Sisko ' s attack ship Sisko ' s attack ship was a Jem ' Hadar attack ship captured by Captain Benjamin Sisko and the crew of Deep Space 9 in the Gamma Quadrant in 2373 . Fight for the ship . In that year , the attack ship was carrying a Founder , a Vorta , and Jem ' Hadar when it crashed on Torga IV . The inertial damper s failed , killing the Vorta and the Jem ' Hadar soldiers and severely injuring the Changeling . The ship crashed into the side of a mountain , embedding itself into the rock . Captain Sisko and his crew , who were on the planet at the time , saw the ship entering the atmosphere and transported to the crash site . The crew entered the upside - down ship and discovered the dead occupants . Sisko was determined to salvage the ship , calling it " the greatest intelligence find in the last ten years " . Seeing the runabout was not powerful enough to remove the ship from the surface , Sisko contacted Major Kira Nerys and ordered her to bring the to Torga IV . While examining the ship on Torga IV , Commanders Dax and Worf noted that although structurally similar to its sister ships , this particular attack ship had several unfamiliar systems not found on other attack ships . Several hours later , another Dominion ship arrived in orbit and beamed down Jem ' Hadar troops , forcing the crew to seek shelter in the crashed warship . Kilana , the Vorta leading the Dominion force , did not want to risk sending the Jem ' Hadar into the ship out of fear that the Starfleet personnel would kill the Founder . After Kilana and Sisko failed to come to an agreement , the Jem ' Hadar began bombarding the site with ultritium concussion shell s , although they were used as only a psychological weapon . The crew later tried to move the ship with its own engines , but were unsuccessful . Sisko and Dax later found the Founder on the ship , and determined that it was only moments away from death due to injuries sustained the crash . It died soon after , and its death call was heard by Kilana and the Jem ' Hadar . With the Founder dead , the Jem ' Hadar committed suicide out of shame over having allowed one of their gods to die . Kilana transported to the ship and Sisko let her remove part of the Founder ' s remains . Kilana congratulated him on capturing the ship , although both of them questioned whether or not it was worth all the deaths . The " Defiant " arrived soon after , and , using the tractor beam , was successful in freeing the ship from the planet . The ship was brought back to the Alpha Quadrant . The mission , though successful , came at a heavy cost as Starfleet officers Enrique Muniz , Hoya , T ' Lor , , and were all lost in the line of duty during the incident . ( ) Use against the enemy . Three month s into the Dominion War in 2374 , the attack ship was brought to Starbase 375 , where Sisko and his crew trained on it for two weeks before using it to destroy a ketracel - white facility in Cardassian space . Several hours after the warship left the starbase , it was attacked by the near the border . The ship crossed the border , but the " Centaur " continued its attack until it detected three other Dominion ships . Several hours later , the warship arrived at the facility , to which the crew transported eighty - four canisters , one filled with ultritium , and a detonator . However , soon after the facility transported canisters to the warship , it raised its security net . The ultritium detonated early , allowing the ship to escape . However , it was caught in the explosion and severely damaged . Most serious of all , the warship ' s warp core matrix had been destroyed , leaving the ship without warp drive and seventeen years from the nearest Federation starbase . ( ) Chief O ' Brien began repairs , but they were interrupted by the appearance of two Jem ' Hadar ships . Sisko saw a dark - matter nebula nearby and ordered Commander Dax to set a course . Just then , the ship was rocked by weapons fire and Dax ' s console exploded , throwing her to the deck . The ship then hit a gravitational spike , damaging it even more . It was then caught in the gravity of a planet in the nebula , and entered its atmosphere . The ship crashed into a sea , but the crew were able to escape to a nearby area of land using a raft . The attack ship sank soon after . ( ) The surviving crew members were rescued by the soon after . ( ) Background information . The production staff talk about building the sets of the attack ship in the " " . In a " Deep Space Nine " episode guide included with a 1998 issue of " SFX " magazine , the reviewer of " Rocks and Shoals " called the shot of the attack ship sinking into the ocean " stunning " . A model of the fighter was released by WizKids as part of the " " series , where it is called the " Robinson " .