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1) They had stolen or prototypical SF technology for their transporters and other covert devices
2) They used an enhanced version of the Pegasus cloak for their ship(s)
3) Their ships were probably uber versions of the SF fighter (just assuming)
4) They received a lion's share of the Future Voyager/Borg enhanced tech on return of Janeway's crew
Now answer this, what will be the (mis) adventures of S31 from Nemesis on out....................Odo has seemingly quieted the Dominion
Feds and the Romulans seem to be warming
Cardassians looking to much closer to the Federation
of course the Kligons will continue to be allies
I think you raise an interesting question. I don't have any easy answers. One of my main objections to Nemesis was that it got rid of the last enemy of the Federation. True, the Romulans became friendlier toward the end of DS9, but it was still an uneasy alliance born out of the war.
I could see Section 31 getting involved with time-travel. In Enterprise, Daniels seemed to have Section 31 written all over him.
Tranporters are hardly covert. They seem to be quite noisy and noticeable to the naked eye. Sensors also seem to have no problem detecting them even before people start materialising. They can be tracked and seem to leave behind evidence of their operation. The transporters the section uses seem more advanced then SF standard. Sloan was able to come and go from DS9 with no trace of where he came from or went to, or even that he was there at all. Thought that could as easily be that Sloan compromised DS9s systems so that the stations sensors wouldn't find anything.
As for their supplier, they might be aided by people in Starfleet. They could also just have what they needed built by the commercial sector. Since they are all about the Federation they should buy "Federation owned and made" products or they would be dirty hypocrites.
2) They used an enhanced version of the Pegasus cloak for their ship(s)
Why would they use the attack fighter? Does S31 go around getting into intergalactic dogfights? It would make more sense to assume they use Intrepid class vessels given we see Sloan in a holodeck that we know is equipped on that class.
If anything I think they would own and operate rather plain and ordinary vessels, the type you see trudging the spacelanes around the Federation.
4) They received a lion's share of the Future Voyager/Borg enhanced tech on return of Janeway's crew
I don't think they would have got any of the technology off Voyager but they might get their hands on specifications.
Now answer this, what will be the (mis) adventures of S31 from Nemesis on out....................Odo has seemingly quieted the Dominion
Feds and the Romulans seem to be warming
Cardassians looking to much closer to the Federation
of course the Klingons will continue to be allies
Hard to say as we don't know of anything that happened post Nemesis other then Riker gets a command and is meant to be going to Romulus to enter serious peace talks or whatever.
If S31's plant still remained in the Tal Shiar no doubt they would want him to hunt down as much info on the Thalaron radiation weapon as possible and to destory it.
After Voyager returned S31 would have been very interested in the ship's logs and databanks to assess new potential threats in the Delta Quadrant. They would have the benefit of time given that Voyager was still around 10 years away when she got the shortcut.
Given Martok's pro-Federation stance it would be in their interest to sure up his leadership
Maybe they'll get up to some work in the in other empires to try and see the rise of pro-Federation political regimes, maybe through acts such as assassination, causing events to bring about the downfall of governments or assisting pro-Fed political parties in their campaigns by giving them damaging information about their opponents.
So, Sec. 31 will become effectively the Temporal Police?
Hmm... That is a good possibility. Otherwise, I'd think Sec. 31 would either be beaten by somebody, or they will get proper help from their future counterparts.
Anyway, they probably freaked out when the Breen entered the war, and they really are going to crank up their intelligence effort against them.
One thing to remember about the Phase cloak, it wasn't just illegal it wasn't perfected either. Remember the whole falling into the asteroid thing was because it caused a malfunction in engineering. So unless they had a whole ton of Starfleet Engineers on their payroll and secret ships doing tests without anyone noticing I don't they'd be taking the risk of using imperfect tech like that.
I think they work behind the scenes in order to make relations between the UFP and Romulans worse in the hopes of starting a war, one which the Federation would win. The Dominion is gone, the Cardassians are no longer a threat, the Klingons rely upon the Federation for the most part, so the last major power they have to deal with is the Romulans. Defeat them and the Federation would be unrivalled in the Alpha Quadrant.
All they would need to do to sour relations would be to reveal certain secret documents about a Captain Benjamin Lafayette Sisko in the days surrounding his meeting with Senator Vreenak...
Yet a two-bit con artist in TNG "Devil's Due" was able to obtain technology that made her transporters noiseless and invisible - and our heroes dismissed that technology as cheap gadgetry.
Probably the sound and the glitter can be masked by a bit of the same technology that makes the holodecks possible - but Starfleet sees no use for such technology, because the noise isn't all that loud and doesn't bother anybody, and transporters aren't used by Starfleet for surprising the enemy anyway because most enemy strongholds are impervious to transporters.
Starfleet Intelligence and certain special forces would no doubt have special applications for that tech, though, and perhaps do operate it. Naturally, S31 would then have some as well, because we assume it enjoys the cooperation of key Starfleet officers. At least it claims it does.
It would make more sense to assume they use Intrepid class vessels given we see Sloan in a holodeck that we know is equipped on that class.
Of course, a holodeck is the one thing in the universe that's easily camouflaged. So a holodeck that looks like the VOY type can be assumed in reality to be anything but that type...
Indeed, one might pay heed to the fact that the only time we saw S31 personnel other than Sloan himself was on a holodeck. Perhaps there are no other personnel besides Sloan? Perhaps the rest of S31 is but an illusion?
I don't think they would have got any of the technology off Voyager but they might get their adds on specifications.
And the very point of the tech that Admiral Janeway brought back in time was that once you get the specs, you can replicate the hardware quickly and efficiently, by using standard 2370s Starfleet starshipboard manufacturing hardware. It's all packed in there within that file of data that Admiral Janeway provided.
..Which also means that it's probably easily turned into vaporware, too. No need for clumsy scuttling charges or anything physical: the data simply erases itself once it has helped the younger Janeway reach home. After that, Starfleet or S31 would have to try and reverse-engineer the devices remaining on Voyager's hull - but perhaps they are too complex to be understood? Replicators have been shown replicating stuff that's undecipherable to 24th century Federation science, such as in DS9 "Rivals".
