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==CR-718==
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}}{{quote|In the new era, thought itself will be transmitted by radio.|'''Guglielmo Marconi'''}}
Relay Station CR-718 is a ''Marconi''-class subspace communications relay and hub station intended for 2nd-tier communications trunkline usage as well as sector communications coordination. CR-718 is placed on the [[United Federation of Planets|Federation]] side of the [[Badlands]] to serve the coreward regions of the Bajor Sector not served by the communications hub within the Bajor system itself. The station also serves as the first station in the relay chain installed across the Badlands to provide constant near-realtime communications with Deep Space 47. CR-718's increased transmission power and sensitive receiver array allowed for materials savings of 2 whole unmanned arrays across the badlands, greatly reducing maintenance requirements as well for the teams responsible for ensuring the Badlands Chain is operational with a 99% uptime expectation.
 
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==Daloon IV==
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| name = Daloon IV
| image =  
| starsystem = Daloon
| sector =
| quadrant = [[Beta Quadrant]]
| class = M
| satellites = 1
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| hydrosphere = 75%
| affiliation = Associate status with the [[Romulan Republic]]
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Prior to the collapse of the Star Empire of Rator and the Romulan Star Empire before it, Daloon IV was a sleepy world within the Empire's borders. A sizable population of a few hundred million for the most part have survived the ebb and flow of history over the centuries by simply being mostly forgettable in the grand scheme of things.
'''The Lost Fleet''' was the fourth Bravo Fleet [[Fleet Action]] which ran from 5 May, 2023 to 18 June, 2023. It consisted of three phases that each progressed the story of the return of the [[Dominion|Dominion's]] Lost Fleet, last seen<ref>DS9 6x06 : [[ma:Sacrifice of Angels (episode)|Sacrifice of Angels]]</ref> being removed from history by the [[ma:Prophet|Bajoran Prophets]] and the subsequent invasion of the [[Deneb Sector]] in early 2401 by Dominion and [[Breen Confederacy]] forces.


No critically important mineral resources, slightly above average agricultural output, respectable but not leading edge education facilities - all things that conspired to keep Daloon a worthy prize, but not at the forefront of anyone's strategic thinking. No senators of conquering heroes ever hailed from Daloon, nor particularly well-off families on the scale of those that pulled the strings of the Empire. Daloon was big enough to avoid serving the Empire, but not being enough to be served by the Empire.  
The Fleet-wide mission can be found [https://bravofleet.com/mission/76499 here].


Rulership of Daloon was handled by an Imperial Magistrate, appointed by the Senate with the recommendation of the outgoing magistrate and typically handled as 'business as usual'. The last three centuries saw the position of magistrate fall into the hands of a local patrician family, the L'rilt family, maintaining power through a careful mixture of well-managed government, grooming capable successors and seeing less-desirable heirs sent off to do their duty to the Empire and hopefully discover a life for themselves in the more metropolitan centres.
==The Story==
===Background===
====Return of the Lost Fleet====
In February of 2401<ref>Lost : https://bravofleet.com/story/76502</ref> the crew of the research ship ''Sef'' under the direction of the Trill scientist Doctor Marl Trojet attempted to reproduce the work of Doctor Lenara Kahn - the creation of an [[MA:Wormhole#Artificial_wormholes|artificial wormhole]]. Due to scientific institutions across the Federation not willing to entertain Trojet, he was forced to conduct his experiments without support and outside of Federation space.


===Fall of the Rator Empire===
The artificial wormhole that was created by Trojet et al however was not a true wormhole with two fixed aperture points as desired. Instead, the aperture that his team had managed to create, inherently unstable much like Doctor Khan's was in the 2370s, had pierced into whatever pocket of reality that the Prophets, the entities residing within the [[ma:Bajoran Wormhole|Bajoran Wormhole]], had stashed the Dominion invasion fleet that had been transiting the wormhole during the height of the Dominion War and effectively blockading the Alpha Dominion from support from home territories.


===Current Poilitical Situation===
These vessels, now free, had not experienced the passage of time and were still on a war footing, believing the Federation to still be their target. While they found themselves out past the Federation's Deneb frontier, their leaders continued with the orders they had when they had departed - assaulting, conquering and occupying Federation territory in the name of the Founders and the Dominion.
Daloon IV has entered a brave new political era, free of the Star Empire of Romulus or Rator. With the recent ratification by the People's Assembly of the '''Founding Principals and Actions Declaration''' (FPAD), serving as the first of Daloon's principal governmental documents, Daloon IV has started the process of crafting its own governmental regime. The Declaration, while not a full constitution, was drafted to allow the newly formed government to form certain political offices and set the guidelines that are dictating the processes for follow-up documents.


Reaching an accord between two of the larger political groups, Daloon IV has adopted a co-governance model between the old magisterial family, elevated to the newly formed position of Princeps, and a popularly elected official who also carries the title of Princeps for a period of six local years (7.5 Standard Years). The latter is commonly referred to as the People's Princeps by Daloon's fledgling media services at this time. By the terms set in the FPAD, both Princeps are equal in rank and authority, with a veto from either enough to end a piece of legislation without a supermajority of the newly formed Senate to override. A veto from both requires a unanimous Senate vote followed by a majority plebiscite to overrule.
====Invasion of the Deneb Sector====
With surprise on their side, Dominion forces, aware of the Breen's amenable attitudes to their intentions, reached out to the Confederacy to assist in the resumption of a war long finished. Seeing an opportunity for territorial expansion, the Breen agreed with the Dominion's assault on the Federation and a series of border raids and skirmishes first started along the frontier. Remote colonies, small outposts and ships operating by themselves were the first to be hit, whittling away at the Federation's early warning systems. Those messages that did manage to get through found silence or dismissal at the claims of Dominion or Breen incursions - the results of a Changeling conspiracy within Starfleet and the Federation find advantage in the chaos across the borders.


While the Principes form the Heads of State, the FPAD lays out provisions for a Head of Government to arise from the Senate. This position, the Secretary-General, is charged with the day-to-day running of the government and answers to the Principes in all matters currently.
Having managed to successfully gauge the strength of the Federation's local defenders and silence any attempt at a Federation-wide response to the attack, Dominion forces, operating still without communication with the Dominion in the Gamma Quadrant, launched their full-scale invasion across the entire Deneb Border, plunging the entire sector into chaos as refugees fled from the border for the core territories, only to find a Federation and Starfleet that didn't believe them and was woefully unprepared for what was to come.


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====Fourth Fleet response====
! style="width: 300px; border-bottom:solid 0px; font-size: 1rem;" | Princeps
As reports of the Dominion and Breen incursions into the Deneb Sector began to filter through, Changeling infiltrators within Starfleet and the Federation bureaucracy worked to stifle any response at a Federation-wide level. With no orders or even acknowledgement of an issue occurring, Fourth Fleet Command opted to respond to the issue independently of Starfleet Command under the unique authorisation that had formed the Fourth Fleet in the first place to respond to rapidly developing crises.
! style="width: 300px; border-bottom:solid 0px; font-size: 1rem;" | People's Princeps
! style="width: 300px; border-bottom:solid 0px; font-size: 1rem;" | Secretary-General
|-
| 2400 - Present
*Rel L'rilt
| 2400 - Present
*Ritihe Faler
| 2400 - Present
*Pamisa
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While eschewing joining the Romulan Republic at this time, the largest and most stable of the interstellar powers nearby, Daloon has entered into a cautious close association agreement with the Republic. Republic vessels are free to visit and a small resupply station has been allowed to be constructed in orbit though construction has yet to begin. The number of visiting ships is also a contested point in Daloon-Republic relations while Daloon seeks to modernise the planetary defences that Starfleet brought online recently.
Multiple Fourth Fleet vessels were dispatched on a variety of endeavours to buy time for a concentrated response and to address the Dominion forces from multiple angles. Other assets were ordered to assemble a defence for the sector capital before any form of large-scale Dominion attack could be arranged.


Daloon's own industrial and agricultural base does allow it some leeway in building a platform of influence amongst its neighbours, especially those still outside of the Republic. While more conservative groups may wish to focus purely on Daloon's own needs and wants, radical and forward-thinking elements of the government, including both Principes, are not blind to the possibility of 'building the peace' by helping out their neighbours in an effort to build a bubble around Daloon and perhaps make it a logical regional centre should Daloon ever join the Republic. At a minimum local stability and curtailing the rise of malcontents is a desired goal for Daloon's own security concerns.
<pre>Mention the key missions that took place? ie Off to go speak with the Great Link, Operation Phone-a-friend etc etc</pre>


With both Starfleet and Republic assistance, Daloon has purchased a number of small craft to assist in planetary defence and trade protection. The newly formed Daloon Guard incorporates elements of the planet's previous garrison and guard forces and is supplemented currently by advisors from both the Republic and Starfleet.
===Battle of Farpoint===
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}}The Battle of Farpoint in the Deneb system marked the last major action of the crisis caused by the reappearance of Dominion forces assaulting the Federation. Forces of the Lost Fleet, unwilling to follow the [[ma:Great Link|Great Link's]] orders to stand down and be escorted to the Gamma Quadrant formed up for an assault on [[Farpoint Station]] with the intent to capture the regional capital and its facilities to allow for continued operations against the Federation.


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[[Fourth Fleet]], with no reinforcements from Starfleet Command, or the old Federation Alliance members, fell back to Deneb alongside elements of the [[Cardassian Union]]'s 9th Order to defend the system and hopefully break the back of the Dominion assault. As preparations were made to reinforce the system as much as possible, ships that had been dispersed across the Deneb Sector to blunt the Dominion advance were recalled post-haste to join the defenders.


==Ayer's Rock==
Dominion forces eventually arrived in the Deneb system and began their assault on the system, rapidly moving in system and engaging the defenders on multiple axes. Unbeknownst to all but a few, efforts to engage with the historical Federation Alliance members or their successor states, had been undertaken by Captain Theodoras on the direction of Vice Admiral Beckett. These efforts were largely successful and ultimately timely as the [[USS Atlantis|USS ''Atlantis'']] arrived soon after the Dominion attack began<ref>What Price for Peace - 20 : https://bravofleet.com/story/82569</ref>, bringing with it a collection of [[Romulan Republic]] ships, a large collection of House Lorkoth forces from the [[Klingon Empire]] and a handful of Tholian vessels that were there to ensure no temporal disturbances were present or unaccounted for after the battle.
{{Planet
| name = Ayer's Rock
| image = [[File:Ayer's Rock - Monument Valley.jpg]]
| starsystem =
| sector = [[Archanis Sector]]
| quadrant = [[Beta Quadrant]]
| class = M (marginal)
| satellites = 2
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| climate =
| hydrosphere = 68%
| affiliation = [[United Federation of Planets]]
| natives =
| population = ~750,000
| capital = Landing
| templatemode = nocats
}}'''Ayer's Rock''' is a marginally habitable M-class world on the Federation-Klingon border in the Archanis sector. Its proximity to the Klingon border and centuries of volatile relations with the Klingon Empire have worked consistently to keep the world of Ayer's Rock off of any lists for terraforming projects and intense migration, much to the satisfaction of the inhabitants of this world.


Settled by people wanting a more 'down to earth' existence, Ayer's Rock mostly eschews the trappings of modern technologies, its citizenry preferring to mostly stick with wind, water and muscle power for their day-to-day lives. What limited modern technology does exist on the world is primarily related to the limited healthcare system the singular subspace transceiver used to keep appraised of local interstellar matters that could impact life on Ayer's Rock.
With the Lost Fleet now sandwiched between two large allied forces, the numerical advantage they had carried in against the defenders had evaporated and more importantly, their strategic and tactical positioning was completely ruined.<ref>Lost and Found : https://bravofleet.com/story/82958</ref>


===Landing===
===Outcome===
The capital of Ayer's Rock is the township of Landing, named like so many other planetary capitals across the Federation for being the spot where the first colonists set down upon arriving at their chosen destination. Landing looks like it could be lifted out of any Wild West drama with its wooden buildings, dusty main street and the constant presence of horses as the primary means of conveyance. While considered to be the planetary capital, for most of the population spread around Ayer's Rock it is just as distant as the Federation is from their daily lives.
While a considerable number of Dominion vessels had heeded the orders of the Great Link to stand down and be escorted back to the Gamma Quadrant, a majority of the ships had instead opted for the attack on Deneb, fighting with no quarter given by either side, with none expected.
<center>{{quote|''Victory is Life.''|Jem'hadar battle mantra}}</center>
The damage and devastation across the Deneb Sector was considerable and after the fact, not something that the Federation could deny. Multiple small colonies had been abandoned in the face of Dominion attacks. Entire worlds had been ravaged and ruined in the fighting, leaving scars across the sector that will last for generations.


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===References===
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The Lost Fleet was the fourth Bravo Fleet Fleet Action which ran from 5 May, 2023 to 18 June, 2023. It consisted of three phases that each progressed the story of the return of the Dominion's Lost Fleet, last seen[1] being removed from history by the Bajoran Prophets and the subsequent invasion of the Deneb Sector in early 2401 by Dominion and Breen Confederacy forces.

The Fleet-wide mission can be found here.

The Story

Background

Return of the Lost Fleet

In February of 2401[2] the crew of the research ship Sef under the direction of the Trill scientist Doctor Marl Trojet attempted to reproduce the work of Doctor Lenara Kahn - the creation of an artificial wormhole. Due to scientific institutions across the Federation not willing to entertain Trojet, he was forced to conduct his experiments without support and outside of Federation space.

The artificial wormhole that was created by Trojet et al however was not a true wormhole with two fixed aperture points as desired. Instead, the aperture that his team had managed to create, inherently unstable much like Doctor Khan's was in the 2370s, had pierced into whatever pocket of reality that the Prophets, the entities residing within the Bajoran Wormhole, had stashed the Dominion invasion fleet that had been transiting the wormhole during the height of the Dominion War and effectively blockading the Alpha Dominion from support from home territories.

These vessels, now free, had not experienced the passage of time and were still on a war footing, believing the Federation to still be their target. While they found themselves out past the Federation's Deneb frontier, their leaders continued with the orders they had when they had departed - assaulting, conquering and occupying Federation territory in the name of the Founders and the Dominion.

Invasion of the Deneb Sector

With surprise on their side, Dominion forces, aware of the Breen's amenable attitudes to their intentions, reached out to the Confederacy to assist in the resumption of a war long finished. Seeing an opportunity for territorial expansion, the Breen agreed with the Dominion's assault on the Federation and a series of border raids and skirmishes first started along the frontier. Remote colonies, small outposts and ships operating by themselves were the first to be hit, whittling away at the Federation's early warning systems. Those messages that did manage to get through found silence or dismissal at the claims of Dominion or Breen incursions - the results of a Changeling conspiracy within Starfleet and the Federation find advantage in the chaos across the borders.

Having managed to successfully gauge the strength of the Federation's local defenders and silence any attempt at a Federation-wide response to the attack, Dominion forces, operating still without communication with the Dominion in the Gamma Quadrant, launched their full-scale invasion across the entire Deneb Border, plunging the entire sector into chaos as refugees fled from the border for the core territories, only to find a Federation and Starfleet that didn't believe them and was woefully unprepared for what was to come.

Fourth Fleet response

As reports of the Dominion and Breen incursions into the Deneb Sector began to filter through, Changeling infiltrators within Starfleet and the Federation bureaucracy worked to stifle any response at a Federation-wide level. With no orders or even acknowledgement of an issue occurring, Fourth Fleet Command opted to respond to the issue independently of Starfleet Command under the unique authorisation that had formed the Fourth Fleet in the first place to respond to rapidly developing crises.

Multiple Fourth Fleet vessels were dispatched on a variety of endeavours to buy time for a concentrated response and to address the Dominion forces from multiple angles. Other assets were ordered to assemble a defence for the sector capital before any form of large-scale Dominion attack could be arranged. 

Mention the key missions that took place? ie Off to go speak with the Great Link, Operation Phone-a-friend etc etc

Battle of Farpoint


The Battle of Farpoint in the Deneb system marked the last major action of the crisis caused by the reappearance of Dominion forces assaulting the Federation. Forces of the Lost Fleet, unwilling to follow the Great Link's orders to stand down and be escorted to the Gamma Quadrant formed up for an assault on Farpoint Station with the intent to capture the regional capital and its facilities to allow for continued operations against the Federation.

Fourth Fleet, with no reinforcements from Starfleet Command, or the old Federation Alliance members, fell back to Deneb alongside elements of the Cardassian Union's 9th Order to defend the system and hopefully break the back of the Dominion assault. As preparations were made to reinforce the system as much as possible, ships that had been dispersed across the Deneb Sector to blunt the Dominion advance were recalled post-haste to join the defenders.

Dominion forces eventually arrived in the Deneb system and began their assault on the system, rapidly moving in system and engaging the defenders on multiple axes. Unbeknownst to all but a few, efforts to engage with the historical Federation Alliance members or their successor states, had been undertaken by Captain Theodoras on the direction of Vice Admiral Beckett. These efforts were largely successful and ultimately timely as the USS Atlantis arrived soon after the Dominion attack began[3], bringing with it a collection of Romulan Republic ships, a large collection of House Lorkoth forces from the Klingon Empire and a handful of Tholian vessels that were there to ensure no temporal disturbances were present or unaccounted for after the battle.

With the Lost Fleet now sandwiched between two large allied forces, the numerical advantage they had carried in against the defenders had evaporated and more importantly, their strategic and tactical positioning was completely ruined.[4]

Outcome

While a considerable number of Dominion vessels had heeded the orders of the Great Link to stand down and be escorted back to the Gamma Quadrant, a majority of the ships had instead opted for the attack on Deneb, fighting with no quarter given by either side, with none expected.

"'Victory is Life.'"
    —Jem'hadar battle mantra

The damage and devastation across the Deneb Sector was considerable and after the fact, not something that the Federation could deny. Multiple small colonies had been abandoned in the face of Dominion attacks. Entire worlds had been ravaged and ruined in the fighting, leaving scars across the sector that will last for generations.

References

  1. ↑ DS9 6x06 : Sacrifice of Angels
  2. ↑ Lost : https://bravofleet.com/story/76502
  3. ↑ What Price for Peace - 20 : https://bravofleet.com/story/82569
  4. ↑ Lost and Found : https://bravofleet.com/story/82958
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