recursal/Fanatic-Fandom huggingface dataset:
Return of the Darwin (SH166)

## Return of the Darwin

Strength| CX MasadaDDX ConstellationDDX EssexFFX DreyfusFFX NorthSCX CanarisFFX Rickover
```
    in hex 0719, heading B, Speed 1, WS-I. See (SH166.46).    FFX Rickover
```

In Y195, the Galactic Survey Cruiser/Light Carrier *Darwin*, under the command of Captain William Garth, discovered the secret of the Andromedan Rapid Transport Network (RTN) by clandestinely observing the arrival and departure of several Andromedan ships at a Satellite Base and intensively scanning the emissions. Before it could report these findings back to Star Fleet Command, the *Darwin* struck a temporal rift and was hurled forward 12 years into the future.

The *Darwin* emerged some 20,000 parsecs from her original position, badly damaged, and less than 1,000 kilometers from a Federation Squadron.

After establishing communications with the nearby Federation ships, Garth was able to determine that they were acting as a delaying force against a powerful new Andromedan unit that was proceeding on a direct course to the heart of the Federation.

A quick exchange of data between Garth and Commodore David St. John-Smythe, commanding the 3rd Battle Squadron (X-ship), revealed that the loss of the Darwin's RTN data had delayed the Galactic Alliance's "Operation Unity" offensive by some three years, leading to its ultimate defeat and allowing the Andromedans to field their dreaded Devastator-class battleships (one of which had just destroyed the Klingon Invincible in battle near Klinshai).

Garth and St. John-Smythe quickly reached agreement. The *Darwin* must reenter the temporal rift so as to allow "Unity" to be launched earlier. The **3rd Battle Squadron' *would provide cover for her to execute repairs to do so. Assigning the X-frigate* Rickover *to cover the* Darwin*,*** *St. John-Smythe* led his outgunned squadron, the last operational reserve of the Star Fleet, into a desperate battle against the onrushing Andromedan battleship to change (or restore?) history.

## Aftermath

The *Darwin* did return, after the sacrifice of most of the Federation squadron. The reports of the dismal future did more to bring the Galactic Powers together to defeat the Andromedans than anything else, although these reports were known only at the highest levels of each of the Galactic governments.

## References

1. ↑ Various (1994). *Star Fleet Battles Module X1*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), pp. 53–4.
Rescue The Supply Tug (SH135)

## Rescue the Supply Tug

The Organian Treaty of Y156 resulted in many interesting situations along the Neutral Zone, but perhaps none was so curious as that in the Tyson's Star System. In this critically important system, the Klingons had a mining colony on the fourth planet while the Federation had an agricultural colony on the third planet. These two planets had highly eccentric orbits around the system's sun which caused them to pass in close proximity to each other. Both planets were orbited by fully operational base stations, but the Organians kept all warships out of the system.

During the period of tensions prior to the General War, the situation at Tyson's Star remained unstable. In Y169, the two planets reached their closest approach (which happened every 13 years), and the deadly balance collapsed.

## Aftermath

After the exchange, both bases were operationally wrecked, although neither was completely destroyed. The Organians decreed that both bases would be destroyed, all orbital military installations would be removed, and no fighter bases would be re-established on the planets. Ground based phasers were permitted as a defense against Pirate raids. (Some historians believe that the Organians allowed the system to be jointly occupied in hopes that the Federation and the Klingon Empire would learn to cooperate together against a common enemy. If so, the experiment failed badly.)

Shortly after the Klingon Invasion of the Federation, a Klingon task force "resolved ownership" of the system before continuing on into Federation space.

## References

1. ↑ Various (1994). *Star Fleet Battles Module S2 – Scenario Book 2*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), pp. 38–9.
USS Ajax (NCC-548)

## Notable Commanders and Crewmembers

Atlas \* Minerva \* Agamemnon \* Pericles \* Scipio Africanus \* **Ajax** \* Cerberus \* Oberon \* De Zeven Provincien \* Reprisal \* Canada \* Jervis Bay \* Neptune \* Sirius \* Halsey \* Nagumo \* Collingwood \* Chernavin \* Donitz \* Bernadotte \* Murat \* Rokosovsky \* Timoshenko \* Ptolemy \* Aggripa \* Von Steuben \* Hamilton \* Old Dessauer \* Schwerin \* Travis \* Joan of Arc
Sir Valus

House Archwell

Loyalists

Barrel of Knights?

Sir Valus was a Kingsguard to the Archwell family in Dracadal. At some point he joined the Barrel of Knights? and was killed in battle during a confrontation with The Legion of Blood. No one seems to have any memory of him or the events surrounding his death.
The Price to Pay (SH200)

## The Price to PayPart of War of Return

When the Usurper and his forces left the WYN Cluster, there were unfinished ships in the shipyard, including the first WYN HDW. After the palace coup of 31 October Y186, the new council pledged continued support for the Usurper (in the hopes that he would stay in Kzinti space). When the HDW was completed in January Y187, the council allowed it to leave to join the Usurper’s forces.

The Usurper had plans for the HDW and its consorts. Rather than having them follow his own forces (and spend months catching up to the war), the Second Liberation Fleet was sent to attack a series of Crown Prince mining stations and other economic assets; the first of these were much closer to the Cluster and thus could be attacked almost immediately. This was to put pressure on the Crown Prince by forcing him to divert ships from the main effort to protect his other assets.

When the Second Liberation Fleet arrived at the first target, the mining station in the Badger system, they found the station already under attack from a Jindarian strike force. The WYN commander, knowing that he had to have the supplies from the mining station to attack the next target, leaped into the battle with fangs bared.

## Aftermath

The mining station was destroyed, forcing the WYN ships to return to the Cluster and rejoin its forces. The failure of this flanking attack had major implications for the main WYN effort, which faced the undiluted Crown Prince Fleet.

## References

1. ↑ Various (2000). *Star Fleet Battles Module R6 – The Fast Warships*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), pp. 59–60.
2. ↑ Various (2000). *Star Fleet Battles Module R6 – The Fast Warships*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), pp. 59–60.
3. ↑ Various (2000). *Star Fleet Battles Module R6 – The Fast Warships*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), pp. 59–60.
The Pleiades Turkey Shoot (SH17)

## The Pleiades Turkey ShootPart of General War

In Y184, as the General War ground down to exhaustion, the Klingons found themselves in a desperate but not hopeless strategic position. They were looking for a way to regain the initiative when a message was intercepted, indicating that the Federation’s sole operational Heavy Carrier Group would strike at a particular Klingon base in three weeks time. They reasoned that, if they could destroy this one remaining operational Federation CVA Group (built around the *CVA Zhukov*) with a massed attack by fighters and PFs launched from the base, Auxiliary carriers and PF tenders, E4Vs, etc. (i.e., without risking their one remaining heavy carrier), they could buy enough time to deal one last blow to the Kzintis and enter the inevitable peace negotiations with a few planets to use for bargaining chips.

The one remaining Federation CVA group (*MacArther* went down at the climax of the disastrous Operation Remus campaign in Y181; the Klingons had wrecked *Napoleon* [they believed it had been destroyed] in Y183 during the carrier duel in which they lost the *Vindicator*, and it would not be repaired until the end of the following year) was commanded by Vice-Admiral John “Cracker Jack” Radey in the carrier *Zhukov*. Seeing the hordes of Klingons approaching his group, he turned to his flag officers and said “Prepare to offer battle. Send a signal to all ships: ‘The Federation expects every sentient being to do its duty.”

## References

1. ↑ Various (1992). *Star Fleet Battles - Scenario Book 1*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), pp. 23–5.
PSS Tucker

## Notable Commanders and Crewmembers

Bailiff \* Bobby \* Constabulary \* Deputy \* Dragnet \* Gatekeeper \* Gendarme \* Justice \* Lawman \* Militia \* Mountie \* Pacifier \* Peacekeeper \* Peacemaker \* Peaceofficer \* Posse \* Summons \* Texas Ranger \* Trooper \* **Tucker** \* Lt Oleg Babak \* Behan \* Callahan\* \* Deckard \* Alejandro Dominguez \* Morgan Earp \* Virgil Earp \* Wyatt Earp \* Doc Holiday \* Holmes \* Kojak \* LeBeau \* Mackie \* Malloy \* Magnum \* Mark Majors \* Masterson \* McKeehan \* Elliot Ness \* John Oliver \* Osterhout \* Darius Quimby \* Texas John Slaughter \* Richard Simms \* Sipowicz \* Sorenson \* John Walsh \* Watson \* White \* Williams \* Willis \* Jimmy Wilson \* Drebin \* Nordberg and about 130 others.
Recovery (SH272)

## Recovery

The Orions, in particular the Pharaoh Cartel, were cognizant that the Tholians were hard pressed by the Klingon Operation Nutcracker with most of their first line warships and many of their police ships engaged in trying to stop the Klingons before they reached the Holdfast Dyson Sphere. While the Romulans were not as engaged in the effort to subdue the Tholians, they were conducting some raids and limited strikes. The Tholian Holdfast had been successful in keeping the Orions from setting up operations in their space, in part because of the radical difference in biology, but also because of the relative sparseness of their population and rapid response to incursions.

There were Klingons, and Klingon subject species, within the Holdfast descended from colonists who had been there when the Tholians arrived. The Tholians maintained these colonies and the colonists because they were useful to them in exploiting resources of oxy-nitrogen worlds, and did not permit them to otherwise leave their colony worlds except to accomplish those tasks the Tholians set for them. So there were no non-Tholian freighters to be raided.

With the ongoing offensive the Pharaoh cartel sensed an opportunity, and raided into the Holdfast to seize the relatively unprotected shipping in the zone bordering Federation space. Unfortunately the cargoes of the freighters could not be looted on the spot because of the life support needs, and had to taken back to Federation space for unloading.

And the Tholians were none too pleased.

## Aftermath

The decks ran with what passed for blood of the two sides, but the Tholians managed to recapture the freighters and showed Pharaoh that the Holdfast could still defend its merchant marine.

## References

1. ↑ Steven V. Cole (2021). *Star Fleet Battles Module R4T*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), pp. 36–7.
USS Bunker Hill (NCC-1776)

## Notable Commanders and Crewmembers

Vincennes \* Revolution \* Paris Commune \* Ayacucho \* Long March \* Krasny Barikaddy \* **Bunker Hill** \* Dien Bien Phu \* Managua \* Alamo \* Cinco De Mayo \* Cowpens \* Masada \* Enterprise

### References

1. ↑ Various (2014). *Federation Master Starship Book*. Edited by Steven P. Petrick. (Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc.), p. 28.
USS Allam (NCC-412)

## Notable Commanders and Crewmembers

Barry \* Hardy \* Yegorov \* Smirnov \* Seguin \* Bonham \* Davout \* Grouchy \* **Allam** \* Boyington \* Chenault \* Commodore Edward Preble \* Commodore William Bainbridge \* Admiral Jacob van Heemskerk \* Isaac Hull \* Milius \* Niels Juel \* Richard Bolitho \* Stephen Decatur \* Themistocles \* Ernest E. Evans
Towtruck Travails (SH267)

## Towtruck TravailsPart of 3rd Lyran-Hydran War

The collapse of the Hydran Kingdom in Y87 was a confusing time, not just for the beaten Hydrans but for their victorious foes. This incident was a case in point. A squadron of Lyran warships shot up a Hydran convoy. Four of the ships in the convoy, normal freighters, although damaged, were taken under escort and headed towards a Lyran base. The last ship, an armed freighter and the only survivor of the convoy’s escorts (a Q-ship had been destroyed) was damaged, but had surrendered rather than being destroyed. The Lyrans called up one of their new strategic transports and directed it to recover the freighter, now safely behind Lyran lines, and haul it to the base as well. The rest of the squadron (less the frigate escorting the other freighters) continued on into Hydran space.

However, while the Lyrans considered the area of space occupied, the Hydrans did not have the same opinion, and after exchanging messages with the freighter about the contents of its cargo bays and the problems with its engines, sent their own strategic transport to rescue the freighter.

Perhaps if the Hydrans had managed to act sooner a fight could have been avoided. As it was, the Lyran ship was faced with a still potent armed freighter, and a Hydran transport anxious to carry it into the Old Colonies.

## Aftermath

The Lyran YDT drove off the Hydran YFT and towed the freighter to the base.

## References

1. ↑ Steven V. Cole (2010). *Star Fleet Battles Module Y3*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), pp. 45–6.
USS Agreement (NCC-2107)

## Notable Commanders and Crewmembers

Federation \* Star League \* Confederacy \* Affiliation \* Association \* Combination \* Konkordium \*  **Agreement** \* Coherence \* Concordat \* Directorate \* Stellar Affinity \* Star Union \* Alliance \* Stellar Bond \* Dominion \* Stellar Communion \* Stellar Compact \* Stellar Concurrence \* Consortium
USS Bernadotte (NCC-570)

## History

In Y195 while serving as part of the Napoleon group she was damaged while fighting Andromedans trying to disrupt a meeting between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire.

## Appendix

### See Also

*Atlas*-class destroyer escort, (DE)

Atlas \* Minerva \* Agamemnon \* Pericles \* Scipio Africanus \* Ajax \* Cerberus \* Oberon \* De Zeven Provincien \* Reprisal \* Canada \* Jervis Bay \* Neptune \* Sirius \* Halsey \* Nagumo \* Collingwood \* Chernavin \* Donitz \* **Bernadotte** \* Murat \* Rokosovsky \* Timoshenko \* Ptolemy \* Aggripa \* Von Steuben \* Hamilton \* Old Dessauer \* Schwerin \* Travis \* Joan of Arc

### References

1. ↑ Various (1988). *Captain's Log 6*. (Task Force Games), pp. 12–5.
USS Charlamagne (NCC-530)

## History

In Y167 the Klingons sent a small squadron of ships to seize the neutral zone planet Adanerg from the Federation. A small squadron under the command of the USS Lafayette was sent in response. While victorious, the lack of squadron and fleet training almost led to disaster. This loss and renewed interest in training probably saved the Federation when the Klingons invaded the Federation.

## Appendix

### See Also

*Saladin*-class destroyer, (DDM/DD)

Saladin \* Genghis \* Darius \* Alaric \* Sargon \* Xerxes \* Pompey \* Kublai \* Suleiman \* Etzel \* Tamerlane \* Alexander \* Hannibal \* Ahriman \* Rahman \* Adad \* Hashishiyun \* Azrael \* Hamilcar \* Shaitan \* Ares \* Pazuzu \* Hiawatha \* Atilla \* Zoroaster \* Golda Meir \* Brigham Young \* Sadat \* Czar Alexander IV \* Skanderbeg \* Charlemagne \* Daniel Morgan \* Lysander \* Israel Putnam \* Eisenhower \* Suvarov \* R E Lee \* Thutmoses III \* Leonidas \* Marius \* King David \* Nebuchadnezzar  \* Jean Bart \* Arthur Pendragon

### References

1. ↑ Various (1991). *Captain's Log 9*. (Task Force Games), p. 37.
Sword of the Holdfast (SH83)

## Sword of the HoldfastPart of Operation Nutcracker

In Y178, when the Holdfast had finally calmed down from the initial news of the approach of the 312th Battle Fleet, many in the Academy turned to the possible uses of the fleet and began running combat simulations involving Neo-Tholian forces. As the strength of the 312th wasn't known as of yet, most such simulations tended to be rather exaggerated. The following scenario, involving a Neo-Tholian battleship, is such an exaggeration, though still a favorite of the cadets.

With the increased pressure from Klingon and Romulan forces, the Tholians were losing ships and territory at a disastrous rate. It was reasoned that a surprise attack against the Klingon fleet's repair facilities (specifically, the FRD supporting Operation Nutcracker) would seriously undermine the Coalition's ability to fight in the sector plus require them to rethink their war versus the Holdfast.

Only a force led by a Neo-Tholian battleship was thought strong enough to carry out the mission.
Prometheus class strike cruiser

After the Four Powers War, the Federation studied several designs for new cruisers that might be produced more quickly should a wartime emergency require this. One of these studies produced the famous new light cruiser, another study proposed this unusual design.

The strike cruiser began with a standard heavy cruiser saucer, but reduced the lab facilities and replaced them with other systems. This allowed a smaller rear hull to be used with the same engines, producing a ship that was slightly faster, could be built more cheaply, and could operate with a smaller crew. The rear hull mounted the engines at a flatter angle (used later by the Kirov class battlecruiser), improving the side phaser firing arcs.

Only one ship of this type, the *Prometheus*, was completed as a prototype before the new light cruiser design was selected, several more were subsequently constructed. The one advantage of this ship over the new light cruiser is that its slipways (the new light cruiser slipways converted from destroyer slipways) could have also produced heavy cruisers.

The strike cruiser is a variant of the heavy cruiser but the changes were sufficiently extreme that it is considered a new class. There is an advanced technology conversion.

**Seeking weapons:** The strike cruiser can control a number of seeking weapons equal to its sensor rating.

**Refits:** The plus refit was available beginning in Y165, was common by Y171, and was universal by Y175. The AWR refit was available in Y170; all ships had it by Y174. The Y175 refit was installed in Y175.

*Prometheus* class strike cruisers, CS

Prometheus \* Daedalus \* Epimetheus
The Last Fling (SH156)

## The Last Fling

Under the post-Andromedan disarmament treaty, the old dreadnoughts from the General War were put into orbit around Organia as a show of good faith. The voyage of the ships was something of a celebration, and the ships were crewed by a mixture of cadets from the academies and old veterans of the various wars. After the two dreadnoughts in this scenario linked up and turned to make their final journey, the two crews engaged in a friendly competition in gunnery skills, firing low-powered phasers at asteroids and other space debris.

Olivette Roche, enfant terrible of the tri-video producers, was convinced that what had actually happened was that the two ships, crewed by people who were commissioned too late for the wars and commanded by men who never really understood peace, had in fact engaged in a furious battle as a sort of "last fling" before finally accepting peace. (A last battle which the two governments buried under a massive cover-up campaign.) She produced an epic six-hour mini-series purporting to show this final battle, complete with moralistic female officers who beseeched their oversexed male captains to stop fighting just for the sake of fighting and "let peace happen."

This scenario is based on that tri-video mini-series.

## References

1. ↑ Various (1994). *Star Fleet Battles Module S2 – Scenario Book 2*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), p. 65.
USS Aradu (NCC-1556)

## History

Built as new light cruiser.

Converted to light plasma cruiser.

## Notable Commanders and Crewmembers

Kearsarge \* Reliant \* Alabama \* Repulse \* Renown \* Prince of Wales \* Mutso \* Nagato \* Gneisenau \* Scharnhorst \* Prinz Eugen \* Vittorio Veneto \* Littorio \* Caio Duilio \* Dunkerque \* Richelieu \* Strasbourg \* Rivadavia \* Moreno \* Minas Gerais \* New Mexico \* Iowa \* Missouri \* Kortenauer \* De Ruyter \* Naken \* Glorie \* Defence \* Pervenetz \* Meko \* Vosper \* Groton \* Ramadan \* Aliyah \* Assawari \* Michigan \* North Carolina \* Mikasa \* Olympia \* Piorun \* Warspite \* Kirishima \* Rurik \* Saguenay \* Valiant \* Visby \* **Aradu** \* Wasa
*Aradu*-class new light plasma cruiser. (NLL)

**Aradu** \* De Ruyter \* Glorie \* Kirishima
Resupply Rendezvous (SH255)

## Resupply RendezvousPart of Kzinti Civil War

After a series of running battles, elements of the Usurper’s fleet retreated to a tug for re-supply. A patrolling squadron, loyal to the Patriarch, detected the tug on long-range
sensors and moved to intercept.

## Aftermath

The loss of the *WTG-3*, together with the increasing defections from his banner caused by the spreading news of Cat of Impeccable Honor’s defection, unhinged the Usurper’s operational plans. The Usurper was forced to seek a decisive battle with the Patriarch before his fortunes faded further.

## References

1. ↑ Steven V. Cole (2008). *Star Fleet Battles Module Y2*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), pp. 69–71.
The Assassin (SH249)

## The AssassinPart of Kzinti Civil War

The Patriarch, through his wide-ranging spy system, had learned of the plans of the Usurper. He dispatched a strike cruiser from his Home Fleet (under an officer he knew he could trust) to destroy the Usurper before rebel forces could gather.

The captain of the Loyalist cruiser was told (in his sealed orders) that a Loyalist spy was on board the Usurper’s flagship and prepared to assassinate him on command.

When the Loyalist cruiser arrived at the Usurper’s home system, the captain noted the presence of yet another ship. The feudal lord commanding this frigate was neutral (he had arrived to discuss the possibility of joining the Usurper but had made no commitment yet).

## Aftermath

The timely intervention of the *YFF23* turned a lost battle into a sudden victory.

## References

1. ↑ Steven V. Cole (2008). *Star Fleet Battles Module Y2*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), pp. 61–62.
To Do Our Duty (SH70)

## To Do Our DutyPart of War of the Devastated Zones

In Y174 the carrier *Nelson*, racing to help contain a Klingon breakthrough, ran headlong into a Klingon dreadnought. It was apparent that the Klingons were looking for a fight. Admiral Osage realized that they were poised to strike at the vulnerable Federation rear as he knew that his small force was all that stood between this Klingon force and two vital convoys.

Admiral Osage knew what he had to do and said to his aide; “Prepare for battle, and may God favor us. It is a time to do our duty.”

## Aftermath

The two forces fought themselves to a draw, both the *Nelson* and the *Admiral Kang* withdrawing with heavy damage. Strategically, the forced withdrawal of the Klingon force once more enabled the main Federation forces to continue preparing for their own offensive. The *Admiral Kang* would be repaired and depart on its most exciting mission, a diplomatic visit to Kzinti space later that same year.(T7) The Nelson would be repaired and be deployed to
participate in a Federation drive to the Tholian border.

Admiral Osage and most of his command staff were killed when a Klingon marine unit assaulted the flag bridge of the Nelson.

## References

1. ↑ Various (1992). *Star Fleet Battles Module R2 – Federation, Kzinti, Orions, Andromedan*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), pp. 41–2.
USS Chairman Shevardnadze (NCC-865)

## Notable Commanders and Crewmembers

Presidents Bush \* President Yeltsin \* President Gorbachev \* President Reagan \* Prime Minister Thatcher \* President Nixon \* President Mitterand \* President Kravchuk \* Prime Minister Landsbergis \* President Marcos \* President Galtieri \* President Hillary Rodham Clinton \* President Assad \* President Ramos \* **Chairman Shevardnadze** \* President Cristiani \* King Sihanouk \* Prime Minister Shamir \* President Ulysses S Grant \* President John F Kennedy \* President Abraham Lincoln \* Thunderbolt \* Mustang \* Wallace McIntosh
PSS Trooper

## Notable Commanders and Crewmembers

Bailiff \* Bobby \* Constabulary \* Deputy \* Dragnet \* Gatekeeper \* Gendarme \* Justice \* Lawman \* Militia \* Mountie \* Pacifier \* Peacekeeper \* Peacemaker \* Peaceofficer \* Posse \* Summons \* Texas Ranger \* **Trooper** \* Tucker \* Lt Oleg Babak \* Behan \* Callahan\* \* Deckard \* Alejandro Dominguez \* Morgan Earp \* Virgil Earp \* Wyatt Earp \* Doc Holiday \* Holmes \* Kojak \* LeBeau \* Mackie \* Malloy \* Magnum \* Mark Majors \* Masterson \* McKeehan \* Elliot Ness \* John Oliver \* Osterhout \* Darius Quimby \* Texas John Slaughter \* Richard Simms \* Sipowicz \* Sorenson \* John Walsh \* Watson \* White \* Williams \* Willis \* Jimmy Wilson \* Drebin \* Nordberg and about 130 others.
Tomcat Terror Vs Gunboat Diplomacy (SH9)

## Tomcat Terror Vs Gunboat DiplomactPart of Federation-Klingon Front

Late in Y179, sensor/scanners at a Federation battle station picked up the Klingon 714th Gunboat Flotilla crossing into Federation-held space on a course to intercept a convoy. As no other ships were in the immediate area, the battle station commander was forced to call upon VF-42, a squadron of Tomcat Fighters waiting at the station for the CVA Napoleon to pick them up. Without hesitation, the Tomcats roared in pursuit.

## Aftermath

The Klingons diverted from their mission; the engagement with the F-14s was inconclusive.

## References

1. ↑ Various (2020). *Star Fleet Battles Module J1 – Fighters*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), p. 81. ISBN 0-922335-20-6.
USS Buthelezi (NCC-728)

## Notable Commanders and Crewmembers

Humberto Ortega \* Nelson Mandela \* Barzani \* Khalid bin Sultan \* Zamora \* Gemayal \* Vo Nguyen Giap \* Ahmed Jabril \* Manuel Perez \* Pena Ben Ben \* Walid Jumblait \* Mohammed Aidid \* Eduardo Dos Santos \* Robert Mugabe \* Xanana Gusmao \* Ali Mahdi Mohamed \* Fadlallah \* John Garang \* Villalobos \* Zviad Gamsakhurdia \* Premadasa \* Turabi \* Ardzinba \* Hun Sen \* Tongogara \* Enrique Bermudez \* Holden Roberto \* Taylor \* **Buthelezi** \* Gringo Honasan \* Pundy \* Carroll \* Laurent Nkunda \* Eamonn De Valera \* Kim Jong il \* Chaudhry \* Talabani \* Hersi Morgan \* Chissano \* Abamail Guzman \* Iskandarov \* Joe Slovo \* Omar Jess \* Chilingutila \* Jonas Savimbi \* Haile Mengistu \* Afonso Dhlakama \* Dudayev \* Abdul Gafur \* Prince Johnson \* Nasrallah \* Ocalan \* Prabhakaran \* Rabin \* Ibrahim Rugova \* Sangak Safarov \* Saddam \* Y Peng Ayun \* Kenyatta \* Zarqawi \* Ariel Sharon \* Foday Sankoh \* Haile Selassie \* Leonard Wood \* Roland \* William T Sherman \* Nobunaga \* Toussaint Louverture \* Spitfire \* Cardondelet \* Hurricane \* Phil Kearny \* Turner Ashby \* Kutusov \* Wiquini \* Chickamauga \* Aetius
USS Cetshwayo (NCC-353)

## Notable Commanders and Crewmembers

Burke \* Hornblower \* Perry \* Takagi \* Drake \* Jellico \* Churchill \* Beatty \* F D Roosevelt \* Lehman \* De Gaulle \* Teddy Roosevelt \* Graf Spee \* Tegethoff \* Fletcher \* Spruance \* Hipper \* Tanaka \* St Vincent \* Zhadanov \* Kondo \* Guderian \* Dunnigan \* Ushakov \* Ernest J King \* Lutjens \* Montgomery \* Villeneuve \* Rickover \* Donitz \* Mallory \* John Paul Jones \* Togo \* Harwood \* Rommel \* Doolittle \* McClusky \* Jason \* Dewey \* Degrasse \*Suffren \* Senyavin \* Hosegawa \* Shaw \* Chadwick \* Chaka \* **Cetshwayo** \* John Fulton Reynolds \* Piet Heyn \* Fitz John Porter \* Buford \* Longstreet \* Stand Watie \* Auchinlek \* O’Connor \* Martin Luther King \* Yi Chun \* von Manstein \* Colonel Lawrence Chamberlain \* Stonewall Jackson \* Schwartzkopf \* Chief Joseph \* Sitting Bull \* Sheridan \* Meade \* Duke of Marlborough \* General James Wolfe \* General Louis-Joseph Montcalm \* General Sir Arthur Currie \* T.E. Lawrence \* Harry Truman \* Kelly Johnson \* Moshe Dayan \* John Wesley Powell
The Last Infestation (SH265)

## The Last Infestation

The Seltorians in Alpha Octant were a military force, and like all military forces they had contingency plans. When the *Burning Torch of Vengeance* was destroyed by the Inter-Stellar Concordium’s Echelon of Judgement, the first of those contingencies was activated and Seltorian ships sought shelter with their Klingon allies. When the Klingons attacked the Seltorian ships seeking shelter, a different contingency plan was activated.

The second contingency saw Seltorian ships that could reach it rallying at a nondescript moon in a nondescript system at the edge of the energy barrier in the former neutral zone between the Klingon Empire and the Tholian Holdfast. Here the last ships of the Vengeance tribunal waited while the surviving sages considered the other contingency plans.

With the Vengeance destroyed, and betrayed by their Klingon allies, time was short. There was a stockpile of unhatched eggs on each ship, but no Queens to create new generations of workers. The ships could be kept running for a time, but if any were seen it would doubtless trigger a hunt for all of them. The only reason the few ships were so far safe was that no one in the Alpha Octant had really been aware of just how many ships the Vengeance had been able to build or had in fact arrived with it.

The sages, knowing that time would run out long before any other Seltorian ships would arrive, decided on the final contingency.

Within Holdfast space, also near the energy barrier, was a Tholian colony. The particular colony was unimportant. While the Tholians had set up operations on it, it had ultimately proved to be a poor choice, barely breaking even. The colonists had stayed, sheltering in their artificial habitats, simply because the location made it unlikely that war would ever come to them.

The colony presented the remaining Seltorians with the best chance they had of killing the maximum number of Tholians before they died themselves. The Seltorians had learned of the colony earlier, but had never attacked it because the resources it provided to the Holdfast were not militarily significant, and it would have been destroyed after Tholia itself was destroyed.

In January of Y187, the last Seltorian infestation in the Alpha Octant began its final operation against the Tholians. The Tholian sensor technicians at Battle Station K1 were stunned to detect a Seltorian squadron speeding by, and quickly summoned help while dispatching their own Spiders and Arachnids in pursuit.

## Aftermath

The colony was destroyed, but so were the Seltorian ships. The Seltorians had their last, although Pyrrhic, victory.

## References

1. ↑ Various (2010). *Star Fleet Battles Module R12 – Unusual Ships*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), pp. 49–50.
Stopping Starkiller (T8S2)

## Head On!Part of Stealing First Base (T8)]]

The more important task of stalling the patrolling Kzinti carrier group fell to another small WYN squadron.

## Aftermath

The commander of the carrier group was famous for his bad temper, and he let it get the best of him. Howling with outrage, he threw all his forces at the WYN. All of the WYN ships were destroyed, but it cost both his escorts, half of his fighters, severe shield damage (and some minor internal damage) to the carrier, and a significant delay in time.

## References

1. ↑ Various (2017). *Star Fleet Battles Module C3 - New Worlds III*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), pp. 56–7.
2. ↑ Various (2017). *Star Fleet Battles Module C3 - New Worlds III*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), pp. 56–7.
3. ↑ Various (2017). *Star Fleet Battles Module C3 - New Worlds III*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), pp. 56–7.
USS Affiliation (NCC-2103)

## Notable Commanders and Crewmembers

Federation \* Star League \* Confederacy \* **Affiliation** \* Association \* Combination \* Konkordium \*  Agreement \* Coherence \* Concordat \* Directorate \* Stellar Affinity \* Star Union \* Alliance \* Stellar Bond \* Dominion \* Stellar Communion \* Stellar Compact \* Stellar Concurrence \* Consortium

### External link

* USS *Affiliation* (NCC-2108) at ***Memory Beta***, non-canon *Star Trek* wiki.
Tomcats Over Leebyahh (SH12)

## Tomcats of Leebyahh

Approximately 300 years prior to the forming of the Federation, the “Old Kings” (a semi-legendary empire in the general area now occupied by the Klingon Empire and the Federation) established on the planet Leebyahh a massive sanitarium for individuals of several subject humanoid empires that suffered from extreme and incurable cases of paranoia and various other neuroses and psychoses. The sanitarium was unguarded, and after the departure of the “Old Kings,” the 50 million or so original inhabitants developed into a hybrid empire not quite like any other (and not quite all there upstairs, either).

The planet, circling a star rather unfortuitously located in the Neutral Zone between the Klingons and the Federation, remained an isolated pocket of independence, never allied with or subjugated by either empire. During various periods the Orions traded there and operated ships out of their spaceports. During the early stages of the General War, the Klingons sold the Leebyahhns considerable quantities of military hardware, including large numbers of fighters for “local defense.”

Leebyahh’s ruler, Moon-’em-more Khlodhoppy (his actual title was “Tinhorn” for reasons that remain obscure) formed these fighters into squadrons of his air force (the notorious “Protection Launched Overhead” commanded by Yezzir l’ma-rat). The pilots, urged on by the head of the Leebyahhn church, lahtoldyouso Kokomamie, were fanatical if largely untrained. Due to the Klingon presence, the Federation found it necessary to send fighter patrols into the system to keep track of developments. Federation Tomcat pilots soon learned that this was an excellent area to “run up a score” since buzzing the planet would inevitably result in several fanatical (but stupid) pilots rising to the occasion. Raids of this nature were conducted throughout the General War, frequently by Federation carrier groups marauding behind Klingon lines, and even after the Federation restored its original border.

## Aftermath

While this scenario is historical, it represents dozens of incidents over a considerable period, and all of the possible results happened at least once.

## References

1. ↑ Various (2020). *Star Fleet Battles Module J1 – Fighters*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), pp. 85–6. ISBN 0-922335-20-6.
USS Assawari (NCC-1538)

## Notable Commanders and Crewmembers

Kearsarge \* Reliant \* Alabama \* Repulse \* Renown \* Prince of Wales \* Mutso \* Nagato \* Gneisenau \* Scharnhorst \* Prinz Eugen \* Vittorio Veneto \* Littorio \* Caio Duilio \* Dunkerque \* Richelieu \* Strasbourg \* Rivadavia \* Moreno \* Minas Gerais \* New Mexico \* Iowa \* Missouri \* Kortenauer \* De Ruyter \* Naken \* Glorie \* Defence \* Pervenetz \* Meko \* Vosper \* Groton \* Ramadan \* Aliyah \* **Assawari** \* Michigan \* North Carolina \* Mikasa \* Olympia \* Piorun \* Warspite \* Kirishima \* Rurik \* Saguenay \* Valiant \* Visby \* Aradu \* Wasa

### External link

* USS *Assawari* (NCC-1538) at ***Memory Beta***, non-canon *Star Trek* wiki.
Rescue the Hostages (SH7)

## Rescue the Hostages

In Y161 a Federation Trade Commission on a mission in the Neutral Zone was seized by a Klingon warship. The ten surviving members of the Commission (two were killed during the seizure) were taken to the nearest Klingon base station to await trial as spies. Diplomacy having failed to resolve the situation, the decision was made to stage a rescue. Fortunately for the Federation, the Commando Cruiser Okinawa was in the area on a training cruise.

The USS Kongo under the command of Captain Philip Kosnett was dispatched to support the Okinawa and take tactical command of Operation Urgent Justice.

## Aftermath

The IKV Vandal was badly damaged and forced to disengage to prevent its destruction. Kosnett then closed and fired a point-blank salvo of overloaded photons and phasers into the station while forcing the *Kongo* into dock, the *Okinawa* coming in right behind him.

Federation marines swarmed over and bloody fighting broke out in the station. The Klingon base commander was killed in the fighting, and the second officer (by then the senior surviving officer) agreed to turn the hostages over to Kosnett.

Two of the hostages had been killed as a result of the assault, but the swift and violent attack enabled the Kongo and the Okinawa to depart the area before Klingon reinforcements could arrive. Operation Urgent Justice was deemed a success.

## References

1. ↑ Steven V. Cole (1999; 2012). *Star Fleet Battles Advanced Missions*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), pp. 162–3.
USS Ari (NCC-1723)

## Notable Commanders and Crewmembers

Constitution \* Enterprise \* Farragut \* Lexington \* Yorktown \* Excalibur \* Exeter \* Hood \* Intrepid \* Valiant \* Kongo \* Potemkin \* Bon Homme Richard \* Monitor \* Hornet \* Merimac \* Endeavor \* Defiance \* Excelsior \* Eagle \* Lafayette \* Wasp \* El Dorado \* **Ari** \* Saratoga \* Tori \* Krieger \* Essex

### External link

* USS *Ari* (NCC-1723) at ***Memory Beta***, non-canon *Star Trek* wiki.
USS Aliyah (NCC-1537)

## Notable Commanders and Crewmembers

Kearsarge \* Reliant \* Alabama \* Repulse \* Renown \* Prince of Wales \* Mutso \* Nagato \* Gneisenau \* Scharnhorst \* Prinz Eugen \* Vittorio Veneto \* Littorio \* Caio Duilio \* Dunkerque \* Richelieu \* Strasbourg \* Rivadavia \* Moreno \* Minas Gerais \* New Mexico \* Iowa \* Missouri \* Kortenauer \* De Ruyter \* Naken \* Glorie \* Defence \* Pervenetz \* Meko \* Vosper \* Groton \* Ramadan \* **Aliyah** \* Assawari \* Michigan \* North Carolina \* Mikasa \* Olympia \* Piorun \* Warspite \* Kirishima \* Rurik \* Saguenay \* Valiant \* Visby \* Aradu \* Wasa
Sabotage (SH1)

## Sabotage

While on a special mission during Y161, the Federation heavy cruiser Kongo was suddenly confronted by Klingon battlecruiser. Fearing possible interference with his mission, Captain Philip Kosnett ordered the warp engines brought to full power and discovered that they had been sabotaged! The science officer and chief engineer began frantic repairs as the enemy cruiser closed in for the kill.

## Aftermath

The Kongo was damaged, but managed to crash start the engines. Commander Kagan, never interested in a fair fight, broke contact and left Kosnett licking his wounds (although he was able to complete the assigned mission). The damaged Kongo returned to a starbase for repairs and was converted to a command cruiser. Kosnett eventually became the second most famous captain in the Federation Fleet.

## References

1. ↑ Steven V. Cole (2012). *Star Fleet Battles Basic Set, 5th Edition*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), pp. 213–4.
USS Ayacucho (NCC-1773)

## Notable Commanders and Crewmembers

Vincennes \* Revolution \* Paris Commune \* **Ayacucho** \* Long March \* Krasny Barikaddy \* Bunker Hill \* Dien Bien Phu \* Managua \* Alamo \* Cinco De Mayo \* Cowpens \* Masada \* Enterprise

### References

1. ↑ Various (2014). *Federation Master Starship Book*. Edited by Steven P. Petrick. (Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc.), p. 28.
Kallen McCraken

Kallen McCracken is the result of a U.S. government experiment using the periodical repetition of "Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny" played through headphones directly applied to the womb of unborn children. He came out of the womb shredding a full-sized Gibson SG (none of that "fucking epiphone trash man"). Kallen attended Haverhill High School and became a #wannabesportskid consuming his former identity of a garage rock prodigy. He attended Fitchburg State briefly and was known around campus as Scary Hobbit as he lifted weights but could never attain further vertical advantage. Upon fighting two bears in a rugby practice he snapped his right leg like a twig and has since become a basement DIY Fitchburg turd legend.
Triton class new aegis cruiser

Finding that its new light cruiser-based carrier groups lacked sufficient direct firepower and desiring a heavier replacement for the escort light cruiser, the Federation developed a second escort variant of the new light cruiser. Unlike its predecessor, the new escort cruiser, this ship retained two of the new light cruiser’s photon tubes. New aegis cruisers replaced escort light cruisers in heavy carrier groups and destroyer escorts in strike carrier groups.

Seeking weapons: The new aegis cruiser can control a number of seeking weapons equal to double its sensor rating and has aegis.

Refits: The plus and Y175 refits are included in the design.

***Triton*-class new aegis cruiser**, (NAC)

Triton \* Amazon \* Brazen \* Ranger \* Hoerner \* Chernavin \* Soult \* Henry H. Arnold \* Carl Spaatz \* Kenneth Walker \* Chuck Yeager
USS Ares (NCC-520)

## History

Launched as a DDM in ?

Converted to DD in ?

## Notable Commanders and Crewmembers

Saladin \* Genghis \* Darius \* Alaric \* Sargon \* Xerxes \* Pompey \* Kublai \* Suleiman \* Etzel \* Tamerlane \* Alexander \* Hannibal \* Ahriman \* Rahman \* Adad \* Hashishiyun \* Azrael \* Hamilcar \* Shaitan \* **Ares** \* Pazuzu \* Hiawatha \* Atilla \* Zoroaster \* Golda Meir \* Brigham Young \* Sadat \* Czar Alexander IV \* Skanderbeg \* Charlemagne \* Daniel Morgan \* Lysander \* Israel Putnam \* Eisenhower \* Suvarov \* R E Lee \* Thutmoses III \* Leonidas \* Marius \* King David \* Nebuchadnezzar  \* Jean Bart \* Arthur Pendragon
PSS Malloy

## Notable Commanders and Crewmembers

Bailiff \* Bobby \* Constabulary \* Deputy \* Dragnet \* Gatekeeper \* Gendarme \* Justice \* Lawman \* Militia \* Mountie \* Pacifier \* Peacekeeper \* Peacemaker \* Peaceofficer \* Posse \* Summons \* Texas Ranger \* Trooper \* Tucker \* Lt Oleg Babak \* Behan \* Callahan\* \* Deckard \* Alejandro Dominguez \* Morgan Earp \* Virgil Earp \* Wyatt Earp \* Doc Holiday \* Holmes \* Kojak \* LeBeau \* Mackie \* **Malloy** \* Magnum \* Mark Majors \* Masterson \* McKeehan \* Elliot Ness \* John Oliver \* Osterhout \* Darius Quimby \* Texas John Slaughter \* Richard Simms \* Sipowicz \* Sorenson \* John Walsh \* Watson \* White \* Williams \* Willis \* Jimmy Wilson \* Drebin \* Nordberg and about 130 others.
Tankanv

An Andorian military hero from the Romulan War, Vice Chairman Tankanv took office as Chairman following Hortefeux’s unexpected death. He expended nearly all of his political capital in getting the Council and Assembly to approve the formation of the United Star Fleet shortly before the elections of Y71, although “training fleets” were maintained by the various member nations. The chairmanships of Hortefeux and Tankanv are regarded with admiration by many historians, despite the political difficulties they faced in centralizing Federation power. Tankanv returned to Andor and became High General of the Andorian National Guard.

1. ↑ John Sickels (30 March 2011). *GURPS Federation, Fourth Edition*. Edited by Jean Sexton. (Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc.), p. 16. ISBN 978-1-58564-155-0.
PSS Militia

## Notable Commanders and Crewmembers

Bailiff \* Bobby \* Constabulary \* Deputy \* Dragnet \* Gatekeeper \* Gendarme \* Justice \* Lawman \* **Militia** \* Mountie \* Pacifier \* Peacekeeper \* Peacemaker \* Peaceofficer \* Posse \* Summons \* Texas Ranger \* Trooper \* Tucker \* Lt Oleg Babak \* Behan \* Callahan\* \* Deckard \* Alejandro Dominguez \* Morgan Earp \* Virgil Earp \* Wyatt Earp \* Doc Holiday \* Holmes \* Kojak \* LeBeau \* Mackie \* Malloy \* Magnum \* Mark Majors \* Masterson \* McKeehan \* Elliot Ness \* John Oliver \* Osterhout \* Darius Quimby \* Texas John Slaughter \* Richard Simms \* Sipowicz \* Sorenson \* John Walsh \* Watson \* White \* Williams \* Willis \* Jimmy Wilson \* Drebin \* Nordberg and about 130 others.
Rebel Convoy (SH109)

## Rebel Convoy

Two planets in the old Tholian Galaxy had a long history of trading certain commodities, and regular trips were made by freighters to conduct this business. Under the Tholian Will, a portion of the profits of each trip were paid to the Tholians for the privilege of keeping the galaxy safe for commercial ventures. But this time was different. One of the planets had decided to forgo the customary tariff payments to the Tholian Will, using the funds to pay to arm some of their freighters so that they could provide protection from “pirates” for other freighters, eliminating the need for protection by the galactic rulers. Unwilling to see their laws flouted, the Tholians dispatched the nearest patrol vessel, a Seltorian frigate, to deal with the violation. Its task was to board all three freighters without destroying them, then escort the freighters on their appointed trading mission.

This scenario is a historical event, but typical of hundreds of such battles over a period of a century or more.

## Aftermath

The Seltorian frigate captured all three of the freighters, but was crippled during the battle. Other ships arrived within a few hours and assisted the four damaged ships in reaching the destination system.

## References

1. ↑ Various (2017). *Star Fleet Battles Module C3 - New Worlds III*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), pp. 41–2.
2. ↑ Various (2017). *Star Fleet Battles Module C3 - New Worlds III*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), pp. 41–2.
3. ↑ Various (2017). *Star Fleet Battles Module C3 - New Worlds III*. (Amarillo Design Bureau), pp. 41–2.
USS Cardondelet (NCC-1207)

## Notable Commanders and Crewmembers

Humberto Ortega \* Nelson Mandela \* Barzani \* Khalid bin Sultan \* Zamora \* Gemayal \* Vo Nguyen Giap \* Ahmed Jabril \* Manuel Perez \* Pena Ben Ben \* Walid Jumblait \* Mohammed Aidid \* Eduardo Dos Santos \* Robert Mugabe \* Xanana Gusmao \* Ali Mahdi Mohamed \* Fadlallah \* John Garang \* Villalobos \* Zviad Gamsakhurdia \* Premadasa \* Turabi \* Ardzinba \* Hun Sen \* Tongogara \* Enrique Bermudez \* Holden Roberto \* Taylor \* Buthelezi \* Gringo Honasan \* Pundy \* Carroll \* Laurent Nkunda \* Eamonn De Valera \* Kim Jong il \* Chaudhry \* Talabani \* Hersi Morgan \* Chissano \* Abamail Guzman \* Iskandarov \* Joe Slovo \* Omar Jess \* Chilingutila \* Jonas Savimbi \* Haile Mengistu \* Afonso Dhlakama \* Dudayev \* Abdul Gafur \* Prince Johnson \* Nasrallah \* Ocalan \* Prabhakaran \* Rabin \* Ibrahim Rugova \* Sangak Safarov \* Saddam \* Y Peng Ayun \* Kenyatta \* Zarqawi \* Ariel Sharon \* Foday Sankoh \* Haile Selassie \* Leonard Wood \* Roland \* William T Sherman \* Nobunaga \* Toussaint Louverture \* Spitfire \* **Cardondelet** \* Hurricane \* Phil Kearny \* Turner Ashby \* Kutusov \* Wiquini \* Chickamauga \* Aetius
USS Admiral Jacob van Heemskerk (NCC-433)

## Notable Commanders and Crewmembers

Barry \* Hardy \* Yegorov \* Smirnov \* Seguin \* Bonham \* Davout \* Grouchy \* Allam \* Boyington \* Chenault \* Commodore Edward Preble \* Commodore William Bainbridge \* **Admiral Jacob van Heemskerk** \* Isaac Hull \* Milius \* Niels Juel \* Richard Bolitho \* Stephen Decatur \* Themistocles \* Ernest E. Evans
Round-Up (T4S1)

## Round-UpPart of Piracy Patrol (T4)

Knowing that your carrier battle group was about to arrive, the local freighter captains have been delaying their departure so that they can travel under your escort. This has resulted in a considerable collection of ships at the planet Ponderosa IV, your initial destination in the sector. The Pirates, however, have decided to try and “rustle a few steers” before your arrival.