Mission Groups
Season 1 - A Cold Frontier.....
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Missions: 6
The Rubicon is new to the border, and most of her crew is newer. An Excelsior refitted for surveillance work and posted to watch a stretch of the Neutral Zone out of Starbase 234, she is there to listen, monitor, and keep a fragile peace from coming apart, which sounds simpler than it is on a line where both sides are always testing what they can get away with.
It is quiet work, right up until it isn't. The border specializes in situations with no clean answers, where the right call and the safe call are rarely the same one, and where a single misstep can start a war that fifty years of nerve has held off. The Romulans across the line are always watching. The Klingon allies are harder to manage than the enemy. And the trouble has a way of following closer to home than anyone would like.
This is the cold frontier. The line you don't cross.
Included Missions
The crew and Senior Staff report to the USS Rubicon, newly refitted after 6 months in dry dock...
A senior Romulan officer signals the Rubicon directly, offering the Empire's entire order-of-battle for the sector in exchange for asylum.
A Federation listening post on the Neutral Zone goes silent after intercepting a fragment of a Tal Shiar cipher....
Intelligence that could keep the peace is sitting in a place the Federation can never officially go. A team goes to take it anyway.
A disaster on a world in the Neutral Zone brings both powers running to help, and to have a chance to get closer to spy on one another...
Season 2 - Behind the Shadows
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Missions: 5
An operator does not come home from a routine snatch, and the after-action report says the Romulans knew exactly where to be. What follows is eleven months of fragments: an alloy that matches nothing on file, a cipher that names a project instead of a ship, a courier killed from cloak at a range nothing should have closed.
Blackwatch investigates further to see what is behind everything...
Included Missions
A routine snatch on a border world goes exactly to plan, right up until the extraction.
Four days on a dead Romulan relay, listening, where the hardest part of the job is doing nothing.
A courier dies in the Zone, and the Rubicon has ninety minutes to take the wreck apart before a Romulan patrol arrives.
