Part of Bravo Fleet: The Devil to Pay

USS Blackbird - USS Liberty

Daybreak

On the moon of Ilior, where the criminal elite converge, the Rooks must secure a piece of volatile, stolen technology at an auction where alliances are fragile, enemies are relentless, and betrayal is inevitable.

Mission Description

In the past year, the galaxy’s black market has surged as the Orion Syndicate pushes deeper into the trade of stolen experimental technologies, many of them lifted from the Federation. These dangerous devices, capable of reshaping entire worlds or transporting entire ships and cities in an instant, are now being sold to the highest bidder, threatening galactic stability. Among these is the Kairos Regulator, a device of highly classified capabilities believed able to warp local space-time, and slow time itself for its user.

Tasked with preventing its sale, the special operations team of the USS Blackbird are sent to the luxurious moon of Ilior, where a high-end black market auction attended by the galaxy’s most dangerous criminals will soon take place. Making strange bedfellows with the criminal kingpin Torrad-Var and his beautiful but mysterious aide Q’ira to gain entrance, the Rooks must infiltrate the auction, outbid rival factions, and secure the Kairos Regulator at all costs. But with enemies like the rival Syndicate leader Aestri lurking in the shadows – and the ever-present risk of betrayal – the mission promises to be as treacherous as the prize they seek.

About the Mission

Status
In Progress
Total Stories
29
Start Date
02/11/2024

12 December 2024

Daybreak - 29

USS Blackbird: Daybreak

‘Captain Galcyon is hailing us, sir.’ At Cassidy’s nod, the forward viewscreen appeared to show the shining bridge of the USS Liberty bathed in alert lighting with, front and centre, the figure of Captain Elara Galcyon. Rosewood stepped back, scratching his nose self-consciously; he hadn’t [...]

10 December 2024

Daybreak - 28

USS Blackbird: Daybreak

‘What the hell?’ Q’ira’s outrage had travelled with the Rooks from the station to the transporter room. ‘We’re just giving up?’ Cassidy didn’t look at her as he descended the step. ‘Tell me how we were going to break out of that junction against automated defences and an unknown [...]

8 December 2024

Daybreak - 27

USS Blackbird: Daybreak

The Lliew Rift was like a knot between the stars. Centuries ago, enterprising Romulan scientists had pushed the boundaries in their development of the singularity core, the power source that let them leap between the stars at boundless speeds and fuelled their covert cloaking devices. Such progress [...]

7 December 2024

Daybreak - 26

USS Blackbird: Daybreak

‘So how does this work?’ They’d finished the op six hours ago. Left the Oltanis system four. And as the Blackbird thundered through space towards the Lliew Rift, deeper and further rimward into the Neutral Zone, they still knew little more about what came next but their destination. None of [...]