IN THE 23RD CENTURY.....
Klingon raiders, Orion pirates and Gorn hunters have been problems along the Neutral Zone and the Federation's Rim for decades, but a fragile political balance has held fast since the 2260's. The Federation maintains peace and authority on its side of the Neutral Zone with a chain of deep space stations.
Deep Space Station Lambda-2 is one such outpost. It lies precariously close to Klingon space between Donatu and Arcanis Sectors. The Starship Proxima is part of Starfleet's first line of defense there. Recently refitted, the Proxima boasts the most advanced layout of the venerable Constitution-class starships to date.
Genesis
Project Genesis and its fallout has dramatically altered- by some reckoning, destroyed- any semblance of the status quo. The Klingons are sure its a weapon. Various criminal syndicates want to steal the technology. Some Federation worlds are uncomfortable with the idea.
Klingon raiders- often from Houses D'Ghor, Kor and Duras- have begun brazenly violating the Neutral Zone to harass shipping and test Federation mettle. There is even concern that Romulan agents could be attempting to pit the Klingons and Federation against one another. The Hegemony remains enigmatic to their neighbors and care little about this "world-making," but sense an opportunity to restock the larders of their hunting ships and hatchery worlds.
Latest Mission Posts
» Stick Out Your Thumb
Mission: Prelude: The Gathering
Posted on Wed Aug 27th, 2025 @ 7:06pm by Doctor Kim Standish & Lieutenant Commander Kirak & Ensign Eugene Fredricks
[Shuttlecraft Hermes]
[MD 1 0945 Hours]
"Are you serious?"
The exhalation of deep frustration emanated from the pilot's seat where Ensign Fredricks sat, hands on his thighs, staring at the navigational panel. In front of him were the usual readouts, helm controls, communications array, engine reports. But a few of them were lit up red and were blinking as if the demanding red color was simply insufficient to capture any true flyboy's attention.
"This was supposed to be a milk run," he muttered darkly before punching at a control he'd already tried to engage four times without success. Annoyed he…
» Space Lab Regula One
Mission: Regula Gambit
Posted on Thu Aug 14th, 2025 @ 6:25pm by Captain Mac Sullivan & Lieutenant Commander Jethro "Jet" Romanowski & Lieutenant Commander Kirak & Lieutenant Eve West & Lieutenant Hlath & Doctor Kim Standish & Ensign Kaaven Saenar
[USS Proxima]
[Main Bridge]
[0635 Hours]
The watch should have belonged to Delta shift, but Captain Mac Sullivan had made the call to have his senior staff at their stations as they approached Space Lab Regula One. The bridge hummed with the controlled tension that came before the unknown—every console manned by experienced hands, every officer alert despite the early hour.
Ensign Kaaven Saenar sat at the Communications console. The soft glow of the displays lit the contours of his face, accentuating the pronounced Haliian cranial ridges that nearly touched at the center of his furrowed brow. The ridges deepened…
» Early Morning Comms Run
Mission: Prelude: The Gathering
Posted on Thu Aug 14th, 2025 @ 3:53pm by Lieutenant Lioren Daeval & Ensign Kaaven Saenar
[USS Proxima]
[Main Bridge]
The comms station aboard the Proxima wasn’t especially glamorous. Consoles hummed softly under pale blue lighting, their status monitors flickering in rhythm as subspace traffic cycled by in endless streams.
Ensign Kaaven Saenar already felt at home there. He hummed as he worked. It was something gentle and wordless, almost like a lullaby. His fingers skimmed delicately over a screen while a long diagnostic scrolled beside him.
Lieutenant Lioren Daeval lingered at the threshold to the bridge, momentarily unnoticed.his arms folded coolly across his chest.
He watched the young Haliian in stillness: the subtle sway of…
» Shockwaves
Mission: Regula Gambit
Posted on Sun Jul 13th, 2025 @ 12:51am by Rear-Admiral Rutherford Collins & Captain Mac Sullivan & Lieutenant Commander Jethro "Jet" Romanowski & Lieutenant Commander Kirak & Lieutenant Eve West & Lieutenant Lioren Daeval & Lieutenant JG H'mes & Doctor Kim Standish
[USS Proxima]
[Main Bridge]
[Stardate 8293.5 - 1147 Hours]
Captain Marcus Sullivan stood behind the center command chair, his dark brown eyes scanning the information as it scrolled across the viewscreen, which was usually a field of stars but now displayed the latest reports from the Federation News Network. The headlines made for grim reading: "GENESIS PLANET DESTROYED IN PROTOMATTER CASCADE" and "SUBSPACE SHOCKWAVES DETECTED THROUGHOUT MUTARA SECTOR."
Thirty minutes ago, the Science Officer had detected enormous energy readings in the vicinity of the Genesis Planet, and now it seemed that what had started as Dr. Marcus's attempt to create…
» Arrival at Lambda-2
Mission: Prelude: The Gathering
Posted on Mon Jun 30th, 2025 @ 8:23pm by Rear-Admiral Rutherford Collins & Captain Mac Sullivan
[USS Saratoga]
[Captain's Guest Quarters]
Captain Mac Sullivan had felt the subtle shift in the deck plating beneath his feet even before the intercom crackled to life. After twenty years around starships, his body had developed an almost supernatural awareness for the transition from warp to impulse - that moment when the steady thrum of warp coils gave way to the gentler pulse of impulse engines.
He moved to the viewport in his temporary quarters aboard the USS Saratoga, watching the stars snap back into their familiar pinpoints of light. The sensation always reminded him of those early flight lessons…
Latest Personal Logs
» Stardate 8233.4
Posted on Sun Jun 22nd, 2025 @ 6:00pm by Lieutenant Commander Kirak
Commander's Log... Stardate 8233.4.
Shuttlecraft Toliman is en route to Deep Space Station Lambda-2 near the Klingon planet Krios Prime. I have left Federation space and am traveling along non-aligned shipping lanes- the Ardana-Valt Trade Corridor. Ardanan authorities sent Starfleet a code yellow notice of Klingon raiding activities in the area over the last month. I am monitoring an Orion hauling craft on a parallel course bearing 251 mark 011.
I have been reassigned from the U.S.S. Ibn Battuta to the U.S.S. Proxima as First Officer and Chief Navigator. My databanks confirms The Proxima is one of the remaining Constitution-class…