Fort Lantar

**Fort Lantar**, located at the mouth a stellar gas cloud, a nebula formation located in the galaxy's Gamma Quadrant, It was a Starfleet Outpost built in the early 2260s. It was Purchased by Mathis Jericho in 2378 as a base for exploration of the uncharted Area of the Gamma Quadrant.

## Fort Lantar

### Armament:

10 phaser arrays (rotary mounts); 6 phaser emitters (stationary mounts); 8 torpedo launchers, 8,000 photon torpedoes

## History

### (Starbase 6)

As of the early 23rd century, Starbase 6's structure was mainly a dished circular hull some 500 meters in diameter with an antenna and sensor cluster at its center. Nearby to the disk, numerous drydock frames for ship construction and repair were arrayed.

In the year 2264, Doctor Leonard McCoy traveled to Starbase 6 from the Aldebaran Colony, after taking of leave of absence from the USS *Enterprise*.

Starbase 6 was commanded by Admiral Borck in 2266. His adjunct was Commander Willard Decker.

On stardate 1841.2 in that year, the USS *Enterprise* visited the base to pick up an Omegan ambassador, who needed an escort home.

In early 2268, the *Enterprise* was en route to Starbase 6 for a scheduled layover and extended shore leave when she was called away to respond to a distress call from the mining colony on Angrena. Following this mission, the *Enterprise* once again headed for the base where Captain James T. Kirk was ordered by a board of inquiry into his actions on Angrena, to submit a full report to Starfleet Command.

Around stardate 4307.1, the USS *Intrepid* worked in conjunction with the base on a mission to investigate the loss of contact with the Gamma 7A solar system in sector 39J. When contact was then lost with the *Intrepid*, Starbase 6 issued a rescue priority to the *Enterprise*, which was already on route to the starbase. Following the investigation, the *Enterprise* continued on course for the base.

A short time later, the USS *Yorktown* was en route to Starbase 6, now under Admiral Benthoven, from Earth Colony 7 bearing the secret weapon, *Excalibur*. During the voyage the *Yorktown* was attacked by Andorian rebels in an attempt to capture the weapon. Fortunately, the *Excalibur* was placed inside a shuttlecraft and escaped.

A few weeks later, a team of astrophysicists from Starbase 6 board the *Enterprise* for an investigation and observation of a nearby star about to go supernova.

Later that year, the *Enterprise* traveled to Starbase 6, now under Commodore Enwright, where she rendezvoused with the USS *Lexington*, and was refitted with the M-5 computer. Following the installation of the device, all but 20 of the *Enterprise'*s crew was offloaded to the base while the starship participated in a Starfleet battle simulation.

In 2270, Starbase 6 was mentioned as the closest base to the *Enterprise* during her investigation of a planet where the landing party ended up being held captive by a robot probe.

Shortly after, the *Enterprise* docked at Starbase 6 for shore leave and repairs following an extended mission to the planet Waycross and a detour to the planet Perry.

Starbase 6 was Decommissioned in 2288 and Towed to a Starfleet Junk Yard while a newer more advanced Starbase was renamed Starbase 6. While still operational in its current state the space station sat unoccupied and abandoned until 2378 when Jericho Mathis purchased it to expand his private business and to establish a Trading Post and operational base for privateers exploring the uncharted territory of the Gamma Quadrant.

It took two years to Tow the Outpost from the Junk yard it was left at to the Location in the Gamma Quadrant near the Lantar Nebula.

### New Life

Once the old Station arrived at its location near the Lantar Nebula in the Lantar Sector on the outskirts of known Explored space of the Gamma Quadrant, Jericho sought to continue refitting the station as best as he could and also acquire tenets and Crew to help run the station.

His current Transportation business which involved his ship the SS Ab ovo Had several crew members that easily transitioned to the station, and having ran this business since the end of the Dominion War, Jericho had met several people to work and run their own business out of the new Station.

Renaming the Station Fort Lantar was a sort of Tribute to Jericho Earth roots as his family came from a long line of Earth explorors and Fur Traders of the Hudson company.

## Layout

The *Watchtower*-class station had a typical 23rd century Federation design. A saucer-shaped primary hull, with a central command tower, sat atop a secondary hull which housed cargo bays and maintenance sections. Circling the core about half-way down was an external docking wheel, and at the bottom was the energy reactor housing and multi-spectrum array.

### Command tower

The command tower housed shuttlebays accessible through four pairs of equidistant spacedoors, a medical center, offices and the operations center.

### Primary hull

The primary hull contained four main docking bays in its spacedock, each large enough to service a *Constitution*-class starship. Above the spacedock was a terrestrial enclosure encircling a residential tower. Below, were support facilities, crew quarters, the computer core torus and four deuterium fuelling tanks. The external hull mounted four maneuvering thrusters, 128 lifeboat ports, six phaser/photon torpedo emplacements, and had four shuttlebay access points.

### Secondary hull

The upper secondary hull was mainly made up of cargo and maintenance facilities, and supported the external docking wheel. The lower hull was comprised of the energy reactor and the rotatable mount for the multi-spectrum array. Six phaser/photon torpedo emplacements were equally spaced around the energy reactor housing.

The Station has been refitted and upgraded as much as Jericho could afford but the majority of the station is still in its original configeration of the late 2260s early 2270s

## Residence

 Business Owner
 Doctor
 Business Owner

## Station's Support Ships

 SS Ab Ovo
 SS Renagade
 Mayflower
 Santa Maria