Welcome to the USS Rubicon!!
The year is 2393. The border is quiet in every sense but the official one. Cloaked warbirds patrol territory they insist they never enter. Starfleet runs "routine" sweeps that are anything but. A single lost nerve on either side could turn a cold war hot.
On paper, the USS Rubicon is an aging Excelsior-class cruiser running border patrols out of Starbase 234 under Commander Wade Samstone. Dull work on a quiet line. That is the cover, and it is a good one — because the Rubicon is a black operations platform, and her real purpose is the part that never reaches a log.
She carries Blackwatch: the teams who run the missions the Federation can never be caught running. Crossing the line to take a target no one will admit was taken. Getting into places that don't officially exist and out again before anyone knows they were breached. Extractions, sabotage, raids for the intelligence that keeps the peace — all of it done in the dark, by hand, deniable from the first step to the last. Her operators volunteer for it, shed their names for it, and accept the hardest term of the work: if they fall where they cannot be recovered, they are erased, so that the line holds and the war never comes.
This is the story of those teams. Will you stand the watch with us?
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On paper, the USS Rubicon is an aging Excelsior-class cruiser running border patrols out of Starbase 234 under Commander Wade Samstone. Dull work on a quiet line. That is the cover, and it is a good one — because the Rubicon is a black operations platform, and her real purpose is the part that never reaches a log.
She carries Blackwatch: the teams who run the missions the Federation can never be caught running. Crossing the line to take a target no one will admit was taken. Getting into places that don't officially exist and out again before anyone knows they were breached. Extractions, sabotage, raids for the intelligence that keeps the peace — all of it done in the dark, by hand, deniable from the first step to the last. Her operators volunteer for it, shed their names for it, and accept the hardest term of the work: if they fall where they cannot be recovered, they are erased, so that the line holds and the war never comes.
This is the story of those teams. Will you stand the watch with us?
We are an Active SIM looking for creative writers who keep a solid pace. No one under the age of 18 permitted. Administrators and legal aged writers of this website will not be held accountable in any fashion for underage individuals lying to join the SIM, underage individuals reading any 18+ content legally posted on the site, or any content displayed on external websites in regards to this SIM and it's content.
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» Too Valuable to Ignore - Part 2
“Him being alive would be much more preferable as he can certainly offer us more than what he is indicating he will give to us.” Oksana paused, her head shifting in contemplation, then she looked at Samstone again with a quirked brow. “Was there anything about his family?”
Wade listened to her point and agreed "Absolutely, alive would be preferable, I would want him to be available for much more to be extracted from him. If for some reason it can’t come to pass, then I will have to settle for...
» Too Valuable to Ignore - Part 1
Wade had spent well over an hour with the star charts and had not found anything he liked. Every route he traced to Chaltok ended the same way, with a Starfleet crew on the wrong side of the line and no good story for why they were there. Around 1030 hours he made himself stop, before he talked himself into an answer.
He cleared the charts at ten minutes to eleven and copied the recording to a single isolinear chip, along with the attached file, still sealed. He had been the one to tell Oksana...
» Private Channels
Wade had been in his ready room since a little after 0700, working through the overnight patrol reports with a cup of coffee that had long since cooled off. The Neutral Zone had been quiet for most of the week. There were sensor logs, two routine Romulan patrols moving along the far side of the line, and a request from Engineering to take one of the shield generators offline for maintenance. He was halfway through approving that when the comm panel on his desk chimed.
"Captain, this is the br...
» Settling in - WT - Part 3
The enthusiasm in his voice wasn't an act. Years of command had shaped his preference for this kind of work. Give him a razor-sharp objective, the right specialists, and a clean extraction over a messy conflict any day. It got the job done without exposing his crew to needless risks. Completing the mission mattered, but bringing everyone home alive was his personal objective.
Still, his time aboard the Nyx was a quiet reminder that you couldn't always dictate the clock. Some intelligence could...
» Settling in - WT - Part 2
Jessica had spent years chasing signals and noting transmissions out there. Alot of it got sent off to intelligence to be decrypted and stored for analysis just the same.
"We do try to pull what we can of course, but its far and few nowadays when we're able to decrypt ship transmissions so we use it more to determine locations when we can, of something in a location. Now if you scale down a bit to interpersonal communication systems and more day to day systems, that's where the money is. Focus...
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» Actually Bulwark Actual
It is officially official, my other is on record, along with K, and Jax. The ceremony was admittedly a very serious affair. It was good to see so many operators in the same room. Of the sheer talent and knowledge, I am truly impressed. We look forward now to a short settling period while preparations are made for our first mission. I’m not sure what we need to know from the Romulans but this so...