Task Force 47 – Report #3

February 8, 2025

The galaxy is changed, we see it in the pulsars, we feel it in the solar winds, we taste it in the blood wine at B’Aar. 

Since our last report way back in the final days of 2401 we’ve battled pirates and chased smugglers, saved the day and lost a captain or two. Our intrepid pathfinders have found themselves facing off against those we once called friends and championing the light of the Federation in some of the galaxy’s darkest places. Whilst we’re still collating the reports it’s safe to say Task Force 47 had a brilliant adventure as part of the Devil to Pay Campaign. I’m sure I speak for us all as I say we look forward to working our pathfinding magic with the Klingon Empire, Barrington is warming the Blood wine as we speak.

In the last few months, we’ve waved goodbye to some of our members as they’ve charted a new course with our sibling task forces. But with endings, there are also beginnings and I am extremely pleased to welcome our first-ever Task Group Commander in the form of Lieutenant Commander Harper, whose ceaseless energy is an excellent addition to the gang. Of course, I would be remiss not to thank the ever-invigorating and energising whirlwind that is Theo Barrington, who is no doubt waving from my DM’s to reel it in and get on with the job.

So! As we look forward to the uncertain future and a new unknown horizon, the members of Task Force 47 continue to find the way.

Fiction Updates

  • Britannia Wayfinding Division
    • USS Britannia & USS Daedalus – Following the ill-fated away mission to Pamack Base that found the Helios’ XO turned renegade, Daedalus has set a pursuit course into the mysterious and dangerous border region between the Klingon Empire and the Gorn Hegemony. With Britannia launching from K-74 in hot pursuit, can they catch the rogue officer before the Klingons do?
  • Canterbury  Long-Range Explorer Division
    • USS Canterbury & USS Resolute – After a successful mission to retrieved stolen federation technology, the Canterbury Division ran into a situation and… mislaid their CO. A new Division CO has been appointed and the search for Captain Murphy begins.
  • Tianlong Surveyor Division
      • USS Tianlong – Fresh from the fleet yards, Tianlong finds itself putting an experimental engine modification to the test at the very edge of Federation space. There they find a long-lost ship in perfect condition, and whilst it may be lost, it is not empty.
  • USS Chawla – After a stint of recovery on her family’s Arizona farmstead following the devastating effects of the Borg resurgence, Captain Riggras finally sets forth with a new ship and a new crew. There is much to discover for all as they begin navigating their way through a new frontier, both professionally and personally.
  • USS Sausalito – After receiving transfer orders from Task Force 21 to Task Force 47, the crew of the Sausalito finds themselves responding to a distress signal coming from the independent Romulan colony ‘Topo’. The mission quickly turns into a joint Task Force operation when the CO is contacted by Task Force 21’s USS Dragonfly whose crew is also en route to the colony.
  • USS Vallejo – The relationship with the Cardassian Union has been frosty ever since the events of the Labyrinth saw the Union heralded as the self-styled ‘saviours of the galaxy’. Now Vallejo finds itself caught up on a tense diplomatic tightrope at the border, where everyone has a strong opinion of what is right and what is wrong.

Promotions

Awards

Conclusion

I am continually blessed in my role as Task Force Commanding Officer, our members are wonderful people, who I am lucky to work alongside as we set out into the unknown. Their adventures continually bring me joy and excitement (the edge of my seat is beginning to buckle) and their never-ending creativity with everything from astrophysics to animal gifs is a pleasure to witness.

I look forward to seeing where our adventures take us next, but a word of warning to all from our pathfinders, beware, there might be more than Klingons on the starboard bow.

Varen Wyll Task Force 47 Commanding Officer
Reports Task Force 47