Avalon Sector
The Avalon Sector is a largely unexplored region on the border of the Delta Quadrant.
The Federation has an strong interest in maintaining a Starfleet presence in this sector, near the Ba'ku, whose planetary eco-system is home to a ring system emanating regenerative metaphasic radiation. During first contact mission, USS Enterprise-E ascertained the Ba'ku are continuously threatened by the Son'a.
This sector's primary research station is Deep Space 285.
Following the resignation of Rear Admiral Michael Samuelson (Retired) after a dubious investigation of Capt. Tyr Waltas, Starfleet has assigned Rear Admiral Richard Hart as Avalon's Interim Commander. Ambassador Susan Ginsburg is on a diplomatic mission with the Saurian Empire[1].
Discovered Systems and Phenomenae
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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 the collapse of Genura C, a neutron star, the system was home to a non-Federation colony population numbering over 8,000 sentient beings not subject to the Prime Directive.
During it's state as a trinary star system, the system and it's planets were subject to extreme terraforming, gravitational and temporal engineering, allowing Genura III to develop into a M-Class planet in comparatively recent cosmological time. Genura III's elliptical orbit subjected it to massive gravitational stresses when it passed between its parent stars, however, it was discovered this orbit too was engineered by Genuran temporal scientists whose work was co-opted by a religious group within the Genuran colony.
Starfleet Intelligence speculated the Genuran 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.
Figure: Orbital Trajectories of Genura A,B,C; I - V, co-existing with engineered gravimetric anomalies.
On stardate 238508.03, Starfleet Command received a distress call from the Genura System and sent USS Constitution, under command of Captain Tyr Waltas and crew of the USS Discovery. Upon arrival at Genura III, it was discovered that 3/4 of the Genuran population were seeking asylum and unable to evacuate all 8,000 before the collapse of their neutron star. However, within that time and the time Discovery could establish planetary orbit, severe temporal engineering reversed the figures and the religious minority was now the majority.
Upon arrival to the surface, the Discovery away teams 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. Although this group no longer desired to evacuate Genura III, a smaller secular separatist group, known as the Free People of Genura, led by Dorin, a former government official, assembled indisputable data proving the imminent nova of the Genura C neutron star and sent the distress call under great risk. Discovery crew brought this information into public.
It is speculated that temporal engineering riddled Genura's solar system nearly impenetrable with dangerous gravitational anomalies and also accelerated the passage of time, allowing the religious minority to achieve power in the relative time between the reception of a distress message and the arrival of help. Although the Zeun was found responsible for attempting temporal engineering, endangering a solar system by altering the state of the neutron star and attempted genocide, he escaped arrest by either the Discovery or the flagship of the Genuran New Order, the Vetica.
The USS Constitution, whose crew exposed the scientific proof of Genura's doom, escaped from the system with over 8,000 Genuran refugees, many of them separatists and traditionalists.
Mission Logs [2] USS Constitution [3] Convex [4] Separatists [5]
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 [6]