Welcome aboard Starbase Icarus!
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
Milton Friedman
50 years have passed since the Khitomer Accords were signed. The Federation's war economy has been dismantled, forcing millions of workers into unemployment, plunging the galactic economy into a crash, placing hundreds of thousands into poverty, and a fight to survive.
The United Federation of Planets is no longer a utopia. It's a fight for survival. Her enemy smells her weakness, they plan to attack soon. The members are suffering, talking about separating from the union. Pollsters predict the United Federation of Planets will collapse.
The Newest First Contact, The Cardassian Union, has sent her warships into Federation space, scouting for easy prey to take. With the cutbacks to Starfleet, the military struggles to respond it their incursions into Federation Space... Until someone in the Admiralty snapped.
Starbase Icarus, a spacedock along the borders of the Cardassian Union, and her puppet, the Bajoran Occupational Government. Her Commanding Officer has been replaced by a more experienced pair of hands, Capt Liam Pope who has been tasked with striking a ceasefire and hopefully an end to the Federation-Cardissan Cold War.
Current Mission:
Starbase Icarus is a Play-by-Nova Star Trek roleplaying game set in the year 2343. Our mission is to avert the Cold War with the Cardissan Union by hosting lavish diplomatic parties while keeping the civilians in line with Federation law. Starbase Icarus is a 2-2-2 rated game.
Language 2: Swearing is generally permitted. However, the language cannot be used to abuse. When in doubt, use (Expletive) or [Expletive]. Similar acceptable terms include Censored or Redacted.
Sex 2: Writing about genitalia and sex acts is generally permitted, but explicit pornography is not. Cut to black and/or skip ahead.
Violence 2: Violence is generally permitted.
Starbase Icarus does not follow the Kelvin time set out in J.J. Abrams' movies, Star Trek Discovery, and Star Trek Strange New Worlds
Latest News Items
» New Security Chief
Posted on Wed May 28, 2025 @ 8:10am by Captain Liam Pope in Out of Character
Please welcome our new Security Chief, Gerald Reeves played by Michael!
Warm Welcomes
Game Mangment Team
Latest Mission Posts
» Guest of Honor Part 2
Mission: 1. Trouble Brewing
Posted on Thu Sep 11, 2025 @ 10:01am by Captain Liam Pope & Commander Jack Aeyers & Lieutenant Commander Gerald Reeves & Lieutenant Matt Hartley
[Starbase Icarus]
Operations Center]
5 hours ago, a guest from the Cardissan Union had arrived with a demand. The capture of the Bajoran freighter Ja'lek for a terrorist. 5 Hours later, the Federation's first line of defence, Starbase Icarus, jumped into action. It's inactive Captain phoned Starfleet HQ directly and was told, "Standby Icarus." Meanwhile, her First Officer caught up with the Intel Chief and scoured the databanks, discovering the wanted Bajoran ship, the Ja'lek, was connected to a restricted operation called "Sugar Horse." Altogether, the Security Chief rounded up the crew and placed them on ship lockdown.
"Starship inbound!"…
» Investigation Wrap Up
Mission: 1. Trouble Brewing
Posted on Sat Jul 5, 2025 @ 8:52pm by Lieutenant Commander Gerald Reeves
Lt. Commander Gerald Reeves stood outside a residence that they had just raided in the Red Owl community. After a full days investigation that began early in the morning where a ship docked at the Starbase was found to be smuggling illegal narcotics and weapons. After personally interrogating the ships Captain for seven hours, he eventually confessed that his contact here was a Nausicaan by the name of Zern. Now Zern was a well known here as a business, but Reeves had suspected for quite sometime that he was nothing more than a thug who rose up and was using…
» Guest of Honor
Mission: 1. Trouble Brewing
Posted on Mon Jun 30, 2025 @ 7:04pm by Commander Jack Aeyers & Lieutenant Commander Gerald Reeves & Lieutenant Matt Hartley & Captain Helena Tel & Toja Pertal
[Starbase Icarus]
Operations Center]
It was a weird day for the servicemen aboard Icarus. The spacedoors were open (no one could remember the last time they were shut!), Traffic Tower was able to have cargo, commercial and military starships enter and exit the starbase on schedule with little delays, with operations able to disconnect the umbilical cord connections and fulfill their ship's needs. For security & medical, it was speciously quiet throughout the station, everyone was obeying the station rules.
What was shocking to the crewmen in Ops was the presence of their commanding officer, Captain Tel...
...Captain Tel had…
» Midnight Rumble
Mission: 1. Trouble Brewing
Posted on Sun Jun 22, 2025 @ 1:46pm by Jordan Sinclair
It was stupid o'clock, early hours of the morning, maybe 2 AM on a Saturday. The start of the weekend, where everyone was drinking their problems away and getting into fights. But the drunks of the night had scuttled home. What replaced? Not vampires or waresolves but the exthused bar stuff dragged by their collars of their shit by managment who couldn't care less about them more than starting a hiring processes.
One who wasn't being dragged into the ER by their boss was the runaway stripper Jordan Sinclair, he was clutching his wrist and wearing an oversized fuzzy grey…
» Night Moves
Mission: 1. Trouble Brewing
Posted on Sun Jun 1, 2025 @ 9:20am by Commander Jack Aeyers & Lieutenant Matt Hartley
ON
"Lieutenant, we've got a Talarian freighter on the perimeter; no documentation lodged and not cleared for docking. They're coming in hot on a collision course!"
"They're not answering hails."
"They're inside the shield perimeter. Our defences will be ineffective if they impact."
"Preparing tractor beams."
"Phasers ready."
Matt Hartley looked from the orbital control display to the viewscreen as voices came in surround sound. A yellow-hulled cargoship jettisoned murky iridescent trails of plasma as it sped toward the station. The Talarians had become notorious for kamikaze runs against their enemies, even the Federation, and this situation had left the…