Season One

For the next thirty-two days, the NX-03 Challenger is crossing the vast expanses of void between Earth and just outside the Orion system of 3 Pi Orionis. This mission, held concurrently with "Reset" will allow for some ship shakedown posts, testing the engines, new shield systems, and weapons. The mission highlights just how big space is in this era. For the month at near-constant warp, the crew has a chance to blend and get in to a working rhythm. For many its probably the farthest out they have been. Along the way we will have a few potential anchor points depending on what players create.

On its maiden voyage and shakedown, Challenger NX-03 must cross a lonely stretch of some twenty-three light-years, arriving outside the Orion system on February 3rd, 2156. We pick up from the "Long Night" interlude.

Challenger is here to take on Szyraa, an important delegate of the Kolar faction of the Orions. Though the Orions do not have a single government over their colonies, where the Kolari lead most Orions seem to follow. At the behest of the Coridanite ambassador, we have been requested to pick up Szyraa and her entourage, and transport her to Coridan V for a negotiated "reset" of Coalition-Orion relations.

We are allowed to enter orbit of Orion VII but the Orions and the Kolari Cajus especially state that if we go further in to the system, we will be boarded, the ship confiscated and the crew subject to incarceration or indentured servitude. Apparently Orion VII is some kind of "interface world" that allows aliens to engage in commerce with the Orions.