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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12 August 2024

When The Web Unravels (Part 3)

S2E1. Entropic Foliations of the Galactic Fabric

USS Diligent, USS Ingenuity, USS Pacific Palisades, USS Polaris and USS Serenity

“Have we heard anything from Vox?” Admiral Reyes asked. “They should have wrapped up by now.” At 1810, the Diligent had sent notice they were about to transit the aperture rimward of Dreon. That was twenty minutes ago. If everything had gone to plan, they should have called by now to report [...]

11 August 2024

When The Web Unravels (Part 2)

S2E1. Entropic Foliations of the Galactic Fabric

USS Diligent, USS Ingenuity, USS Pacific Palisades, USS Polaris and USS Serenity

As the Serenity and the Ingenuity followed the Keldons back into the Underspace, Captain Lewis checked the time. If everything was going to plan, the Diligent and their Klingon allies should have just arrived in the Thomar Expanse. Soon, the first Cardassian array would fall, and then another and [...]

11 August 2024

When The Web Unravels (Part 1)

S2E1. Entropic Foliations of the Galactic Fabric

USS Diligent, USS Ingenuity, USS Pacific Palisades, USS Polaris and USS Serenity

The Diligent, the lone Starfleet ship among a dozen Klingon warbirds, wound its way through the labyrinth, racing the route passed along by the Serenity and the Ingenuity. Their first target lay just beyond the Rolor Nebula, and the next would be nearly a thousand lightyears coreward. At [...]

26 July 2024

Motivations and Machinations (Part 5)

S2E1. Entropic Foliations of the Galactic Fabric

USS Diligent, USS Ingenuity, USS Pacific Palisades, USS Polaris and USS Serenity

“Why would the Federation be interested in helping us?” “Because we share a mutual interest, my friend,” Captain Lewis explained, his face betraying nothing. “We too recognize the threat posed by the Underspace.” “Who said anything about a threat?” “Don’t play me for a fool,” [...]