Star Trek: Fighter Command Commander Jake Janeway (Executive and Tactical Officer of the USS Musashi, SCH-221, Ronin Class Heavy Star Cruiser) Lieutenant Evan McKnight (Helm Officer of the USS Musashi) Fleet Captain Sovak (Captain of the USS Musashi) Original Timeline 2378: Kathryn Janeway promoted to Vice Admiral; USS Titan begins shakedown 2379: Shinzon assassinates Romulan Senate; Shinzon assumes office of Praetor; USS Enterprise dispatched on mission of peace; Battle of Bassen Rift, Scimitar is destroyed by Lt. Cmdr. Data and killed, USS Titan officially commissioned under Captain William T. Riker, Section 31 recovers the Scimitar’s cloaking device and the Thelaron Weapon 2381: Section 31 (S31) begins to coordinate with secret elements of the Romulan military and Tal Shiar known as The Brethren to make a Time Ship equipped with the Scimitar’s cloaking device to stop the assassination of the Romulan Senate in 2379, codenamed Operation: Time Bandit; Ambassador Spock comes out of hiding after Section 31 operatives attempt to recruit Spock for Operation: Time Bandit 2386: Time Ship Epoch is launched under joint Brethren-Section 31 control, undergoes shakedown for a year 2387: Epoch attempts time travel and succeeds, but also accidentally creates a temporal distortion that accelerates Hobus to end of its stellar life; Ambassador Spock goes to Hobus and discovers Hobus star is about to go supernova and attempts to warn Romulus of the danger it represents; The Jellyfish, designed by Geordi LaForge, launched; Ambassador Jean-Luc Picard and Ambassador Spock collaborate to stop the supernova; Hobus goes supernova destroying Romulus and Remus; LaForge brings the Jellyfish to Vulcan; Spock attempts to stop the supernova, but is attacked by the Narada under Captain Nero; Spock succeeds in launching the Red Matter into the supernova, both the Jellyfish and Narada appear to be destroyed by the resulting black hole, but are sent back to 2258 and 2233 respectively Altered Timeline 2379: Shinzon assassinates Romulan Senate; Epoch arrives and discovers the situation; Shinzon assumes office of Praetor; Epoch secretly assists at the Battle of Bassen Rift, the Scimitar is destroyed, but Lt. Cmdr. Data lives; Lt. Cmdr. Data is promoted to Captain and assigned to the Daystrom Institute, where he meets Calvin Raytheon, CEO of Swift Military Technologies; USS Titan Launched 2380: Data introduces Calvin Raytheon to Admiral Janeway; Raytheon proposes to Janeway, and Janeway becomes pregnant; Calvin Raytheon is killed protecting Admiral Janeway from assassination; Trailblazer Transwarp Project begins; Trial over the Doctor’s Rights goes to the Federation Supreme Court; Bajor joins the Federation; Jacob Calvin Janeway is born 2381: USS Trailblazer destroyed by sabotage; USS Pioneer successfully tests transwarp drive; Federation Security Council orders all front line vessels to be equipped with transwarp drives by 2388; Colossus Class Heavy Dreadnought Project begins; 1st assassination attempt on Jake Janeway by unknown forces; Romulan Senate approaches Ambassador Spock with Tri-Power Alliance talks; The Doctor is given full rights under the Federation Charter 2382: Federation Security Council Emergency Session approves plan and relays the plan to Chancellor Martok; Chancellor Martok, despite advice to the contrary, agrees to talks; Odo reforms the Dominion into the Protectorate; Tri-Power Alliance talks begin on Cardassia, where the Tal Shiar and the Kor’Vath attempt to assassinate Ambassador Spock and Chancellor Martok; Talks end successfully on Cardassia, forming the Tri-Power Alliance and eliminating the Romulan Neutral Zone; Federation-Cardassian Alliance formed; With permission from the Protectorate, Starfleet exploration of the Gamma Quadrant resumes 2383: Daystrom Institute discovers a way to do large scale replication of starship components; First contact with the Velora Aggregate in the Beta Quadrant; USS Titan is destroyed Beta Quadrant by Velora forces and all hands assumed lost; Jean-Luc Picard retires from Starfleet and is given ambassadorship to Protectorate; Titan crew are captured by Velora; Velora ship captured by Titan crew; First contact with Trios Imperium; Attack on combined Protectorate/Starfleet task force by Trios forces; Terrorist attack on Paris by Triosian terrorists; War declared on Trios Imperium; Joint Cardassian/Starfleet fleet captures Trion Prime; Obsidian Order troops massacre Trios civilians; Trios Liberation Force (TLF) formed; Elim Garak elected Detapa Chairman of Cardassian Union 2384: Trios Insurgency continues; Holographic crew of the USS Warspite seeks asylum with the Federation Marshalls Bureau from Section 31; Starfleet Intelligence begins file on Section 31; USS Colossus launched after a year-long shakedown cruise 2385: 2nd attempt on Jake Janeway’s life; The Brethren attempt a coup with the help of S31 and the Epoch, and fail; The Epoch is hunted down and captured by joint Federation/Tal Shiar fleet; Epoch crew turned over to the Tal Shiar; TLF approaches Starfleet Intelligence with a peace deal; Peace brokered by Ambassador Worf between TLF and Protectorate/Federation/Cardassian Union; Trios Republic formed and elections set for 2386; Section 31 attempts to rig the Federation Presidential elections after peace accord; Fascist coup topples Garak government; Garak exiled to Federation; S31 attempts hostile takeover of Federation Council but stopped by Marshalls Bureau; S31 1st Fleet and 31st Army Corps invades Earth and kills President Pollwu S’lay and installs S31 Director Ghodan Makar as President of the Federation; Vulcan, Bajor, Andoria, Betazed, Risa, and Arcadia II secede from Federation and form the New Coalition of Planets; S31 deploys fleet groups throughout Federation and bombards Rigel IV back to the stone age as a lesson; Admiral Janeway and most Starfleet, Marine, and Army officers resign their commissions and join the UCP forces, taking their ships and equipment with them; The NCS Colossus is destroyed while defending Vulcan from S31 2nd Flotilla, destroying a 1/3rd of the Flotilla; Federation Civil War begins 2386: S31 3rd and 4th Fleets attack the NCP; Admiral Janeway promoted to CINCStarfleet; Captain Kwame’s Task Force Indigo holds the line at Bajor until Deep Space Nine decides to defect and devastates the S31 6th Fleet Group; Benjamin Sisko returns from the dead; Admiral Leyton is given command of the entirety of the Section 31 fleet; Admiral Leyton begins renewed offensive on the UCP, capturing Betazed and destroying the 2nd UCP Fleet Group; UCP Intelligence discovers the S31 shipyards hidden on Io; Ben Sisko promoted to Admiral; 3rd attempt on Jake Janeway’s life 2387: S31 Forces under Admiral Leyton continue offensive; Resistance groups in Bolarus, Grazerite, Coridan, Betelgeuse, Zakdorn, and Evora systems attack and disable holographic crews of 51st, 22nd, 659th, 12th, and 97th S31 Fleet Groups; NCP Fleet Groups dispatched to defend Bolarus IX, Grazer II, Coridan, Betelgeuse II, Zakdor, and Evora Prime; Admiral Sisko assumes command of the 4th NCP Fleet and begins offensive, taking both Betazed and Bynaus; Bynars create holographic matrix disruption torpedo for deployment with fleet; The Doctor protests the building of the weapon, but is persuaded by Data to delay his objections until after the war; Cardassian Union joins war on the S31 side; Klingons persuaded by Captains Riker, Data, and Worf to join the NCP forces; Combined S31/Cardassian Fleet attacks and destroys DS9; 6th S31 Armored Corps takes Bajor, while Obsidian Order team assassinates Kai Odenta and Shaakar Edon; S31 destroys the NCP Colony of Valos III using red matter 2388: Garak organizes Cardassian resistance movement; Elaysian resistance forces disable and destroy the S31 Task Force responsible for Valos III; Sisko takes command of Task Force 141, a special operations unit dedicated to destroying S31 shipyard facilities and eliminating/capturing S31 leadership; President Makar fakes a massacre by NCP forces on Tiburon carried out by Obsidian Order troops; Task Forces Indigo and Aegis under Captains Kwame and Thr’ar uncover the plot; Trill, Edos, Tyrellia, and 30 more member worlds defect, forcing NCP task forces to defend them; USS Juggernaut is launched under command of Admiral Leyton, and is the largest ship yet built; Juggernaut engages and destroys the 5th and 10th NCP Fleet Groups at Delta Vega VII; NCS Colossus-A captures the Juggernaut at Trill, though Admiral Leyton escapes; NCS Challenger, NCS Colossus-A, NCS Titan-A, NCS Valiant-A, and NCS Aventine aka TF 141 launch assault on Io and capture 2/3rds of the facilities; Cardassian Armada dispatched to help defend Sol system; Cardassian dissident forces capture the Central Command and broadcast special recall code with the help of Bajoran resistance, allowing TF 141 to withdraw to Bajor and support the Bajoran resistance disable and destroy the Section 31 fleet using transphasic torpedoes, the technology’s first use since 2378; ; Final assault on Earth by joint Cardassian/Bajoran/Vulcan/Andorian/Starfleet/Klingon fleet; TF 141 and Enterprise-E Hazard Teams sent down to arrest Ghodon Makar, where they discover he is the mother creature for a unknown alien force similar to the Starfleet Conspiracy of 2364 and Commander Munro kills it; Admiral Leyton surrenders almost all fleet units after the creature is killed, claiming no memory since early 2371; Section 31 forces in the Sol System surrender, ending the Federation Civil War, Jean-Luc Picard elected temporary President of the Federation, pending elections in 2389 2389: Federation Army Command (FAC) is given full autonomy and begins constructing and recruiting a standing army; Special Operations Command formed by Commander Munro of Starfleet, Captain Logan of Starfleet Marine Corps, and Lt. Col. Ch’Thane of FAC; Commodore Tuvok given command of SOC; Captain Data is given command of the USS Agammenon, an Achilles class Tactical Battleship; Admiral Janeway promoted to Fleet Admiral as well as CINCStarfleet and given command of the refitted Enterprise-E; Jean-Luc Picard wins Presidential Election by a landslide against Councilor Shrarlan of Andoria 2390: Shrarlan murdered by renegade changeling; The Doctor brings up the rights of the crew of the Warspite to President Picard, who have been detained since 2386, Picard promises to fix the issue; Picard signs Executive Order 4589 giving all sentient holograms rights and privileges under Federation law; Sentient Holograms colonize Karvis Delta III; The Nanon, the sentient nanites created by Wesley Crusher, request to join the Federation, application process begins; Deep Space Nine rebuilt; Quantum Slipstream Project begins 2395: The Nanon become part of the Federation; The Holos join the Federation; Jake Janeway graduates from S’lay High School and enlists in the Starfleet Marine Corps, graduates at the top of his class, and is recommended for NCO training; Janeway graduates top of his class and is assigned to 2nd “Raider” Force Recon Company; Border conflict with the Tholians breaks out and the Tholians take Polyx II; “Raiders” ordered to scout ahead of planetary invasion, and make a HALO infiltration of Polyx; 1st Platoon’s Captain is captured and killed in the infiltration and Janeway takes command; Janeway organizes the company against the Tholian counter attack and saving the invasion; Janeway recruited by Captain Munro to join SpecOps Delta Detachment; Bajoran New Circle kill Councilor Shaakar Meron and several thousand Bajoran citizens on DS9, also known as the DS9 Attacks; Captain Riker promoted to Commodore; Quantum Slipstream successfully tested 2396: SpecOps Delta given mission to infiltrate Vulcan separatists with Federation Marshalls; Janeway succeeds in winning over the separatists and stops them before their attempts to assassinate Ambassador Spock succeed; SpecOps Delta given assignment to eliminate a band of Bajoran isolationists responsible for DS9 Attacks; SpecOps Delta succeeds in capturing Li Edon, leader of the New Circle, and successfully stop the plan to destroy the Federation-Cardassian Alliance renewal talks; Li Edon revealed to be Section 31 agent; SpecOps Delta and Admiral Janeway are implicated in plot to assassinate President Picard; While on the run, Delta manages to clear their name and they destroy the Titan-A to prevent it from being used as a S31 suicide ship against Starfleet One; Jake Janeway applies to Starfleet Academy and is accepted 2397: Borg Confederation makes contact with Federation, and requests help from the Federation, which is denied despite Admiral Janeway’s objections 2398: Jake Janeway graduates from Starfleet Academy; Borg Confederation joins with Hugh’s Borg and forms the Borg Alliance 2399: Borg Alliance attacked by 14 tactical cubes; The Federation issues an ultimatum to the Collective, stating that if the Collective refuses to withdraw, it will eliminate them once and for all; Borg refuse and attempt to assimilate Cardassia Prime; Federation 2nd Fleet arrive and destroys 7 tactical cubes, before the Borg withdraw; Borg Wars begin; Galactic Union talks begin and Galactic Union formed and the founding members: UFP, Klingon Empire, Borg Alliance, Cardassian Union, Romulan Star Empire, Protectorate, and the Breen; Breen/Cardassian forces launch Dreadnought missiles at transwarp to attack key Borg installations and destroy vinculums on several planets; Borg attack with Flotilla of cubes and tactical cubes, with 10,000 support ships; Federation/Klingon forces respond by using Quantum Warp(formerly quantum slipstream) to attack the Unimatrix and kill the last remaining Borg Queen; Lt. Cmdr. Janeway promoted to Commander 2400: Borg go on rampage and begin referring to themselves as the Remnant; Siege of Trion Prime begins; Galactic Union (GU) forces sent to relieve them Prologue: Resistance “Battleaxe Leader, this is Convoy Alpha-Delta-1238, requesting escort to Trion Prime, repeat, requesting escort to Trion Prime,” the comm. crackled, startling Commander Jake Janeway, the ship’s tactical and executive officer, from his meditation. “Convoy-Alpha-Delta-1238, please clarify,” said Lt. Cmdr. Evan McKnight, the ship’s helm officer, as he rubbed his tired eyes. “Battleaxe Leader, this is Captain Afyon of the USS Courageous-A, we’ve lost ¾ of our escort and are about to arrive in the Trion system, assistance is required,” replied Captain Afyon over the comm. “Acknowledged, standby,” McKnight said into the comm., looking over at Fleet Captain Sovak for her decision. She looked over at Janeway, who just shrugged. “You’re the captain, not me, ma’am,” Janeway replied, “But for the record, I don’t believe it’s a good idea, as the Borg have been hammering the convoys and the squad is not in the best condition; anything bigger than a Pyramid would crush us and the squadron.” Janeway reached out with his Betazoid empathic senses to see what the others thought about this decision, and all he could sense is apprehension and fear; there was also courage beginning to grow within them, emanating from Sovak, though she didn’t show it. “Tell them we are on our way, order the fleet to Condition Red and to rendezvous at Point Alpha-2-3-7-Sierra,” Sovak said, brushing her hair out of the way. “So ordered, launching defense drones and activating shields and ablative armo….” Janeway began before seeing two Remnant Pyramids decloak on his sensors. Janeway scrambled to find his balance as he felt the bridge crew’s terror when the ships appeared on screen. He quickly tried to lock on with phasers, but the set of pyramids were faster. The Pyramids launched a volley of torpedoes, almost three dozen per Pyramid, and they were targeted on the biggest threat to the Pyramids; which, unfortunately, was the Musashi. The defensive drones were quickly depleted of their micro torpedoes; the drones then defaulted to their backup programming, slamming into the incoming torpedoes. Though the drones managed to eliminate 2/3rds of the incoming, that still left twenty three incoming projectiles hurtling through space toward the Musashi. “Brace for impact!!!” shouted Janeway as he activated the ships comm. and attempted to reinforce the forward shields before impact. He failed. The first fifteen or so smashed into the powerful shields of the Musashi, then as the shields failed, the remainder plowed into the hull. Janeway and the rest of the bridge crew were thrown from their stations and Janeway blacked out. When Jake awoke, he saw a bridge in chaos. Consoles sparked, the railing around the bridge was crushed, with several jagged pieces jutting out. Several crew members were struggling to get up and as he looked around, he saw Sovak impaled on one of the jagged pieces of railing. “Oh, shit!” shouted Janeway and tapped his comm. badge, “MEDICAL EMERGENCY ON THE BRIDGE!!!” There was no response so Jake ran for the emergency medical kit at the back of the bridge, ignoring the emergency medical tips that were coming through his comm. badge, actually ripping it off and smashing it with his boot. “What are you doing, sir?!” said McKnight, who ran over, all but ready to grab Janeway and stop him. “What the hell are you doing?!” “Backoff, McKnight, I’m a combat medic!!!” said Janeway as he pushed the junior officer away and began using the medical tricorder to determine the extent of the damage. Damage to the liver and spleen, but no arteries hit, that’s good. Her pulse and heart rate are worry-some though, Janeway thought. “All right, we can move her.” “Are you out of your Betazoid mind? She’s got a piece of metal sticking through her guts!!!” McKnight shouted and he was about to continue but Janeway stood up to his full height, a good four inches taller than McKnight and just stared at him, smoldering. “Yes, sir,” McKnight said meekly and began to help Janeway pick her up off the rod impaling her. Sovak groaned in pain, but blessedly remained unconscious. Suddenly, the tricorder’s alarm went off. “Damn it, she’s starting to arrest! Put her down, put her down!” Janeway shouted as they gently lowered her to the ground, and Janeway reached for the rest of the kit and came up empty. Looking over, he saw the kit being used by Patterson and Clancy to help the crewmen who were down, one bleeding from almost every opening on his face and the other who had seemed to be having a seizure. “All right, McKnight, I got a job for you to do, you have five minutes to get down to Medical on B deck and bring back a EMedkit, before she goes into full arrest, understood?” McKnight just nodded and ran for the Jefferies tube as Janeway began compressions, keeping Sovak’s heart going.
Janeway kept up compressions until, less than two minutes later, McKnight came back with the EMedkit. McKnight quickly tossed it to Janeway, who quickly pulled out the defribilator and quickly shocked her back into rhythm. The monitor on the tricorder quickly became more steady and stabilized. “How many people did you have to fight through to get this?” Janeway joked as he quickly cauterized Sovak’s wound. “You don’t wanna know,” said McKnight with a grimace. When Janeway looked over, McKnight just looked away. “Alright, she’s good until we evacuate,” said Janeway as he activated the ship’s comm. at one of the few working stations, “What’s the status of the communications, shields, engines, and sensors Mr. Warrth?” “Shield generator is destroyed, the armor is running though, communications are working for the time being, I can only give you half impulse, sensors are working, the convoy escorts are getting shredded by the Pyramids’ fighters, and weapons are down as most of the EPS is disabled,” replied Warrth from Engineering, where it was organized chaos, “We’re also getting sporadic reports from different decks about Borg assault drones.” “Don’t worry about that, we’ll be off this ship soon enough. I’m ordering an evacuation authorization Janeway-Sigma-Delta-3-9-6-8-Omega. Warrth, transfer fleet command protocols and sensors to the helm,” Janeway began, “McKnight, you, Patterson, Clancy, and Deaver, get the wounded to the Medevac runabout and head for Trion Prime as fast as you can make it. I’m gonna take down those Pyramids.” McKnight and the others nodded with a chorus of “yes, sirs”. Janeway sat down at the helm, and punched up the maximum impulse available, and pulled up Battleaxe Squadron’s positions, and saw that the squadron’s guided weapons defense cruiser, the USS Tian An Men, was still able to fight. Janeway activated fleet command channel and ordered, “This is Commander Jake Janeway of the USS Musashi, I’m taking command of the squadron authorization Janeway-Sigma-Delta-3-9-6-8-Omega, Tian An Men, I need some cover from those drones and the Pyramids’ torpedoes.” “Roger that, Battleaxe Leader,” Janeway heard over the comm., and he quickly punched in the collision course at the lead Pyramid. Coming in on the Musashi’s flank, the Tian An Men provided withering defensive fire from every arc, lashing out at enemy torpedoes and fighter drones with impunity. As escape pods shot away from the ship, the Janeway punched in his access code, and activated the self destruct sequence and punched the final heading in. Bolting from his seat, Janeway jumped into the final emergency turbolift. “Requesting authorization for self destruct sequence,” the computer said calmly“Authorization Janeway-Sigma-Delta-3-9-6-8-Omega-Sigma-Charlie, countdown for 60 seconds,” said Janeway as the Arrow class Runabout, the USS Javelin in the shuttlebay, was activated and the emergency lift dropped at breakneck speed. Janeway sprinted from the turbolift to the open hatch of the Javelin and clambered into the runabout. Sliding into the seat, Janeway activated the shuttles engines, and as the ship’s hatch closed, he pulled out of the shuttlebay and through the bay’s magnetic containment field. As the Javelin pulled out the bay, the Musashi began its terminal run, plowing through several fighter drones. The targeted Pyramid finally took notice of the ship bearing down on her, and launched another volley of torpedoes at the crippled Musashi, but the Tian An Men again lashed out with her micro-torpedoes batteries, destroying all but two of the incoming. As the Tian An Men pulled away from the battleship, the Musashi shrugged off the two torpedoes, and smashed into the Pyramid, cracking the Musashi’s saucer. On the main console in engineering, the self-destruct countdown reached zero, and in less than a microsecond, every remaining phaser bank, photon, quantum, transphasic, and tricobalt torpedo overloaded and detonated, including the ship’s antimatter supply. The resulting explosion was massive, 700 trillion isotons, which all but shattered the Pyramid. The shockwave slammed into the Javelin and again Jake blacked out.
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Star Trek: Fighter Command Commander Jake Janeway (Executive and Tactical Officer of the USS Musashi, SCH-221, Ronin Class Heavy Star Cruiser) Lieutenant Evan McKnight (Helm Officer of the USS Musashi) Fleet Captain Sovak (Captain of the USS Musashi) Original Timeline 2378: Kathryn Janeway promoted to Vice Admiral; USS Titan begins shakedown 2379: Shinzon assassinates Romulan Senate; Shinzon assumes office of Praetor; USS Enterprise dispatched on mission of peace; Battle of Bassen Rift, Scimitar is destroyed by Lt. Cmdr. Data and killed, USS Titan officially commissioned under Captain William T. Riker, Section 31 recovers the Scimitar’s cloaking device and the Thelaron Weapon 2381: Section 31 (S31) begins to coordinate with secret elements of the Romulan military and Tal Shiar known as The Brethren to make a Time Ship equipped with the Scimitar’s cloaking device to stop the assassination of the Romulan Senate in 2379, codenamed Operation: Time Bandit; Ambassador Spock comes out of hiding after Section 31 operatives attempt to recruit Spock for Operation: Time Bandit 2386: Time Ship Epoch is launched under joint Brethren-Section 31 control, undergoes shakedown for a year 2387: Epoch attempts time travel and succeeds, but also accidentally creates a temporal distortion that accelerates Hobus to end of its stellar life; Ambassador Spock goes to Hobus and discovers Hobus star is about to go supernova and attempts to warn Romulus of the danger it represents; The Jellyfish, designed by Geordi LaForge, launched; Ambassador Jean-Luc Picard and Ambassador Spock collaborate to stop the supernova; Hobus goes supernova destroying Romulus and Remus; LaForge brings the Jellyfish to Vulcan; Spock attempts to stop the supernova, but is attacked by the Narada under Captain Nero; Spock succeeds in launching the Red Matter into the supernova, both the Jellyfish and Narada appear to be destroyed by the resulting black hole, but are sent back to 2258 and 2233 respectively Altered Timeline 2379: Shinzon assassinates Romulan Senate; Epoch arrives and discovers the situation; Shinzon assumes office of Praetor; Epoch secretly assists at the Battle of Bassen Rift, the Scimitar is destroyed, but Lt. Cmdr. Data lives; Lt. Cmdr. Data is promoted to Captain and assigned to the Daystrom Institute, where he meets Calvin Raytheon, CEO of Swift Military Technologies; USS Titan Launched 2380: Data introduces Calvin Raytheon to Admiral Janeway; Raytheon proposes to Janeway, and Janeway becomes pregnant; Calvin Raytheon is killed protecting Admiral Janeway from assassination; Trailblazer Transwarp Project begins; Trial over the Doctor’s Rights goes to the Federation Supreme Court; Bajor joins the Federation; Jacob Calvin Janeway is born 2381: USS Trailblazer destroyed by sabotage; USS Pioneer successfully tests transwarp drive; Federation Security Council orders all front line vessels to be equipped with transwarp drives by 2388; Colossus Class Heavy Dreadnought Project begins; 1st assassination attempt on Jake Janeway by unknown forces; Romulan Senate approaches Ambassador Spock with Tri-Power Alliance talks; The Doctor is given full rights under the Federation Charter 2382: Federation Security Council Emergency Session approves plan and relays the plan to Chancellor Martok; Chancellor Martok, despite advice to the contrary, agrees to talks; Odo reforms the Dominion into the Protectorate; Tri-Power Alliance talks begin on Cardassia, where the Tal Shiar and the Kor’Vath attempt to assassinate Ambassador Spock and Chancellor Martok; Talks end successfully on Cardassia, forming the Tri-Power Alliance and eliminating the Romulan Neutral Zone; Federation-Cardassian Alliance formed; With permission from the Protectorate, Starfleet exploration of the Gamma Quadrant resumes 2383: Daystrom Institute discovers a way to do large scale replication of starship components; First contact with the Velora Aggregate in the Beta Quadrant; USS Titan is destroyed Beta Quadrant by Velora forces and all hands assumed lost; Jean-Luc Picard retires from Starfleet and is given ambassadorship to Protectorate; Titan crew are captured by Velora; Velora ship captured by Titan crew; First contact with Trios Imperium; Attack on combined Protectorate/Starfleet task force by Trios forces; Terrorist attack on Paris by Triosian terrorists; War declared on Trios Imperium; Joint Cardassian/Starfleet fleet captures Trion Prime; Obsidian Order troops massacre Trios civilians; Trios Liberation Force (TLF) formed; Elim Garak elected Detapa Chairman of Cardassian Union 2384: Trios Insurgency continues; Holographic crew of the USS Warspite seeks asylum with the Federation Marshalls Bureau from Section 31; Starfleet Intelligence begins file on Section 31; USS Colossus launched after a year-long shakedown cruise 2385: 2nd attempt on Jake Janeway’s life; The Brethren attempt a coup with the help of S31 and the Epoch, and fail; The Epoch is hunted down and captured by joint Federation/Tal Shiar fleet; Epoch crew turned over to the Tal Shiar; TLF approaches Starfleet Intelligence with a peace deal; Peace brokered by Ambassador Worf between TLF and Protectorate/Federation/Cardassian Union; Trios Republic formed and elections set for 2386; Section 31 attempts to rig the Federation Presidential elections after peace accord; Fascist coup topples Garak government; Garak exiled to Federation; S31 attempts hostile takeover of Federation Council but stopped by Marshalls Bureau; S31 1st Fleet and 31st Army Corps invades Earth and kills President Pollwu S’lay and installs S31 Director Ghodan Makar as President of the Federation; Vulcan, Bajor, Andoria, Betazed, Risa, and Arcadia II secede from Federation and form the New Coalition of Planets; S31 deploys fleet groups throughout Federation and bombards Rigel IV back to the stone age as a lesson; Admiral Janeway and most Starfleet, Marine, and Army officers resign their commissions and join the UCP forces, taking their ships and equipment with them; The NCS Colossus is destroyed while defending Vulcan from S31 2nd Flotilla, destroying a 1/3rd of the Flotilla; Federation Civil War begins 2386: S31 3rd and 4th Fleets attack the NCP; Admiral Janeway promoted to CINCStarfleet; Captain Kwame’s Task Force Indigo holds the line at Bajor until Deep Space Nine decides to defect and devastates the S31 6th Fleet Group; Benjamin Sisko returns from the wormhole; Admiral Leyton is given command of the entirety of the Section 31 fleet; Admiral Leyton begins renewed offensive on the UCP, capturing Betazed and destroying the 2nd UCP Fleet Group; UCP Intelligence discovers the S31 shipyards hidden on Io; Ben Sisko promoted to Admiral; 3rd attempt on Jake Janeway’s life 2387: S31 Forces under Admiral Leyton continue offensive; Resistance groups in Bolarus, Grazerite, Coridan, Betelgeuse, Zakdorn, and Evora systems attack and disable holographic crews of 51st, 22nd, 659th, 12th, and 97th S31 Fleet Groups; NCP Fleet Groups dispatched to defend Bolarus IX, Grazer II, Coridan, Betelgeuse II, Zakdor, and Evora Prime; Admiral Sisko assumes command of the 4th NCP Fleet and begins offensive, taking both Betazed and Bynaus; Bynars create holographic matrix disruption torpedo for deployment with fleet; The Doctor protests the building of the weapon, but is persuaded by Data to delay his objections until after the war; Cardassian Union joins war on the S31 side; Klingons persuaded by Captains Riker, Data, and Worf to join the NCP forces; Combined S31/Cardassian Fleet attacks and destroys DS9; 6th S31 Armored Corps takes Bajor, while Obsidian Order team assassinates Kai Odenta and Shaakar Edon; S31 destroys the NCP Colony of Valos III using red matter 2388: Garak organizes Cardassian resistance movement; Elaysian resistance forces disable and destroy the S31 Task Force responsible for Valos III; Sisko takes command of Task Force 141, a special operations unit dedicated to destroying S31 shipyard facilities and eliminating/capturing S31 leadership; President Makar fakes a massacre by NCP forces on Tiburon carried out by Obsidian Order troops; Task Forces Indigo and Aegis under Captains Kwame and Thr’ar uncover the plot; Trill, Edos, Tyrellia, and 30 more member worlds defect, forcing NCP task forces to defend them; USS Juggernaut is launched under command of Admiral Leyton, and is the largest ship yet built; Juggernaut engages and destroys the 5th and 10th NCP Fleet Groups at Delta Vega VII; NCS Colossus-A captures the Juggernaut at Trill, though Admiral Leyton escapes; NCS Challenger, NCS Colossus-A, NCS Titan-A, NCS Valiant-A, and NCS Aventine aka TF 141 launch assault on Io and capture 2/3rds of the facilities; Cardassian Armada dispatched to help defend Sol system; Cardassian dissident forces capture the Central Command and broadcast special recall code with the help of Bajoran resistance, allowing TF 141 to withdraw to Bajor and support the Bajoran resistance disable and destroy the Section 31 fleet using transphasic torpedoes, the technology’s first use since 2378; ; Final assault on Earth by joint Cardassian/Bajoran/Vulcan/Andorian/Starfleet/Klingon fleet; TF 141 and Enterprise-E Hazard Teams sent down to arrest Ghodon Makar, where they discover he is the mother creature for a unknown alien force similar to the Starfleet Conspiracy of 2364 and Commander Munro kills it; Admiral Leyton surrenders almost all fleet units after the creature is killed, claiming no memory since early 2371; Section 31 forces in the Sol System surrender, ending the Federation Civil War, Jean-Luc Picard elected temporary President of the Federation, pending elections in 2389 2389: Federation Army Command (FAC) is given full autonomy and begins constructing and recruiting a standing army; Special Operations Command formed by Commander Munro of Starfleet, Captain Logan of Starfleet Marine Corps, and Lt. Col. Ch’Thane of FAC; Commodore Tuvok given command of SOC; Captain Data is given command of the USS Agammenon, an Achilles class Tactical Battleship; Admiral Janeway promoted to Fleet Admiral as well as CINCStarfleet and given command of the refitted Enterprise-E; Jean-Luc Picard wins Presidential Election by a landslide against Councilor Shrarlan of Andoria 2390: Shrarlan murdered by renegade changeling; The Doctor brings up the rights of the crew of the Warspite to President Picard, who have been detained since 2386, Picard promises to fix the issue; Picard signs Executive Order 4589 giving all sentient holograms rights and privileges under Federation law; Sentient Holograms colonize Karvis Delta III; The Nanon, the sentient nanites created by Wesley Crusher, request to join the Federation, application process begins; Deep Space Nine rebuilt; Quantum Slipstream Project begins 2395: The Nanon become part of the Federation; The Holos join the Federation; Jake Janeway graduates from S’lay High School and enlists in the Starfleet Marine Corps, graduates at the top of his class, and is recommended for NCO training; Janeway graduates top of his class and is assigned to 2nd “Raider” Force Recon Company; Border conflict with the Tholians breaks out and the Tholians take Polyx II; “Raiders” ordered to scout ahead of planetary invasion, and make a HALO infiltration of Polyx; 1st Platoon’s Captain is captured and killed in the infiltration and Janeway takes command; Janeway organizes the company against the Tholian counter attack and saving the invasion; Janeway recruited by Captain Munro to join SpecOps Delta Detachment; Bajoran New Circle kill Councilor Shaakar Meron and several thousand Bajoran citizens on DS9, also known as the DS9 Attacks; Captain Riker promoted to Commodore; Quantum Slipstream successfully tested 2396: SpecOps Delta given mission to infiltrate Vulcan separatists with Federation Marshalls; Janeway succeeds in winning over the separatists and stops them before their attempts to assassinate Ambassador Spock succeed; SpecOps Delta given assignment to eliminate a band of Bajoran isolationists responsible for DS9 Attacks; SpecOps Delta succeeds in capturing Li Edon, leader of the New Circle, and successfully stop the plan to destroy the Federation-Cardassian Alliance renewal talks; Li Edon revealed to be Section 31 agent; SpecOps Delta and Admiral Janeway are implicated in plot to assassinate President Picard; While on the run, Delta manages to clear their name and they destroy the Titan-A to prevent it from being used as a S31 suicide ship against Starfleet One; Jake Janeway applies to Starfleet Academy and is accepted 2397: Borg Confederation makes contact with Federation, and requests help from the Federation, which is denied despite Admiral Janeway’s objections 2398: Jake Janeway graduates from Starfleet Academy; Borg Confederation joins with Hugh’s Borg and forms the Borg Alliance 2399: Borg Alliance attacked by 14 tactical cubes; The Federation issues an ultimatum to the Collective, stating that if the Collective refuses to withdraw, it will eliminate them once and for all; Borg refuse and attempt to assimilate Cardassia Prime; Federation 2nd Fleet arrive and destroys 7 tactical cubes, before the Borg withdraw; Borg Wars begin; Galactic Union talks begin and Galactic Union formed and the founding members: UFP, Klingon Empire, Borg Alliance, Cardassian Union, Romulan Star Empire, Protectorate, and the Breen; Breen/Cardassian forces launch Dreadnought missiles at transwarp to attack key Borg installations and destroy vinculums on several planets; Borg attack with Flotilla of cubes and tactical cubes, with 10,000 support ships; Federation/Klingon forces respond by using Quantum Warp(formerly quantum slipstream) to attack the Unimatrix and kill the last remaining Borg Queen; Lt. Cmdr. Janeway promoted to Commander 2400: Borg go on rampage and begin referring to themselves as the Remnant; Siege of Trion Prime begins; Galactic Union (GU) forces sent to relieve them Prologue: Resistance “Battleaxe Leader, this is Convoy Alpha-Delta-1238, requesting escort to Trion Prime, repeat, requesting escort to Trion Prime,” the comm. crackled, startling Commander Jake Janeway, the ship’s tactical and executive officer, from his meditation. “Convoy-Alpha-Delta-1238, please clarify,” said Lt. Cmdr. Evan McKnight, the ship’s helm officer, as he rubbed his tired eyes. “Battleaxe Leader, this is Captain Afyon of the USS Courageous-A, we’ve lost ¾ of our escort and are about to arrive in the Trion system, assistance is required,” replied Captain Afyon over the comm. “Acknowledged, standby,” McKnight said into the comm., looking over at Fleet Captain Sovak for her decision. She looked over at Janeway, who just shrugged. “You’re the captain, not me, ma’am,” Janeway replied, “But for the record, I don’t believe it’s a good idea, as the Borg have been hammering the convoys and the squad is not in the best condition; anything bigger than a Pyramid would crush us and the squadron.” Janeway reached out with his Betazoid empathic senses to see what the others thought about this decision, and all he could sense is apprehension and fear; there was also courage beginning to grow within them, emanating from Sovak, though she didn’t show it. “Tell them we are on our way, order the fleet to Condition Red and to rendezvous at Point Alpha-2-3-7-Sierra,” Sovak said, brushing her hair out of the way. “So ordered, launching defense drones and activating shields and ablative armo….” Janeway began before seeing two Remnant Pyramids decloak on his sensors. Janeway scrambled to find his balance as he felt the bridge crew’s terror when the ships appeared on screen. He quickly tried to lock on with phasers, but the set of pyramids were faster. The Pyramids launched a volley of torpedoes, almost three dozen per Pyramid, and they were targeted on the biggest threat to the Pyramids; which, unfortunately, was the Musashi. The defensive drones were quickly depleted of their micro torpedoes; the drones then defaulted to their backup programming, slamming into the incoming torpedoes. Though the drones managed to eliminate 2/3rds of the incoming, that still left twenty three incoming projectiles hurtling through space toward the Musashi. “Brace for impact!!!” shouted Janeway as he activated the ships comm. and attempted to reinforce the forward shields before impact. He failed. The first fifteen or so smashed into the powerful shields of the Musashi, then as the shields failed, the remainder plowed into the hull. Janeway and the rest of the bridge crew were thrown from their stations and suddenly all Janeway saw was darkness... When Jake awoke, he saw a bridge in chaos. Consoles sparked, the railing around the bridge was crushed, with several jagged pieces jutting out. Several crew members were struggling to get up and as he looked around, he saw Sovak impaled on one of the jagged pieces of railing. “Oh, shit!” shouted Janeway and tapped his comm. badge, “MEDICAL EMERGENCY ON THE BRIDGE!!!” There was no response so Jake ran for the emergency medical kit at the back of the bridge, ignoring the emergency medical tips that were coming through his comm. badge, ripping it off and smashing it with his boot. “What are you doing, sir?!” said McKnight, who ran over, all but ready to grab Janeway and stop him. “What the hell are you doing?!” “Backoff, McKnight, I’m a combat medic!!!” said Janeway as he pushed the junior officer away and began using the medical tricorder to determine the extent of the damage. Damage to the liver and spleen, but no arteries hit, that’s good. Her pulse and heart rate are worry-some though, Janeway thought. “All right, we can move her.” “Are you out of your Betazoid mind? She’s got a piece of metal sticking through her guts!!!” McKnight shouted and he was about to continue but Janeway stood up to his full height, a good four inches taller than McKnight and just stared at him, smoldering. “Yes, sir,” McKnight said meekly and began to help Janeway pick her up off the rod impaling her. Sovak groaned in pain, but blessedly remained unconscious. Suddenly, the tricorder’s alarm went off. “Damn it, she’s starting to arrest! Put her down, put her down!” Janeway shouted as they gently lowered her to the ground, and Janeway reached for the rest of the kit and came up empty. Looking over, he saw the kit being used by Patterson and Clancy to help the crewmen who were down, one bleeding from almost every opening on his face and the other who had seemed to be having a seizure. “All right, McKnight, I got a job for you to do, you have five minutes to get down to Medical on B deck and bring back a EMedkit, before she goes into full arrest, understood?” McKnight just nodded and ran for the Jefferies tube as Janeway began compressions, keeping Sovak’s heart going.
Janeway kept up compressions until, less than two minutes later, McKnight came back with the EMedkit. McKnight quickly tossed it to Janeway, who quickly pulled out the defribilator and quickly shocked her back into rhythm. The monitor on the tricorder quickly became more steady and stabilized. “How many people did you have to fight through to get this?” Janeway joked as he quickly cauterized Sovak’s wound. “You don’t wanna know,” said McKnight with a grimace. When Janeway looked over, McKnight just looked away. “Alright, she’s good until we evacuate,” said Janeway as he activated the ship’s comm. at one of the few working stations, “What’s the status of the communications, shields, engines, and sensors Mr. Warrth?” “Shield generator is destroyed, the armor is running though, communications are working for the time being, I can only give you half impulse, sensors are working, the convoy escorts are getting shredded by the Pyramids’ fighters, and weapons are down as most of the EPS is disabled,” replied Warrth from Engineering, where it was organized chaos, “We’re also getting sporadic reports from different decks about Borg assault drones.” “Don’t worry about that, we’ll be off this ship soon enough. I’m ordering an evacuation authorization Janeway-Sigma-Delta-3-9-6-8-Omega. Warrth, transfer fleet command protocols and sensors to the helm,” Janeway began, “McKnight, you, Patterson, Clancy, and Deaver, get the wounded to the Medevac runabout and head for Trion Prime as fast as you can make it. I’m gonna take down those Pyramids.” McKnight and the others nodded with a chorus of “yes, sirs”. Janeway sat down at the helm, and punched up the maximum impulse available, and pulled up Battleaxe Squadron’s positions, and saw that the squadron’s guided weapons defense cruiser, the USS Tian An Men, was still able to fight. Janeway activated fleet command channel and ordered, “This is Commander Jake Janeway of the USS Musashi, I’m taking command of the squadron authorization Janeway-Sigma-Delta-3-9-6-8-Omega, Tian An Men, I need some cover from those drones and the Pyramids’ torpedoes.” “Roger that, Battleaxe Leader,” Janeway heard over the comm., and he quickly punched in the collision course at the lead Pyramid. Coming in on the Musashi’s flank, the Tian An Men provided withering defensive fire from every arc, lashing out at enemy torpedoes and fighter drones with impunity. As escape pods shot away from the ship, the Musashi dove through a torrent of energy coming from the enemy ships. Janeway punched in his access code, and activated the self destruct sequence and punched the final heading in. Bolting from his seat, Janeway jumped into the final emergency turbolift. “Requesting authorization for self destruct sequence,” the computer said calmly “Authorization Janeway-Sigma-Delta-3-9-6-8-Omega-Sigma-Charlie, countdown for 60 seconds,” said Janeway as the Arrow class Runabout, the USS Javelin in the shuttlebay, was activated and the emergency lift dropped at breakneck speed. Janeway sprinted from the turbolift to the open hatch of the Javelin and clambered into the runabout. Sliding into the seat, Janeway activated the shuttles engines, and as the ship’s hatch closed, he pulled out of the shuttlebay and through the bay’s magnetic containment field. As the Javelin pulled out the bay, the Musashi began its terminal run, plowing through several fighter drones. The targeted Pyramid finally took notice of the ship bearing down on her, and launched another volley of torpedoes at the crippled Musashi, but the Tian An Men again lashed out with her micro-torpedoes batteries, destroying all but two of the incoming. As the Tian An Men pulled away from the battleship, the Musashi shrugged off the two torpedoes, and smashed into the Pyramid, cracking the Musashi’s saucer. On the main console in engineering, the self-destruct countdown reached zero, and in less than a microsecond, every remaining phaser bank, photon, quantum, transphasic, and tricobalt torpedo overloaded and detonated, including the ship’s antimatter supply. The resulting explosion was massive, 700 trillion isotons, which all but shattered the Pyramid. The shockwave slammed into the Javelin and again Jake blacked out.
Lt. Cmdr. Evan McKnight was in hell… at least he thought so. The USS Tennessee, the Medevac variant of the Danube class Runabout, was pounded by micro-torpedoes and cutting beams. As McKnight dove the runabout through a torrent of micro-torpedoes, avoiding almost all of them. Suddenly, the Tennessee was stopped in its tracks as the Pyramid switched targets from the capital ships harassing it to the escape pods and shuttles from the Musashi, vengefully lashing out with cutting and tractor beams. The Tennessee was quickly caught in a tractor beam that stopped her dead in her tracks. The Tennessee fired its singular quantum torpedo and blasted at the Pyramid with it's dual phaser banks, but to no avail. The Tennessee shook, and the runabout's power failed. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a green flash go across the cockpit windows, getting bigger and bigger, until it disappeared into the Pyramid. Nanoseconds later, the tractor beam projector exploded in a green blue fireball, releasing the Tennessee and restoring its power. The comm. came alive with Janeway's voice, “Do you have power, McKnight?” “Roger that, sir!” he replied as he punched the impulse engines up to full and began to follow the Arrow class Runabout that Janeway was flying. “No, don't follow me, McKnight! Get the hell out of here, you son of a Bolian!!!” replied Janeway, and the Tennessee broke off from the Javelin and went to warp. The Javelin dove as the vengeful Pyramid began pummeling it with multiple cutting beams, launching seven gravimetric torpedoes at Javelin. Janeway pulled the runabout up and over the Pyramid, and then pulled a high-g turn, reversing direction and dove, confusing the torpedoes' guidance. Having bought himself some time, he pulled up the squadron’s command and control interface, and activated the comm. “Battleaxe Leader to Courageous-A, get that damned convoy out of here, before the Pyramid figures what they're supposed to be doing. Paine, Agamemnon, Kraken, and Providence, cover the convoy and keep up the pressure on that Pyramid. Tian An Men and Minuteman, stay after those fighter drones. The rest of the squadron, go to rally point Bravo-Sigma-3 and try to get some support for us.” There's almost no chance we're gonna survive this without support, the best chance is to get as many ships as possible to the rally point, and safeguarding that convoy until they get to Trion Prime. The Javelin rumbled as it was hit by fighter drones' cutting beams and pounded by micro gravimetric torpedoes, rolling and wheeling around, avoiding as much of the enemy fire as possible. “Roger that,” came the chorus of replies coming from the comm, and the Paine, Agamemnon, Kraken, and Providence all came about, weapons ablaze, firing everything they could still fire. The Agamemnon and the Kraken, both Akira II Class Pocket Battleships, simultaneously launched four transphasic torpedoes from each of their eight forward launchers. The torpedoes streaked in on their respective targets, thirty two of which shredded the fighter drones while the Tian An Men and Minuteman blasted away at incoming enemy torpedoes. The remainder of the transphasic torpedoes smashed into the Pyramid. The Pyramid began to shudder and quickly broke apart. As whoops of celebration began on the command channel, sixty five transwarp conduits opened up, reveling dozens of fighter drones and among them, a lone tactical cube. Oh, we are so screwed. “All ships, begin immediate withdraw, I repeat begin immediate withdraw, rendezvous at rally point Alpha-Whiskey 4!!!” Janeway said as he began taking withering fire from a dozen fighters, quickly overwhelming his shields. Janeway began maneuvering wildly and chaotically to lose the pursuers, and succeeded in losing 2/3rds of them, but the remaining were determined to destroy the Javelin. The Javelin dove into the cloud of drones, weaving and rolling, and lashed out with its pulse phaser cannons and micro-torpedoes. The runabout's armored hull was holding off the onslaught of energy being unleashed upon it, but for how long was anyone's guess. Around him, the Kraken was rammed by a dozen drones, destroying a good half of her saucer. The Agamemnon, caught in on of the Cube's tractors, was slowly obliterated as the Cube pumped torpedo after torpedo in the wounded ship. The Thomas Paine, a Patriot class Heavy Cruiser, was listing and unresponsive as it was swarmed by drones, while the Providence exploded from a warp core breach, leaving no trace left of the once proud Nova Mk II class vessel. Suddenly, one drone bounced off the cockpit of the Javelin, cracking it, while a well placed shot disabled the ship's power. Realizing the danger, Jake grabbed for his pilot's helmet sealing mechanism, but as the cockpit's window shattered, he realized it was too late and was pulled into the dark void of space.... When Jake awoke, he was on an assimilation table basked in the green glow of the Borg vinculum. He struggled against the bonds of the forcefield surrounding him to no avail. Suddenly, from beyond the forcefield came a shape, one he could not make out, until it resolved itself as Dr. Jack Weber, Jake's roommate at the academy. “God, Jack, you scared the crap out of me!!!” Janeway said as the doctor deactivated the forcefield restraints and Jake sat up. “What in the hell are you doing here?” “Besides saving your ass yet again, I'm part of Task Force Freedom now, chief medical officer on the USS Rhode Island, and part of the medical team that saved your life” said Weber as he strode toward Janeway and Janeway began to try and stand up. “Whoa, that's not a good idea, buddy. You're still suffering the effects of being sucked into space like you were. Besides, you're gonna wanna stay seated. I've got some bad news.” “What, is Sovak okay? Did the convoy not make it?” Janeway asked. “Damn it, tell me what happened Jack!” Janeway demanded as he stood up, wobbling slightly as he did so. “What happened was all the ships you ordered to stay to cover the convoy were destroyed by the Borg tactical cube and its fighters. The Tian An Men was destroyed while making a suicidal run at the Cube, to delay them from attacking the planet. Minuteman was captured and assimilated by the Remnant. 6000 personnel were killed. It gets worse. The JAG is calling your decisions into question and convening a board of inquiry to investigate after Starfleet Command denounced your actions as reckless and called for your court-martial,” Weber reported grimly. Janeway all but collapsed in shock. “Who called for the court-martial?” Jake replied in a tone almost too low to hear. “Jake, I'm pretty sure you don't wanna kno...” began Weber, but he was cut off. “To hell with your opinion, who called for my goddamned court-martial?!” Janeway screamed as he glared at Weber. “Your mom, Jake. It was your mom.”
Chapter 1: Inquisition, Stardate 79540.31 “Commander Jacob Calvin Janeway, please stand,” Admiral Alynna Nechayev said as she and her adjunct entered the court chamber escorted by the bailiffs, and she sat down at the bench, with her aide in the seat to her right. “In accordance with the Starfleet Code of Conduct and the Uniform Code of Justice, this court finds you not guilty of all charges,” Nechayev said with a smile. “Thank you, Admiral.” replied Janeway as he saluted, a habit leftover from his Marine days. When Nechayev realized what he was doing, she returned the salute smartly. Jake turned to his attorney and said, “Thank you for all your work and taking the time to come to my defense, Ambassador.” “It was the least I could do,” replied Ambassador Tuvok as he stood, “I found your mother's insistence on a court-martial quite... illogical.” Janeway nodded as he followed the ambassador out of the chamber and into the bustling corridors of Starfleet Command. “Your actions were as they say, 'by the book' and not in violation of Starfleet combat doctrine or the Code of Conduct. It was simply logical that you were not at fault. Onto another matter. How are your symptoms? The Doctor requested that I ask. He also requested I tell you that you are overdue for your physical.” “Sleeping is much better than it was several months ago. The nightmares still occur occasionally and the flashbacks come and go. The court-martial didn't exactly help matters. And with regards to the physical, tell Joe that it's not happening, I expect to be very busy in the next month or so, and after that, I hope to be part of the Andromeda expedition,” replied Jake as he and Tuvok walked to the turbolift. “Level 12.” “I do not mean to pry into your personal affairs, but why are you headed to Level 12? that is where StratCom is located,” Tuvok asked as the turbolift lurched ever so subtly and began rising through Starfleet Command's main building. “I scheduled an appointment for a proposal to Starfleet Strategic Command for 11:30 hours,” replied Janeway as he looked at his chronometer. “You scheduled an appointment with StratCom without knowing if you were going to be cleared. That is a rather bold move, if I may say so,” said Tuvok, raising an eyebrow. “Well I knew I did nothing wrong, you did not think I was wrong, so I made the appointment,” Janeway replied with a sly grin. “A gamble,” Tuvok shot back. “An act of faith, you should try it sometime,” said Jake as the turbolift reached Level 12 and the doors opened up quickly and Janeway walked out and turned to face Tuvok, “Up for a game of kal-toh, before you leave for Confederation space? Maybe tonight?” “It is as you would say 'a date',” replied Tuvok before the doors closed. “Looking forward to it...” Janeway muttered as he turned around and strode into the briefing room.
“Admirals Ruiz, Adislo, and Meyer, Commodore Sovak, Captains Ibanez, Hernandez, and Ma'Reth, thank you for your time. I am here to present to you Project: Hartmann, a joint proposal from the Starfleet Corps of Engineers, Daystrom Institute, Annapolis Office of Starfleet Tactics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Swift Military Technologies, and the West Point Tactical and Strategic Affairs Commission, The proposal is on your PADDs to help you follow along.” said Janeway as the projector flashed the logos of each of the organizations that Jake had mentioned on the screen. “In light of the Siege of Trion Prime, there have been many developments in terms of tactics. The Borg Remnant, before their fleet's surrender, illustrated tactics that were extremely effective against all levels of capital ships from frigates to cruisers to destroyers. These tactics were modified carrier tactics. Using Borg drones specifically designed for spaceflight, they attacked in groups of four, overwhelming the firing arcs of all but Guided Weapon Defense type vessels, and even then a group of eight could overwhelm even the best gunnery computer. With almost every major power in the galaxy having developed or deployed fighter craft of their own and the dissolution of the Galactic Union, the threat of Federation starships facing an enemy fighter attack is increasing every day. With the exploration of the Andromeda galaxy, it is becoming extremely....” Janeway stopped as an aide came in and handed a PADD to Captain Hernandez. “Something I should know, Captain?” “No, by all means, continue Commander,” replied Hernandez as she all but sneered at Janeway. Ok, there's one person that I'm never gonna get on my side. She then put the PADD down and returned her attention to the briefing. “As I was saying, with the exploration of the Andromeda galaxy, it is becoming extremely likely that Federation and Allied starships will eventually face an Andromedan power with fighters. While some are calling for research into more advanced targeting, tracking, and interception components and computers. The organizations I represent, on the other hand, are of a different mind. We think that the best course of action is a tactic that was created by the British, American, and to a certain extent, Japanese, navies. This tactic is carrier warfare,” Janeway stated. “With the collaboration of Swift, SCE, and myself, we have designed both a starfighter craft and a pod that can be attached to either the Nebula, Ronin, Kelvin Refit, Concorde, Charleston, Commonwealth Refit, Armada, and Aquiescent classes and subclasses. This pod contains two hangars with two low power tractor beam projectors, eight point defense turrets with their ammunition supplies, and a Spaceborne Warning and Control System sensor suite with a command section, as well as repair and maintenance facilities. This is a design of the pod showing all the components and the layout of the pod. This is the Razor class Strike Fighter, a one man fighter, developed by M.I.T.'s engineering department, SCE's Commodore Scott, and myself. It is armed to the teeth, with six miniature pulse phaser cannons, four quantum/transphasic micro-torpedo launchers with one hundred micro-torpedoes per launcher, and six torpedoes of any type with one launcher,” Jake continued as he looked around for responses and reaction, but his stony faced audience betrayed no emotion, so he resumed the presentation, “The carrier pod shown here can carry six full squadrons of twelve fighters a squadron. With the design of the carrier pod, a designated carrier ship would be able launch her fighters in 15 seconds flat, unlike the more traditional “shuttlecarrier” which takes close to 10 minutes to launch her shuttles. In simulations, a squadron of Razors was able to destroy three Intrepid II Light Battleships with minimal casualties of their own at only 5 ships loss. While this may seem indicative of being unprepared to face this threat, that is only partially true; it demonstrates the firepower and capability of the fighters. In another simulation, we had a flight of four Razors defend a small tactical group of fifteen ships from a group of twelve Breen cruisers modified as a torpedo cruisers. While our tactical group slightly outnumbered the Breen, the Breen's torpedo armament outclassed our ships. Defending them from multiple torpedo strikes, the Razors managed to act as point defense weapon platforms, eliminating enough enemy torpedoes that the tactical group was able to destroy almost all the Breen, with only one ship disabled.” “May I interrupt, Commander Janeway?” asked Sovak, with a raised hand, “What exactly allows the Razors to be able to intercept the torpedoes, because most target/intercept computers are too large to fit on anything smaller than a frigate chassis? After all, these computers are exceedingly powerful.” “With the help of Swift's, M.I.T.'s, and the Daystrom Institute's computer research departments, we managed to shrink target/intercept computers by 300%. Also, we decreased the amount of targets it could track at one time from 96 to 48 torpedoes/missiles. This allows the computer to be mounted on fighter type craft or runabouts,” Janeway said as he pointed to the illustration of the new computer. “I have a question, Commander?” asked Vice Admiral Adislo with a grimace.”These fighter craft, what makes them better than standard runabouts or shuttles? They are far easier and cheaper to produce,” Adislo inquired. “The weaponry, shielding, and armor give it an excellent edge over any runabout or shuttle, and it is the only craft below a frigate that is equipped with quantum warp drive, making it the fastest small craft in the fleet. This makes it an excellent scouting platform. It is also the first ship of its size to be equipped with an ablative armor generator. Its sensor suite is extremely sophisticated, much better than anything in its class, other than a runabout configured for science duty, and no runabout is as heavily armed,” replied Janeway. “Commander, what is the cost per unit? Both for the hangar pod and the Razor?” asked Admiral Ruiz. “The hangar pod costs approximately 10,000,000 Federation credits or 1,000,000 latinum pieces. The fighter is approximately 1,000,000 or 100,000 per unit,” said Jake as he gestured at the graphs. “So in total, for a test squadron and carrier platform, we're talking about 22,000,000 credits? This is ridiculous, I'm sick of listening to this farce of a Starfleet commander!” shouted Captain Hernandez, fuming. “Excuse me, Captain, may I ask what you are talking about?” replied Commodore Sovak with a quizzical look. “This officer is barely legitimate. He was just court-martialed for dereliction of duty and conduct unbecoming a Starfleet officer!” shouted Hernandez, as she nodded to her aide, an ensign, who handed out datacards, “These datacards contain the personnel and court-martial records of Commander Jacob Calvin Janeway.” “You may outrank me, Captain, but my personnel records are sealed and for good reason,” replied Janeway, concealing his contempt. Stay calm, for now, at least. “Recommended by then Commanders Thomas Paris and Harry Kim, now COs of the Indiana and Rhode Island, is that correct, Commander?” asked Captain Hernandez. “That is correct, Captain,” replied Janeway, holding his tongue and his temper in check. “Why did they recommend you?” she asked, knowing full well what the answer was. “At the time, Lt. Cmdr. Paris and Lt. Kim were my flight instructors, they taught me to fly shuttlecraft as well as old Terran fighter aircraft. They both thought I would be an asset to Starfleet as a helm officer,” replied Janeway, as cool as possible, despite knowing what was next. “Ok, then, just a few baseline questions out of the way. Now, is it correct that you were ruled responsible for USS Musashi's loss at the Siege of Trion Prime?” Hernandez spat. “No, the court-martial proceeding determined that I was not at fault for the loss of the Musashi,” began Janeway and he was about to continue, but was cut off. “Isn't it also true that this isn't the first time you were court-martialed?” asked Hernandez as she came out from behind the desk. “Yes,” said Janeway, offering no further details. “It was after you were implicated in a plot to kill President Picard, correct?” she asked, venomously. “Yes, but the charges were dropped after my Marine company proved the charges false.” replied Janeway, struggling with keeping his anger from getting the best of him. “Don't you mean the SPECOPS Delta detachment? You were a member, were you not?” she probed. “I don't remember. However, I do seem to recall that my mother called for your court-martial in 2394 after you, quite frankly, screwed up a delicate follow up for a first contact with the Yeartin,” Janeway let fly, “In fact, you were demoted for conduct unbecoming, if I remember correctly.” “I.... I.... I.....” Hernandez stammered, shock on her face. “Enough of this, both of you! We will consider your proposal, Commander Janeway, after we confer with Command,” Admiral Ruiz said, cutting them both off. “Understood, thank you for your time. Admirals, Commodore, Captains,” replied Jake, nodding to each of them, turning about, and confidently walked out of the room. What a colossal waste of time...
Sitting outside the CINC's office, Captain Eliza Hernandez was utterly terrified at the prospect of facing the Commander in Chief-Starfleet and for reasons she did not yet know. Her badge suddenly chirped and she practically jumped, “Captain Hernandez, please come in.” Captain Hernandez stood nervously and made her way to the doors. The doors opened and she slowly made her way into the CINC's office. The Starfleet five star admiral was staring out the window at the Golden Gate Bridge and Hernandez stood there for almost a minute before the admiral spoke. “Sit, Captain Hernandez,” she said in a tone that was almost gentle but had a harder edge to it. Hernandez quickly sat in the chair in front of the admiral's desk. “Admiral...” Hernandez began, but she was cut off by a swift motion from the CINC. “Stay quiet and just listen, Captain. We both know we don't like each other, but we share a common goal, we both want my son out of Starfleet....” said Admiral Kathryn Janeway.
Chapter 2: Partial Catharsis, Stardate 79546.06 Commander Jake Janeway stood and paced outside of the office of Deanna Troi-Riker-Riker, too nervous to sit. She knows I want this to be my last session, why is it taking so long? Is this deliberate to see what my response would be from waiting? Nervously, he glanced at the camera that was positioned to cover the waiting room. Surprised I never noticed that damned thing in here after 59 mandatory visits. “Commander Janeway, please come in.” Come on in for one more hour of hell. The Commander waited for the previous patient to come out, a Marine Lieutenant, and Jake entered. “Hey, what's up? Think you're gonna succeed in pshrinking me today, Captain?” Jake sarcastically said as he flopped down on the couch in the office, grinning sardonically. “I've told time after time, call me Deanna. After all, I did teach you to control your gift,” Troi-Riker replied, apparently unfazed by Janeway's demeanor. “So that's the route we're taking today, hmm? My gift? Remember, I was a xenopsychology major at the academy. I honestly expected better from a counselor of your caliber. Tsk, tsk, tsk,” Jake replied, keeping up his sarcastic demeanor. “Come now, Jake. I've noticed something in our previous sessions, you haven't mentioned making use of your empathic abilities since we've begun, and I certainly haven't noticed you using them during the sessions, either. So, care to explain? Or should I bring my husband in, so you can laugh about the time you destroyed his ship?” she replied, matching Janeway's sarcasm. “Ok, point made, I know I've been avoiding that subject, it honestly just hasn't...” Deanna's stern look quickly put an end to his excuse. “Alright, fine, what do you wanna know?” “Why haven't you used your empathic abilities since the attack? Before you claim you have, that little implant that keeps the voices from overwhelming you that we installed at age two? It monitors your empathic and telepathic usage and per the PATI Act, I have the ability to download the records. As a fellow empath, I don't want to do that.” replied Deanna, a hard edge to her voice. “You've been saving this card for a while, haven't you Counselor?” returned Janeway, his voice steely. “Answer the question, Jake!” she replied angrily, but her tone softened again, “Please.” “Fine, you wanna bloody know?! My “gift” is the reason 6000 men and women are dead!!!” Jake screamed and flipped the coffee table in front of him, then collapsed onto the couch. “What are you talking about, Jake? What happened?” she replied and sat down next to Jake. Deanna attempted to put an arm around him, but he pulled away. Janeway's shoulders sagged, and he hung his head in shame. “Right before the battle, I used my ability to see what my crewmates were feeling, and when the Pyramids decloaked...” Jake stopped as he tried to regain his composure, “Their panic.... it just overwhelmed me, and I couldn't.... react, couldn't.... think, couldn't.... even shut them out. The use of my “gift” allowed them to get the first shots off, and 300 people, just on the Musashi.... died because of it. Not to mention all hands on the Jefferson, the Leyte Gulf, the Oppenheimer, and the Wolf 359.... Then there's the Tian An Men and the Minuteman.... All totaled, my actions led to the death or assimilation of 6000 people.... Then the JAG rules that I was not liable.... that's like putting salt in the wound.” “Jake, you have to see what they saw... I never told you, but I read the report on the battle. You did everything right, you saved the convoy, you did your best to protect your crew, and you kept 40,000 civilians and military personnel from being assimilated or killed by ordering the rest of the squadron to retreat. I understand your frustration, but...” Troi-Riker began. “No, you don't understand and you never will,” Jake straightened and put the mask of anger back on. “This is such a waste of time! Have a good life, counselor.” Jake stood, and stormed out of the office. Troi-Riker tried to follow, but the door closed behind him before she could. “I hate it when he does that,” Troi-Riker said as she bent over and began picking up the pieces of glass from the coffee table.
Just finished your prologue, and it's an exciting lead-in to this story. This new Janeway is cut from the same cloth, impulsive, quick-witted, but with a deeply ingrained loyalty to his crew (most especially his captain). Terrific combat sequence with lots of action, but your narrative flow is easy to follow despite the hectic nature of the encounter with the Borg ships. Good stuff!
Why thank you, Gibraltar, it means a lot coming from you, haven't read much of your stuff, but what I have read is awesome. PS: This is just the motivation I need to finish this next chapter. PPS: Or at least the next section of the chapter.
Just a quick update for those of you who have been following the story, next section won't be posted until next week more than likely; things have come up and I need to concentrate on them.
Ooof! His mother is convening a court-martial for him? Can you say... awkward! The battle sequences here are tightly drawn and convey the frenetic activity of a major space battle. The Borg as you present them have their teeth back, having been emasculated (in my opinion) in various representations on TV and the movies since First Contact. I'm looking forward to seeing how the younger Janeway gets out of this mess, and how the court-martial will effect his relationship with his mother.
Jake opened the door and walked into his Philadelphia apartment, unzipped his uniform jacket, and tossed it onto his couch. Stretching as he did so, he walked over to the baby grand piano and sat down. Activating the electronic song computer, he called up Dave Brubeck, Billy Joel, and Thelonious Monk. Jake began playing, and was lost in the music, until the doorbell chimed repeatedly. Looking at the chronometer, he realized he had been playing for 6 hours without stopping. “Jake, come on, let me in... I've got a extra large pepperoni pizza and some Sam Adams,” the voice outside the door said in a sing song tone. “Come on in, Miral,” replied Jake, without getting up from his seat at the baby grand, as Miral Paris came in, set down the pizza and beer, and sat on the bench. Miral slid over, bumping into Janeway. “What are you doing here, Miral?” Jake asked as he got up, grabbed a bottle of beer, and began rumaging around the drawers for the bottle opener. Finding it, he popped the lid, and took a sip. “Aaahhh, thank you for bringing this, Miral.... Wait, what's the look for? I'm on vacation!” he shouted gleefully as he turned around to face Miral's hard edged look. “I think you know.... What the hell happened at Captain Troi's office? She's keeping it under wraps until she gets a suitable explanation for your behavior, but so far she's got a diagnosis of PTSD and extreme anger outbursts that would extend your “vacation”, as you call it, to a minimum of 42 months,” replied Miral, who gave Jake a look of disapproval. “I got pissed off, we both know I've got a temper,” he said with a grin, while Miral went into the kitchen to get plates. “Most of the time, it's an asset; occasionally it gets me in trouble. Besides I sent a message to Captain Troi, saying I would pay for the table. So what's the big deal?” Miral returned to the table and set down the plates, giving Jake a look. The 'You're an idiot, you know that, right?' look, which Jake had seen multiple times over the last ten years or so (probably longer). The look accomplished what it intended. “Alrighty then, what do you wanna know?” he sighed as he picked up a slice of pepperoni off the pizza and popped it in his mouth. “I wanna know why you aren't getting on with your life,” she snapped, growing impatient with Janeway, “Goddamn it, Jake, what the hell happened out there?” “What are you, my mother? Oh, wait, if you were my mom, you'd have me bloody court-martialed, wouldn't you?!” said Jake as he took a slice of pizza and began to eat, “Look, can we just talk about BS and just have some laughs for tonight?” “Fine, but you have to come up with a solution by tomorrow, understand?” Miral replied, staring hard at him. Jake nodded, feigning fear, and they both laughed.
Commentary on Chapter 1 Well, Jake is ballsy, I’ll give him that. Scheduling your meeting before you’ve been cleared in a general court-martial is either an, ‘Act of Faith,’ or one of undeniable hubris. His presentation was ambitious, and Janeway certainly proved he can give as good as he gets, if his verbal sparring with Captain Hernandez is any indication. He might not have done himself any favors with the rest of the Strategic Command, though. I’d thought that perhaps Admiral Janeway had convened a court-martial in order to publicly clear her son of any wrongdoing in the losses incurred during his last battle with the Borg. Now, however it appears as though his own mother is conspiring with that same Captain Hernandez to cashier her son out of the service. That’s just…. Wow… messed up. Looking forward to more.