USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (NCC-10523)

CS 001 - The Word of Crawford

Chasing the Sun

USS Franklin D. Roosevelt and USS Zephyr

“It never gets any easier.” Captain Samson Bradley stared into open space in the command lounge on the USS Zephyr. The infinite nature of space taunted him as if to remind him of the unending cycle of birth and death. He tossed back another dark soda. They had lost fifteen crew from his command [...]

NFOM 021 –The Absence

Night Falls On Montana

Montana Station, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, USS Gagarin, USS Nova, USS Perseverance and USS Zephyr

“We will carry them, now.” Fleet Captain Geronimo Fontana spoke as he stood on the expansive stage in the auditorium. The stage was bare save for a row of occupied chairs. Command officers from ships and the station sat in waiting, tightly gripping PADDs with the names of the dead. The room was [...]

NFOM 020 – The Survivors

Night Falls On Montana

Montana Station, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, USS Gagarin, USS Nova, USS Perseverance and USS Zephyr

“Hey, Dad.” “Hey, Car.” Captain Peter Crawford sat next to the sickbay bed that held his daughter in its careful grasp, his hands gently embracing her own—the last attack run on the Vaadwaur station had given the Zephyr its share of wounded. Ensign Carolyn Crawford had been in engineering [...]

NFOM 019 – The Path Forward

Night Falls On Montana

Montana Station, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, USS Gagarin, USS Nova, USS Perseverance and USS Zephyr

“I do not expect they will return to the Bunden System.” Captain Tobias Engstrom stood in Fleet Captain Geronimo Fontana’s office on Montana Station. Engstrom was the Director of Colonial Operations. Unhappily. Fontana could still see it in his eyes and his tone. They had pulled the man out [...]