• A BRIEF HISTORY • GENERAL MISSION ORDERS
Late in 2383, The USS Swiftsure was on her first assignment for Starbase
123 when a space anomaly related to the semi-collapse
of the Ventresca wormhole tossed ship and crew in the outer Perseus arm
of the galaxy. Stranded 50 000 light years from home, we came to share
the fate of Carrier Group One, led by the USS
Poseidon: although crew transfers are possible through
the Translift, the ships cannot go home.
By the end of 2383, the Outer Perseus Operation was voted by the UFP Council and implemented by Starfleet. Starbase Dalan would provide logistics support from the Alpha Quadrant side of the wormhole.
Towards the end of 2384, the potent menace represented by the Xins was supplanted by a new one as the Kells took over part of the Xin forces and became a threat to the whole of Outer Perseus. Inspired by the example of the Federation, several major players in the OPA convened at a diplomatic meeting on Terra in order to form an alliance and defend against the Kells.
The initial members of the fledgling Alliance of Planets are the K'tans, the Delusian Empire, the Xins, the Heropu and United Terra, the latter hosting the Alliance's headquarters.
The Alliance of Planets has bestowed on the Federation a one hundred year lease on a sector encompassing a total 8 cubic light years of space, with the Ventresca wormhole at its center. The initial Beta Translift station has been dismantled to be replaced by the Starbase Perseus.
• General Mission Orders
The USS Swiftsure NCC 26543, Ambassador Class starship is to chart the Outer Perseus Arm (OPA), establish diplomatic contact with spacefaring civilizations and gather intelligence on potential threats.
Additionally, the USS Swiftsure will be required to defend Federation installations and citizens in the OPA as well as to act in support of Carrier Group One as and when needed.
• FEDERATION SIDE • Starbase Dalan
ALL personnel transferring to the OPA is required to transit through SB Dalan.
Starbase location and command
• Dalan Expanse, Alpha Quadrant
• Sector Commander & SB CO: Admiral Maximilian Kelly
Starbase mission orders
1.Provide continuous monitoring of the wormhole
2.Provide support for the Translift station
3.Provide support for Outer Perseus Operations
Basic
specifications
.Type: Starbase manufacturing & support facility
.Diameter: 2 842 m - Height: 3 445 m (overall)
.Decks: 397
.Crew: 5 700 - Civilians: 4 000 - 6 000
Ships
currently assigned to Starbase Dalan
• U.S.S. Houston - Galaxy Class - CO: Captain Sheila Guthrie
• U.S.S. Birmingham - Nova Class - CO: Captain Mark Addams
• THE VENTRESCA WORMHOLE
A paramount fact about
the wormhole is that it shrunk down to 3 meters in diameter.
It is impossible to travel through it by "conventional" means
(see Translift section).
The wormhole originates in the Alpha Quadrant, several days at high warp
from the Antares Shipyards. Its end is situated some 50 000 LY away in
the Beta Quadrant, in the outer Perseus arm of the galaxy.
Following its semi-collapse, space anomalies have occurred in areas of
space where one suspects either ends once were (or will be) situated by
dint of galactic drift.
Originally called the Perseus wormhole, it has been renamed after United
Terra's first warp pilot. Major Ventresca sacrificed his life to reach
it and obtain help for Terra.
• THE MARCH TRANSLIFT
• Principle
"Imagine
the Translift like a turbolift. The conduit of course is the wormhole.
The lift system is the torsion effect that allows us to travel through
and arrive timely rather than say, yesterday or next millenium. We use
this process to piggyback our own matter stream.
"The matter stream is encoded within a bubble, the car, made of a highly
cohesive form of energy present inside the wormhole. Once launched, it
is guided to the wormhole by gravity forcefields. The bubble then travels
along the wormhole as if it were native to it, until collected on the
other side.
"The whole process takes a while longer. Impressions vary. I once
tried one of the very first transporters for kicks, the feeling usually
is much the same."
Dr Podkayne March, Physicist
•
Translift
operations
Named
after its creator, the Translift is composed at each end of a station
facing the wormhole aperture from a distance and a series of mobile satellites
crowning the aperture.
At
each end of the wormhole, a dozen satellites are charged with capturing
the energy bubbles upon emergence and redirecting them to the reception
slot, and vice versa. Once in the OPA, the bubble is directed to the Translift
installations hosted on Starbase Perseus.
Earlier, the Translift stations called respectively Alpha and Beta were
separate facilities. By early 2385 each had been integrated
into the design of their respective starbase.
• Going through the Translift
"Lost
Ensigns" - assigned WHERE???
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