Welcome to Project Longshot!
The era of retreat is over.
For forty years, the shadow of the 250th Frontier Day has stifled the Federation’s reach, turning its gaze inward. The galaxy had traded the horizon for safety, sacrificing the mandate of exploration at the altar of survival. But the U.S.S. Enterprise — the storied Federation flagship - stands as proof that the spirit of discovery can never be extinguished.
Starfleet Command has finally recognized that a Federation which refuses to explore has died. With the Bajoran Wormhole secured once more, the Enterprise is mobilized as the spearhead of Project Longshot on a mission to pierce the veil of the Gamma Quadrant and reclaim the Great Beyond.
Her mission was not one of conquest, but of peace to a fraught frontier echoing with the ghosts of the Dominion War. Tasked with mapping the unknown and extending diplomacy to worlds long forgotten, the Enterprise serves as the bridge between a weary past and a future defined by the courage to seek what lay beyond the dark.
The final frontier awaits those brave enough to face it...
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Latest News Items
» Now Playing: Recess
Posted on Tue Sep 1st, 2026 @ 12:13am by Commodore Wilkan Targaryen in General News
In the Gamma Quadrant, justice is traded like currency—and murder carries the highest price tag.
After a grueling deployment in deep space, the weary crew of the Enterprise arrives at the bustling world of Karemma for a well-deserved shore leave. Eager to swap starship corridors for the vibrant trade plazas and rich culture of Kecemen, relaxation is finally within their grasp.
But peace is a rare commodity.
The crew's leave is shattered by a clandestine plea from a whistleblower aboard the U.S.S. John Kelly, an armored diplomatic envoy docked overhead. An Andorian Starfleet attaché—Lieutenant Commander Tharl ch'Rhirhr—has been secretly arrested for the brutal murder of a prominent Dosi merchant patriarch. Desperate to protect a fragile new trade treaty, the John Kelly’s hyper-calculating Zakdorn captain has locked down the investigation, intent on letting Tharl take the fall to keep the peace.
Bound by Starfleet principles and facing a ticking clock, the crew of the Enterprise is thrust into The Grand Arbitration—a high-stakes Karemma judicial negotiation where claims, counter-charges, and evidence are traded like commodities. To save Tharl from lifetime penal servitude, they must out-haggle aggressive prosecution magnates, dodge black-market informants, and bypass a master strategist's cover-up.
Yet as the crew digs beneath the surface of the trade empire, they uncover a web of deception that threatens to shatter the peace—and test the ultimate cost of Federation justice.
- This storyline is actually planned to take place over MULTIPLE in character days.
- Characters should get off of the ship to have some fun away from the Enterprise.
- I'd like you to each try to pair off with (at least) one other player and write a joint post together about your vacation.
-- As you start your 'group posts' please include the Gamma Quadrant NPC in the post.
- If you have any questions, PLEASE ASK!
» Coming Soon: Rumble
Posted on Fri Jul 17th, 2026 @ 2:44pm by Commodore Wilkan Targaryen in General News
The danger isn't on the surface. It’s underneath.
What began as a routine mission to survey intense seismic activity on the planet Iocarro rapidly spirals into a nightmare. Without warning, a massive, cataclysmic earthquake rips across the plains, tearing the landscape apart and swallowing the Enterprise Away Team whole.
Cut off from the ship and buried deep beneath kilometers of rock, the missing crew members are presumed dead by the orbiters above. But the nightmare is only beginning.
Deep within the planet's crust, the battered survivors discover a shocking secret: a sprawling, highly industrialized subterranean civilization. Isolated from the cosmos, this subterranean society is relentlessly mining the planet’s core—unwittingly triggering the very tremors that threaten to collapse their underground world and crush everyone within it.
As the Enterprise launches a desperate race against time to punch through the interference and locate their people, the stranded Away Team must navigate a completely alien society. To survive, they have to convince a stubborn civilization to halt their entire way of life—before the next big tremor buries the truth, and the crew, forever.
» Coming Soon: Oubliette
Posted on Mon Apr 13th, 2026 @ 12:03am by Commodore Wilkan Targaryen in General News
Deep within the heart of the Chamra Vortex, a faint life sign flickers on a lonely Class-M world. When the away team touches down, the crew of the Enterprise finds Xurbam - a man living in primitive isolation, his only company a mysterious creature that never leaves his side.
Xurbam's story is one of tragedy: a survivor of a pirate raid, stranded and desperate to return to his homeworld. Moved by his plight, the crew welcomes him aboard, but as the Enterprise leaves the nebula behind, the grateful refugee they met on the surface begins to slip away.
Strange behavior turns into inexplicable hostility, and the ship’s corridors soon echo with the footsteps of a man who seems to change with every shadow. As a routine transport mission dissolves into a high-stakes manhunt through the decks of the Federation flagship, the crew must uncover the secret Xurbam is hiding before the body count rises.
Their hunt leads to the silent ruins of a fallen civilization, where the truth of Xurbam’s identity - and the heavy burden he carries for his entire race - will force the crew to make a choice that defies every regulation in the book.
» LCARS Entry: Talu
Posted on Sun Mar 8th, 2026 @ 3:30pm by Commodore Wilkan Targaryen in General News
Talu is a moonless, glacial Class P world in the Gamma Quadrant, defined by its blinding "Clear-Snow" surface and a high-intensity sun that causes permanent retinal scarring in most humanoids. Its inhabitants are physically imposing, four-eyed beings who live in geothermal subterranean cities. They are master miners of the Talu Pearl, a mineral essential to Dominion sensor technology. While the Talu are naturally industrial and communal, they maintain a cautious, transactional relationship with the Dominion to ensure their isolation and survival.
The political landscape is currently dominated by a medical crisis following a first-contact mission by Commodore Wilkan Targaryen and the USS Enterprise. This "Federation plague" has fueled deep suspicion among the Talu leadership:
- Prime Minister Dervimnurk: A traditionalist who views the outbreak as intentional Federation treachery. Afflicted by the illness himself, he perceives Targaryen’s own sensory injuries as the shifty behavior of a guilty man.
- Minister of Health Chirnup: A clinical academic who, despite the suspicious timing, seeks a scientific resolution. She represents the only fragile link between Talu and Federation medical teams.
- Minister of Defense Grizreme: A battle-scarred hardliner unaffected by the illness. He views the Federation’s presence as an act of war and advocates for a formal military alliance with the Dominion.
The Talu enforce their sovereignty via Shard-Class Interceptors. These needle-sharp, matte-white vessels are designed for stealth against glacial backdrops and high-agility "Snap-Turns." Their primary armament, the Cryo-Laser Array, flash-freezes starship hulls, turning high-tensile metal into brittle glass that shatters upon impact. Utilizing seismic-resonance sensors instead of detectable active scans, these interceptors embody Grizreme’s doctrine of "silence as a shield," waiting at the edge of the gravity well for any provocation to shatter the Enterprise.
For more information please visit the Talu LCARS Entry.
» Congratulations!
Posted on Sun Mar 8th, 2026 @ 2:52pm by Commodore Wilkan Targaryen in General News
I just wanted to congratulate everyone on 500 posts!!!!!
Latest Mission Posts
» Light of a Clear Blue Morning
Mission: 11. Recess
Posted on Mon Aug 31st, 2026 @ 12:20am by Commodore Wilkan Targaryen & Commander Galatea
The soft, ambient hum of the Enterprise's primary systems resonated through the deck plates, a constant, low frequency that usually offered a familiar sense of calm to her Commanding Officer. But late into the night watch, high in the Ready Room on Deck 1, Commodore Wilkan Targaryen lay awake on…
» Life Starts Now
Mission: 10. Rumble
Posted on Sun Aug 30th, 2026 @ 12:00am by Commodore Wilkan Targaryen & Enterprise Enlisted NPC & Enterprise Officer NPC & Commander Ash Randall & Commander Zhora zh'Roothi & Lieutenant Commander Kuzos & Lieutenant Commander Sora Bernadotte & Lieutenant Commander Aidan Datari & Lieutenant Urvasi Elandorn & Lieutenant Rio Kholin MD & Lieutenant Amber Laurell & Lieutenant (J.G.) Dylan Blake & Ensign Sayori Nakai & Ensign Mirakylin Yumerieva & Lieutenant (J.G.) Oakham Khen Ziren & Chief Petty Officer Kiera Targaryen
The heavy hum of the Transporter Room’s secondary relays felt wrong through Akaathaan’s scales. A native of Selay, her skin was far more sensitive to subtle electromagnetic variations than her mammalian crewmates, and right now, the entire primary grid was choking under the ship-wide power drain.
Overhead lighting flickered. Power…
» Guess who’s arrived
Mission: Short Treks
Posted on Fri Aug 28th, 2026 @ 2:57pm by Chief Petty Officer Kiera Targaryen & Commodore Wilkan Targaryen & Enterprise Enlisted NPC
Having chatted with Rio before refreshing herself in her quarters, Kiera had changed into a fresh uniform before picking up the PADD with her orders. It was time to head to see her uncle, to say she was excited at seeing him again was an understatement. As a child he…
» Chalk Outline
Mission: 10. Rumble
Posted on Tue Aug 25th, 2026 @ 12:44am by Commodore Wilkan Targaryen & Commander Ash Randall & Commander Zhora zh'Roothi & Lieutenant Commander Kuzos & Lieutenant Commander Sora Bernadotte & Lieutenant Commander Aidan Datari & Lieutenant Urvasi Elandorn & Lieutenant Rio Kholin MD & Lieutenant Amber Laurell & Lieutenant (J.G.) Dylan Blake & Ensign Sayori Nakai & Ensign Mirakylin Yumerieva & Lieutenant (J.G.) Oakham Khen Ziren
Captain’s Log, Stardate 116801.4, Commodore Wilkan Targaryen recording:
Enterprise is holding position at Iocarro after our away team was trapped below ground during a violent seismic event. Sensors are picking up localized life signs far below, but they've been swept three hundred years into the past, just prior to the…
» Break
Mission: 10. Rumble
Posted on Tue Aug 18th, 2026 @ 12:02am by Gamma Quadrant NPC & Commander Zhora zh'Roothi
The lower maintenance ducts beneath the Outer Ring were supposed to be strictly off-limits, especially with the Sacred Strata groaning the way it had been all morning. But for Kael and his two companions, the narrow, unmonitored conduits were the only place to trade scavenged surface-trinkets away from the watchful…
Latest Personal Logs
» Captain’s Log, Stardate 116801.6
Posted on Sun Aug 30th, 2026 @ 2:49pm by Commodore Wilkan Targaryen
Captain’s Log, Stardate 116801.6. Commodore Wilkan Targaryen recording.
What was meant to be a routine survey for Benamite crystals in the Iocarro system nearly ended in total disaster and a catastrophic temporal paradox. Sensor interference beneath the planet's volatile crust forced an away team—led by Commander zh'Roothi and including Lieutenant…
» Captain's Log: The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Posted on Fri Feb 20th, 2026 @ 2:39am by Commodore Wilkan Targaryen
The situation aboard Deep Space 9 has escalated from a localized diplomatic dispute into a multi-vector temporal crisis. We are no longer merely observers of a Klingon grievance; we are now the primary line of defense against a potential collapse of the space-time continuum.
Earlier this morning, several members of…
» Moving On
Posted on Mon Jun 30th, 2025 @ 2:47pm by Lieutenant Rio Kholin MD
Rio couldn't really take it all in at first. She had been so unsure as to what she should do next.
Her catastrophic personal relationship had turned toxic and now her imagined 'perfect future' - the one with the loving, handsome, soulmate of a husband and their 2.5 average kids,…
» En-route musings of the new Chief Navigation Officer
Posted on Mon Jun 2nd, 2025 @ 7:16am by Lieutenant Urvasi Elandorn
Timeline: 2439-03-16, 0620
Urvasi brushed her hair in the mirror of her quarters on board the transport bound for the USS Enterprise. She still was not sure how she full felt when she saw the assignment that had reached its way to her. She had just completed almost four years…
» Captain's Log, Supplemental
Posted on Sun Jan 5th, 2025 @ 1:03am by Commodore Wilkan Targaryen
As the Enterprise has been making final preparations to leave Starbase 419 to begin its five-year mission of exploration in the Gamma Quadrant a small disturbance has broken out aboard this vessel. A stowaway has been detected aboard the ship in the Waste Recycling Section. We have deployed security teams…