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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
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