scale space battle. With both side taking heavy losses with the exchange of fire between the two fleets growing ever closer and eventually the two fleets were engaged in a free for all massive space battle. The space around Pluto’s orbit was lit up with an amazing light show of deadly weapons fire exchanges.

The RSN was making some headway against the Borg as their warships had heavier armament than most of the other member races of the Alliance. But the Borg had called for more reinforcements. Over the next few days the combined Alliance fleet was pushed back towards Earth the warships crews knew that they were fighting a losing battle but they kept fighting as they knew that they would be able to buy more time for more of Earths civilian population to be evacuated.

After 15 days of intensive fighting the Alliance fleet was down by 50%, though most of the Alliance ships had been disabled rather than destroyed the Borg had not had time to assimilate the ships crews allowing the ships crew to make hurried repairs and exit the combat area for more extensive repairs.

On day 16 of the battle several Borg cubes had made it though the defence line and were making a run for Earth, the RSN orbital battle stations in geo stationary orbit destroyed these cubes. But before being destroyed the Borg were able to beam 500,000 drones into the outskirts of London to try and begin assimilating the population before being destroyed.

The defences around London opened fire almost immediately on the Borg drones destroying with the first salvo just over 100,000 drones. The second wave was proving more resilient to the phaser fire and it was taking the combined phaser fire of 10 soldier’s phaser rifles to destroy one Borg drone. The combat would be intense on the ground with some troops resorting to using grenades and heavy weapons to destroy individual Borg drones. With the rest of the planet was quiet, as the Borg seemed to be concentrating on London for the time being. It was estimated that the remaining 300,000 odd Borg drones that they were trying to get into London would be destroyed unless they received reinforcements soon.

All over the planet similar but smaller battles were raging the Borg where finding it very hard to make any headway against the well fortified positions of the large population centres and major military bases that had been well fortified.

In space the battle was not going well for the Alliance fleet as the Borg were able to reinforce their fleet more quickly that the Alliance was able to. After day 20 the Alliance fleet was now unable to stop all the Borg cubes from penetrating the combined Alliance fleet, as the Alliance did not have enough ships left to defend all that gaps.

Some ships had taken to ramming the Borg cubes others were being boarded by the Borg and were involved in fierce firefights with their own ships, when the outcome looked as though the Borg would gain control of a ship the ship either activated its self destruct or was destroyed by another Alliance vessel to prevent the remaining crew members from being assimilated. Very few Alliance crewmembers were fully assimilated by the Borg because of this course of action. The RSN ships had the added advantage of RSM on board to the Borg had even more of a fight on their hand on these ships some RSN ships had managed to destroy the Borg intruders and restore there shield and engines and move clear of the combat area to effect more long term repairs.

Casualties on both sides were high but the Borg casualties were higher, the Borg could afford the casualties the Alliance could not.

This would be Earths Darkest Hour.

Will Earth survive the Borg assault or not ?

To be continued……

Next – Part 41 – Assimilation!




Part 41 – Assimilation!


On day 20 the Borg had gained a foothold in Earths orbit as was beaming down additional Borg drones onto the surface to begin the assimilation process and to add to the forces already on the ground. Assimilation was turning out to be a difficult task for the Borg, as the various strongholds over the surface of the planet were proving very difficult to capture and very few people were being assimilated. Some of the orbital battle stations were still operational and making the Borg’s task even more difficult.

The defences varied from country to country depending on what resources that country had available. The RSC member countries operating on a united front was in a far better position than the rest of the planet because all RSC member countries were operating with the same equipment. Those UESPA countries that could afford first-rate defences have a good prospect of holding out link the US, France, Germany, Switzerland, Russia and China etc. The UESPA member countries were operating a unified command just like the RSC but the UESPA member countries each had their own equipment, which was produced buy those members manufacturing companies.

The Starfleet headquarters in San Francisco and the UESPA headquarters in both New York and Geneva were very heavily defended not only by the US and Swiss governments military but also by heavily armed Starfleet security personnel. Giving these three UESPA cities has added protection against the Borg attack.

Day 21 the bulk of the Alliance fleet had changed tactics to stopping any more Borg vessels from linking up with the Borg vessels in Earth orbit. The current strength of the Alliance fleet was just over 9,500 warships available for combat; all of these ships has some form of battle damage but are still combat capable. The Borg has about 4,000 vessels left, but these ships are fully operational, the Borg reinforcements are keeping the Alliance fleet from helping Earths military forces on the ground.

Day 22 a task force of 50 warships from the RSN approached Earth under cloak, these 50 warships were lead by HMSS Eclipse and have 4 Advanced Vanguard class and 45 Advanced Invincible class ships as part of an upgraded task force Eclipse. Vice-Admiral James West on the bridge of HMSS Eclipse watches as the ships of his task forces get closer to Earth to try and destroy as many Borg vessels as possible before having to withdraw from combat.

When the ships are in range the Eclipse is the first to de-cloak and open fire on the Borg ships in Earth orbit this is the signal to the other 49 ships to do the same and join in the fight. The ripple of phaser fire and photon torpedoes has a devastating effect on the Borg ships, within the first minute 73 Borg vessels are destroyed. The Borg has been caught unprepared for this attack, but they recover quickly and begin their counter fire on the attacking RSN vessels, the Borg counter fire has little effect as all the RSN attacking vessels have been fitted with the upgraded Mark 2 point defence system (PDS) and this defence system is very successful in destroying incoming Borg torpedoes, thus forcing the Borg have to rely on beam weapons to stop the RSN vessels and this has reduced the amount of firepower of each Borg vessel can put out and lessening the damage each Borg cube can do.

After two hours of combat the 50 RSN vessels have suffered no casualties and very little battle damage. The Borg on the other hand has lost 311 vessels to the combined firepower of the RSN vessels, though the Borg still have superior numbers they Borg vessels begin to withdraw to the rendezvous point were the Borg reinforcements are battling the Alliance fleet, much to the surprise of Vice-Admiral West who is wondering what the Borg are up to.

The RSN task force dose not pursue the retreating Borg vessels but the goes into low earth orbit to help destroy the Borg drones on the surface that are attacking the various strong points by using their phaser in space to surface support fire for the troops defending the strongholds.

On the Surface the troops who are battling the Borg drones are unaware of what is happening in orbit. The fighting is getting more and more ferocious and desperate as the Borg drones keep attacking, the Borg have adapted to the phaser weapons and individual fire does now work against a single Borg drone only combined fire will kill a Borg drone. Around London they have the advantage of having the Household Cavalry division. The British Household Cavalry is classed as a corps in its own right, and consists of two regiments: The Life Guards and The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons). They are the senior regular regiments in the British Army, with traditions dating from 1660. The regiments are Guards regiments and form Britain's Household Division with the five Foot Guards regiments.

The Household Cavalry is equipped with the best equipment first as this is “shown off” during state visits by Alien and Earth government to London. The equipment includes several hundred repulsesor-armoured vehicles with turret mounted phaser cannons, these armoured vehicles weapons prove very useful in destroying Borg drones, they also have their own force field generators to protect them from incoming fire and they can provide additional cover for the troops. With this level of firepower available the London outer perimeter is holding (roughly in line with the old M25).

In orbit HMSS Eclipse and its accompanying ships fires a series of probes into the atmosphere to give the ships targeting systems a better lock on were the Borg drones are. The fire from the RSN ships is nothing less than spectacular as tens of thousands of Borg drone are disintegrated by the phaser fire from the RSN vessels in orbit. Within two hours of entering orbit over the RSC countries the Borg on the surface have been destroyed.


The UESPA had been waiting for the RSN to archive some sort of success with the attack and had its own task force of 76 starships waiting at the edge of the solar system to follow though if the RSN task force was showing signs of breaking the Borg attack. With the surprise withdrawal of Borg vessels from Earth orbit, Starfleet sent in its own ships to eliminate the Borg drones around its own strongholds. These ships included the Intrepid Class ship USSS Voyager Captained buy acting Captain Tom Paris after Voyager’s Captain had been killed in combat with the Borg in the first days of the battle. Using Voyager’s ability to enter the atmosphere of Earth and then using Voyagers phaser arrays to destroy the Borg drones around UESPA member countries strongholds along with other Starfleet vessels.

This is part of a join mission to retake Earth orbital space between the UESPA and the RSC along with the other member races of the Alliance in a coordinated attack. By using the bulk of the combined Alliance fleet to keep the Borg from receiving any reinforcements it was hopped that this attack would give the Earths land forces on the planets surface a short breather. The plan went better than expected with the unexpected Borg vessels orbiting Earth withdrawing to rendezvous with the other Borg vessels at the edge of the solar system.

Day 23, after the Borg withdrawal to the edge of the solar system to regroup this gave the much-depleted Alliance fleet time to regroup itself and make some hasty repairs and receive some warship reinforcements. Though still involved in combat skirmishes with the Borg the Alliance fleet could with draw most of its fleet for a short period of rest and reequipping.

Day 26, the Borg having managed to reinforce their fleet and bring it up to 18,757 vessels with more ships on the way. The Alliance has only 11,081 vessels available for the defence of Earth as the rest are still too badly damaged and have withdrawn from the solar system from more extensive repairs or are unable to arrive in time to help.

The Second Coming


On Day 29, the Borg fleet is now 23,992 vessels strong compared to the Alliance fleet of just 11,673. The Borg vessels are now moving very slowly forward using a form of tachyon detection grid scan to detect ships with normal cloaking devices (though this will not detect the phase cloaks of the Section 31 ships operating within the solar system).

The Borg fleet moves ever closer to Earth at its slow pace and is taking much lower losses than before the Borg have adapted to the tactics of the Alliance. The Borg are using steamroller tactic of slowly moving forward into the solar system crushing any ships that get in the Borg’s way.

The Alliance is now even more desperate in the tactics that it is using against the Borg fleet, but every Borg ship that is damaged on the edge of the Borg fleet withdraws into the centre of the Borg fleet to begin regeneration, using this new tactic the Borg’s ship losses are very small compared to the first attack. The Alliance fleet with so many different warships from most member races including both Earth governments, Vulcan’s, Andorians, Tellarites etc don’t have the same advantage as the Borg to regenerate their ships in the same way and in the same short timescale.

The Alliance is loosing the battle for Earth it will only be a matter of time before the Borg reach Earth and this time they will be able to land millions of drones all over the planet at the same time.

As the Borg fleet approaches the moons orbit under constant fire from the Alliance fleet. A sudden blinding light that appears in front of them and stops the Alliance fleet from attacking the Borg fleet.

When the light fades what faces the Alliance fleet astounds them.

To be continued…….

Next – Part 42 – God help us all!




Part 42 – God help us all!


When the light had faded the two fleets were separated by another large vessel.

On board USSS Voyager Captain Tom Paris recognised the vessel as V'Ger (Voyager 6). The aspect of V'Ger was huge, with even the largest starship seeming microscopic in comparison. From the files Captain Paris read that the construction of the interior of the vessel was mostly symmetrical, but with few indications as to its nature or purposes. Organic in appearance, despite harbouring no biological life forms, the interior was multi-chambered, and contained circular apertures that could be closed or opened to prevent or allow passage from one section of the vessel to the next, the most prominent of which measuring in excess of one kilometre wide. As of the late 24th century, it remained the largest single space vessel ever encountered by any member of the Alliance.

With some quick thinking by Captain Paris he orders his communications officer to send a signal to V'Ger about what was happening to Earth and the Borg threat and ask for help, this would also include a log of the current battle and what was happening. It had been determined during the last encounter with V'Ger that V'Ger communicated on a frequency of more than one million megahertz (over one terahertz) and that at such a high rate of speed an entire message lasted only a millisecond.

While this was going on the Borg hailed V'Ger with the usual warning of assimilation, but as the Borg were not transmitting at the right sending rate and speed, V'Ger did not hear them this would prove a fatal mistake for the Borg.

When V'Ger received the information about the Borg attack and V'Ger response was nothing less than staggering. V'Ger fired at the Borg’s 23,992 vessels with energy bolts, one for every Borg vessels. The Borg ships responded with a hail of fire towards V'Ger that would have ripped apart any other vessel but the fire had no effect against V'Ger and just dissipated against V'Ger’s shields. The Borg vessel where eliminated by powerful, spherically-shaped 'bolts' of plasma energy emerging from the flank of V'Ger’s hull, those Borg vessels that tried to flee were also eliminated. The plasma energy 'bolts' also had the ability to go to warp speed; those Borg vessels that did manage to get to warp were also eliminated.

V'Ger also sent similar spherically-shaped 'bolts' of plasma energy towards the Alliance ships, but rather than destroying them these 'bolts' surrounded each Alliance vessel with an energy shield to protect them from attack, the same would happen to all the Alliance escape pods floating helplessly in the solar system.

The “battle” against the Borg lasted less than half an hour with all 23,992 Borg vessels eliminated by V'Ger, V'Ger then began to move out of the solar system towards the Borg’s transwarp conduit exit point and to deal with the Borg there. Once arriving at the transwarp conduit exit point V'Ger swiftly dealt with the Borg vessels there are also managed to collapse the transwarp conduit exit point so there would be no more Borg arriving though that transwarp conduit exit point ever again. V'Ger’s level of technology far exceeded that of the Borg and V'Ger’s power output was so high it was of the scale.

On V'Ger’s return to the solar system V'Ger would stand guard while the Alliance sorted its self out and made repairs to damaged vessels allowing them to get to a dry dock facility.

After a week of sorting out Earths defences up to a minimal level V'Ger was invited to the Alliance headquarters on the RSC colony world of New Gibraltar to answer some questions about why V'Ger had returned for a second time, V'Ger accepted and would go to RSC colony world of New Gibraltar and meet the Alliance council.

When V'Ger arrived at the RSC colony world of New Gibraltar V'Ger sent down two “probes” in the form of Lieutenant Ilia and Commander Decker that had joined with V'Ger so that V'Ger could evolve to a new level of existence and discover new replies and different dimensions that could not be discovered though logic.

The V'Ger “probes” had the memories of both Lieutenant Ilia and Commander Decker as well as V'Ger’s memories. The two “probes” explained that V'Ger had decided to return to see how its creators were doing and to return to its start point and then go off again to explore more of the universe. The Alliance council formally thanked V'Ger for saving not only Earth but in all likelihood the entire Alpha quadrant from the Borg.

V'Ger’s two “probes” also stated that the Borg were unlikely to come back again as the closest transwarp conduit exit point had been permanently sealed. But if the Borg did return V'Ger would leave a device behind to communicate with V'Ger and V'Ger would return to help not only Earth but the Alliance as well. With that V'Ger’s two “probes” said their farewells and disappeared back to V'Ger and V'Ger again disappeared in a blinding flash of white light to continue exploring.

Aftermath


With V'Ger’s departure all the Alliance’s members began the long process of rebuild their fleets. The RSC and UESPA had suffered the largest losses of the Alliance.

In the solar system the task of cleaning up all the debris begins, this cleanup will take 12 months to achieve. Most of the Borg debris will be destroyed and only a small proportion will be kept for analysis by the members of the Alliance.

The job of returning the people who were evacuated from Earth is also started this will take a least three years to achieve as some of the returning refugees will need to have there homes repaired/rebuilt as these home were damaged/destroyed in the battle will the Borg around the various strongholds on Earth.

A strong proportion of the Alliance fleet will remain the solar system until the two Earth governments have rebuilt there own defences. There is also a strong Klingon and Maquis warship presence in the solar system as part of their mutual defence pact with the RSC. The Maquis Warlock II class ships have proved their worth in fighting the Borg and out of the 80 ships sent by the Maquis they only lost 23, this support for the RSC will lead not only the RSC but the Klingon Empire go give more resources to the Maquis as thanks for their help against the Borg. The Klingons were unable to send a large fleet in time to help because of the distance between the Klingon Empire and Earth and the time it took to gather a large fleet together, but the Klingons did still send there fleet to help with the aftermath of the battle with the Borg.

The RSC took this “opportunity” to start a building program to replace all lost ships even those ships that could be repaired would be repaired and put back into operation until a new ship was available, it was estimated that it would take a least 5 years to rebuild the fleet this was the same amount of time it would take to rebuild those areas around the strongholds damaged by the Borg attack on Earth.

The RSC would continue to build new ships at an accelerated rate over the next few years until the ship numbers were back to pre Borg attack numbers.

The UESPA began a program of repairing those ships damaged in the Borg attack, but did not begin a program of building new ships to replace those ships that have been repaired only those ships that could not be repaired would be replaced. The shipbuilding program before the Borg attack would be continued with priority given to the three main Starfleet vessel types Defiant, Sovereign and Nebula.

The device that V'Ger left behind is a black sphere about 1,000 meters in diameter in high orbit around New Gibraltar, this area of space around V'Ger’s “black sphere” is quarantined to make sure that no accidents happen as no one knows what sort of defences the “black sphere” has.

By 2390 the Alliance is back to business as normal with no sign of the Borg returning in the near future. The other added benefit of V'Ger coming to the rescue was that the other major powers in the Alpha quadrant would now think twice before attacking and Alliance member race for fear of bring V'Ger’s wrath upon them.

In 2391 HMSS Royal Oak (Scott Class Mark VIII Explorer Cruiser) was sent on a mission that would open up new areas from exploration for the RSC and new dangers HMSS Royal Oak would go were no one has gone before.

To be continued…….

Next – Part 43 – Investigation

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Part 43 – Investigation


In 2391 HMSS Royal Oak a Scott Class Mark VIII Explorer Cruiser under the command of Captain Mark North is on a solo investigation of an area of space within RSC territory where several ships have disappeared over the past few years.

HMSS Royal Oak is a Scott Class Mark VIII Explorer Cruiser. This is based in the old Excalibur Class Combat Cruiser chassis, the Mark VIII Scott Class Explorer Cruiser has a length of 900 meters and a crew of 695 (with 300 Royal Space Marines for a total crew of 995) and a maximum continuous speed of warp of 9.99 and an armament of 26 dual phaser banks, 6 spearfish heavyweight photon torpedoes (4 forward and 2 aft) and also has the latest in regenerative shields, cloaking technology and next generation polarised hull plating armour. The Scott Class combines the best exploration equipment the RSC/RSN has and this is backed up by state of the art firepower. The Scott Class can operate a long way away from any base of operations and was designed to last for up to 10 years without re-supply if needed.

The Royal Oak has also been fitted with the latest in stellar cartographic scanning and analyses equipment with Professor Annika Hansen (Seven of Nine) onboard the Royal Oak to monitor her latest invention in stellar cartographic.

On arriving in the area of space were the ships had disappeared the Royal Oak begins a detailed survey of this are of space and detects a series of gravitational anomalies in the vicinity of the area of space were the ships had been lost. On approaching the gravitational anomalies with shields up the Royal Oak is suddenly hurled by one of the gravitational anomalies as it appears near the Royal Oak and moves the Royal Oak 10 light years from its previous position.

After recovering from the suddenness of the unexpected 10 light year trip Captain North orders that the Royal Oak back to were they started from before their sudden 10 light year trip. When Royal Oak arrives back at the area of space containing the gravitational anomalies this time Captain North orders that Royal Oak will use probes on this area of space rather than endangering Royal Oak. After several probes are destroyed by the gravitational anomalies it is suggested by Professor Hansen that the gravitational anomalies destroyed the ships that entered this area of space, but because HMSS Royal Oak had her shields up this stopped Royal Oak from being destroyed.

While Professor Hansen is giving a briefing to the senior staff of Royal Oak about the gravitational anomalies the Royal Oak is suddenly caught in one of the gravitational anomalies appearing out of no ward, even though Royal Oak was supposed to be at a safe distance from the gravitational anomalies. When the “ride” has ended the stars on the bridge view screen instead of the sparse stars of the edge of the Sagittarius arm, there are stars by the thousands, by the tens of thousands, a star field immeasurably brighter and denser than anyone on the bridge had ever seen.

Professor Hansen begins a series of scans to determine were they were, initially Professor Hansen thought that they were closer to the core of the Milky Way Galaxy and have travelled further than on the previous occasion. Professor Hansen says that her scan are unable to determine were they are in the Milky Way Galaxy and Professor Hansen is going to try and use external sources to try and confirm their location.

After several hours of work Professor Hansen finds out to her horror that HMSS Royal Oak in no longer in the Milky Way Galaxy but is in fact in another Galaxy that is at least several million parsecs from the Milky Way Galaxy, but Professor Hansen is as yet unable to determine what galaxy they are in at this time and will continue to try and find out were they area.

Further analyse of this galaxy reveals that the stars are in much closer proximity than in the Milky Way Galaxy this does not allow easy access too many external galactic points for reference.

Captain North decides to try and retrace their steps and try to return to their own galaxy to see if the gravitational anomaly goes both ways. After several days of trying with no success Captain North admits that the gravitational anomaly only seems to go one way.

After several hours of discussion with the ships senior staff it is decided to explore the surrounding star systems to see of their are any advanced civilisations that could possibility answer the question weather any other ships have suddenly come into that area of space from another galaxy over the past few years. It is decided to start with the nearest system which is just 9 light years away from their current position and has a similar star system layout to Earth.

A course is set for the near by star system at warp 3 just to make sure that they do not barge in on a first contact and get of on the wrong foot. After one day of travelling Royal Oak’s sensor operator picks up what appears to an unmanned satellite adrift in space. The second watch officer orders Royal Oak out of warp and request that Captain come to the bridge. On coming to the bridge Captain North asks for an analysis on the alien satellite.

The satellite looked like two pyramids glued together at the base slowly toppling end over at a very leisurely pace, Royal Oak’s science office report that the satellite is powered by a primitive fusion reactor with laser weapons and seems to be operating a very primitive sensor grid with a limited range with a length of 25 meters.

Captain North orders the Royal Oak’s shields up and to approach the satellite to see what is does and to achieve a closer and more detailed scan of the satellite to see if they can determine the satellite’s point of origin. When Royal Oak is within one million kilometres that satellite’s sensors are able to detect Royal Oak and the satellite stabilises itself with one end pointed towards Royal Oak. As Royal Oak slowly moves towards the satellite the science officer on Royal Oak’s bridge says that there is a power build-up within the satellite and the satellite’s laser weapons appear to be being charged. When Royal Oak is within 100,000 kilometres the satellite opens fire on Royal Oak with its lasers the lasers fire is easily absorbed by Royal Oaks shields.

Captain North asks if the satellite’s weapons can be disabled so that the satellite can be examined in more detail, the weapons office says yes and Captain North orders the satellite to be disabled, a very short burst from one of Royal Oaks phaser banks disable the satellites weapons. The phaser fire has not stopped the power build up in the satellite’s reactor and within 15 seconds of the lasers being disabled the satellite explodes. The explosion is defected by Royal Oaks shields, after making sure that there is no damage to the ship Captain North orders a resumption of the ships original course towards the nearest system.

After several uneventful days of travel Royal Oak arrives in the system and begins a slow entry into the system at one-quarter impulse. On approach to the fourth planet in the system the crew of the Royal Oak finds that the planet has been destroyed from orbit with what appears to be primitive nuclear weapons. Captain North asks if this was caused be some global conflict, the science officer says no, because it would one take able one percent of the estimated weapons used to destroy the planet, whoever did this wanted to make the planet uninhabitable for a very long time. The science officer estimated that this had been done at least two to three thousand years ago and it would take the planet a least another ten thousand years too start to recover if that was at all possible.

After spending several more days scanning the planet it was found that several miles below the planets surface there was a partially functional power source though it was impossible to say is their were any life forms alive due to the interference of the radiation and the depth at witch the power source was at. After another meeting of the senior staff it was decided to continue with the exploration of the surrounding systems.

On the way to the next system that was thought that could sustain life three more satellite’s were found of the same design but this time rather than trying to disable the satellite’s they were destroyed by phaser fire.

On arriving in the next system a similar planet was found that had been destroyed, but this planet had been destroyed by weapons similar to the photon torpedoes carried by Royal Oak and it was estimated that the destruction had happened over eight thousand years ago. Over the next few weeks the crew of the Royal Oak for several worlds that had been destroyed by a variety of different types of weapons going back at least ten thousand years.

After a month of exploring it was decided to go back to the start point and see if they could return to the Milky Way Galaxy, but after several days of trying with no luck. Captain North decided to strike out further a field at high warp and to only investigate one in every five systems to widen the search for any intelligent life in this galaxy.

What would the crew of Royal Oak find as they widen there search for a way home?

To be continued…….

Next – Part 44 – First Encounter

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Part 44 – First Encounter

On the 29th day Royal Oak encounters the first sign of life when the third watch science office on Royal Oak’s bridge reports a ship at maximum range travelling a warp 2. When Captain North arrived on the bridge he ordered a course to intercept the unknown ship at warp 8 and to continue to scan the surrounding space for signs of any more ships.

As Royal Oak closes on the unknown ship more information about the ship was found out. The ship was just over 166 meters long with one warp nacelle coming out of the back of a pyramid shaped front with an anti matter power core but with no dilithium crystals to focus the energy with a crew of eleven an armament of laser weapons and no torpedoes the maximum warp speed was estimated at just over warp 3. The unknown ship has a primitive sensor system that was only useful at short range and the unknown ship would most likely be unaware of Royal Oak’s presence unless Royal Oak got with the unknown ship sort ranged sensors.

For the next few hours Captain North decided to shadow the unknown ship just outside the unknown ships sensor range to see if they could pick up any signals or determine what course this unknown ship was taking and were this ship might be headed. After several hours of no activity at all Captain North orders the communications officer to send a standard hail and greetings on all channels towards the unknown ship, the response was a short communications burst and then nothing. The short communications burst was apparently a coded challenge of some sort. This coded challenge was given to the main computer to see it the computer could glean anything about the races language.

The unknown ship changed course heading towards HMSS Royal Oak, Captain North decided to drop out of warp and let the unknown ship approach. So with Royal Oak’s shields raised, they waited to see what would happen when the unknown ship detected Royal Oak on its sensors. The unknown ship continued to approach Royal Oak’s position at warp 2.5, when the ship was within sensor range the ship transmitted another short communications burst and then suddenly altered course and began to charge its weapons. Captain North order the helmsman to commence evasive action, the unknown ship opened fire on Royal Oak this fire was easily absorbed by Royal Oak’s shields. The unknown ship suddenly altered course and attacked again as soon as this attack run had finished the ship transmitted yet another communications burst this communication was slightly longer than the last two. Then the attack continued for the next half an hour the unknown ship fired its laser armament at Royal Oak’s shields with no affect.

During this time Royal Oak’s communications officer had tried unsuccessfully to communicate that Royal Oak was not hostile and that they come in peace, but no response from the unknown ship was received. Also during this time the science officer had noted that the lasers appeared to be being pushed beyond there limits and would not last long at the rate they were being fired. After another 15 minutes of fire the unknown ships laser started to give out and the science officer noted that the unknown ship seemed to have started a deliberate overload in its power core and on its next run would blow itself up as close as possible to Royal Oak trying to destroy both ships. On hearing this Captain North orders the helmsman to get Royal Oak away from this area as fast as possible, Royal Oak then leaps away at maximum warp speed.

As Royal Oak leaves the unknown ships sensor range the overload to the unknown ships power core is stopped and reversed according to Royal Oak’s science officer. Once Royal Oak is well outside the unknown ships sensor range but still within Royal Oak’s sensor range Captain North orders Royal Oak’s helmsman to bring the ship out of warp and to observe what this ship will do next.

After one hour the unknown ship sends another short burst transmission and then gets underway on a course that matches Royal Oak’s escape heading at warp 2. Captain North orders that Royal Oak should come around behind the unknown ship will beyond the unknown ships sensor range and see were the unknown ship is going and to continue to monitor the unknown ship until further notice. After following the unknown ship for two days Royal Oak’s communication officer picks up a similar incoming burst communication to the one the unknown ship sent two days ago. The unknown ship changes course and accelerates to warp 2.5 with Royal Oak still following.

The communication bursts appear to a highly compressed data stream of information the ones the unknown ship prior and during the attack on Royal Oak seems to be a description of Royal Oak with what appear to be size denominations and some sort of description of Royal Oak. The universal translator is still having trouble translating the language and it is estimated it could take several months to have a full translation of the alien’s language, unless they get more information on the alien’s language to shorten the time the translation of the alien language will take.

Thirty-six hours later Royal Oak’s sensor operator detects eleven more ships of a similar design to the ship that Royal Oak is currently following. All twelve ships rendezvous and after one hour all twelve ships would follow the course of the first ship and then they would follow the course Royal Oak took after its first encounter in an attempt at a pursuit course. What the crews of those twelve ships did not know is that they where being followed by the ship that they were supposed to be pursuing.

Another fifteen days later Royal Oak’s sensor operator detects five ships in front of the twelve that they have been following. These new ships are of a different design to the ones that Royal Oak is following. These new ships were larger with a length of 206 meters and being similar in design to the early UESPA NX series, but again with out the dilithium crystals to focus the energy just a bigger power plant. With what appeared to be a maximum speed of just over warp four and an armament of lasers and also had fusion missile launchers and has a crew of 43 each.

The encounter between these two different types of races was just the same as had happened to Royal Oak nearly 20 days ago. The twelve ships as soon as the five new ships came into their sensor range send their standard challenge to the five ships. The five ships did not send the same challenge instead they sent a broadcast across a wide range of frequencies, in what appeared to a hail and standard greeting.

The twelve ships start charging their weapons and changing course to attack the five ships, the five ships also charged their weapons and loaded their missile launchers. The battle between the two different races is very primitive and brutal, the initial exchange of fire between the two sides saw five if the twelve ships destroyed and they made their first pass with two of the five ships destroyed. Within several minutes all but one of the five ships was destroyed and two only two of the twelve ships remained. The remaining one of the five ships appeared to be heavily damaged and is trying to flee at impulse speed. The two remaining ships of the original appeared to have suffered moderate damage and were closing on the last of the five ships to finish it off.

At this point Captain North orders Royal Oak to action stations and with shield up moves Royal Oak between the last of the five vessels to protect it from the two remaining ships that Royal Oak had first encountered.

The affect of this action was that the two remaining vessels attacked Royal Oak with there lasers blazing at Royal Oak’s shields. Captain North orders the tactical officer to disable both the attacking vessels so that the last remaining of the five vessels can get to a safe distance. After the two remaining ships are disabled with a very short burst from Royal Oak’s phaser’s two remaining ships overload their reactors in a form of self-destruct.

The last of the five ships comes to a halt and sends a standard hail across a wide range of frequencies Royal Oak’s communications officer replies by sending a standard hail towards the alien vessel. Over the next few hours the communications team on board Royal Oak begin using the universal translator to communicate with this new alien race. The crew on the damaged alien ship appear to be trying to communicate with Royal Oak as well.

Basic first contact has been made with this new race in this galaxy.

To be continued…….

Next – Part 45 – Communication

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Part 45 – Communication

A day after the battle, first contact is established with the last of the five alien ships the aliens identify themselves as the Hosham. When visual communication is established with the Hosham vessel, the appearance of the Hosham appears to be very muscular in build and about six foot tall humanoid with no body hair. The Captain of the Hosham vessel identifies himself as Sonn Captain of warship number 206 and thanks Captain North for saving his vessel and its crew.

Captain North informs Captain Sonn that here represents the Royal Space Command and offers overtures of friendship to the Hosham and says that he was happy to help the Hosham against the hostile ships. Captain North asks if Captain Sonn would like to come on board Royal Oak for further discussions about each other’s cultures, Captain Sonn agrees and says that he will be over shortly in one of their shuttlecraft. Captain Sonn is unaware that Royal Oak has transporters and Captain North decides not to push the issue as this may cause an adverse reaction.

As the Hosham shuttle approaches Royal Oak’s main shuttle bay Captain Sonn seas the varst size of Royal Oak up close, the Hosham shuttle seems like a very small dot compared to the Hosham shuttle this impresses Captain Sonn greatly. On landing in Royal Oak’s main shuttle bay Captain Sonn is greeted by an honour guard of 12 Royal Space Marines. Captain Sonn is then escorted though Royal Oak to the main briefing room.

The first meeting between Captain Sonn and Captain North goes very well; Captain North explains how his vessel came to be in this galaxy and also explains the attack by the ships that attack the Hosham vessel and how they came to be following the unknown vessel. But Captain North does not give the precise location of were Royal Oak came into this galaxy. Captain Sonn explains that the only name they have for this unknown race is the Destroyers as their race name is unknown to any Hosham.

The Hosham first encountered the Destroyers fifty years ago when a Hosham exploration vessel was destroyed by several Destroyer ships, but the Hosham exploration vessel was able to send a warning to a nearby Hosham colony world before being destroyed. Several Hosham vessels were sent to the Hosham exploration vessels last known location, when they got there the Hosham vessels found that the Destroyers were still there. When the lead Hosham vessel tried to communicate with the Destroyers they were attacked without warning and several of the Hosham vessels were destroyed before the remaining vessels retreated.

Since that first encounter the Hosham have viewed the Destroyers as hostile but still try to communicate with them. Over the next fifty years as the Hosham explored they found countless worlds that had been destroyed by what they assumed were the ones they call the Destroyers. But Captain North points out that the Destroyers could not have destroyed all the worlds as some of the destruction goes back over several thousand years and the Destroyer technology is less capable than the Hosham. So the Destroyers must have been attacked by a superior foe and that is why they may just attack as soon as they detect any vessel that does not respond with the right coded transmission.

Captain Sonn has never thought about in those terms just that he was always under orders to destroy any vessel or vessels that attacked his ship or the ships within his group. Also Captain Sonn says that the Hosham are not strong enough to stand up to an attack by even one of the Destroyers ships for a prolonged period of time and suggests that the Royal Oak may have better luck in trying that.

But Captain North points out that this has already been tried when Royal Oak first encountered one of the Destroyers ships and tried to communicate with it with no success and when the Destroyers ships weapons were none functional the Destroyers ship tried to ram Royal Oak while overloading its anti matter core.

The meeting ends with Captain Sonn suggesting that they rendezvous as a predetermined point in one month’s time after Captain Sonn has informed his government of this peaceful contact with a new race Captain North agrees to this and they both pick a point in open space well away from the recent battle with the Destroyers.

Captain North decides to head to the first planet that they encountered to see if they can find out what the source of the power readings are, before they have to make the rendezvous in a month’s time. Also to see if there is a link to the gravitational anomalies that brought Royal Oak in to the galaxy.

On arriving in orbit around the fourth planet in the first system they encountered the science officer says they the power source is still their but appears to be stronger that last time and there appears to some sort of sensor system operating from within the planet. Captain North orders the shields to be raised just in case, what happens next surprises everyone on the bridge of Royal Oak.

The communications officer reports that someone down there is hailing Royal Oak on stand RSC frequencies also they appear to be sending the recognition codes of the civilian exploration vessel the British Space Survey Group Vessel (BSSGV) Ernest Shackleton. The BSSG Ernest Shackleton was lost in the same area of space six years ago just before the second Borg invasion charting the same gravitational anomalies as Royal Oak.

The British Space Survey Group (BSSG) is based on the old British Antarctic Survey (BAS) in the 20th and early 21st century, after the invention of warp drive the BAS changed from surveying the Antarctic to surveying space and has several custom built space ships. The BAS is 50% privately funded but the remaining 50% comes from the British government on the condition of this funding is that is the BSSG find anything of interest the British government has first refusal.

After confirming that the signal is correct Captain North orders a contingent of twelve RSM to go down to the underground facility and do a reconnaissance and report back. Using the transporter to transporter mode to boost the signal between two transporters so that the RSM’s will not beam into solid rock. After a tense few minutes the sergeant leading the twelve RSM signals back that the crew of the BSSGV Ernest Shackleton are alive and well in some sort of massive underground alien facility.

With the identity confirmed Captain North beams down into the underground facility to find out what happened to the BSSGV Ernest Shackleton and its crew. The Captain of the Shackleton Captain James Black explained that the same series of events the brought the Royal Oak to this Galaxy brought the Shackleton here six years ago. But unlike the Royal Oak the Shackleton was not designed for combat, so when the Shackleton encountered the race of aliens that Royal Oak had encountered and tried to make peaceful contact the Shackleton was fired upon, though the Shackleton’s shields were strong enough to absorb the aliens laser fire the Shackleton fled to this systems pursued by the alien ships that now numbered over fifty.

Though the Shackleton could keep outrunning the aliens they could not turn and fight them as their numbers would eventually break though the Shackleton’s shields to they decided to hide the majority of the crew in these massive underground caverns for safety while a skeleton crew drew the alien ships away from the planet.

The plan worked and the majority of the crew and scientists of the Shackleton were able to beam down in to the underground caverns with every bit of portable equipment that they could beam down and then the ships first officer with a skeleton took the Shackleton away from the planet to drew the alien fleet away from the survivors in the underground caverns. The first officer was due to return within a few months but it has been five years since the Shackleton departed and nothing has been heard. Captain Black assumes that the unknown aliens have destroyed by them or maybe they have encountered of the races that caused the destruction on the surrounding systems.

After Captain Black has finished reporting Captain North explains what happened to his ship and the encounter with a race known as the Hosham and the establishment of first contact with the Hosham. Also the Royal Oak has a rendezvous with the Hosham in twenty days from now to see of they can establish diplomatic relations with the Hosham.

Captain Black says that these underground caverns are not natural they have been drilled out and reinforced, these caverns were designed to house millions and the alien equipment that is still fictional down here the scientists says that the caverns have been here for over fifty thousand years and they were created by an unknown race and the race appears to have come from the Milky Way Galaxy to this system over fifty thousand years ago. The script on the machines is very difficult to translate and they have been having problems translating it, but just when Royal Oak arrived the equipment registered Royal Oak arrival in this galaxy and it appears the gravitational anomalies are not natural but artificial.

Also from the initial scans that the Shackleton it appears that another race set-up a colony on the surface of the planet without knowing what was down here and this race was destroyed by orbital bombardment. So that who ever created these caverns sometime over the previous fifty thousand years ago just abandoned this equipment presumably the creators of this were going to return but never did and there no indication why they left.

It has also been determined but the crew of the Shackleton that this “door” can be opened both ways but the crew of the Shackleton has been unable to do this because of the difficulty of translating the alien script. If both crews can work together in deciphering the controls then it may be possible to get home.

Captain North agrees and says that his first officer will remain behind with 100 Marines and 200 crewmembers from the Royal Oak to help translate the alien language and analyze the alien technology in the underground caverns. While this is going on Captain North will go to the rendezvous with the Hosham and begin peace negotiations with them.

A first step has been made for a possibility for the crew of Royal Oak to get home.

To be continued……..

Next – Part 46 – Treaty, Intelligence and Security

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Part 46 – Treaty, Intelligence and Security


Treaty

On arriving at the a rendezvous Royal Oak detected six Hosham ships, the lead Hosham ship hails Royal Oak saying that they have a Hosham diplomat onboard who wishes to discuss and alliance between the two races. Captain North says that he will meet the Hosham diplomat in Royal Oaks main hanger bay.

Once on board Royal Oak both sides get down to the business of negotiation on how this treaty will work. After several hours of work both sides have come to a rough agreement but the Hosham diplomat needs to know if Royal Oak has teeth and would be willing to end this war with the Destroyers. As if in answer to the question the comm. goes on and Royal Oaks second officer says that there are a group of 37 Destroyer ships headed in this direction.

On arriving on Royal Oak’s bridge with the Hosham diplomat to observe what is going to happen. Captain North orders that Royal Oak goes to action stations, and show the Hosham diplomat that Royal Oak can detect a threat and a greater distance than the Hosham ships can, this does not impress the Hosham diplomat that much. Also Captain North points out that the Royal Oak can easily out run the Destroyers ships this again does not impress the Hosham diplomat.

So Captain North orders the communications officer to send a warning to the Destroyers ships to withdraw or be destroyed. The Destroyer ships rather than moving away move to intercept the Royal Oak. Captain North orders the weapons officer to arm the four forward photon torpedo launchers and prepare to fire at individual targets on his command.

When the forward torpedo launchers are ready Captain North orders that the communications officer to sends another warning to the Destroyers, the Destroyers as usual choose to ignore the warning. Captain North orders that a single low yield torpedo be fired at the closest Destroyer ship to see if they get the message that Royal Oak can destroy their ships well outside the Destroyers ships weapons range.

After the first ships is destroyed the Destroyers ships still keep coming, then another two are destroyed and they still keep coming, then another four are destroyed but they still keep coming on. Only after another eight are destroyed do the remaining Destroyer ships withdraw from battle area. This does prove one thing in that the Destroyers can understand the warnings that Royal Oak sent the Destroyers simply chose not to respond.

After this incident the Hosham diplomat is convinced that forming an alliance with the RSC will be a good thing for the Hosham, even thought the RSC has only one RSN ship in this Galaxy. The Hosham diplomat returns to his ship and all the Hosham ships head of to report their success to the Hosham government.

The Hosham diplomat has arranged another meeting with Royal Oak in two months time to discuss their alliance in more detail when he has received further instructions from his government. Captain North agrees to another rendezvous point in deep space in two months time this rendezvous point will be in a different location to the current one and hopefully well away from the Destroyers.

Intelligence

While the negotiations with the Hosham are still going on, on the planet Royal Oaks crew along with the crew of the Shackleton have been trying to decipher the alien’s language in the many underground caverns. Royal Oaks RSC Intelligence officer Mark MacDonald has not been able to decipher the language beyond what the crew of the Shackleton have been able to do and it appears to be a dead end. Until the intelligence officer decides to try and run the language though the RSC intelligence database to see if there are any possible references to this language.

When Royal Oaks intelligence officer enters the language for a search against the RSC intelligence data base after a short while the screen goes blank and a notice comes up saying that a level 10S security clearance is required do you wish to enter the code or cancel. As officer Mark MacDonald has not even heard of a level 10S security clearance he decides to cancel the request until the Captain returns and report what happened to Captain North and to find out if Captain North has a level 10S security clearance or even knows what a level 10S security clearance is.

Until Captain North returns the RSC Intelligence officer Mark MacDonald and the two crews will have continue to try and translate the alien’s language without access to the intelligence data base which seems to hold the answer to the alien’s language, that is if Captain North has a level 10S security clearance. While the RSC Intelligence officer Mark MacDonald has been doing this he has been watched intensely by one of his junior annalists Kevin Davison. Once the RSC Intelligence officer stops trying to gain access to this information the junior annalists goes back to the work he was doing before.

Security

On Captain North’s return, Captain North receives a briefing about what has happen while he was in negotiations with the Hosham. Professor Hansen with her knowledge of the Borg has also been trying to decipher the alien language but also with no real success.

The RSC Intelligence officer Mark MacDonald explains that the information seems to be contained in a secure are within the intelligence data base but requires a level 10S security clearance to access the information and Officer MacDonald does not have that level of clearance to access the information.

When Captain North tries with his security code Captain North has no joy either in gaining access to the information and the ships computer will not even inform Captain North if anyone on Royal Oak has that level of clearance. So once again the team trying to translate the alien language is at another dead end and must continue the slow path that they are on for the moment.

The RSC Intelligence junior annalist Kevin Davison that had been observing what he could of most of the interaction between the senior staff was wondering what all the fuss was about. So one night when every one asleep he logs on to the RSC intelligence database using his level 10S security clearance to access the restricted information with the intelligence database. What he finds is stunning, in that a race that had thought to have died out over one hundred fifty thousand years before the caverns were constructed and the alien equipment was placed here fifty thousand years ago.

After reviewing the data Kevin Davison returns the computer to its previous settings so that no one would discover that the computer had been used and who has used the computer.

The security implications and the technology for the RSC were enormous and Kevin Davison has a lot of thinking to do over the next few days on what to do next.

What is Kevin Davison’s real identity and who is he working for and what has he found out about the creators of the caverns and the equipment in them?

After several days of thinking about what to do Kevin Davison has made his mind up and will go and see Captain North to try and sort something out so that the Royal Oak might be able to get home. Captain North is in his cabin on Royal Oak doing some paperwork and does not hear his door open or the fact that his door was locked with his own security code and no one but the Captain should be able to gain entry.

The first time Captain North is aware of someone in his cabin is when Kevin Davison clears his throat to get Captain North’s attention. Captain North is surprised but does recognise Kevin Davison as one of the RSC Intelligence junior annalists. Kevin Davison explains so Captain North that he has a level 10S security clearance to access the data needed to translate the alien language. Captain North asks why he had not divulged this information before, Kevin Davison says that the information is on a need to know basis and Captain North is not senior enough in the RSN to have access to this level of information.

Kevin Davison also explains that he outranks Captain North by a considerable degree and Captain North will have to follow his orders concerning the information that he will divulge to Captain North. If Captain North agrees he will release enough information to allow the controls to be used so that Royal Oak and the crew of the Shackleton can get back to their galaxy.

Captain North says that he does not believe Kevin Davison story, with a small sigh Kevin Davison says to the ships computer to recognise his level 10S security clearance, to which the computer confirms that Kevin Davison has a level 10S security clearance and Kevin Davison asks the computer to state his rank within the RSC, the computer replies the Kevin Davison rank level is equivalent to that of Vice Admiral in the RSN.

Before Captain North does not stand a lowly RSC Intelligence junior annalist but a very senior intelligence officer within the RSC. Kevin Davison stance has changed from being submissive to that of a predator making Captain North involuntary moves away from Kevin Davison by trying to lean further back into his chair and has to stop him self from doing this.

Captain North has now no real option but to obey Kevin Davison orders regarding the information that they will need to get back to their galaxy. So Kevin Davison gives Captain North limited access to the files that the two crews will need to get the alien equipment working and figure out how to use this equipment to see if it can get them home.

Kevin Davison also says that his true identity must remain a secret and orders Captain North to that effect even though Captain North is very confused by this whole episode he will obey they orders given to him by Kevin Davison for but if they get home Captain North is going to find out who Kevin Davison really is and who he is working for and why he was placed on Royal Oak without telling him.

Will the crews of Royal Oak and Shackleton be able to use this limited access to the alien language to operate the alien equipment and use the alien equipment to get home?

To be continued……..

Next – Part 47 – New Encounters and Breakthrough

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Part 47 – New Encounters and Breakthrough

New Encounters

A month after gaining limited access to the RSC intelligence information both crews work on translating the alien language have made some progress but it is estimated that it will take several more months of work before they understand the controls and what the controls do.

At the beginning of the second month Captain North sets of for the second rendezvous with the Hosham to continue to expand on the first meeting with the Hosham diplomat and hopefully get more information on this area of this galaxy.

The rendezvous appears to be on the outer limit of the area of space the Hosham have managed to explore and should be well clear of Destroyer patrols. After travelling a high warp for several weeks Royal Oak detects several ships at long range that appear to be involved in battle at the rendezvous point. Once within visual range Royal Oaks find that their Hosham are in battle with another race whose starships are like giant flying wings and seem to have the same policy of shoot first and don’t ask any questions. This new race seems to have disruptor style weapons and primitive shields.

Captain North orders Royal Oak to battle stations and joins the battle on the side of the Hosham against the unknown aliens. The aliens have six warships and the Hosham are down to three ships form what appears’ to be an original total of five ship with the remains of two destroyed Hosham ships. As soon as Royal Oak enters the battle the lead Hosham ships hails Royal Oak and thanks Captain North for his help.

Using Royal Oaks superior firepower to engage these alien vessels but unlike the Destroyers these new aliens do not seem to what to back down. These new aliens’ ships are also very tough and it takes two Photon torpedoes with a full yield warhead to destroy each enemy ship. The battle takes just over one hour before all six aliens’ warships have been destroyed.

Captain North wonders if most of the other alien races in this galaxy are as aggressive as the two out of the three races that Royal Oak has encountered so far.

After twelve days of negation with the Hosham diplomatic team Captain North signs a mutual defence pact with the Hosham and the RSC. This means that if either party is attacked the other side would come to its aid. This treaty does not include an exchange of technology just a mutual defence agreement between the two governments.

Both sides agree on a frequency to be used and the codes to be used by both sides if they need to contact each other. The Hosham are as yet unwilling to disclose the location of their home world and Captain North will not disclose the location of were Royal Oak is operating from, both sides agree that this is in each others best interest to keep each others location secret from each other just in case either is caught by one of the hostile races.

Both sides depart in the knowledge that they have both got a good deal out of the treaty. They also agrees to let each other know if they spot either of the two unknown races of any other potential races that either side may encounter. They also agree to meet again when Captain North signals the Hosham with a new rendezvous point in a few months time.

Breakthrough

During the two months the Royal Oak is away forging relations with the Hosham the joint teams of Royal Oak and Shackleton have made significant progress deciphering the controls of the alien equipment that appears to control the gravitational anomalies that brought both Royal Oak and Shackleton in to this distant galaxy. They have also found out that it is possible to send a ship back though the gravitational anomalies from this galaxy to their own Milky Way galaxy.

The alien equipment seems to be able to detect when a ship is in close proximity to the area in the Milky Way galaxy and lock on and transport the ship from the Milky Way galaxy to this galaxy and the alien equipment can also take a ship from this galaxy and transport it to the Milky Way galaxy. Though how this technology works is beyond the joint teams of Royal Oak and Shackleton all they have managed to do is get the alien equipment to work.

Also the alien equipment seems to only operate between this galaxy and the Milky Way galaxy and the joint teams don’t understand why this is just that the alien equipment seems to be fixed on these two galaxies.

All the teams will need to do is test their theory with a shuttlecraft to see if they can send the shuttlecraft back to the Milky Way galaxy and then bring the shuttlecraft back to this galaxy. On hearing this Captain North agrees and orders a shuttle to be operated for the trip and also that the shuttle should be flown remotely just in case this does not work.

After four days of preparation the shuttle is ready and Royal Oak is on station half a light year from were Royal Oak emerged in to this galaxy. The shuttle slowly emerges from Royal Oaks shuttle bay and begins to accelerate until the shuttle jumps into warp to make the short journey towards the point were Royal Oak emerged in to this galaxy.

After the shuttle emerges from warp at the entry point on remote control from Royal Oak, the shuttle has been pre programmed to send a signal if it mages to get to the Milky Way galaxy in one peace to RSC/RSN command telling RSC/RSN command what has happened to Royal Oak and were Royal Oak has been and the discovery of most of the crew of the Shackleton.

On the bridge Captain North is informed by the shuttlecraft operator that the shuttle is ready and via another shuttle in orbit around the planet contacting the alien control equipment that they are ready to see if the can send the shuttle back to the Milky Way galaxy. Captain North says that they have a go and with that the shuttle just seems to wink out of this galaxy.

Milky Way galaxy

Location – Milky Way galaxy – Royal Space Command territory location gravitational anomalies area, RSN Frigate Ajax on patrol at the edge of the restricted zone, current orders to warn and deny access to all vessels entering the area because of the danger poised by the gravitational anomalies.

After three months of being on patrol the crew of the RSN Frigate Ajax had gotten into a routine of warning the few vessels that tried to enter this area of space about the danger of the gravitational anomalies and shepherding them out of the danger area.

On the bridge of Ajax was her Captain Commander Richard Slomes who liked to think that very few things that could surprise him, but today he would get the surprise of his life. As Commander Slomes was about to go of duty to be replaced by his first officer as bridge officer, he was just rising from his captains chair when the sensor officer reported that a shuttlecraft had just appeared out of no ware in the middle of the gravitational anomalies and that the shuttle appeared to be broadcasting and IFF identifying it as one of the shuttles from Royal Oak.

On hearing this Commander Slomes suddenly sat back down again and then ordered his ship to action stations, the communications officer then reported that the shuttle was broadcasting a signal of RSN emergency frequencies and what appeared to be a compressed log of some sort. Commander Slomes ordered that the signal be recorded and the shuttle to be hailed, but just as the communications officer was about to hail the shuttle the shuttle vanished as quickly as it appeared and according to the sensor log the shuttle was only their for no more than 30 seconds before vanishing.

After a few moments of stunned silence on the bridge of HMSS Ajax Commander Slomes ordered stand down from action stations and to contact Rear Admiral Frost who commands the RSN ships patrolling the zone around the gravitational anomalies and report what has just happened.

Location - Unknown Galaxy

After waiting 30 seconds the technicians operating the alien equipment successfully used the equipment to transport the shuttlecraft back from the Milky Way galaxy. Half a light year away from the shuttlecrafts departure the crew of Royal Oak waited to see if the shuttlecraft returned intact. After an anxious 30 seconds wait the shuttlecraft reappears much to the relief of the crew of Royal Oak, the Royal Oak crew member who is remotely piloting the shuttlecraft reports that the shuttlecraft appears to have suffered no damage.

Captain North orders that the shuttlecraft to be brought back to Royal Oak for inspection and that after this has happened Royal Oak will return to the planet.

Later on inspection of the shuttlecraft if is found that is had made it to the Milky Way galaxy without so much as a scratch. Therefore Captain North says that Royal Oak will take the crew of the Shackleton onboard Royal Oak and leave a small volunteer crew to operate the alien equipment, the volunteer crew will have orders to bring though any ship that enters the transport area after Royal Oak has left the area of the gravitational anomalies in the Milky Way galaxy.

After several weeks of preparation Royal Oak is ready to go home leaving a volunteer detachment of 175 of Royal Oaks crew and 50 RAM’s for security will remain behind to operate the equipment.

On arriving at their entry point in to this galaxy the Royal Oak suddenly disappears from the unknown galaxy and reappears back in their home Milky Way galaxy.

The shock of the return of Royal Oak and the knowledge that Royal Oak has brought back that there is now the means to travel between two galaxies is now possible. The crew of both Royal Oak and the Shackleton are treated as heroes on their return. After the ceremonies and celebrations are over there will be a period of debriefing of both crews.

The only person missing from these ceremonies and celebrations is Kevin Davison what has happened to him and were has he gone and who was he?

How will the Royal Space Command use this new device and what implications will the possible exploration of the new galaxy have on not only the Alliance or the Alpha quadrant but the whole of the Milky Way galaxy, also why are most of the races in the unknown galaxy so hostile to one another.

To be continued……..

Next – Part 48 – Classified, Task Force Gathering and the Return

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Part 48 – Classified, Task Force Gathering and the Return

Classified

Earth orbit 30 November 2391 after going into geo stationary orbit over the UK a shuttle shoots from the shuttle bay of a RSN fast courier ship towards London’s shuttle port terminal at Heathrow. After entering Earths atmosphere the shuttlecraft is met by a squadron of Royal Air Force Kestrel atmospheric interceptors to escort the shuttle to Heathrow shuttle port.

On landing at Heathrow shuttle port the shuttlecraft is moved inside a hanger and the hanger doors are closed behind the shuttle. The shuttles occupant then leaves the shuttle and get in to an armoured Daimler hover car, the Daimler hover car leaves Heathrow shuttle port escorted by London’s metropolitan police hover car’s though the centre of London at high speed.

The destination is the forma location of the British Secret Intelligence Service at Vauxhall Cross which is the current headquarters for RSC Intelligence.

On arriving at the underground car park of RSC Intelligence the passenger of the Daimler gets out of the car and gets into a turbo lift. The computer in the turbo lift asks the occupant to identify himself, to which the occupant does and the turbo lift zooms downwards well under the hart of London.

Arriving at the destination the occupant of the turbo lift exits the turbo lift and walks down a corridor into a meeting room were the heads of the 10 RSC Intelligence leaders of there RSC member counties are waiting for him. Also at the head of the table is the unofficial head of Section 31 known as S and he welcomes one of Section 31 top agents back to the Milky Way galaxy and asks why Section 31 agent Kevin Davison has asked for this meeting.

Agent Kevin Davison explains that the technology that enabled travel between these two galaxies is of Iconian design and shows the assembled RSC Intelligence leaders the copy he has made of the aliens language and the Iconian language these two languages are the same. Agent Kevin Davison says that the underground facility was built at least one hundred forty thousand years after the Iconian’s had thought to have died out.

This means that the Iconian’s may have used this technology to escape from their enemies in the Milky Way galaxy over one hundred forty thousand years ago and that there is also a fait possibility that the Iconian’s may still be alive somewhere in the universe in one of thousands of galaxies.

The information that the crews of Royal Oak and Shackleton have should be restricted as quickly as possible and the both crews should be sworn to secrecy as a matter of urgency Even though the information will leak out the Alliance would be unlikely to peruse this as the RSC already has access to some Iconian technology. The RSC Intelligence leaders and the head of Section 31 S agrees’ and immediately issues orders to that effect.

On the RSC colony of New Malta the crews of both the Royal Oak and the Shackleton are just starting their debriefing when it is stopped and both crews are confined to quarters. The Admiral commanding the RSC military forces on the colony of New Malta says that the order has come for the head of the RSC Chef of Defence Staff and the crews are to be held until someone who is coming from earth will decide what to do next.

After several weeks of waiting their quarters they crew of both the Royal Oak and the Shackleton were told that they could leave as long as they signed the RSC Official Secrets Act and do not reveal to anyone any details about the technology that had been discovered in the unknown galaxy now code named the Bright Galaxy. Both crews really don’t have any choice but to sign and on signing the Official Secrets Act they are allowed to go free but are warned that they will be watched.

Captain North is taken to one side and asked if he would meet someone who is waiting in one of the RSN bases meeting rooms, Captain North agrees and when he enters the meeting room he sees Agent Kevin Davison sitting and the end of the table in an RSN Vice Admirals uniform.

Agent Davison informs Captain North that Royal Oak will be going back to the Bright Galaxy in a few days time to pick up the rest of Royal Oaks crew that was left behind to operate the alien equipment. Also going along will be a RSN task force to secure the planet and its alien technology to make sure that it does not fall into potential enemies hands and to inform their Hosham that a new contact with the RSC will be an RSN Admiral.

Agent Davison says that the political leadership of the RSC and the military and intelligence services backs this action. The technology must be secured for RSC use.

Captain North asks will Agent Davison be the “Admiral” to which Agent Davison says no, he will not be the RSN Admiral in charge of the RSN task force going to the Bright Galaxy, but he will be going along. The RSN Admiral in charge will be the current commander if the RSN fifth fleet Admiral Data as Admiral Data has a lot of knowledge fighting unknown and making first contact with alien life forms and is one the rising stars of the RSN command.

Task Force Gathering


The task force going to the Bright Galaxy would consist of Admiral Data’s flagship the Vanguard class super battleship HMSS Vanguard, plus two other Vanguard class super battleships, fifteen Invincible III Class Battleships, sixty-three Dreadnought IV Class Battle Cruisers, ninety-two Leander XII Class Frigates and Longbow II Class scouts.

The Royal Oak would be coming along to do two things, one will be to pick up the remaining Royal Oak crew members left in the underground caverns and the second will be to introduce Admiral Data to the Horsham. Also their would be just over one hundred transport vessels carrying the various supplies that would be needed and the parts to begin construction of an orbital battle station for the planet code named “door way” that holds the control equipment for using galaxy to galaxy transport device.

Admiral Data will be in overall charge of the mission including “Vice Admiral Davison”; Admiral Data also knows “Vice Admiral Davison” true identity and whom he really works for so “Vice Admiral Davison” has no authority over Admiral Data command decisions.

Assembling such a large task force does not go unnoticed by the other members of the Alliance. The Alliance council is told that it is a military excise within RSC space, but the UESPA suspects that the RSC has found some type of new technology and are keeping this technology to themselves but the UESPA has no proof of the other than the return of Royal Oak and the Shackleton. But without solid proof the UESPA and their small number of allies within the Alliance can do nothing for the time being. As with all members races of the Alliance what the do in their territory is their business and the Alliance has no right to interfere unless the action threaten Alliance security.

It has taken a month to assemble the task force but now the task force is ready to go to this new galaxy and stake a claim to the area of space around the entry point in this new galaxy.

The Return

The return to the Bright Galaxy in begin on the 8th of February 2392 and within a few hour all the ships of the Bright Galaxy task force under the command of Admiral Data had been transported to the Bright Galaxy.

After several days of travelling to the planet code named “door way” after beaming down with replacement personnel the last members of Royal Oaks crew were beamed up to Royal Oak for debriefing. The new science teams would have a dual role in operating the controls of the alien equipment and also exploring and studying all of the underground caverns to see if there any more pieces of alien equipment in these vast caverns. Also construction would begin on the first orbital battle station to protect the planet, this construction process would take a least a year, so while this is going on the bulk of the task force will be assigned to planetary defence.

The Royal Oak along with Admiral Data’s flagship HMSS Vanguard and one Invincible III Class Battleship, two Dreadnought IV Class Battle Cruisers and a mix of eleven Leander XII Class Frigates and Longbow II Class scouts would set a course for a rendezvous with the Hosham to introduce Admiral Data as the new contact with the RSC.

After travelling a high warp the small group of RSC/RSN ships arrived at the rendezvous point for a meeting with the Hosham. The Hosham were already at the rendezvous point will nine Hosham warships. The Hosham diplomats and ship commanders was surprised to see that the RSC had been able to bring more ships into this galaxy, but the Hosham diplomats and ship commanders were even more surprised and shocked at the size of the RSN warships especially HMSS Vanguard but they recovered quickly.

On receiving the Hosham diplomats on board HMSS Vanguard Captain North introduced Admiral Data as the RSC representative that will now be the contact with the Hosham, after the formal introductions Captain North excused himself and returned to Royal Oak and left the rendezvous to return back to the Milky Way galaxy as his duties were now complete here.

After several days of talks with the Hosham diplomats an exchange of data was agreed to better understand this area of space, the Hosham would give out information on the space that they had explored and the other hostile races that they had encountered. The RSC gave the Hosham information on the small area of space that Royal Oak had explored and information on how the Hosham could improve their sensors.

Both sides still agreed that they would not reveal the locations of were the Hosham home world is or were the RSC base of operations is for mutual security. Both sides would agree on a regular monthly meeting at a different rendezvous point each month so both sides could keep in regular contact. Also it would be planned to operate joint patrols to see if any other races do not operate the “shoot and don’t ask any questions” policy and to see if they could both expand their alliance within this galaxy.

It would be at least a year until the RSC would be ready to begin exploration of this Galaxy and then the exploration would be limited until more resources could be made available from the Milky Way galaxy.

What would this new galaxy reveal?

To be continued…….

Next – Part 49 – Scouting and Theory

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Part 49 – Scouting and Theory


Scouting

Between 2392 and the end of 2394 the RSC/RSN would build up its forces in the Bright Galaxy around the planet code named “door way”. The RSC/RSN would initially concentrating on building orbital battle stations and an orbital dry dock facility to handle ship repairs in the Bright galaxy rather than sending the ships back to the Milky Way galaxy for repairs and overhaul.

From 2395 onwards the scouting of the Bright galaxy would begin in earnest using the RSN Longbow II Class scouts cloaked to begin exploring and mapping this “local” area of the Bright galaxy. It is estimated that it will take a least 100 years to scout out the “local” area of the Bright galaxy.

During this time period the RSN warships within the Bright galaxy start conducting joint operations with the Hosham in securing the Hosham boarders and lines of supply to the Hosham home world and the Hosham’s two colony systems. By 2396 the Hosham are shown the location of the RSN base within the Bright galaxy as a sign of trust by the RSC this act helps improve relation and trust between the two governments in return the Hosham divulge the location of their home world and the two colony systems.

After several years of exploring this area of space of the Bright galaxy and encountering several new races that are equally as hostile to one another as they are to new races, they all appear to be as paranoid as one another.

Back in the Milky Way galaxy the UESPA was now certain that the RSC was hiding some very big secret with the RSN ship movements in to the area of the gravitational anomalies but none of these ships seem to have come back out of this area. Also the fact that Admiral Data also seems to have disappeared into they same area of space makes the UESPA think that there is more to this that just some natural gravitational anomalies and this must be artificial creation of some kind that the RSC is controlling in some way.

By early 2394 the UESPA had enough information to bring this to the attention of the Alliance council and hopefully force the RSC into admitting they were concealing alien technology, but before the UESPA had a chance the RSC beat the UESPA on announcing the discovery of a way to travel to a new galaxy. The RSC also stated that members of the Alliance council could come and have a look and see how the technology works by taking a ride to this new galaxy on board a RSN warship.

The RSC also managed to pull the rug from under the UESPA by apologising for not informing the Alliance council earlier but the RSC stated that they wanted to make sure that the technology was safe before announcing this to the Alliance council. The Alliance council accepted this explanation from the RSC as there is no evidence to contradict this the statement made by the RSC.

The RSC ambassador to the Alliance council also explains that though they know how to make the technology work they cannot duplicate the technology as it is well ahead of RSC science. The RSC ambassador to the Alliance council does not tell the council that the technology is of Iconian origin. The RSC ambassador does say that the RSC will keep control of this technology. The RSC ambassador to the Alliance council also explains the problems in this new galaxy and the RSC diplomatic relations with the Hosham as the reasons to keep control of this technology under the RSC.

The Alliance council rules that the RSC must keep the Alliance council informed of developments with this new galaxy in a regular briefing to the Alliance council every month, the RSC ambassador agrees. Also the majority of the Alliance council agrees that as the RSC found this technology the RSC can decide who goes to the Bright galaxy and who does not, this decision annoys the UESPA but as the majority of the Alliance is supporting this decision their nothing the UESPA can do about this decision.

The teams from the Alliance council will travel to this galaxy on board RSN vessels and will; be shown around the underground caverns were the control equipment for the ship transportation technology from galaxy to galaxy is located. The Alliance council members agree (though they are not given much choice in this matter) very reluctantly.

The RSC leadership realised that they could not keep this kind of secret for long so they decided to let the Alliance council know just before the UESPA would break the news to the Alliance council thus neutralising the UESPA from interfering with RSC internal affairs. The RSC had also informed their allies in the Klingon Empire and the Maquis just before they told the Alliance council. Also with a slightly different offer in that these allies would be allowed to bring their own ships as long as they agreed that these ships would be under RSN command, both the Klingon Empire and the Maquis agreed to this as they would be getting a better deal than the Alliance would, though the Alliance does not know this yet.

This agreement between the RSC and the Klingon Empire and the Maquis meant that when that Alliance council was deciding on what response to give the Klingon Empire and the Maquis sided with the RSC decision, even though the Klingon Empire and the Maquis are not members of the Alliance this still have an effect on the Alliance council decision to allow the RSC to keep control of this technology.

Between 2394 and 2396 the Alliance sent several science teams to the Bright galaxy in RSN ships to explore the Bright galaxy. This level of exploration was easily enough to keep the majority of the Alliance on the side of the RSC in keeping control of the Iconian control equipment for the ship transportation technology from galaxy to galaxy.

During this time period the Klingon Empire and the Maquis send a small number of ships though the transportation device to the Bright galaxy to protect the world code named “door way” and also to show their support for the RSC to control the Iconian technology, this support would benefit both the Klingon Empire and the Maquis in the long term.

By 2399 the Alliance council have been told about the Klingon Empire and the Maquis being allowed to send ships to the Bright Galaxy, though they are not happy about the because they are not allowed to send their ships but there was not much they can do about the situation.

Theory

By 2401 the RSC Research and Development division had come to a theory about two things, one how the conflicts started between these many race and two why the Iconian’s just abandoned this facility while leaving the equipment turned on.

The conflicts seem to have been started over two hundred thousand years ago by an unknown race that appears to have been the enemy of the Iconian’s. This unknown race appears to have started attacking without warning any other race in this galaxy thus starting a chain of attack were the races that were attacked automatically attack anyone that enters there sensor range. Even though the race that started this chain of destruction seemed to be in this galaxy for only a few hundred years the chain of attack has lasted.

Thus over two hundred thousand years the races in this galaxy have fought each other in a type of domino effect, as each new race ventures out from their home world they encounter a hostile race. Then both these races fight a brutal war sometimes annihilating each other in the process and sometimes one race would win over the other and the winner would encounter a new race and the war would continue.

The RSC Research and Development division is stunning, but it conclusions about how to stop this conflict are not good, in that there is no real way to stop this chain of attack as there maybe hundreds of races fighting all over this galaxy. But without the ability to explore the whole of the Bright galaxy there is no way to tell.

This based on the change from the previous historical version that the Iconians were generally described as a race of conquerors, though recently some scholars dispute this claim as a distortion perpetuated from a species that feared and demonized their advanced technology, and eventually destroyed them. It has been speculated that not all of the Iconians perished in the attacks, but rather used their gateways to escape to other worlds and now with this new evidence to new galaxies.

This opens the possibility that the Iconians may still be alive some ware in the universe and possibly have a flourishing civilisation. Assuming the race that was after the Iconians did not manage to find the Iconians.

This could also explain why the Iconians left this technology behind, as they had to abandon the base as their enemy had found them. So they simply moved to another galaxy and their enemy on finding no evidence of the Iconians may have returned or gone to a different galaxy. There is no evidence that the Iconians enemy returned to the Milky Way galaxy.

The RSC Research and Development division conclusions are brought to the Alliance council and the Alliance council agrees with the conclusions of the RSCR&D. The RSC informs the Alliance council that they will continue to explore the Bright galaxy but at a much slower rate and will continue to expand their alliance with the Hosham and any other races that are willing to talk rather than shoot first.

The final discovery at the end of the 24th century is in one of the caverns on the planet code named “door way” in a room that was initially thought to be an archive of the Bright galaxy. But after several months of study by RSC scientists and engineers it was found to be a bigger version of the stellar cartography on a galaxy wide scale. This stellar cartography shows a real time image of the Bright galaxy and all the races and their ships in the Bright galaxy, this level of technology is well beyond the RSC technology or even how this technology works in getting such information over a galaxy in real time.

This new discovery of the galactic stellar cartography is not shared with the Alliance council but kept secret by the RSC as this technology could have uses within the Milky Way galaxy, if the RSC can ever figure out how this technology works.

What other new wonders would be found and how would they be used in the 25th century and will the RSC exploration teams discover and other friendly races apart from the Hosham?

To be continued……

Next – Part 50 – Exploration

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Part 50 – Exploration

By the beginning of the 25th century the RSC was the leader in exploring the Bright galaxy and the leading power within the Alliance. The RSC now had 41 colonies within the Milky Way galaxy and the one system in the Bright galaxy. In the Bright galaxy the RSC, Klingon Empire and the Maquis were exploring the galaxy at a steady pace and also protecting there Hosham allies from attack.

The forces and personnel in the Bright galaxy comes under the command of the newly promoted Fleet Admiral Data who now commands the newly formed 6th fleet which is made up of all the vessels and personnel from the Milky Way galaxy. The 6th fleet is made up of 175 vessels from the RSN, 89 vessels from the Klingon Empire and 23 vessels from the Maquis. As more ships become available they will be sent to this new galaxy over the next few decades as the RSN has more problems in the Milky Way galaxy to keep an eye on.

Fleet Admiral Data has set up a joint command with the Klingon Empire and the Maquis are treated as equals within this partnership. Even though the Maquis are well aware that they are the junior partner in this joint command, but they do appreciate the fact that they are treated as equals.

The Maquis 23 warships are the latest version of there Warlock class ships (which are a copy of UESPA/Starfleet Defiant class, though slightly larger), these ships have seen extensive combat in helping protect Hosham space along with the RSN and Klingon navy warships. Even though there area only 23 Maquis warships this is more that made up for in their superior technology so they can engage multiple targets with a very high success rate.

The main thrust of the RSN and Klingon navy has been on the exploration side to see if they can find more allied within the Bright galaxy but so far they have met will no success at all, the Hosham are so far the only friendly race that they have encountered the rest are only interested in shoot at each other and any strangers they come across.

The Alliance council has been very pleased with the RSC as the RSC have been giving regular reports to the Alliance council on the exploration of the Bright galaxy. This information has kept all the Alliance members occupied as the RSC has been giving the Alliance a lot of data that the RSC has already analysed and found to be of no use. The RSC has not told the Alliance this, all the RSC have told the Alliance is that they have gone though the data and found nothing and have asked the Alliance for a second option, this has made most of the Alliance feel as though they are being involved.

Over the next few years the RSC would continue the exploration of the Bright galaxy charting numerous systems and new races that all appeared to be a war with one another only the Hosham were willing to discuss rather that to just start shooting.

The RSC were able to keep track of the warring factions using the stellar cartography equipment of the Iconians and allow their scouting ships to avoid combat areas.

By 2404 the RSC was well in control of the area of space around the system that contained the planet code named “door way” the 6th fleet would be deliberately below 400 ships so that this area of the Bright galaxy did not get too crowed and if the 6th fleet was attacked by a superior foe it was thought that is would be much more easier to evacuate less than 400 ships.

Also by 2040 the RSC had found no evidence of the Iconians within the Bright galaxy and it was assumed that the Iconians had left the Bright galaxy for another galaxy. But the RSCR&D could not figure out why the Iconians had left this equipment behind with out either destroying the equipment or dismantling the equipment and taking it with them.

The Return

In Earth 2405 one of the RSCR&D teams exploring the underground caverns discovered a small room hidden from the main caverns by a rock fall. This room appeared to be some sort of sub control room to be used to monitor the power levels to all the main underground caverns. When the RSCR&D team that discovered the room they attempted to restore power to the controls and managed to restore power for a short while before the controls died on them.

What the RSCR&D teams had actually discovered was a communications room and when power was sent though the controls the communications equipment sent out a distress signal. This signal was not just transmitting across the Bright galaxy but across the entire universe and the whole transmission lasted only a few seconds and was dismissed as interference by the RSCR&D teams.

After several weeks of trying to restore the controls to life the RSCR&D teams gave up as they did not have the level of knowledge to repair the controls.

On the 25th June 2405 on board HMSS Vanguard Fleet Admiral Data was receiving an ambassador from Vulcan who was going on an exploration mission on one on the RSN scout ships that was due to start it six month tour of duty in the Bright galaxy. Just as the diplomatic reception was underway the alarm went off with the Captain of HMSS Vanguard calling the ship to action stations.

When Fleet Admiral Data arrived on the bridge with the Vulcan ambassador following along Admiral Data saw on the main view screen several hundred ships that had just appeared out of no ware surrounding the planet code named “door way”. Each of these vessels are sleek and over 4,000 meters long and just of 1,000 meters wide they have there shields up and from what Vanguard’s sensors indicate are weapons are fully powered even though Vanguard’s are having trouble penetrating the ships shields.

Admiral Data orders the communications officer to send the standard greeting but also to send the greeting in Iconian as Admiral Data thinks that these vessels may be Iconian in origin. The bridge crew stare at Admiral Data for a few seconds before carrying out his orders after few minutes wait the communications officer says that one of the ships is hailing us.

What appears on screen is what appears to resembles’ one of the “Roswell Greys” from ancient Earth history who introduces himself as Thor supreme commander of the Iconian fleet. Admiral Data introduces himself and asks in supreme commander Thor would like to come onboard the Vanguard or if supreme commander Thor would prefer Admiral Data would come onboard his ship, Thor asks if Admiral Data would come onto his ship, with that Thor beams Admiral Data from the bridge of HMSS Vanguard with Vanguard’s shields still up onto Thor’s command ship.

Initially Thor says that the Iconian military command picked up a distress signal from this old outpost and that is why such a large force was sent. Admiral Data says that the signal was triggered by accident by his people exploring the underground caverns on the planet below and apologises for any inconvenience caused.

After several hours of negotiation agrees that he will remove the bulk of the Iconian fleet from the area around this planet to avoid accidents. Admiral Data explains how the RSC came to be in this galaxy and how they first discovered the Iconian gate technology within the Milky Way galaxy and how they used this technology to rescue several ships that were in another part of the Milky Way galaxy. Admiral Data also explains that large amounts of information have been held back for some of its allies and explains the reasons behind this decision.

After hearing all this Thor says that he will rely this information to the Iconian council and request instructions on weather or not to return the RSC ships and their allies to their own galaxy and remove the equipment of the planet below so no further accidents can happen or weather the RSC and their allies can stay and continue to use this equipment with that Admiral Data is returned to HMSS Vanguard.

When Admiral Data is back on board HMSS Vanguard he orders all ships to stand down and to continue as if nothing was happening. In a briefing room the Vulcan ambassador asks what happened onboard Thor’s ship Admiral Data says that Thor wanted to know how we have come here and he had told Thor the truth of how the RSC and its allies had come here.

After two days of waiting Thor hails HMSS Vanguard and says to Admiral Data that the Iconian council is on its way here to deliver its verdict in person. The Iconian council arrive in one of there 50 kilometre wide city ship, this city ship is quite amazing and appears that a is shield keeping the atmosphere inside the “city” but allowing vessels to enter and exit the “city”. This appears to be how the Iconian’s managed to stay ahead of their enemy by incorporating there gateway technology in to a city that could move though space rather than having colonies on planets. Thus these cities and ships would be able to travel anywhere in the universe in a matter of seconds, also by making their cities mobile in the same way the Iconian’s were able to avoid their enemy.

The Iconian council says that the RSC will continue to be allowed use the Iconian technology and the Iconian’s will travel to the Milky Way galaxy and state this to the Alliance council, but the Iconian’s will not help them understand this technology or help them duplicate this technology. The Iconian council on board the “city ship” and the remaining ships of supreme commander Thor fleet that stayed behind (after the other had gone back to their normal duties) will jump to the Milky Way galaxy and to the RSC colony of New Gibraltar after sending Admiral Data ahead in his flagship HMSS Vanguard to make sure that no accidents happen along with a communications device to signal the Iconian city ship and Iconian warships that they can jump in.

When HMSS Vanguard jumps in out of nowhere and then followed by the Iconian’s who were thought to be a dead race. The Alliance council is so stunned by this they agree that the RSC should be the custodians of the Iconian technology after Admiral Data explains what has happened.

After the meeting is over the RSC ambassador asks is if and of the members of the Iconian council would like to visit earth, one Iconian council member says yes and to avoid any problems he will use one of supreme commander Thor’s ships.

On arriving at Earth the Iconian council member Trall is given a tour of London and shown all the sights and is given a private meeting with the British King Henry XI. During the meeting King Henry XI states that Trall species look remarkable like the race that was supposed to have crashed landed in a place called Roswell in the US.

On hearing this Iconian council member Trall asks if he may be excused for a few minutes to which King Henry XI says yes with that Trall beams back up to his ship in orbit. Then the Iconian warship begins scanning the US for signs of Iconian technology and dead Iconian’s within a few minutes the Iconian’s have located the remains of their scout vessel and crew.

The Iconian council member Trall returns to King Henry XI and explains why he had to go and what he has found. King Henry XI calls in his staff and RSC diplomats that have been waiting outside and tells them of Iconian council member Trall discovery. All the senior RSC diplomat can do is apologising on behalf of the RSC and Earth, but Trall says it is not the RSC fault and does not hold the RSC responsible but rather the UESPA.

The Iconian council member Trall informs the Iconian council of his discovery, the Iconian council is furious with the UESPA for not informing the Iconian’s that they had the bodies of there people in storage and Iconian technology. The RSC had been open and honest why the UESPA could not have done the same.

The Alliance council on hearing this are in uproar about the fact that the UESPA had held this information back even thought the RSC had initially held this information back about the Iconian’s they had revealed that they had Iconian technology though they had not shared this technology with the other members of the Alliance. The RSC was not under any obligated to share this technology with anyone but they had told the Alliance they had this technology and that was the perceived difference between the RSC and the UESPA.

What will the Iconian’s and the Alliance do and what will there responses be?
How will the US and the UESPA/Starfleet respond?

To be continued…….

Next – Part 51 – Redemption and Decisions

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Part 51 – Redemption and Decisions

Redemption

With the Iconian’s discovery of one of their scout ships in an underground facility in an area of the United States of America called Groom Lake also known as Area 51 this is were the US military for the past four hundred years had spent researching the remains of the crashed Iconian ship with not much success as their was not much left of the Iconian space ship. Though at the time they did not know the ship was Iconian just that it was alien.

When the RSC discovered the Iconian gateway technology in the Milky Way galaxy and used this to bring the three Alpha quadrant ships home. The limited information that the RSC released to the Alliance confirmed that this was Iconian technology and the US though the UESPA insisted on this technology being shared with other Alliance members so that the US (on behalf of the UESPA) could develop its own version of the Iconian gateway technology that could be used to travel from system to system.

The Iconian ship in Earths orbit begins to move towards the US to beam up the dead Iconian’s and retrieve the remains of its scout ship. The US has in orbit its own defence systems that are independent of UESPA/Starfleet control and its own ground based surface to space defences against attack, these systems were installed after the Borg attack in 2384. The US military command warned the Iconian warship heading towards US controlled space to withdraw or the US forces will open fire.

The Iconian diplomat onboard the Iconian warship stated that they would retrieve there peoples remains and then withdraw and warned that if they were fired upon they would respond against any hostile act. The UESPA/Starfleet command responded by saying that they would not interfere in the retrieval on the Iconian bodies or the remains of the Iconian scout ship.

The US military ordered the orbital defence stations to open fire on the Iconian warship this fire would have destroyed and “normal” warship very quickly, but the Iconian warship was not “normal” and the incoming fire did not slow up the Iconian warship at all just impacted harmlessly against the ships shields. The space between the US orbital defence platforms and the Iconian warship was lit up with a deadly hail of phaser and photon torpedo fire. The US commanders stared in wonder as this one Iconian warship withstood the firepower of the defence platforms, even a Borg cube would not have been able to withstand this much firepower, but the Iconian’s were not the Borg this was the US military commanders mistake.

The Iconian warship responded with an energy beam that appeared to wash over the US orbital defence platforms and after this energy beam passed over each defence platform the defence platforms stopped firing. The defence platforms reported that their weapons had been removed even with the defence platforms shields raised the Iconian warship had simply removed the US ability to open fire thus rendering the US defence platforms harmless, after this incident the US military command order no action to be taken against the Iconian warship.

Iconian warship continued on into the upper edge of Earths atmosphere hovering above Groom Lake and again the energy beam washed over Groom Lake and all the materials associated with the Iconian scout ship vanished. After the Iconian scout ship and crew and all other materials were recovered by the Iconian warship the Iconian warship moved back to where it had started from and as the Iconian warship passed the US defence platforms the Iconian warship fired it beam again and restored the US defence platforms weapons but this time the US orbital defence platforms did not fire on the Iconian warship.

The Iconian’s had proved no only to the UESPA by all Alliance members and their allies that one Iconian warship was more than capable of dealing with any threat with very little effort and in terms of technology the Iconian’s were several million years ahead of the Alliance. So the Alliance was relieved when the Iconian’s took no further action against the US or the Alliance after the US orbital defence platforms opened fire of the Iconian warship.

Both before, during and after this event the RSC command had offered to return the Iconian technology to the Iconian’s and also distancing themselves from the UESPA also the Alliance members had also offered to help return any Iconian technology.

Within the UESPA member countries their was outrage that the US had kept this technology to them selves for over four hundred years without revealing it to the other UESPA members also Starfleet command also was distancing itself from the US actions and supporting the other UESPA members.

Decisions

After several days of debate on one of the Iconian city ships the Iconian council will not take any further action against the US as the US did not cause the Iconian scout ships to crash. The Iconian’s were well beyond petty revenge or exacting some form of retubution on the US or and UESPA or even the Alliance.

The Iconian council will also allow the RSC to continue to use the Iconian technology that they had found and would not interfere unless the RSC were going to use this technology against the Iconian’s.

The Alliance asked if the Iconian’s would be willing to leave an ambassador here to liaise with the Alliance so that if they did find any more Iconian technology there would be no more misunderstandings. The Iconian council agreed to this suggestion and also say that this is a very wise comment by the Alliance. The Iconian would sit in with the Alliance Security Council to observe the Alliance.

Back on Earth the UESPA Security Council was in a closed session to debate what action to take against the US for concealing this vital information from the rest of the UESPA council that might have proved useful in fighting the enemies of not only the UESPA but also the enemies of the Alliance.

After several weeks of debate it was decided to remove the US power of veto but still allow the US to remain on the UESPA Security Council the US government had no real choice but to agree to this punishment. It will be up to the three remaining UESPA members of UESPA Security Council to decide when or even if the US gets its veto back. Only the Iconian’s willingness to not take any further action against the US kept the US from being expelled from the UESPA.

Departure

After several more weeks of diplomatic meeting the bulk of the Iconian departs leaving only one Iconian warship in orbit around the planet of New Gibraltar were the Iconian diplomats would be based. The Iconian’s will also be given an empty building on the planets surface to be used as an embassy.

The one thing that the Iconian’s refused to discuss was what happened to their ancient enemy and if this enemy still around today. This caused the Alliance some concern as they were exploring an unknown galaxy and they did not know if they might trigger some ancient technology by accident that might bring the Iconian’s ancient enemy back.

The Iconian’s would do most of their diplomatic overtures though the Alliance they would also attend some of the Alliance council meeting but not all of them.

The aftermath of the Iconian incident leaves the UESPA in a diplomatic limbo for a long while afterwards; only with the removal of the US from the UESPA member countries that have the veto right does the rest of the UESPA start to regain the lost diplomatic ground that it had lost. But because of the perceived dishonesty of one member of the UESPA this would reflect badly on all the other members of the UESPA.

The reverse was true for the RSC because of the perceived honesty of the RSC this strengthen the RSC hand within the Alliance rather than weakening it as the UESPA wanted.

The Alliance was for suspending the UESPA but surprisingly the RSC vetoed the motion for the UESPA suspension. This came as a shock for the rest of the Alliance Security Council members but also for the UESPA as they thought that they would get suspended from the Alliance. The reasons why the RSC vetoed are a mystery but it did show the RSC in a very positive light within the Alliance.

The RSC in terms of technology, military and diplomatic power were well ahead of all the other members of the Alliance as well as all the other major powers in the Alpha quadrant. With the gateway technology being perfected it would be possible to travel between systems within a few seconds and with the ability to travel to another galaxy the possibility to expand the RSC territory was vast but only if the RSC could stop the fighting in the Bright galaxy. The ability to replicate the galaxy-to-galaxy transportation technology was at least several hundred years away possibly much longer, though it was perceived as possible to replicate the galaxy-to-galaxy transportation technology within this timeframe of hundreds of years rather than thousands of years.

The RSC would continue to explore the Bright Galaxy but with a lot more caution than before just in case they bumped into anything unexpected.

How would the US recover to its forma glory and diplomatic power within the UESPA and how would the RSC use its new position with the Alliance and how would the rest of the Alpha quadrant powers respond to the revelation of the Iconian’s return and the role the RSC played in their return?

To be continued……

Next – Part 52 – Interlude

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Part 52 – Interlude

Were the major powers are at as of 2425.

Royal Space Command

Between 2406 and 2425 the RSC solidified it position with the Alpha quadrant as a major power. The RSC had made solid growth within the Alpha quadrant but its growth had peaked as the RSC had no new markets within the Alpha quadrant and all the companies within the RSC could do is maintain their current market share.

The RSC also had stopped acquiring new colony systems as the RSC had several systems within it current boarders that were suitable for colonisation and as none of the RSC member countries are in need of new colonies during this time period there was no reason to colonise these systems beyond the current number of 60 with another 10 systems that could be colonised. Also the RSC companies operate various mining facilities that need protection from the RSN.

The RSN military power in terms of warships remained at just over 20,000 warship of all types. The RSM had there of ships to transfer marines from system to system with their own escort warship manned by RSM personnel rather than RSN personnel the total number of ships operated by the RSM was around 5,000 mostly escorts vessels and troop and cargo transports,

The Alliance between the RSC and both the Klingon Empire and the Maquis is very strong though trade between the three powers was growing but at a much very low rate.

Trade between the RSC and the Alliance as a whole was also growing also at a slow rate and there was very little room for growth except when a new member was added. Even then the befit was small as any new member joining the Alliance could choose to trade with any Alliance member.

The RSC command in the Bright Galaxy (6th Fleet) was steadily growing with the help of its allies the Klingon Empire and the Maquis along with the Hosham. Also with the aid of the Iconian sensor system the RSC was able to track all ship movements with the Bright Galaxy, but the sensors were not able to pick up communications just track ship movements thus limiting its capabilities for the RSC. The sensor technology that the Iconian’s had left behind was now over 200 thousand years behind the current Iconian technological level, but even so the Iconian’s would not help the RSC in improving the sensors capabilities.

RSC Intelligence was using its Shadow class spy ships to provide intelligence for the 6th fleet also the RSC Intelligence offshoot agency Section 31 had three of its own Shadow class spy ships operating within the Bright Galaxy.

The one major technological breakthrough in 2424 was the construction of a stable gateway that would allow near instantaneous travel between two systems within the Milky Way Galaxy. There was however one drawback to producing these gateways was the cost. The cost of manufacturing just one gateway was equivalent to producing six Vanguard class battleships so for the time being mass production of these gateways was out of the question.

Only three prototype gateways had been produced by 2424 and these were only being used for testing purposes and not for general use, even the knowledge of their existence was restricted on a need to know basis.

United Earth Space Probe Agency

The UESPA by 2410 had managed to reassert itself as a major power within the Alpha quadrant and in military terms Starfleet was now ahead of the RSC in terms of warships and number of systems that the UESPA was now at 102.

Starfleet had continued to expand the number of warships that it could deploy so by 2410 Starfleet had just over 32,000 warships. But just over half of these warships are deployed to guard the 102 UESPA colony systems, mining facilities and various outposts. Starfleet in terms of numbers of warships was well ahead of all the other races in the Alliance the RSN still had the edge in terms of firepower as their ships were larger than Starfleets.

Within the UESPA the US had managed to get its veto restored on the UESPA Security Council and was making some headway in achieving this goal of restoring it forma levels of influence within the UESPA.

The UESPA had fully recovered as far as its membership with the Alliance and its trade was booming within the Alliance and out side the Alliance, unlike the RSC the UESPA was showing growth as the UESPA had a larger number of colonies than the UESPA for which the majority were still growing.

Klingon Empire

The Klingon Empire was also growing but at a slow rate, the main cause for concern for the Klingon Empire was keeping an eye on the boarder with the Romulans. The Klingon fleet still continues to grow at a steady rate the current size of the Klingon fleet is just over 12,000 warships of all classes. The Klingon Empire maintains the alliance with both the RSC and the Maquis and operates joint patrols with both governments.

A task force of Klingon warships are detached to the Bright Galaxy under the command of Fleet Admiral Data as part of the 6th fleet.

Romulan Empire

The Romulan Empire during this time had very little contact with the members of the Alliance or the Klingon Empire, as the appeared to be expanding their territory on the other side of the empire. The Romulan Empire has shown very little interest in either the Alliance or the Klingon Empire.

The size of the Romulan fleet continues to expand, but the exact size of the Romulan fleet is unknown. During the Borg attack on Earth in 2384 the Romulan Empire stayed natural as the Romulan Empire was engaged in expansion of the Romulan Empire on the other side of the Empire and did not want to engage the Borg.

Maquis

The Maquis were still growing at a strong rate within the badlands due to their alliance with the RSC and the Klingon Empire. With the support of both the RSC and the Klingon Empire the Maquis fleet now numbered 220 warships all of the latest version of the Warlord class, with 50 of these warships operating as part of the RSC 6th fleet.

The resources that are not available to Maquis from their mining operations on their colonies in the badlands those resources that the Maquis do not are sold to the Maquis by the RSC and the Klingon Empire at a heavy discount, this has the effect that the RSC and the Klingon Empire are subsidising the Maquis.

Though the badlands are hard to navigate the Maquis population have adapted the badlands area of space to their own needs and have found several habitable planets to colonise.

The Alliance

Alliance membership continues to grow at a steady rate, but many within the Alliance have suggested that the growth in new members should be halted as the amount of space the Alliance is obligated to protect is now vast and covers most of the Alpha quadrant. The number of members within the Alliance has grown to 156 since the end of the Dominion war.

New Gibraltar still remains the base for the Alliance and all Alliance members have an embassy on New Gibraltar also several neutral governments also have embassies here and both the Klingon Empire and the Maquis also have embassies on New Gibraltar.

There are still a large number of civilisations that do not wish to join the Alliance like the Gorn and the Tholians. Most of these neutral races do trade with members of the Alliance to various degrees depending on what these neutral races need and what they have to offer in return.

Cardassian Union

Under Dukat rule the Cardassian Union had serge in growth during the years after the Dominion war this lead to economic growth throughout Dukat’s tenure as the Cardassian Union’s leader. Most of this growth was linked to the rebuilding of the infrastructure Cardassian Union and when the Borg attacked in 2384 the Cardassian Union stayed natural as the Cardassian Union was still in the process of rebuilding and also was not willing to help an enemy.

The size of the Cardassian Union has returned to what is was before the Cardassian Union joined the Dominion, with the exception of the area known as the badlands which was given to the Maquis for their help in during the Dominion war. But the Cardassian Union cannot destroy the Maquis, as this would provoke the RSC and the Klingon Empire.

After the Dominion war the Cardassian fleet and military began the process of recovery and rebuilding the Cardassian fleet and military forces to what they once were, to enable the Cardassian Union to defend its boards effectively.

The Iconian’s

During the period between 2406 and 2426 the Iconian’s did not interact with any of the races within the Alliance or even any races outside the Alliance, all the Iconian’s did was observe and presumably report back to the Iconian council.

The Iconian warship orbiting the RSC colony of New Gibraltar was from time to time discretely scanned by various races, but these scans were unable to penetrate the Iconian warship’s hull. The Iconian’s also maintained a warship in the bright Galaxy in orbit above the planet containing the Iconian galaxy to galaxy technology the Iconian’s would neither hinder nor help the RSC in the exploration of the Bright Galaxy.

Summery

Between 2406 and 2426 the Alpha quadrant races have a prolonged period of peace with no major wars and only a few minor skirmishes along some of the boarder areas.

The only real conflict is in the Bright Galaxy but as there are no loses to the RSN, Klingon Empire or the Maquis as all the races that are part of the 6th fleet that have encountered have had inferior technology to the ships of the 6th fleet.

The event that would shatter this peace would be a small and unlikely event that would see a very ancient enemy return and the discovery of a new enemy by the RSC in the Bright Galaxy and only time would tell if these two events where linked or just pure coincidence?

To be continued…….

Next – Part 53 – Brief Encounter

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Part 53 – Brief Encounter


In 2426 the Observer class sensor ship HMSS Watchtower was being delivered to New Quebec from the shipyards at New Sydney. The Observer class sensor ship is a sub version of the Leander Class frigate the Observer class primary mission is that of the old AEW for RSN task forces and fleets to act as fleets’ “eyes” at very long range.

The Observer class’s sensors have twice the range of any other ship within the RSN this gives a task force or fleet commander an added edge over any potential enemy. This class of ship was introduced into limited production after the Borg attack on earth in 2384 to give RSN task force and fleet commanders an added set of “eyes” and an overview of any situation. The weapons on this class of ship are very weak as these vessels are not designed to go into direct combat, but do make up for the weak weapons by having strong shields.

The production of this new class has been slow since production began in 2384 and as there is only one dry-dock facility that has been made available for constructing this class of ship. Also the production run of this class will be small as there are only 26 task forces and six fleets that only need one or two of these ships each.

This class mainly relies on its sensors detecting an enemy and directing RSN warships to intercept and destroy and threats to either itself of the task forces or fleets that this class of ship is part of. This class of ship is one of the few RSN ship classes that are not equipped with a cloaking device as the space for a cloaking device was used for more sensors. The crew of an Observer class is 75 of which 35 are sensor operators there are also 12 RSM on board for security under the command of a NCO usually a Warrant Officer Class 1. This class of ship are captained by a RSN Captain due to the importance of the work that this class does rather than a Lieutenant Commander that is more usual for a ship of this size.

The crew of HMSS Watchtower where half way though their trip to New Quebec travelling at warp 4 when the ship suddenly lurched without warning and when the lurching stopped HMSS Watchtower was surrounded by blackness interspaced by large blobs of light with slightly large blob of light closes to HMSS Watchtower current position.

The sensor operators begins scanning for known astro navigational pointers to see if they could find out where they were after several days of work the sensor chief reported that they appear to have been thrown out of our universe altogether and appear to be in a “void” for the lack of better terminology between universes.

With the further revelation that there appear to be several hundred other universes out their in the “void” and this accident had brought an unusual benefit of there is the possibility of life outside our own universe. With this momentums discovery HMSS Watchtower ordered the helmsman to set a course for home a maximum warp, but the ships warp drive is unable to form a stable warp field. The Captain then orders the helmsman to use the impulse engines to set a course for home until engineering can come up with a way to create a stable warp field but the helmsman reports that the ship appears to be anchored to this spot in space by an external force.

On hearing this, the Captain orders the shields to be raised and a full sensor sweep of the surrounding space to see if they can locate what force is holding the ship after several minutes of searching the sensor chief reports that they have found nothing. The captain order that all the phasers are to be fired a zero elevation on a low power setting to see if the phaser impact on whatever is holding this ship. The phaser fire hits what appears’ to be several ships surrounding HMSS Watchtower.

The alien ships had been observing HMSS Watchtower but once discovered the aliens take immediate action. When the low powered phaser fire hits that unknown ships they shields of HMSS Watchtower suddenly collapse and the crew are vaporised by some sort of black energy beam. The unknown ship then drains’ all the information for HMSS Watchtower’s main computer and then destroys HMSS Watchtower.

The aliens on the unknown ships after analysing the information from HMSS Watchtower’s main computer realise that their enemy the Iconian’s appear to be alive and have a flourishing society. With this knowledge the surrounding space suddenly becomes alive with several million ships of various sizes that begin to make preparations to return to the universe and then to the Bright Galaxy to capture the single Iconian warship in orbit over the base the RSC are using in the Bright Galaxy.

The darkness that had been driven out of the universe two hundred thousand years ago by the Iconian’s and their allies during their final battle, during the battle their was a large explosion that hurled the Darkness into the “void” and is now set to return and has begun signalling its servant races to prepare for their return.

To be continued……

Next – Part 54 – Darkness (Bad and Dangerous to Know)

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Part 54 – Darkness (Bad and Dangerous to Know)

Two hundred thousand years ago


Over Two hundred thousand years ago the Darkness fought against the Iconian’s and their allies in one final battle that had been going on for over two million years, during that time entire civilisations had been wiped out, some deliberately and some by accident by being simply caught in the crossfire by both sides.

The reason for the conflict had long been forgotten by both sides, the Darkness now simply wanted to exterminate the Iconian’s and the Iconian’s simply wanted to survive.

In the final battle both fleets fought each other over a vast area of space in what is now called the “Bright Galaxy” the Iconian’s used their “gateway” technology to deceive the Darkness into thinking that their was some sort of vast explosion that flung the Darkness outside of the universe while apparently destroying the Iconian’s in the process. This deception worked and the Darkness was flung outside of the universe into the void between the universes and there they remained for two hundred thousand years content in the knowledge that the Iconian’s had been destroyed.

The Darkness over the next two hundred thousand years settled down in the void as their new adopted home. Why the Darkness never checked to make sure that the Iconian’s and their allies were destroyed remains a mystery to the Iconian’s and their allies.

Technologically the Darkness virtually stopped most advances as this was deemed unnecessary and only those technological advances that helped the Darkness adapted to the void were researched. Whereas the Iconian’s continued to advance technologically across all areas of scientific research and were able incorporate “gateway” drives into their ships thus dispensing with the need to create “gateway” portals on every planet. This also allowed the Iconian’s to install “gateway” drives into their cities so their cities could move from galaxy to galaxy with ease without tying up a large number of Iconian ships transporting the Iconian population from city to city or using a large number of portals.

The Darkness still uses a form of transwarp drive to move around as they were never able to capture and examine the Iconian gateway technology to make their own version.

Present day – Scouting party

On the 1st June 2426 the last of the Darkness surviving servant races the Donn is contacted by their masters and told that the Iconian’s are still alive. The Donn have served the Darkness for well over one million years and were driven from their home world in the Milky Way Galaxy to the Bright Galaxy over two hundred and twenty thousand years ago by the Iconian’s and their allies.

The Donn’s technological levels have been deliberately held back by the Darkness as the Darkness does not want its servant race getting onto an equal technological level as the Darkness. So over the past two hundred thousand years the Donn’s technological level has not advanced beyond the technology they had two hundred thousand years ago. But even so their technology is ahead of the RSC but not much.

The Darkness informs the Donn’s leaders that it will take several months to return and the Donn are to capture the Iconian warship in orbit around one of the Iconian’s old bases in the Bright Galaxy the Darkness warns the Donn that a race called Human (RSC) is also using this world as a base and has access to very basic gateway technology that Humans (RSC) and that these humans should be easy to destroy.

The Donn’s leaders say that they will obey their master’s orders and capture the system within the Bright Galaxy and also capture the Iconian warship in orbit. But what neither the Darkness nor the Donn know is that the Iconian sensors on that forma Iconian world are working. This information was not in HMSS Watchtower’s computers also they Darkness does’ not know the strength of the 6th fleet as HMSS Watchtower had not yet received any fleet information, this information would have been uploaded when HMSS Watchtower formally became part of the 5th fleet all HMSS Watchtower was very basic information.

The Donn dispatch a fleet of 700 warships to capture the Iconian warship and to destroy the ships of the 6th fleet. The Donn are based on the other side of the Bright Galaxy so when they move in force out of their area of space this is detected by the sensors on the planet controlled by the RSC/RSN.

This is reported to the acting commander of the 6th fleet Vice Admiral David Drake as Fleet Admiral Data is currently on Earth giving a briefing to the RSC council about current status of the 6th fleet and his deputy Admiral Mark Collins is in the Milky Way Galaxy arranging the next batch of warships to be sent to the Bright Galaxy as reinforcements to the 6th fleet and is trying to get a larger number of warships to be assigned to the 6th fleet.

First engagement

The report of a large fleet of ships moving from one side of the Bright Galaxy was not viewed as threat by Vice Admiral Drake as no destination could be determined initially. The Iconian warship in orbit was seeing the same data as the RSC but with more advanced sensors could tell what race was moving the Donn but also was unable to determine were the Donn were going.

After monitoring the Donn fleet for several days it was determined by the commander of the Iconian warship in orbit that their destination was this system. The commander of the Iconian warship contacted the Iconian military command and requested reinforcements against the large fleet of Donn warships. The Iconian military command were surprised at the Donn’s actions because they would never attack without the permission of their masters so this raised the possibility that the Darkness was going to return.

The commander of the Iconian warship raise the warships shields to full, this was detected by RSN warships in orbit on heading this Vice Admiral Drake on board his flagship HMSS Indefatigable or the ships of the 6th fleet within the system to go to action stations and waited to see what happened next, as all attempts to communicate with the Iconian warship were not being answered. Vice Admiral Drake assumed it was something to do with the 700 ships coming towards this system.

The first attack waves of 100 Donn warships came out of transwarp conduit and concentrated their fire on the Iconian warship to try and either disable or destroy the Iconian warship. The Iconian warship withstood the firepower of the 100 Donn warships but the shield where weakening as the Iconian warship returned fire steadily reducing down the number of Donn warships.

At the same time the ships of the 6th fleet engaged the Donn warship but with much less luck that the Iconian warship it took the combined firepower of 20 ships from the 6th fleet to destroy one Donn warship also the Donn warships were now opening fire on the ships of the 6th fleet. It was taking just one or two shots to destroy the frigates, the Donn warships were concentrating on the smaller ships of the 6th fleet as they were easier to destroy.

After one hour of combat the last of the 100 Donn warships were destroyed. The Iconian warship had suffered very little damage, but the 137 warship guarding the system on 53 were left the 6th fleet had suffered a staggering loss.

Within a few minutes the remaining 600 Donn warships emerged from transwarp and began an attack run against the remaining ships of the 6th fleet and the Iconian warship. Just as the battle looked hopeless 300 Iconian warships jumped in and began destroying the 600 Donn warships. The remainder of the battle was one sided as the Iconian warships were far superior to the Donn warships but the Donn would not surrender and they fought to the bitter end.

In the aftermath of the battle the Iconian’s informed Vice Admiral Drake that their ancient enemy looks like they are returning and the Donn are the last of the Darkness’s servant races.

In the aftermath of the battle the Donn leadership informed their masters that they had lost the battle because the Iconian’s received reinforcements. The RSC 6th fleet was barley mentioned as the RSC were considered a minor problem. The Darkness said that they would deal with the Iconian’s when they arrived in force.

How would the Darkness respond to the Iconian’s victory?
How will the RSC respond to these two new and deadly enemies?

To be continued…..

Next – Part 55 – Attack and Genocide

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Part 55 – Attack and Genocide

By the end of 2426 the RSN 6th fleet had been reinforced by taking forces from the 3rd, 4th and 5th fleets to reinforce the 6th fleet, making the 6th fleet the most powerful the RSC/RSN had ever assembled in one place. The reinforced 6th fleet stood at 11,552 warships this fleet included HMSS Eclipse and the majority of the remaining warships were mainly of the Vanguard, Invincible etc classes as the smaller frigate classes did not stand up well even against the Donn warships and it was decided to withdraw frigate or smaller classes of warship from the Bright Galaxy.

The Klingon Empire sent most if its large warships to support the 6th fleet, the Maquis would be used in the reconnaissance role as their Warlock class ships could not stand-up to the firepower of the Darkness has but the warlock class were fast and very manoeuvrable these ships will be used for scouting.

The first main attack by the Darkness was against the Hosham home world and outlying colony systems, within a few hours the Hosham civilisation had cased to exist. The Darkness then began to engage the Iconian’s in the first of many skirmish battles, while the Darkness would setup is main bases of operation on the forma Hosham home world and outlying colony systems.

Over the next few weeks several civilisations ceased to exist including the Destroyers and many others that were caught in the crossfire between the Iconian’s and the Darkness. This will become known as the Time of Genocide.

There are no major attacks against the “gateway” system where the reinforced 6th fleet is guarding the system as all the combat is currently taking place around what was Hosham space. It appeared as thought the Darkness wanted to capture the system in tacked and were deliberately avoiding the system.

As the battle wore on with neither side gaining an edge over the other days turned into weeks and the weeks turned into months and by mid 2427 the war had entered a stalemate with neither side able to bring enough force to bear to overwhelm the others forces.

During these months of initial combat the 6th fleet remained on the very edge of the battle lines and did not engage in direct combat. The time that they did engage in combat against the Darkness they lost with very heavy casualties so Fleet Admiral Data would concentrate the 6th fleet on defending the “gateway” system.

The only victory against the Darkness was achieved by HMSS Eclipse against one of the Darkness’s scout ships and they “victory” was short lived as the Darkness’s scout was being followed by several capital ships and these ships destroyed HMSS Eclipse and her escorting warships. Even though HMSS Eclipse’s shields stood up to several hits from the one of the Darkness’s warships weapons HMSS Eclipse’s shields were eventually overwhelmed and HMSS Eclipse was destroyed.

The main battle had stalemated between the Darkness and the Iconian’s, this is when the Darkness made its move against the “gateway” system by sending a group of 100 warships to capture the system along with 2,000 Donn warships to support that attack. At the same time the Darkness launched a series of attacks against the Iconian strong points to pint the Iconian fleet until the Darkness and the Donn had captured the “gateway” system.

During the fighting the rest of the Alliance was aware what was going on but they decided to stay clear of the conflict they main opponent of joining the war was the UESPA and used its veto on the Alliance Security Council to stop any motion for going to war. After their “experience” with the Iconian’s the UESPA did not what a similar “experience” with the Darkness.

The first main engagement between the 6th Fleet and the attacking forces of the Darkness and the Donn where made by the Donn as the Darkness seemed to be holding back and acting in a supporting role to the Donn. The large number of warships of the 6th fleet defending the “gateway” system would put up a very strong defence against the Donn.

The initial fire fight between the Donn and the 6th fleet were massive exchanges of fire between the two fleets, the gateway system was lit up with a blaze of fire between the two fleets. For every one Donn warship that was destroyed two ships from the 6th fleet were destroyed. This level of destruction went on for the next three hours with the Donn losing 958 warships and the 6th fleet losing 1,916 warships, the 6th fleet was gaining space by having a larger number of warships than the Donn.

With the Donn’s fleet slowly being destroyed the small for of warships the Darkness had sent along to support the Donn has initially stayed out of the battle, but now with the Donn loosing the fight the Darkness’s warships moved to engage the 6th fleet and to support their servant race the Donn on battle.

The intervention on the Darkness small number of warships started to turn the tide of battle towards the Darkness and the Donn’s favour. The ratio went from two 6th fleet ships to one Donn/Darkness warships destroyed to ten 6th fleet ships to one Donn/Darkness warships were destroyed. Over the next six hours the 6th fleet was pushed back towards the gateway planet itself.

By the time the remains of the 6th fleet were in orbit the fleet size had gone from 11,552 warships to just 2,991 with all of the remaining ships having some form of battle damage. The 6th fleet is from being completely destroyed when the Iconian fleet intervenes to stop the Darkness/Donn from taking control of the system. With the battle now concentrating between the Darkness and the Iconian fleets. The battle between the Donn and the 6th fleet is now more evenly matched.

With the intervention of the Iconian fleet that battle for the gateway system has swung in favour of the 6th fleet and the Donn are wiped out along with the 100 warships the Darkness sent to help capture the gateway system.

The main battle between the Iconian fleet and the Darkness’s fleet is also coming to an end with the Iconian fleet has managed to gain the upper hand and is beginning to push the Darkness’s fleet back towards the forma home world of the Hosham that the Darkness has been using as the main base and new home world.

With the main fighting now concentrating on pushing the Darkness’s fleet back the pressure is now of the remains of the 6th fleet that now numbered only 1,128 warships left.

Will the Iconian fleet manage to destroy the Darkness’s fleet or will the Darkness’s fleet manage to escape and rebuild its forces.

To be continued……

Next – Part 56 – Endgame and The Future

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Part 56 – Endgame, The Future, Foothold

Endgame

After several months of hard fighting the battle between the Darkness and the Iconian’s was also coming to and end with the Iconian fleet and its own allies now having the numbers over the Darkness were now steadily driving the Darkness back to the forma Hosham home world. Were most of the remaining warships of the Darkness would make a final stand.

The final battle between the Darkness and the Iconian’s and their allies (not including the RSC) was in the forma Hosham home system would last for over a year before the last of the Darkness was destroyed by the Hosham world itself rather than trying to land and capture the planet. The few dozen remaining Darkness warships fled in the vain hope that one day they could rebuild their forces and continue the fight.

But unlike the last battle two hundred thousand years ago the Iconian’s and their allies would not lest the Darkness go and they are much stronger than the Darkness and would peruse the Darkness until every member of the Darkness race was killed. The hunt for the remaining Darkness would take the next two hundred years but would eventually lead to the Darkness as a race being wiped out by the Iconian’s and their allies (not including the RSC).

The RSC would take no part in the final battles or the pursuit of the Darkness as the RSN was so depleted in strength there was reason to continue and the main effort for the RSC would be focused on rebuilding the RSN to its forma strength. The same would apply to both the Klingon Empire and Maquis, as their main effort would also be directed to rebuilding their own fleets

The Future

With the war effectively over the RSC would now concentrate on rebuilding the RSN. The limited effectiveness of the current classes like the Vanguards and Invincible against superior foes showed that the RSN needed a much more powerful warship for the future. The limited success of HMSS Eclipse showed that if the RSN had more ships of this class the losses might have been less.

The Iconian’s do not provide any technological help to RSC, Klingon Empire or the Maquis but they do provide guard ships to help protect the three powers that helped them. These Iconian warships will remain until the RSC, Klingon Empire and the Maquis have rebuilt their fleets. The Iconian’s do provide help in transporting the wounded back to the Milky Way Galaxy but not much else.

Public support within the RSC actually goes up even though the casualties are very high the fact that the RSC/RSN and their allies the Klingon Empire and the Maquis helped stop the Darkness from capturing the Iconian gateway device that would have enabled the Darkness to attack the Milky Way Galaxy and not only wipe out the RSC but probably all life in the Milky Way Galaxy.

The RSC institutes a new shipbuilding program and at the core of this program would be one class of warship to replace all the Battle cruisers, Battleships and Super Battleships with one class of Battleship based on HMSS Eclipse.

This new class of Battleship would be called the Imperial class, the Imperial class would have a length of 3,010 meters and a height of 775 meters and a width of 895 meters; this is an increase of 50% in size and mass over the old Vanguard class design.

With a saucer section and a new secondary “engineering” hull, this new secondary hull not only went from the centre of the lowed part of the saucer section but also the upper part of the saucer section, creating a saucer section wedged between the secondary hulls. The lower part of the secondary hull held the navigational deflector and the shuttle bays as well as main engineering, the upper part of the secondary hull contained the fore and aft spearfish heavyweight photon torpedo launchers. The secondary hull also holds the four warp nacelles, two on the lower and two on the upper part of the secondary hull, the four warp nacelles were necessary to move such a large warship at high warp.

The Imperial class has an armament of four forward firing and two aft firing Mark 6 heavy phaser cannons, 46 dual phaser banks, 20 spearfish heavyweight photon torpedo launchers (10 forward and 10 aft) with 1,500 torpedoes “ready to use” and another 3,000 “stored”. The spearfish heavyweight photon torpedo launchers can each hold 12 torpedoes at a time thus if all 20 launchers are loaded this gives a total of 240 torpedoes in one salvo. The shields are the latest version of regenerative shielding technology the Imperial class was also fitted with back-up shield generators and the latest in polarised hull armour and the Mark 6 point defence system (PDS).

The Imperial class also uses the latest in bio neural circuitry the bio neural circuitry improves reaction time on the ships systems. The main computer is based on improved positronic technology from the Noonien Soong science institute on Earth; this technology was designed to improve computer-processing time. The Imperial class’s main computer does not have the ability of Dr. Noonien Soongs androids it is extreme advanced and at the very edge of RSC technological computer growth.

The Imperial class can maintain a maximum continuous speed of warp 9.99 until fuel exhaustion without putting any strain on the ships systems. The crew numbers on the Imperial class are slightly small HMSS Eclipse, having a crew of 1,903 and can carry up to 1,800 RSM the equivalent of a light marine regiment, normally only up to 900 RSM are carried on board for ship security and away missions.

The one peace of technology that is not included on the new Imperial class Battleships will be the phasing cloak technology as this is still deemed to important to revile and has proven very useful in keeping an eye on the other races in the Alpha quadrant though a normal cloaking device is installed on the Imperial class as standard.

An order for 7,500 of these Imperial class Battleships is placed with the RSC shipbuilding companies, this is the largest order of warships by any member of the Alliance and its is estimated that it will take over 50 years to complete the order for these warships, with improvements in technology being added during the long production run over the next 50 years.

The rest of the fleet (13,000 vessels) will be a mix of latest designs in frigates, Scott class explorer cruisers and Britannia class diplomatic cruisers making a total 20,500 warships of all types by 2477. The new Imperial class Battleships will provide the backbone of the RSN well onto the 26th century.

The one other bit of technology to enter limited production is the gateway technology that will allow RSC ships to travel from one system to another virtually instantaneously within RSC controlled space. The production for these gateway devices will be limited to two per year due to the high cost and complexity of production and these gateway devices will only be based in RSC systems.

Both the Klingon Empire and the Maquis would also begin their fleet build programs. The Klingon Empire would introduce a larger version of is main Battleship the Negh'Var class and would also introduce a cruiser sized vessel to replace the Vor'cha-class. The Maquis would continue to build the Warlock class warships as they did not have the resources to build larger types of warships and even if they did they would be too large to operate inside the badlands.

This large shipbuilding program would create and economic boom within the RSC, Klingon Empire and the Maquis as all three powers sought to rebuild their fleets. Though the cost in terms of money was very high the RSC, Klingon Empire and the Maquis were able to bear the burden, as this would be spread over 50 years.

The Alliance takes no part in interfering in the rebuild program of the RSC, Klingon Empire and the Maquis after their failure to agree support of the RSC, Klingon Empire and the Maquis they simply let them get on with it.

The use of the UESPA veto in the Alliance Security Council did not gone down well with the RSC, Klingon Empire or the Maquis and up to that point relations that were improving and after the use of their veto relations with the UESPA start to decline rapidly with RSC, Klingon Empire, Maquis.

By 2476 the RSC, Klingon Empire and the Maquis have finished rebuilding their fleets and the RSC have a fully working network of gateways within RSC space, this allows for very rapid transport of goods and people from one side of RSC space to the other. There are also single gateways in orbit around the Klingon home world and the Maquis home world. This technology is not shared with the rest of the Alliance also all RSC, Klingon and Maquis flagged merchant ships are given discount rates for using the gateways all other merchant ships have to pay full price.

It is estimated that each gate will take about 5 to 7 years to pay for its self using the current pricing structure and after that the income will provide a useful source of additional income for the RSC.

The forces of the 6th fleet in the Bright Galaxy are scaled back to their pre war levels and no further exploration is allowed until the fleet has been rebuilt until after 2480.

Fleet Admiral Data becomes commander in chief of the RSN in 2428 and remains commander in chief of the RSN until 2450 when he “retires” from the RSN and goes to work at the Noonien Soong research institute on Earth near Edinburgh. The android population of the RSC has now reached 45 million and there are androids in all works of life.

The time between 2426 and 2476 is referred to as a golden age for the RSC, Klingon Empire and the Maquis. With a rebuilt fleet the RSN is now back as the leading power within the Alliance and its warships are considered the best within the Alpha Quadrant (with the exception of the Iconian warships).

In 2477 the Iconian’s withdraw their warships from RSC, Klingon and Maquis space as it is deemed by the Iconian’s that their debit is paid. The Iconian’s do leave an ambassador at the Alliance headquarters of New Gibraltar but the Iconian ambassador tends to spend most of his time onboard the Iconian warship in orbit and very rarely attends Alliance Council meetings or events.

Foothold

In 2480 the RSC Council with ambassadors from the Klingon Empire and the Maquis met to discuss a RSC proposal to link up via the gateway device between the Alpha quadrant and the Delta quadrant with a base being established in Hirogen space. This would prove better than trying to expand into the Bright Galaxy as this has proved too costly to maintain a large military force in the Bright Galaxy and at the moment only a small force remains in orbit to guard the planet were when galaxy-to-galaxy gateway device is located.

Using the Hirogen subspace relay network the RSC has been able to keep in regular contact with the Hirogen and has suggested this idea to the Hirogen. The Hirogen have considered this and accepted this proposal, as this would ensure a more permanent link between the two quadrants. It would also allow both sides to exchange ambassadors and the movement of ships between the two quadrants and increase trade between the two powers.

Control of the gateway devices would remain under RSC control and the Hirogen would be treated to the same level of discount for using the gateway as the Klingon Empire and the Maquis. In exchange the Hirogen would give an empty system over to the joint control of the RSC, Klingon Empire and Maquis for use as a base of operations within the Delta quadrant.

This would give the RSC, Klingon Empire and Maquis a foothold in the Delta quadrant and a significant advantage over the rest of the Alliance and the other powers within the Alpha Quadrant. Even though once the base is fully operational the RSC will inform the Alliance and permit Alliance vessels to travel between the Alpha quadrant and the Delta quadrant.

After only two hours of debate it is decided to proceed and send a force to the Delta quadrant and establish a permanent presence in Hirogen space.

The initial force will consist of a mixture of RSC, Klingon and Maquis warships and support vessels and the freighters carrying the gateway device to be set-up in the Delta quadrant. At the core of this force will be 75 RSN Imperial class battleships along with 95 Kingon warships and 30 Maquis warships with various support vessels.

This initial force will be used to secure the system the Hirogen have given as a base of operations for the setting up of the gateway and a base on one of the planets in the system that will be used as a point of departure and point of entry for those ships going to the Alpha quadrant and those ships coming to the Delta quadrant.

The point of departure in the Alpha quadrant will be an empty system named Terminal this will be where all ships arriving from and departing to the Delta quadrant will have to go though.

By September the initial force is ready to depart for the Delta quadrant for the Terminal system and this force arrives without incident in the Delta quadrant and in Hirogen space within the system the Hirogen have given to the RSC and their allies.

The setting up of the gateway device to allow travel back to the Alpha quadrant, this takes six months to setup the gateway device and to make sure that the device is fully operational. One the initial tests are complete the Hirogen dispatch a ship to the Alpha quadrant as ambassador.

The Alliance council is informed of the setting up of a link between the Alpha quadrant and the Delta quadrant. All of the Alliance members are aware of the gateway devices that have been appearing throughout RSC, Klingon and Maquis space allowing instant tavel from system to system. The Alliance council was also aware of the setting up of the link between the Alpha quadrant and the Delta quadrant though.

This new link to the Delta quadrant can be used by the RSC and their allies to re-establish links with the races that the three Alpha quadrant vessels encountered while stranded in the Delta quadrant for seven years.

The RSC informs the Alliance council that any Alliance member may use the gateway link between the two quadrants and as with the gateways in RSC, Klingon and Maquis space they must pay a fee the Alliance council agrees to this as they can all see the advantages that this will bring.

How will the RSC, Klingon and Maquis take advantage of this new area of space and also how will the members of the Alliance be able to use this?

To be continued…..

Next – Part 57 – Expansion

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Part 57 – Expansion

Exploration of the Delta quadrant

The exploration of the Delta quadrant began in earnest in 2482 with not only the RSC and its allies exploring the Delta quadrant but also several members of the Alliance including all the permanent members of the Alliance Security Council.

The UESPA Starfleet command has one of the largest exploration fleets of any member of the Alliance and will over the next few months send several hundred starships though the RSC gateway to the Delta quadrant to try and make first contact with as many races as possible and see if they wish to join the Alliance or at the very least establish trading relation with the Alliance.

Various member races of the Alliance will also be trying to do the same as UESPA/Starfleet to see if they too can expand Alliance membership by travelling to the Delta quadrant via the RSC gateways.

The RSC/RSN on the other hand has a very small exploration division as most of the RSC resources have been concentrated on building up the new Imperial class battleships rather than expanding the number of diplomatic and explorer class ships. The total number of diplomatic and explorer class ships is equivalent to the number that the UESPA/Starfleet will be sending to the Delta quadrant the RSC/RSN in numbers of explorer class ships does not even come close to UESPA/Starfleet numbers.

One of the first races that the UESPA/Starfleet contacted is the Voth a species of reptilian humanoids. The Voth having encountered the two Alpha quadrant ships HMSS Echo and USSS Voyager over one hundred years ago that lead to the proving of the “Distant Origin” theory that their race had come from a planet far away in another part of the galaxy a planet called Earth.

The revelation of this caused a brief civil war but in the aftermath the Voth society did recognise that the Ministry of Elders had sought to keep this information from the Voth people. This discovery leads to the recognition of the “Distant Origin” theory as the truth about the Voth’s origin.

The UESPA offered the Voth membership in to the Alliance adding to the 200 plus strong list of races and the Voth would receive all the benefits of Alliance membership. The Voth were also offered by representatives of the RSC offered the Voth to join their own mini Alliance saying that the Voth would also have the same benefits as the Alliance would offer.

The Voth rejected the RSC offer and decided to join the Alliance and by 2485 the Voth had become a member of the Alliance. The Voth also did not need to use the RSC gateway as they possessed transwarp capabilities on all their starships and they could travel from one side of the galaxy to the other in a very short period of time. The first thing that the Voth did after becoming members of the Alliance was to visit Earth to see their original home world.

The Voth entry into the Alliance opened the doors to several other races that they Voth had either knowledge of or some sort of treaty with and with the Voth’s extensive knowledge of the Delta quadrant would also help expand the size of the Alliance.

The RSC/RSN at this time was also trying to expand its own allies but with not much success as the RSC/RSN was having to use their Imperial class battleships rather than their explorer or diplomatic ships as their was never enough of these ships available. When an Imperial class battleship turns up to make first contact it does not go very well as the Imperial class battleships are not really designed for this type of work and the shear size of the RSN warships can be very overwhelming in a first contact situation.

Between 2482 and 2500 the RSC/RSN and their allies were unable to expand their own numbers were as the Alliance was able to expand the number of member races who wished to join. The RSC/RSN did manage to secure several trade deals and other such agreements, the races they did encounter were more interested in joining the Alliance rather than the mini alliance the RSC had to offer.

By early 2499 the RSC and its allies had accepted the that they were not making any progress and the RSC join with the rest of the Alliance in exploring and finding new members for the Alliance rather that trying to expand the RSC own mini alliance.

From 2500 on wards all the permanent members of the Alliance Security Council were united in expanding the size of the Alliance, these are the UESPA, RSC, Vulcans, Tellarites, and Andorians.

This lead to a very rapid expansion of the Alliance from 200 members races in 2482 to 257 member races by 2501.

The other major powers in the Alpha quadrant like the Cardassians, Gorn, Tholians would remain staunchly neutral during this expansion period.

The Dominion would also keep itself to itself and keep to its side of the of the wormhole and insist that the Alliance also keep out of Dominion space and not interfere in internal Dominion matters the Alliance keeps to its treaty agreement with the Dominion but does still occasionally try to open more permanent diplomatic relations but with no success.

The Iconian’s during this time of expansion also keep their distance and just observe the Alliance and their activities and do not interfere.

The RSC keeps control over access to the Bright Galaxy but does limit its forces to protecting the Iconian galaxy to galaxy gateway technology and also keeps a very tight control over their system to system gateway technology that is being use to travel from the Alpha quadrant to the Delta quadrant and has paved the was for this expansion of the Alliance.

The only real benefit that the RSC gets from setting up a permanent link between the Alpha quadrant and the Delta quadrant is a large increase in income from travel between the two quadrants. These tolls for using the system to system gateway technology proves very useful source of income for the RSC and helps to pay for the two gateways that are being used to travel from Alpha quadrant and the Delta quadrant and back again.

Ocampa Home World


The RSC decides that it needs a jump on the rest of the Alliance in exploring the Delta quadrant and decides to build a gateway in orbit around the Ocampa home world. The RSN assembles a force of 15 Imperial class battleships along with 100 supporting vessels and warships also several bulk freighters that will be carrying a disassembled gateway device.

The first ship through the gateway is the Imperial class battleship HMSS Indefatigable one though the gateway HMSS Indefatigable found the Ocampa home world under attack by the Kazon. The Kazon appeared to be bombarding a section of the Ocampa home world that from initial scan showed that this area appeared to be covered by a large shield protecting the area where the Ocampa had their underground city.

From the initial scans by HMSS Indefatigable showed that the bombardment had been going on for well over 100 years and the rock covering the Ocampa city was no longer underground as the rock covering the city had been blasted away by the Kazon all that now remained was the shield protecting the Ocampa.

From the briefing that the captain of HMSS Indefatigable had before departing showed that the Caretaker had left the Ocampa with enough energy to keep the shield going for no more than four years. The captain of HMSS Indefatigable was wondering how the Ocampa managed to keep the shield going for much longer.

But before the captain of HMSS Indefatigable could look into this, the nearest Kazon vessel hailed HMSS Indefatigable demanding that the unknown ship withdraw. The captain of HMSS Indefatigable responded by identifying himself as his warship as belonging to the RSN and warning the Kazon that they should withdraw immediately.

The Kazon on finding out that their old enemy was back ordered an attack on the RSN vessel as with the first time the Kazon had attack a RSN vessel over 100 hundred years ago the Kazon technology was still far behind the RSC/RSN.

The Kazon felt that they had the numbers this time to capture this one warship and it would be worth the risk, what the Kazon did not know is that HMSS Indefatigable was this advanced vessel for 14 more of her class were due to be sent within 30 minutes of HMSS Indefatigable arrival.

All that the captain of HMSS Indefatigable had to do was hold that Kazon at bay for less than 30 minutes before more reinforcements would start arriving. The captain of HMSS Indefatigable would initially use the ships photon torpedoes to pick of the Kazon attack ships at long range and as the Kazon attack ships got within phaser range would then start using a combination of phaser at short to medium range and photon torpedoes at long range.

The battle for the Ocampa system would be a very bloody battle for the Kazon and when after 30 minutes additional reinforcements arrived in the shape of 14 more Imperial class battleships and their support vessels that battle firmly swung in towards RSN victory the remaining Kazon ships withdrew from the Ocampa system.

In the aftermath of the battle for the Ocampa system communications have been established with the Ocampa and a delegation of three Ocampa councillors are beamed on board the diplomatic cruiser to discuss with the RSC diplomats on forming more permanent relations with the RSC and its allies.

The Ocampa councillors explain that before the Caretaker died he transferred knowledge on how to build a series of Tetryon reactors to power the shield that protects the Ocampa city and also other technologies that would allow the Ocampa to survive without the Caretakers protection. The Caretaker has given the Ocampa a technological boost giving them an advantage over the Kazon thus preventing the Kazon from exterminating the Ocampa civilisation.

The Ocampa councillors after much discussion agree to join the RSC mini alliance rather than the full alliance because of the help the RSC provided in driving the Kazon from the Ocampa system and with the Ocampa also allowing the RSC to base its gateway in the Ocampa system this will provide the Ocampa with a valuable source of trade not only with the new Alliance members within the Delta quadrant but also within the Alpha quadrant.

The Ocampa is the only other race from the Delta quadrant apart from the Hirogen that the RSC has managed to convince to join there own mini alliance rather that joining the main Alliance as all the other races that they have contacted have joined the Alliance.

To be continued……

Next – Part 58 – The Alliance

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Part 58 – The Alliance

The Alliance cannot interfere in the internal affairs of another Alliance member or a race that has not achieved warp technology level. Any race that joins the Alliance does not have to share is technology with the other members of the Alliance, this precedent was set by the RSC when the RSC discovered Iconian gateway technology. The Alliance will stop any member race from interfering in a pre warp civilisation.

The Alliance Security Council members (permanent)

RSC

The RSC are one of the founding members of the Alliance and does take a full and active role within the Alliance, but the RSC also has its own mini Alliance with the Klingon Empire, Marqu and the Hirogen and the newest members of the mini alliance the Ocampa.

The RSC is ahead in certain areas of technology and in all other areas of technology are equal to the other member’s permanent of the Alliance Security Council. The RSC spend a large proportion of their budget in the defences for each RSC colony such as improving the orbital battle stations and system patrol vessels.

The RSC have a unified Police and Justice System not only on Earth but all RSC colonies worlds and outposts, this has reduced crime to a very low level as a police officer perusing a criminal going to another RSC colony can simply ask that colonies police to pick the criminal up and return him or her to the RSC colony were the crime was committed. This has brought an unprecedented level of cooperation between the ten RSC member countries.

The economy is still based on the British pound weather it is the British, Canadian, New Zealand, Malta, Nepal, Pakistan, Indian, Bangladesh, Australian or Tibetan pound all have their version of the pound. This makes trade between RSC members and the companies much easier as there is very little difference between each member countries exchange rates.

In terms of military strength the RSN and RSM are by far the most power military force of any member of the Alliance, while other Alliance members have a larger numbers of warships on a one to one basis they are no match an RSN Imperial class battleships.

The number of colony system the RSC has is only 70 in RSC controlled space along with numerous outposts in RSC and Alliance controlled space such as the Romulan boarder. The RSC colony systems are grouped together rather than being scattered across a large are of space.

With the system to systems gateway technology travel between RSC colony systems is instantaneous and most RSC companies use impulse dive freighters for delivering their good between RSC systems as there is no need to fit these ships with warp drive, only those freights that travel beyond RSC space use warp drive.

The main intelligence gathering is done by RSC Intelligence with is sub organisation Section 31 carrying out the clandestine operations, both RSC Intelligence and Section 31 have increased in size over time to deal with and increase in the size of the Alliance.

The RSC operates a free health care system throughout all ten RSC member countries and all their colonies. All RSC member countries operate a parliamentary democracy system, the British monarch being head of state in Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Malta and the rest have a president as head of state, the British monarch is head of the RSC in a pure figurehead role.

The use of the gateway technology to link the 70 RSC colony worlds together has brought a trade boom because good that would normally take weeks or even months to travel between on RSC colony to another now just take seconds, and the ships transporting these good do not need warp drive only impulse engines as these freighters will arrive within the RSC colony system.

With the recent addition of a gateway linking the Alpha quadrant to the Delta quadrant the RSC has seen a dramatic surge in revenue from various Alliance member races using the gateway linking the two quadrants together.

UESPA

The UESPA are one of the founding members of the Alliance and does take a full and active role within the Alliance, but unlike the RSC has not formed its own mini alliance rather it has concentrated on building up the size of the Alliance with other members of the Alliance. The UESPA Starfleet command has the largest exploration fleet within the Alliance.

The UESPA has a set-up a UN stile council with a Security Council that is US lead with the power of veto along with France, Japan, Germany, China and Russia.

Each of the UESPA member countries runs its affairs according to its own laws this can lead to quit a bit of problems when it comes to law enforcement and jurisdiction and which country has jurisdiction. Also each UESPA member country has its own different way of electing its own government. The UESPA president is mostly a ceremonial role and the president is usually chosen from one of the four permanent members of the UESPA council either the US, Russia, China or France.

UESPA/Starfleet has the largest fleet of starships of any member within the Alliance, but most of these ships are used for system defence or exploration. Due to the size of the UESPA it can take months to travel from one end of UESPA territory to the other. The only real organised force within the UESPA is Starfleet command this is mainly due to the fact that it is run on military lines and has its own chain of command and its own independent budget which answers to the UESPA Security Council or its actions.

Starfleet command has been very successful in expanding not only the number of colony worlds that it has but also in expanding the size of the Alliance, thanks to Starfleet commands large diplomatic and exploration arm. Starfleet commands budget keeps being increased as this is the one thing that all UESPA members can agree on.

The UESPA has 197 colony systems scattered throughout UESPA and Alliance controlled space along with numerous outpost and bases. The UESPA still has to travel from one UESPA colony to another by warp drive this can take weeks or months of travel at warp speed to get to the most distant UESPA colonies.

The recent expansion into the Delta quadrant has been a boom time for UESPA Starfleet exploration division in acquiring new members for the Alliance.

Vulcan

The Vulcan’s are one of the founding members of the Alliance and does take a full and active role within the Alliance. The Vulcan’s are one of the older space faring races within the Alliance and one of the more technologically advance races with in the Alliance.

The Vulcan’s have only 75 colony systems plus a few outposts; due to the small number of colonies that the Vulcan’s have it is very easy to travel for one system to another system within Vulcan space. Most of these colonies were set-up before Vulcan was a member of the Alliance or discovered Earth.

The Vulcan High Command is responsible for the defence of all of the colonies and outposts for this the Vulcan’s have a fleet of advanced warships that in terms of technology are equal to the RSN (with the exception of the gateway and clocking technology).

The Vulcan combat cruiser has not changed very much on term of external appearance in 700 years, though the size of these vessels have increase from 600 meters in length to 1,500 meters. The current Vulcan combat cruisers shared a similar design lineage with the Surak class, but instead of a single "hoop" warp nacelle, it contained three "hoops" arranged in a clover-shaped arrangement these ships form the backbone of the Vulcan High Command fleet.

Tellarites

The Tellarites are one of the founding members of the Alliance and does take a full and active role within the Alliance. Tellarites are a sturdy humanoid species with distinguished snouts they wear beards and their hands were sometimes hoof like in appearance. Tellarites were known to be an impatient people they are also known for their "stubborn pride".

The Tellarites have a propensity toward strong emotion. However, they enjoyed a good argument, which was even considered a sport on Tellar. Tellarites often began an interaction with a series of complaints; this was how they started arguments with someone they had recently met. If they had nothing to complain about they would simply insult the person. Because of their ability to argue, Tellarites make excellent politicians.

Tellarites are on a technological level with the other members of the Alliance Security Council their starships protect their 52 colony systems. The Tellarites also have the largest number of freighters with the Alliance (or even out side the Alliance) due to their skills as negotiators this makes the Tellarites one of the best trading races known (even above the Ferengi) as their deals are more honest than that of the Ferengi tend to be.

Andorians

The Andorians are one of the founding members of the Alliance and does take a full and active role within the Alliance. Andorians have the same number of colony systems as the Vulcan’s do 75, with their fleet protecting these systems. The Andorian technology level is on the same par as the Vulcan’s and the fleet in terms of numbers of warships matches that of the Vulcan fleet.

The Andorians are a militaristic warrior race this is underscored by the fact their weapons had no stun setting, but later on this was changed on encountering other species. Service in the Andorian Imperial Guard is considered honourable, and military ranks have a great influence on social reputations.

Andorians never fight without reason and deplored dishonesty, but they were capable of duplicity. Andorians considered their race to be deeply emotional and passionate, even violent; they weren't known for their charity and had few sympathies, but they placed a high value on family.

Other members of the Alliance

The Alliance headquarters are still based on the RSC colony of New Gibraltar there are also a number of consulates based throughout Alliance space for those races that cannot travel the vast distances to attend every Alliance council meeting, so most Alliance decisions are done via sub space communication.

The other races of the Alliance serve two years rotating terms on the Alliance Security Council for the seven other seats in the Security Council; these seven seats do not have the veto power of the founding members of the Alliance. The addition of another member with the veto power can only be passed if all the current five members with the power of veto agree (and so far this has not happened).

The current size of the Alliance stands at 237 member races with 21 of these races come from the delta quadrant so far.

None Alliance members – Semi Allied

Klingon Empire

The Klingon Empire has an Alliance with the RSC, Maquis and the Ocampa for mutual defence and trading, the Klingon Empire also has a non aggression pact with the Alliance. The only “real” threat to the Klingon Empire is the Romulan Empire but for the past 200 years the Romulans have taken very little interest in either the Alliance of the Klingon Empire.

The Klingon Empire has a horary seat in the Alliance Security Council in recognition of the Klingon Empires help in defending the Alliance against several invasions. The Klingon Empire is still expanding in the two directions that the Alliance does not have direct access to.

The size of the Klingon fleet is around 30,000 warships of various types with most of these being based in Klingon territory, but there are detachments of Klingon warships in the Bright Galaxy, RSC space and in the Delta quadrant.

The Klingon Empire has around 100 colony systems within its boarders and has another 35 systems, which are “protectorates” of the Klingon Empire, in reality these are races the Klingon Empire has conquered and currently occupy this races system. The Klingon Empire has no colonies outside the Empires boarders.

Maquis

The Maquis has not expanded its boarders beyond the badlands area of space and mainly concentrates of keeping a eye on the Cardassian’s to make sure that the Cardassian’s do not try anything against Maquis space. The Maquis main form of defence of the Maquis is their treaty with the RSC, Klingon Empire and more recently the Ocampa to keep the Cardassians at bay.

The Maquis do not have a horary seat in the Alliance as this was vetoed by the UESPA, both the RSC and the Klingon Empire represent the Maquis, both these powers subsidise the Maquis with resources that the Maquis are unable to find in their own territory.

The Maquis has a fleet of only 200 warships of the latest version of the tried and tested Warlock class. These warships are some of most agile and pack quite a punch for a ship of this small size even the Starfleet Defiant class is not as powerful as the Warlock class (which the Warlock class is based on).

Maquis has only twelve worlds within the badlands that they have colonised, each world has its own orbital defences against any possible attack, but the best defence that the Maquis colony worlds have id the intense plasma storms in the badlands. These storms prevent a large group of warships entering the badlands as these ships would be ripped apart by the plasma storms.

Ocampa

The Ocampa is the most recent addition to the RSC mini alliance and only has its home system. The Ocampa have the technology to build starships but because of the Kazon siege of their city the Ocampa were unable to build any ships. With the siege lifted the Ocampa have begun building an orbital facility in geo stationary orbit above the vast city.

The Ocampa have been technologically advanced by the Caretaker before his death the Caretaker transferred a large amount of technological information giving the Ocampa to survive on there own.

It will take the Ocampa several decades to build a trading society and several thousand years to rebuild their planets eco system that was destroyed by the Caretakers race by accident also the Ocampa continue to examine the information the Caretaker sent to them before his death.

Neutrals and enemies of the Alliance

There are large numbers of neutral governments these include races like the Gorn, Tholians, Tzenkethi and the Breen to name but a few. These neutral governments keep themselves to themselves and do not wish to join the Alliance but they do trade with various Alliance members to various degrees on an individual basis.

There are three major races that are hostile to the Alliance to various degrees these are the Dominion, Cardassian Union and the Romulan Empire, of the three the Cardassian Union is the most hostile. The Dominion and the Romulan Empire the least hostile as these to races are busy expanding their boarders and controlling their own empires.

The Cardassian Union has never forgiven the Alliance for ceding the badlands to the Maquis and continues to try and get the Alliance along with the RSC and the Klingon Empire to withdraw their support of the Maquis but have met with no success. The Cardassian Union will not attack the Maquis as the Cardassian Union knows that not only would the RSC and the Klingon Empire rally to the Maquis support but also the Alliance may support the Maquis as well.

The Cardassian Union try’s various tricks over the years to try and split the RSC, Klingon Empire from the Maquis but nothing the Cardassian Union but these tricks are found out and have the opposite effect.

The Dominion have kept to their treaty agreements with the Alpha quadrant races and have not come though the wormhole, the Dominion has sent scouts to the area of space were the wormhole is located in the Gamma Quadrant, but beyond that their has been no activity at all. All attempts at opening diplomatic relations with the Dominion have failed and it appears that the Dominion just wants to be left alone even attempts to contact Odo failed, the Dominion just does not to want be disturbed at all.

During the Alliances first years of exploration of the Delta quadrant several Borg cubes were encountered but the Borg cubes did not take any notice of the Alliance vessel exploring the Delta quadrant apart from a brief scan.

The Alliance did not enter Borg space as defined by HMSS Echo and USSS Voyager so there was not reason for a direct encounter between the Alliance and the Borg. Also the Borg were very wary of attacking any Alliance member vessel and provoking V’ger who’s technological level is far above that of the Borg, the Borg were also aware of the Iconians return and that the Iconians were in some way allied or at least linked to the Alliance.

To be continued…..

Next – Part 59 – The Long Road/The Beginning and the End

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Part 59 – The Long Road/The Beginning and the End

In 2501 the RSN explorer cruiser HMSS Roebuck while exploring an uncharted system in the Delta quadrant near the Ocampa home world discovers that one of the three moons orbiting the forth planet finds a dome protecting a surface area of one the moons roughly 2 kilometres across.

After several days of trying to scan though the dome with no success HMSS Roebuck sends one of its shuttlecraft to the moons surface and an away team in spacesuits try’s to find an entrance to the dome but is unable to fine any entrance, while trying to find an entrance the away team discovers that the dome is actually an energy barrier that is not opaque so the dome appears solid.

The away team on returning to HMSS Roebuck the RSN ship is hailed from the dome when the image appears on the bridge view screen it is a human. The man on the view screen identifies himself as Mr. Flint.

Mr. Flint asks the captain of HMSS Roebuck what he is doing in this system so far away from Earth. The captain of HMSS Roebuck says that he is part of the Alliance and is exploring this region of space, Mr. Flint replies that the ship does not have the capability to travel such vase distances with the warp drive that HMSS Roebuck has. The captain says that they use a form of Iconian gateway technology.

On hearing this Mr. Flint invites the captain of HMSS Roebuck to come a visit him inside his retreat the captain accepts and is informed that he will not be allowed to beam in but much come by shuttlecraft that captain of HMSS Roebuck accepts.

On arriving inside Mr. Flints retreat the captain of HMSS Roebuck finds a mix of styles dating back several thousand years of Earth history, Mr. Flint explains to the captain of HMSS Roebuck that he is immortal and then goes on to explain how he got here.

Mr. Flint is an immortal human, born as Akharin, during Earth's 4th Millennium BCE in Mesopotamia, Earth. After realizing his fate of immortality, he continued his life through many aliases, sometimes playing a role in human history.

He also met people like Socrates and Galileo, and witnessed the bubonic plague spreading over Europe in the 1340s, killing nearly half the European population at the time. He was married hundreds of times, and had to watch his beloved ones grow old and die over and over again.

Flint gathered a large collection of original artworks from his many lives among them are a Shakespeare first folio, a Gutenberg Bible, the creation lithographs by Taranullus of Centauri VII, several original da Vinci works, some paintings of Reginald Pollack and some of the painter Sten from Marcus II.

In 2239, under the assumed name of Mr. Brack, he bought a starship (second hand from the UESPA) and had the starship refurbished to his needs then set out for the Delta quadrant where he built this base as a retreat away from the rest of the universe so that he could continue with his own projects as his own immortal’s pace. Mr. Flint has taken the long road to get away from the universe and has failed as the RSC/RSN ship HMSS Roebuck has found his retreat.

Mr. Flint made it known that he just wanted to be left alone and did not what to part of the Alliance in any form. Just as the captain of HMSS Roebuck was about to try and talk Mr. Flint out of his decision HMSS Roebuck detected a large number of Kazon attack vessel closing on this position.

The captain of HMSS Roebuck to Mr. Flint that he might be safer is Mr. Flint was beamed on board HMSS Roebuck, Mr. Flint replied no and that the facility that he had built was more that capable of defending itself against attack.

With that Mr. Flint remove from his jacket pocket a remote control/communications device and warned the Kazon that if they pressed their attack they would be destroyed. The Kazon did not reply but continued on their attack course.

Mr. Flint simply sighed and pressed a button on the remote control/communications device and a holo display appeared in the room showing the Kazon ships with another touch of the control/communications device that colour of the attacking Kazon ships changed from yellow to red and with one more touch part of the area under the dome opened reviling some sort of vertical launcher.

The launcher began launching some sort of guided missiles/torpedoes at the Kazon attack ships, within a few minutes all the Kazon vessels are destroyed.

After the destruction of the Kazon attack ships Mr. Flint again says that he just want to be left alone and it more that capable of defending himself against any form of attack including cloaked ships, making the point that he can detect cloaked ships.

With that the captain and the away team and the shuttle are beamed back on board HMSS Roebuck. The captain decides to return to the Ocampa home world and report his finding to higher command.

RSC/RSN command decide to leave Mr. Flint alone and only send a ships once a year to check up on Mr. Flint but not to interfere or bother Mr. Flint under any circumstances.

The Beginning and the End

In 2505 UESPA/Starfleet command launches a new long ranged shuttlecraft design with a copy of the mobile holo emitter that the Doctor brought back from the Delta quadrant in 2378.

The prototype shuttle is launched with a new and excremental warp drive system on its maiden flight the shuttle disappeared without a trace after extensive search of the area of space were the shuttle disappeared.

Only after some checking that is was discovered that the shuttle has travelled though time into the past and to the Delta quadrant were the remains of the shuttle would be found by USSS Voyager and HMSS Echo in March 2373.

The UESPA/Starfleet command reported its findings to the Alliance Security Council who after several months of debate introduced the temporal prime directive that outlawed time travel of any kind and also made it compulsory for any Alliance member to report and accidental time travel to the Alliance Security Council.

This new temporal prime directive was passed without any opposition from any Alliance member, an unheard of event in Alliance history. The Alliance has achieved a new level of unity even if is short lived.

What now for the RSC and the rest of the Alliance?

To be continued…..

Next – Part 60 – Evolution

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Part 60 – Evolution


In 2525 the RSC Research and Development division makes a breakthrough in gateway technology, in now knowing how the gateway drive can in theory be mounted inside a space ship but the current gateway device is currently as large as an Imperial class battleship and this is without even a power source or crew to operate the gateway technology.

This does mean however that the gateway technology can be built into a space station and using the new breakthrough in gateway technology the station can be moved to the destination system without the need to use freighters to transport the parts and then to assemble a new gateway in each new system the RSC is either colonising or to set-up a gateway outpost in the Delta quadrant. These new gateway space stations can now be pre built in RSC space at an RSC shipyard and then transport itself to the system were it is needed.

This technological breakthrough has brought a new level of mobility to the RSC and RSN and opened up new options for the RSC and the RSN in terms of exploration and defence, now “all” the RSC Research and Development division has to do is miniaturise the technology so that it will fit into RSN warship, but this is more difficult that it sounds.

It takes thirty months to build the first gateway space station but once it is built the gateway space station unlike other space stations is very mobile though once at its destination the gateway space station can only use its manoeuvring thrusters for small adjustments to its position. This has the added advantage that a gateway space station if no longer needed at one location can simply move itself to a new location with relative ease, it also means that if a gateway station is under attack in the Delta quadrant too the gateway station is jump back to the Alpha quadrant and back into RSC space.

By 2550 the RSC has replaced all of its old static gateway station with the new “mobile” gateway space stations at all of is colonies with the Alpha quadrant. Several Alliance members are viewing this technology with envy but as the vast majority of the Alliance still supports the RSC there is nothing the minority can do about this.

After 2550 these new gateway space stations help not only the RSC but also the Alliance to expand within the Delta quadrant by setting up several RSC gateway space stations throughout the Delta quadrant at key strategic locations.

The RSC industrial capability is enormous as all of its manufacturing capability is based within RSC space in the Alpha quadrant and the gateway network can simply transfer any manufactured items to any were there is a gateway station.

The biggest problem the RSC and the Alliance is facing is the Borg and the Borg’s lack of activity beyond its own boarders, though the Borg patrol its own boarders in strength no Borg vessel has been see outside its own space for nearly 50 years.

Improvements in weapons technology lead the RSC/RSN upgrading all their Imperial class battleships with the following series of improvements. The removal of the 6 heavy phaser cannons and replacing the 46 dual phaser banks with 46 single phaser banks, each one of these single phaser banks has the firepower of a heavy phaser cannon, therefore it was felt that the heavy phaser cannons are now redundant.

This also leads to improvements in the spearfish heavyweight photon torpedoes in terms of destructive power and guidance systems and range. The shields are the latest version of active regenerative shielding technology the Imperial class is also fitted with back-up shield generators and the latest in polarised hull armour and the latest version of the point defence system (PDS).

The Imperial class also uses the latest in bio neural circuitry the bio neural circuitry improves reaction time on the ships systems and this latest version of the Imperial class is starting to have a very organic feel to it.

The main computer is based on improved positronic technology from the Noonien Soong science institute on Earth; this technology is designed to improve computer-processing time though the main computer is not sentient.

The number of these improved Imperial class battleships has by 2550 increased to 10,121 and more are being built to guard the increasing number of gateway space stations in the Alpha and Delta quadrants.

Bright Galaxy

In early 2050 the RSC engineers had finally figured out how the Iconian base was powered, it was initially thought that the Iconian base was powered by a series of underground reactors but when no reactors were found the RSC engineers began looking for the power source.

What the RSC engineers was what they thought were a series of tables in several room throughout the underground facility, but what they are power stations, each “table” contains five power modules which are like large self rechargeable power packs. Each of these power modules is capable of putting out enough energy to power just over 100 Imperial class battleships. The RSC engineer’s can only guess the power output of an Iconian warship or even one of the Iconian city ships.

One of these power modules is removed and taken on board one of the RSN warships HMSS Warrior to see if it is possible to use these power modules instead of a matter anti matter power source.

Over the next 10 years HMSS Warrior’s matter anti matter power source is removed a replaced with an Iconian power module. The process of trying to build a converter to safely use the tremendous amount of power stored inside one of these power modules takes up most of the time.

During this time the RSC sends regular messages to the Iconian warship in orbit but receive no reply and continue to proceed with the adoption of the Imperial class battleship HMSS Warrior so that this ship can use the power module as its main power source.

It is also estimated that these power modules in the underground facilities have been operation without maintenance for 200,000 years even after the underground facilities were abandoned by the Iconians this means that the power module are self recharging in some way.

In 2560 the Iconian ambassador onboard the Iconian warship orbiting the galaxy-to-galaxy device based inside the planet makes a surprise visit to the RSN ship HMSS Warrior that has been fitted with one of the Iconian power modules.

The Iconian ambassador states that they have been monitoring the RSC progress in installing one of their old power modules to be used as HMSS Warrior’s matter anti matter power source replacement. The Iconian ambassador says that the RSC will be allowed to use the Iconian power module on HMSS Warrior but their must be several Iconian’s onboard HMSS Warrior to monitor how the RSC is going use this power module and that the Iconian’s high council will only allow one RSC/RSN ship to be fitted with one power module.

After a brief discussion with RSC command and with no real choice but to agree an area of HMSS Warrior is put aside as the Iconian quarters and will be out of bounds for RSC personnel including RSC Intelligence (and Section 31).

After several months of preparation in bring the Iconian observers on board, HMSS Warrior is ready to begin powering up her systems. Over a period of several hours HMSS Warrior are powered up successfully with engineering reporting that the Iconian power module is registering less the 0.1% usage.

Over the next few months the systems of HMSS Warrior are put though their paces and the Iconian power module proves that HMSS Warrior is tapping into only a very small fraction of the power available even when HMSS Warrior powers up all systems to full strength. This leads to the 46 single phaser banks and the shield generators to be upgraded so that they are the most powerful that can be fitted, even with these upgrades the Iconian power module is still registering minimal output.

HMSS Warrior is transferred to the Milky Way galaxy and then to the Delta quadrant and is part of the RSN task force operating from the Ocampa home world. The RSN warship is now the most powerful ship of almost any Alliance member with the exception of the Voth who have now a very small lead over the RSC.

The rest of the Alliance view the enactments to HMSS Warrior with the Iconian power modules as not a real threat as the Iconian’s will only allow the RSC to use one of their old power modules from 200,000 years ago. Various Alliance members try and persuade the Iconian’s to allow them to fit old Iconian power modules to their ships but this is refused no reason is give by the Iconian’s.

HMSS Warrior would become the flagship of the RSN and would be used to explore the Delta quadrant.

To be continued……

Next – Part 61 – HMSS Warrior

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Part 61 – HMSS Warrior

Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Imperial class battleship HMSS Warrior. On its ten-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life forms and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.

HMSS Warrior – 3rd February 2561 – in orbit Ocampa home world

The crew of HMSS Warrior are the best of the RSN and RSM and in 2561 they would begin their ten-year exploration mission in the Delta quadrant, something the RSC/RSN had not done for a long time. The captain of HMSS Warrior is Captain James Hunt a career officer with 30 years experience of commanding various RSN warships and has now been given command of the RSN flagships HMSS Warrior. The first officer is Commander William James has risen up though the ranks and has 25 years experience.

The commander of the 900 RSM detachment on board HMSS Warrior is Lieutenant Colonel Mark Hammond though he has severed with the RSM fort 22 years this is his first front line command and has served in various staff positions and has got this position due to his contacts and RSM headquarters, his deputy is Major David Wilkinson unlike Lieutenant Colonel Hammond he has seen a lot of action over his 18 career with the RSM.

There are also 17 Iconian’s on board HMSS Warrior as “observers” but in reality they are onboard to keep an eye on the Iconian power module that is installed on HMSS Warrior instead of the traditional matter anti matter power source. The installation of this Iconian power module has allowed the RSC/RSN to install more powerful systems than would not normally be fitted to an Imperial class battleship because of the power limitations of the matter anti matter power source.

HMSS Warrior has several other advantages over the other Imperial class battleships it can fire its weapons while cloaked something that the other Imperial class battleships cannot do and HMSS Warrior can run at warp 9.99 indefinitely while cloaked giving HMSS Warrior a distinct advantage in combat. Only RSC Intelligence offshoot organisation Section 31 shadow class scout ships have the ability fire while cloaked, but even these ships cannot run at warp 9.99 with the phased cloak operating as these ships do not have the power reserve of HMSS Warrior’s Iconian power module.

The RSC technology onboard HMSS Warrior is at the cutting edge of what the RSC can produce, even with the most powerful systems fitted to HMSS Warrior the Iconian power module output is barely being used. This shows how far begin the RSC is compared to the Iconian’s.

First Encounters

Apart from encountering the occasional Kazon patrol the first few weeks of HMSS Warrior’s exploration are uneventful, as RSN ships had already surveyed most of the space surrounding the Ocampa home world.

The Kazon do try the occasional attack against HMSS Warrior but these attacks prove to be futile as the Kazon cannot punch through HMSS Warrior’s shields, the HMSS Warrior’s phasers can easily pick of the Kazon ships.

The first race HMSS Warrior encountered is the Sikarians are the inhabitants of the planet Sikaris in the Delta Quadrant. They are a humanoid race dedicated to helping others and their hospitality is legendary. They are especially interested in stories, regarding them as an essential part of their culture. In fact they are mostly interested in the new and different, quickly growing bored with any particular person or activity.

The Sikarians are a technologically advanced race but the most unusual piece of technology on Sikaris is the spatial trajector, which can instantaneously transport a person up to maximum of 40,000 light-years.

The first contact between the Sikarians and HMSS Warrior, the Sikarians spatial trajectory technology is incompatible with the RSC technology. The Sikarians are against forming any alliance with any other race, but both sides see that advantage in becoming trading partners.

The Sikarians are most impressed with HMSS Warrior’s technological level and even more impressed that there are Iconian’s on board as the stories that the Sikarians have heard from other races is that the Iconian’s were an extinct race.

Over the next few months HMSS Warrior encounters several familiar races from the Delta quadrant including the Talaxians and the Haakonian Order along with many other races.

Vaadwaur


The most dangerous race HMSS Warrior encounters is the Vaadwaur. The history of the Vaadwaur is a long but fragmented past, with a mixture of war and exploration. Around the year of 1484, the Vaadwaur had a population of 6 billion people. The Vaadwaur encountered the Borg many times, but they always avoided them.

The Vaadwaur controlled a series of "Underspace corridors", which they explored for centuries. Using these corridors, they could go to distant systems, including the planet Talax, where they met the Talax-ilzay, another name for the Talaxians in their ancient language.

Although they often used the subspace corridors for trade with the other species, they also used it to wage war and spread their own territory. Other species described their attacks as an army who appears from nowhere and destroys the colony.

Just over 1,000 years before HMSS Warrior arrival, several planets created an alliance, under the command of the Turei, and decided to destroy the Vaadwaur forever. They started the attack by bombarding the Vaadwaur home worlds planet surface with plasma bombs.

These attacks did destroy the Vaadwaur home world but several Vaadwaur colonies survived and they decided to move to the edge of their subspace corridors and to concentrate on building a new Vaadwaur home world. Over the next 1,000 years the Vaadwaur consolidated their remaining colonies on the new Vaadwaur home world and began to expand their technological knowledge.

During this time period the Vaadwaur remained quite and withdrawn from the rest of the galaxy while the rebuilt their civilisation and even xenophobic. Their technological advance slowed over the next 1,000 years as they were trying to do to much at the same time

On the 28th November 2561 HMSS Warrior encountered several Vaadwaur warships on patrol around their new home world. The commander of the lead Vaadwaur warship contacts Captain Hunt and demands that Captain Hunt lowers HMSS Warrior’s shields and prepare to be boarded as HMSS Warrior has trespassed into Vaadwaur and will be confiscated.

Captain Hunt replies that he will not allow HMSS Warrior to be boarded and if attack he will use force to destroy any attacking vessels, also Captain Hunt points out to the commander of the lead Vaadwaur warship that the Vaadwaur warships are no match for HMSS Warrior.

With that the Vaadwaur warships maintain position and blocking the path of HMSS Warrior and not allowing the RSN ship to move towards the new Vaadwaur home world. With this Captain Hunt decides to withdraw even though HMSS Warrior could blast its way though the Vaadwaur warships.

The commander of the leading the group of Vaadwaur warships has no choice but to let HMSS Warrior go as HMSS Warrior out guns the group of Vaadwaur warships even though the location of the new Vaadwaur home world maybe reviled.

The Vaadwaur leadership are extremely paranoid about reviling the location of their new home world to any other race and order the commander and his group of warship to shadow HMSS Warrior and see what they do next and whom they may talk to.

RSC Space – Alpha quadrant.

In 2555 in becomes possible to travel from one RSC colony to another RSC colony in the Alpha quadrant without using warp drive. This lead to the personal shuttlecraft replacing the family car as the primary means of transportation not only with a planet but also from one RSC colony to another via the next work of gateways.

This leads several large RSC companies to begin to manufacture a wide range of civilian shuttlecraft to the growing demand for personnel shuttlecraft. These personnel shuttlecraft differ from normal shuttlecraft in not being fitted with warp drive, this makes these new types of shuttlecraft much easier to learn to fly and this brings down not only the cost of leaning how to pilot these personnel shuttlecraft but also the cost of manufacturing.

By 2560 there are several million personnel shuttlecraft being used by RSC citizens to travel between the various RSC colonies worlds within RSC space in the Alpha quadrant. The cost of travel between the RSC colony worlds is made easier by the RSC member governments reducing the cost of the tolls that are charged for travelling though a gateway for RSC citizens (though none RSC citizens have to pay full price) and their Klingon, Maquis and Ocampa allies.

These government measures help create an economic boom for the various RSC companies in the civilian shuttlecraft market. This also expands in to various types for shuttlecraft from the two-person shuttlecraft to family shuttlecraft and even to larger shuttlecraft with onboard sleeping accommodation that are used like old-fashioned campervans for holidays.

This leads to an increased usage of the gateways between the various RSC colony worlds in the Alpha quadrant and also leads to increased revenue for the RSC from the vast increase traffic though the various gateways from both RSC citizens and none RSC citizens.

Delta quadrant


The sensor operator informs Captain Hunt that the Vaadwaur warships are following HMSS Warrior at what appears to be the Vaadwaur warships maximum sensor range. Captain Hunt says that as long as the Vaadwaur warships do not make any hostile moves they are simply to be monitored until further notice.

The Vaadwaur commander is making regular reports back to the Vaadwaur home world on what HMS Warrior is doing and who they are talking to, he thinks that he is not detected by HMS Warrior but the Vaadwaur commander is wrong and HMS Warrior knows what the position of the Vaadwaur warships is at all times.

Captain Hunt then orders a course change to take HMSS Warrior in the opposite direction away from the direction of the Alpha quadrant and going deeper into the Delta quadrant (with the Vaadwaur warships still following).

During all this the Iconian’s onboard do not interact very much with the crew of HMS Warrior, the only place were there is always an Iconian is the bridge. Even when asked a question the Iconian’s give very little in reply usually a yes or no answer.

To be continued….

Next – Part 62 – A Very Long Journey

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Part 62 – A Very Long Journey


After eight months of surveying HMSS Warrior crew had gotten into a routine of either surveying a new system or initiating first contact with a new civilisation. Most of these first contacts went well though only a few civilisations were interested in joining the Alliance most of the rest were happy with trade deals (with the RSC getting the lion’s share of the trade deals) and a very small minority just wanted to be left alone.

On the morning of the 1st of December 2561 HMSS Warrior sensor operator reported that 250 Borg cubes are entering sensor range. Captain Hunt and the other senior officers come to the bridge and Captain Hunt orders HMSS Warrior to go to action stations and the shields to be raised. The Borg cubes are not heading towards HMSS Warrior but their course intersects HMSS Warrior’s current course.

Why the Borg is so far out of their own space after they have been restricting themselves to their own space for so long is a mystery. After watching the Borg cubes move along their intersecting course at a very slow warp five (very slow for the Borg), one of the Borg cubes veers of course and heads towards HMSS Warrior.

Captain Hunt orders that HMSS Warrior should maintain position with shields up and make no aggressive action towards the Borg cube. So stationary HMSS Warrior waits for the Borg cube, when the Borg cube is finally within visual range the Borg cube slows and starts a sensor scan of HMSS Warrior.

Watching this is the Vaadwaur commander wondering why HMSS Warrior is not either engaging the Borg or running away from the Borg. This makes the Vaadwaur commander very nervous as he thinks that the RSC and the Borg have some sort of alliance.

Back on board HMSS Warrior the Borg sensor scan of HMSS Warrior is more thorough than a normal Borg sensor scan and Captain Hunt orders that at the first sign of hostiles Borg activity the Borg cube is to be engaged. The Borg cube stops scanning but does not move off or even attempt communication with HMSS Warrior, also the remaining 249 Borg cubes have also come to a complete stop.

This silence goes on for another two hours then the Borg hail HMSS Warrior "We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ship. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile." With that the first Borg cube try’s to lock on with its tractor beam.

HMSS Warrior returns fire and destroys the Borg cube with relative ease, but with the remaining 249 Borg cubes on their way the battle between the Borg and a single RSN warship does not look good for HMSS Warrior. Even though the odds are against them Captain Hunt decides to engage the Borg fleet in the hope of destroying enough Borg vessels to force the remaining Borg cubes to retreat.

The battle starts with six Borg cubes engaging HMSS Warrior in a furious fire fight, but as one Borg cube is destroyed it is replaced by another cube, the Borg appear to be using siege tactics against HMSS Warrior in trying to wear down HMSS Warrior’s shield and then board HMSS Warrior.

These tactics go on for several hours, though the shields are holding the continuous bombardment is steadily weakening the shields and Captain Hunt comes to the conclusion that the Borg are after the Iconian power module, Captain Hunt ask if one of the Iconian’s onboard HMSS Warrior would come to the bridge. After several minutes the Iconian known as Hermiod and is informed of the problem with the Borg and is asked if he can help otherwise Captain Hunt cannot grantee that the Iconian power module will not fall into Borg hands.

With that Hermiod talks into some sort of crystal in his own language which the universal translator cannot translate. After a few minutes Hermiod says that the Iconian’s have dispatched a vessel to help HMSS Warrior. Just as Hermiod has finished speaking HMSS Warrior shields begin to fail and the Borg tactics appear to be working, Captain Hunt orders that the shield must be kept up at all cost.

After several tense minutes an Iconian city ship appears in close proximity to HMSS Warrior and begins to tractor HMSS Warrior into the city, the remaining Borg vessels move to try and launch and all out attack on HMSS Warrior and the Iconian city ship, but by the time the Borg cubes are in position HMSS Warrior is safely inside the Iconian city ships shields, then the Iconian city ship disappears.

It appears that the Iconian’s may have had an Iconian city ship on standby just in case something like this happened as the time between Hermiod communicating and the time the Iconian city ships arrival is only a few minutes.

Leaving not only the Borg behind but the Vaadwaur as well, the Vaadwaur run for home at maximum warp while the Borg cubes are left behind to analyse what just happened and perhaps they may have bitten of more than the Borg can deal with.

The remaining Borg cubes after a short while head back to Borg space their original mission abandoned, with no one the wiser why the Borg were so far out from their own space and in such numbers.

Othalla, in the galaxy of Ida

HMSS Warrior is in one of the many dry-docks that are located throughout the Iconian city ship. This city ship is over 50 kilomerters in diameter and houses an Iconian population of several million. Hermiod informs Captain Hunt that they are no longer in the Milky Way Galaxy but in the galaxy referred to by the Iconian’s as Ida on the other side of the universe on a planet referred to by the Iconian’s as Othalla.

Captain Hunt asks Hermiod why the Iconian’s did not destroy the Borg, Hermiod says that these Iconian city ships are capable but the destruction of the Borg cubes was unnecessary as all that was needed was to rescue HMSS Warrior and this has been achieved and that the Borg weapons would not work against Iconian shields.

On HMSS Warrior bridge view screen the bridge crew can see a planet covered with thousands of Iconian city ships and they appear to be going to land on the planet. In orbit around the planet Othalla there are several thousand Iconian starships of various types including the Iconian battleships. Hermiod says that HMSS Warrior will be safe here until repairs are carried out and the Iconian high council says that any raw materials that HMSS Warrior needs to effect repairs will be provided.

The crew may leave the ship and have a look around the Iconian city ship as they will not be able to learn anything of the Iconian technology as access will be restricted. Captain Hunt thanks not only Hermiod but asks that the thanks of not only the crew of HMSS Warrior but the RSC as well for saving their lives.

It is estimated by HMSS Warrior’s chief engineer that it will take several months to repair the damage to HMSS Warrior. The Iconian’s will help with some of the work mostly out of curiosity in being able to look around HMSS Warrior, which they view as an antique warship.

Over the next few weeks the repairs to HMSS Warrior proceed and even get some small upgrades to various systems from the Iconian’s helping with the repairs. These upgrades are very minor but they will give HMSS Warrior some added advantage, the upgrades include a faster shield and weapons recharge rate improved computer processing capabilities and better utilisation of the Iconian power module.

One of Captain Hunt’s main reasons for staying with the Iconian’s to repair HMSS Warrior was the possibility that the Iconian’s might provide some however limited upgrades for HMSS Warrior which could be used by other RSC/RSN vessels.

While half way though the repairs Captain Hunt is asked by Hermiod if he would like to observe a meeting between the Iconian’s and their allies, Captain Hunt says yes. The Iconian city ships where the repairs to HMSS Warrior are taking place, takes off and once clear of the planet jumps to a new location simply known as the meeting place.

This is a turn of events that Captain Hunt did not expect to happen.

To be continued….

Next – Part 63 – Four and One Last Go

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Part 63 – Four and One Last Go

On arriving at the meeting place the Iconian city ship moved into its position to land on a dead planet alongside several different types of other ships. Captain Hunt and an unarmed away team are beamed into an observation gallery above the main chamber were the Iconian’s and their allies come to meet and discuss their relations.

There are a total of four members in this alliance including the Iconian’s, these other three races are the most advanced in the universe and all these races have been spaces fairing races for several million years.

Hermiod explains to Captain Hunt apart from the Iconian’s the other three races are as follows -

Kaleds

The Kaleds were involved in a war on their home planet of Skaro that lasted a thousand years, fought with nuclear, biological and chemical weapons causing widespread mutations among the Kaled race. Kaled species were placed in tank-like "travel machines" that were able to maintain their mutated form in a more appropriate environment. The Kaled are known a brilliant inventors and engineers and they can adapt to almost any situation very quickly.

Their spaceships are saucer shaped and sizes vary from city size to one kilometre in diameter and can have a crew of a few hundred or millions.

Ell

The Ell is a race of artificial life forms that have been evolving over several million years after their creators died out. The Ell are brilliant at building the best computers their ships are very manoeuvrable as the Ell do not require life support and this power can be used for other systems on an Ell ship. (This is the race that upgraded V’Ger (Voyager 6) probe though the crew of HMSS Warrior or the RSC does not know this yet).

Penn Union

The Penn Union are an aquatic species that are at home either in water or on land, they are a multi-talented race that is very good at bioengineering. Their space ships are partially “grown” before being assembled in shipyards. The Penn Union also has the best medical technology of any of the four ancient races and come prolong life almost indefinitely baring any fatal accident or injury.

Of these four races the Iconian’s are the oldest of the four races.

These four races have had an alliance with each other for at least one million years and have been untied in fighting their common enemies such as the Darkness. These four races have been sharing their technology and trading between each other for one million years and this has made their alliance with each other one of the longest surviving and strongest in the known universe.

These four races have been to every planet in this universe and they all have vast number of colonies of thousands of worlds in hundreds of galaxies stretching across the universe with a combined population in the trillions. They make other races like the Borg look primitive by comparison.

Over the next few hours Captain Hunt listens in on the discussion between these four ancient races and they discuss various subjects, on what appears to be a general discussion of relations between the four powers. Also it appears to be s “staged” event for Captain Hunt and the RSN personnel, as no major discussions seem to be discussed.

One Last Go

As the meeting is drawing to a conclusion a group of twelve beings appear in the meeting in some sort of space armour. Hermiod identifies them as the race known as the Darkness these beings open fire on the delegates from the four races in what appears to be an assignation attempt by the Darkness.

The RSM that is Captain Hunt’s bodyguard only has his combat dagger as on Captain Hunt’s orders he left his phaser pistol and rifle on HMSS Warrior. During the first few seconds the delegates that are able dive for cover, the Kaleds are better off than the other members as the "travel machines" contain their own force fields and weapons systems.

The Darkness also appears to be jamming the communication frequencies of the four member races but not the communication frequencies of the RSN personnel, as the Darkness did not expect such a primitive race to attend such a meeting. Hermiod is able to communicate with the other Iconian’s on board HMSS Warrior who intern able to raise the alarm this only takes a few seconds to do.

The head of the Iconian high council who is about to be shot by one of the Darkness when Captain Hunt pushes the head Iconian high councillor out of the way but not before taking a what appears to be a glancing blow from one of the Darkness energy weapons.

A few seconds after Captain Hunt is injured the members of the four races and the RSC members are beamed out of the meeting chamber to HMSS Warrior by the transporters on the Iconian city ship. Captain Hunt is transported to HMSS Warrior’s sick bay where Warrior’s chief medical officer says that Captain Hunt is dieing, even with the help offered by the Penn Captain Hunt’s wounds are to serious even for their advanced medical technology.

Speaking to Hermiod in Warrior’s sick bay Captain Hunt ask Hermiod to make sure that his crew get home safely, Hermiod promises that the crew of HMSS Warrior will get home safely, with that Captain Hunt eyes close never to open again.

In the space around the meeting place the warships of the four races that now have arrived are hunting down the ships of the Darkness that had managed to get passed the meeting places defences and beam the Darkness assignation squad in.

After the assignation attempt on the members of the four races they agree to accelerate their hunt for the remaining members of the Darkness race so that this attack will never happen again. The Darkness is to become an extinct race very shortly.

With the death of Captain Hunt HMSS Warrior’s first officer is Commander William James takes over as acting captain. Throughout HMSS Warrior the crew continue to effect repairs to HMSS Warrior but in a more sombre mood than before, even the Iconian’s that are helping appear to be in a sombre mood.

The Iconian city ship returns to the Iconian world of Othalla, in the galaxy of Ida where this Iconian city ship is based. After several more months of work the repairs are complete and HMSS Warrior begins a series of trails to test the repaired systems (and some upgraded systems) after several weeks of testing and the removal of several minor bugs HMSS Warrior is declared fully operational.

HMSS Warrior re-docks with the Iconian city ship and Hermiod asks Commander James where he would like to go, Commander James says that he would like to return to the Ocampa home world so that he can report on what has happened. Hermiod agrees and switching to his own language speaks into the “crystal” communicator.

The Iconian city ship lifts off from the Iconian world of Othalla and once clear of the planets surface makes the jump to the Ocampa home world. The Iconian city ship appears in the Ocampa system and HMSS Warrior undocks from the Iconian city ship and moves into orbit towards the RSC/RSN orbital base.

A very sad crew return to the Ocampa home world where they launch from, even though they do receive heroes welcome home. These celebrations are cancelled after RSC/RSN command find out about the death of Captain Hunt.

Commander James during several days of debriefing explains what has happened while they were away; also Hermiod expresses his thanks for Captain Hunt’s efforts to save the life of the leader of the Iconian council. The crew of HMSS Warrior have quite literally gone were no human has gone before. Hermiod also states that the Iconian’s are in debit to the RSC and would like to reward the RSC for their help.

What Hermiod suggests as a reward to the RSC diplomats is stunning.

To be continued….

Next – Part 64 – Reward

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Part 64 – Reward

Three months later, Earth, London the Headquarters of the Royal Space Command, closed session. Assembled are the heads of Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Tibet and Malta governments are present to hear the Iconian offer from Hermiod, this offer will changed the RSC into a galactic superpower, rather than an Alliance superpower.

Hermiod says that the Iconian offer is to refit any number of RSM Imperial class battleships or other RSN capital warships with combination of RSC and Iconian technology that can be operated by RSN personnel. The catch being that the Iconian’s will not give the RSC the knowledge to build this Iconian technology just the ability to operate this technology, also their will be Iconian’s onboard each ship to monitor and repair the Iconian technology and to make sure that this technology does not fall into the wrong hands.

All these upgrades will be done onboard one of the Iconian city ships and not in the Milky Way Galaxy, the RSC will not receive the technology but will be allowed to use the technology similar to the Galaxy-to-Galaxy gate technology that the RSC discovered in the Bright Galaxy.

It would also take a while to train RSC personnel on how to use the Iconian equipment, this is be made easier by using RSC/RSN control consoles and each ship that is fitted with these upgrades will have fifty Iconian’s onboard to monitor the Iconian equipment and maintain their equipment and to make sure that this technology does not fall into the wrong hands.

In essence the RSC are being loaned this Iconian technology and are not going to be told how to manufacture the Iconian technology just now to use this technology. Onboard these ships there will be a mix of RSC technology and Iconian technology making a sort of hybrid ship.

Several reasons are given for allowing the RSC to have access to this level of technology, one of the main reasons is that the RSN warships HMSS Warrior that has been fitted with an old Iconian power module, during the time that HMSS Warrior was being fitted with the Iconian power module the RSC kept the Iconian’s fully informed of what they were doing and were willing to remove the Iconian power module if the Iconian’s asked.

This showed a level of responsibility by the RSC that the Iconian’s admired, and when Captain Hunt’s efforts to save the life of the leader of the Iconian council (and their allies) was also a key deciding factor.

The RSC government heads after a very brief discussion agree to the Iconian’s conditions and thanks’ the Iconian government for their gift to the RSC.

Fitting Out and Trials

Twelve months later, Othalla, in the galaxy of Ida, the partially finish RSN Imperial class battleship HMSS Black Prince is being installed with Iconian technology, including Iconian shield, weapons and drive systems. The rest of the technology on board Black Prince is of RSC design and construction, including the cloaking device, tractor beam, transporters etc.

HMSS Black Prince has not been fitted with warp drive as the Iconian drive system has made the warp drive redundant on HMSS Black Prince. The main engineering section has been fitted with five Iconian power modules to power the Iconian and the RSC systems these Iconian power modules are the most advanced power modules, unlike the one fitted to HMSS Warrior that is 200,000 years old.

Over the next few months the Iconian’s would finish fitting out HMSS Black Prince bring HMSS Black Prince up to full operational capability. While this was going on the crew of HMSS Black Prince are being taught how to use the Iconian technology, most of the controls are similar to RSN warship controls so there is not much of a learning curve for the RSN personnel, the Iconian’s designed them that way.

On the 15th March 2566 HMSS Black Prince is launch from the Iconian city ship and begins a series of trials to test the Iconian equipment and the RSC equipment and the RSN crew so that they could get used to this new technology. One of the first tests is the shields the test involved getting as close as possible to a sun to see how well the shields perform.

Once in an appropriate system in the galaxy of Ida HMSS Black Prince approaches the systems sun with shields up, on the bridge of HMSS Black Prince the lead Iconian Kvasir instructs the Captain of HMSS Black Prince to keep going closer when HMSS Black Prince is within the Photosphere of this sun with an outside temperature of at least 6,000 Kelvin the Iconian shields are easily able to protect HMSS Black Prince from the heat and the radiation will little or no strain on the shields.

The testing of the dive systems does not take very long as the Iconian’s had equipped HMSS Black Prince with their latest “gateway” drive system, this enabled HMSS Black Prince to jump anywhere in the known universe within a matter of seconds. HMSS Black Prince jumped to the Milky Way galaxy to the Ocampa system and then back to the Othalla system, in the galaxy of Ida the whole trip lasted just over one minute.

The next test is the Iconian installed weapons these consisted of 46 single Iconian beam weapons and 8 Iconian “drone” launchers (4 forward and 4 aft) with a 1,000 “drones” ready to use and another 1,000 “drones” stored.

The targets for the weapons test are a series of asteroids the Iconian beam weapons are able to slice though almost any thickness of asteroid at five times the range to current phaser technology. The Iconian drones are very different to the torpedoes the RSN uses, the Iconian drones can be programmed to hit targets light years away also during the “flight” phase they can be reprogrammed to attack a different target or to return to the ship that launched the drone for reuse.

The Iconian drones are much more powerful than the torpedoes that are currently being used by the RSN warships (or any other Alliance member) they can easily destroy a whole continent or just destroy a single building without the surrounding building being damaged. The Iconian’s onboard HMSS Black Prince can manufacture new drones as needed as long as they have power to do so, so in theory HMSS Black Prince has an unlimited supply of Iconian drones.

Reaction

When the Alliance council is told by the RSC of what the Iconian’s have given to the RSC and that one RSN warship is already equipped with Iconian technology, including Iconian shield and weapons. Some Alliance member’s think that this is a matter between the RSC and the Iconian’s while others want (some even demand like the UESPA) the Iconian’s to equip their ships with Iconian technology.

The Iconian’s refuse this request (and ignore the demands of the UESPA) and state that their future dealings would be better served if the rest of the Alliance did not make any attempt to interfere with the RSC/RSN warships receiving Iconian technology and the Iconian’s hinted that although future relations with the Alliance were not contingent on the status Quo of RSC/RSN receiving Iconian technology for RSC/RSN operations...it was "preferred" (the Alliance got the message and the implied threat).

The Alliance is forced to support with no recourse, as this is seen as the best option. It is seen by the Alliance as keeping the Iconian’s as friends rather than loosing the Iconian’s and the potential for the Iconian’s helping the Alliance in the future. Several Alliance members including the UESPA does not agree with this but as the majority of the Alliance agree and the UESPA does not have the power to force the Iconian’s to equip their ships with Iconian technology they are forced to grudgingly agree.

The UESPA feels that it should be able to equip its own ships with Iconian and the various UESPA member countries begin covert operations to “acquire” Iconian technology. This would lead to a collision course with the RSC in the future and the UESPA would not gain the Iconian technology. This action by the UESPA would also cause problems within the UESPA member countries.

While all this is going on HMSS Warrior resumes her ten-year mission in the Delta quadrant, while keeping well clear of Borg space.

To be continued…..

Next – Part 65 – Operations and New Boundaries

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Next – Part 65 – Operations and New Boundaries

Operations

The initial operations by HMSS Black Prince are to the home worlds of the three allied races of the Iconian’s as part of a very limited cultural exchange.

Penn Union


The first race that the crew of HMSS Black Prince visit is the Penn Union and carry of a limited cultural exchange. The Penn Union’s is almost entirely covered in water and they’re only a few artificial islands for visitors to use. The Penn Union does share some of it medical knowledge with the RSC and also points the RSC in the right direction concerning their medical research.

Kaleds


The second race that the crew of HMSS Black Prince visit is the Kaleds home planet of Skaro this world is lifeless there is no plant or animal life left on the planet surface and is covered with the Kaleds cities, turning the planet into one large city. The war was fought with nuclear, biological and chemical weapons causing widespread mutations among the Kaled race. Kaled species were placed in tank-like "travel machines" that were able to maintain their mutated form in a more appropriate environment. Here too a limited cultural exchange takes place.

The Kaleds are a very caring race and they will try to help other races that need help, like preventing a disaster that will change that race into mutants like the Kaleds.

The Kaleds also have one trait that makes them the most powerful of the four allied powers, once you gain their friendship they will back you all the way. The Kaleds state that they are grateful that the RSC captain sacrificed his life to save not only the head of the Iconian council but the other races as well from the Darkness’s attack though the Kaled mutants inside their protective "travel machines" where the least vulnerable to attack.

Ell


The third and final race that the crew of HMSS Black Prince visit is the home world of the Ell, this world is a combination of giant computer and manufacturing facility rolled into the entire planet, as are all of their colonies. The cultural exchange is different on this world as the Ell informs the crew of HMSS Black Prince that they were the race that upgraded the V’Ger (Voyager 6) probe and sent the probe on it long journey back to Earth.

Of the three races that are allied to the Iconian’s the most interesting is the Ell as they revel themselves to be the race that upgraded V’Ger (Voyager 6). This does come of a bit of a shock to the crew of HMSS Black Prince, and the inform the Ell of V’Ger (Voyager 6) help in battling the Borg and the probe the V’Ger (Voyager 6) left behind.

Iconian’s

The Iconian’s do not have a home world as such as all their city’s can move from system to system and as their has already been a limited cultural exchange between the Iconian’s and the RSC.

Borg Space

On the 30 August 2566 HMSS Black Prince will be sent to Borg space by RSC/RSN command to try and come to some sort of agreement with the Borg or at best warn the Borg of from trying to assimilate and RSC personnel military or civilian and also Alliance members as well.

HMSS Black Prince Captain James MacDonald is under orders not to risk his or his crew and to withdraw immediately if the Borg tries seems to be breaking though HMSS Black Prince’s shield and either trying to capture HMSS Black Prince. The lead Iconian onboard HMSS Black Prince does not object to this strategy in fact he endorses the idea or the RSC trying to come to some terms with the Borg.

A system was chosen within Borg space but near the edge of Borg space, also the Iconian’s have agreed to have one of their city ships available to rescue HMSS Black Prince just in case there is any sort of problem, though in terms of power output and shields/weapons HMSS Black Prince is deemed to be well protected against any kind of Borg attack.

The Borg system is designated AMXE-7745290 as the RSC do not know the systems name of Borg allocation. The system has only one planet that has been assimilated by the Borg and that is the fourth planet in the system. The initial scans by HMSS Black Prince indicate that there are eleven Borg cubes and thirty other Borg vessels in system AMXE-7745290.

Zero hour, system entry with HMSS Black Prince at action stations, message broadcast as follows:– “Borg, this HMSS Black Prince representing the Royal Space Command on behalf of the Alliance, we wish to discus terms for a peace treaty between your collective and the Alliance. This ship has been upgraded with superior technology and we will defend ourselves if attacked. Please respond”

Zero hour, plus five minutes, nine Borg cubes and twenty-two other Borg vessels approach HMSS Black Prince’s position in system AMXE-7745290. Borg transmission - "We are the Borg. Lower your shields and surrender your ship. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile. There will be no negation.”

The Borg opens fire on HMSS Black Prince, but with no affect on HMSS Black Prince’s Iconian shields. Captain MacDonald orders the weapons officer to return fire on any Borg vessel that fires on HMSS Black Prince and not to use the Iconian beam weapons at full power only enough to destroy the Borg vessels and only engage Borg vessel that would come within range of RSC phasers rather than the Iconian beam weapons, so as not to give the Borg to much intelligence on the upgrades of HMSS Black Prince, also HMSS Black Prince’s helmsman commences evasive action.

A series of bright blue beams shoot out from HMSS Black Prince’s Iconian beam weapons ports and start to make short work of the Borg vessels. With the Borg returning fire the space around the Borg world is a colourful and deadly mix of blue and green between the two forces.

Zero hour, plus one hour fifteen minutes, the initial Borg vessels guarding the system AMXE-7745290 have been destroyed within the first ten minutes, but the Borg keeps sending more cubes and tactical cubes in a vain effort to try and capture HMSS Black Prince. So this bloody slaughter has continued for over and hour without the Borg trying to communicate with HMSS Black Prince.

Zero hour, plus one hour twenty-five minutes, Captain MacDonald decides to destroy the Borg cubes and tactical cubes well beyond the Borg’s own weapons range as the next level to try and persuade the Borg to negotiate. This is still well within the Iconian beam weapons maximum range.

Zero hour, plus two hours nine minutes, the Borg are still not willing to communicate with HMSS Black Prince, though the number of Borg cubes attacking HMSS Black Prince has dropped of but not stopped, as if the Borg are trying to adapt to the Iconian beam weapons (this attempt to adapt by the Borg has not proven successful).

Zero hour, plus three hours forty minutes, Captain MacDonald switches to the Iconian drones against the Borg planet. Initially only one Iconian drone will be launched at the Borg world with a yield equivalent to one hundred megatons. Captain MacDonald before firing the Iconian drone sends a warning to the Borg to stop the attacks or he will order the Borg planet to be fired upon. The Borg ignores the warning and continues to press their attack. Captain MacDonald orders the weapons officer to fire the Iconian drone; the Iconian drone detonates, with estimated Borg casualties of over three million killed.

Zero hour, plus three hours fifty five minutes, the Borg continue to press their attack so Captain MacDonald orders that additional Iconian drone’s be fired at the Borg planet at timed intervals to see if that will stop the Borg attacking. The yield of the Iconian drone is deliberately set low to minimise the destruction and to demonstrate to the Borg that HMSS Black Prince can quit easily destroy the planet.

Zero hour, plus four hours thirty minutes, the Borg world has had ninety percent of its surface destroyed, but just before the final Iconian drone is to be launched Captain MacDonald has a thought, he turns to the Iconian on the bridge and asks if Heimdall will speak to the Borg and see if that will work. Heimdall agrees and says “This is Heimdall of the Iconian’s you will cease your attack against this vessel or the world below will be completely destroyed, we await your response” After a few seconds the Borg stop their attack but do not respond.

If the Borg had not stopped attacking then HMSS Black Prince would have destroyed this Borg planet, then moved onto the next Borg system and started on that planet until the Borg where willing to negotiate.

Zero hour, plus four hours forty-nine minutes, the Borg sends a message “We are willing to negotiate, state your terms”. It seems as the Iconian presence onboard has convinced the Borg to open negotiations.

HMSS Black Prince transmits the terms for the peace deal, which in brief is as follows. The Alliance recognises the current space occupied by the Borg as their territory; the Borg will recognise all Alliance members and their space and will not attempt to assimilate them. All other races that are not members of the Alliance are not covered by this treaty protection. Also covered in the treaty are any races that become part of the RSC own mini alliance and currently cover the Klingon's, Ocampa, and Maquis.

An uninhabited planet will be used for any further negotiations, to be determined at a later date.

Zero hour, plus nine days twenty one hours fifteen minutes, after waiting for just over nine days the Borg transmit the following short message “We agree to your terms” with that the Borg vessels move into planetary orbit to begin reconstructing the Borg world, the Borg do not stand on ceremony, but for now a peace treaty (of sorts) exists between the Borg and the Alliance (but nothing else).

Alliance Space


On their return to RSC space, the RSC pass on the good news to the Alliance, about the peace treaty with the Borg (even though there is no documentation of a treaty just the communication logs), the Alliance council praise the RSC for getting a peace treaty with the Borg. Some members of the Alliance are green with envoy with the diplomatic coupe that the RSC has managed to pull off.

This peace treaty with the Borg has only been possible with the Iconian’s help, the level of cooperation between the RSC and the Iconian’s after the peace treaty with the Borg will continue to expand but at a very slow rate.

Warship Numbers

Along with HMSS Black Prince several other Imperial Class Battleships that are currently under construction will be upgraded, these will be HMSS Black Knight, Black Swan, Black Sword, Black Storm and Black Fury.

Their would only be a total six of these Imperial Class Battleships initially as it was deemed unnecessary to upgrade all RSN Imperial Class Battleships with Iconian technology, even though it was though that the Iconian’s would do this. It was though that it would be better if the bulk of the RSN fleet was still operating with “known” technology and also so that the RSC would not become too reliant on Iconian technology. In the longer term there would be more Imperial Class Battleships converted but at a slow rate.

Over the next few decades several more Imperial Class Battleships are upgraded with Iconian technology so by 2574 there are a total of twenty-five Imperial Class Battleships that have been upgraded with Iconian technology while the rest of the RSN remains with their current level of technology. The only exception is HMSS Warrior that is operating with the Iconian power module and RSC/RSN weapons and drive systems etc.

The Imperial Class Battleships would be divvied into three categories.

1. Imperial (N) Class Battleships, The (N) stands for “Normal”, these are not fitted with any Iconian technology. This category of the Imperial Class Battleships makes up the bulk of the Royal Space Navies capital warships.

2. Imperial (H) Class Battleships, The (H) stands for “Hybrid”, these are the twenty-five that have been upgraded with a combination of Iconian technology and RSC technology.

3. Imperial (P) Class Battleship, the (P) stands for “Power Module” this is for HMSS Warrior that is the only Royal Space Navy ship to be fitted with a single Iconian power module.

All of these warships appear almost identical to one another except for the warp nacelles for the “Normal” and “Power Module” the “Hybrid” does not have any warp nacelles.

This list does not include any other classes of RSN warships. The total size of the RSN as of 2574 is 21,377 warships of all classes this includes Frigates, Explorer class cruisers and scout vessels. The size of the RSN has not grown, but has mainly concentrated on replacing older warships with improved and updated versions.

The Alliance

The Alliance now covers not only the most Alpha quadrant but also some parts of the Beta quadrant and small parts of the Delta quadrant as well making the Alliance the largest power in the Milky Way Galaxy.

The only way the Alliance to keep in contact is by using the RSC/RSN gateway space stations at key points throughout the Alliance; this is making the RSC very wealthy in toll fees, all these gateway space stations come under RSC control and not the Alliance.

New Boundaries

Only one galaxy is out of bounds to the modified RSN Imperial Class Battleships this is the galaxy referred to by the Iconian’s as Bidar Galaxy. The reason that this galaxy is out of bounds it is contains a Federation that is a galaxy based ruthless, fascist, totalitarian state that is very hostile to outsiders and has a policy of “shoot first and don’t ask questions”.

The Federation has hundreds of thousands of warships that are very powerful to maintain its grip on power with overwhelming force and does not like outside interference. Also this Federation has a very large army to control most or all the inhabited planet with the Bidar Galaxy.

The Federation in the Bidar Galaxy does not posses an intergalactic drive system similar to the Iconian’s and the Iconian’s three allied races. It has concentrated its efforts on controlling its own Galaxy and building up its own military forces rather than trying to expand to new galaxies by developing an intergalactic drive system.

To be continued……

Next – Part 66 – The Orion Syndicate

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Part 66 – The Orion Syndicate

Invasion 2575

In 2574 the RSC command was looking into dealing with the Orion syndicate by attack the world that they used as their main base of operations. The planetary system that is controlled by the Orion syndicate is called the Mallket system and the planets indigenous population on Mallket is either used as labour or sold as slaves.

RSC command decides to teach the Orion syndicate a lesson by capturing the Mallket system and freeing the indigenous population from the Orion syndicates grasp also as the RSC ground troops have not had any real practice in capturing a planet since the Dominion war this will be seen as a good excise for the RSC military.

The attack will use as its cover a RSC military exercise for such a large military force gathering that is due to start at the beginning of 2575. This “exercise” will only include RSC military personnel and not include and military forces from the Klingon’s, Ocampa or the Maquis for reasons of security, these members will be told when stage one is underway.

Also there will be no military personnel from the Alliance as the Orion syndicate has infiltrated several of the two hundred odd Alliance members this is the main reason that no Alliance member will be told of this operation as well.

Forces - RSN


The RSN has gathered a task force of 218 warships of various classes including 83 Imperial (N) Class Battleships along with 135 frigates and other classes of warships. This will also contain a RSC gateway space station that will be sent once the space above the planet is secure to allow warships to travel back to RSC space and also allow any casualties to get prompt medical attention.

The RSN will be part of the first wave of RSN warships, this will then be followed by the second wave that will include an RSC gateway space station, the third war will consist of RSM and RSC army units to capture and hold the planet.

Once the Planet is secure this fleet will remain as part of a system defence force.

None of the new Imperial (H) Class Battleships will take part in this action.

Forces – RSM and RSC members Army


The ground forces assigned to this military action are as follows, three RSM Corp’s with three RSM divisions in each Corp for a total of nine RSM divisions. These RSM divisions will be carried inside thirty-two Ark Royal class troop carriers, along with ninety-eight escort vessels.

The RSC members will also deploy one Corp from their own military forces in support of the three RSM Corp’s. Britain’s Corp will have four divisions; Canada’s Corp will have three divisions, Australia’s Corp will have four divisions, New Zealand’s Corp will have three divisions, Malta’s Corp will have two divisions, Nepal’s Corp will have two divisions, Tibet’s Corp will have two divisions, India’s Corp will have four divisions, Pakistan’s Corp will have four divisions and Bangladesh’s Corp will have three divisions.

Making a total number of RSC member divisions being deployed to this military operation at thirty-one divisions, making this the most powerful military group the RSC has put together since the Borg attack on Earth in 2384. Since the Borg attack all the RSC member countries have been increasing the size of their own military forces, in part to defend their own colony worlds and also to lend their forces to defend any RSC colony world or system that might be invaded.

This gives the RSC leadership considerable flexibility if the RSC were ever to come under attack by an invading force, as the RSC can use the gateway space station in every RSC colony system to ship additional troops from system to system without the delay of warp drive.

Attack and Invasion


Zero hour – all 218 RSN warships are transported into the Mallket system from several RSC colony systems so that all 218 RSN warships can arrive simultaneously. The Orion syndicate warships “guarding” the Mallket system are more that a little taken aback by the sudden arrival of such a large RSN military force and one of the Orion syndicate warships hails and asks what the RSN warships intentions are.

Zero hour – plus five minutes, the flagship of the RSC/RSN fleet the Imperial (N) Class Battleship HMSS Glorious sends the following message “All Orion syndicate warships will stand down a prepare to be boarded, failure to comply will result in your destruction. You have ten standard minutes to surrender” All RSN warships are at Action Stations and are ready for battle.

Zero hour, plus fifteen minutes, the Orion syndicate warships commenced attack the RSN warships as soon as the deadline has passed. A deadly one sided battle had begun, on one side is the Orion syndicate warships fighting to preserve their corrupt and unscrupulous use of the Mallket system as a base of operations and on the other side is the RSN trying to free the Mallket system from the Orion syndicate.

The Orion syndicate warships are a strange mix of obsolete warship designs and converted civilian freighters into “military” vessels with varying degrees of armament and combat capability. Why the Orion syndicate has decided to try and defeat the RSN task force, perhaps the Orion syndicate they can cause a battle of attrition against the RSC/RSN thus forcing the RSC/RSN to withdraw, but the Orion syndicate are very wrong.

Zero hour, plus three hours twenty minutes, the remaining Orion syndicate warships have either fled the Mallket system or be captured or destroyed, leaving the Mallket system under RSN control.

This allows the RSN to bring in the second wave consisting of a RSC gateway space station to allow the rapid transit of RSC support vessels from the Mallket system to the RSC system of New Auckland. This will also be the signal for the RSC ground troops to begin their preparation to come though their gateways for their various starting systems.

Zero hour, plus four hours eight minutes, the RSN has now secured the orbital space above Mallket four. The RSM Ark Royal troop transports begin to arrive in the Mallket system and enter into orbit over their designated landing zones. The RSN has deployed six of their Observer class sensor ships to monitor the Mallket system to report on any unauthorised ships trying entering or leaving the Mallket system.

Zero hour, plus four hours thirty-two minutes, the RSM troop transports begin the initial phases of landing under the protection of Kestrel fighters. There are three main designated landing zones for the three RSM Corps to land at, these landing zone have been bombarded by the Kestrel fighters to clear out and Orion syndicate personnel that might try to oppose the landings.

Zero hour, plus twelve hours fifty-one minutes, the RSM Corp’s have all been landed successfully with very little interference from the Orion syndicate.

Zero hour, plus twenty two hours thirty one minutes, the RSC division begin to start landing at the three landing zones secured be the RSM, the RSM divisions begin to move out to start securing the first of Mallket four’s towns/city’s. This is were most of the resistance is expected from the Orion syndicate personnel (troops!), to try and tie down as many RSM and RSC division is street fighting as possible.

Zero hour, plus three days, all of the RSC member countries divisions have been landed and the RSC now controls about thirty percent of the planets surface. There is considerable fighting is some of the larger city’s but most of the smaller towns have fallen without a shot being fired.

The RSC member divisions along with the RSM division are using their repulsesor-armoured vehicles, troop transports and tanks with turret mounted phaser cannons they also have their own force field generators to protect them from incoming fire and they can provide additional cover for the troops in the street fighting.

The RSC are also evacuating the indigenous population of Mallket four to safe zone outside the towns and city’s where they can be better protected and this also has the added advantage of keeping the Mallket well out of the street fighting.

Zero hour, plus five days, most of the indigenous population of Mallket four have now been move into safe zone and are being cared by RSC medical personnel. These Mallket’s are being guarded by heavily armed RSC police drawn from the seventy RSC colony worlds and not RSC military, as the job of sorting out the criminals from the innocent victims is a job for the police, the RSM and RSC army units are here to crush the Orion syndicate on this planet.

About forty-five percent of the planet is now controlled by the RSC the reason for the slow progress is that the RSC military are thoroughly checking to make sure that they do not leave any armed Orion syndicate members in a secure area.

Zero hour, plus ten days, most of the major fighting has now ended and there are only a few pocket of resistance left as most of the armed Orion syndicate members have surrendered or been killed in the fighting.

Zero hour, plus thirty days, all of the fighting has now ceased, the RSC military units have been deployed for planetary defence rather than planetary assault. The RSC police are deployed in all the towns and city on Mallket four. The Mallket people and being housed in those towns and city’s once they have been made safe to move into better conditions than they are in at the moment.

There are also regular shipments of food and supplies to Mallket four the help the indigenous population survive until they can start coping on their own. The Orion syndicate members who were running Mallket four have been shipped of to various RSC colonies for trial. The Orion syndicate members that managed to flee the Mallket system and that have been identified have had arrest warrants issued by the RSC courts for their apprehension.

The Orion syndicate has been taught a lesson by the RSC not to try and run any planet or the Orion syndicate will experience a similar lesson from the RSC military and police arms. On other systems that the Orion syndicate control this control given up by the Orion syndicate, otherwise the Orion syndicate feels that the RSC may do the same thing again and Orion syndicate criminal operations in RSC territory almost cease completely.

The Alliance council though shocked by the RSC independent action supports this action, as the Alliance council cannot really do anything else. Several Alliance members offer reconstruction aid and support to the Mallket population, which is accepted by the RSC on behalf of the Mallket people.

The RSC allies support the RSC’s action, the Klingon empire is only upset by the fact they where not allowed to join in the fight against the Orion syndicate, but other wise they support the RSC’s actions and also offer warships and troops to help protect the Mallket system, which the RSC accepts.

Within ten years all RSC military and police have withdrawn as the Mallket people have they’re own military and police forces in place (mainly trained by the RSC), the RSC gateway space station remains in the Mallket system with a small RSN support force. The Mallket people vote to join the Alliance and not the RSC’s own mini alliance in 2590.

To be continued….

Next – Part 67 – The Vaadwaur / Sword of Damocles

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Part 67 – The Vaadwaur / Sword of Damocles

The Vaadwaur

In 2576 UESPA/Starfleet command continues to expand into the Delta quadrant on its ongoing exploration mission on behalf of the Alliance in the hope that they will encounter more races that will join the Alliance, after the RSC’s success with the Borg in the Delta quadrant and more recently the capturing one of the worlds controlled by the criminal organisation known as the Orion syndicate in the Alpha quadrant.

The UESPA is using Starfleet command to expand its own sphere of influence within the Alliance by getting more none allied races to join the Alliance. This exploration will take Starfleet command into the space controlled by the xenophobic Vaadwaur even though a report by the RSN warship HMSS Warrior recommends that no Alliance vessels explore this area of space, the political leadership of the UESPA Security council thinks that the RSC/RSN are trying to hide something from the UESPA.

So in 2576 the UESPA political leadership (mainly the US, France, Russia and China) orders Starfleet command to send one of their explorations cruisers to scout out the “Vaadwaur space” to find out if there are any civilisations and to see if the RSC is hiding any sort of technology from the UESPA and the Alliance as a whole. The UESPA does not tell the rest of the Alliance what they are up to only that they are going to explore the space around the “Vaadwaur space”.

Starfleet command sends one of its most advanced explorer cruisers to conduct the exploration of the “Vaadwaur space” but also sends along a support task force of forty-five star ships as a support force just in case there is a problem (Starfleet command does not tell the UESPA about the support task force). Also Starfleet command does not like the way the certain countries political leadership of the UESPA is handling this and thinks that this is a bad idea.

The USSS Hornet one of the latest advanced versions of the old Sovereign class, this starship is 1,500 meters long and contains the latest weapons, shields, sensors and other scientific equipment for the combination of explorer and heavy cruiser.

The USSS Hornet enters Vaadwaur space with her sensors on maximum to detect any Vaadwaur warships at long range, but the captain of USSS Hornet does not know about the Vaadwaur’s under-space corridors are the name for a group of subspace corridors (UESPA had not told Starfleet command about this), apparently occurring naturally in some regions of the Delta Quadrant, and possibly beyond. These under-space corridors allow the Vaadwaur warships to pop in and out of normal space very quickly and launch surprise attacks without warning.

The sensor operator on USSS Hornet detects a subspace anomaly forming near USSS Hornet and the current bridge watch officer orders shields to be raised just in case, this proves to be very fortuitous as within a few seconds after the shields have been raised the Vaadwaur warships come out from the subspace corridors and launch an attack against the Hornet.

With the Hornet’s shields raised the initial attack by the Vaadwaur warships is not successful in destroying the Hornet, the next series of attacks by the Vaadwaur warships also prove futile as the Hornet is now at battle stations. The Hornet manages to destroy three of the attacking Vaadwaur warships with a combination of phaser’s and quantum torpedo fire and driving the remaining Vaadwaur warships back into their subspace corridors.

The captain of the Hornet then reports on what he had found to the Starfleet admiral commanding the forty-five star ships on her flagship the USSS Richelieu and relays this information to the Starfleet space station in the Ocampa system for relay back to Starfleet command headquarters in the Alpha quadrant.

The Hornet continues on its mission towards the Vaadwaur system unaware that the Vaadwaur warships have already returned to the Vaadwaur system to report that an alien warship is heading towards their home system.

The Vaadwaur leadership orders the Vaadwaur system defences to be put on full alert and a large fleet to be assembled to try and stop this unknown alien warship for getting any closer to the Vaadwaur system. A force of sixty-two Vaadwaur warships is quickly assembled to intercept and try and stop the alien vessels from getting any closer and is sent though the subspace corridors.

After running at impulse for the past six days the captain of the Hornet is just about to order the ship to warp when the sensor operator reports that she is getting same readings just before the Vaadwaur warships attacked the first time. The captain of the Hornet order that the ship go to battle stations and within a few seconds the Vaadwaur warships appear out of their subspace corridors and commence their second attack on the Hornet.

The captain of the Hornet orders the communications officer to send a priority message to the Starfleet task force requesting assistance. Then the Hornet engages the Vaadwaur warships while sending messages of friendship to the Vaadwaur asking them to stand down from the hostile action against the Hornet these messages are ignored by the Vaadwaur.

Within thirty-five minutes of the Hornet sending out the priority message to the Starfleet task force requesting assistance the Starfleet task force of forty-five starships arrive to lend assistance to the Hornet, the admiral on the flagship USSS Richelieu also sends a message out to the Vaadwaur warships to stop their action and that the UESPA vessels are here for peaceful contact.

After the space battle had gone on for more than three hours the Vaadwaur warships are not able to destroy any of the Starfleet vessels as they are to powerful and several of the Vaadwaur warships have been disabled (but not destroyed), so the commander of the Vaadwaur warships calls for a cease fire between the two fleets, the admiral in charge of the Starfleet task force agrees, and after several hours of negation the Starfleet negotiators find out the they have not been given all the information from the UESPA leadership.

In the end both sides agree to keep clear of each other’s space, this allows both fleets to disengage and return to the respective bases. The Starfleet Admiral in charge of the task force will be making a report to Starfleet command on her return to the Alpha quadrant on what she has learned from the Vaadwaur about a previous contact with a RSN starship.

Three months later – Earth

Alpha quadrant, Earth, UESPA headquarters three months later, the UESPA political leadership has been trying to convince senior Starfleet commanders that they were not trying to set-up Starfleet command but that it was a genuine mistake on the part of the UESPA leadership. Finally after three months of hard diplomatic work by the UESPA leadership they have managed to convince Starfleet command that is was just a misunderstanding.

Also the UESPA gave Starfleet command a large increase in income to help with Starfleet commands funding, this increase is in way of an apology (or bribe, depending on how you look at it!) to Starfleet command. Even though Starfleet command, did not really believe the UESPA leadership assurances they did not have any real proof of any deliberate cover-up.

If the UESPA leadership makes another error like this one Starfleet command may take drastic measures against the UESPA leadership. The UESPA was of cause not telling the Starfleet command everything and that would cause more problems and come to a very violent head within a few years.

Sword of Damocles

While the incident with the UESPA and the Vaadwaur, the RSC and the RSN were also having political problems over a mobile space station come battle station under the project name the Sword of Damocles.

The Sword of Damocles was an idea to build a number of large mobile space station/battle stations with the Iconian gateway technology that is installed into the current gateway space stations that are used all over the RSC controlled space.

This version would have been a more military version than the current gateway space stations, being more heavily armed and shielded. The was originally designed to take on the Borg threat and to be able to move a large space station/battle station to a system that is being attacked by the Borg to reinforce that systems defences.

Unfortunately the Sword of Damocles first battle station the Broadsword was now over running in cost terms by several hundred percent and was also running late by at least a decade, this lead to calls by the RSC for the RSN to cancel the project, but the RSN had always managed to get addition funding for the Sword of Damocles project.

By 2576 the Broadsword space station/battle station was finished and was declared fully operational, but the price not only in terms of money but also political was high as the RSC leadership forbad any additional battle stations to be built as the cost was just to high and the new Imperial (H) Class Battleships with their combination of Iconian technology and RSC technology were considered a better way to spend the RSC taxpayers money, even though the Sword of Damocles project had eventually delivered a very powerful mobile space station/battle station combination.

This was one of the few time that the RSN had not got their own way and the RSC leadership was now taking a closer look at RSN funding, but not with the view to cutting funding (that would be political suicide as the RSN is still very popular amongst the RSC population) but to looking into were that funding is being spent.

To be continued…..

Next – Part 68 – Pandora’s Box

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Part 68 – Pandora’s Box

An Error in Judgment

In 2582 several of the UESPA member countries intelligence agencies had managed to plant several spies onboard several of the Imperial (H) Class Battleships to try and find out about the Iconian technology. The UESPA member countries had done this without telling Starfleet command or even Starfleet intelligence about these operations.

A single incident in 2585 would set of a course of events that would cause a major change within the UESPA.

Onboard one of the Imperial (H) Class Battleships during a cultural exchange between the Kaleds and the RSC several Kaleds are onboard along with the usual complement of Iconian’s on one of the RSN Imperial (H) Class Battleships HMSS Melbourne. The UESPA member countries of the US, France, Russia and China had pooled their intelligence resources to be able to put one spy from each country onboard HMSS Melbourne.

The spy from France was trying to take covert scans of some of the Iconian shield technology and was so engrossed in his work that he did not notice a Kaled quietly glide into the shield generator room. When the Kaled asked what are he was doing the startled agent reacted by drawing and firing a concealed phase and firing the weapon at the Kaled.

The Kaled’s shields harmlessly disperse the phaser and the Kaled returned fire stunning the “RSN crew member” (French agent). While this was happening, on the bridge of HMSS Melbourne the security officer’s sensors reported the exchange of fire and a RSM security team was sent to the area where the fire was reported to find out what had happened.

On arrival the RSM found one of the RSN crewmember stunned and a Kaled watching the RSN crewmember. The Kaled was able to show what had happened and the RSN crew member is taken into custody, with the captain of HMSS Melbourne offering apologies to the Kaled that was attacked and the Iconian’s, also the captain of HMSS Melbourne was completely confused why the crew member had fired on the Kaled (the captain of HMSS Melbourne does not know that the crew member is a spy).

RSC intelligence officers on HMSS Melbourne begin to question the “RSN crew member” and at the same time start to run a very thorough background check. After several weeks of questioning and investigation, the background check reviles that the “crew member” is a member of French intelligence who is trying to steal Iconian’s technology for their own use.

The captain of HMSS Melbourne orders that a full background check on all the ships crew members be performed ASAP and after several more weeks three more spy’s are found, one from US, Russia and China that have managed to gain access to one of the supposedly most secure ships in the RSN.

This sets of a full security review across the entire RSC.

During the questioning the Iconian’s and the Kaled’s have been kept fully informed of what is going on. Once the identities of the spies are confirmed the Iconian’s and the Kaled’s are very angry at the four UESPA member countries at trying to steal information about Iconian’s technology. The Iconian’s and the Kaled’s will travel to Earth to confront the UESPA about this with a large fleet of warships.

Confrontation

Several months after the discovery of the four agents onboard HMSS Melbourne several others where discovered onboard several other RSN Imperial (H) Class Battleships, this has caused great embarrassment within RSC Intelligence (and its sister organisation Section 31), but RSC Intelligence where now making up for the error by doing a full screening of all personnel involved in the RSN Imperial (H) Class Battleship project and the Iconian gateway space station construction project.

The Iconian’s and the Kaled’s had arrived in Earth orbit will a large combined fleet of warships to confront the UESPA leadership and the leaders of US, France, Russia and China on what their response is to the evidence of spying and attempted murder of a Kaled.

The UESPA leadership initially denies all the accusations of spying but when the Iconian’s and the Kaled’s presented them with the evidence, the US, France, Russia and China admitted to spying on the Iconian’s to gain technological knowledge but denied the attempted murder of a Kaled and said that was an accident. These revelations caused very heated debate amongst the other UESPA member nations that were not informed of US, France, Russia and China spying on board the RSN Imperial (H) Class Battleships, with the general augment against US, France, Russia and China of not informing the other UESPA member nations of what was going on.

The Iconian’s and the Kaled’s decided not to take any action against the UESPA as the four countries (US, France, Russia and China) appeared to have been acting alone, and with that both the Iconian’s and the Kaled’s warships withdraw from the solar system.

The arrival of the Iconian’s and the Kaled’s warships in Earth’s solar system causes great panic amongst the UESPA member citizens and leads to civil disorder. When the Iconian’s and the Kaled’s warships departed without taking action the problems rather than getting better would only get worse for the UESPA leadership.

All RSC military installations and bases go on full alert just in case the UESPA situation gets out of control.

Starfleet command

The head of Starfleet command Fleet Admiral Leyton was also not amused that the four of the five key members of the UESPA had kept information from Starfleet command and Starfleet intelligence about operations to acquire information about Iconian technology. This sort of action combined with the Vaadwaur “incident” seems to confirm Starfleet commands theory about the political leadership of the UESPA and whether Starfleet command could trust them or not!

Fleet Admiral Leyton arranged for a meeting with the leadership of Starfleet command at their headquarters in Switzerland to discuss the situation and what sort of response should Starfleet command consider. Though before Starfleet command could come to a decision events would overtake Starfleet command.

Admiral Leyton comments that the US, France, Russia and China have opened a “Pandora’s Box” of problems for Starfleet command (and the UESPA) and with several other countries now showing signs of problems as well, it looks like the problems will only get worse.

Internal problems

Within the US, France, Russia and China there is a strong public outcry at the highhanded attitude of their leaders, but also within these countries there is strong support for what their leaders had done. The populations of US, France, Russia and China are divided roughly fifty-fifty on whether there leaders actions where correct or not.

This leads to large scale rioting in several major cities in the US, France, Russia and China and the rioting is spreading, so the army is called into assist the police to quell the rioting, but this only makes things worse as the troops are fired upon by some of the rioters causing the troops to return fire.

This starts a series of very small and bloody firefights between the army/police on one side and the rioters on the other side also both sides of the rioters are also firing on each other. Several countries that have boarders with US, France, Russia and China also began to see civil disobedience as well.

The RSC leadership in response to this escalation closed its boarders along the Canadian/US, British/French and China/India Pakistan Tibet boarders to stop the rioting from spreading into their countries (even though their was no sign of that happening), also all RSC colonies police were put on high alert. The RSC also places troops along the boarders to make sure that no one from a UESPA member country tries to cross the boarder illegally.

Within several weeks the rioting had stared to spread to several UESPA colonies and looked like the start of a civil war. With the number of civilians killed at just over 15,000 and the number injured at 100,000 world wide, government leaders where trying to use force to stop the fighting this tactic was not working as the to opposing sides would not listen to reason.

The only member of the UESPA Security Council not to have any riots is Japan, as Japan had been kept out of the spying process. This had helped keep the Japanese people from rioting against the government and maintained a normal level throughout Japan and its colony worlds.

What now for UESPA and what will Starfleet command be able to do?

To be continued…..

Next – Part 69 – Drastic Measures

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Part 69 – Drastic Measures

After several months of rioting in various countries across Earth, the Swiss government petitions Starfleet command for addition security personnel to help guard their boarder. Under the UESPA charter every country has the right to petition Starfleet command for extra security during times of emergency (and this was considered an emergency!).

Starfleet command agrees and sends security personnel to help the Swiss government guard their boarder with France where the main problems are emanating from. Within two days of the Starfleet security personnel arriving, the boarder problems have cease for the Swiss government, this provides a catalyst for other governments in Europe to also ask for assistance, and this call for assistance does not stop at Earth its also involves those countries that have colonies on other planets, also asking for Starfleet security personnel on those colony worlds as well which Starfleet command also provides security personnel.

After several months Starfleet command is running the security of most of the UESPA member countries, with the exception of the US, France, Russia and China who are still refusing to allow Starfleet security personnel to assist in their own security operations.

The only member of the UESPA Security Council that is not having any civil problems is Japan or on any of its three colony worlds. Japan had not needed to ask for any assistant from Starfleet command as their was no emergency, but Japan did ask for a token presence, the Japanese government thought that this was a good idea as it was showing unity with the other UESPA member countries.

Forceful intervention

With most of the UESPA member countries security being run by Starfleet command with only the US, France, Russia and China still insisting that they can handle the problems. Within the US, France, Russia and China these countries have become a patchwork of divided areas, the government forces control about 70% of their countries territory and the remaining 30% is controlled by the rebels.

These rebel enclaves are very strongly fortified against attack and the government forces have surround the rebel enclaves and cut them off from the outside world. The government forces have launched a series of attacks against these rebel enclaves but without much success as the governments do not want a massacre on their hands, the attacks by the governments military have been limited and thus far have not been successful.

Fleet Admiral Leyton in consultation with the other senior Starfleet commanders and along with a core of UESPA member countries aggress that sending in Starfleet security to stop the fighting is the best option even though US, France, Russia and China don’t want any help.

Starfleet security is more than just a security organisation it is a powerful military force with its own armour, artillery and support services etc, Starfleet security is simply not allowed to use military terms such as divisions, Corps, Army etc for political reasons, this is dates back to the foundation of the UESPA.

On the 1st May 2586 at 09.00 hours (Geneva Time) Fleet Admiral Leyton makes an announcement of Starfleet’s intentions to move troops into the US, France, Russia and China from adjoining UESPA member countries and any resistance will be met with deadly force. The initial response from the US, France, Russia and China is to condemn these actions, but with the rest of the UESPA member countries backing this action the initial condemnation of Starfleet commands actions quickly disappears as soon as the leaders see the numbers of Starfleet security “troops” coming over their boarders and landing on their colonies.

By 15.30 hours (Geneva Time) the governments of the US, France, Russia and China have officially requested Starfleet’s assistance as a face saving measure. By the 2nd May 2586 Starfleet command is now running the UESPA and all of its colonies, without the need to get permission from UESPA member countries. All member countries military forces are disarmed, as are the rebels after a series of short and vicious firefights with Starfleet security “troops” the rebel strongholds surrender.

In the aftermath of the conflict the number of civilians killed at just over 75,000 and the number injured at 500,000, along with 8,500 troops killed and 35,000 injured worldwide. Starfleet causalities are 3,500 killed and 22,000 injured.

For the next four years Fleet Admiral Leyton along with the senior leadership of Starfleet command ends up running the UESPA as a “democratic military dictatorship” as Starfleet command has overwhelming support of the people and most of the UESPA member countries approval and does not create a police state or is harsh or repressive in any way.

During Fleet Admiral Leyton’s “rule” Starfleet security is split into two, the first part is still called Starfleet security and continues to do Starfleet’s security missions, the second is a new organisation called Starfleet Military Command (SMC) this is formed from the old Starfleet security units that were being used like military units but where unable to call themselves military, but now they can.

Changes to UESPA

The old UESPA is disbanded and replaced by a new United Federation of Countries (UFC) with each country having one vote and no country having the power of veto, thus all decisions have to have a majority decision and cannot be vetoed by one of the old five permanent countries US, France, Russia, Japan and China. The idea for this new organisation does not come from Starfleet command but from Japan as an idea in political reform.

The US, France, Russia and China don’t like the idea of losing their power of veto, but these four countries are in the minatory and with Japan and Starfleet command behind the changes and with all the other member countries also backing these reforms the US, France, Russia and China have no real choice but to support this reform.

Japan has the most to gain over the other four old permanent members (US, France, Russia and China) of the UESPA as it is Japan who is supplying the majority of Starfleet commands military equipment during Starfleet commands five year rule of the UESPA and stands to gain a lot of new military contracts from the newly formed Starfleet Military Command (SMC) and the United Federation of Countries (UFC) and will become a major player in the new Federation.

Japan also becomes the first to get the Presidency of the new UFC after a vote by all member countries Japan receives 72% of the votes. Each Presidential term for the UFC last six years and the UFC can either vote for a new President or continue with the current country in the office of President. The office of President is held by the country and not by an individual and that country appoints someone to the post of President who will occupy the Presidency. The President is a purely ceremonial role but does give the country occupying the Presidency considerable power in terms of what policies get put before the UFC council to be voted on.

Each UFC member country runs its own internal affairs according to its own laws this also goes for that countries colonies.

The other members of the Alliance did try to help the UESPA during the time of internal conflict by offering mediation between the two sides, but these talks do not go very well and do not achieve very much. After Starfleet command takes over the running of the UESPA and the violence has stopped the Alliance felt there was not much need for their assistance.

On the 1st January 2591 Fleet Admiral Leyton formerlly hands back control to the newly formed UFC, thus ending Starfleet commands running of civilian affairs over the old UESPA member countries. The first act of the UFC is to draw a line under the events of the past few years and given a general amnesty to all those involved, thus legitimising Fleet Admiral Leyton takeover over the old UESPA.

Organisation of the United Federation of Countries and Starfleet Command

The United Federation of Countries (UFC) is the political and policy-making arm of what was the old UESPA. Starfleet command answers to the UFC Security Council made up from twelve of the UFC member countries on rotating two years terms. The UFC Security Council does most of the voting but any constitutional or major changes need to be approved by the full UFC council.

The finance committee is the most powerful as it controls the funding for all elements of UFC funding, the only thing that the finance committee cannot do is raise extra income from UFC member countries, all UFC member countries must agrees to this, it is the only thing that all UFC member countries must agree on for this to pass this cannot pass on a majority vote only 100%.

Each element of Starfleet Command is answerable to an oversight committee with the powers to adjust, stop or speed up etc any operation be done by Starfleet Command or any of its sub organisations. These oversight committees also control Starfleet Commands funding and can decide whether a project will get the funding or not.

Starfleet Command (SC) is divided into several different organisations.

Starfleet Exploration Command (SEC)– SEC forms the space element of Starfleet Command (SC), comprising of all classes of starship from the smallest shuttlecraft to the heavy cruisers and of cause the explorer/heavy cruisers that are used for long ranged exploration missions.

SEC main tasks are to defend UFC territory against any incursions and also assist the Alliance in guarding the Alliances boarders along with other Alliance member warships.

Ranks within Starfleet Exploration Command (SEC)

Fleet Admiral
Admiral
Vice Admiral
Rear Admiral
Commodore
Fleet Captain
Captain
Commander
Lieutenant Commander
Lieutenant
Lieutenant (Junior Grade)
Ensign
Master Chief Petty Officer
Senior Chief Petty Officer
Chief Petty Officer
Petty Officer 1st Class
Petty Officer 2nd Class
Petty Officer 3rd Class
Crewman 1st Class
Crewman 2nd Class
Crewman 3rd Class
Cadet

Starfleet Military Command (SMC) – SMC is the new ground force of Starfleet Command (SC) these forces are used to defend each UFC member colony from any enemy invasion of the UFC member planet. The SMC also controls all orbital battle-stations and all atmospheric interceptors and surface to space defences of all UFC member colony systems and worlds, these planetary defences where under the control of each member country but now is the responsibility of SMC.

Ranks within Starfleet Military Command (SMC)

General of the Army
General
Lieutenant General
Major General
Brigadier General
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Captain
First Lieutenant
Second Lieutenant
Sergeant Major
Master Sergeant
Sergeant First Class
Staff Sergeant
Sergeant
Corporal
Private

Starfleet Security Command (SSC) – SSC is the least changed of all the organisations of Starfleet Command (SC) this force is charged with protecting Starfleet’s ships as its onboard security force and also protecting away teams on alien worlds. The SSC is a quasi-marine force but concentrates on protection rather than assault. The one other job SSC does is that of policing all UFC member countries as form of international police force, SSC has the right to cross boarders in pursuit of wanted criminals and bring them to the court in the UFC member counties court.

The only change is that SSC has “lost” a large number of personnel to the newly formed SMC.

SSC ranks are the same as SEC ranks.

Starfleet Research Command (SRC) – SRC handles all forms of research and development within Starfleet from the smallest hand phaser to the development of starships, propulsion systems in coordination with the various UFC commercial companies. When a product is ready for manufacture the UFC companies bid for the licence rights to manufacture the product, but only those products that the patient is owned wholly by SRC.

SRC also handles building research prototypes of starships, tanks and other Starfleet equipment for testing and evaluation, also the testing of upgraded to existing Starfleet equipment.

One of their main fields of research is into transwarp drive to try and close the gap between the RSC and the UFC.

Starfleet Intelligence (SI) – SI will now be responsible for all intelligence gathered rather than the individual member countries having their own intelligence services as well as Starfleet intelligence. SI now combines all the intelligence services under its command and each member country will no longer run their own intelligence operations.

Many political commentators state during this time of change from The UESPA to UFC that the UFC is beginning to resemble the RSC in many ways.

RSC

The RSC during this time has kept well out of this UESPA (UFC) problem apart from offering medical assistance and humanitarian aid. The RSC has maintained its closed boarders until Fleet Admiral Leyton handed power to the newly formed UFC on the 1st January 2591 and then the RSC reopened its boarders.

RSC/RSN

By 2595 all twenty-five RSN Imperial (H) Class Battleships are fully operational and they are HMSS Black Prince, Black Knight, Black Swan, Black Sword, Black Storm, Black Fury, Defence, Bangladesh, Audacious, Invincible, Iron Duke, Swiftsure, Triumph, Scorpion, Wyvern, Devastation, Vikramaditya, Colossus, Edinburgh, London, Perth, Bellerophon, Hobart, Quebec and Malta.

In 2595 while exploring the galaxy of Imm (Iconian designation) the RSN Imperial (H) Class Battleship HMSS Swiftsure encounters…….

To be continued….

Next – Part 70 – Unknown/Storage Facility/Sphere

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Part 70 – Unknown/Storage Facility/Sphere

Hard Contact

In the galaxy of Imm the RSN Imperial (H) Class Battleship HMSS Swiftsure while exploring as star system within the galaxy of Imm encountered an unknown alien ship, the ship is also unknown to the Iconian’s as it does not match anything in their own records.

The unknown alien ship is approximately 4,000 meters long with three pylons extending from the central section in a triangular formation each with a large section attached to each pylon is a “pod” that is almost as long as the central section of the ship.

From the initial scans by HMSS Swiftsure the unknown ship is considered almost equal to and as powerful as HMSS Swiftsure in terms of weapons and shields, but the drive systems seem to be less well advanced and appear to be a form of transwarp drive but on a much more powerful and faster level than anything ever before encountered.

HMSS Swiftsure raised shields, as is standard procedure on encountering an unknown ship and started to broadcast universal greetings to the unknown ship. But before the hail had finished the unknown ship opened fire on HMSS Swiftsure with very powerful weapons that where almost equal to the Iconian beam weapons fitted to HMSS Swiftsure.

HMSS Swiftsure Iconian shields stood the unknown ships attack and the captain of HMSS Swiftsure ordered the weapons officer to return fire, against any other opponent the Iconian beam weapons would have torn though an opponents shields in a fraction of a second, but this unknown ship shields resisted the Iconian beam weapons fire.

Both ships then began a series of attack runs against each other with the same result of neither side being able to penetrate the others shields, this would continue for another hour, before the captain of HMSS Swiftsure orders the use of the Iconian drones.

From HMSS Swiftsure’s for launchers a salvo of twelve Iconian drones is launched against the unknown ship, against any other warship their would not be anything left, but against this unknown ship all that happened was that the unknown ships shields where depleted buy what HMSS Swiftsure’s sensor operator estimated was about thirty percent.

After the first attack the captain of HMSS Swiftsure orders that the Iconian drones be fired continuously at the unknown ship until the shields have been brought down and the unknown ship has been disabled and then they may be ready to talk.

But as the next salvo approach the unknown ship the unknown ship leapt into transwarp drive and exited the galaxy of Imm and in doing so was able to out run the Iconian drones, which where retrieved once the unknown ship was out of range leaving behind a very puzzled crew and some very puzzled Iconian’s.

In the aftermath of the battle both sides where left wondering what on earth these aliens were up to and who they where. The Iconian’s would use their resources along with their three allied races to investigate this matter further.

The captain of HMSS Swiftsure points out that this maybe a scout ship for an invasion fleet into the galaxy of Imm and maybe beyond, the Iconian on the bridge assures the captain of HMSS Swiftsure that the Iconian’s and their allies can quite easily deal with warships like that and the RSC has only seen a fraction of the firepower that the Iconian’s and their allies posses. The captain of HMSS Swiftsure is not really convinced by what the Iconian is saying, so the Iconian suggests that he will show the captain of HMSS Swiftsure one of the Iconian’s warship storage facilities.

Storage Facility

After the captain of HMSS Swiftsure allows the Iconian’s onboard HMSS Swiftsure to take control of HMSS Swiftsure and to take HMSS Swiftsure to one of the many Iconian warship storage facilities in the galaxy of Fell.

On arriving in the galaxy of Fell, and at the edge of Iconian warship storage facility 1129, the main view screen of HMSS Swiftsure the bridge crew sees thousands of Iconian within the system. Each ship is on minimum power and the system only has a few thousand Iconian’s in this system to maintain all these ships, at minimum power these ships do not need much maintenance and automated defences that surround the entire system protecting the storage facility.

The Iconian observer on HMSS Swiftsure’s points out to the captain that this one storage facility represents a small fraction of the military power that the Iconian’s can call upon and this does not include the resources of their three allies. Which when combined together can stand up to any known or even an unknown fleet as the Iconian’s can simply call on their reserve forces within a few hours.

The captain of HMSS Swiftsure is amazed as the number of warships in this one Iconian storage facility outnumbers the combined strength of the whole of the Alliance fleet combined. This is the Iconian’s reserve fleet, the last time the Iconian’s activated their reserve fleet was against their old enemy the Darkness.

This is the reason why the Iconian’s did not mind the RSC warships being upgraded with Iconian technology, even if all 20,000 odd warships of the RSN where upgraded they would be no match against the combined Iconian fleet and that of their three allied races.

After reporting this incident to RSC/RSN command HMSS Swiftsure continues her exploration mission of the Imm galaxy.

RSC reports this incident to the Alliance Security Council but as this is so far away in another galaxy the Alliance does not deem this unknown race a threat.

Sphere

While HMSS Swiftsure encounter was going on in the galaxy of Fell, another one of the RSN Imperial (H) Class Battleships HMSS Vikramaditya in the Milky Way Galaxy was investigating a series of gravitational anomalies at the edge of RSC controlled space.

HMSS Vikramaditya proceeding on impulse power towards the centre of the gravitational waves HMSS Vikramaditya is rocked violently by a massive gravitational field shift. Although initial scans do not find the source of the field, they trace the field to its centre and discover a massive spherical structure, 200 million kilometres in diameter HMSS Vikramaditya seems to have discovered a Dyson Sphere.

Much to the amazement of not only the crew of HMSS Vikramaditya but also the Iconian’s onboard HMSS Vikramaditya who are just as interested in the Dyson Sphere as the crew of HMSS Vikramaditya are. The Captain of HMSS Vikramaditya suggest that the Iconian’s bring several of their own research ships here as the Iconian’s research ships will be better equipped than the RSN ships.

The senior Iconian onboard agrees to this proposal and after a brief discussion with his fellow Iconian’s says that is will be a few hours before several well equipped Iconian research vessels will arrive until then HMSS Vikramaditya should begin surveying the Dyson Sphere.

The Dyson Sphere is a colossal spherical structure constructed around a star, completely surrounding it. The interior of the sphere would absorb the entire energy output of that star, allowing for life forms to live on the interior surface almost indefinitely such a structure was theorized by 20th century physicist Freeman Dyson in the late 1950s.

For the interior of a Dyson Sphere to be habitable to most humanoid life forms, the radius of the sphere must be such that habitable temperatures (5 – 30 °C) are maintained. The radius would therefore depend on the size and the energy output of the star around which the sphere would be constructed; if a Dyson Sphere were to be constructed around Earths sun, the radius would have to be approximately one astronomical unit. At such a radius, the interior surface area would be about 7 x 1016 square kilometres, or 550 million times the entire surface area of the planet Earth. Such a surface area could easily support the lives of many quadrillions of beings.

Unsurprisingly, due to the almost immeasurable amounts of effort, resources and time required to construct such an immense structure, this is the only Dyson Sphere has ever been discovered so far even by the Iconian’s and their allies, now that the Iconian’s know what to look for other Dyson Sphere’s may be found and even the race that built the Dyson Sphere maybe found.

This particular sphere is encased around a G-type star and had a diameter of 200 million kilometres, giving it an internal surface area of approximately 250 million M-class planets. As no radiant sunlight or solar wind escaped from the sphere, HMSS Vikramaditya was not able to detect it until they were almost on top of it

As the HMSS Vikramaditya arrives at the array, the crew discover a large hatch in the Dyson Sphere, which they presume is a front door. As they open hailing frequencies, the hatch opens and a series of powerful tractor beams pull the HMSS Vikramaditya inside the sphere, easily overpowering it even with the Iconian enhancements.

Once inside the crew of HMSS Vikramaditya discover the reason for the Dyson Sphere being abandoned, the star is highly unstable, expelling matter and severe bursts of radiation. This explains why the inhabitants of the sphere abandoned it. The science officer postulates that the HMSS Vikramaditya may have unintentionally triggered an automated series of tractor beams that would guide a starship inside the sphere this explains why the HMSS Vikramaditya was pulled inside without anyone occupying the sphere and if there is an automatic way of getting in their must be an automatic way of getting out.

The Iconian shields are easily protecting HMSS Vikramaditya for the suns bursts of radiation and the ships crew are in no danger from suns the radiation, also the Iconian’s owns communication devices are working even thought HMSS Vikramaditya communications cannot penetrate the Dyson Sphere. So safe behind the Iconian shields the crew of HMSS Vikramaditya begin a series of scans of the interior of the Dyson Sphere.

After several hours of scanning the interior of the Dyson Sphere, the Iconian’s inform the captain of HMSS Vikramaditya that twelve Iconian research vessels have arrived in the vicinity of the Dyson Sphere, with more on their way and are beginning a series of scans of the outside of the Dyson Sphere to find a way to open the entrance without triggering the tractor beams.

Twelve days later the Iconian’s outside the Dyson Sphere figure out how to open and close the doors without triggering the tractor beams. This will allow ships to enter and leave without any encountering the problems that HMSS Vikramaditya encountered when this ship first found the entrance/exit.

The RSC inform the Alliance and states that the Dyson Sphere was found in RSC territory and it is RSC property but that any Alliance member can send a science vessel to examine the Dyson Sphere and the RSC also point out that the Iconian’s are doing a very through scan of the Dyson Sphere themselves as they have never encountered one before.

The Alliance supports the RSC claim to the Dyson Sphere even the UFC supports the RSC’s claim to the sphere as there is no way to inhabit the sphere while the sun continues to emit solar radiation. But what no-one in the Alliance knows is that the Kaled’s have the technology to stop the sun from emitting solar radiation, but the Kaled’s have to decide whether or not to inform the RSC that they can fix the sun inside the Dyson Sphere.

What is the mysterious alien ship that attacked HMSS Swiftsure and how will the RSC utilise the Dyson Sphere in the short term and what race built the Dyson Sphere?

Deep within a moon within RSC space a new class of starship is nearing completion, all around this new ship there are Section 31 engineers and technicians doing final checks.

To be continued……

Next – Part 71 – New Design/Maiden Flight/Sphere Timescale/Foothold

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Part 71 – New Design/Maiden Flight/Sphere Timescale/Foothold

New Design

Deep within a moon within RSC space a new class of starship was sitting in its dry dock, is distinctive teardrop shaped hull painted completely black with the single impulse engine as the rear, with a navigational deflector at the front being flanked by two Spearfish heavy weight torpedo launchers (one on each side) and minimal phaser armament.

This new class of spy ship carries the latest in phased cloaking technology, and the latest in phased spearfish torpedoes. This ship also carries the latest in stealth technology that can at long range obscures this new class of spy ship from virtually all forms of scanner and sensor technology even though the cloaking device conceals this spy ship from all types of sensor scans, it is sometime necessary do de-cloak for certain types of missions.

This new spy ship also carries two small shuttlecraft that are also fitted with the phasing cloak technology, this allows the shuttlecraft to leave the ship and land inside a building or other facility and the crew to leave the shuttlecraft and seal the shuttlecraft by remote control and after their mission is complete return to their shuttlecraft and unseal the shuttlecraft and return to the mother ship with out detection. This will be very useful on certain types of covert missions undertaken by Section 31.

This new spy ship is 290 meters in length and has a height of 68 meters and a width of 97 meters, an armament of two forward firing Spearfish heavy weight torpedo launchers (with a total of 100 torpedoes), twelve phaser emitters and was also equipped with the point defence system, with a crew of 83 and the ability of carry 20 passengers (agents).

The cost of manufacturing one of these new spy ships costs the same as manufacturing an Imperial (N) Class Battleship, due to the need to conceal the construction and the types of materials need to manufacture this type of ship with this kind of level of technology. Due to the cost and other restrictions only one hundred of these new spy ships will be built for Section 31.

This new design is designed to replace the old Shadow class spy ships that have been in service since the early 2300's not only with Section 31 but also with RSC Intelligence.

RSC Intelligence will continue to use their “conventional” version of the Shadow class spy ships with the latest in normal cloaking/sensor technology. The “old” Section 31 Shadow class spy ships variant will be transferred to RSC Intelligence after the more advanced items are re-moved such as the phasing clock etc.

This prototype would see limited action against the Federation foothold in the Milky Way galaxy.

Maiden Flight

In dry-dock there are no exit doors for the prototype, but with the phasing cloak this was the best way to hide a Section 31 dry-dock inside a moon.

On the bridge the leader of the Section 31 team orders that the ship be powered up and all docking connections be disconnected, within the dry-dock the artificial gravity is turned off to that the prototype ship can maintain it position within the dry-dock area.

Once all systems have been powered up and confirmed the prototype ship leader orders that the ship to cloak and then to phase cloak, once this is done and it is confirmed that the phasing cloak is working ok the ships leader orders manoeuvring thrusters ahead and to take the prototype ship though the moons rock and into a geo stationary orbit at the moons equator. Passing though the moons rock the crew on the bridge can see the rock and then suddenly the prototype ship passes though to the surface of the moon.

The moon is part of RSC Intelligence training organisation and is a restricted area, this is also good place to put a Section 31 dry-dock under a RSC Intelligence training facility and using the cover to ship supplies in so no one notices the extra shipments as they have become standard.

The prototype ship then begins to follow a freighter towards the local RSC gateway space station, the freighter has been ordered to maintenance some automated satellites at the edge of RSC space, this will allow the prototype ship to follow the freighter in normal cloak mode and then from their to the testing range.

After several weeks at high warp the prototype ship arrives at a system with a large asteroid field for use in weapons and system testing, meeting one of the “old” Section 31 Shadow class spy ships that will monitor the tests. Both ships will communicate visually to maintain the anonymity of each others crew and all communication will be in code as standard procedure between Section 31 ships and personnel.

The prototype ship would the next few months testing the various systems onboard the prototype ship and when this was complete the prototype ship would return to the dry-dock and then from their begin operations.

Sphere Timescale

On examination of the inner surface of the sphere over the past eighteen months, both the RSN and the Iconian’s come to the conclusion that the inner surface is heavily radiated and even if the sun could be fixed it would take several hundred years to make the inner surface of sphere habitable again.

The Kaled’s inform the RSC that they have the technology to fix the suns extensive activity and will do so (more from a technical point then wanting the land). The RSC leadership say yes to this and also state that they do not need the capacity of the sphere are it will be several hundred years before all their colony worlds are at capacity and the RSC do not want to “put all their eggs in one basket”.

The RSC is more interested in studying the sphere than to colonise the sphere as are the Iconian’s and their allies, so its is agreed between the five of then that they will study the sphere once the Kaled’s have fixed the sphere’s sun.

Once the Kaled’s have fixed the sun it will take three hundred years before the land inside the sphere can be able to sustain life again, until the all five members of the exploration races will use the sensors on their ships to conduct more extensive scans of the inside and outside of the sphere.

While the sphere is being explored over the eighteen month period HMSS Vikramaditya has returned her normal duties and left the exploration of the sphere to task force of RSN ships to explore the outside of the sphere, the Iconian’s and their allies will explore the inside of the sphere.

Foothold

In 2607, in the Gamma quadrant towards the outer edge of the Milky Way Galaxy a Dominion patrol squadron encounters an unknown ship and before the Jem'Hadar can send a communication the Dominion patrol squadron is destroyed by the unknown ship.

When the Dominion patrol squadron failed to make a regular communication report a larger force is sent to investigate the communication failure and to find the patrol squadron. When this task force arrived it also encountered the unknown ship and the unknown ship fired upon the Dominion task force with slightly different results. The Dominion task force’s Jem'Hadar attack ships accelerated to maximum speed and rammed the unknown ship allowing time for the command ship to send a signal to Dominion headquarters before engaging the unknown ship by trying to ram it, but was destroyed by a second unknown ship of the same design.

With the Dominion leaderships (the founders) now fully aware of this new threat the Dominion military machine is now put into full motion against this new threat and a very large fleet of 3,000 odd Dominion warships would be gathered to fight this unknown enemy.

What the Dominion did not know is that a Section 31 Shadow class spy ship has observed all this activity and picked up the communication between various Dominion commands and the movement of a large number of Dominion warships. Even on the other side of Dominion space the amount of communication between various military commands goes up by several thousand percent.

The Section 31 Shadow class spy ship alters course back towards the wormhole, and within five weeks the Section 31 spy ship is back in the Alpha quadrant after following one of the Alliance ships patrolling the wormhole back though the wormhole to the Alpha quadrant.

RSC Intelligence now alerted to this new threat wonders how they are going to tell the other members of the Alliance how the came upon this information. The head of Section 31 has a stroke of genius by suggesting one of the RSN Imperial (H) Class Battleships be sent to the other side of Dominion controlled space on a reconnaissance mission to see what the Dominion is up to. The other members of the RSC Intelligence committee and the RSC political leadership agree.

The RSN does not like the idea of sending one Imperial (H) Class Battleship anywhere near Dominion space without added backup. The RSC political leadership agree to send five Imperial (H) Class Battleships as part of a battleship reconnaissance squadron to the edge of Dominion controlled space the RSN agree that this is a better course of action. RSC Intelligence advises the RSN leadership to proceed with extreme caution just in case there is a problem.

The RSN sends HMSS Audacious, Wyvern, Scorpion, Quebec and Malta, with the flagship being HMSS Audacious under the command of Rear Admiral James Bourne a thirty two year old rising star of the RSN as is considered a master strategist with RSN command circles.

In RSC space a large fleet will be gathered around the Broadsword class space station/battle station as a back-up force. The initial cover story for this kind of large military build-up is a military exercise, as a gathering of such a large number of warships will not go unnoticed by certain Alliance members.

When the five battleships jump into the edge of Dominion controlled space they arrive within five light years of a battle between the Dominion and this unknown race. As soon as the ships arrive Audacious sensor operator picks up the battle on long range sensors and Rear Admiral Bourne orders that the five battleships go to action stations just in case and the helmsman to lay in a cause back to the Alpha quadrant just in case it is needed.

Rear Admiral Bourne orders a series of small one light year jumps to get closer to the battle and to find out whom the Dominion is fighting. Once the five battleships are within two light years of the battle the distinctive shape of the same type of vessel the HMSS Swiftsure encounter in the galaxy of Fell just over twelve years ago.

This time this unknown ship is not on its own there are several different types of warships that appear to be fighting the Dominion fleet. The Iconian onboard HMSS Audacious bridge informs Rear Admiral Bourne that the other ship designs are familiar to them, they are from the Federation from the Bidar Galaxy, the Federation is a galaxy based ruthless, fascist, totalitarian state that is very hostile to outsiders and has a policy of “shoot first and don’t ask questions”.

Rear Admiral Bourne says to the Iconian that the Iconian’s have stated that the Federation does not posses an intergalactic drive system, the Iconian replies that they appear to have developed such a technology to expand their sphere if influence by conquering new galaxies, by building a new class of ship which is the unknown ship encountered by HMSS Swiftsure fitted with an intergalactic drive system. Rear Admiral Bourne says that they RSN must come to the aid of the Dominion, as it is both this beast interests that the Federation does not gain a foothold in the Milky Way galaxy.

Rear Admiral Bourne orders that all five battleships are to close with the Federation warships and engage them and assist the Dominion in defeating the Federation and to stop them from gaining a foothold in the Milky Way Galaxy.

The Vorta on the Dominion command ship is surprised to see the RSN warships and even more surprised when these warships engage the unknown warships that are engaging the Dominion fleet and surprised a third time when Rear Admiral Bourne informs the Vorta that these aliens are here to conquer the Milky Way galaxy and who they are.

The head Vorta on the Dominion command ship informs the founders of the change of events and the founder’s order that the Dominion forces are to jointly attack this Federation with the RSN warships and that additional Dominion warships are on their way to assist in the battle.

With that the five RSN battleships in battle formertion open fire on the nearest Federation battleship along with several Dominion battleships to focus their fire on one ship at a time, the Dominion forces also start to concentrate their fire.

The battle is joined.

To be continued……..

Next – Part 72 – Zeno's paradox

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Part 72 – Zeno's paradox

Day one, total warship numbers are as follows, Dominion 3,175 and RSN 5. The Federation has an estimated total of 4,900 warships of all types. The initial phases of the space battle with the advantage of the 5 RSN battleships and their Iconian technology are giving the Dominion/RSC a distinct advantage over the Federation warships.

Rear Admiral Bourne sends a message to RSN command asking for assistance against this invasion. RSN command says that additional warships are on their way along with the Broadsword space station/battle station to allow the transit of warships from one side of the galaxy to the other.

Day two, the arrival of the Broadsword space station/battle station and its own protection group. This causes the Federation to launch a series of attacks to try and breakthrough and destroy Broadsword this attack proves to be unsuccessful.

Day three, sees the battle between the Dominon/RSC and the Federation die down as both sides lick their wounds. This allows the first wave of RSN warships to begin arriving, along with some Klingon and Maquis, bring the total number of RSN warships to 328 (including the five Imperial (H) Class Battleships).

Back in the Alpha quadrant the RSC is informing the Alliance Security Council of their battle against the Federation alongside the Dominion and their Klingon and Maquis allies (also on their way are warships from the Ocampa).

The Dominion start receiving a large number of reinforcements and by the end of day three the Dominion has a total number 4,755 warships of various types along with the RSN/Klingon/Maquis/Ocampa warships, bring a total number of warships to over 6,000 with more warships on their way.

During the initial three days of fighting the Iconian’s have kept quiet and have not offered and assistance against the Federation and no one within the RSC has asked them why they will not engage the Federation directly in battle. The Iconian’s are will to supply intelligence and repair any RSN Imperial (H) Class Battleships that are damaged, but no more than that.

Day four, sees the Alliance commit its forces to the battle against the Federation. The Alliance member worlds via the RSN gateway stations will transport warships to help battle against the Federation.

The Federation has also been receiving additional warships from their home galaxy bring their forces up to a total of 8,000 warships and the Federation also has more warships on the way.

This brings the total Alliance/Dominion to a total of 14, 000 warships the number of warships will continue to grow rapidly due to the RSC gateways space stations, allowing the rapid transit of warships from all over the Alliance. The use of the RSC gateways space stations is seen as crucial to the Alliances ability to bring in reinforcements from all over Alliance space. The RSC gateways space stations ability move from one sector to another shipping Alliance warships instantly to the battle area, using the reversed engineered Iconian gateway technology.

Day five, the additional reinforcements from the Alliance arrive, with large numbers of warships from various Alliance members.

There are ongoing skirmishes between the Federation and Dominion/Alliance warships, but this is on a much smaller scale than a few days ago.

Day five to day ten, during these five days sees an intensification of the fighting between both sides as they try to out fight each other, but neither side has sufficient firepower to defeat the other. This leads to several weeks of intense fighting over several light years of space and develops in to one of the largest space battles ever.

Week eleven, after ten weeks of solid fighting both sides have fought each other to a standstill, at this point RSN command decides to commit all twenty-five of its Imperial (H) Class Battleships in to the fight as a single combat unit under the command of Rear Admiral Bourne.

Rear Admiral Bourne uses an unusual tactic of micro jumps with the Iconian drive system, this involves moving all twenty five Battleships as one over a very short distance just after the Federation warships have fired, this causes the incoming weapons to self destruct as they have no target to lock onto. So when the battleships reappear there is not oncoming weapons fire and this allows the twenty-five battleships to fire as one unit and the resulting destruction of several hundred Federation warship is nothing less than staggering and shows what level of destructive power the twenty-five RSN battleships have when combined.

This action blows a hole in the Federation front line allowing the twenty-five battleships to continue on forward with a large portion of the Alliance/Dominion fleets following. Though the twenty-five RSN battleships can do micro jumps the rest of the joint Alliance/Dominion fleets and these ships take heavy casualties. Even the trick that Section 31 used against the Borg does not work as Section 31 is only using the prototype spy ship to help destroy Federation warships, as all other Section 31 ships are either on missions or their crews are being trained on these new spy ships and are unavailable.

After several more days of bloody fighting the Alliance/Dominion fleets begin to withdraw back to their start points as they to not have the firepower or protection of the twenty-five RSN battleships.

Week fifteen, when a series of attacks by both sides fails, the combat ceases for the next few weeks as both sides try to figure out what to do next.

RSC has finally found out why the Iconian’s will not attack the Federation, this is because the Federation does not pose a threat to the Iconian’s or their allies, the Iconian’s will only step in if their technology onboard one of the twenty-five RSN battleships (and crews) is threatened and then only to rescue the technology and not help the Alliance/Dominion in is battle against the Federation.

Week twenty-seven, the war between the Alliance/Dominion has ground to a halt by itself as both sides cannot gain strategic advantage over the other. Over an area of thirty-five light years their a large debris field of the remains of Alliance/Dominion warships and Federation warships, this debris field becomes the nominal “front line” between the two sides even though there is no “real” “front line” in this war one have developed.

Week thirty, the new “front line” is stable and the combined Alliance/Dominion fleet is holding this new “front line” and the Federation seems to be keeping to this new “front line”. Long range scans show that the Federation is brining in more ships from their home galaxy and also seems to be building in one of the systems within Federation “space” within the Milky Way galaxy a shipyard with warship repair and construction facility’s.

RSC and RSN military command have asked the Iconian’s if the Iconian’s will fit the same level of technology to another seventy-five Imperial Class Battleships, the Iconian’s say yes and this surprises the RSC leadership as the Iconian’s had indicated that they did not want to get involved in this war.

The Iconian’s say that they will not get involved directly but they will help the RSC indirectly by upgrading any number of RSN warships as they had promised to do all those years ago, this deal will not be broken by the Iconian’s.

These upgrades and the training of the crews will take eighteen months before the seventy-five Imperial Class Battleships are fully operational and something needs to be done soon.

Week thirty-nine, one of the twenty-five Imperial (H) Class Battleships, HMSS Iron Duke will travel to the edge of the Bidar Galaxy (though the Iconian’s won’t allow the RSN battleship to enter the galaxy) to do a recognisance of the departure system for Federation that are heading to the Milky Way galaxy.

The captain of HMSS Iron Duke, orders that the ship goes to action stations just in case a Federation finds out that there is an enemy warship scouting the edge of their galaxy may provoke an incident.

What HMSS Iron Duke finds is that the Federation is using a system on the edge of their galaxy and a combination of shipyard/jumping off point towards the Milky Way galaxy and from the long range sensor scans it seems as though the Federation only has one system that is being used as a shipyard/jumping for the invasion of the Milky Way galaxy.

On his own authority the captain of HMSS Iron Duke orders that the Iconian’s drone weapons be armed and the rapid fired at the Federation shipyard/jumping off point to cause as much damage as possible. The Federation shipyard/jumping off point are just over 100 light years away but this is well within the Iconian’s drone weapons range.

Several hundred of these weapons are fired at the Federation shipyard/jumping off point, with the Federation unaware that they are being watch, the Iconian’s drone’s cause the complete destruction of the Federation shipyard/jumping off point, thus cussing of any re-supply in the short term for the Federation forces in the Milky Way galaxy.

Once the level of destruction is confirmed the captain of HMSS Iron Duke orders his helmsman to set course back to the Milky Way galaxy and rejoin Rear Admiral Bourne’s task force and report of what Iron Duke has found and also report on the destruction of the Federation shipyard/jumping off point.

Rear Admiral Bourne praises the captain of HMSS Iron Duke on his swift thinking though several Alliance members think that it may provoke the Federation into an all out attack, this does not happen.

Week fifty-three, the Federation’s lack of activity over the past few weeks suddenly changes with a large number of Federation warships suddenly shifting position, the joint Alliance/Dominion fleet braces itself for an attack, but no attack happens.

Long range scans indicate that the Federation seems to be packing up and withdrawing from their foothold, it maybe that the attack by HMSS Iron Duke on the Federation’s shipyard/jumping off point has done more damage that previously estimated.

Whatever the reason the Federation is withdrawing from the Milky Way galaxy and within a month the Federation has completely withdrawn. Also within six weeks of the Federation’s withdrawal the Alliance has also withdrawn from what is now clamed by the Dominion as Dominion space.

Aftermath

With the withdrawal of the Alliance fleet from Dominion space and back to Alliance space everything returned to “normal”. Though the war with the Federation did produce one good benefit, the formerly opening of diplomatic relations between the Alliance and the Dominion and the signing shortly thereafter of a mutual defence pack against the Federation.

This treaty also allowed for the individual companies with the Alliance to start trading with the Dominion and Dominion member companies to trade with Alliance members.

This created golden age of trade the would last for well over 100 hundred years and see the Bajoran’s getting a huge leap in trade passing though the wormhole from the Alpha quadrant to the Gamma quadrant and both sides tapping into each others very lucrative markets.

The conversion of the additional seventy-five Imperial Class Battleships would continue, these 100 Imperial (H) Class Battleships would come under a newly formed 7th fleet under the command of Rear (later Vice) Admiral Bourne and would be used as a mobile trouble shooting fleet, the strong right arm of the RSC/RSN. With individual warships detached for various exploration and combat duties when necessary.

The 7th fleet would not have the usual support ships such as frigates, supply ships etc as the Imperial (H) Class Battleships did not need that level of support because of their ability to operate independently of the RSN support services for extended periods. This would lead many commentators to classify the 7th fleet as a strategic deterrent that could be used against any threat without being destroyed itself, making

In the long term the RSC would be converting more Imperial Class Battleships with Iconian technology, but not to the detriment of the current fleet strength.

The Federation’s reason for withdrawal was twofold, one the Federation’s military forces where unable to make any headway from their foothold in the Milky Way galaxy and it was consider a waist of resources to continue and second the Federation had found another galaxy that would be better suited for conquest, the Bright galaxy and a new foothold was being formed in this new galaxy, a long way away from the Milky Way galaxy.

Sphere

While the battle against the Federation was raging the Kaled’s have been using their technology to fix the Sphere’s sun, on completion of this work, Deep within the sphere a concealed transmitter begins transmitting on a frequency that is unknown to either the Kaled’s or the Iconian’s on a steady and repeating signal.

What happens next will surprise even the Iconian’s and their allies.

To be continued…..

Next – Part 73 – Redemption/Withdrawal/Upgrades

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Part 73 – Redemption/Withdrawal/Upgrades

Redemption

Unknown to the Kaled’s this signal would bring a very ancient race back to the Milky Way galaxy to find out why the Sphere that they had abandoned two million years ago had suddenly come back to life again.

Several months after the Kaled’s had fixed the Sphere’s sun and the radiation levels have dropped to a level that allowed RSC/RSN ships that have not been fitted with Iconian technological upgrades to enter the sphere and conduct sensor scans of the interior or the sphere.

The first appearance of the race that built is several hundred large spacecraft appearing out of nowhere. These spacecraft speared as giant spheres hundreds of kilometres across the Iconian’s initial attempts to communicate with these aliens did not go well as the Iconian’s could not get any sort of response from them.

Only after several hours of trying did the Iconian’s manage to get a response, only to be told to leave the sphere at once. The Iconian’s did what they where told as they where clearly out numbered and probably out gunned, the Iconian’s also informed the RSN survey ships to withdraw to a safe distance back to the gateway space station.

Once both the Iconian’s and RSC ship had withdrawn the alien ships started to began to dismantle the sphere in sections. After several more unsuccessful attempts to communicate with these aliens both the Iconian’s and RSC decided to watch and see what happens.

Over the next few months both the Iconian’s and their allies and RSC watch as this race dismantles the sphere section by section and as this happened small shards of sunlight began to appear through the now partially deconstructed sphere.

The months then becomes a year and half the sphere has then been deconstructed within another year the entire sphere has been deconstructed and shipped of to wherever the aliens have come from, followed shortly by the aliens themselves.

The only thing to remain is the sun.

Leave behind a very confused Iconian’s and their allies and RSC to wonder who are these aliens?

Withdrawal

In the Bright galaxy the arrival of the Federation had initially gone unnoticed by the small staff of RSC observers manning the galaxy gateway controls in the underground facilities, as their was always so much fighting going on a bit more initially went unnoticed for several years.

In 2611 the RSC observers manning the galaxy gateway controls had now noticed that one of the areas of the Bright galaxy has apparently been pacified by one of the other races (this is actually the Federation). The RSC observers make a report and requested an Imperial (H) Class Battleships to do a reconnaissance of that area of space to see if this unknown race would pose a threat to the Gateway planets security.

It would take several months for one of the Imperial (H) Class Battleships to become available to do the reconnaissance, the ship that was sent was Vice Admiral Bourne’s flagship HMSS Audacious, initially stopping of at the Gateway planet before making the jump to the edge of this races sphere of influence.

Once their HMSS Audacious would cloak and observe, and to Vice Admiral Bourne’s would find that the race responsible for this is the Federation. Vice Admiral Bourne orders HMSS Audacious back to the Gateway planet to give them the warning and then back to RSC headquarters to make a report.

The RSC has a decision to make, either to commit all 100 Imperial (H) Class Battleships to the battle in the Bright galaxy, or withdraw from the Bright galaxy and ask the Iconian’s to remove the galaxy-to-galaxy gateway technology from the planet code named gateway.

After several months of heated discussion the RSC come to the decision to withdraw from the Bright galaxy and to ask the Iconian’s to remove the galaxy-to-galaxy gateway technology from the planet code named gateway. On telling the Iconian’s about their decision to withdraw from the Bridget galaxy the Iconian’s are quite willing to remove the equipment from the planet code named gateway.

Within a few months the RSC has withdrawn from the Bright galaxy without leaving behind any trace that the where even in the Bright galaxy. The Alliance is quite stunned by this decision but fully supports the decision as the RSC points out even they do not have the resources to fight a war in another galaxy and as the Iconian’s and their allies are unwilling to help, under these conditions the best decision is to withdraw.

Upgrades


The Iconian removal of their equipment from the planet code named gateway does have one “benefit” for the RSC and the RSN especially in that the Iconian’s now have thirty-nine (plus the one removed for HMSS Warrior, for a total of forty) old power modules that the Iconian’s have no use for. So the Iconian’s decide to lone the power modules to the RSC for the RSN to use in their warships under the same conditions as the power module onboard HMSS Warrior.

The RSC and the RSN are quite pleased and the good fortune that the Iconian’s have decided to lone the RSC/RSN the remaining thirty-nine old style power modules, these power modules will be fitted to twenty-nine Imperial class battleships. The remaining ten will be fitted to the new Section 31 spy ships, giving these ships the ability to fire from phased cloak rather than having to switch to normal cloak and then fire.

The will give Section 31 a very unique and also a very deadly capability, but their will be ten Iconian’s onboard each Section 31 spy ship, this means revealing one of the RSC beast kept secrets but it was thought to be worth while, and the Iconian’s after being told stated that they would keep the RSC’s secret, because they have no reason to tell the other members of the Alliance or anyone else.

The RSC/RSN leadership has divided this technology amongst the RSN and RSC Intelligence and Section 31 in the following breakdown.

1. Imperial (N) Class Battleships, The (N) stands for “Normal”, these are not fitted with any Iconian technology. This category of the Imperial Class Battleships makes up the bulk of the Royal Space Navies capital warships. All of this class of battleships continues to receive the latest updates in technology.

2. Imperial (H) Class Battleships, The (H) stands for “Hybrid”, these are the one hundred battleships that have been upgraded with a combination of Iconian technology and RSC technology.

3. Imperial (P) Class Battleship, the (P) stands for “Power Module” this is for the thirty Royal Space Navy ships that have been fitted with a single Iconian power module, with the rest of the battleship being fitted with RSC technology.

4. Shadow II (P) class spy ship (Section 31), the (P) stands for “Power Module” this is for the ten Section 31 ships that have been fitted with a single Iconian power module, with the rest of the spy ship being fitted with RSC technology.

5. Shadow II (N) class spy ship (Section 31), the (N) stands for “Normal” these are not fitted with any Iconian technology. This category of the Shadow II (N) class spy ship makes up the bulk of Section 31 spy ships that are fitted with the phasing cloak technology.

6. Shadow II (N) class spy ship (RSC Intelligence), the (N) stands for “Normal” these are not fitted with any Iconian technology. This category of the Shadow II (N) class spy ship makes up the bulk of RSC Intelligence spy ships that are fitted with a normal cloaking device. These RSC Intelligence spy ships form the backbone of the RSC Intelligences, intelligence-gathering capability.

All of these warships appear almost identical to one another except for the warp nacelles for the “Normal” and “Power Module” the “Hybrid” does not have any warp nacelles.

This list does not include any other classes of RSN warships. The total size of the RSN as of 2610 is 28,377 warships of all classes this includes Frigates, Explorer class cruisers and Scout ships etc. The size of the RSN has grown, but has also concentrated on replacing older warships with improved and updated versions.

The RSN does not have the largest navy within the Alliance but it does have the most powerful warships of any Alliance member or even non-alliance member, in terms of raw firepower and technological capability.

Over the next 100 years new inventions will come to all the members of the Alliance, these include transwarp drive. The invention of the transwarp drive by the UFC will revolutionise travel within Alliance space and reduces the need to use the RSC/RSN gateway space stations but does not eliminate their use completely.

The RSC leaves the exploration of the remainder of the Milky Way galaxy to the Alliance and starts exploring others galaxies and making contact with other civilisations and even forming some loose alliances of their own with these new races beyond the Milky Way galaxy. The will be the start of the RSC attempt to form a Universal Alliance with the RSC (along with the Iconian’s, Penn Union, Kaleds and the Ell to a very limited extent) will forge ahead with the Universal Alliance (UA) without involving the Milky Way Alliance in this new alliance (with the exception of the Klingons, Ocampa, Hirogen and the Maquis from their own alliance).

The RSC feels the Alliance has become too big and too unwieldy and that there should be a much looser Alliance with not so many new rules and regulations coming in. The RSC that the Alliance has had its day, though the RSC still plays its part as one of the founding members of the Alliance, the RSC has not adopted any of the new rules and regulations that have been coming into place.

The future of the RSC is seen by the RSC leadership is outside of the Milky Way galaxy and to “to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life forms and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before”.

The End, for now, I may resume this story at a later date.