The Story so Far
Posted on Sat Apr 26th, 2025 @ 6:23pm by The Commander
Edited on on Mon Jul 28th, 2025 @ 1:56pm
2,438 words; about a 12 minute read
Mission:
Histories
Location: DS13
MISSION SUMMARIES
0 – Awakening
Starfleet takes command of DS13, which is almost destroyed by an entity that emerges from an undiscovered anomaly. The interference of an interdimensional watchman gives the crew a chance to learn the secret to defeating it. In the wake of the victory over the entity, a scientist from another universe is freed from a device left behind by the watchman.
1 – DownTime
A survey of the Dreizhen system reveals a crashed constitution-class ship from the 23rd century, containing a murderous cyborg mutant known as a Dalek. The mysterious ship’s near-death Commander reveals himself as a time traveller from another universe and helps the crew to overcome the Dalek.
2 – Masters of the Stars
The Admiral overseeing the sector arrives at DS13, alongside the Klingon Ambassador, and a population of Klingon civilians. The crew opens another device they believe to contain a being from another universe. It reveals Ramielos Volsunga, a fanatical genetically engineered supersoldier from a distant future who rages against attempts to contain him.
3 – The Serpent’s Tooth
While the Excalibur surveys a newfound system on the other side of the anomaly, ships fleeing an attacker cross the universal threshold into the Dreizhen system seeking asylum. The feudal guests seem friendly and genuine, until one of their symbiotic masters attempts to take over the station.
MISSION BREAKDOWNS
0 – Awakening
Starfleet takes control of DS13 as the USS Qaraqorum arrives. Rovak, Flynn and Atna arrive with the first influxes of staff.
A pirate raid on a deuterium transport results in the emergence of a black hole in the orbital path of Dreizhen IV. The singularity captures the station’s Oberth-class garrison ship USS Faraday in its gravity.
After the Faraday detonates its own severed secondary hull to escape, the singularity is revealed to contain some kind of entity dwarfing the station. The entity latches onto and consumes the station, despite the crew’s valiant efforts. A luminous being known as ‘the watchman’ sends Rovak, Atna and Alex back to the moment the Faraday freed itself.
With the watchman’s advice the crew discover an unknown station function known only to the Romulan Ambassador’s 14-year old daughter. The ‘rainbow bridge’ function allows them to banish the singularity, but an anomaly remains, described by the watchman as a window between universes.
The crew are introduced to Dr Intharia T’Zor, an interdimensional guest who emerges from some kind of puck-sized anachronistic storage device left behind by the watchman.
1 – DownTime
The USS Qaraqorum’s staff finish their engineering work and depart on a journey into the Delta Quadrant, leaving Lieutenant Rune Thul behind as Chief of Security for DS13. He accompanies the survey team sent in several runabouts to inspect Dreizhen V and it’s many moons.
Psychically sensitive away team members detect an extrasensory distress call from the 25th moon of Dreizhen V, and the mission changes from survey to rescue. Under the ice of the frozen moon’s surface, the team find a Constitution-class ship on the bottom of the sea, the USS Excalibur.
Two of the runabouts dock with the Excalibur, one at the rear of the saucer and the other in the docking bay. The ship uses high-powered nadion shielding that is somehow still active and holding back the water. The team entering the saucer find nothing unusual, but in the shuttlebay a strange bronze object is found, about as tall as a person and with unusual appendages.
As the team venture further into the Excalibur, they find themselves lost within apparently infinte hallways, until each finds themselves falling through the endless halls and awakening in events they recognise from their past. Once each of them experiences the strange relived recollections, they are gathered in the Excalibur’s sickbay, where they find it’s commander in stasis.
Reviving the Commander, he tells the team that he is a time traveller from a world known as Gallifrey, destroyed in a war with creatures known as Daleks, the last of which he has the remains of in his shuttlebay. He asks the team for their help in disposing of it, but after an accidental sneeze gives the Dalek biomatter to assimilate and regenerate itself, the strange bronze object comes to life and attacks the crew, disabling Lieutenant Alph.
The crew try to stop the Dalek but their weapons prove largely useless. Soon the Dalek escapes by blasting a hole through the shuttlebay, and to their horror they see it return to DS13 and begin a massacre there. Soon the entire station is destroyed.
Commander Flynn demands answers from the Excalibur’s Commander, who begins to die as he is taken from stasis once more. He manages to somehow encode his physical body and mind into his ship’s systems, and survives as an algorithm, even as his body dissipates. He promises the Starfleet crew he will make things right.
The Excalibur, revealed by the Commander to be his timeship in disguise, returns ten minutes into the past and intercepts the Dalek en route to DS13. They battle the Dalek and destroy it, in its wounded state it appears to self-destruct.
As a Vulcan ship arrives to DS13 with new crew including SubCommander Saa the Chief Engineer, the inspection of the Excalibur begins. Its Commander tells Rovak that he is an admirer of Starfleet’s mission, and he offers the use of his ship in the fixed form of the Excalibur, but only wielding technologies that are already within Starfleet’s capability.
2 – Masters of the Stars
The USS Challenger arrives at DS13, dropping off new crew and bearing Admiral Gali, Starfleet’s Sector Commander for the newly established region. Gali promotes Rovak, Flynn and Atna, distributes awards, then reviews the crew and their mission reports. Chief Gaz comes aboard to take over Ops, Lieutenant S’Lace is also assigned from the Challenger to be DS13’s new Chief Medical Officer.
The Klingon delegation also arrives suddenly in the middle of the night. Romulan Ambassador Creon joins a handful of the senior staff in welcoming the Dowager General Kloh’theQ, Imperial Ambassador.
The next day, Lieutenant Atna and Doctor T’Zor report that one of the storage devices like the one T’Zor emerged from is approaching a breach of its containment, they request permission to accelerate the process and open it. They receive permission to open it in a hazardous materials lab.
The device reveals a massive genetically engineered supersoldier named Ramielos Volsunga, who smashes through the containment systems designed to hold him, wounding a number of crew including the Captain and Subcommander Saa.
Security officers are soon able to disable Volsunga’s power armour with their phasers, and he is beamed out of his power armour and stored in a forcefield in the lower dock, which he makes numerous escape attempts from, leading him to pass out in the vacuum of the dock each time.
A celebration is had at the opening of ‘The Spot’, owned by Lieutenant Thul’s husband Vestar.
3 - The Serpent's Tooth
A biomechanical being known as a Toa appears in the last few minutes of the connection to the universe designated D-4. Named Mana'i, she turns out to be well suited to the Starfleet experience, and begins shadowing science staff. In the universe designated E-5, there are objects in range of the station for the first time, an entire solar system awaits to be explored.
Though the only planet in the system with an atmosphere is at too volatile a developmental stage to be visited, the crew discover a strange mineral within it, and beam sizable samples aboard. After a week of exploration and mineral extraction, the Excalibur prepares to head back. A quintet of pyramid-shaped starships arrive in the system and move directly for the anomaly.
Two of the five are destroyed, but not before they take out the vessel attacking them. The Pharoah Akhenaten makes contact on behalf of his people, Goa'uld and Jaffa who share a faith known as Atenism. He requests sanctuary, which the crew dispatch teams to the three surviving ships to assess. Shortly before the anomaly's change to universe F-6, the decision is made to grant asylum to the Atenists, who claim that they are targeted for death for having produced Harcesis offspring, children born of two Goa'uld inhabited hosts.
Two days into their stay docked at DS13, the Goa'uld Hera and her forces interrupt a treaty-signing ceremony by summoning weapons with strange technology and taking hostages.
While many of DS13's crew are incapacitated by the surprise attack, and the Excalibur docks at Hera's orders after they threaten the hostages. Those in the great hall are soon left alone, but they learn that the Goa'uld have managed to take control of the station's computer systems. Hera sends her Lieutenants to attempt to implant the Space Marine Volsunga with a symbiote, but he resists their efforts and kills the Goa'uld Hekate and several of Hera's Jaffa.
With the help of several of the Jaffa, and the Klingon Ambassador, the crew are able to get the injured to sickbay and restore one of the inactive docks that has not been infected by the Goa'uld algorithm. As the crew slowly take back areas of the station, Hera sends her Jaffa aboard the Excalibur, believing they will use it to escape. She does not realise that they are trapped by the Excalibur's Commander using his timeship's defences, until her son Heracles rejects her, choosing instead to stay with his beloved fellow Harcesis, Atonu. Hera soon realises they have lost contact with the Jaffa aboard the Excalibur, and makes her escape in a previously hidden cloaked ship.
The station's defences are restored sufficiently to disable Hera's vessel before it can leave the system. Shortly after control of the station is retaken, a strange energy reading is detected within one of the inactive Goa'uld ships. A sequence of strange blocks emerge from within it, forming a large ring in which a massive artifical wormhole forms. Through the ring comes a ship of the Tau'ri Alliance, the beings who had pursued the Atenist ships when they first passed through the anomaly.
The Tau'ri offer their assistance and friendship, helping DS13's crew to keep the insurgents contained, and claim to have evidence of warcrimes committed by the Atenists. Captain Rovak agrees to hold a trial to determine if extradition is justified, and over several days the trial proceeds, with a telepathic jury assigned to determine if the witnesses are lying, in lieu of evidence beyond what the Tau'ri can provide.
Despite the evidence of Goa'uld brutality and grave danger posed by the Harcesis, the Captain determines that there is no hard evidence of wrongdoing by the Atenist leaders, the Federation has no right to judge the cultural norms that Goa'uld and Jaffa in their home universe. When the injured Lieutenant Eris sh'Rhavar dies of injuries sustained during Hera's attack however, Rovak changes his verdict, and orders Hera's immediate extradition. He also orders that the Goa'uld hosts all be examined using Tau'ri technology to determine if they consent to their role, and if not they are to be sent home if they so wish.
When Typhon hears of this, he activates a secret transporter and attempts to flee through the anomaly, but his escape shuttle is destroyed by the Tau'ri ship. The Tau'ri soon depart, leaving behind the Asgard Tyr, and the Goa'uld Polyphron who was responsible for taking over DS13's computers, though she agrees to remain behind without a host in the hopes of demonstrating contrition. The Tau'ri also decide to leave behind three 'Stargates', ringed devices through which the components of the 'Supergate' they arrived through emerged.
Though interuniversal travel after the impending trip home for the Tau'ri seems near-impossible without incomprehensibly massive amounts of power, the advisors left behind offer to assist the crew in understanding the devices where needed, leaving them to discover them on their own, but offering to step in if any danger emerges.
With Hera's forces following Hercules, who declares his loyalty to Akhenaten, the Atenists are reduced down to two factions, Akhenaten's and Chimaera's. Each is offered settlement on Dreizhen III, choosing the rugged world over the comfort of Dreizhen IV. A small city of residences with a massive pyramid is built for each of the two factions, forming colonies known as New Ischia and Akhet-Aten (The City of the Horizon).
Aboard DS13, Commander Atna is unexpectedly attacked by a rogue symbiote that had remained hidden. Though it has been rejected from her body, seems to have been rendered braindead by her Vulcan immune system and she appears restored, in private she seems to remain under its influence.
POST GUIDE
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