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.

USS Diligent

Alita-class • NCC-97314 • Fourth Fleet

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 Advanced Research Squadron

Polaris Squadron is a mission unit under the command of Fleet Admiral Allison Reyes, Director of the Advanced Science, Technology and Research Activity, and Rear Admiral Alex Grayson, Commander of Archanis Sector Operations, that operates under the dual mandate:

  1. Through the Advanced Science, Technology and Research Activity (ASTRA),
    fuel Starfleet’s innovation engine through discovery, investigations and interactions on the frontier.
  2. Under the Archanis Sector Operations Command,
    revitalize the Archanis Sector through infrastructure investments and regional diplomacy.

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.

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17 December 2024

Unanswered Questions

S2E3. Subversion Unveiled (The Devil to Pay)

USS Diligent, USS Pacific Palisades and USS Polaris

“Tell me, dear admiral. How are things on Archanis Station?” Admiral Reyes stared at the monster in their brig. How did it know about Archanis Station? Was this all somehow connected? Her face betrayed none of her thoughts though. She was too practiced for that, and she wouldn’t offer it [...]

15 December 2024

This Isn't Over

S2E3. Subversion Unveiled (The Devil to Pay)

USS Diligent, USS Pacific Palisades and USS Polaris

The door to the observation room hissed open, and two men who absolutely despised each other stepped through. There was Erlic, the current governor of Duraxis, dressed in the fineries of his office, and Voral, the localist hero who was opposing him in the upcoming election.  Or at least that was [...]

15 December 2024

You Were What It Didn’t Count On

S2E3. Subversion Unveiled (The Devil to Pay)

USS Diligent, USS Pacific Palisades and USS Polaris

As she came to, her ears rang, and her head throbbed. What the hell had just happened? Her memory began to come back to her. It was Captain Feng. When she’d revealed herself, the captain had opened fire. No warning, no nothing. And then that grenade. That grenade had gone off. “Morrey to [...]

15 December 2024

Something Soon, He Said

S2E3. Subversion Unveiled (The Devil to Pay)

USS Diligent, USS Pacific Palisades and USS Polaris

“There was something about the way he said it,” Ensign Alessa Elara observed. “He knows we have the Teral brothers, and he must know they could implicate him in the attack, but he doesn’t seem the least bit concerned. It was his word choice too. Something soon, he [...]