Labyrinth

Labyrinth was the sixth Bravo Fleet Fleet Action which ran from 15 June, 2024 to 28 July, 2024. The campaign centred around the inexplicable explosion of the Underspace phenomena to include not just the Delta Quadrant, but the entire galaxy and the immediate opportunities for exploration as well as the inevitable humanitarian crisis that followed.

All results from the Fleet Action can be found here.

The Story

Background

From across the galaxy, wild reports reach Starfleet’s ears. Sensor readings pick up gravimetric distortions that cause chaos in planetary atmospheres, disturb stellar phenomena or agitate nebula particles. Ships are going missing, or appearing as if from nowhere, thousands of light-years from their last known location.

Those that can communicate speak of being dragged into what they thought was a wormhole, a subspace passageway of branching tunnels and chaotic turbulence their ship tumbled through before falling out of another exit point. It defies all known records of any wormhole – but readings and descriptions do match another phenomena, barely known to Starfleet and ill-understood: Underspace.

This network of subspace corridors was first encountered by Starfleet through the journey of the USS Voyager. Complex, dangerous, and labyrinthine, these passageways once enabled the long-dead Vaadwaur to build one of the largest empires the galaxy has ever known before their eventual downfall. Now, only their former vassals, the Turei, understand enough of Underspace for it to be safely traversed. Since then, Starfleet has only accessed Underspace with the help of the Turei, and has never known its tunnels to reach any further than the Delta Quadrant. Until now.

Now, when apertures into Underspace seem to be opening all over the galaxy, its vast network reaching from Betazed to Ocampa, from the heart of the Klingon Empire to, potentially, the heart of Dominion territory. What does this mean? How has this happened? Why has this happened?

But those are all questions for later. Many have no idea what Underspace is, or are too busy dealing with strange phenomena, lost ships, or falling through the to the far side of the galaxy to care about reports of some Delta Quadrant highway.

For some, the galaxy will never be the same again. For others, surviving the next 24 hours is far more pressing.

Outcome

While Starfleet sought to harness this expansion of the network for exploration, the Cardassian Union deemed the change to the galactic status quo far too dangerous to tolerate. They formed a brief alliance with the Turei, who brought their extensive knowledge of Underspace to bear in assisting the Cardassians in closing the new Underspace apertures.

Almost a year later, and the lessons learnt from this experience would come to help the Alpha and Beta Quadrants rise up and deal with Nightfall and the return of a galactic menace.

Individual Winners

Task Force Placements

Major Announcements

Supporting Articles

These articles are relevant to the Labyrinth Fleet Action, providing background to the anomalies at play and guidance provided by the Intelligence Office for captains to use.