Missions

Season 1 Episode 2: The Garden at the Edge of Night

While conducting a long-range stellar survey along the Federation frontier, the USS Genesis, under the command of Captain Marc Steyn, detects an impossible astronomical signature: a stable, Earth-like planetary system orbiting a supermassive black hole instead of a conventional star.

At first, Starfleet believes the sensors are malfunctioning.

But the system is real.

A paradise world exists where physics says it should not.

Part of Season 1

Season 1, Episode 3: First Light

In 2367, the USS Genesis responds to a strange distress signal from an abandoned Darwin Genetic Research Institute facility on a remote moon. The signal appears to have been transmitted decades out of sequence and repeats only three words: “First light. We are still here.” Reruk immediately recognizes the facility as connected to the illegal genetic experiments he was complicit with but also helped expose. The project was supposedly destroyed after the catastrophic containment failure of 2365, but Doxia Oroten disappeared before Starfleet could apprehend her, fleeing with an unknown portion of her research.

The station appears deserted, yet the Genesis crew finds evidence that its inhabitants died in horrifying circumstances. Bodies have aged hundreds of years in minutes, while others appear impossibly young despite being decades old. Some seem to have died more than once. Then the crew begins seeing impossible shapes moving through the station—things glimpsed only briefly in the darkness, captured on malfunctioning sensors or reflected in polished surfaces. Reruk discovers that Oroten had been using temporal fields to manipulate biological aging, hoping to combine them with genetic splicing to create organisms capable of continually renewing themselves. But her final experiments may have done something far stranger: instead of merely altering the subjects' biology, the temporal field appears to have opened a passage into an alternate reality—or perhaps an entirely different state of existence.

Deep beneath the facility, the crew discovers a sealed chamber overlooking something that should not exist. Beyond the threshold lies another world: dark skies, unfamiliar stars and enormous structures that seem grown rather than built. Moving within it are creatures that resemble the monsters of ancient mythology—serpentine beings with crowns of living tendrils, winged predators, vast many-limbed forms and figures whose bodies seem to shift between animal, plant and something almost humanoid. Reruk realizes with growing horror that humanity may not have invented its ancient legends at all. Perhaps early encounters with this reality—or fragments of it—became the source of myths such as Medusa, the sirens and other monsters remembered across countless civilizations.

The creatures have noticed the Genesis. They are not ghosts or alternate versions of the Darwin scientists; they are native inhabitants of whatever exists beyond the temporal boundary. And they are beginning to push through. The crew must destroy the facility before the passage becomes permanent, while Reruk is left with one final, terrifying possibility: Oroten may have discovered this realm years ago and deliberately crossed into it, believing its inhabitants held the secret to the immortality she sought. As the station collapses, Reruk catches one last glimpse through the dying portal—a vast serpentine creature staring directly at him, its many eyes opening one by one. Behind it stands the unmistakable silhouette of Doxia Oroten.

Then the portal closes.

Prologue: Joy is in the journey

Oberth sets sail to begin its first five year mission on the edge of known space exploring the Van’a’daal Cluster, its mission to chart this unkown region, make first contact with potential new allies and expand the Federations understanding of space.
Upon entering the Van’a’daal cluster the sensors detect a proto starsystem in the early stages of formation, something not many starships have had the opportunity to observe.
When entering the proto star system (Ul’dah Star System) they find that the system itself is only 100 million years old. (Science officer can define the system composition upon arrival. We just need 1 moon that is habitable if only barely by Humanoid life). When finding the moon and entering orbit to run a detailed scan a very faint distress signal is found, so weak it is not possibly to identify the source with any degree of accuracy. An Away team is sent to investigate. What they find is a horror that they were not prepared to encounter and Oberth itself is thrust into a game of cat and mouse within the star system while it finds the right time to collect its away team from the surface and escape the system avoiding the Gorn.

Season 1, Episode 1: Ashes of Wolf 359

In the shadow of the devastation at Battle of Wolf 359, Starfleet has issued a directive that bends its own principles under the weight of necessity: visibility is survival. The Federation does not only need ships—it needs symbols.

From that urgency, the Nebula-class starship USS Genesis has been born.

Construction at Earth has proceeded under extreme priority status. Shipyards have been consolidated, timelines collapsed, and multiple ongoing builds quietly cannibalized to complete the vessel. Warp coils from one unfinished explorer, sensor arrays from a refit science cruiser, even command systems originally intended for deep-space survey craft have been reassigned without ceremony or public record.

Officially, it is called “resource optimization under emergency mandate.”

Unofficially, crews whisper a different name: the stripping of tomorrow to launch today.

Part of Season 1