Prelude: The Gathering

Stardate 8235.

Starship Proxima arrives at Deep Space Station Lambda-2 to take on final crew in preparation for its official launch.The crew begins to meet, form relationships and shakedown their venerable refit. In the Rimward frontier of Federation space, trouble is brewing. The shadow of the Genesis Project looms large in the adjacent sectors, and the fallout of its cost is only beginning to be felt across allied- and non-aligned- worlds.