Notable Legacy Characters

Notable Legacy Figures

This page gives writers a quick overview of important legacy characters active, missing, hidden, influential or symbolically important within the game setting. These figures are major parts of the wider timeline and should be treated as significant story assets rather than freely available NPCs.

Important: The characters listed on this page are not available for general player use. They may only be written by command staff or with direct command staff approval. This helps protect major continuity, avoid conflicting portrayals, and ensure that key figures are used carefully within missions and wider game plots.

Writers may reference these characters where appropriate, especially in personal histories, rumours, reports, resistance broadcasts or historical context. However, direct appearances, dialogue, mission involvement or major actions involving these figures should always be cleared with command staff first.

Starfleet and Federation Legacy Figures

Captain Kathryn Janeway

Captain Kathryn Janeway commands the hidden USS Voyager, one of the most important surviving independent Starfleet assets after the fall of the Federation. Since returning from the Delta Quadrant to a Dominion-occupied Alpha Quadrant, Janeway has refused surrender and kept Voyager concealed from Dominion detection. Through selective contact with the Lantern Network, she provides intelligence, strategic insight and hard-won knowledge of Borg tactics.

Janeway is a symbol of stubborn survival, Starfleet principle and command under impossible circumstances. She is not openly leading the resistance, but her influence is quietly felt wherever Voyager’s intelligence helps Lantern cells avoid disaster.

Admiral William Riker

William Riker is one of the hidden architects of the Lantern Network and, by 2398, is widely regarded within surviving Starfleet and Lantern-linked resistance circles as an admiral in all but circumstance. Detached from the Enterprise-E before the First Battle of Sector 001, Riker survived the fall of Starfleet’s conventional command structure and helped reshape scattered resistance efforts into something more coordinated. Many outside the Network still believe him dead, missing or captured, which allows him to operate from the shadows.

Riker’s authority does not come from a functioning Federation Council or a clean chain of command. It comes from survival, trust, experience and necessity. Over the years, surviving Starfleet officers, resistance commanders and Lantern cells have increasingly deferred to him as a senior strategic leader. Whether formally promoted by a remnant Starfleet command or recognised through emergency resistance authority, Riker now carries the weight of an admiral without the comfort of an admiralty.

His strength lies in adapting Starfleet thinking to an insurgency environment. He understands command, morale, fleet operations and the value of patience. His role within the Lantern Network is strategic rather than symbolic, and his direct involvement should be rare, meaningful and carefully handled.

Commander Deanna Troi

Deanna Troi is a vital figure within the Lantern Network, especially through her connections to Betazoid resistance circles and refugee communities. Her insight into trauma, coercion, emotional manipulation and telepathic culture has helped Lantern cells resist DPI infiltration, protect vulnerable contacts and develop safer verification methods in a world where trust can be weaponised.

Troi’s influence is often quiet but essential. She is especially important in stories involving Betazed, DPI Readers, psychological warfare, refugee trauma or the emotional cost of resistance.

Reginald Barclay

Reginald Barclay preserved fragments of Starfleet’s communications infrastructure through buried Pathfinder-derived protocols, hidden relays, corrupted maintenance signals and encrypted traffic the Dominion either missed or dismissed. His work allowed Voyager to make cautious contact with the Lantern Network after its return and continues to support covert communication between scattered resistance cells.

Barclay is not a battlefield commander, but his technical contributions are among the reasons the Lantern Network can survive at all. His systems are messy, fragile, brilliant and extremely difficult for the Dominion to fully untangle.

Data

Data is one of the most important lost Starfleet figures in the current timeline. Captured during the fall of the Enterprise-E, he spent years in Dominion custody while the occupation attempted to exploit his knowledge, systems access and unique artificial mind. Unknown to the Dominion, Data embedded subtle flaws within the automation architecture used at Utopia Planitia, creating the opening that allowed the Mars resistance and Lantern-linked operatives to trigger the Utopia Planitia Uprising in 2384.

The uprising crippled Dominion fleet production in the Sol system, but the Dominion eventually identified Data as the likely source of the sabotage. In retaliation, he was dismantled and his components were separated across secure Dominion facilities. Data is not considered dead in the conventional sense. His current state is one of the setting’s most important unresolved Starfleet recovery threads.

Seven of Nine

Seven of Nine serves as one of the Lantern Network’s most valuable analysts on Borg activity, assimilation behaviour and Collective strategy. Her knowledge became especially important during the Borg incursions of the 2380s, when Voyager provided covert intelligence to threatened worlds and resistance cells through concealed Lantern channels.

Seven is a difficult but invaluable figure: precise, direct and shaped by experiences few others can understand. She should be used carefully in any story involving Borg technology, former drones, assimilation trauma or strategic analysis of Collective activity.

The Doctor

The Emergency Medical Hologram from Voyager, commonly known as the Doctor, remains one of the most advanced medical minds available to the hidden Starfleet and Lantern-linked resistance. His knowledge of Delta Quadrant medicine, Borg recovery cases, holographic systems and emergency field treatment makes him a rare and valuable asset.

Because of his nature as a hologram, the Doctor may also be involved in covert medical consultations or transmitted expertise where conditions allow. His direct use should still be approved by command staff due to his importance and uniqueness.

Missing with the USS Defiant

Captain Benjamin Sisko

Captain Benjamin Sisko vanished with the USS Defiant during Operation Return in 2374, an event that changed the course of the war and allowed Dominion reinforcements to secure the Bajoran wormhole. For years, Sisko was presumed lost, but later energy readings, sensor echoes and the emergence of a scorched fragment of the Defiant have fuelled belief that the Emissary may still exist somewhere beyond normal space.

Sisko’s status is one of the setting’s great mysteries. To Bajorans, he is a figure of faith and hope. To the Dominion, his name is dangerous. To the Lantern Network, rumours of his survival are handled carefully, used to inspire endurance rather than reckless uprising.

Doctor Julian Bashir

Doctor Julian Bashir was aboard the USS Defiant when it vanished during Operation Return. His disappearance removed one of Starfleet’s most gifted medical officers from the war at the moment he was most needed. Given his medical brilliance, past contact with Section 31 and knowledge of Dominion biology, Bashir’s loss was felt far beyond Deep Space 9.

By 2398, Bashir is officially listed as missing with the Defiant, not confirmed dead. His name carries particular weight among surviving medical personnel, former Deep Space 9 contacts, and those who know enough about Section 31 to understand why his absence may matter. Any rumour, trace, recording or possible sign of Bashir’s survival should be treated as a major continuity matter requiring command staff approval.

Chief Miles O’Brien

Chief Miles O’Brien was aboard the USS Defiant when it disappeared inside the Bajoran wormhole during Operation Return. His disappearance removed one of Starfleet’s most experienced engineers, a veteran of the Cardassian border conflicts, Deep Space 9 and the Dominion War. For those who knew him, O’Brien was not a symbol carved in marble, but a working man who could keep a broken system alive with bad tools, worse odds and a vocabulary unsuitable for polite company.

By 2398, O’Brien remains missing with the Defiant. His absence has had lasting emotional consequences for his family, especially Keiko, Molly and Kirayoshi, who survived into the occupation era without certainty over his fate. He may be referenced in memories, engineering culture, family history or resistance records, but direct use or any development regarding his status requires command staff approval.

Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax

Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax was aboard the USS Defiant when it vanished during Operation Return. Her disappearance meant the loss not only of a senior Starfleet science officer, but also of the Dax symbiont, whose memories stretched across several lifetimes. In this timeline, Jadzia and Dax were never recovered after the Defiant vanished.

The loss of Dax had a profound impact on Trill cultural memory, particularly after the Dominion later targeted Trill sites, captured joined hosts and attacked symbiont repositories. By 2398, Dax remains missing, not confirmed dead. Her fate is tied to the greater mystery of the Defiant, Sisko and the wormhole.

Resistance and Liberation Figures

Kira Nerys

Kira Nerys remains one of the most important figures in the Bajoran resistance. After surviving the destruction of the Terok Nor resistance cell and years of Dominion pursuit, she has become a living symbol of defiance against occupation. Her experience fighting Cardassian rule, her knowledge of Bajor, and her connection to underground resistance networks make her a key figure in the ongoing struggle against Prime’s control of Terok Nor and Bajor.

Kira is respected, feared and hunted. She does not trust easily, especially where Cardassian figures such as Dukat are concerned, but her commitment to Bajor’s freedom and the wider anti-Dominion cause remains unbroken.

Odo

Odo was not aboard the USS Defiant when it vanished during Operation Return. At the time, he remained on Terok Nor, where his position as security chief and his complicated relationship with the Founders made him uniquely placed to observe Dominion activity from within the occupied station. More importantly, Odo refused to abandon Kira Nerys and the fragile resistance cell forming under Dominion rule.

His decision kept him out of the wormhole, but placed him in terrible danger. When the Terok Nor resistance cell was later discovered, Odo openly sided with the resistance and helped Kira’s people escape. He was captured by the Founders, who refused to execute one of their own and instead attempted to reclaim him.

Odo later escaped Founder custody after the morphogenic virus devastated the Great Link and left the Dominion’s leadership shaken. His survival and immunity made him both valuable and dangerous to the remaining Founders. After reconnecting with Kira through Bajoran resistance channels, Odo became an important source of insight into Dominion paranoia, Founder behaviour and the weakening unity of the Dominion’s Alpha Quadrant command.

Odo occupies a complicated place within the setting. He is a Founder by nature, but not by loyalty. His presence carries emotional, political and strategic weight, especially in stories involving Kira, Bajor, Prime or Dominion internal fractures.

Elim Garak

Elim Garak operates as a shadow broker within the Cardassian resistance, using old intelligence methods, forged orders, blackmail, contacts and careful manipulation to weaken Dominion control from within. He supports the Cardassian Rising while remaining deeply cautious of Dukat’s ambitions and the political dangers surrounding Cardassia’s liberation.

Garak is useful, brilliant and dangerous in ways that do not fit neatly into heroic language. He is a positive figure only in the sense that his current goals align with freeing Cardassia from Dominion rule. His methods remain his own.

Damar

Damar became the public face of Cardassian defiance during the Cardassian Rising. His death during a major liberation action transformed him into a martyr for Cardassian freedom and gave ordinary soldiers and civilians a rallying figure against Dominion rule.

By 2398, Damar is no longer active, but his legacy remains powerful. He may be referenced in speeches, propaganda, Cardassian resistance symbols, personal histories and arguments over what Cardassia should become after occupation.

Worf

Worf was not aboard the USS Defiant when it vanished during Operation Return. In this timeline, he had been detached to coordinate directly with General Martok and the Klingon elements of the Federation-Klingon offensive. His role placed him aboard a Klingon vessel during the battle rather than on the Defiant, keeping him with Martok’s forces when the wormhole event occurred.

That absence changed the course of his life. After the Federation fell and the Klingon Empire fractured under Dominion pressure, Worf remained tied to the Klingon resistance. He later became one of the central figures in the formation of the Martaq betleH, also known as the Blades of Martok, after Martok’s death during the liberation of Mo’Rat.

By 2398, Worf leads the Blades of Martok against Torel Duras’s Dominion-aligned rule. He does not claim the Chancellorship, instead carrying the rebellion forward as Martok’s chosen blade. His forces maintain cautious contact with Lantern-linked elements, but Klingon priorities, honour politics and battlefield realities mean cooperation is never simple.

General Martok

General Martok died during the liberation of Mo’Rat, turning victory into martyrdom and giving the Klingon rebellion a powerful symbol. His name lives on through the Blades of Martok, who fight to free the Klingon Empire from Dominion influence and restore Klingon honour.

Martok should generally be referenced through memory, legacy, Klingon songs, battle accounts and the political meaning of his death rather than direct appearance.

Ferengi and Civilian Legacy Figures

Quark

Quark remains one of the most important civilian figures connected to the old Deep Space 9 community and the wider resistance economy. In a quadrant where official supply chains are watched, taxed or controlled by the Dominion, people like Quark understand the value of unofficial routes, favours, debts and plausible deniability.

Quark is not a soldier and would be the first to remind anyone of that. However, his knowledge of Ferengi trade, black-market movement, smuggling etiquette, old station contacts and personal survival makes him a valuable figure in the resistance-adjacent world. He may assist Lantern-linked operations when profit, conscience or old loyalties push him in that direction, though never without complaint.

Rom

Rom is an important Ferengi legacy figure whose technical skill, political experience and moral courage make him a quiet but significant presence in the wider anti-Dominion landscape. In the standard course of events he was expected to become Grand Nagus, but this timeline’s Dominion victory and Brunt’s rise disrupted Ferengi politics. By 2398, Rom is best understood as a displaced or undermined reformist figure whose influence survives through loyal contacts, engineers, dissident traders and those Ferengi who reject Brunt’s Dominion-aligned course.

Rom’s value lies in his combination of engineering talent and unexpected political legitimacy. He understands machines, Ferengi culture and the cost of letting profit become obedience. His direct use should be approved by command staff, especially in stories involving Ferengi resistance, trade networks, financial pressure or efforts to undermine Brunt.

Nog

Nog is one of the most symbolically important surviving Starfleet figures from the old Deep Space 9 era. As the first Ferengi in Starfleet, his career already carried historical weight before the Federation fell. In the years since, that symbolism has only grown. Nog represents loyalty to an ideal that was never easy for him, and his existence challenges both Dominion propaganda and Ferengi collaboration under Brunt.

By 2398, Nog may operate with Starfleet remnants, Lantern-linked logistics cells or Ferengi dissident networks. His knowledge of Starfleet operations, Ferengi trade behaviour and the practical realities of war makes him especially useful where resistance supply chains and covert movement are concerned. He should be treated as a protected legacy character and used only with command staff approval.

Jake Sisko

Jake Sisko is a civilian legacy figure of immense symbolic importance. The son of Benjamin Sisko, he carries the weight of the lost Emissary’s name without being a soldier, officer or religious leader. His strength lies in witness, memory and words. In an occupied quadrant built on propaganda, censorship and fear, that makes him dangerous.

Jake may be associated with underground journalism, resistance broadcasts, witness accounts, civilian testimony or the preservation of stories the Dominion would rather erase. His connection to Bajor and to the mystery of his father’s disappearance makes him especially significant in stories involving the wormhole, the lost Defiant, Bajoran faith or morale across occupied space.

Kasidy Yates-Sisko

Kasidy Yates-Sisko is a civilian legacy figure closely tied to Benjamin Sisko, Bajor and the mystery surrounding the lost Defiant. As Sisko’s wife and Jake’s family, she carries personal weight within Bajoran spiritual and resistance circles, even if she does not hold formal religious or military authority.

Her background in civilian shipping also gives her potential relevance to smuggling routes, refugee movement and Lantern-linked supply chains. Kasidy should be treated as a protected legacy figure due to her connection to one of the setting’s central mysteries.

The O’Brien Family

Keiko O’Brien

Keiko O’Brien is a botanist, teacher and civilian legacy figure connected to the Deep Space 9 community through her marriage to Miles O’Brien. After Miles vanished aboard the Defiant, Keiko was left to protect their children through the collapse of the Federation and the long years of Dominion occupation.

By 2398, Keiko and her children are believed to have survived on Earth, either through protected civilian networks, Lantern-linked assistance or the careful concealment of their connection to key Starfleet figures. Keiko’s importance lies not in military rank, but in continuity, education and civilian resilience. She represents the families who survived the fall, the parents who had to raise children beneath Dominion rule, and the quiet courage required to preserve knowledge, culture and hope when public life became dangerous.

Her direct use should require command staff approval, particularly in stories involving Miles O’Brien, Earth, civilian education, resistance safehouses or the emotional legacy of the missing Defiant crew.

Molly O’Brien

Molly O’Brien, daughter of Miles and Keiko O’Brien, was a child during the old Deep Space 9 years and is now an adult by 2398. Having grown up through her father’s disappearance, the fall of the Federation, Dominion occupation and the long years of resistance, Molly belongs to the generation that inherited the consequences of their parents’ war.

Depending on command staff preference, Molly may have remained with her family on Earth for much of the occupation, later becoming connected to civilian relief work, education, medical support, underground logistics or Lantern-adjacent safehouse activity. She should be treated as a protected legacy figure due to her family connections and narrative significance.

Kirayoshi O’Brien

Kirayoshi O’Brien, son of Miles and Keiko O’Brien, was born during the Deep Space 9 era and is now a young adult in 2398. His life has been shaped almost entirely by the broken post-Federation world, making him part of the same scarred generation as Miral Paris and Naomi Wildman.

Kirayoshi’s name carries Bajoran significance through Kira Nerys, tying him symbolically to the old Deep Space 9 family and the friendships that survived war, occupation and exile. Depending on command staff preference, he may have been raised largely on Earth under occupation or moved through hidden civilian protection routes connected to Keiko or Lantern-linked contacts. Direct use should require command staff approval.

Bajoran and Spiritual Legacy Figures

Kai Meral Anjen

Kai Meral Anjen is the current spiritual leader of the Bajoran people, elevated after years of occupation, religious persecution and exile fractured the old religious order. Her rise came after the Dominion’s crackdown on the Vedek Assembly and the later death of Kai Winn Adami. Unlike the ceremonial authority enjoyed by earlier Kais, Meral Anjen’s leadership exists under pressure, secrecy and danger.

She is a cautious but quietly resilient figure, focused on preserving Bajoran faith without giving Prime an excuse for another purge. To many Bajorans, she represents continuity after devastation: proof that the Dominion can raid temples, scatter Vedeks and silence public worship, but cannot appoint itself master of the Prophets. Her direct use should require command staff approval, especially in stories involving Bajoran religion, the wormhole, Sisko, Kira, Odo or Dominion religious suppression.

Surviving Vedeks of the Assembly

The surviving Vedeks who escaped the Tears of the Prophets Raids represent the endurance of Bajoran faith under Dominion rule. Many remain hidden, displaced or protected through Klingon religious sanctuary, Bajoran resistance routes and Lantern-linked safe channels. Their existence undermines Prime’s attempt to sever Bajoran religion from resistance.

These figures may serve as spiritual symbols, sources of hidden messages or protected persons within mission plots, but named Vedeks or direct involvement should be approved by command staff.

Romulan, Vulcan and Wider Quadrant Figures

Alternate Captain Tuvok

An alternate-reality Captain Tuvok arrived in this timeline aboard a modified Federation shuttle carrying unfamiliar Starfleet encryption, mission logs and technology configurations. In his native timeline, the Defiant did not vanish during Operation Return, the Dominion reinforcements were stopped, and the Alpha Quadrant remained free enough for Starfleet to win the war.

His existence is one of the most dangerous pieces of hope in the setting. Knowledge from a freer timeline could strengthen the Lantern Network, destabilise Dominion certainty and alter the course of resistance planning. His current status remains uncertain after conflicting rumours of Tal’Shiar custody, relocation, escape or Lantern-linked extraction.

This Timeline’s Tuvok

This timeline’s Tuvok remains associated with Janeway’s hidden Voyager. The arrival of an alternate version of himself created a deeply unsettling situation for Voyager’s crew and made Tuvok central to verifying the alternate’s identity, logic and claims.

His use should be handled with care, especially in stories involving Voyager, alternate timelines, Tal’Shiar intelligence or the possibility that the Dominion can be beaten.

Vulcan Exile Scientists

After Vulcan’s collapse and the evacuation of key scholars, many Vulcan scientists found uneasy asylum in Romulan space. Their expertise later became vital during the Romulan star crisis, though some of their work was concealed, redirected or manipulated by Romulan authorities and Tal’Shiar interests.

These scientists are important to stories involving Vulcan survival, Romulan politics, stellar engineering, classified research and the uneasy relationship between logic, exile and necessity.

Using Legacy Figures in Stories

Legacy figures should be treated as major continuity characters. They can add weight to the setting, but they should not be used casually. Their decisions, survival, absence or rumoured return can affect entire factions, resistance movements, worlds or long-running plots.

Writers may reference these figures in background material, rumours, historical records, resistance broadcasts, personal memories, intelligence briefings or second-hand reports. However, direct appearances, dialogue, orders, mission briefings, personal interactions or major actions require command staff approval.

This does not mean writers cannot connect characters to the wider setting. A character may have been inspired by Janeway, saved by a Lantern route linked to Riker’s network, helped by Ferengi channels connected to Quark or Nog, sheltered by civilian contacts like Keiko O’Brien, or raised on stories of Sisko and the lost Defiant. Those connections are encouraged where they fit. The restriction exists to keep the major figures and their families consistent and prevent accidental contradictions.

Current Status as of 2398

By 2398, these legacy figures represent the living memory of the old Alpha Quadrant and the fragile hope of what may come next. Some are active in the shadows. Some are missing. Some are dead but powerful in legacy. Some are protected rumours, too dangerous to confirm and too important to forget.

As Avalon Station awakens and the USS Resolute enters the conflict, these figures may become distant allies, hidden influences, mission objectives, sources of intelligence or symbols that shape the choices ahead.

They are not pieces to be moved lightly. They are the old stars still visible through the smoke.