The USS Cyclone (NCC-90001) is a Typhoon-class exploratory cruiser and flagship of the Cyclone Exploratory Cruiser Squadron.
Under the command of Captain Roy W. Hardin, the Cyclone’s crew of 1,014 Starfleet personnel and her embarked air wing, represents the best Starfleet has to offer. With its advanced tactical systems, versatile auxiliary craft, and cutting-edge sensor arrays, the Cyclone is prepared to tackle the Federation’s most challenging assignments.
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Ralston dictated the temporary standing order while standing up.
The terminal on his desk glowed with half a dozen open windows: damage-control annexes, yard coordination protocols, Engineering isolation authorities-each one a potential choke point if he phrased a sentence wrong or left an [...]
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Cyclone was quiet again two hours after the damage control party extinguished the fire on Deck Thirteen.
Not the false quiet of standby or the antiseptic calm of the yards, but the more profound, heavier stillness that followed a major casualty aboard a starship.
Ralston felt it the moment he [...]
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Chief Petty Officer Elena Varga didn’t trust yard work.
She stood in the auxiliary accessway on Deck Twelve, hands braced at her hips, while she studied the newly replaced conduit run as if it might speak to her. The yard team had done competent work with clean welds, proper alignment, and [...]
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The turbolift rose smoothly from Deck Eight, the vibration underfoot shifting as the lift sped toward the Main Bridge.
Ralston stood in silence, hands clasped loosely behind his back. Travers leaned slightly against the bulkhead, eyes on the deck indicator as it climbed.
The turbolift slowed.
When [...]
