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History of USS Phoenix NX-170100 - Phase 3

115340.32 - Temporary Assignment

The Phoenix is in drydock at Spacedock after the long trek home, several of her systems damaged beyond repair. The crew gets a months leave, but repairs are still undergoing. Another development, this time close to home, has stirred up, and some key Phoenix personnel are re-assigned to border patrol aboard USS Achilles, a Vigilant-class Tactical Escort, attached to Lya Station Alpha, near the Cardassian/Federation border.

115349.7 - Border Patrol

The Achilles is ordered to patrol a section of the Cardassian-Federation border. Starfleet Command has learned of some illegal shipments that may be arriving from Cardassian space. Details are sparce, and the crew is ordered not to arrest anyone, but instead get as much detail as possible about what is being transported, from whom, and to where.

115404.9 - Freighter Inspections

The Achilles crew has stopped several freighters as they cross into Federation space, under the guise of health and safety inspections. The latest freighter, CUV Hekam, the Captain is acting very suspicious, and the inspection team find what could be what they are looking for. One of CUV Hekam's crew, a Starfleet Intelligence agent, quietly informs the inspection crew that what they are looking for are parts to create a thalaron generator.

115418.5 - Bigger Problems

The Achilles crew follow CUV Hekam to its destination, Vulcan, however further investigation is temporarily thwarted when Starfleet Branch Admiral Thomas Jane intercepts them. The Admiral's motives are never made clear, and the Achilles crew are further warned off by Command from investigating his involvement. But something much larger is afoot here, with Admirals working to protect Cardassian agents who are bringing a deadly weapon to Vulcan.

115445.5 - The Hunt Resumes

Contact with the undercover Starfleet agent is once again made. He has lost the two Cardassian agents, and believes them to be in the Vulcan's Forge, a most uninhabitable region on Vulcan. Information is relayed that a Vulcan scientist, possibly named T'lyr, is the local contact, and is also the individual who designed the weapon. Branch Admiral Jane's involvement is also confirmed, but to what level is still unknown.

115502.1 - Success?

An Achilles away team skillfully locate the Cardassians in the Forge. Following a horrific, yet successful firefight, the Cardassians lay buried under a cave-in. The away team successfuly recover the thalaron generator parts, and decide to destroy them, lest they fall into the wrong hands. T'lyr however is never located, nor her true identity or involvement ever fully revealed. Their part in the mission considered a success, the Achilles returns to patrol.

115513.3 - Patrol

Following a short stint of shore leave on Lya Station Alpha, the Achilles resumes patrol duty. Only a couple of events of interest during the next couple of patrols. A Federation shuttle falls victim to an ion storm and gets thrown off course into the Romulan Neutral Zone. After a rescue and a few repairs the shuttle is on its way again. Then a Federation freighter attempts to traverse the Briar Patch while following a "treasure" map, supposedly leading to a fountain of youth. The freighter runs afoul of the Briar Patch, where some of its crew call for help. Ultimately, the treasure hunters are arrested.

115530.4 - A New Executive Officer

Repairs to the Phoenix are still underway, in the meantime, some of the Achilles crew learn of a new Executive Officer being appointed to the Phoenix. A week later those assigned to the Achilles are recalled to the Phoenix to perform the shakedown. Shakedown is fairly typical, except for the new Corvette to replace the Callisto, USS Himalia. Issue after issue affects the new auxiliary craft, some of which, like the malfunctioning warp drive, could have been lethal for the shakedown crew.

115705.7 - Cardassian Scientist

The Phoenix is ordered to Volan III in the Cardassian Union, the source of the freighter, CUV Hekam, that transported the thalaron device to Vulcan. The Cardassian Government is eager to prove they were not involved in the creation of the device, and give the Phoenix crew carte blanche to investigate. During their investigation the Phoenix crew discover a Cardassian scientist's lab with equipment and diagrams for building the device. The origin of these diagrams lead the crew back to Vulcan.

115756.1 - Branch Admiral Jane

Borrowing USS Zambezi from Lya Station Alpha, a Phoenix away team set out for Vulcan. Branch Admiral Jane's involvement in the creation of the Thalaron devise is still not provable, but he is contantly inteferring with the investigation. The crew head back to Vulcan to find further evidence. They locate a secret cult using the catacombs below the Academy of Science, but still not enough evidence to convict Jane. Laying a trap for the Admiral, the crew pretend to go along with his plan, even so far as to offer to blow up a Klingon bird-of-prey. With Starfleet Command listening in, the crew get Jane to reveal his true intentions, admitting his guilt, case closed. Except T'lyr, the Vulcan believe to have created the diagrams got away, beamed off by a Romulan transporter signal.

115868.7 - Ketrecel-White

The Phoenix crew is ordered to investigate a theft from the storage depot in the Alshain system. They learn four cases of an old supply of ketrecel-white, leftover from the Dominion war some 70 years before, have been stolen. Initial clues suggest the White might be enroute to the Gamma Quadrant, but their true destination is much closer. On the non-Federation world Stameris III, some of the local population discovered a crashed Dominion ship during the war, aboard it a large supply of the White. Shy of food, these ancestors of a current tribe on Stameris, began consuming the White. Generations later the supply ran out, the inhabitants started going through painful withdrawals, ultimately stealing more from the Alshain depot. Starfleet Medical has been asked to intervene, but what the fate of the Stameris III people will be is yet unknown.

116001.91 - Romulans in Trouble

The Phoenix is contacted by an old friend, Riov Hwiamma, with a request to meet and discuss something of utmost importance with the Federation. RADM Somyk, the Chief of Starfleet Security, joined the Phoenix and her crew to meet with Hwiamma. During that meeting, the Romulan delegation requested assistance against the Klingons. For a few years now, the Klingon forces have been slowly wittling away at Romulan controlled worlds and resources, and things were not going well for the Romulans.

Unbeknownst to the Phoenix crew, LCDR Svetzvani, a former Phoenix crewmate, was just named the Arbitor of Succession by Chancellor K'maq. Only the second time in history a non-Klingon, and a Terran, was appointed to the position.

116318.7 - The Chancellor is Dead

K'maq, Chancellor of the Klingon High Council, is pronounced dead in a formal announcement by the Klingons. As Arbitor of Succession, LCDR Svetzvani is summoned to Qo'nos to oversee the formalities of her recently appointed role. The Phoenix is sent in as her escort. During the formal ceremony on Qo'nos, where the two challengers, Qorn of the house of Duras son of Toral and Morqath of the house of Noggra son of Rodek made their claims, an explosion occurred, one death was reported. Never made public, the Phoenix crew determined the explosive device was designed to look Romulan, but was ultimately of Federation manufacture.

116570.3 - New Chancellor

Morqath of the house of Noggra son of Rodek was named Chancellor of the Klingon High Council and leader of the Klingon Empire. Almost immediately, the Klingons cut ties with the Zakdorn, and their aggressions towards the Romulan Empire come to an end. As is typical following a leadership change in the Klingon Empire, their borders tighten, and relations with others, such as the Federation, nearly cease to exist.

116556.2 - Quantum Entanglement

During a flight test of USS Himalia, the replacement corvette for the Phoenix, the Himalia experiences an odd quantum entanglement event. For a time, the Himalia's sensors indicated the vessel was in two places at once. The Phoenix reported the Himalia drifting in and out of sensor contact, while those aboard the Himalia reported the ship moving in an instant to a location deep in the Delta Quadrant.

116615.6 - Bajoran Colonies

The Phoenix receives orders to investigate the disappearance of the navigation buoys that allows traffic to safely traverse the Badlands to the systems beyond. The crew soon learn of a plot to disrupt relations between the Federation and Bajor and its colony worlds. A rogue Starfleet ship, one that can change its registry on a whim, is disrupting the space lanes in the region, and has destroyed Bajoran vessels, killing all aboard. IKS K'rel is dispatched to the region to work undercover, in an attempt to uncover what is really going on.

117220.0 - A Rogue Element

IKS K'rel, under the command of LT Coil, follows several leads, uncovering more and more of the plot against the Bajorans. Finally, they are about to receive some crucial information, but must deliver a package first. That mission does not go according to plan however, and all hands are nearly lost when the K'rel's computer systems are taken over by a third-party. Through skill and some luck, the K'rel crew are able to regain control of the ship, and in so doing get the information they were looking for. The rogue ship is not so rogue, but operating under orders from someone at Starfleet Command. Other evidence also indicates a Nativist movement growing in Starfleet. Eventually the rogue ship is caught, but the crew are gone, and all evidence of who was giving them orders was wiped.

117425.1 - Invisible Spies

Continuing to attempt to salvage relations between Bajor and the Federation, the Phoenix is ordered to New Bajor in the Gamma Qaudrant. All seems well on New Bajor, until the crew discovers they are being watched, closely, by beings that have the ability to cloak themselves. The crew learn that some of the inhabitants of Stameris III, those addicted to the White, have been recruited, mostly against their will, to act as operatives. Their ability to shroud themselves, a perfect asset for infiltration. The Phoenix crew also learn all of those from Stameris III who were addicted to the White have been taken, their fate still unknown.

117606.6 - Trouble at the Core

With the rogue vessel captured, and other additional evidence gathered, the Phoenix and her crew are able to narrow down a possible suspect at the head of the incidents. This information is passed onto Command, and in due time, BADM Cole Hauser, Chief of the Stafleet Corps of Engineers, resigns. For the moment at least, relations between Bajor and the Federation have solidified again, but remnants of the nativist movement remain.

The crew of the Phoenix are temporarily reassigned to USS Alita, a prototype carrier, to shake her down and determine if this new design is a viable one.