USS Serenity
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The USS Serenity was a Duderstadt-class light cruiser assigned to Polaris Squadron within Fourth Fleet Operations. It was destroyed on April 14, 2402 during the Vaadwaur crisis in a heroic sacrifice to ensure the success of Polaris Squadron's mission (see more).
History
The Duderstadt-class USS Serenity was commissioned in January 2401. It follows a lineage of vessels to bear the name Serenity, including most recently a Diligent-class vessel, registry NCC-81356, which also served in the Fourth Fleet until it was lost in 2400.
The USS Serenity left drydock in February 2401 under the command of Captain Mark Gilliam, and almost immediately, it was thrust into the Lost Fleet crisis, responding to a distress call from the USS Kison, a Raven-class corvette that had come under attack from three Jem'Hadar fighters. The Serenity successfully repelled the assault, but it suffered extensive damage and the loss of its captain.
Following two weeks of repairs at Farpoint Station, the Serenity was assigned by Commodore Imya Jori to Fleet Admiral Allison Reyes as part of Polaris Squadron.
March 2401: Voices of Deneb
During the latter stages of the Lost Fleet crisis, Admiral Reyes took the Serenity behind enemy lines to conduct a series of sorties against Dominion and Breen forces. This culminated in the Battle of Ciatar Nebula when, assisted by the USS Valhalla and the USS Andromeda, the Serenity aided the USS Mariner in delivering Vorta representatives from the present era Dominion to the Lost Fleet in order to facilitate the cessation of hostilities.
April 2401: Troubles on the Homefront
Following the Lost Fleet crisis, members of Polaris Squadron travelled to Earth aboard the Serenity to investigate why Starfleet hadn't committed more resources to repel the Dominion. The team uncovered a conspiracy within Starfleet, which they ultimately traced back to the Changelings, but it was too little and too late to stop the events of Frontier Day from unfolding. The USS Serenity ultimately became overtaken by the Borg via the Fleet Formation technology, while members of her crew aboard Sol Station did what they could to protect the members of the civilian government that had assembled for the festivities.
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. Once it became evident that the beacon had been seized by the colonists of Beta Serpentis III to be used to summon the Borg via a transwarp conduit, the USS Serenity and the USS Diligent jumped at max warp to assist. The Serenity focused on destroying the transwarp conduit in Roche lobe of the binary star pair before a squadron of Borg vessels could come through it, while the Diligent retook Salvage Facility 21-J, which had become assimilated by Borg subroutines.
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.
October 2401 - April 2402: Alone in the Night
Following their stranding on the far side of the Beta Quadrant, the USS Serenity and the USS Ingenuity were left to fend for themselves, alone in the night, as they begin their long voyage home.
April 2402: Heroes in the Night
Deep in the Beta Quadrant at the start of Nightfall, the USS Serenity and the USS Ingenuity stumbled across an Underspace aperture that appeared to offer them a way home. As they raced the labyrinth, they came upon a Vaadwaur armada. Unable to look the other way, the USS Serenity and USS Ingenuity pursued the armada, emerging from an aperture deep within Romulan Free State territory to find the Vaadwaur armada and a Romulan station and cruiser group all destroyed. They took the lone survivor of the battle aboard, interrogating him, learning of the Vaadwaur Supremacy's ambitions, and determining how they could strike back. Coordinating with Polaris Squadron, the USS Serenity and USS Ingenuity set out to destroy a subspace array used to protect a major Vaadwaur command and logistics hub. However, as it would turn out, the array was better protected than anticipated. In a desperate act to ensure the success of Polaris Squadron's mission, with weapons down and shields failing, Captain Jake Lewis ordered his chief engineer to detonate the warp core in order to ensure the array was destroyed, the USS Serenity was lost with all hands on April 14, 2402.