Upon receiving confirmation of her new Command Major Somers decides that a short shake down cruise is in order, as it will allow for some minor adjustments for the crew. Along the way a Distress Call is received from a Federation Freighter, which had been attacked by a Romulan Warbird, arriving at the location which was just inside the Federation border to the Neutral Zone, as they arrive a familiar shape decloaks. Utopia Planita Shipyards – Three months after COs training after being reassigned upon the heels of the USS Invincible being put into Dry dock, Major Jasmine Somers stands in the waiting area looking at the Invincible as it is given a long over needed maintenance, She then looks over to the other side and sees her new Command the Akira Class USS Tomcat, she could only admit to herself that she was edgy about her first command.

After leaving space dock and while enroute to Deep Space 10 the Tomcat recieves a distress call from a Federation freighter whoes call is cut off and is adrift 5 miles inside the Federation border to the Neutral Zone and has been on the recieving end of some weapons fire. Going in at Yellow Alert, the Crew of the Tomcat get close enough and a D'Deridex Warbird decloaks, a very old and gruff Romulan Vice Admiral hails the ship. The Marine Medic on Bridge Duty scans the bridge of the Romulan ship and finds the Vice Admiral alone and suffering from Bendii syndrome. The CMO two Marine medics and a four man Security detail beam over and tend to the Vice Admiral.

The CO contacts Starfleet HQ on Earth and asks for a mediator to sort what has happened out, and requesting that a diplomatic courier and proper medical vessel and some escorts be dispatched to Tomcats location to take over from the Tomcat. From there the Tomcat continues its journey to Deep Space 10 to report in and announce its readiness and that it is now on station. 

The Crew of the USS Tomcat after a short trip back to the Tarod Starbase to restock and replenish its equipment and get some minor repairs will after a short time return back to the Hydaransz System, where they will complete the job of taking Hydaransz IX Planet Deuterium Facilities from the Pirates. Then the other habital Moons around Hydaransz VIII will be cleared of all Pirates. The Pirate Base in the Asteroid field will be taken away from the Pirates.

The USS Tomcat arrives back in the Hydaransz System, its crew still in shock on hearing of the Hobus Explosion and the loss of most of the Romulan planets. Fearing the Pirates may become bolder and begin raiding the Aid convoys going to the Romulan system have allowed the Tomcat to remain on duty in the Hydaransz System, if only to keep the Pirates busy, taking with them four Transports, three contained Starfleet Marines, the fourth Personnel for the Starbase. These troop transports would be placed on Moon Base Alpha, until the outer system was made safe.

For the immediate future the Hydaransz System was considered hostile territory, there will eventually be Only two operational Moonbases. The other four Class M Moon bases will be captured and left on Automatic defence, to fend off any returning Pirates and will also act as training grounds for the Marines.

Stardate 236803.05: a Starfleet explorer ship finishes mapping a solar system and they labelled it UXSys 2355874. All that was known about the system was it contained fifteen planets and a binary star both suns were the same composition as Sol, but one was larger than the other. Passing through they managed to locate at least six habitable worlds, three marginal three uninhabitable and three Gas Giants. When they got back they reported that they were chased out of the system by as of yet an unknown species, who did not show their faces. They seemed to be as advanced as Starfleet was at that time; it was only due to the fact that the explorer ship was that and lightly armed that the Starfleet ship was allowed to leave unharmed with a cryptic message do not return till after ten and two of your years.

Stardate 238009.15: Twelve years later an Intrepid class ship returns to UXSys 2355874 and moves through the system unhindered on an outermost planet a Class M world but smaller than the earth they find trace energy readings and compared it with the energy signature taken of the ship twelve years previously and found a 99.95% match. The planet was a wasteland, but there was a familiar circle cut out of the ground around what must have been a high tech complex, there was other energy signatures too and they were Borg, but they were old as there was no other high tech in the system the Borg had not returned. Around the larger sun fourth planet out was a vibrant class M world same size as earth, but it had a pre-industrial civilization just about to reach a technological status. With this updated report the ship sent the information back to earth for further study.

Stardate 239010.23: This time a Vesta class was sent out and the same planet had advanced to early space flight era, this meant that the planet had communication satellites which meant that the Vesta class could only do long range scans, but the Prime Directive was put fully in place at this time and the system still had no name to it but a stealth probe got clear images of the species that inhabited the planet. The species average height was six foot but they had people of different sizes and height also, they had dark blue hair and skin and golden coloured iris’s, not much more could be gained only some language based recordings, with the latest information the ship returned to earth with this data and the linguistics team got to work on working out a translation matrix for the language. Also the Borg residual signatures had totally dissipated but that did not mean they would not return at some point.

Stardate 239205.01: Captain Jasmine Somers is called to the Admiral’s office on Starbase 39 Sierra and is briefed as the Tomcat’s science package was being updated and expanded for their next mission. 

A Year or more after an aborted mission into the Hydaransz system the USS Tomcat lost a few good men and the extra marines they had with them most had been lost. However, in the end, they managed to capture a Cardassian-built Starbase they called Omega and since then they had managed to secure the outer system, which included the Deuterium Mines. There is a heavy presence of Federation Alliance members there this includes the Klingon’s. For some a return here will have a bad memory for others it will be an experience.

Two Years after serious losses the crew of the USS Tomcat return to the Hydaransz system to finish what they had began two years previously. Last time they had been here, they faced cyborg type beings, these were not like the Borg; but crude cyborgs that were mindless if not linked to some hive type mind, and the crew never did find the source or rather their leader. By the time, they had finished the outer system planets were mapped and secured now the ship with the most experience will be sent into the inner system not knowing what dangers await them.

But they will meet the architect of the first incursion by Starfleet forces and with the system being in Federation space but on the border between the Romulan Star Empire and Klingon Empires the system is not known to be a safe haven. Also recent reports of numerous incursions of Orion Pirates and Orion Syndicate trying to get a foot in the system, the Syndicate were working through legal means for once, the Pirates and slavers were not. However, on the M-Class Planet, a surprise awaits for the crew of the Tomcat, one that they had no idea existed.

The USS Tomcat and her crew find themselves in an alternate reality where the Federation is practically non-existent and Starfleet is a Shadow of its former self. The mission takes place around the Xindi system as it is the last bastion of the Federation, Donovan who came from this reality give all the crew a briefing. 

While en-route back to the nearest Starbase, the Tomcat encounters a spatial rupture and a strong gravity, then the next thing they know they are still in the same area but they are surrounded by hulls of destroyed Klingon and Starfleet ships, as they move on they approach the New Xindus system and a distress call from the system. Upon arriving they encounter a squadron of Jem Hadar and Breen fighters and manage to defeat them, upon scanning the system, they find a desolate and arid planet that was once a water world and an away team beaming down finds skeletal remains of Xindi-Aquatics Species. Moving into range, of Xindus 3 they find three surviving races still fighting Dominion troops alongside the last of Starfleet forces and Klingon shock troops.

Tholian’s in this reality are benign and offer current information and help to the lost crew of the Tomcat and the only ones who could help the Tomcat crew return to their reality via a captured Tholian reality shift device. The type of device they used to phase shift the USS Defiant a Constitution Class during Kirk’s time in our reality. In her quarters, Donovan is trying to catch up still on this realities history when her interface begins displaying familiar information, she scans the data and pulls up all info and she becomes extremely worried and rushes onto the bridge surprising all on it and giving a brief warning before rushing off!

Inquisition ensues in the Staff briefing…….

After hiding in a safe area to assess their situation and to come up with a plan of action, they get a distress call from New Xindus. The Xindi with the last of Starfleet marines and fleet officers have been fighting on since the fall of the Federation. What is also discovered by the Medical Department is that someone from our reality is hiding in the forests of the Xindi-Primates homeworld, their biosignature, is from our reality, but the age of this person is around the 50ish mark and will be somewhat traumatised and wearing Starfleet Grey tattered uniform. The Crew would have to repel boarders against Jem’Hadar troops after some decks lose power, ideal conditions for those on the ship who can see in the dark as if it were daylight and could secure a key area of the ship. 

The Tomcat is assigned to explore a planet that once housed a colony of the Xindi Avian Species due to some abnormal readings coming from the planet. What happens is an away team consisting of Dodd, Donovan. and at least five others (a member of the archeology team, a member of the geological team, a member of the Intelligence team, another engineer - Tjaansz, and maybe a member of security) are on the surface and somehow fall into a rupture in time and are suddenly stuck in the past of the planet and become prisoners of the Avian Xindi. And thus have to figure out how to get back home to the correct moment in time as to not disrupt history and start a war. The Mission was created by Lieutenant Remington Dodd Chief Engineer on the USS Tomcat.

While docked back at Starbase 51 after their alternate reality mission, Starfleet detects some abnormal activity in a part of the Xindi Sector, which had been abandoned by the species. It turns out the planet in question was once inhabited by the Xindi Species and so the Tomcat is tasked with investigating this abnormal activity and after arriving send down an away team of Dodd, Donovan as the lead and advising officers respectively. When on the planet the team finally discovers some ruins of what seemed to have once been an important building and it still had some active technology which was the readings detected by Starfleet's long-range sensors in the sector, as the team goes about its tasks and examining the extremely old technology. As Dodd and Donovan are discussing how to go about things, a time rift opens up causing the doorway to collapse trapping the team inside and the time rift sucks the away team into it.

The Tomcat picking up these readings and finds that they cannot detect the Away team and multiple failed attempts to contact them receive only static. Suddenly the sensors detect a Time anomaly for a brief moment before it vanishes, giving them an idea of what happened to the away team led by Lieutenant Dodd. The Away Team when in the past have to remember the newly created Temporal Prime Directive and try not to interfere with time, but like all best intentions they go astray when they are all taken captive. In the Past, the Avian's are a thriving species and the away Team find out that they are 3000 years in the past and work on a way to get word to the Tomcat in the future to come get them.

So Lieutenant Dodd figured out that if they set up a Commbadge and a Padd one an intermittent S.O.S signal then it should reach the Tomcat in the future, they use what they had on hand and program in some of their DNA and that of the crewmember who sacrificed themselves to plant the beacon in a safe spot.  Eventually, the Young Q makes himself known to the crew of the Tomcat and taunts them on how feeble their attempts are and eventually the young crew brings the away team back explaining that he was experimenting with Federation History and wanted to have some fun with the away team.

Cestus Solar system Cestus 3 and surrounding space Race: Orion Slavers Other Races: Pirates Key NPCs: Astrid Lingard - Civilian - Simmed by Winchester Admiral Harrison - Good Admiral - Simmed by Somers Admiral Parker - Bad Admiral - Simmed by Sterling The Situation is that a group of girls have been kidnapped and trained as pleasure slaves by Orion women and then sold as a front for the illegal trade of weapons throughout the sector and must be stopped at all costs and also the Gorn are being used as the heavy lifting whilst the Pirates look on smiling. Admiral Harrison gives the green light for the mission, meanwhile, Admiral Parker gets wind of this mission and tries to halt the Tomcat from leaving the base, With the Admiral following the Tomcat, it turns out that the admiral Parker is using the freighter to fund his own organisation Hades 31. An organisation dedicated to destroying the Romulan's once and for all. 

Paul receives word from one of his former flames Astrid Lingard who had contacted one of his relatives so that he could help her find has her own daughter who has been kidnapped along with another 18-year-olds are being shipped to Cestus by the Gorn, Paul then asks Admiral Harrison if the Tomcat can be sent to rescue the Orion girls, and stop the weapons that they are trading Paul will find more intel on the cartel that is supplying the women and the weapons and as for the Gorn they have become the scapegoats of this operation.

The Gorn are used to be the heavy lifters of the crew carrying the crates and making sure that the women are kept under control, but the main crew are human who has lost faith with the federation and its ideals. The Orion girls are used as pleasure givers and are not allowed to think for themselves. Since they have been taken from their homes and forced into this life. Along the way, Paul meets one of the slavers who wants out of the business and is willing to become an informant for Starfleet intelligence and hands Paul an encrypted data disk that will hold the trade routes that he knows about. Paul will ask him to remain inside the business so that Starfleet can keep tabs on the cartel and try and free as many of the Slave girls as possible.

However; Admiral Parker who tries to halt the mission is using the funds from this venture for his own private agenda, the intel we find upon the freighter leads us to a name “Hades 31” the question is who are they and what do they want and what is the Admiral to them.

Those that we do save will be returned to their families and Starfleet Counsellors will be assigned to help the girls adjust back to normal life.. The main objective of this mission is to disrupt the trade route and destroy the weapons and the second objective is to free the women and return them home. 

Continuation of Initial Trouble in the sticks mission, this is the Second Chapter, use Trouble in the Sticks GALEN IV posts and mission brief for information. 

After sorting out the infestation at Galen IV the leads led the Tomcat crew to the UXSys 659842 din a direct line with Starbase 51 with two class M planets, only one was colonized and the new Colony went dark shortly after making the first landing, so the crew go to investigate what happened there. 

Search and Rescue of Federation Captives and the Tomcat's Captain. 

The Federation has lost contact with data gathering efforts on a planet that apparently had been selected by the Preservers to be a safe location for humans retrieved from Earth from a long time ago. The Federation sent a team to the planet to observe the culture and civilization that has developed to learn more about the ancient cultures and civilizations on Ancient Earth. However, the team of observers have disappeared, and the data collection satellites have malfunctioned. When the data from the satellites stops, the Federation is alerted to the situation. It was a long-term mission so they could watch children grow to adults. The mission of the original observation team was to be for 15 years; however, it has now been 20 years and still no word from the team. Now the Federation has decided to send a ship to investigate.

So, The Tomcat is stationed at Starbase 51 and the Captain is temporarily assigned to a mission on the Leto leaving Lieutenant Colonel Somers in charge of the ship. After the captain is finished in the Leto, she will be heading back to Starbase 51 to rejoin the Tomcat, however she will be abducted along with all personnel on the transport. A briefing will happen between Colonel Somers and Rear Admiral Casey. Rear Admiral Casey tells Colonel Somers that Fleet Captain Somers was reported missing between departing the Leto and arriving at Starbase 51. The transport that was en route to Starbase 51 was found intact and adrift in space with all hands missing. However, there is a necessary mission that Starfleet needs the Tomcat to go investigate. There is a long overdue observation team assigned twenty years ago to examine a civilization of humans found in an explored planetary system (569701). The Tomcat will be needed to work on the mission but on the side can work to figure out the mystery of the missing passengers and crew of the transport. Starfleet will share all data on the disappearance of Captain Somers with reports and any logs that come up on the case. Then there will be a briefing with COL Somers and LT Dodd to have her tell him about the ADML’s directive and the kidnapping of CPT Somers. 

The USS Tomcat under command of COL Somers with a temporary promotion for LT Dodd to the acting XO is ordered to investigate and return with any survivors of the observation team. The mission will start with the Tomcat headed for the fourth planet in the system of 569701 which is mostly unexplored. The fourth planet is RH2020-4 but referred to by some as Arth since it is some much like Earth and even has humans on it. The hypothesis is that the same beings that put humans on Ameriend (TOS Paradise Syndrome) also put the humans on Arth. However, the humans on Arth were being studied by Starfleet for anthropological purposes since they have evolved to a point where they were similar to Earth Humans, but they lacked some of the developments at that time. However, something went wrong after the Starfleet observation team took occupancy in a concealed duck blind. The planet saw a rapid growth of technology and other situations.

With a new year now upon the Federation, the Romulan Tal’Shiar create a diplomatic incident, at first, it is not known that it is them, it only becomes clear when a Section 31 agent contacts the Chief Intelligence Officer with the information and proof. This incident happened on Sierra Starbase 39, which involved the Hydarasnz system.  That system had been a hotbed of Pirate activity and took a lot of Federation lives, it took two operations to take the system from the Pirates. Now hostile forces have once again entered the Hydaransz system and overwhelmed the allied forces in that system.

The Hydaransz System is a large source of Deuterium and Dilithium, the Nor class Starbase that is in a clear space of an asteroid field managed to get a call out before the connection went silent. The two inner Class M planets had recently been colonized, but even they have gone quiet. The rifles on the Tomcat are sent to retake the system, additional troops would be allocated to the operation, which would fall under the overall control of Marine Captain Patrick Jackson.  The rest of the crew will be dealing with the diplomatic incident and what follows it the Tomcat will be assigned a temporary ambassador and his Security Officer who is known to most of the crew but their presence in the Mira Sector will be a surprise.