USS Arondight (NCC-86407)

USS Arondight

Reliant-class • NCC-86407 • Fourth Fleet

The Federation starship Arondight, named for Sir Lancelot’s sword of Arthurian legend, is a well-equipped, modern frigate assigned to operations under the aegis of Arcturus Wayfinding Squadron in the Olympia Sector. Along with her counterpart, the USS Buran, the Arondight typically operates within a few hours warp of Olympia Station, patrolling the sector while performing mapping and exploration duties along the way. Fresh off her first major refit, the Arondight has a new command crew of young, eager officers ready to make a difference in a post-Frontier Day galaxy.

Stories on this command are rated 2-2-2, with reader discretion advised.

Arcturus Wayfinding Squadron

Arcturus Wayfinding Squadron is an elite exploratory unit that specializes in finding new ways forward for Starfleet. Distinct from navigation, which is plotting a course based on the precise knowledge of exactly where one is in the universe, wayfinding is a more general word that refers to the process of orienting oneself in regard to space, place, objects, and peoples. Wayfinding was practiced by the Polynesian and Norse voyagers of Earth in the ancient past, as they used landmarks, the stars, and their relationships with other beings to find their way across the seas. While Arcturus Squadron engages in traditional surveying and charting missions, its mandate is also to use whatever tools it can to find the way forward, whether through diplomacy, acquiring or developing new propulsion methods, or, when necessary, mitigating threats to Starfleet’s exploratory mission.

Currently, Arcturus Squadron is based out of Olympia Station at the rimward trailing edge of Federation space in the Alpha Quadrant.

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22 July 2024

8. Buran Down

USS Arondight: One of Our Starbases is Missing

Though a naturally optimistic person, Paulo Costa had a hard time coming up with an explanation for the explosion Hawthorne had detected that didn’t stem from the violent destruction of the Buran. He kept glancing over to check the other man’s progress at the aft science station. Still, he knew [...]

7 July 2024

7. Signs and Portents

USS Arondight: One of Our Starbases is Missing

On a Reliant-class starship, the atmosphere in every compartment was fully cycled through the ship’s filters every sixty seconds, whether it was the most miniature computer network trunk or the main shuttlebay. It wasn’t quite as aggressive as the filtration systems aboard a hospital ship, but, [...]

22 June 2024

6. Warp Speed Interlude

USS Arondight: One of Our Starbases is Missing

As the shuttle raced along at warp seven—a phenomenal rate of speed for anything that small—Paulo Costa locked in the autopilot while Tristan Hawthorne continued to calibrate the recon sensor pallet Olympia Station had lent them for the journey. The sensors on a type-12 shuttle were already [...]

21 June 2024

5. Beyond Help

USS Arondight: One of Our Starbases is Missing

The moment it entered the subspace corridor, Olympia Station had set the record for the fastest speed ever recorded by a Federation space station. Considering its design speed was to be, well, stationary, the problem the station’s crew and the crew of the Arondight now faced was how to make [...]