THE OLD STORY...

The year was 2492 and Starfleet had just finished the USS Mystic; built as a variation of the old Ambassador Class starships due to the recent reuse of the old starship designs. This variation was dubbed the Ambassador X Class but referred to as just an Ambassador Class, it was over double the size and length with far more facilities than most ships need. The reason for these reuses was peace and a chance for rebuilding. After all, Starfleet was celebrating over 25 years of peace with its neighbors. All races and walks of life were being admitted into Starfleet Academy and the United Federation of Planets. Timetravel was just starting to be created on an as-needed basis. The time-core available could only move a ship when it was at a stand still or at sub-light speeds and utilized the old fashion method of opening a stationary portal and traveling thru. For this reason the Timeship USS Mystic was given the first experimental Temporal core capable of moving a ship above light speed by temporally phasing it from the time it is at to the destination it is traveling to. This engine was tied into the ship's experimental Tri-core or Tri-standard Engine this tie inallowed the Temporal core to work while moving without error... or so they thought.

Upon launching of the USS Mystic NX-T, they immediately went to Warp. At warp 5.7 they initiated the temporal core. The first test was a success so they increased speed using the Transwarp core and tried again, but this time the ship had systems malfunction causing panels to explode. Temporal sensors showed that they fell short of their home time by 50 years. After taking 6 days to fix the damage, they tried again. Once in a transwarp state they initiated the temporal core and lightning struck twice as the ship again started to come apart upon emerging. This time they overshot their own time by 50 years. After 2 weeks of repairing the ship and studying their situation, it was determined that they were somehow locked out of their own time. Instead of staying where they were, the Captain allowed the crew to vote. This vote ended with 95.8% voting to continue with the 3 missions Starfleet gave them before they left, and hope whatever happened could be reversed at a later date.

Two months and two weeks later they tried to go home again. This time they initiated the temporal core from a complete stop, but to the crew's dismay it failed, damaging the ship by nearly 42% and ending up in the year 2041. As they were about to start fixing the ship a strange vessel that the computer barely read as Borg appeared out of temporal transit and opened fire on the USS Mystic. Crippled, without shields, weapons, engines, and only minimal life support, the Captain ordered all hands to take up arms as Borg unlike anything anyone had ever dreamed started appearing everywhere. Phasers rolled out of their arms firing chroniton energy at the crew, a process thought impossible. Key areas of the ship were reporting exploding drones; these suicide drones carried chroniton bombs but no phasers, making it easy to figure out which was which. Within minutes 57% of the crew was dead. The Borg were taking no prisoners; they wanted everyone dead.

After regrouping, the senior and junior officers devised a plan to get shields and engines up while fighting back the Borg. During this same time, a small contingent of Marines and Security lead by the Marine CO, Chief of Security, Marine XO, and Assistant Security Officer formed up. This group went over to the Borg ship using the transporting dead drones to take them there. Everything was going fine, they started to retake the ship, and Engineering was almost ready to activate both shields and engines as soon as they were minimally operational. Then it happened... one by one the senior and junior staff sacrificed their lives to make sure the ship and remaining crew could live and retreat from this new threat. The only officer heads left were the Captain, who survived at the expense of the XO sacrificing himself, and the CMO, who lived at the expense of his Assistant Medical Officer.

Finally away from this new Borg threat, they continued to flee from the ever pursuing Borg, repairing the ship in transit. Six days later, the temporal drive had recharged, accumulating enough of a specific Chroniton isotope, and they activated it going to 2542, the 26th century, for repairs and hopefully protection. There the Captain discovered the CMO had in fact been infected and was trying to treat it with modified nanites. The process was failing so the Captain was forced to vaporize the CMO or so the story he told the crew went. In reality they were both infected and the CMO only had enough serume to keep the temporal nanites in one of the dormant and chose the Captain; with this sacrifice the remaining crew's safety now came first in his eyes. It took 3 months to fix the ship refusing to let Starfleet split anyone up and only letting new crew with no family or emotional times be allowed aboard. In the end the crew voted to leave rather than risk being split up and exposing this time period to the Temporal borg. Feeling that they had no grounds to hold the USS Mystic starfleet assigned the USS Grant - D a 26th century Defiant Class Temporal Escort to help them find an alternate way home.

The USS Grant used its stationary only phase timecore to send both ships to the Mystic's home time by extending their shields and thus the field. This time the malfunctions occured on the Escort, the ships emerged with their engines offline and drifting toward a sun. The 26th Century timeship wasn't as lucky as the Mystic and collided with the sun, unable to turn away in time. The Mystic barely escaped the sun's gravity, only to find themselves in the Early-24th Century. Apparently, they could never go home. During the next 2 months they began finding new crewmembers by alternate means. They would locate Starfleet officers from any time period who were about to die or disappear with no body ever being found and gave them a chance to continue their life as Temporal Officers of the Timeship USS Mystic NX-T.

Its mission: to find and defeat the Temporal Borg who attacked them and maybe go home... someday.

    

 

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