USS Carlsbad
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The USS Carlsbad is a California-class Federation starship operating as part of the Fourth Fleet in Task Force 72.
Nightfall Fleet Action Event (April 6 to May 18, 2402)Captain Kirok Skyrunner, during his first mission as the commanding officer for the California class starship, USS Carlsbad, discovered an Underspace tunnel in the area of Starbase 72 while on a routine supply run between Starbase 72 and Starbase Bravo. They encountered a strange comet with a unique element in it that reacted to sensor scans. Upon scanning the comet, the USS Carlsbad, and the comet, was sucked into a tunnel in Underspace. Upon regaining navigational control, they tried to escape the tunnel. The USS Carlsbad managed to escape the Underspace tunnel, only after having to fire photon torpedoes at the comet to avoid a collision with it. The resulting shockwave threw the USS Carlsbad clear of the tunnel, but seriously damaged and far from Federation space.
When they regained their bearings, the brave crew of the USS Carlsbad found themselves over 560 light-years away from home. Once they started making repairs to the ship, they found ship wreckage of another Federation starship, the Akira class starship USS Thunderdragon, listed missing one month earlier by Starfleet Command. The USS Thunderdragon was commanded by Captain Sophia Rodriguez, Captain Kirok Skyrunner’s wife. Captain Skyrunner now has a triple prong mission, getting his ship back home, finding his wife and her crew, and investigating what happened to the USS Thunderdragon.
Sensor scans showed a couple escape pods left the wreckage field of the USS Thunderdragon, heading to a Class M planet. Captain Skyrunner decided to follow the path of the escape pods, for two reasons: they needed resources to help with repairs, and to find the missing crew of the USS Thunderdragon. Once the USS Carlsbad achieved standard orbit, they discovered a thriving colony of former Borg drones, led by Kaelara. After a discussion between Captain Skyrunner and Kaelara, where she reveals her people called themselves the Kyrennei and their homeworld is called Nexarion, are descendants of High, in a way. They both decided to join forces and work together to stop and repel the Vaadwaur advances, by finding and capturing a Blackout station in the region.
During tactical planning, Kaelara reveals that Hugh stashed away, in the Murasaki 312 quasar nebula, a small Borg battle group, consisting of a Borg Cube, a Sphere, two Type IV Assimilator class cruisers, and three Probe class scout ships, plus an army of thousands of tactical drones…all fully operational, yet in status. Shocked by this fact, Captain Skyrunner suddenly gets a daring, highly dangerous idea, of instead of simply finding and destroying the Blackout station in the region, to capture it instead of, and use the Blackout technology against the Vaadwaur. Captain Skyrunner, with the help of his recently rescued wife, Captain Sophia Rodriguez, and Kaelara, crest this daring plan, a two prong operation. One prong, the infiltration of the Vaadwaur Blackout Station, led by Captain Skyrunner, involved using a recently captured Vaadwaur patrol ship as a “Trojan horse” to gain stealthy access to the station. The second prong, led by Captain Rodriguez, took command of the USS Carlsbad and the Borg ships on a diversionary attack on any defending Vaadwaur ship's around the Blackout station, so that the infiltration team could accomplish their mission.
The USS Carlsbad and the Borg battle fleet, under the overall command of Captain Sophia Rodriguez successfully attacked and defeated a Vaadwaur defending fleet of one Gaul-class Juggernaut, with 16 Pythus-class Fighters, two Astika-class Heavy Battlecruisers, each one with 6 Pythus-class Fighters, and one Manasa-class Assault Escort. During the intense space battle, Captain Rodriguez managed to destroy all Vaadwaur ships, except the Gaul class monster. That ship was taken over by the hundreds of tactical drones and replaced the part of the Kyrennei battle group that was destroyed, which was both Type IV's and all three Probe class scout ships.
Captain Skyrunner managed to take over the Vaadwaur Blackout station with no resistance, as the Vaadwaur had activated the self-destruct. Kaelara's cyber tech Vera, managed to hack the system and aborted the self destruction with a few seconds to spare. With the station secure, Engineers and co.outer technicians from the USS Carlsbad and the Kyrennei worked together to assimilate the Vaadwaur technology and used it, in combination with a Cardassian plan, to prevent the Vaadwaur from using the Underspace tunnels in both the Alpha and Beta Quadrants.
Notable Crew
Commanding Officers
- 2395 - 2401: Commander Hadir Prenar
- 2402+: Captain Kirok Skyrunner