The damage that the Sovereign has sustained is not as intense or massive as her and her sisters have sustained in the past. Enterprise and Majestic for example. Nevertheless, Sovereign has begun to show how much she needs a visit to the fleet yards when her magnetic interlocks were failing and thus forced to shut down the warp core to avoid a possible containment field failure. This left Sovereign with very few options. They could be towed to Starbase 72, but they had mined some benamite crystals from the Gamma Quadrant before they found an underspace aperture to use to get to Chin’toka, one of Maxwell’s ‘better to be prepared’ ideals. Thus, they decided to set up the quantum slipstream drive that would get them to the Avalon Fleet Yards for major repairs in matter of minutes.

Unfortunately, the moment they inside the slipstream, unforeseen circumstances of the remaining crystal shard that remained in the hull from ventral to dorsal, begun to react to the slipstream corridor. The reaction throws the Soveriegn violently out of slipstream and into normal space and once the ship had recovered, the crew find themselves not where they are supposed to be….