USS Astute (Archive)

Share in the adventures of Captain Monique McDowell & the crew USS Astute as the rapid response vessel, tasked with providing humanitarian relief missions and high priority engineering assignments, aids reconstruction efforts following the devastating Nightfall Incursion by the Vaadwaur Supremacy.

USS Astute (Archive)

Task Force 72 • Managed by CAPT Trevenan Williams

The price of conflict is peace.

Tasked with assisting the survivors of the Nightfall Incursion rebuild what was taken by the Vaadwaur, Task Force 72 has assigned the USS Astute to pioneer reconstruction and relief operations throughout the former Demilitarized Zone.

The assignment of an Echelon – class vessel speaks volumes about the instability inherent to the region since the Vaadwaur withdrawal. Not only did the incursion come at a time when Starfleet was at its lowest ebb and tenuous allies such as the Cardassian Union already much weakened, the resultant power – vacuum requires a ship equally at ease in patrolling the frontier as it is providing humanitarian aid.

Never has the motto of the USS Astute been more pressing or relevant;

“Consilium et Prudentia”

(By Council and Prudence).

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26 August 2025

Broken Rapture

Those that Walk Beside Us.

USS Astute (Archive)

  “For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God…” 1 Thessalonians 4:15–17   Night never set upon the Lightning Spire. Incongruous maybe, that upon a world where the face of the ocean depths [...]

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20 August 2025

Sub - rosa

Those that Walk Beside Us.

USS Astute (Archive)

  “Colonialism is the massive fog that has clouded our imaginations regarding who we could be, excised our memories of who we once were, and numbed our understanding of our current existence.” Waziyatawin. (2005)   Monique McDowell was a woman seemingly frozen in time. In the interval [...]

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19 August 2025

Interlude - The Price of Pain

Those that Walk Beside Us.

USS Astute (Archive)

  “You will survive and you will find purpose in the chaos. Moving on doesn’t mean letting go.” Mary Vanhaute   “You’re not comfortable talking about it.” A significant pause, and then. “What makes you think I’m not comfortable talking about it?” she challenged. He took [...]

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12 August 2025

The Summoning

Those that Walk Beside Us.

USS Astute (Archive)

  “Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. Forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.” Rumi – 1248 AD   There’s an old adage that asserts that, “The bomb lives only as it is falling.”** It takes a certain lunatic resolve to stand resolute in the face of [...]

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