DS2 RPG General Status Report January 2021 USS Earth/Starbase 44 Now that an unknown species has liberated the region from the Slymak, the 44th fleet can resume what was on the scedule. Admiral Steichen reads the latest reports and makes decisions. There is a distress call that has priority. "We will help with the evacuation of a Romulan Colony which was seriously hit by a Slymak attack. There are only 13 of them. Remember these are Romulans. It is up to us to trust them or not. We can drop them of on Carraya IV, which is a Romulan planet." The USS Nebraska escorted by the USS Chile are dispatched to save the Romulans from a worse situation. It seems to be easier than it looks, but the Romulans have more important issues to handle. The Romulans still have Slymak in their territory. Both Federation ships have no problems to enter Romulan space. The cold war between the Romulans and the Federation has already ended many years ago during the war with the Dominion. When the planets Romulus and Remus were destroyed, the Romulans and Remans spread out and ended up on New Romulus. Although the Tal Shiar are still oposing this new Romulan Repbulic and peace is not for sure, Federation ships which are on their way to safe a Romulan colony are always welcome. The USS Nebraska and USS Chile Captains do not have much trouble to convince the 13 survivors to come aboard and leave everything behind. One of the Romulans seems to have a different opinion. "My name is Grell. Please take me to your starbase. I can travel further from their on my own." "Mister Grell. We have orders to take all of you to Carraya IV. That is a Romulan planet. They have already been informed you are coming and are preparing your arrival." "It should be possible to make an exception. No?" "No exceptions mister Grell." The discussion is closed. A few days later the USS Nebraska and the USS Chile arrive at Carraya IV. The Romulan rescued colonists are transported to the planet where they are very welcome. A day later te Federation ships return to Starbase 44. This mission was a success. On Carraya IV, the following morning, one of the rescued colonists, Grell, has disappeared. Players: CS Starbase 88 Xthen apparently has convinced Admiral Van Nieuwenhove to return to his own time. "The species of this Xthen is helping the Federation. Time to return to the current time. Apparently we have changed something in the past so this Xthen and his army are destroying the Slymak." A course is plotted around a star close to needed coordinates. The ships starts moving faster and faster and faster. The slingshot works. The ship has returned in the current time. "Red alert!" "What is it ensign?" "Three Slymak ships. They are comng right to us as soon as we came back." "Battlestations! Evasive manoeuvres!" But it is to late. From out of nowhere a ship, much like the ship of Xthen appears. It intercepts the Slymak ships. About ten seconds later it is all over. The Slymak ships explode in a huge ball of fire. They are completely destroyed. The unknown ship disappears again without a word. The Federation officers are rally happy. Finally there is hope this Slymak threat will end. When Admiral Van Nieuwenhove arrives at Starbase 88, he takes command again. It is as he has never left. Still the same reports on his desk. Maybe this is indeed a turning point in the Slymak crisis. One of the reports comes from Admiral Arthur, in command of Deep Space 2. Begin message Currently we have engaged a large part of the DS2 security droids in alliance with the artifial species called Replicators to whipe out the Slymak from this galaxy. We have alreay cleaned up a large part, but we are not out of the danger zone yet. But currently we are winning. So keep up hope. If you want to be really safe during this war with the Slymak please feel free to use our gate at Deep Space 2 to evacuate to another galaxy. The gateway is built with Iconian and Ancient technology and is perfectly safe. You can always return to this galaxy when it is safe and all the Slymak have been eliminated. We will keep you posted. End message Players: GVN USS Thunderbolt/The Borg Collective Spoiler alert! Attention! This part of the DS2 RPG contains spoilers for those who have not seen Star Trek Picard! Not all plans of the Borg are a success. An attempt to use a Tal Shiar spy in a Romulan colony for infiltration on the Federation Starbase 44 has failed. The Romulan Colony was attacked by the Slymak. And the Federation send two ships from Starbase 44 to evacuate the 13 Romulan survivors. The USS Nebraska escorted by the USS Chile are dispatched to save the Romulans from a worse situation. It seems to be easier than it looks, but the Romulans have more important issues to handle. The Romulans still have Slymak in their territory. Both federation ships have no problems to enter Romulan space. The cold war between the Romulans and the Federation has already ended many years ago during the war with the Dominion. When the planets Romulus and Remus were destroyed, the Romulans and Remans spread out and ended up on New Romulus. Although the Tal Shiar are still oposing this new Romulan Repbulic and peace is not for sure, Federation ships which are on their way to safe a Romulan colony are always welcome. The USS Nebraska and USS Chile Captains do not have much trouble to convince the 13 survivors to come aboard and leave everything behind. One of the Romulans seems to have a different opinion. He is a Tal Shiar spy. "My name is Grell. Please take me to your starbase. I can travel further from their on my own." "Mister Grell. We have orders to take all of you to Carraya IV. That is a Romulan planet. They have already been informed you are coming and are preparing your arrival." "It should be possible to make an exception. No?" "No exceptions mister Grell." The discussion is closed. Grell tries again a few times, but his request is denied every time. He is able to report his situation to his superiors at the Tal Shiar. Even Commodore Oh reads the report. But nothing can be done. There will be other opportunities. A few days later the USS Nebraska and the USS Chile arrive at Carraya IV. The Romulan rescued colonists are transported to the planet where they are very welcome. On Carraya IV, the following morning, one of the rescued colonists, Grell, has disappeared. The Tal Shiar never heard of him again. Faraway in the Delta Quadrant Master One shakes his head. It was easy to predict not all would go as the Borg Collective has planned. Players: FK USS Walang/Starbase 100 Admiral Hendriks has traveled in time with the Kirie, Trsterts and Yu to stop the Slymak before they arrive here in this galaxy. If they can stop the Slymak threat before it begins, the galaxy could be saved... Players: ML USS Vertigo Day 315 14.00 Aboard the USS Vertigo Commodore Slater has called his senior staff to the conference room for the daily 14.00 hours briefing. The Commodore has just written an evaluation report about his Chief of Security Commander Matz and her success in the first contact missions. Day 315 14.06 The senior staff meeting is interupted by Ensign Loper on the bridge. Sensors have detected an unknown ship. No life signs are detected. There is no respons to attempts to communicate. Day 315 14.18 As the USS Vertigo comes closer, all attempts to contact the unknown ship fail. Two hours after the initial attempt to contact the unknown ship, a team lead by Commander Matz transports aboard the unknown ship. Only twenty minutes later Commander Matz reports to the USS Vertigo. It is a brand new ship. There is nobody aboard. On route to GH-2365 Commander Matz and her team will continue to study this ship. Players: NP USS Atlantis/Starbase 99 While on Starbase 99 routine is slowly taken over the arrival of Rear Admiral Tom Walker is promissing. The Starbase has been without a long term commanding officer for a few years. As an artificial species called the Replicators apparently are raging war against the Slymak and are winning, there is less and less fear the Slymak will be able to conquer or destroy the galaxy. Far away from Starbase 99 a starship is returning from a mission. But they are not home yet. "Red alert!" "What is it ensign?" "Three Slymak ships. They are comng right to us as soon as we came back." "Battlestations! Evasive manoeuvres!" But it is to late. From out of nowhere a ship, from the artificial species the Replicators appears. It intercepts the Slymak ships. About ten seconds later it is all over. The Slymak ships explode in a huge ball of fire. They are completely destroyed. The Replicator ship disappears again without a word. The Federation officers are rally happy. Finally there is hope this Slymak threat will end. Players: JM & CP Ovion (Hirogen/Ori/Replicator Vessel) The hunt is going great. This is the greatest hunt ever. This is history in the making for all Hirogen hunters. Horkan is pleased some of his Replicators have already destroyed Slymak Galaxy Killers. Slowly piece by piece the Replicators and Deep Space 2 Droid fleets are destroying more Slymak ships than arrive in the galaxy. But the hunt is far from over. All portals at the border of the galaxy have to be closed and the entire border of the galaxy has to be closed for any Slymak. It is clear this will take some time, but Horkan is convinced that they will close the border of the galaxy before one Slymak galaxy killer can reach the center of the galaxy and release its deadly wave. Players: TvR DS2 RPG General Status Report February 2021 USS Earth/Starbase 44 "Someone thinks he saw a Borg drone in the government building on Klama III. The very peaceful population, mostly farmers, is in total panic." "We will Send a ship and investigate." Red alert on the USS Santiago. A distress call from the planet Klama III indicates there is a Borg drone on the planet in one of the larger cities. But it could be a mistake, a practical joke or something crazy. The Captain of the USS Santiago doesn't take any chances. And his orders from Admiral Steichen are very clear. Only a few hours later the USS Santiago arrives at Klama III. First scans indicate a Borg drone in an open field close to the capital. There is indeed a Borg drone on Klama III. It is not a joke. The Borg drone is walking to the north in the open field away from the city. Apparently he has found what he was looking for. Just as he walks over the edge of the field he hears a voice. "Now!" Sixteen Starfleet officers surround the Borg drone pointing weapons. "Stop right there. What is your designation and your purpose?" The Borg drone hesitates. "Starfleet officers reconized. I have no designation. I have no purpose. I cannot remember. I was fighting the Borg. Oh no. Am I a Borg?" An older chief steps forward. "Yes you are. Lieutenant, I do not detect a link between this Borg drone and the Collective. This Borg drone is seperated from the Borg Collective. There is no doubt." A young Ensign now also steps forward. "That is confirmed Lieutenant. I have the same reading." "All right then. USS Santiago. We have found the drone. He is seperated from the Collective." Players: CS Starbase 88 Far away from starbase 88 aboard the huge space station Deep Space 2 Admiral Arthur looks at the latest reports about the Slymak. The Deep Space 2 Droids and Horkan's Replicators are clearly winning. But will there be enough time to stop them all? The Admiral receives a calculation. Some of the Slymak Portals are already destroyed. About thirty percent of the Slymak fleet, including Galaxy Killers. So they can be destroyed. But there is another problem. Long range sensor relay stations have detected a Borg ship on a direct course to Deep Space 2. It is on its way from the Delta Quadrant. A few weeks before the Borg offered technology to destroy Slymak ships. That was weird. Now a Borg ship is approaching. But before the Borg ship is within sensor range of Deep Space 2 itself, it disappears. "Admiral. The Borg ship on its way to Deep Space 2 has been destroyed by Horkan's Replicators. The Borg didn't have a chance." Aboard Starbase 88 the entire crew is talking about it. A species which calls itself Replicators is cleaning up the galaxy from the Slymak. This is really good news. But Admiral Van Nieuwenhove doesn't take any risks. "We will patrol the region. We never know whether the Slymak will return." The ships of the 88th fleet start patrolling the region. Several sectors have already been checked in a short time. It is clear that the war against the Slylmak also made victims. The USS Kalihandry detects an old ship fraveling at low speed. when they contact the ship, it is clear that it is a Reman mining ship. All the crew asks for is a impulse response filter, a subspace modulator and two induction coils. "This is the mining ship Bregger. We beg you to help us. We only need a few things so we can travel to Deep Space 2. We have heard of a gateway to another galaxy. We are very scared of these Slymak. Please help us." But it is not certain the USS Kalihandry is allowed to share Federation technolgy. A few lightyears from the USS Kalihandry is the USS Carolina, Captain Bridgewater in command. The USS Carolina is just in time to rescue a Vulcan family in trouble on a small moon. The Vulcan family has crashed on the moon and had only for a few hours life support left. They were able to send out a distress call. Captain Bridgewater asks Admiral Van Nieuwenhove permission to bring the Vulcans to Starbase 88. At the same time Starbase 88 receives a message from the USS Miami asking for permission to mine for dilithium on a planet which is inhabited by a primitive community of humanoids. It is getting busy again at Starbase 88. Several cargo freighters have brought new equipment for system upgrades. But if the upgrades will be installed, the stion will have no offensive nor defensive systems for at least seven days. The upgrades can be installed after the Slymak threat is really and finally over. So there is no hurry. The Admiral has some thinking to do. Players: GVN USS Thunderbolt/The Borg Collective Spoiler alert! Attention! This part of the DS2 RPG contains spoilers for those who have not seen Star Trek Picard! The Borg Collective also has profited from the actions of the Replicators destroying the Slymak in greater numbers. Most of the Borg territory is free of Slymak. So even the Borg return to their daily business with a few goals set already. "We will try to catch a replicator but beware to keep it absolutely separated. It has to remain under absolute control. We must find a weak spot just in case our Hirogen friends change their minds and start hunting Borg." "We will also try to find and contact the Hirogen controllers and assimilate them. They might be an asset." "And we will certainly try to gain more information about that ring-like gateway the Federation has set up at Deep Space 2. Maybe we can get a Tal Shiar spy on Deep Space 2. It is very unlikely that this will work as the security droids will imediately detect such a dirty trick. But we can try." Catching a Replicator doesn't seem to be easy, but things turn out to be very different. Borg Cube 5554 has detected some kind of shuttlecraft with only one Replicator in it. The entire shuttlecraft is beamed aboard the Borg cube. Fifty Borg drones surround the Replicator which looks a bit surprised. "Hi I am Xthen. How can I be of service?" The drones approach the Replicator and try to assimilate it, but nothing happens. Xthen, the Replicator is still surprised. "You cannot assimilate me." The drones bring the Replicator to a small seperate room. They have to wait for new orders fro the Collective. There is also a Borg cube send to Deep Space 2 to investigate what is happening there with a possible gateway. Deep Space 2 is not to far away from the border of the Delta Quadrant. But the Borg cube doesn't even gets half way. A Replicator ship has destroyed the Borg cube before Deep Space 2 is in sensor range. There is little more success finding Hirogen. Two Hirogen ships are intercepted by sif Borg spheres. The battle is short but extreme. The Hirogen succeed in destroying a Borg sphere before the few Hirogen survivers can be transported aboard one of the Borg spheres. The Hirogen are assimilated, but after sharing their minds it is clear these Hirogen have nothing to do with the Replicators. Unknown to the Borg the Hirogen had time to send a message to their main hunting group with the information they were attacked by the Borg. It is not clear whether the Hirogen will gather and start hunting Borg. Players: FK USS Walang/Starbase 100 Admiral Hendriks has traveled in time with the Kirie, Trsterts and Yu to stop the Slymak before they arrive here in this galaxy. If they can stop the Slymak threat before it begins, the galaxy could be saved... Players: ML USS Vertigo Day 316 07.15 The USS Vertigo is travelling in the Messier 2 Galaxy to GH-2365 side by side with the Gdonsk. Commander Matz and her crew on the Gdonsk have already mastered most of the Gdonsk systems. Day 317 08.35 It is still a huge mystery of why this brand new ship without a crew has appeared on a location a serious distance from any inhabitable planet. Commander Matz talks about this with her officers. Day 318 06.00 Senior Staff meeting on the USS Vertigo. Senior staff meeting on the Gdonsk. The decision has been made. The Gdonsk will be searched from top to bottom, hoping for a clue what happened with this ship. Players: NP USS Atlantis/Starbase 99 Far away from starbase 99 aboard the huge space station Deep Space 2 Admiral Arthur looks at the latest reports about the Slymak. The Deep Space 2 Droids and Horkan's Replicators are clearly winning. But will there be enough time to stop them all? The Admiral receives a calculation. Some of the Slymak Portals are already destroyed. About thirty percent of the Slymak fleet, including Galaxy Killers. So they can be destroyed. But there is another problem. Long range sensor relay stations have detected a Borg ship on a direct course to Deep Space 2. It is on its way from the Delta Quadrant. A few weeks before the Borg offered technology to destroy Slymak ships. That was weird. Now a Borg ship is approaching. But before the Borg ship is within sensor range of Deep Space 2 itself, it disappears. "Admiral. The Borg ship on its way to Deep Space 2 has been destroyed by Horkan's Replicators. The Borg didn't have a chance." Aboard Starbase 99 a Borg ship is detected, but it is not on its way to Starbase 99. Players: JM & CP Ovion (Hirogen/Ori/Replicator Vessel) Far away from Gundrota, a Replicator planet, aboard the huge space station Deep Space 2 Admiral Arthur looks at the latest reports about the Slymak. The Deep Space 2 Droids and Horkan's Replicators are clearly winning. But will there be enough time to stop them all? The Admiral receives a calculation. Some of the Slymak Portals are already destroyed. About thirty percent of the Slymak fleet, including Galaxy Killers. So they can be destroyed. But there is another problem. Long range sensor relay stations have detected a Borg ship on a direct course to Deep Space 2. It is on its way from the Delta Quadrant. A few weeks before the Borg offered technology to destroy Slymak ships. That was weird. Now a Borg ship is approaching. But before the Borg ship is within sensor range of Deep Space 2 itself, it disappears. "Admiral. The Borg ship on its way to Deep Space 2 has been destroyed by Horkan's Replicators. The Borg didn't have a chance." Players: TvR DS2 RPG General Status Report February 2021 USS Earth/Starbase 44 A Borg drone has been captured on Klama III by the crew of the USS Santiago. The Borg drone is seperated from the Borg Collective. Admiral Steichen has orders for the USS Santiago. "Let the drone go free, but first provide medical and psychological care and help identifying who he was before becoming a borg. He is clearly an individual and separated from the Borg Collective. Remove his Borg implants as much as possible. Identify the individual before they were made a drone. Based on who he was previously, we will help reconnect them to his family." The Borg drone is in sickbay when his first Borg implant is removed. That was an easy one. But it gets more and more difficult removing more implants. At the same time security is able to download all the data of the Borg drones nueral processor. "Before his assimilation this man was a Talaxian called Lex. We will continue searching for data. We will keep you posted." On Starbase 44 most of the crew follow the Talaxian Lex and what happened to him. Even on the USS Greenland 100 lightyears away from Starbase 44 the crew seems to be interested in the Talaxian Lex. Admiral Steichen has decided to explore sector 55487, an unexplored sector in Federation space only 120 lightyears from Starbase 44. The USS Greenland is rather close to the unexplored sector. The ship is already on its way. The same day the USS greenland discovers a huge debris field of unknown ships, all damaged and clearly of the same fleet. There are no other ships. The USS Greenland Captain presumes the enemy has already left. There is only one little problem. Sector 55487 is at the border of Federation space and the debris field is on the other side of the Federation border. To investigate the debris field the USS Greenland has to cross the Federation border. Only an hour later Starbase 44 security reports to Admiral Steichen. "Admiral, we have been able to collect and read data from the neural processor of the Talaxian Borg drone called Lex. There is some serious troubling data. Apparently the Borg Collective has been able to get Borg drones on Federation ships and facilities, but that is a problem easily solved. But the Borg Collective uses Romulan Tal Shiar agents to spy on Federation ships and facilities. I know this is weird, but we think this data is real. I don't know yet how this all works and why the Romulan Tal Shiar work for the Borg. This is really dangerous." Players: CS Starbase 88 The USS Carolina, Captain Bridgewater in command, was just in time to rescue a Vulcan family from a small moon. Admiral Van Nieuwenhove offers help. "Take the Vulcan family aboard Starbase 88. We will let them stay until the next Vulcan ship arrives. This could take several months." The Vulan family is brought to quarters. Their personal belongings are stored in the stateroom next to theirs. It is going to take some time before they are taken back to their home planet, but it is better this way then to die on a deserted moon. Two days later, twentyseven decks below the Stateroom of the Vulcan family close to the main power generator Ensign Trent and Lieutenant Huni are checking consoles. It is a routine job. Lieutenant Huni is teaching Ensign Trent, who will have to do these maintenance checks with an own team in a few months. "So you see Ensign, that our technicians have a lot of work. The reserve parts for the upgrades have arrived this week, but those are not cleared yet. So we continue with what we have." "Lieutenant, may I suggest to enforce these conduits. I know they need to be replaced in two years, but they look old." "Excellent eye Ensign. They are already on the list for a month. But we haven't got time yet to..." Lieutenant Huni is interupted by an explosion. Both officers and the technicians workingin the corridor are thrown against the floor. The Lieutenant looks around. Every one is back on his feeth in no time. Nobody is hurt. But three decks below the damage is huge and there is complete chaos. One half of the main power generator is completely gone. It is a miracle the entire station has not blown up. But the forcfields protected the station just in time to prevent worse. When Lieutenant Huni and Ensign Trent arrive four minutes later medical personnel is already helping the wounded. A few moments later Chief Engineer Commander George Senden reports to starbase operations. "Admiral, this is Chief Engineer George Senden. We have 27 wounded, no deaths. All wounded are now in sickbay. Half of the main power generator is gone. It will take at least two weeks to repair or rebuild it. The emergency generators are running now. Admiral, I have taken a very quick look at the damage. This can only be a human error or sabotage. I cannot see another reason why an explosion like this one could happen. I have posted security at all entrances of main engineering." Players: GVN USS Thunderbolt/The Borg Collective Spoiler alert! Attention! This part of the DS2 RPG contains spoilers for those who have not seen Star Trek Picard! The Borg had a bad week. They captured Xthen who is a Replicator, but the Borg drones were not able to assimmilate Xthen. So they do not know what to do with this Replicator Xthen. The hirogen the Borg found are defeated and assimilated, but these Hirogen had nothing to do with Replicators. The good news is that these Replicators have cleared Borg space from any Slymak. So the Borg can go back to their daily business, assimilating other species. Another good thing for the Borg is that the Tal Shiar spy freely in the Federation and report to Commodore Oh. Some of these Tal Shiar agents also have done some sabotage on Federation starbases and facilities. Players: FK USS Walang/Starbase 100 Admiral Hendriks has traveled in time with the Kirie, Trsterts and Yu to stop the Slymak before they arrive here in this galaxy. If they can stop the Slymak threat before it begins, the galaxy could be saved... Players: ML USS Vertigo Day 318 17.34 In the Messier 2 Galaxy close to GH-2365 the USS Vertigo and the Gdonsk are flying side by side. Commander Matz and her team are still searching the Gdonsk for clues of where this ship came from, but until now the search has not been successful. Day 319 11.05 The advanced technology on board the Gdonsk has been tested except for one major thing: the subspace engine. Day 319 13.57 Commodore Jeffrey Slater, in command of this mission gives permission to test the subspace engine of the Gdonsk. A few minutes later without a countdown the Gdonsk engages the subspace drive and disappears. Players: NP USS Atlantis/Starbase 99 Aboard the USS Atlantis Admiral Walker addresses his crew. "All hands this the Captain, we have arived at our destnation Starbase 99, to the crew that have requested, a transfer contact your section comanders for further details! The crew of the Atlantis, a shore leave for one week is granted, contact your section comanders, other crew will be contacted by chief engineer Captain Torak, and First Officer Jones." Admiral Walker calls his wife T’Lan. "Tom!" "T’Lan, can you take care of my parents once they leave the ship. An escort team is standing by to bring you to their quarters. We leave th ship in 30 minutes, time to get ready." Aboard Starbase 99 Commander Luhr is waiting for a call from Admiral Walker. She does not have to wait long. "Comander Luhr, 30 minutes time!" Luhr has receiverd the Admiral's message. "We will be expecting you, and your party!" While the region around Starbase 99 has been cleared from enemy Slymak ships by the Replicators, the crew of Starbase 99 is happy. And more because their new Commanding Officer Comes aboard. Rear Admiral Tom J. Walker. Captain Sonak reports to Admiral Walker. "Admiral, we are the last one’s to depart. T’Lan is waiting for your parents. All comand officers are standing by." "Thank you Commander Sonak, I apologize! I meant to say Captain Sonak." Commander Luhr is waiting for the Admiral. "Commander Luhr, permission to come aboard StarBase 99." "Permission granted Admiral, welcome to StarBase 99 on behalf of my entire staff." "Thank you Commander, I believe you know Captain Sonak, and my wife T’lan. These are my parents, I believe you have quarters ready." Commander Luhr nods. "Yes we have, we also have the ambassadors staff onboard since last week, making all preparations!" Admiral Walker has a request. "Can you escort my parents to their quarters please." "By all means, this Lieutenant A’Ran she is assigned to the ambassador." "Thank you. Father, mother I will meet you later. Commander, lets talk!" Commander Luhr shows the way. "Your quarters captain, if you care to follow me. I can brief you and your staff." Players: JM & CP Ovion (Hirogen/Ori/Replicator Vessel) Horkans plan and the hunt on Slymak ships of all kinds is a success. The Slymak do not seem to realise their doom is coming. A doom created by an artificial intelligence called the Replicators. The Replicators are spreading out over a large part of the galaxy already. And there doesn't seem to be something that can save the Slymak. More and more systems are free and more and more species return to their daily activities. On some more primitive planets the population starts worshiping the Replicators as if they were gods. But there is something else as well. The Replicator Xthen is captured by the Borg. Players: TvR DS2 RPG General Status Report April 2021 USS Earth/Starbase 44 An Admiral in command of a Federation starbase has all kinds of things that have to be handled. Nobody will do anything without the Admiral's approval. On the desk of Admiral Steichen is the case of the Talaxian Lex, who has been assimilated. It is a bit complicated to get Lex back to his people in the Delta Quadrant, but certainly not impossible. "Maybe Deep Space 2 can help to find a way to get the Talaxian Lex back to his people. Deep Space 2 is located at the border of the Delta Quadrant and has ships with a transwarp drive." A message is sent to Deep Space 2. Only a six hours later the USS Strike arrives at Starbase 44 using the transwarp drive. "Starbase 44, I am Neelix, the Talaxian ambassador for the Federation. In command of this magnificant ship, the USS Strike is Commander Marianne. As I understand it, you have a Talaxian who needs a ride to the Delta Quadrant. So it seems your ships do not have a transwarp drive yet. The Commander will send you the scematics so you can upgrade your ships if you like." The Talaxian Lex is transported aboard the USS Strike after a short thank you and good-bye. Starbase 44 receives the scematics of a transwarp drive. Although it is not an exchange of any kind of course. The USS Strike opens a transwarp conduit and only ten minutes after the ship had arrived, it is already gone, bringing Lex home. But there also are things an Admiral has to do that are not pleasant at all. There is a threat of Tal Shiar agents in the Federation. "We will search all our ships of our fleet and the Starbase for Borg and Tal Shiar agents. We will inform all Federation ships and facilities about possible Borg presence or Tal Shiar agents who spy for the Borg possibly not knowing they are spying for the Borg." All ships of the 44th fleet and Starbase 44 itself are clear from Borg or Tal Shiar. That is a good thing. A message is sent out from Starbase 44 to warn the Federation for spies, and advice to eliminate that possible threat. At the Border of Federation space the USS Greenland has found a beaten fleet of unknown origin. "Starbase 44. Are we allowed to investigate what has happened here?" Attention USS Greenland. You can examine the damaged ships and search for survivors in the debris field. A battle so close to Federation space could be a threat to the Federation." "Acknowledged Starbase 44. We are proceeding. We will keep you posted." The USS Greenland moves over the debris field very carefully. all ships or what is left of them are scanned. There must be a hundred ships at least. They must have encountered a formidable enemy. The weapon signatures are unknown. They are not Slymak. they are not Borg or Species 8472. Those are the only species who could have done this kind of damage. So there is a kind of mystery here. Somewhere in the middle of the debris field is a large ship, broken in two. The two parts of the ship have only sustained moderate damage. It is even possible to go aboard both parts. "Starbase 44, this is USS Greenland. We have found a ship which we can board. There is no power, but we can setup some generators. Do we have permission to enter this ship?" Players: CS Starbase 88 A large explosion has destroyed part of the main power generator of Starbase 88. Admiral Van Nieuwenhove understands this is a very serious situation. He has orders for his First Officer, Captain Sigrid Johansson. "Have security start an investigation. This is not an accident. Nobody leaves starbase 88." Only a few minutes later Chief of Security Commander Carlo Demaggio and Chief Engineer Commander George Senden start the investigation with scanning the area looking for all kind of traces. A day later Chief of Security Commander Carlo Demaggion has a first report for the Admiral. "29 people were on duty close to the main generator at the moment of the explosion. Internal sensors do not reveal anything as the sensor log has been deleted. We made a list of personnel who is able to do that and/or who has access to the internal sensor logs. But those are a dead end. We are sure they have nothing to do with this. I suggest a DNA investigation." Admiral Van Nieuwenhove has much to think about. While he is walking from his office to his quarters he hears two young officers talking in the corridor. "You know. This is weird. An explosion doesn't not occur just like that. The main core is checked more than anything else." "We are lucky it was only a small explosion and that the forcefields prevented worse. The entire starbase could have been destroyed." "I don't think one of us has done it." "I would not exclude anyone. You neve know." "Not one of us. If it was one of us, this would have happened long time ago. It has to be someone who came aboard recently." "The only people who came aboard recently was a Vulcan family. It is very unlikely they have something to do with it." "You never know." "Yeah, sure. I am exhausted. I am going to sleep." "Me too. See you in the morning." "Good night." When the Admiral comes around the corner the two officers have entered their quarters. Players: GVN USS Thunderbolt/The Borg Collective Spoiler alert! Attention! This part of the DS2 RPG contains spoilers for those who have not seen Star Trek Picard! A Borg cube is on its way to a planet called Unimatrix Six. The planet once was populated by billions of Borg drones, gathering resources. But then the Slymak came and all the Borg invested in this planet was gone. "Catching a Replicator was to easy. This must be a trap. We will take the Replicator to an uninhabited planet and leave it there. We will send Master one to contact to the replicator using the force. They must be accesible on some level, at least, have him talk to them. I was under the impression that replicators were machines." Xthen is transported to the planet escorted by Mater One. "So you are Master One. Why am I here?" "Yes Xthen. I am Master One. Look around. This was once a huge community of Borg. They were all whiped out by the Slymak. We were wondering how you and your people could destroy these Slymak rather easy. Although we have our own methodes and we would have destroyed the Slymak eventually, you did it rather quick and we are always eager to learn." "The Borg are not learning Master One. They assimilate, conquer and destroy what they do not like." "That is an opinion. Now you are going to tell me what I want to know." Master One waves his arm to the left. Noting happens except that Xthen is surprised. "Why would I do that?" Master One waves his arm again. "You are going to tell me what I want." "Master one, I am a machine. You cannot make me do things you want. But I hope you remember we, the Replicators have eliminated the Slymak threat also in Borg space. Maybe you should thank us." The Borg ship on route to Deep Space 2 is destroyed by the Replicators. Deep Space 2 seems to be under protection of the Replicators. Do the Replicators work together with the Federation? The Borg have to find out. The Borg will use Tal Shiar spies. They are not recognised as a possible spy. But Master One also asks the question when he interrogates Xthen, the Replicator. "Are the Replicators working together with the Federation?" "No we are not. We are not even from the same neighbourhood. Mater One. You have to understand that we are only here in this Galaxy to eliminate the Slymak threat. We do this for fun and... for the Hirogen hunt. We are part of the Hirogen hunting group, hunting Slymak. It is a great hunt. So why don't you leave me here and go by your business Master One. Don't you have a planet to assimilate?" Far away from Unimatrix Six, close to the border of the Delta Quadrant and the Gamma Quadrant, a Romulan Tal Shiar Warbird receives new orders from Commodore Oh. "We will send more Tal Shiar spies to the Federation. We will give them specific orders. We will have the Tal Shiar completely invested. Their role will come to a conclusion soon. They wil sabotage, gathering intell." Players: FK USS Walang/Starbase 100 Admiral Hendriks has traveled in time with the Kirie, Trsterts and Yu to stop the Slymak before they arrive here in this galaxy. If they can stop the Slymak threat before it begins, the galaxy could be saved... Players: ML USS Vertigo/Gdonsk Day 319 14.29 In the Messier 2 Galaxy close to GH-2365 the USS Vertigo is monitoring the subspace engine test of the Gdonsk, Commander Matz in command. Day 319 14.29 This test is not only a test for the subspace engine of the Gdonsk, but also a test to detect a ship with a subspace engine. In the next thirty minutes fifteen probes are launched. But without result. The Gdonsk is somewhere, but totally undetectable. Day 319 14.59 The Gdonsk is back in regular space. The test went perfectly. Aside of the lower speed of the subspace drive in comparison with a transwarp drive, all systems were operating within normal parameters. The ship did not even shake. Players: NP USS Atlantis/Starbase 99 On starbase 99 Commander Luhr and Admiral Walker are on their way to the Admiral's new quarters while Commander Luhr informs the Admiral about the latest issues. An Admiral has a fleet of ships. And Starfleet Command will send more ships to Starbase 99 if necessary. It all depends on what kind of missions have Starbase 99 as a starting point. And there are lots of missions, exploration, diplomatic missions, patrols, even cargo ships have to push it to get their cargo at their destinations on time. There is no time to take it easy on Starbase 99. It is one of the most buzy starbases in Federation space. Players: JM & CP Ovion (Hirogen/Ori/Replicator Vessel) A Borg cube is on its way to a planet called Unimatrix Six. The planet once was populated by billions of Borg drones, gathering resources. But then the Slymak came and all the Borg invested in this planet was gone. "Catching a Replicator was to easy. This must be a trap. We will take the Replicator to an uninhabited planet and leave it there. We will send Master one to contact to the replicator using the force. They must be accesible on some level, at least, have him talk to them. I was under the impression that replicators were machines." Xthen is transported to the planet escorted by Mater One. "So you are Master One. Why am I here?" "Yes Xthen. I am Master One. Look around. This was once a huge community of Borg. They were all whiped out by the Slymak. We were wondering how you and your people could destroy these Slymak rather easy. Although we have our own methodes and we would have destroyed the Slymak eventually, you did it rather quick and we are always eager to learn." "The Borg are not learning Master One. They assimilate, conquer and destroy what they do not like." "That is an opinion. Now you are going to tell me what I want to know." Master One waves his arm to the left. Noting happens except that Xthen is surprised. "Why would I do that?" Master One waves his arm again. "You are going to tell me what I want." "Master one, I am a machine. You cannot make me do things you want. But I hope you remember we, the Replicators have eliminated the Slymak threat also in Borg space. Maybe you should thank us." The Borg ship on route to Deep Space 2 is destroyed by the Replicators. Deep Space 2 seems to be under protection of the Replicators. Do the Replicators work together with the Federation? The Borg have to find out. The Borg will use Tal Shiar spies. They are not recognised as a possible spy. But Master One also asks the question when he interrogates Xthen, the Replicator. "Are the Replicators working together with the Federation?" "No we are not. We are not even from the same neighbourhood. Mater One. You have to understand that we are only here in this Galaxy to eliminate the Slymak threat. We do this for fun and... for the Hirogen hunt. We are part of the Hirogen hunting group, hunting Slymak. It is a great hunt. So why don't you leave me here and go by your business Master One. Don't you have a planet to assimilate?" Far away from Unimatrix Six, close to the border of the Delta Quadrant and the Gamma Quadrant, a Romulan Tal Shiar Warbird receives new orders from Commodore Oh. "We will send more Tal Shiar spies to the Federation. We will give them specific orders. We will have the Tal Shiar completely invested. Their role will come to a conclusion soon. They wil sabotage, gathering intell." Players: TvR DS2 RPG General Status Report May 2021 USS Earth/Starbase 44 Admiral Steichen has a bold plan. "We will send some spies to Romulan space to investigate what the Tal Shiar want or why they are spying in the Federation." Even more important is a transwarp drive. Admiral Steichen seems to be very happy. She gives clear orders to her engineers. "See to it that all your ships in the fleet will receive a transwarp drive." Constructing a transwarp drive on a starships is not even that difficult, especially if you have the scematics. Except for a few ships of the 44th fleet, which are on a deep space mission, all ships have a tested and approved transwarp drive within a month. More and more Admirals decide to upgrade their fleets with a transwarp drive. Until now there are no problems at all with any transwarp drive. One of those ships on a deep space assignement is the USS Greenland. The grenland is investigating a battlefield of about a hundred ships. One of those ships, broken in two is worth investigating a bit more. Admiral Steichen agrees. "Let a team of the USS Greenland transport aboard this damaged ship. Maybe they can find a clue of what has happened and why all these ships have been beaten during this battle and by who." A team is sent to to board the ship. There are no life forms aboard and the power is off line. With portable power generators the USS Greenland team is able to restart some of the systems, including the main computer. And then the team discovers something really weird. This ship is not broken in two pieces. The two halves of the ship can operate independently. Like the saucer section of a Galaxy class starship can be seperated. The USS Greenland team even finds out how the ship seperates and how to become one ship again. Just as Admiral Steichen thinks about what to do with that ship, urgent reports come in from a few of her spies she has sent to Romulan space to spy on the Tal Shiar. "Admiral. We have to be extremely fast. The tal Shiar is not working together with the Borg, but the Borg are using Tal Shiar agents to spy and sabotage Federation facilities. The Tal Shiar itself and most of their agents are investigating this as well, but the only answer they have found so far is that one of their own leaders is organising all of these Tal Shiar missions in Federation space without the concent of the Romulan leaders, but with the support of the Borg. The name of this Tal Shiar rogue officer is General Nadar. General Nadar is a woman. There is no trace of this General Nadar anywhere. It would be catastrophic if she would be in the hands of the Borg. It would explain a few things. But we do not have found any prove of that. We have to go before we are discoverd. If you have new orders for us, let us know through the usual channels. We are out." The channel is closed. Players: CS Starbase 88 With an explosion on Starbase 88, destroying part of the main power generator, an investigation proves the explosion was no accident. So the investigation conrtinues. Admiral Van Nieuwenhove is clear he wants answers. "We will have de medical department analyse all DNA samples found in the entire area. There could be a surprise, or not. This could take time, but the only way to find out who has been there who should not have been there. We will not let anyone leave or come aboard the starbase while the investigation is ongoing." Medical technicians, nurses and doctors are getting to work. Security is on high alert. More sabotage or attempts to destroy Starbase 88 have to be prevented. The duration of the investigation is less than expected. Some of the DNA samples are already identified and the officers matched to those DNA samples can be excluded. But then an unknkown DNA sample is found. This one is a match on a Vulcan, not on the crew roster of Starbase 88, but the male of the Vulcan family that has been come aboard as fugitives. The DNA sample has been collected when the Vulcan family came aboard by a routine medical check. There is no doubt. The Vulcan male was present in Starbase 88 Main Engineering a few minutes before the explosion. He should not have been there. A few moments after the discovery a security team arrests the entire Vulcan family. Players: GVN USS Thunderbolt/The Borg Collective Spoiler alert! Attention! This part of the DS2 RPG contains spoilers for those who have not seen Star Trek Picard! At the Borg Unicomplex good news is coming in. Apparently three Borg drones have succeeded in passing by Federation security on Mars when the Mars Federation governer, Ambassador Ludomen held a speach. The three drones were able to get to the private chambers of Ambassador Ludomen after the speach and the poor man was assimilated. All his knowledge about Mars security, Earth security, some fleet tactics and ship movements were assimilated with him. But there is more. The Borg drones were able to execute the assimilation process in a way that the appearance of the Federation governer, Ambassador Ludomen did not change, so there is no one who will suspect he belongs to the Borg. For the Borg this is a major breakthrough in spying on the Federation. Players: FK USS Walang/Starbase 100 Admiral Hendriks has traveled in time with the Kirie, Trsterts and Yu to stop the Slymak before they arrive here in this galaxy. If they can stop the Slymak threat before it begins, the galaxy could be saved... Players: ML USS Vertigo/Gdonsk Day 320 06.00 Senior staff meeting on the USS Vertigo on its way to GH-2365. Commander Matz has transported from the Gdonsk to attend the meeting. Day 320 06.32 Commodore Slater explains that he has received scematics for a tranwarp drive for the USS vertigo. The new transwarp drive does not work for the Gdonsk, but the Gdonsk can use the subspace drive instead. Day 324 11.41 The transwarp drive has been tested and approved. The USS Vertigo and the Gdonsk will arrive at GH-2365 within 48 hours. Players: NP USS Atlantis/Starbase 99 Aboard Starbase 99 the mess halls are full. The diplomats, scientists and even security personnel enjoys the daily meal, all together. The talk of the day is of course the slowly end of the Slymak threat. "As I understand it the Slymak have already been gone from Federation space." "But the threat is not completely over. They can still destroy the Galaxy. That is what I have heard." "Yeah. I have the impression it is out of our hands now." "Indeed. But those who can handle these Slymak will do so to their own advantage." "Our luck." It is indeed luck for the Federaion that others eliminate the Slymak threat. Players: JM & CP Ovion (Hirogen/Ori/Replicator Vessel) The contact between the Borg and Horkan's Replicators has come to an end. Estimations of the closing of all Slymak portals and the destruction of all Slymak ships will take just a week. The Galaxy will be free of the Slymak threat for ever. It is a hunt that will be remebered for many generations. A week later the hunt is finally over. The last Slymak ships are destroyed. It is the end of a species that has no actual purpose, but to gather all resources in a galaxy. They can go their way until someone stops them. And that is exactly what has happened. It is Horkan himself who contacts Admiral Arthur, in command of Deep Space 2 and thanks him for the suppoprt and the troops. "Admiral. I must confess we could have done this without you and your troops, but we considered this hunt as a competition between your troops and ours. It is not important who has won this, but this hunt was great fun. Maybe we can do this some other time. That would be fun." "Any time Horkan. You know where to find us. We will be ready for any challenge." "Thank you Admiral. We are looking forward to our next contest." The channel is closed. Behind his console Horkan has a huge grin on his face, making a new plan already. Players: TvR DS2 RPG General Status Report June 2021 USS Earth/Starbase 44 Vulcan needs some help with the transport. Admiral Steichen finds this an excellent way to use a transwarp drive to its full potential. "We will send a ship to help the Vulcans to transport Vulcan Ambassador T'don to the vulcan monastery on P'Jem. This makes a transwarp drive very useful." The honor goes to the USS Dodger, Captain Albert Pujols in command. Captain Pujols doesn't lose time. "Helm, engage the transwarp drive and get us to Vulcan." Less than an hour later the USS Dodger arrives at vulcan. According some diplomatic protocols, a shuttle is send to Vulcan to pick up Ambassador T'don. An honor guard accompanies Ambassador T'don to the shuttle. At the same time Captain Pujols asks some more information about Ambassador T'don. The only information he receives is that Ambassador T'don seems to be off in some way. Aboard the USS Dodger Ambassador T'don is treated as an ambassador should be. The transwarp drive is engaged and only 6 minutes later the USS Dodger arrives at P'Jem. "Red alert!" "Lieutenant? What happened?" "Captain. A klingon Vor'cha class attack cruiser has decloaked in front of us. The Klingons demand that we hand over Ambassador T'don. They say Ambassador T'don is a war criminal, but I cannot find anything about that in our database nor in the Vulcan database. Captain, the Klingons say we have one minute." After a very quick talk with Ambassador T'don, the Ambassador denies all accusations. But on the bridge tension is rising. "The Klingons are powering up weapons Captain." Admiral Steichen has some other issues to deal with as well. "Our spies in Romulan space do good work, but we need more information. Let them continue with their work." The Federation spies are contacted in the usual way. A report is not expected soon. And than there is the case of the broken ship which is not broken at all. Discovered in a huge debris field an alien ship has deliberately put in to two halves. "Apparently the alien ship is not broken at all but the two halfs are just separated as if the ship was hit very hard. Like the saucer section of a Galaxy class starship can be separated. It could be a tactic to mislead the enemy. And apparently it worked as the alien ship is clearly left alone. But there is no crew left. They must have fled when their enemy left the battle. Have the team of the USS Greenland put the two halves back together again and start up the ship and navigate to the home planet of this alien species." The alien ship is assembled with a loud noise. It works. The mainpower drive of the alien ship is started up and the FTL drive comes on line. The away team of the USS Greenland sets the autopilot on home and the alien ship starts to move very carefully until it is out of the debris field. Then it jumps to warp. The USS Greenland team aboard the alien ship doesn't have to do anything. Only a few days later the USS Greenland and the alien ship approach a planet. In Orbit there are twelve similar ships battle against a small fleet of much smaller ships. Orbital plarforms are destroying the last ships of the small fleet. The USS Geenland is contacted. "Attention USS Gr.ee.nla.nd, Greenland. This is Donner Central Command. I am Commander Ukin. You have brought back one of our ships. Thank you. We could have retrieved it ourself, but we were busy as you have seen. We are the Donners. We are in war with the Rennods for many millennia. We don't see the end of it. They cannot destroy us and we cannot destroy them. Oh well. That is not your problem. Thank you again." The USS Greenland away team on the Donner ship is transported back aboard the Greenland. Players: CS Starbase 88 After a huge explosion which damaged the main power core of Starbase 88, DNA of a Vulcan family which recently came aboard the starbase is found. The Vulcan family is brought in to be questioned. Admiral Van Nieuwenhove has a simple order. "Interrogate this Vulcan family including the children. Let Vulcan officers do a mind meld if necessary. If they are innocent put them on a ship to bring them to Vulcan. They are free to go." Of course the Vulcans protest, but they are held and a mindmeld is done by Vulcan officers. The mindmeld doesn't take long. Starbase 88 Security Chief Commander Carlo Demaggio waits for answers. "And? Did you get something?" "Commander. These are not Vulcans. These are Romulan Tal Shiar agents, even the children." "What?" "Their mission is to sabotage or destroy Federation ships and facilities. Their is no doubt Commander. The Romulans have sent out these agents, looking like fugitives. But that is only a cover story." "Put them in seperate cells in the brig." "Aye Commander." The entire Vulcan family turns out to be a group of Romulan Tal Shiar spies. But they are now placed under arrest in cellblock number 9 in seperate cells. A few minutes later Commander Carlo Demaggio reports to Admiral Van Nieuwenhove "Admiral, this is Chief of Security Commander Carlo Demaggio. This Vulcan family turned out to be a group of Romulan Tal Shiar spies. Starfleet Security has dispatched a ship to get these Romulan Tal Shiar spies. Starfleet Security will be here in less than a day and we will hold these Tal Shiar spies in a holding cell until they are transfered to Starfleet Security. If you have any advice for Starfleet Security you can inform them of course." Players: GVN USS Thunderbolt/The Borg Collective Spoiler alert! Attention! This part of the DS2 RPG contains spoilers for those who have not seen Star Trek Picard! Most of the Federation is not yet aware that the Borg are back and spying on the Federation from very close. But the Borg also have other things on their collective mind. "Let Xthen, the Replicator go free and thank him! ?? It is true. The Replicators have cleaned Borg space of Slymak. The Borg do not have any trouble anymore with the Slymak. But they are machines so there must be a way on how to disrupt them. Sent discretely some covertly assimilated earthlings tot he Hirogen. How are they able to use and control the replicators." Xthen leaves in peace. An unknown ship transports Xthen aboard and disappears immediately. An hour later Xthen contacts the Borg Collective. "Hello there all of you. You have shown me a gesture of peace and friendship. Therefore I want to invite you to come to the planet called Shierra 4. I will explain to you how we as an Artificial Intelligence work. Maybe we can work together. Maybe we can help eachother in the future. I hope you accept my invitation." It is of course up to the Borg Collective to think about this invitation. Part of the Borg has other goals. "Now that the Slymak are gone, we will start populating the planets on which the Slymak have destroyed all Borg. It is time to relocate, colonize and assimilate." It is what the Borg do. Just another day in the office. But there are still some things that could have consequences. "We will keep using Tal Shiar spies. They have had some success already. A large part of the main generator of Starbase 88 has blown up. The starbase has survived, but is heavily damaged." The Borg wanted to offer help, but the Tal Shiar spies have already been caught by Starbase 88 security troops. The plan of sending out Tal Shiar spies to sabotage Federation ships and facilities and then offer help and then get closer to the Federation could indeed work. But then this plan has to be executed fast. There are other posibilities like assimilating, hiring, even bribing. Players: FK USS Walang/Starbase 100 Admiral Hendriks has traveled in time with the Kirie, Trsterts and Yu to stop the Slymak before they arrive here in this galaxy. If they can stop the Slymak threat before it begins, the galaxy could be saved... Players: ML USS Vertigo/Gdonsk Day 326 10.34 The USS Vertigo and the Gdonsk arrive at GH-2365. there is no sign of satellites, space ships or any activity in space. Day 327 06.00 Senior staff meeting aboard the USS Vertigo, including Commander Matz who is still in command of the Gdonsk. Scans of GH-2365 reveal only primitive life forms. The Gdonsk is certainly not built on GH-2365. Day 327 06.05 Commodore Jeffrey Slater decides to stay at GH-2365 for at leastn a month and upgrade the ship with a transwarp drive. The scematics of this transwarp drive has been sent by Deep Space 2. But that is not all. The Gdonsk is compatible with the new transwarp drive as well. Installation begins. Players: NP USS Atlantis/Starbase 99 Message from Admiral Arthur Commanding Officer Deep Space 2 To all Starfleet Commanding Officers stationed and serving in Federation sectors 45879-49561 Begin Message Good news. The Slymak threat is over. This is confirmed. All Slymak ships and facilities have been destroyed. The Galaxy is safe again. This is the work of a huge Hirogen Hunting group under command of Horkan and their artificial intelligence combine with the artificial intelligence of Deep Space 2. It is my pleasure and honor to call on you to resume your regular duties. Please feel free to explore, invent, improve, discover as Starfleet should. Make first contacts, explore new worlds and travel to extraordinary phenomena. The Super Gateway in orbit of our planet made with Iconian technology which makes travel to other galaxies possible, will stay in operation. If you want to use it just give us a call. Last but not least I am also able to report that we have produced and tested a new kind of transwarp drive. These tests were very successful and we have already deployed several ships which made some serious speed. Please note this new transwarp drive is not like the Tal-Seto FTL drive. So our new transwarp drive does not need jump points. Which is a large improvement. If any of you need the scematics of this new transwarp drive, please contact our Chief Engineer who will be happy to help you with the scematics and any questions you may have. Admiral Arthur CO Deep Space 2 End of Message Players: JM & CP Ovion (Hirogen/Ori/Replicator Vessel) One of the Replicators called Xthen has been captured by the Borg, but because the Borg were not able to assimilate Xthen, They let Xthen go. Horkan has new orders for Xthen. Xthen will invite the Borg and will show the Borg Collective how an artificial intelligence like he is built. Xthen contacts the Borg. "Hello there all of you. You have shown me a gesture of peace and friendship. Therefore I want to invite you to come to the planet called Shierra 4. I will explain to you how we as an Artificial Intelligence work. Maybe we can work together. Maybe we can help eachother in the future. I hope you accept my invitation." It is of course up to the Borg Collective to think about this invitation. Players: TvR DS2 RPG General Status Report July 2021 USS Earth/Starbase 44 The Klingon Captain of a klingon Vor'cha class attack cruiser has accused Vulcan Ambassador T'Don of being a war criminal. The ambassador is aboard of the USS Dodger. Captain Pujols receives orders from Admiral Steichen. "Captain Pujols, I am ordering you to use the transwarp drive and bring Ambassador T'don back to Vulcan. The Klingons cannot be that fast." Captain Pujols does not want to end up in a fight with the Klingons engages the transwarp drive. Without any further interuptions Vulcan Ambassador T'Don is brought back to Vulcan. The Ambassador's planned trip is postponed. Captain Pujols is very pleased with the transwarp drive, but he also knows the Klingons will have a transwarp drive soon enough too. While Admiral Steichen reads the reports there is also something she notices. The Federation spies she sent to the Romulan homeworld, have a short report. They still have no ieda where rogue General Danar is, but all the Tal Shiar agents that have been spying and sabotaging Federation ships and facilities have been captured. At least that is what the Romulan authorities have explaned in the Romulan Senate. The Federation spies on Romulus will try to find out whether this is true. Another report comes from the USS Greenland about the war between the Donners and the Rennods. Admiral Steichen has already taken the first steps to try to help. "The Donners and the Rennods are at war for millennia. We will try to mediate. We will send a ship with a diplomatic team to help mediate between the Donners and the Rennods." It could be a long time before the Donners and the Rennods will be at peace, but on the first day the Federation diplomats already making progress. The work of the USS Greenland is done. The ship continues on the original course. While Admiral Steichen reads the last of the daily reports of her ship's captains a priority message comes in from Bajor. "Starbase 44, this is Ensign Mlombe. I am assigned to Starbase 44 Engineering, but at the moment I am on shore leave on Bajor. I don't really know what to do. I have been helping the local population and during this work, I have found a Federation tricorder of at least two hundred years old. This means that the Federation was already on Bajor two hundred years ago. That would be extremely strange. I do not have the equipment to restart up this tricorder. I think we should find out first wat is in the tricorder's database before we report this to Bajor authorities. Maybe there are more Federation devices here. I am standing by for orders." Players: CS Starbase 88 A group of Tal Shiar spies did a lot of damage to Starbase 88. Admiral Van Nieuwenhove Only has one sollution. "Starfleet Security is coming to get the Romulan Tal Shiar spies. Let Starfleet Security handle it." A day later the Tal Shiar spies have been transported by Starfleet Security to a penal colony where they will be isolated. But the Admiral doesn't take any chances. "We will set up a defense plan to go to war with the Romulans. If the Romulans have plans to attack us, we better be ready." Maybe the Tal Shiar spies were also after information on the newest technology. So it is time to read all the updates on new technology. And there it is. The first message is already a big hit. The message contains scematics and explanations from Starfleet Command on a transwarp drive. Apparently this transwarp drive can be installed on all Starfleet ships. Starbase 88 Chief of Engineering Commander George Senden is very interested and can't wait to install the first transwarp drive on a ship, even on all ships. But the Admiral has to make the final decision. It is rather busy on Starbase 88. In the Gamma Quadrant on a planet called Unitop Ensign Passer and his team have found a Federation tricorder which is at least 200 years old. Is it possible the Federation was already in the Gamma Quadrant 200 years ago? Players: GVN USS Thunderbolt/The Borg Collective Spoiler alert! Attention! This part of the DS2 RPG contains spoilers for those who have not seen Star Trek Picard! Of course the only policy of the Borg Collective is assimilate, assmilate, assimilate. So the Borg keep populating and assimilating planets. For the Borg that is a walk in the park. Within a few weeks 27 planets have been populated, assimilated or worse. Although resistance is futile most people try to fight the Borg when they are getting closer. Usually the Borg don't have to fight that hard to get somewhere. But this time the Collective has received an invitation from XThen the artificial life form. "We are Borg. We will accept the invitation from Xthen, the AI Replicator. Maybe it is a trap, maybe not. If it is not Xthen will explain how he as an AI works. We will be sure to have our drones temporarily offline so they can’t use them to infiltrate our systems." But it is not a trap at all. Xthen is waiting on Shierra 4 and explains how his species has come to this level. It started with very small building blocks. In thousands of years these building blocks assembled themselves to eventually become what they are now. As a token of good will Xthen gives the planet Shierra 4 to the Borg Collective. The entire planet is coverd with small building blocks. The Borg will be able to study these building blocks as long as they want. But none of the building blocks may leave the planet. Far far away of Shierra 4, two Tal Shiar agents are sitting in a bar where they have a conversation with a freighter captain who just delivered a load of self sealing stembolds to Starbase 88. After a few drinks this freighter captain suddenly says something like: "They hate Romulans on Starbase 88. They even have upgraded their weapons and shields against a possible Romulan assault. They really believe the Romulans will attack them because they discovered some Romulan spies. Tal Shiar. I can't believe it. They turned my ship inside out. As if I ha something to do with it. I had to wait three days before I could unload my load. I will never go there again. Never." The freighter captain stands up and returns to his hip and even in his condition he takes of. The two Tal Shiar agents immediately send a report to general Danar. The Borg already have the report in their hands before General Danar does. The Borg Collective wanted to offer help to rebuild Starbase 88 and use the help to try to infiltrate again, perhaps the knowledge of the Marsian and Earth security can help. We need to continue to infiltrate deeper." But this is not as easy as it seems. Until a hidden Borg drone on Mars Post 6 gets his hands on all the security codes of The entire Mars complex. There is only one problem. These codes switch every 6 minutes. The drone confirms he can get the codes again, but if somebody wants to do something with these codes, he has 6 minutes to do it. So there is an opportunity. And there is another opportunity. During the Slimak threat many Federation ships used some kind of Iconian gateway to travel to another galaxy. The Borg have a new plan. "We will send cubes to the Messier Galaxies and establish a foothold over there. There must be new knowledge waiting to be assimiliated." Borg scouts intercept reports from Deep Space 2 that the Messier Galaxies already have been evacuated of all Federation presence. As the Slymak threat is over there is no need anymore to stay in those galaxies. After every Federation ship has returned. It is decided to destroy the gateway. The federation finds that technology to dangerous. Players: FK USS Walang/Starbase 100 Admiral Hendriks has traveled in time with the Kirie, Trsterts and Yu to stop the Slymak before they arrive here in this galaxy. If they can stop the Slymak threat before it begins, the galaxy could be saved... Apparently the mission was a success. The Slymak threat is over. The USS Walang has returned to Starbase 100. It is not clear what has happened and what the crew has done in the past. A next mission is waiting. Players: ML USS Vertigo/Gdonsk Day 329 06.00 Senior staff meeting aboard the USS vertigo. Commodore Slater only has one thing to say. The USS Vertigo and Gdonsk are going back to the Federation. The Slymak threat has ended and the Federation Council finds it more important to explore the home galaxy than another galaxy. Day 330 17.23 It is the USS Vertigo which has travelled the most in Messier galaxy 2. While all other ships have already returned and all starbases, outposts and relay stations have been disassembled and brought back to the home galaxy, the USS Vertigo under command of Commodore Jeffrey Slater, still needs a full day of transwarp drive to get to the gateway. A team is already waiting a full day to destroy this gateway. Day 331 16.58 The USS Vertigo and the Gdonsk travel home through the gate. The gate itself is destroyed by sending it into the nearby star. It is not yet clear what will happen to the alien ship the Gdonsk. Players: NP USS Atlantis/Starbase 99 There is a simple question among the crew of Starbase 99. "How many ships will the 99th fleet have?" "I don't know. I have heard that Starbase 88 has 71 ships in the 88th fleet and Starbase 44 even 180 ships in the 44th fleet." "Wow. That is a lot of ships. Do you think we get as many ships in the 99th fleet?" "I don't know. I don't even know how many ships we have now in the 99th fleet under command of Starbase 99. I thought there were only a few." But one very ambitious Lieutenant interupts. "Well, well, well. Don't you have work to do?" They all jump to their feeth. "Aye sir." The Lieutenant continues his check rounds. Players: JM & CP Ovion (Hirogen/Ori/Replicator Vessel) Horkan has a plan, but the Borg do not know it. Although resistance is futile most people try to fight the Borg when they are getting closer. Usually the Borg don't have to fight that hard to get somewhere. But this time the Collective has received an invitation from XThen the artificial life form. "We are Borg. We will accept the invitation from Xthen, the AI Replicator. Maybe it is a trap, maybe not. If it is not Xthen will explain how he as an AI works. We will be sure to have our drones temporarily offline so they can’t use them to infiltrate our systems." But it is not a trap at all. Xthen is waiting on Shierra 4 and explains how his species has come to this level. It started with very small building blocks. In thousands of years these building blocks assembled themselves to eventually become what they are now. As a token of good will Xthen gives the planet Shierra 4 to the Borg Collective. The entire planet is coverd with small building blocks. The Borg will be able to study these building blocks as long as they want. But none of the building blocks may leave the planet. Players: TvR DS2 RPG General Status Report August 2021 USS Earth/Starbase 44 The strange findings of 200 year old Federation technology on Bajor makes Admiral Steichen make a decision. "We will send a ship to Bajor to investigate the tricorder Ensign Mlombe found in Bajoran soil and start digging. Maybe we will find more old Federation technology." The USS Origine is sent to Bajor where it arrives within a day, using the transwarp drive. The strange old tricorder is examined and all scientists agree that this is a genuine tricorder of 200 years old. It is not clear wich ship or facility it originated from. As soon as the scientists of the USS Origine have permission from the Bajoran government, they transport to the planet and literally start digging. After an hour one of them finds a handphaser in good condition, also 200 years old. Far away from Bajor, outside Federation space the war between the Donners and the Rennods has come to a stop, thanks to the Federation. Both species already have plans to join the Federation. The USS Greenland and other ships continue their exploration outside Federation space. The USS Greenland is sent to Sterna II, a Cardassian outpost abandoned about a hundred years ago. Although not in Cardassian space anymore, it is not clear who has a claim on this region of space. The crew of the USS Greenland is extremely happy with the new transwarp drive. It makes everyone aboard feel much safer. If they are in trouble they can run. Or if they need to go back home, they can be there really fast. As soon as the USS Greenland arrives at Sterna II, regular rosters are changed, officers and crew are assigned to missions on the planet. Only fifteen minutes later the first teams are transported to the planet. It doesn't take much time to discover an entire Cardassian town. But there is something not right. Starbase 44 receives a message from the USS Greenland that the Cardassian outpost, now mostly a ruin, is recently visited. These visitors are certainly not Cardassians. Players: CS Starbase 88 Admiral Geert Van Nieuwenhove is one of many who is surprised that Federation technology has been found in the Gamma Quadrant, especially because that technology is two hundred years old. "I will send a ship to Unitop in the Gamma Quadrant to investigate the tricorder Ensign Passer found in Unitop soil and start digging. Maybe we will find more old Federation technology." The USS Buffalo, Captain Allen in command is sent to the Gamma Quadrant to the planet called Unitop. Aboard the ship are about two hundred scientists to investigate and search the planet Unitop for more Federation technology, even if it is two hundred years old. When the USS Buffalo arives at Unitop, the scientists do not lose any time. They are transported to the planet where they set up a field camp and only an hour later the first scientists are already scanning and expanding the search area. Other scientists have alreay confirmed that the tricorder found by Ensign Passer has found. It doesn't take long for the scientists to find another Federation device, a medical tricorder, also around two hundred years old. And another tricorder, a communicator, another communicator. Three kilometer from where the first tricorder was found, one of the scientists starts shouting and jumping up and down. Apparently she has found something big. Far away from the Gamma Quadrant close to Starbase 88 the USS Northtown has the honor to test the brand new transwarp drive It has to do with the decision made by Admiral Geert Van Nieuwenhove. "We will only install the transwarp drive on one ship and test it first. If the test is successful, we will install the transwarp drive on all our ships." The USS Buffalo speeds up, goes to warp speed, activates the transwarp drive and escapes from the long range sensors of Starbase 88. Two hours later the USS Buffalo comes out of transwarp close to Starbase 88. Captain Allen reports. "Starbase 88 we made six tests of the transwarp drive. We did not have any problems. It works perfectly." Players: GVN USS Thunderbolt/The Borg Collective Spoiler alert! Attention! This part of the DS2 RPG contains spoilers for those who have not seen Star Trek Picard! While the Borg Collective assimilates more and more planets which were lost to the Slymak, some species flee, others fight and find it impossible to win against the Borg. Until now the Borg only lost one ship and that was an accident. It had nothing to do with any fight or battle. "We are Borg. We will study the planet Shierra 4 and all those building blocks. We will be extremely careful." Even the Borg are surprised what these building blocks can do. They are put together and they come to life as a big spider or another form of artificial intelligence. But it is not without danger. Three drones have already been attacked and terminated. The question remains whether the Borg can keep this artificial intelligence under control. Far away from Shierra 4, deep in the Federation in Sector 001, there is a news flash. "... the other side. Several buildings on Mars were destroyed but no casualties were reported. One Vulcan or Romulan has been arrested. We will report live as soon as we have more information. Keep watching Mars Channel 6." The Borg had an idea. "What are we going to do on Mars in less than six minutes? Plant agents and have the Vulcan Isolationist movement perform terrorist attacks (great diversion as well). The slymak threat proves to them that aliens are up to no good. Romulan agents are great at those tasks of influence." The results are clear. Two Borg cubes are sent to Messier Galaxy 54. "We can travel to one of the Messier Galaxies with a transwarp drive. It takes about a month. We don't need an Iconian gatway or any other gateway. In the mean time we will start constructing a gateway of your own. It is more efficient and we can use the newly assimilated people as workerdrones." But not everything is going according plan. To build an Iconian gateway Iconian technology is needed. The Borg collective has to search the entire galaxy for Iconian technology. A lot of ships are needed. In the Messier Galaxy 54 The two Borg cubes encounter a species called Jaricho and the Jaricho think resistance is indeed useful. The Jaricho do not want to be the slave of the Borg Collective. The Jaricho give the Borg one warning: "Leave or be destroyed." Players: FK USS Walang/Starbase 100 The USS Walang has returned to regular duties. Players: ML USS Vertigo / USS Gdonsk Day 338 19.44 The USS Vertigo and Gdonsk arrive at Earth, where the admirality will decide what has to happen with the Gdonsk. Day 339 08.00 Commander Matz pleads to give the Gdonsk to her. She knows the ship best. She only needs a bigger crew. Commodre Jeffrey Slater gives Matz full suport. Day 341 14.00 After a few days of deliberation and evaluation the Admirality has decided Commander Matz will be in command of the Gdonsk, with the rank of Captain. The Gdonsk is now officially the USS Gdonsk. The USS Gdonsk and Captain Matz receive a bigger crew next to her team which has already traveled with the Gdonsk under her command. Most of the new crewmembers have experience with alien technology and fit in rather fast. Players: NP USS Atlantis/Starbase 99 Adm. Tom J. Walker Personal Log, We are in our forth day since our arrival on StarBase 99, so far I have met half of senior officers! I had no idea the inpact it would have seeing so many different races together on this Starbase, in my briefing by Captain Luhr there are about 250.000 people on this base, with only half Federation menbers. My father and mother are inspecting to meet tomorrow, I wonder what this about. My wife T’Lan doesn’t know what about, but..." Message coming through from Starfleet comand: "Bridge command, this Walker, I inform Starfleet Command about the Super Gateway. And will get aback on that during my briefing update! And please inform Commander Anaaka, that wish to be inform about Moadib defences!" "Also I like to speak with Captain Sonak, about the Atlantis readyness!" "That is all. Walker out." Then a message comes in. To all Starfleet Commanding Officers stationed and serving in Federation sectors 45879-49561 Begin Message Good news. The Slymak threat is over. This is confirmed. All Slymak ships and facilities have been destroyed. The Galaxy is safe again. This is the work of a huge Hirogen Hunting group under command of Horkan and their artificial intelligence combine with the artificial intelligence of Deep Space 2. It is my pleasure and honor to call on you to resume your regular duties. Please feel free to explore, invent, improve, discover as Starfleet should. Make first contacts, explore new worlds and travel to extraordinary phenomena. Last but not least I am also able to report that we have produced and tested a new kind of transwarp drive. These tests were very successful and we have already deployed several ships which made some serious speed. Please note this new transwarp drive is not like the Tal-Seto FTL drive. So our new transwarp drive does not need jump points. Which is a large improvement. If any of you need the scematics of this new transwarp drive, please contact our Chief Engineer who will be happy to help you with the scematics and any questions you may have. Admiral Arthur CO Deep Space 2 End of Message Apparently Admiral Arthur thinks a transwarp drive is safer and easier to use. Additional structures, like gates are not necessary any more. So the Gateway at Deep Space 2 is towed towards the Deep Space 2 star where it is destroyed, while on Deep Space 2 the crew cheers. A new era begins, the era of exploration. Players: JM & CP Ovion (Hirogen/Ori/Replicator Vessel) "We are Borg. We will study the planet Shierra 4 and all those building blocks. We will be extremely careful." Even the Borg are surprised what these building blocks can do. They are put together and they come to life as a big spider or another form of artificial intelligence. But it is not without danger. Three drones have already been attacked and terminated. The question remains whether the Borg can keep this artificial intelligence under control. Far away from Shierra 4, Horkan smiles. His plan is going as it should. Players: TvR DS2 RPG General Status Report September 2021 USS Earth/Starbase 44 Several 200-year-old Federation equipment will be brought together with some other Federation equipment on Bajor, where they will be studied. Admiral Steichen who is leading the investigation seems very interested. "Now we have permission from the Bajoran government, we will have scientists continue their search on Bajor in the region where Ensign Mlombe found a Federation tricorder of at least two hundred years old." One test after another and more tests and more old equipment is brought in. And then suddenly one of the scientists makes a discovery. "Sir sir! I have something. Here sir!" "What is it Ensign?" "Here sir. Look. This signature. It is from the mirror universe." "Mirror universe? Are you sure?" "Positive sir. It is confirmed. Sir, someone from the mirror universe has been here 200 years ago. There is no doubt." A few minutes later Starbase 44 receives the new discovered data. At that moment the Admiral has just taken another decision about the Cardassian outpost on Sterna II. "At Sterna II, the crew of the USS Greenland has, as expected, found a 100-year-old abandoned Cardassian outpost. We will not inform the Cardassian authorities and continue the search." Slowly the search area on Sterna II is expanded and more crewmembers of the USS Greenland are involved. The first reports are coming in about the population of the outpost. "To be exact sir, there were 406 Caradassians living here before the outpost was abandonned. We are still looking for the answers to why they all left. They did leave all at the same time. We presume they were picked up." "Keep gathering data. If they left in a hurry, this planet could be dangerous." "We haven't found a power source yet. But if the Cardassians left some kind of computer, we would be able to speed up things." Only a few days later Chief Petty Officer Kji and his team ask for an immediate emergency transport to the base camp. Chief Petty Officer Kji reports looking around like a wild animal. "Did everyone make it? OK. That is good. Everyone clean?" His team members look at themselves and reply that they are clean. "OK. That is good. that is good. Sirs, we have found a huge nest of some kinds of bugs. They did not show as a life form on our tricoders, but they were really there. We didn't see them. There was an open plain. There were millions. Small insect-like creatures. a small group of those animals came forward in our direction. They formed words in standard Federation. And so it said in the dust: leave, we don't want you here." Players: CS Starbase 88 The USS Buffalo and USS Northtown have successfully tested the new transwarp drive. Admiral Van Nieuwenhove is not convinced yet. "We will test more different types of ships to make sure this transwarp drive works on all ships." More classes of ships are equipped with the new transwarp drives. All tests are very successful. The crews of the ships are excited about the new transwarp drives, but they need permission of the Admiral to keep them installed. And the Admiral has other orders as well concerning the finding of 200-year-old Federation technology in the Gamma quadrant on the planet Unitop. "The planet Unitop clearly holds secrets. Stop the search. This is to weird. First of all search all Starfleet databases for possible travelers or Starfleet ships that have been disapeared two hundred years ago." The USS Buffalo returns to the Gamma Quadrant to pick up the teams which are searching for 200-year-old Federation technology. After a extended search in the Federation database it is clear that no Federation ship has ever been to the planet Unitop in the Gamma Quadrant. Not recently and certainly not 200 years ago. When the USS Buffalo is transporting the last teams from the search on Unitop aboard, there is one team which has something to report. "Sir sir! I have something. Here sir. Look. This signature. It is from the mirror universe. It is confirmed. Sir, someone from the mirror universe has been here 200 years ago. There is no doubt." Players: GVN USS Thunderbolt/The Borg Collective Spoiler alert! Attention! This part of the DS2 RPG contains spoilers for those who have not seen Star Trek Picard! While the Borg Collective keeps assimilating planets and entire populations on Shierra 4 all the Artificial Intelligence building blocks will be destroyed. "Destroy these building blocks on Shierra 4. This is to dangerous." But at the same time this technology seems to be interesting. "We will start building and programming building blocks to produce the perfect Borg drone. It does not matter how it looks like as long as it assimilates other species." Not only assimilation is a trademark of the Borg. The Borg are getting reallyt good in infiltration. And they are coming close to Earth. "It is time to replace some of the people of Mars with syntetics and get hold of a lot of tech advances from the Federation." One by one but extremely fast the entire population on Mars has been replaced. All new arrivals are also replaced. Communications with Earth and even communication between the family and the Borg substitution does not lead to suspicion. And the Borg is not stopping in this Galaxy. "We will try to assimilate this species called Jaricho in the Messier Galaxy 54. The Jaricho technology is new so the Borg have not yet addapted, so there is a risk. A risk the Borg are willing to take." But nothing is what it seems. All Borg ships trying to attack the Jaricho, are destroyed rather fast. The Borg did not have time to addapt. The plan to make an Iconian gateway will probably a long term plan. "To build a gateway based on Iconian technology we need Iconian technology. We will send as much ships out in the Galaxy to find Iconian technology. We need at least two gates to make a connection." Players: FK USS Walang/Starbase 100 The USS Walang has returned to regular duties. Players: ML USS Vertigo / USS Gdonsk Day 341 22.00 A new feature on the USS Gdonsk has been discovered by the engineers aboard The USS Gdonsk has stealth tecnology, much superior to a cloaking system. Day 342 12.31 After several tests the stealth technology of the USS Gdonsk is approved. Captain Matz is very pleased. Day 343 08.41 The USS Gdonsk and USS Vertigo are on their way on their first official mission. Players: NP USS Atlantis/Starbase 99 While Admiral Tom Walker is checking the status of his starbase and his ships, the crew has already returned to regular duties. The duty roster is of course much larger than that of a starship, but the shifts, teams and units are well organized. Although there are 250 thousand people on board, the starbase does not seem busy at all. Starbase 99 is also an example of many species working and living together without any problems. And on top of that, Starfleet Command is very pleased with Admiral Tom Walker in command of Starbase 99. He has just arrived and is already getting the job done. Players: JM & CP Ovion (Hirogen/Ori/Replicator Vessel) Something unexpected has happened. The Borg have kept some building blocks, but the Borg have destroyed all building blocks on Shierra 4. With the building blocks the Borg kept they are building the perfect drone. This is something Horkan has foreseen. This is part of the plan. Players: TvR DS2 RPG General Status Report October 2021 USS Earth/Starbase 44 On Bajor 200-year old equipment is found with a mirror universe signature. This poses a problem. Are there still pepole from the mirror universe in our own universe or even descendents. On Sterna II, the crew of the USS Greenland has found a huge nest of bugs. It could explain why the Cardassians left their outpost on Sterna II about a hundred years ago. Players: CS Starbase 88 "Install the transwarp drive on all our ships." Admiral Van Nieuwenhove has spoken. A day later all 71 ships of the 88th fleet attached to Starbase 88, have installed the new transwarp drive. Only an hour after the last transwarp drive has been installed Starfleet Command has a request. "Admiral Van Nieuwenhove, I am Admiral Tagovailoa. I have a request. It is not an order. So if you refuse, that is understandable and it will not be held against you. It will not damage your carreer. Do you understand? All right then. The Cardassian Ambasador Letek has to be brought to Cardassia Prime. He will travel alone. We would like you to send a ship to Earth and bring the Cardassian Ambassador to Cardassia Prime." Aboard Starbase 88 most officers are not thinking about a Cardassian Ambassador. They are interested in the objects found on the planet Unitop in the Gamma Quadrant. But also the Admiral is interested. "A mirror universe signature can only be interesting. We will look for a portal to the mirror universe. Maybe it's 200 years old, but maybe it's still close. This is a chance to meet ourselves or at least the mirror version of ourselves." The search for traces of the mirror universe has started and it doesn't take long. Only a day later traces of a portal to the mirror universe are found. It is not clear how old the traces are, but once there has been a portal to the mirror universe right there. Now that the original portal is found some of the engineers have a way to reactivate it. "Sir, we can still open this portal to the mirror universe. But we do not know what is on the other side." Players: GVN USS Thunderbolt/The Borg Collective Spoiler alert! Attention! This part of the DS2 RPG contains spoilers for those who have not seen Star Trek Picard! In the Messier Galaxy 54 The Borg have a little problem. Little? Maybe a bit bigger. The Jaricho, a very advanced species, have beaten the Borg very badly. So the Borg make a decision. "We will stay away from this species called Jaricho in the Messier Galaxy 54. We will give it up. There are a lot of other species. And we will send cubes to assimilate other species in the vicinity of the Jaricho… Perhaps they have a clue." And so the Borg continu to explore the Messier Galaxy 54. The species close to the Jaricho are easy to assimilate, but most of them are to primitive and have had no contact with the Jaricho in any way, except for the Ludrocs. The Ludrocs are at the level of space travel and exploring their own star system. the Ludrocs have found some equipment left by the Jaricho on the fourth planet of their system. These pieces of equipment could be a thousand years old, but still interesting for the Borg to assimilate. But the Borg have more plans. "We will not give up the plan to build a gateway based on Iconian technology we need Iconian technology. We will keep sending ships out in the Galaxy to find Iconian technology." But the main activity of the Borg is still assimilation. But they get help from the sythetics and the Tal Shiar who have already replaced everyone on Mars. "Mars is taken… Gather as much intelligence as possible. We will have the Tal Shiar prepare for the other colonies in the 001-sector but wait with Earth as that will prove to be a strong bastion, so first take the supportstructure away from the surrounding planets and colonies and fleet." The Federation has no idea about the plans of the Borg. But the Collective is very busy. Commodore Oh, also known as General Nedar, at the Borg Unicomplex receives a few messages from her spies in Sector 001. "General, we are ready. Just give the order and we will take Earth's moon." Players: FK USS Walang/Starbase 100 The USS Walang has returned to regular duties. Players: ML USS Vertigo / USS Gdonsk Day 349 10.23 The USS Vertigo and USS Gdonsk arrive at the Kjeltam system. Deep Space probes have indicated there is an M-class planet in this system. Day 349 14.00 Kjeltam II is a M-class planet. Scans have already begun. Life is primitive on this planet. Day 349 22.00 First reports of Kjeltam II are promissing. This planet could be colonized. Players: NP USS Atlantis/Starbase 99 Sometimes it is busy on Starbase 99. "Starbase 99, this is shuttlecraft Hungaria. We have some trouble with the engines. We cannot control the warp drive. We jump to warp and slow down again to impulse speed. You will need to bring us in with a tractor beam." Just after a warp jump the Starbase 99 tractor beam grabs shuttlecraft Hungaria and the shuttle is pulled into spacedock. Just in time the pilot shuts down the engines. A second later and the shuttle had jumped to warp within spacedock. While there is cheering on the shuttlecraft, a Ferengi freighter almost crashes against a Vulcan science ship. And if that is not enough there is a fire in the messhall because one not so smart crewman tried to cook himself. The fire caused smoke and some damage but was put out after two minutes. Two nausicans were caught steeling in one of the cargobays. It took twelve security officers to get them under control and lock them up in the brig. Sometimes it is busy on Starbase 99. Players: JM & CP Ovion (Hirogen/Ori/Replicator Vessel) The Borg are still building the perfect drone, but unknown to the Borg Horkan and his team have direct contact with the building blogs the Borg are using. The hunters of the Hirogen group just have to wait to see what will happen. Players: TvR DS2 RPG General Status Report November 2021 USS Earth/Starbase 44 On Bajor 200-year old equipment is found with a mirror universe signature. But that should not be a problem. Admiral Steichen must be curious. "A mirror universe signature can only be dangerous. e will look for a portal to the mirror universe. Maybe it's 200 years old, but maybe it's still close to here." The search for traces of the mirror universe has started and it doesn't take long. Only a day later traces of a portal to the mirror universe are found. It is not clear how old the traces are, but once there has been a portal to the mirror universe right there. Now that the original portal is found some of the engineers have a way to reactivate it. "Sir, we can still open this portal to the mirror universe. But we do not know what is on the other side." On Sterna II the scientists are looking directly to a new species of small bugs who can communicate by forming words by grouping together. The Admiral who is following the mission of the USS Greenland almost by the minute knows how important first contact can be. "The new species the USS Greenland crew found on Sterna II could be the reason why the Cardassians left the planet and never came back. A new species like this could be the most important find ever. The collective existence of this species could well serve as an example for better cooperation in the Federation. Try to communicate with them." The USS Greenland scientists tell the Bugs they come in peace and they do not mean to harm anyone. It is clear the Bugs do not want outsiders, but after twenty minutes tension has dropped. The Bugs present a gift. It is something they make themselves. It is some kind of candy. It is delicious. When the USS Greenland scientists ask the Bugs what they can do for them there is a long and complex answer. "We don't like intruders who destroy our planet. We would like you to stop the Uniwerps who are living in the neighbouring system. They come several times every cycle and they steal all the fruit of our trees. We cannot stop them. They are to many. Please help us." Players: CS Starbase 88 Admiral Van Nieuwenhove has several issues on his table. One of them he handles very quickly. "We will not open a portal to the mirror universe. We now know where these objects came from. That is all we need to know. We will build an outpost close to where the traces of the portal to the mirror universe are located. We will use the outpost to post a unit to guard this location." The outpost is built in a few days and a small unit is stationed at the outpost just in case. Then there is a request from Admiral Tagovailoa asking to bring Cardassian ambassador Letek to Cardassia Prime. "We will bring Cardassian ambassador Letek to Cardassia Prime. It is a good way to use the transwarp drive." The USS Dolphin is sent to Earth to pick up Cardassian ambassador Letek. The transwarp drive is put to good use and only a few hours later the USS Dolphin enters Cardaasian space. But there is a surprise. "Captain Two Romulan warbirds have decloacked in front of us. They are demanding that we give them Cardassian ambassador Letek.é "What?" "Captain, the Romulans say if we do not give them Cardassian ambassador Letek to them they will open fire." Admiral Van Nieuwenhove is contacted by the USS Dolphin asking orders what to do with Cardassian ambassador Letek. Then there are some new issues as well on the Admiral's table. A deep space probe has discovered a spacial anomaly in Sector 29992 outside Federation space. Another deep space probe has detected a unknown powersource in Sector 58765 outside Federation space. Players: GVN USS Thunderbolt/The Borg Collective Spoiler alert! Attention! This part of the DS2 RPG contains spoilers for those who have not seen Star Trek Picard! After the defeat against the Jaricho, apparently a very advanced species in Messier Galaxy 54, The Borg have moved on. Their objectives have stayed the same. Addapting and assimilation. Everythnig that can be used will be added to the Borg's collective. They have a chance with the Ludrocs who also have found Jaricho technology. The Borg want to get their hands on this technology, but first they have to get by the Ludrocs. In their home galaxy the Borg Collective has been gathering resources to build an Iconian gateway. Mainly Iconian technology is still needed. After Mars has been gained, Tal Shiar agents are preparing to infiltrate and sabotage other Federation facilities under leadership of General Nedar, also known to the Federation as Commodore Oh. Players: FK USS Walang/Starbase 100 The USS Walang has returned to regular duties. Players: ML USS Vertigo / USS Gdonsk Day 350 14.00 Senior staff meeting on the USS Vertigo. Captain Matz reports the sensors of the USS Gdonsk have detected more than a thousand smaller lakes with drinkable water on the main continent on Kjeltam II. Day 350 14.05 Commodore Slater, in command of the mission is happily surprised that the sensors of the USS Gdonsk can detect so detailed. It is time to send away teams to the planet to study all life forms on the planet. Day 350 16.00 The first away teams are sent to the surface of Kjeltam II. Main objective is to see whether this planet is suitable for colonization. Players: NP USS Atlantis/Starbase 99 It is getting more busy than usual on Starbase 99. In the huge lounge some officers and civilians are looking at the stars through the large windows. Someone sees a piece of metal coming of the hull. Twenty seconds later two engineers in EVA suits are already outside. During the one hour spacewalk they make repairs. The people in the lounge applaud. At 14.00 there is a security drill on the entire station. Everyone who is not involved jump aside when the security officers run by. The exercise is a big success. In main engineering six officers and two technicians are repairing the fusion chamber which is housed in the generator shell. The repairs take 17 minutes. Tactical is testing the new upgraded tractor beam. It does not work very well yet. A Bajoran freighter is hit by the tractor beam, but the only result is that the ship is on a hold for a few seconds. Excuses are made to the Bajorans. It will never happen again. Oh well. Just another day at the office. Players: JM & CP Ovion (Hirogen/Ori/Replicator Vessel) Ten more stardrive cities have been completed. They are sent out to different locations in the Galaxy. Horkan also has a plan to expand to another galaxy. So one ship is sent to Messier Galaxy 4658. The journey will take at least six months. Players: TvR DS2 RPG General Status Report December 2021 USS Earth/Starbase 44 On Starbase 44 the commanding Officer Admiral Steichen makes a bold decision concerning the findings on Bajor originating from the Mirror Universe, especially when a portal is found. "Open the portal to the mirror universe." The order of the Admiral is clear and is followed without question. The portal is opened. On the other side there is not much difference. It is as if one can just walk from one side to the other and not knowing on the other side is the mirror universe. But nothing is like it seems. Only a few seconds after opening the portal it is clear that in the Mirror universe there is still a war going on. Small groups of people are firing weapons on a small group of three, two people, only one. But the one seems to be rather fast. It is a human female. She returns fire which makes her attackers duck on the ground for cover. It is incredible she makes it to the gateway. She dives through it. She pushes some bittons on the padd she is holding. The gateway to the Mirror Universe closes. The woman is surrounded by Starfleet officers pointing weapons. There is no escape in this universe. The womand drops her hand phaser, her phaser rifle and her padd. "I ask political asylum in this universe." But the Lieutenant in command of the team does not want to make that kind of decisions. He contacts Starbase 44. "Attention Starbase 44. Admiral Steichen, I think you should see this. Someone has come over from the mirror universe. She asks for political asylum in our universe." As the officers and Admiral Steichen look at the main viewer it is completely silent in Starbase 44 operations. The woman who asks for political asylum looks exactly like Admiral Steichen. Far away from Bajor, the USS Greenland crew is making preparations to leave Sterna II. A few minutes ago they have received areders from Starbase 44. "First the bug species on Sterna II was not willing to welcome newcomers on their planet. Now they are already giving a gift. But there is something we have to do in return. We are asked to stop the Uniwerps in the neighbouring system. We will not fight with the Uniwerps until we have talked to them. Maybe some kind of treaty can be made." The USS Greenland travels to the Uniwerps planet. As they make contact the Uniwerps do not want anyone of the USS Greenland to land on their planet. "Bugs on Sterna II? They are intelligent species? That is not our information. That planet is uninhabited. We must gather our resources there. We only come to that planet two times every cycle. If there is an intelligent speies there, we can talk. We can trade. But our budget does not allow to go now. Traveling in space is very expensive. We can go after half a cycle." There are to many questions still unanswered. What are the Uniwerps looking for on Sterna II? do they harm the Bugs when they come? Players: CS Starbase 88 Cardassian ambassador Letek was on his way to Cardassia aboard the USS Dolphin, a Federation ship. But the USS Dolphin is threatened by Romulans who want to get their hands on the Cardassian ambassador. Admiral Van NIeuwenhove will not let that happen. "Do not give the Cardassian ambassador Letek to the Romulans. It is not proven that Cardassian ambassador Letek is a war criminal. Get Cardassian ambassador Letek back to Earth using the transwarp drive. The Romulans can never catch you." The orders are clear. The USS Dolphin uses the transwarp drive to speed up to Earth where Cardassian ambassador Letek is dropped of. Starbase 88 does not have enough ships to start exploration missions. At least that is what Admiral Van Nieuwenhove thinks. "We need all our ships to patrol the region around our starbase. We will not start exploring missions." And so it happens. All ships of the 88th fleet are patrolling in protective paterns in the region of Starbase 88. All incoming ships are stopped, scanned and searched. It makes life on Starbase 88 much more relaxing. It is really calm which makes officers address the Admiral asking for a vacation because there is not much to do. All maintenance is done. All repairs are done. Just when everyone thought there was nothing to do, Captain Watson in command of the the USS Houston reports his ship has stopped a ship of the Coroners who ask for help. "Starbase 88, Admiral, this is Captain Watson in command of the USS Houston. We have stopped a ship of the Coroners. The Coroners have several disputes with their neighbour planet of the Vertons. Both planets are in the same starsystem, but their relation is really bad. It doesn't need much to start a war from both sides. The Coroners ask us for help." Players: GVN USS Thunderbolt/The Borg Collective Spoiler alert! Attention! This part of the DS2 RPG contains spoilers for those who have not seen Star Trek Picard! While the Borg Collective keeps assimilating the worlds they need for their expansion, a rather large part of the planets they used to have as colonies were lost to the Slymak and have to be colonized again. It is a difficult process. In the Alpha and Beta Quadrant a more cunning plan of the Borg has been set in motion. Assimilation behind the scenes. Small colonies, outposts and smaller communities are assimilated unnoticed. Players: FK USS Vertigo / USS Gdonsk Day 351 14.00 Senior staff meeting on the planet Kjeltam II. The planet is beautiful, no dangerous animals, no poisenous plant life, even the weather is very nice. Day 352 22.00 Senior staff meeting on Kjeltam II. It is to early to conclude this planet is suitable for colonization, but everything looks promissing. Day 354 14.00 Senior staff meeting on Kjeltam II. All members of the crews of the USS Vertigo and USS Gdonsk have been to the planet. It is a huge boost for morale. Players: NP USS Atlantis/Starbase 99 Aboard Starbase 99. "What do you think?" "It looks great. But what is that?" "I don't know. Lieutenant could you have a look sir. This might be a problem." The very tall lieutenant only needs a few steps to join his two junior officers. "Gentlemen, this is a malfunction of the stellar graviton detectors. We have to realign them. actually you are going to do that. I will be back to see your results. "Aye sir." The two start their diagnostic of the new shuttlecraft. The navigational system has to be working perfectly. As it should be. Admiral Walker will not ask for anything else. Players: JM & CP Ovion (Hirogen/Ori/Replicator Vessel) Horkan's plan becomes even more diabolical. It is all about the hunt. New hunting grounds are for the taking. More Hirogen groups are joining up with Horkan. It is going to be one big hunting party. The question is, will these Hirogen hunt without the protection of their artificial friends. Players: TvR