USS Diligent (NCC-97314)
While research and development activities typically occur on starbases and outposts within Federation territory, sometimes the greatest discoveries are made amongst the stars. This is the mission of the Polaris Squadron.
While research and development activities typically occur on starbases and outposts within Federation territory, sometimes the greatest discoveries are made amongst the stars. This is the mission of the Polaris Squadron.
The USS Diligent is an Alita-class heavy escort that augments Polaris Squadron with significant tactical capabilities to defend the research unit from threats that lurk on the frontier. Typically, the USS Diligent deploys alongside the USS Polaris to safeguard the flagship, but it may deploy as tactical support for the USS Ingenuity when the smaller research vessel breaks away to conduct independent missions.
The stories of Polaris Squadron are rated 2-2-2 for mature subject matter, including violence, language and sexual content.
Polaris Squadron is a multi-mission flag squadron under the command of Fleet Admiral Allison Reyes that supports two specialized units and three overall mission profiles:
The flagship of Polaris Squadron is the USS Polaris, an Odyssey-class heavy explorer that hosts the Advanced Science, Technology and Research Activity, and the headquarters of Polaris Squadron is Archanis Station, a Canopus-class starbase from whence sector operations of the Archanis Sector are managed.
Commanding Officer
Executive Officer
Chief Tactical Officer
Chief Security Officer
Chief Flight Control Officer
Chief Operations Officer
Chief Engineering Officer
Chief Medical Officer
Chief Counseling Officer
Small Craft Wing Commander
Diligent Alpha-One
Small Craft Weapons and Systems Officer
Diligent Alpha-One
Squadron Commanding Officer
ASTRA Director
Squadron Deputy Commander (Mobile Element)
18 April 2025
USS Diligent, USS Ingenuity, USS Kennedy, USS Polaris and USS Serenity
All batteries firing, the Diligent sliced through the enemy line, almost striking a Mansa class escort as it traded blows with anything and everything it had a firing arc on. “Helm, hard to starboard!” Captain Vox shouted. “Heading 180 at max G!” Lieutenant Commander Coleman [...]
17 April 2025
USS Diligent, USS Ingenuity, USS Kennedy, USS Polaris and USS Serenity
“I have the outpost on sensors, dead ahead, right where the labrats said it would be,” Lieutenant Commander Emily Essinger reported from operations. “Three minutes out. Looks defended by two battlecruisers and eight assault escorts.” “They’ve caught onto our [...]
16 April 2025
USS Diligent, USS Ingenuity, USS Kennedy, USS Polaris and USS Serenity
“I don’t get it. We go after one array, and you take a team to blow up the other, but who goes after the command and control hub?” Commander Cora Lee asked as she lay beside her lover. An engineer by trade, her life was built around redundancies, but this was the opposite, a plan [...]
15 April 2025
USS Diligent, USS Ingenuity, USS Kennedy, USS Polaris and USS Serenity
“Well, that was easy enough…” Captain Lewis chuckled almost nonchalantly as he and Sena strode back into the security office, their interrogation concluded for now. But then he saw his first officer standing there. “Commander, I thought you went back to the [...]