Star Trek: Avalon

Hope was not destroyed. It was hidden.

A Star Trek simulation launched from 2401 and cast into an alternate 2398, where the Dominion won the war.

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

The Federation fell. Earth surrendered. The core worlds were occupied. Starfleet was broken. The Alpha Quadrant became a conquered frontier of fear, propaganda, collaborators, resistance cells and whispered names.

Badly damaged and alone, the USS Resolute emerges in the Badlands, surrounded by silence. No Federation signals. No Starfleet traffic. No rescue. Then something hidden wakes.

Avalon Station

Deep within a stabilised pocket of the Badlands, concealed by plasma storms, gravimetric distortion and some of the most advanced stealth systems ever developed, lies Avalon Station.

Built in 2375 by the Federation and its wartime allies, Avalon was designed as a final sanctuary in the event the Dominion War was lost. It was more than a starbase. It was an ark.

Avalon was meant to preserve not only Starfleet and the Federation, but also the cultures, technologies, histories and hopes of the Klingons, Romulans, Vulcans, Andorians, Tellarites, Bajorans, Trill, Betazoids and other peoples who stood against the Dominion.

But the war ended too quickly. Avalon was completed, classified, erased from official records, and never manned. Its crews never arrived. Its refugee decks remained empty. Its archives slept in the dark. Over time, it became little more than myth among scattered resistance movements: a lost refuge, a ghost station, a last light no one could ever find. Until the USS Resolute arrived.

The Game

Star Trek: Avalon is a character-driven Star Trek simulation where a prime-universe Starfleet crew must survive in an alternate 2398, in a reality where the Dominion won the war.

The crew of the USS Resolute must repair their damaged ship, take command of Avalon Station, uncover the secrets of a timeline that should not exist, and decide what duty means when the Federation they serve is gone from this universe.

Around them, the Dominion still rules through occupation, fear and control, but its empire is no longer unbreakable. Resistance cells known as the Lantern Network move quietly through occupied space, keeping refugees, intelligence, supplies and hope alive. Its members, called Lanterns, have heard rumours of Avalon for years. They do not yet know the ghost station is real.

What To Expect

This is a sim about survival, resistance, discovery and rebuilding. Avalon Station begins as an abandoned ark, a haunted relic of a war lost decades ago, but over time it may become a hidden harbour for allies, refugees, resistance fighters and those still willing to believe the future can be changed.

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• Exploration of a vast, partially dormant station with sealed decks, forgotten systems and hidden secrets.
  
• Starfleet officers trying to uphold their values in a universe where those values were defeated.
  
• Resistance operations against the Dominion and its collaborators.
  
• Diplomacy with Klingon rebels, Romulan operatives, Bajoran fighters, Ferengi smugglers, Cardassian dissidents and other factions.
  
• Repairs, recovery and expansion as Avalon slowly returns to life.
  
• Moral choices about duty, interference, survival and sacrifice.
  
• The search for a way home, and the question of whether home is the only thing worth fighting for.
  

Join the Crew

The USS Resolute did not come to this universe looking for a war. Avalon Station did not wake expecting salvation.

But in the dark between Dominion patrol routes, beneath the storms of the Badlands, something impossible has happened. A Starfleet crew from a universe that survived has found the last refuge of one that did not.

Now the lights are coming back on. The station is waking. The Lanterns are watching. And the Dominion is not as blind as it seems.