USS Ingenuity
The USS Ingenuity is a Pathfinder-class research cruiser currently assigned to Polaris Squadron within Fourth Fleet Operations.
History
March 2401: Infiltrate and Liberate
During the Lost Fleet crisis, the USS Ingenuity was assigned to an assault wing led by the USS Polaris under the command of Fleet Admiral Allison Reyes. On March 16, 2401, the USS Ingenuity participated in the Battle of Nasera, an offensive that successfully retook the key industrial center from Dominion forces. The USS Ingenuity then remained in orbit to assist with the humanitarian mission to rebuild the wartorn world of Nasera II.
June 2401: Children of the Borg
As part of Polaris Squadron, the USS Serenity was deployed to Wolf 359 to hunt for a Borg homing beacon that had appeared and then gone missing. When a distress call was received from the Beta Serpentis System, Admiral Reyes took the USS Ingenuity to Beta Serpentis III to investigate. Unfortunately, Admniral Reyes was taken hostage by the Borg-worshipping colonists, Commander Cora Lee became trapped within the Borg-corrupted Salvage Facility 21-J, and the Ingenuity was disabled by Borg-based dampening weapons. Only the last moment arrival of the USS Diligent and the USS Serenity ended up preventing the plot of the colonists unfolding, one that was meant to summon the Borg through a transwarp conduit in the system's center.
October 2401: Entropic Foliations
Soon after settling into its new home in the Archanis Sector, Polaris Squadron received a distress call from Vespara Prime, an agrarian colony that reports the inexplicable appearance of a singularity that is sucking the planet out of the systems habitable zone. Polaris Squadron soon determined the singularity was, in fact, an aberrant Underspace aperture which had suddenly reached out into the Alpha Quadrant. While in a race against time to save the planet, a Klingon task group arrived, offering their assistance. With Klingon support, they managed to stabilize the aperture, but soon thereafter, the squadron became twisted up in a geopolitical mess between the Klingons, who sought to use the Underspace for war, and the Cardassians, who sought to collapse it. Ultimately, the Cardassians succeed, but in doing so, the USS Serenity and the USS Ingenuity ended up stranded on the far side of the Beta Quadrant, over six thousand light years from home and the rest of the squadron.
Since October 2401: Alone in the Night
Following their stranding on the far side of the Beta Quadrant, the USS Serenity and the USS Ingenuity are now left to fend for themselves, alone in the night, as they begin their long voyage home.