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Interesting story....
The year was 2412; the
United Federation of Planets
had just succeeded in
northward expansion as far
as to the border of the
Gamma Quadrant. The
Federation was growing so
fast and its reach so far,
that fleet management from
Earth was near impossible.
Response times lagged and
there were serious
communications problems each
month between key fleets. In
a brilliant move to solve
this problem, a massive
interstellar communications
network was established
through all of Federation
space, in which all ships
were guaranteed secure and
reliable communications to
any other vessel or station
connected to this network
even with just a low-powered
communications device.
The system eventually grew
into the civilian sector,
where the lines capacity was
increased and signal gain
boosted. The Federation
economy had now become
dependant on this miracle
network, which was now
comprised of millions of
relay stations. Millions of
stations, millions of
people, one virus.
On May 26, 2436, the system
was breached with a highly
advanced and adaptive virus.
Anti-virus and quarantine
protocols proved useless, as
the virus within a matter of
hours had infected 15% of
all of the stations, leaving
billions in a communications
blanket. In a desperate
effort to stop the spread,
Starfleet attempted to
combat the virus by freezing
up communications lines to
the effected stations, but
this backfired. The virus
anticipated this move, and
shut down these stations,
but still leaving them the
ability to broadcast. The
virus then quickly spread,
until the entire system was
out of Starfleet's control.
Then suddenly, the system
came back up, without
warning. The virus was
purged, the Network's
communications pathways
re-established, all areas
back up. The network's
starlance defence system had
been activated, all control
was routed to a chain of
super computers back on
Earth who locked out the
devastating effect of the
virus and sent it into the
abyss. Never before had a
virus purged the network,
never before had this
anti-virus system been
activated. Minutes later,
the system started
experiencing strange
glitches, and then it
stopped responding to
commands. The virus had
concealed itself, then
replicated itself into the
starlance defence system and
taken control of it. It was
a planned move, orchestrated
by none other than an
organisation with supreme
technical knowledge from
assimilated thousands, the
Borg.
The most "efficient" way to
assimilate, it appears, is
to stop your enemy from
being able to mount an
effective defence, and then
it happened. One hundred
transwarp anomalies opened
up, one hundred Borg
vessels. The Federation
first fleet permanently
stationed at Sol encountered
twenty cubes. The Earth's
planetary defence grid would
not power up, transphasic
torpedo launchers were
inoperable, and planetary
shields offline. Fleets were
isolated from each other by
communications, 17
Federation fleets were
ordered to random positions
throughout the Federation by
the assimilated Network, and
the Earth garrison was not
able to hold back this
incursion. Six planets had
now been swarmed by the
Borg, one million new drones
in three hours, yet Earth
still refused to give. A
secondary relay transmitter
broadcasted a mayday to all
Federation fleets within 10
light years of Sol to come
to its aid, but this was in
vein, as the Federation
Second, Third and Fourth
fleets were now following
fake transwarp readings from
the communications network.
Meanwhile several federation
warships were situated in
the Typhon proving grounds
for numerous weapon
technologies currently
in-development, presently
testing is being carried out
for the final stages of a
modified variant of the
transphasic torpedo and
launching system for
longer-range artillery
vessels such as the
steamrunner but
incorporating stealth
features that the original
design did not have.
Asteroid #267 was designated
for the test, the U.S.S
Maria; a steamrunner class
long-range artillery ship
was making final adjustments
to the torpedo. The I.K.S
Rankuf was nearby, preparing
to run a sensor sweep to see
whether it could detect and
destroy the torpedo once it
was fired.
After hours of testing the
results were promising,
small-scale production began
at the Typhon shipyard
situated in the proving
grounds. After several hails
to Earth the facilities in
the proving ground became
worried so the U.S.S Maria,
U.S.S Yukon, U.S.S Devore
and five Vorcha escorts
where dispatched to Earth to
ascertain why there was
communication silence; they
were unaware that the United
Federation of Planets faced
annihilation by the Borg
collective.
Borg Wedges, Assimilators,
Assembly vessels and the
Queen's diamond entered the
sol system via a transwarp
hub, finally the
federation's central nervous
system had been crushed and
soon the entire federation
shall be assimilated.
However ground-forces had
not yet taken over the
simple Minshara class
Planetoid even with heavy
planetary bombardment
support from Borg vessels.
Borg forces had overwhelmed
several federation
installations such as
starbases, outposts and the
orbital transphasic torpedo
launchers. Borg forces had
installed long-range sensor
platforms in the sol system
to detect any cloaked
vessels in hiding; the
communications network was
now being used to intercept
enemy communications,
weapons platforms were being
installed to re-enforce the
current ones.
The incoming federation led
task force detected huge
power emissions coming from
earth, as the task force
entered the sol system, it
had become apparent Borg
vessels had overpowered
Earth, the U.S.S Maria
stayed behind and armed her
long-range transphasic
stealth torpedoes while the
U.S.S Yukon, U.S.S Devore
and the five Klingon escorts
proceeded, with there
armours deployed and there
ships operating at low-power
levels drifting past
Jupiter, however the
remainder of the task force
would soon be leaving
Jupiter's wake and the sun
would light up there ships
for the Borg to detect, but
powering up would also mean
detection. Orders were given
and the vessels powered up
and sprinted to earth, as
they exited warp the
taskforce and starbase one
almost collided, sensor
sweeps were run, and the
task-force engaged the Borg,
data had to obtained quickly
to assess the situation and
return with allied forces,
once scans were complete,
the planetary defence grid
was coming online and the
transphasic torpedo
launchers were powering up,
artillery support was
requested to destroy as many
of the transphasic torpedo
platforms as possible to
ease the punishment allied
forces would take later on.
Seventy-Nine Torpedo
platforms were built around
Earth, once the federation
task force withdrew to
Typhon Forty-Three remained
and four allied ships had
taken heavy damage.
Borg forces had taken a
heavy beating sixteen cubes
had been destroyed by
transphasic torpedoes
another nine were destroyed
by an unknown and undetected
weapon system. Forty-six
percent of the torpedo
platforms were destroyed
leaving Fifty-Four percent
of the installations either
damaged or fully
operational. This greatly
hindered the planetary
defence near Earth's
northern pole. Additional
Borg assembly vessels would
be required to re-establish
permanent weapon facilities
around the federation home
world.
As the task-force arrived at
the proving grounds, the
U.S.S Yukon hailed a nearby
federation outpost and
explained the situation, two
Vorcha's were despatched to
return to Klingon space to
request reinforcements, the
other two Vorcha's were
despatched to inform the
Romulan Empire of the
situation and request
assistance. The U.S.S Yukon
was assigned to intercept
the federation fleet with
it's extended warp
capabilities and redirect
them back to Typhon to
initiate an assault against
the Borg and re-take the sol
system.
Over the next few days,
un-manned Venture scouts
entered the sol system and
ran sensor sweeps of the
area and engaged enemy
forces with the two
transphasic torpedo's
onboard each craft, two
torpedoes were used because
of the weakness in the
Venture's hull a full
compliment of thirty
torpedoes would not have
been used before the scout's
destruction. Several Klingon
fleets arrived in aid of the
federation bringing a
multitude of construction
ships to build Klingon
starbases and defence
platforms, Kvort Class
Bird's-of-Prey, Vorcha's,
K't'inga's and Negh'Var's.
The Romulan's assigned one
fleet to rid the Borg from
the Alpha-Quadrant but not
to assist in the
re-capturing of earth, the
fleet was comprised of
Hawks, Raptor's and
D'deridex class vessels that
where stationed around the
proving ground's outer rim.
The federation armada with
the help of the U.S.S Yukon
swiftly entered the proving
grounds. The allied forces
soon learned of the Borg
virus which had infiltrated
the federation communication
network and had several
scouts download the virus
and disengage there
communication systems so it
could be studied and
destroyed.
Meanwhile, the Borg were
still having difficulty
assimilating all of earth's
populous, evidence suggested
that the federation had made
complex's near the earth's
core in the event of a Borg
invasion for Federation
Personnel and the general
population, only seventeen
percent of earth's
population had been
assimilated.
Eventually an assault was
launched against Earth with
thirty-four allied fleets,
with hundreds-of-thousands
of vessels, engaged the Borg
fleet overwealming them, due
to technology developed at
Typhon, upon the
extermination of Borg
forces, losses were counted,
millions of lives were lost
by allied forces dying to
reclaim Earth, after
successfully purging the
virus from the
communications network,
secondary and tertiary
communications networks were
being installed, civilian
communications was moved to
the secondary network while
the first underwent upgrades
to it's anti-virus systems.
New long-range transphasic
stealth torpedo launchers
were being installed to
defend federation planets,
installations and the
communications array but
joint-research between the
Klingon and Federation
empires developed a new
construction ship and
shipyard which could build
vessels and stations in
minutes, the only draw back
is the fact that the
construction vessels are
huge.
After this violent assault
against the Federation, the
Federation commissioned a
new fleet christened with
the eternal name "United
Federation of Planets" or
UFP for short, this fleet
would have the most advanced
equipment at it's disposal
for operations it undertakes
to protect federation
borders and planetary
security, this fleet would
also test out prototype
weaponary systems for the
federation.
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