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STARSHIP REGISTRY │ U.S.S.DAUNTLESS(NX-01-A)[FORGED]
Purportedly launched on stardate 54172, the U.S.S.Dauntless was an alleged prototype vessel of the new Dauntless-class [starship program]. It was first encountered in 2374 by the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager in the Delta Quadrant on stardate 51978.2 following encrypted instructions (believed to have been sent by Starfleet Command) to proceed to a designated spatial grid.
TheDauntless was constructed by the alien Arturis, the lone surviving member of the Borg designatedSpecies 116, and employed a fully functional quantum slipstream drive- the first working slipstream ever encountered by a Federation Starfleet crew.
In attempt to resemble a Federation starship, the ship employed a method of particle synthesis designed to mask its interior and exterior signatures from authentication.
At150 meters (492 ft) in length and rising 7 decks in height, the vessel was approximately half the size of the U.S.S. Voyager(343 meters and 15 decks) but designed to only require a crew of 1 for complete functionality and operation.
TheDauntless lacked nearly all amenities typically found on Federation starships including centralized or designated areas for off-duty socialization, dining and other forms recreation integral for a healthy crew moral and positive social-structure.
All crew quarters [too] shared in the vessel’s focus on efficiency through ultra-lean design as each room had designed for only shared-living in three and four-person single room dormitory configurations.
The ship armament consisted of a standard phaser, shield and tractor beam system. However, the overall design of the vessel suggests it was constructed to utilize its quantum slipstream drive not only for propulsion but defensive and offensive purposes as while.
While in possession of the Voyager crew, vital understanding and analysis of the ship’s slipstream drive resulted in a significant leap forward in the exotic and highly experimental technology for Starfleet and allowed the Voyager crew to integrate a modified version of the drive with Voyager’s own systems based on model simulations and brief testing aboard the Dauntlessitself.
This allowed the crew to transverse several thousand light-years in hours and return to Borg space on a rescue mission and back [300 light-years further in its journey prior to its use] before the experimental drive overloaded ship systems.
TheU.S.S.Dauntless was presumably destroyed by the Borg Collective on or after stardate 51981.6. However, temporal records maintained by 30th century Federation (Department of Temporal Investigations) reveal its design had been adopted by Starfleet by the 26th century with at least one Dauntless-class starship participating in the Battle of Procyon V.
INTELLIGENCE BRIEF | Borg Collective Vinculum
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STARFLEET INTELLIGENCE | USS Rio Grande, NCC-72452
Launched in 2368, the USS Rio Grande is a Danube-class runabout in service to Federation Starfleet. It was one of three runabouts assigned to Deep Space 9 at the start of Starfleet’s administration of the station in 2369. It is the only Starfleet vessel to remain intact throughout the entire Federation administration of Deep Space 9 from 2369 to 2375.
At 23.1 metres (76 ft) long, 13.7 metres (45 ft) wide and 5.4 metres (18 ft) high, the vessel is larger than all shuttlecraft classes operated by Starfleet. The Danube-class in general was designed for a two person flight crew with capacity for three additional crew members with optional configurations for up to 20 passengers and maintained a larger operational range, increased cargo capacities, more powerful weapons system and warp 5 capabilities.
The Rio Grande is perhaps the most recognized runabout in operation as it was the first vessel to discover the Bajoran wormhole in 2369.
As of 2387, the vessel remains in active operation at Deep Space Nine.
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FIRST CONTACT
Though evidence of its existence became evident through the study of ten prior attack sites, the first encounter with the Crystalline Entity in which a surviving Federation witness or recovery of uncorrupted and intact record instrumentation occurred on stardate 41242.4 in the *Omicron Theta* System by the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
OBSERVABLE CHARACTERISTICS
Formidable in size, the creature was capable of warp speed velocities as it traveled through space in search of sources of material it could convert into energy- specifically, organic matter.
Functioning as a giant electromagnetic collector, a composite matter consisting of bitrious, hydrocarbon, lanthandies and nitrate were deposited in the Entity’s wake.
As it was discovered the Entity lacked the ability to penetrate rock comprising of both kelbonite and fistrium, the crew of the Enterprise was able to incorporate the refractive properties of these materials with the ship’s shields to create a defense from the creature’s absorption power.
DELIBERATE DESTRUCTION
This defense allowed Xenologist Doctor Kila Marr and Lt. Commander Data to devise a technique to communicate with the Entity by emitting graviton pulses at ten per second. However, In an act of vengeance, Marr intentionally increased the pulse rate with a continuous graviton emission which drove the Entity into resonance shattering the creature.
Little is known of the origins Crystalline Entity or whether others exist elsewhere. Based on trajectory extrapolated by the Enterprise, it is believed the Entity originated from outside the Milky Way Galaxy
