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{{Fleetaction
|name=The Lost Fleet
|image=[[File:The lost fleet logo-1.png]]
|theme=[[Dominion]], [[Deneb Sector]]
|start=5 May, 2023
|end=18 June, 2023
|winner=[[bfms_user:2121|Alexandra Sudari-Kravchik]]
|winningtf=[[Task Force 93]]
|coin=[[File:challenge_coin_template_3a.png]]
|templatemode = nocats
}}
'''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.
The Fleet-wide mission can be found [https://bravofleet.com/mission/76499 here].
==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.
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.
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 decided 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 or failing that to assemble as best a defence for the sector capital as could be arranged before any form of large-scale Dominion attack could be arranged.
<pre>Mention the key missions that took place? ie Off to go speak with the Great Link, Operation Phone-a-friend etc etc</pre>
===Battle of Farpoint===
{{Conflict
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| image =
| date =
| location = [[Farpoint Station]], [[Deneb Sector]]
| result = Federation Alliance victory
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{{belligerent|Tholian Assembly.png|Tholian Assembly}}
| belligerents right = {{belligerent|DOMicon.png|Dominion Lost Fleet}}
| commanders left =
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| commanders right = {{belligerent|DOMicon.png|Unknown Founder}}
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| casualties left = {{plainlist|
*Multiple allied vessels badly damaged
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| casualties right = {{plainlist|
*Majority of vessels destroyed
*All Jem'Hadar forces lost
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| templatemode = nocats
}}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.
[[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|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.
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>
===Outcome===
===References===
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}}'''USS ''Calistoga''''' is a [[California Class|''California''-class utility cruiser]] assigned to [[Task Force 17]] with the responsibility to support short-range medical needs and humanitarian efforts. It is currently under the command of [[bfms_char:9563|Captain Eelkom Raiem]].


== History ==
{{clear}}
The ''Calistoga'' was commissioned in 2371 and has seen its fair share of duty since which has garnered the vessel a reputation to be reliable and get the task at hand completed. Most of its existence has seen it complete cargo deliveries, crew and personnel transports and general work horse duties.


The Calistoga survived the Dominion War and many other events that have graced the Alpha and Beta quadrants since. In late 2398, the vessel was reassigned to [[Task Force 17]] and in 2400 underwent a utility refit to become a medical variant of the class.
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2401 has seen many new crew members arrive and many others be reassigned to other duties. A brand new commanding officer and executive officer have recently taken the chair to support the Calistoga's new mission profile.
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| decommission =
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| affiliation = Starfleet, but only because their branding was already all over the place
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| system = The fun one, with all the parties going on, but you're not invited.
| co = Depends on the day of the week really
| crew = The Eternal Rave!
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* [https://bravofleet.com/command/65178/ 2401 - Present]: [[bfms_char:9563|Captain Eelkom Raiem]]
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*Sisko's Creole Kitchen
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*Space Roman Elves
*The other Space Russia, but 90's Space Russia
*Who let the Geico lizard run a star nation?
*Fucking Gul Dukat, honestly
*Space Karen
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| important places = Starbase Kickass
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In late 2400 the ''Calistoga'' underwent a major utility refit to meet the needs of its changed mission profile. Many of her facilities saw basic upgrades but the medical facilities on board we heavily refitted to meets the needs of being a short-range medical and humanitarian response vessel. She refit was completed in early 2401.
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[[File:Calistoga Image2.png|thumb|Commission image of USS Calistoga created by Pundus and paid for by Annex]]
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*Grandma
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*Old Lady Higgins (she's got a mean left hook)
*Some Swedish fetish group
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The lost fleet logo-1.png
The Lost Fleet
Theme

Dominion, Deneb Sector

Start Date

5 May, 2023

End Date

18 June, 2023

Winner

Alexandra Sudari-Kravchik

Winning Task Force

Task Force 93

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Template:Fleetaction


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 decided 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 or failing that to assemble as best a defence for the sector capital as could be arranged 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

Battle of Farpoint
Location

Farpoint Station, Deneb Sector

Result

Federation Alliance victory

Belligerents
FEDicon.png
Fourth Fleet


KDFicon.png
House Lorkoth


ROMicon.png
Romulan Republic


Tholian Assembly.png
Tholian Assembly
DOMicon.png
Dominion Lost Fleet
Commanders
FEDicon.png
ADM Dahlgren


FEDicon.png
VADM Beckett
DOMicon.png
Unknown Founder
Casualties and Losses
  • Multiple allied vessels badly damaged
  • Majority of vessels destroyed
  • All Jem'Hadar forces lost
Template:Conflict


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

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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