Avalon Sector

The Avalon Sector is a largely unexplored region on the border of the Delta Quadrant. Its primary research station is Deep Space 285.

Following the resignation of Rear Admiral Michael Samuelson (Retired) after the dubious court-martial of Capt. Tyr Waltas, Starfleet's assigned Rear Admiral Richard Hart as Avalon's Interim Commander.

Discovered Systems and Phenomenae

Genura

The Genura system was once a trinary system, with three class J gas giants, 1 proto-planet and one M-class inhabited planet, Genura III, but is now the site of a massive singularity. Before Genura's collapse, it was the site of a colony housing over 8,000 Genurans.

During it's state as a trinary star system, one star remained in a neutron state, allowing Genura III to develop into a M-Class planet in relatively recent cosmological time. Genura III's elliptical orbit subjected it to massive gravitational stresses when it passes between its parent stars, however, it was discovered this orbit was engineered by Genuran scientists several decades ago.

Orbital Trajectories of Genura A,B,C; I - V before collapse of Genura C.

Genura III's colony numbered approximately 8,000 people not under subject to the Prime Directive. Starfleet Intelligence speculated it's homeworld colony is deep in Avalon sector. Disregarding this possibility, it was unclear until recently how or why Genura III's colonists so quickly evolved interstellar warp-flight and subspace communications, within such dangerous gravitational wells.

Upon receiving an intergalatic distress call on stardate 238508.03, Starfleet sent USS Constitution, under command of Captain Tyr Waltas and crew of the USS Discovery to Genura III. Upon arrival, the Discovery crew encountered two groups, one of which was a politico-religious majority calling itself the Genuran Traditional Order led by a charismatic but insane leader calling himself Zeun. A secular separatist group, known as the Free People of Genuran, led by Zeun's former minister of knowledge had assembled data proving the death of the star and sent the distress beacon into deep Federation space.

The engineering of singularity not only riddled Genura's solar system nearly impenetrable with dangerous gravitational anomalies, but also accelerated time allowing the religious minority to achieve power in the relative time between the reception of a distress message and the arrival of USS Constitution. Although the leader of the religious group was found responsible for attempting to accelerate the state of the neutron star and attempted genocide, he eventually escaped arrest by either the vessels of the Genuran New Order or USS Constitution, whose crew valiantly rescued over 4,000 Genuran refugees, many of them separatists.

Mission Logs [1]

Aurix

Aurix is a single star system. Aurix II is a desert planet and a former Federation research colony. On stardate 23850704.24 Admiral Joh'qui sent USS Discovery-B to Aurix II after it ceased subspace communication. Aurix II's fate was apparently within the scope of involvement of the Q. USS Discovery rescued one survivor, Annette Garrison.

Mission Logs [2]