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Difference between pages "Ta'shen" and "Endeavour Squadron"

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{{Squadron
{{Planet
| name = Endeavour Squadron
| name = Ta'shen
| seal = [[File:Endeavoursquadron1.png]]
| image = [[File:Tashen.png|The world of Ta'shen]]
| unit = Fourth Fleet Operations
| starsystem = L'kel
| taskforce =
| sector =  
| taskgroup =
| headquarters =
| flagship = [[USS Endeavour|USS ''Endeavour'']]
| co =  
| xo =  
| quadrant = Beta Quadrant
| quadrant = Beta Quadrant
| class = M
| mission = Diplomacy, Humanitarian Aid, and Exploration
| satellites = At least 5
}}'''Endeavour Squadron''' is a formation based out of [[Gateway Station]], on the Federation's [[Beta Quadrant]] border. Its primary duty is to support Gateway's mission in the [[Midgard Sector]] of maintaining regional stability through diplomatic and humanitarian operations, and pursuing avenues of scientific research and exploration into the former territories of the [[Old Romulan Star Empire]]. Its commanding officer keeps their flag aboard the USS ''Endeavour'', which leads exploratory and diplomatic missions, and is the first ship sent on operations beyond the Midgard Sector. The squadron is assigned directly to [[Fourth Fleet]] Operations and not one of the fleet's task forces, though is often favoured by Director of Fourth Fleet Intelligence [[bfms_char:16756|Vice Admiral Alexander Beckett]] for special assignments.
| atmosphere = Oxygen/nitrogen mix
| climate = Temperate to tropical at most latitudes
| hydrosphere = 85%
| affiliation = *[[Old Romulan Star Empire]] - former
*[[Romulan Star Empire]] - former
*Unaffiliated
| natives = *Romulans
*Remans
*Orions
*Many other former slave races
| population = ~5 million
| capital = T'ma'ru
}}
{{quote|Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves|'''Abraham Lincoln''', ''Complete Works - Volume XII''}}
'''Ta'shen''' is a world inside the territory of the former [[Romulan Star Empire]] within close proximity to the shared borders of the [[Romulan Free State]] and [[Romulan Republic]]. A resort world in the days of the [[Old Romulan Star Empire]], Ta'shen had continued in that capacity, serving as an unofficial centre for off-the-books diplomacy and deal-making thanks to a rarely granted 'free port' status, at least for the other Romulan successor states and those with enough capital to bribe their way to the surface.


However, [[Sundered_Wings|events early in 2400]] and the collapse of the [[Romulan Star Empire]] brought about winds of change on Ta'shen which still haven't settled down completely.
==History==


=History=
===USS Endeavour (2400)===
===Founding===
In late 2399, Diplomatic Corps official [[bfms_char:40627|Sophia Hale]] began a mission to improve Federation relationships with the factions of the former [[Romulan Neutral Zone]] through local diplomacy, humanitarian aid, and cooperation with the interested major Romulan governments. The USS ''Endeavour'' was chosen as the Starfleet platform for this mission, First Secretary Hale working alongside Captain Rourke on multiple operations to improve conditions in the volatile region. These operations were massively disrupted by the collapse of the [[Star Empire of Rator]], with Starfleet resources subsequently redirected to mitigate the fallout.
''Founding? Resort world for centuries and centuries? Minor mineral extraction and agriculture are located far from the resorts to keep them supplied. Reliant on off-world imports to major technology and expansion. Slaves were brought in to run the behind-the-scenes stuff, fight in the coliseum, staff the less savoury destinations.''


===A new Empire is born===
===Squadron Formation (2401)===
''What happened when the Empire died and a new one was born?''
As the dust settled on the Star Empire of Rator's collapse, the Federation began considering its long-term future in the region. Closer ties to the Romulan Republic and greater potential volatility gave Starfleet more of a vested interest to get involved, and had opened up new opportunities to explore territories to which the Star Empire would never have granted them access. First Secretary Hale initially received orders in late 2400 to resume her mission, but the USS ''Endeavour'' was in the Delta Quadrant at the time, and thus the diplomatic undertaking was delayed.


===Revolution===
In late 2400, fresh disruptions in worlds along the spinward Romulan border and coreward borders of the [[Klingon Empire]] altered strategic concerns. Increased raids from pirates based in [[The Triangle]] were joined by political upheaval from Klingon residents of Federation border territories, all suspected to be backed by the House of Mo'Kai. With the Neutral Zone still unstable, Starfleet decided to take a heavier approach than the primarily diplomatic mission of First Secretary Hale, and formed a new squadron to face these challenges.
''Viva la Revolution!''


=Environment=
The USS ''Endeavour'' was retained and listed as the lead ship, largely so Starfleet could reap the benefits of their good relations in the area. But a security-focused task group led by Fleet Captain Jericho of the USS ''Triumph'' and including the ''Independence'' and ''Nighthawk'' were integrated into the squadron, with Jericho assigned as squadron commander. First Secretary Hale and her diplomatic mission remained part of the squadron, now based on the USS ''Triumph'' to work more closely with the leadership.
The environment of Ta'shen is fairly typical of class-M worlds, though verging more towards a warmer medium than most as evident by the lack of surface ice and the generally pleasant climate found at most latitudes. This made the world, with minimal biosphere modification, a perfect place for the establishment of resorts for the rich and powerful during the era of the [[Old Romulan Star Empire]].


Rudimentary weather control systems moderate any potentially dramatic storms, diverting them away from the more populous resorts and the world's only major city of T'ma'ru, which plays host to the majority of the resorts and other entertainment locales as well as the governor's palace. T'ma'ru is essentially maintained in a tropical to sub-tropical climate to allow for year-round favourable weather conditions for all guests.
=== The Lost Fleet (2401) ===


The climate elsewhere around the world is allowed to essentially run naturally. This does mean frequent large-scale cyclonic storms that lash the various landmasses. As such what farming is done on the planet tends to be done in the rain-shadows of the few mountain ranges in order to protect as best as possible from the majority of storms. Despite being carried out in areas with significantly reduced rainfall, the hydrosphere cycle of Ta'shen is very active and the 'dry' farmlands tend to still be quite hospitable to imported crops.
=== Gateway Station ===


Mineral extraction sites worldwide tend to be built with the weather in mind as well, though more with a view towards enduring what weather comes versus avoiding it. The most significant mining operations are taken place on the far side of Ta'shen from T'ma'ru and prone to constant regular electrical storms and wild weather as a result of geography and local islands funnelling water and air currents.
==Composition==
===USS ''Endeavour''===
[[File:Endeavourwiki2.png|right|frameless|alt=USS Endeavour|300x300px]] [[USS Endeavour|USS ''Endeavour'']] is a [[Constitution III Class|''Constitution III''-class explorer]] and the flagship of the squadron. Even alone, she is a powerful platform for the unit's exploratory operations. While based out of Gateway Station and taking point on diplomatic missions across the Romulan border, the fall of the RSE has granted Starfleet access to previously-unknown regions of space. ''Endeavour'' is charged with its exploration, and with securing even greater access to territories beyond Federation borders through negotiation and cooperation with local factions.


=T'ma'ru=
===Gateway Station===
The capital city of T'ma'ru is located on an island just north of Ta'shen's equator, resting on an eastward-facing bay, which combined with the planet's orbital and rotational directions grants the city magnificent sunset views. In a city of roughly 3 million individuals at last stocktake and census, it comes as little surprise that the slave population was by far and away the largest demographic.
[[File:Gatewaystation.png|right|frameless|alt=Gateway Station|300x300px]] [[Gateway Station]] is a [[Canopus Class|''Canopus''-class space station]], the centre for Federation operations in the Midgard Sector, and the headquarters of the squadron. Standing at the border to what was once the Romulan Neutral Zone and Star Empire and is now a wilderness of independent factions, Gateway is charged with maintaining regional stability and providing diplomatic outreach.


The city was home to the Governor's Palace, functionally its own acropolis north of the city and commanding the entire northern skyline. The palace served as the governor's residence as well as a fortification designed and built centuries ago by a paranoid predecessor worried about slave revolts. The facility featured walls designed to prevent physical entry but has over the centuries been supplemented with its own shield generator as well. Primary communication was routed through the palace as well, so in the event of a revolt, reinforcements could still be summoned.
====USS ''Tempest''====
[[USS Tempest|USS ''Tempest'']] is a [[Rhode Island Class|''Rhode Island''-class scout]] attached to Gateway. She is used by the station's crew for long-range operations for which Gateway's many runabouts or shuttles would be unsuited.


Transporter inhibitors and communicators jammers were buried in the foundations of the palace as well. Combined with a planetary defence network, once again controlled from within the palace, it was thought that any revolution could be trapped on Ta'shen until such time as forces could arrive to put down such a rebellion and rescue the respectable life-blood of the Empire that would take shelter within the palace.
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Aside from the palace, the city was home to no less than twelve different resorts, all along the shoreline, catering to a variety of tastes and expenses for Romulans citizens willing to invest in their own hedonistic pleasures. Combined with a multitude of other entertainments provided within the city, or delivered to a resort, there was little one couldn't experience here that would be considered less than acceptable back home. What one indulged in on Ta'shen was one's own business and best not discussed upon leaving.
 
The extensive slave population of the city served primarily in the service industry, though the term was used to cover anything from hotel staff, gardeners, prostitution and gladiatorial combatants.  Factories were present as well to manufacture or prepare whatever the resorts needed that were either resourced on Ta'shen itself or arrived on one of the many regular arriving freighters.
 
Large avenues crossed the city in a triangle, the vertexes being the spaceport, the governor's palace and Telloc Square. Telloc Square was formed from the main avenues intersecting with the smaller avenue that ran along behind the resorts and formerly featured a statue of the world's first governor, though it has since been demolished.
 
=Factions=
As revolution broke out on Ta'shen, inspired by [[Sundered Wings|off-world events]], the populace of the world settled into two major groups - those willing to fight and those who just wanted things to settle down. Of the former group, multiple factions emerged, each with their own view as to the future and with a drive to see it through.
 
===Senate Loyalists===
When revolution broke out upon the streets of Ta'shen, Governor Creval held the gates to the palace open for as long as possible to allow the rich and powerful visitors to his world to fleet into his care. It would not be entirely accurate to call the Governor and his impromptu houseguests a true faction of post-[[Romulan Star Empire|Imperial]] Ta'shen politics, but for ease of classification they were labelled Senate Loyalists. Most of them were from prominent Imperial families visiting on holidays and covering a wide variety of political views. They all however held that the Senate was the true power of the Star Empire and most lived under the false impression that eventual order would be restored by a sensible and loyal officer overthrowing his overreaching commanding officers and restoring the Senate.
 
=====Notable figures=====
'''Lo'nic Creval'''<br>
Lo'nic Creval, Governor of Ta'shen, a man who was appointed to the position by the good graces of his predecessor. His family was best-considered part of the Empire’s very small Middle Class, with no senatorial connections by blood but with plenty of favours and debts owed such that they had been rewarded by way of payment with the governorship of Ta'shen. He retained his position purely by keeping Ta'shen functional for the aristocrats of the Empire to visit and the flow of intelligence it provided regarding visitors. Lo'nic only survived the initial order to purge the Empire's ruling class from Rator due to his careful control of off-world communications, allowing him to prevent certain orders from arriving that would have been detrimental to his health.
 
===Planetary Garrison===
The garrison forces on Ta'shen were never the most spectacular forces at [[Romulan_Star_Empire#Romulan_Star_Navy|Galae Command's]] direction, but for the purpose, they were more than adequate. Nearly four hundred Navy security personnel were assigned to Ta'shen to man the planet's defence control centre and to maintain the security of the Governor's Palace. Nominally rolled out as honour guards for some visiting dignitaries, the garrison actually had little to do aside from preserve law and order when public order forces were incapable of doing so.
 
When the [[Velorum Sector]] declared independence, the garrison was mostly kept in the dark about what was occurring elsewhere within the Empire. When revolution broke out on Ta'shen, they fell back on their training and secured as many prominent families from the resorts nearby and evacuated them to the palace for their own safety, digging in behind extensive and formidable fortifications to await relief forces they assumed were coming.
 
=====Notable figures=====
'''Major Suram'''<br>
Major Suram was the commander of the forces on Ta'shen at the outbreak of hostilities. A decorated soldier of the Empire, she failed to see that her assignment was supposed to be a relaxing reward before retirement, not just another posting. In her eight months in command before the revolution, she took a relaxed and complacent garrison and moulded it into a force that was able to survive the initial outbreaks, rescue as many as they could and resist initial attempts to breach the palace before revolutionary forces opted to give the facility a wide berth.
 
''More to come...''
 
===Reman slaves===
''They’re declaring for Resak and his provisional government. They hold no real grudges against the common Romulan people, but the aristocrats have to go. Violently. French Revolutionaries. Round up all the nobles, put them down. Then figure out what to do.''
 
======Notable figures======
''Who?''
 
===Romulan slaves===
''A chance to actually have a say? Awesome! Under a Reman? Yeah, nah. No offence to their Reman comrades, but seriously. Democratic revolutionaries are more likely. Claim Ta’shen as independent, maybe side with the Republic if they can get support to settle things planetside.''
 
=====Notable figures=====
''Who?''
 
===Orions===
The Orion population of Ta'shen dates back centuries and is comprised completely of those born on Ta'shen, descendants of those taken as slaves by Romulan forces centuries ago. Knowing no other fate or even much of the galaxy at large, they have served as the backbone of the entertainment industry serving from prostitution to gladiatorial combat. With the unexpected outbreak of revolution on Ta'shen, the Orions have banded together under a singular leader, Serti, seeking freedom for themselves and everyone else who had been enslaved by the masters of Ta'shen. They seek not to rule the world but to prevent any one faction from becoming dominant, seeking a more balanced sharing of power to prevent any further enslavement.
 
=====Notable figures=====
'''Serti'''<br>
A middle-aged Orion woman of handsome features and average height and build, Serti is the unofficial head of the Orion families on Ta'shen. Through the years of her servitude, born into it in fact, she manipulated her superiors until she was granted a position of authority as a manager of certain aspects of Ta'shen's entertainment industries by her masters. Specialising in the more intimate pleasures that the powerful sought when they visited Ta'shen, Serti began building her own intelligence-gathering apparatus, taking advantage of those who sought the pleasures serviced by those under her charge. This lent her even more ways to manipulate her nominal masters, though usually indirectly via those she had learned interesting information about.
 
A fierce and determined woman, she is set on the goal of Ta'shen being an Orion world, or at least not a Romulan or Reman solely controlled world, though they are welcome to stay and even visit. Pragmatism however is a key trait and she's always willing to make deals, as long as they aren't disadvantageous to her or her birth world as she is not keen to simply trade one collar for another.
 
===Miscellaneous slaves===
Ta'shen is also home to a sizable population of slaves from various client races of the Star Empire, though none are of recent import. While these populations have tended to group together along racial lines initial, most of them have pledged for one of the larger groups out of self-preservation or to get out from under the heel of another. Their numbers aren't enough to decisively sway the balance one way or another but could be critical when the time comes to settle affairs and establish a new order on Ta'shen.
 
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Revision as of 16:51, 18 June 2023

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Endeavour Squadron
Unit

Fourth Fleet Operations

Flagship

USS Endeavour

Leadership
Assignment
Quadrant

Beta Quadrant

Mission

Diplomacy, Humanitarian Aid, and Exploration

Template:Squadron

Endeavour Squadron is a formation based out of Gateway Station, on the Federation's Beta Quadrant border. Its primary duty is to support Gateway's mission in the Midgard Sector of maintaining regional stability through diplomatic and humanitarian operations, and pursuing avenues of scientific research and exploration into the former territories of the Old Romulan Star Empire. Its commanding officer keeps their flag aboard the USS Endeavour, which leads exploratory and diplomatic missions, and is the first ship sent on operations beyond the Midgard Sector. The squadron is assigned directly to Fourth Fleet Operations and not one of the fleet's task forces, though is often favoured by Director of Fourth Fleet Intelligence Vice Admiral Alexander Beckett for special assignments.

History

USS Endeavour (2400)

In late 2399, Diplomatic Corps official Sophia Hale began a mission to improve Federation relationships with the factions of the former Romulan Neutral Zone through local diplomacy, humanitarian aid, and cooperation with the interested major Romulan governments. The USS Endeavour was chosen as the Starfleet platform for this mission, First Secretary Hale working alongside Captain Rourke on multiple operations to improve conditions in the volatile region. These operations were massively disrupted by the collapse of the Star Empire of Rator, with Starfleet resources subsequently redirected to mitigate the fallout.

Squadron Formation (2401)

As the dust settled on the Star Empire of Rator's collapse, the Federation began considering its long-term future in the region. Closer ties to the Romulan Republic and greater potential volatility gave Starfleet more of a vested interest to get involved, and had opened up new opportunities to explore territories to which the Star Empire would never have granted them access. First Secretary Hale initially received orders in late 2400 to resume her mission, but the USS Endeavour was in the Delta Quadrant at the time, and thus the diplomatic undertaking was delayed.

In late 2400, fresh disruptions in worlds along the spinward Romulan border and coreward borders of the Klingon Empire altered strategic concerns. Increased raids from pirates based in The Triangle were joined by political upheaval from Klingon residents of Federation border territories, all suspected to be backed by the House of Mo'Kai. With the Neutral Zone still unstable, Starfleet decided to take a heavier approach than the primarily diplomatic mission of First Secretary Hale, and formed a new squadron to face these challenges.

The USS Endeavour was retained and listed as the lead ship, largely so Starfleet could reap the benefits of their good relations in the area. But a security-focused task group led by Fleet Captain Jericho of the USS Triumph and including the Independence and Nighthawk were integrated into the squadron, with Jericho assigned as squadron commander. First Secretary Hale and her diplomatic mission remained part of the squadron, now based on the USS Triumph to work more closely with the leadership.

The Lost Fleet (2401)

Gateway Station

Composition

USS Endeavour

USS Endeavour

USS Endeavour is a Constitution III-class explorer and the flagship of the squadron. Even alone, she is a powerful platform for the unit's exploratory operations. While based out of Gateway Station and taking point on diplomatic missions across the Romulan border, the fall of the RSE has granted Starfleet access to previously-unknown regions of space. Endeavour is charged with its exploration, and with securing even greater access to territories beyond Federation borders through negotiation and cooperation with local factions.

Gateway Station

Gateway Station

Gateway Station is a Canopus-class space station, the centre for Federation operations in the Midgard Sector, and the headquarters of the squadron. Standing at the border to what was once the Romulan Neutral Zone and Star Empire and is now a wilderness of independent factions, Gateway is charged with maintaining regional stability and providing diplomatic outreach.

USS Tempest

USS Tempest is a Rhode Island-class scout attached to Gateway. She is used by the station's crew for long-range operations for which Gateway's many runabouts or shuttles would be unsuited.

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