The year is 2372; the Klingons and the Cardassians are at war, in large part due to Changeling infiltration of the Alpha Quadrant. The Obsidian Order is gone and the Federation faces the inevitability of war. But all of that is far from the everyday concerns of a transport vessel attached to Starbase 129. Until an intelligence operative arrives on station with highly encrypted data that must be delivered to Starbase 211 for analysis.

Because Starfleet suspects the communications network of being compromised, the Aeries Class USS William Dawes is tasked with delivery but is attacked en route. Outgunned, with two ships trying to take them out and a third racing to cut them off, Captain Elena Mao, while trying to escape the trap, gets caught in an unstable wormhole that deposits them on the far side of the Gamma Quadrant.

The William Dawes is the latest sim to join Theta Fleet. Want to learn more? You can find them under the SIMS tab in Task Force 23!