Starbase 23, code-named Gateway Station, is a Spacedock-class space station located on the Federation border to the Romulan Republic and the Independent Romulan Factions. Positioned on the border in the late-2390s, it was designed to replace border infrastructure that dated back to before the Romulan supernova and the collapse of the Romulan Neutral Zone. Gateway Station is now the hub of Starfleet operations in the Midgard Sector, a region that stretches across the territory of the Federation and Republic, as well as the collapsed Neutral Zone and the former territories of the Star Empire of Rator. Its mission is to maintain stability in the area through humanitarian operations and diplomacy with local Romulan factions. It is also the base for scientific operations to explore territories once inaccessible to Starfleet due to treaties with the Romulan Star Empire through survey missions, negotiating access with local powers, and the sharing of scientific knowledge with regional stakeholders.
Gateway Station is the headquarters of Sirius Squadron, whose primary mission is to further Starfleet’s ambitions in the Midgard Sector.
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Gateway Station is based in the Midgard Sector, on the Federation’s border with the Romulan Republic and independent territories. The starbase and its supporting starships are charged with upholding Federation interests and regional stability in the Midgard Sector. This includes diplomatic and humanitarian operations, border patrol and law enforcement, as well as surveying the under-explored and poorly charted reaches of former Romulan or Neutral Zone space. Increased colony expansion in, and potentially beyond, the Federation border, the developing relationship with the Romulan Republic, and the encroaching threat of the Klingon Empire all promise to keep this a challenging frontier.
Commander, Midgard Sector
Commanding Officer
Executive Officer
Chief Engineering Officer
Midgard Sector Judge Advocate
KDF Liaison
Starfighter Group Commander
Head of Arcade Security
Chief Medical Officer
Head of Life Sciences
Romulan Republic Scientific Advisor
16 April 2025
Gateway Station, USS Blackbird, USS Endeavour, USS Liberty, USS Memphis, USS Mercury, USS Ranger, USS Redemption, USS Scylla, USS Sirius, USS Swiftsure and USS Tempest
The transporter beam faded to plunge them into the dying depths of the USS Liberty. Once, these halls had shone with Starfleet optimism and efficiency. Now, they were stained with the blood-red hues of emergency lighting and acrid smoke, shadows jittering off bulkheads as display screens sputtered [...]
15 April 2025
Gateway Station, USS Blackbird, USS Endeavour, USS Liberty, USS Memphis, USS Mercury, USS Ranger, USS Redemption, USS Scylla, USS Sirius, USS Swiftsure and USS Tempest
Rosewood felt the half-inch drop to the deck of the transporter pad as the beam faded, its light and the sight of the burning skies of Innes leaving him blinded in the gloom of the Blackbird’s transporter room. Which meant he didn’t see it coming when Cassidy grabbed him and slammed him into [...]
14 April 2025
Gateway Station, USS Blackbird, USS Endeavour, USS Liberty, USS Memphis, USS Mercury, USS Ranger, USS Redemption, USS Scylla, USS Sirius, USS Swiftsure and USS Tempest
Proxima V was fire ringed with metal. The planet itself was hydrogen turned fluid through some of the fiercest pressure in the universe, gaseous hydrogen and helium floating atop for clouds of orange-yellow flecked with fierce gold that gleamed like flame. The ring, however, was metal and man-made, [...]
13 April 2025
Gateway Station, USS Blackbird, USS Endeavour, USS Liberty, USS Memphis, USS Mercury, USS Ranger, USS Redemption, USS Scylla, USS Sirius, USS Swiftsure and USS Tempest
Across boundless stars they’d sprung, sprinting the length of the Federation in what felt like the blink of an eye. As if from nowhere, the ten starships of Sirius Squadron dropped to impulse speed, sliding into the space between the stars of Alpha Centauri. Into the eye of the storm. Matt Rourke [...]