| Talas’ia Frain |
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| Class | Phoenix/Eleos |
| Registry | NAR-65226 |
| Owner | L’Vor tr’Terrhei |
| Operator | Khitomer Alliance |
| Launched | 2385 |
| Status | Operational |
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Ship Name
Through out her long history of service under various Federation-aligned and opposing factions, the vessel carried many names. She was “christened” as Non-Aligned Vessel (NAV) Talas’ia Frain by her current owner, L’Vor tr’Terrhei, in honour of the First Engineer Talas’ia Frain of the ancient starship Revenant.
History
The civilian vessel of Phoenix-class under registry NAR-65226 began its life as SS Arahant in 2385. The vessel was constructed and launched in Bajoran System Shipyards a year after Bajor’s admission into United Federation of Planets. The vessel predominantly served as a courier and supply ship to Cardassian worlds that were still recovering from the Dominion War. As such, the stellar charts’ database is rich with miniscule details of various stellar and interstellar phenomena in Cardassian space.
Mostly operated by the crew between 4 and 7, the only “permanent resident” of the ship was freighter captain Miguel Quinn from the planet Kennovere, as the rest of the crew was regularly rotated. Quinn remained in command of the Arahant until the beginning of UFP-Klingon War of 2404-2409, when it was repurposed as a supply ship to the front lines and handed over to the Starfleet officer, Commander Alexander Warrington. The ship was hijacked by Orion pirate Hazeem in 2407. He left Warrington and six of his enlisted officers stranded on Danteri V.
Quite unlike for an Orion, Hazeem kept regularly updated crew and cargo manifests, as well as the ship’s main log for the next eight years, much like the previous officers and owners of the vessel. According to one of his logs, Hazeem believed that tidy records brought him good luck. That luck, however, had run out when a Herald Baltim patrol intercepted the convoy of which the Arahant was part of. The crew, along with Hazeem, was vaporised by the Heralds which boarded the vessel. Most of the convoy was destroyed and the Arahant, along with another Orion escort, was left adrift. At the end of Iconian War, the vessel was recovered by Romulan Intelligence Agency who handed the vessel over to Starfleet. The vessel was mothballed for almost a decade.
It eventually found its way to its current commanding officer and owner, L’Vor tr’Terrhei. How he came into the possession of this vessel remains unknown. However, L’Vor has kept the ongoing tradition of keeping the ship’s main log regularly updated.
Technical Data
| Specifications |
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Length
Beam
Draft
Mass
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119.7 meters
64.9 meters
23.8 meters
130 000 mt
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| Decks | 4 |
| Standard Crew | 5 |
| Emergency Capacity | 30 |
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Armaments
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1 Omni-Directional
Type 5, Mk VIII Phaser Arrays
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Defenses
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Duranium hull,
Shuttle-scaled deflector shields
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Auxiliary Craft
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None
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Small and easily produced in quantity, the Phoenix-class is a versatile spacecraft designed as a fast, medium-range rapid response vessel to deliver emergency medical supplies or engineering components, and perform small-scale personnel transfer and delivery duties. Initially produced for Starfleet, the class proved versatile and many of them were sold into civilian service for a variety of purposes.
Physical Arrangement & Crew Support
Normally operated by a crew of thirteen, the Phoenix-class featured integrated automation that allowed for smaller personnel complements, and had optional automation systems that could be installed with minimal effort which would allow the ship to be operated by a single person if necessary.
Propulsion and Power Generation
Utilizing an inter-nacelle warp governor inspired by the NX-class from two centuries before, the Phoenix was able to achieve exceptional warp speeds for such a small craft. While it would not prove to be as tactically capable as the Danube-class runabout introduced a decade later, the Phoenix-class was capable of longer range missions at higher warp speeds, and also had more cargo and passenger space.
The class could cruise indefinitely at warp 7.2, and had a maximum speed of warp 8.7, which it could maintain for up to six hours. Its impulse engines were also robust, giving the class better-than-expected sublight performance.
Tactical and Defensive Systems
NAV Frain is armed with a single omni-directional phaser array which is placed just below the dorsal planetary sensor array. It does not have torpedo payload systems of any kind.
Senior Officers
| Vessel Owner |
XO, Scientist |
Medic |
Engineer |
Enforcer |
L’Vor tr’Terrhei |
Chic’Zha |
R’Nar Fahv |
Jassal Gorri |
Sesrin |
L’Vor tr’Terrhei
Known through out Starfleet under his full name L’Vor Yorkin i-Bremen Sinderion Hwi’Teillh tr’Terrhei, or just Yorkin for short, he served in Starfleet for almost 20 years, participating in many major engagements that marked the first quarter of the 25th century: Federation-Klingon War, Borg Invasion of Defera, Tholian incursions in the emerging Romulan Republic and, most notably the Iconian War of 2415. Upon the conclusion of the Iconian War, he left Starfleet to focus on his personal recovery, but returned already in 2417 and joined the Alliance Exploration Initiative in the Shackleton Expanse, during which he commanded a Rhode Island-class vessel, USS Mendeleev. In 2419, he transferred to Tau Epsilon theater of operations, the dwarf galaxy PTX-1138, commonly known as The Outback.
Wiki Profile
During his service in The Outback, he became romantically involved with Lieutenant Commander Chic’Zha, a Scalarin officer serving in Klingon Defense Force. Following the events that lead to her discommendation and expulsion from Klingon Defense Force, L’Vor found himself deep in the internal, xenophobic politics of Scalara Prime - one of the earliest Klingon imperial client states. This eventually lead to his own dishonourable discommendation from Starfleet some time between September 2423 and early March 2424.
“Honour Will Survive” - co-authored short story
Since then his whereabouts were unknown, until he re-emerged as a freelancing trader in the ownership of N.A.V. Talas’ia Frain in the early 2425.
Chic’Zha
Daughter of Trill Ambassdor to Scalara Prime, Relic Prax, and Relic’s lover, a Scalarin scientist Mina’Zha, Chic’Zha did not have an easy life among Scalarin people, whose xenophobic culture also cultivated the belief in the superiority of pure-blooded Scalarin people. According to their own “scientifically supported” dogmas, Scalarin were genetically incompatible with any other known humanoids in Alpha and Beta Quadrants. Chic’Zha’s existence challenged these dogmas and she was regularly shunned aside by the society she lived in. After working her way through the KDF ranks, she found herself in 52nd Fleet, a KDF detachment in The Outback.
When the Shattering of the Klingon Empire between the Mad Emperor J’mpok and J’Ula of House Mokai gave rise to “true Klingon” purist tendencies, Chic’Zha found herself again expelled from, this time from Klingon Defense Force. L’Vor provided her an asylum within the Federation-controlled region in The Outback. Following the end of Klingon Civil War, Chic’Zha returned to Qo’nos, accompanied by L’Vor, to face the new Chancellor in hope to restore and defend her honour. This eventually lead to a honourable combat in which she prevailed but was seriously injured, leading to a comatose state. She was retrieved by her mother, Mina’Zha, and returned to Scalara Prime, where she was subjected to various genetic tests, as her mother believed that Chic’Zha’s very existence would finally break the centuries old purist dogma on Scalara.
L’Vor abandoned his Starfleet comission and sought Chic’Zha on Scalara. With the assistance of SFI Captain, Zinja Krian of Andoria, and Khitomer Alliance undercover agent to Scalara, a Ferasan named N’Rat (who was seeking Scalarin genetic research in order to tackle an emerging reproduction crisis in Ferasan Dominion), L’Vor liberated Chic’Zha. The cost, however, was high. Both he and Chic’Zha were charged with dereliction of duty and were, finally, dishonourably discommended from their respective services, with Chic’Zha additionally sent into permanent exile from Scalara and Klingon Empire. L’Vor was additionally charged with the violation of Prime Directive, for interference in the internal matter of Klingon Empire, but was found not guilty in absentia.
Much their whereabouts were unknown for nearly 1.5 year but rumours suggest that Chic’Zha was taken to Trill, to her ‘next-of-kin’ - Relic’s wife, mother to Chic’Zha’s late half-sister, Chianna Prax, for the length of her full recovery.
R’Nar Fahv
Like L’Vor and Chic’Zha, R’Nar is also an exiled officer, belonging to one of the smaller Ferasan clans, and of the few who sided with J’Ula, L’Rell and Martok during the most recent Klingon Civil War. Much of his clan has been expelled from Ferasan Dominion territories. Many of them sought refuge among their Caitian bretheren, especially on Caitian world of Macadarna (whose governor and patron, R’Rel, is also related to Fahv clan) or joined the Khitomer Alliance, like R’Nar’s cousin, Captain N’Rat. However, R’Nar sworn allegiance only to himself. Former combat medic by profession, he joined L’Vor and Chic’Zha during Frain's first cargo mission - delivery of medical supplies to one of Romulan Imperial worlds.
According to known intelligence and rumours, he refused to be on L’Vor’s crew payroll, but has continued to assist the small crew and their clients, especially where health issues were concerned.
Jassal Gorri
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Sesrin
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