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== Lineage ==

Vessel Class: [[Einstein_Class_Galactic_Science_Cruiser|Einstein]]<br />

Commanding Officer: <br />

===Vessel Dedication Quote===

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! colspan="5" | Engineering Department

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| [[Image:Eng-lcdr.jpg]]|| [[Ameen, Morad|Morad Ameen]] || Chief Engineer ||[[Human]]||[mailto:gabriel_archer4@hotmail.com E-Mail]

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! colspan="5" | Security Department

|[[Image:Sec-lcdr.jpg]] || [[Kurasa, Shione|Shione Kurasa]] || Chief of Security ||[[Vulcan]]/[[Betazoid]]||[mailto:bowantheblack@gmail.com E-Mail]

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|[[Image:Sec-lcdr.jpg]] || [[Vesner, Marcus|Marcus Vesner]] || Security Officer ||[[Human]]/[[Romulan]]||[mailto:conlanbesner@yahoo.ca E-Mail]

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! colspan="5" | Science Department

[mailto:lonewolfdagaz@hotmail.com E-Mail]

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! colspan="5" | Medical Department

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[mailto:z.aktouarios@gmail.com E-Mail]

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==History==

After being upgraded at Star Base Alpha, the USS Copernicus was ordered to bring [[Linden, Jeffrey |Admiral Jeffrey Linden]] to Star Base Bravo.

Able to restore some power to the ship, Commander Syntranos ordered the ship to scrape the enemies shields, which ended up furthering the Copernicus’ damage but destroying the Cardassian vessel.

Repaired and refit once more, [[Godard, Elisa|Captain Elisa Godard]] was the new Commanding Officer, and the ship sent to investigate a nebula where a Borg transwarp conduit had been located. The Copernicus entered the warp conduit but was violently ejected out of it into the Magellanic Cloud, damaged and partially disabled. At this point, [[Avark|Lieutenant Commander Avark]], Chief of Security, discovered a Cardassian saboteur aboard who was eventually captured and put into the brig. The COS relieved himself of duty after he began to feel unwell, and a parasite was eventually discovered that led to erratic behaviour.

Strange things began to happen on the ship including delusional behaviour from several personnel. [[Lacey, Ariana|Lieutenant Commander Ariana Lacey]], CSO, shot Crewman Smith and was relieved of duty. In a chase at the Computer core, Commander Lacey injured two more crew members before attempting to shoot the Captain. The shot missed, and hit the computer core causing a catastrophic malfunction and subsequent explosion: severely injuring Captain Godard. Then Lieutenant Commander Avark was arrested, and newly appointed Lieutenant Junior Grade Shard Vinzz was left in command of Security for a short time while the parasite was removed and Avark put back into command of Security. The alien vessel managed to fire a purple beam at the Copernicus, and Lacey was abducted from the bridge. The alien vessel then retreated and the Copernicus followed it to a nearby planet, swarming with other alien ships of the same kind. However, they ignored the Copernicus, and an away team was dispatched to the planet where Lacey had been taken. The team were put through a gladiatorial 'alien Olympics.' Lacey was retrieved. Eventually the ship was able to return home thanks to Ensign Abaa who was able to engineer the conduit to bring them home.

The Copernicus, along with Titan and Yeager, was tasked to explore and catalogue a hidden system with just over 100 planets to analyze, the Copernicus was assigned the mid-system to investigate. After being given temporary command of the ship, First Officer Commander Avark’s biotic implants malfunctioned causing him to lose consciousness for several minutes. An away team led by Commander Ariana Lacey was sent to the Botticelli homeworld--an previously unregistered species. Lieutenant Commander Crowhurst was picked for the vacant CTO position, and Lieutnant Tru resigned from Medical.

Captain Godard ordered all ships to return and a full tactical analysis of the situation. The consensus was to retreat from the system. After finding the Yeager smashed into the pieces, the survivors were rescued and the remaining ships returned to [[Starbase Alpha]]

Klingon activity was detected in the [[Vigo System]]. In a rushed attempt to find answers, the Copernicus was sent to investigate. Captain Elisa Goddard departed for a personal mission and First Officer [[Jackson, Areack|Commander Areack Jackson]] was placed in command. Towards the end of the mission, newly arrived [[Dys, Gloria|Lieutenant Commander Gloria Dys] became First Officer as Godard was not to return.

En route back to Starbase Charlie, the crew was waylaid due to a photonic entity which trapped the crew in a holographic World War II Earth simulation.

While searching for a new Commanding Officer to fill the gap of the now resigned Captain Elisa Godard, [[Dys, Gloria|Commander Gloria Dys]] was installed as Acting Captain. [[Ander, Lee|Lieutenant Commander Lee Ander]] was made Acting First Officer, promoted from CMO.

The Away Teams found that the planet was not uninhabited as first thought. Both away teams came into contact with two separate species: the [[Nakai]] and [[Joran]]. Both species lived on their homeworld of [[Kryn'tor]], but the Joran had little contact with their technologically naïve counterparts the Nakai. The away teams had planned to stay to initiate further communication with the natives but were forced to pull out with the presence of a Romulan warbird in the system, threatening attack.

After receiving their new Commanding Officer, [[Stewart, Stovon|Captain Stovon Stewart]], the Copernicus along with the USS Drake rushed to aid emergency evacuations and rescue operation from a colony on the planet [[Tekna]], which had erupted in devastating tectonic activity that was ripping the planet apart. The ships first made a detour to the [[Troligan Waystation]] to gather other civilian ships to aid in the evacuation of the plant's population. [[Dys, Gloria|Commander Dys]], now first officer, led an advanced party to Tekna in the runabout Pegasus. Undefended, the Pegasus was attacked by two Cardassian ships and boarded. USS Dauntless arrived on the scene, also en route to help with the Tekna situation, and picked up the Pegasus distress signal, rescuing the runabout crew but not before one Security fatality.

The Dauntless now arrived to aid the Copernicus. The two sjips proceeded to help the colonists of Tekna with what could only be described as ‘fire lizards’ that were terrorizing the planet, emerging out of huge fissures in the earth. All efforts to evacuate the planet were cut short when the planet entered into a catastrophic meltdown and the surface opened up in flame and swallowed what was left of the colonies. The planet surface then returned to normal but with all traces of the colonies erased. Commander Dys requested for Star Fleet to put the planet under quarantine after the Science department theorized it to be a sentient planet, reacting to the mining operation from the colonists with the violent tectonic activity, and effectively purging itself of the alien presence. Though some colonists were evacuated from the planet, millions died and the operation was a great tragedy.

The Copernicus is assigned to research an unexplored system, [[Gamma Cephei]]. The mission began well, and initial scans met with interesting results. Before any real information could be gathered, a fleetwide emergency was declared and the Copernicus was diverted to [[Tellar]]. Temporal anomalies were plaguing key Federation homeworlds, to the extent that when the Copernicus arrived on the scene they could no longer recognize them.

The ship continued its journey to Gamma Cephei. An away team was beamed down to collect samples. Unexpectedly natives were encountered on the planet, but with no sensor readings showing sentient life. The away team discovered that the natives were humans who had put aside their advanced technology in the Federation to live a simple life from several generations earlier. The natives kidnapped [[Brooks, Daniel|Lieutenant Commander Daniel Brooks]] and [[St. Vrain, Elspeth|Lieutenant Elspeth Saint Vrain]], who were held captives for a short time before rescue. After that the crew decided to leave the planet and the humans to the lifestyle they had chosen.

Captain Stewart resigned his commission, and [[Hawk, Jaden|Commander Jaden Hawk]] took command. [[Fields, Jane|Lieutenant Commander Jane Fields]] was promoted to Commander and First Officer, due to Commander Gloria Dys being kept at Star Base Alpha over temporal transgressions.

Next a battle ensued. Looking to be on the losing side, the Copernicus ejected its auxiliary warp core. In the midst of the battle the core explosion knocked the vessel out of the expanse and out of the temporal loop in which it was stuck. Apparently the warbird and apparitions were all from the past, stuck in the temporal anomaly.

The Copernicus received major upgrades and a refit at Starbase Alpha.

To avoid breaking the Prime Directive, the away teams were recalled after rescuing the Captain, and the Copernicus sent to Starbase Charlie.

[[Hawk, Jaden|Captain Jaden Hawk]], was given a secret assignment by Admiral Wueste, the Admiral serveed as a VIP onboard the ship, as well as mission consultant.

The Copernicus approached the planet, hiding in a nearby nebula to mask their approach. Captain Hawk and Admiral Wueste beamed to the planet without security (much to the objection of the First Officer and other department heads) in order to infiltrate the terrorist lab. There they found a bioweapon that the terrorists were working on. Concurrent to this, the Copernicus came under attack by the terrorists. [[Fields, Jane|Commander Jane Fields]] commanded the vessel and its defence. Suffering only moderate damage, the ship was able to defeat the terrorists. On the planet. Wueste and Hawk obtained the bioweapon, but Vice escaped.

The USS Copernicus was sent to find the USS Wright, which was long overdue for check in with Star Fleet Command. The ship found the USS Wright caught in a dense asteroid field with no possible way of escaping under its own systems. Commander Hawk ordered a complete evacuation of the Wright after finally coming into contact with the ship's CO, Captain McDowell. During the evacuation, the Copernicus science team discovered several asteroids around them were holographically disguised [[Krynar_Confederation|Krynar]] shard ships.

Hawk ordered self-destruct to be set on the Engineering section of the Wright to destroy the shards, while the rest of the Wright crew escaped on the ship’s saucer section. First Officer, Commander Fields, strongly objected to this hostile action against the shards, as they had not initiated any aggression and were apparently simply observing. Hawk ignored the objection and went ahead, but the self-destruct did not destroy the shard ships and they simply retreated. The Copernicus was able to tow the Wright’s saucer section back to Starbase Alpha.

Under [[Fields, Jane|Captain Jane Fields]] as the Commanding Officer, after a two-month long journey, the ship arrived at the unexplored Zaniah system. The third planet contained an advanced civilization, and inexplicably the planet contacted them using Federation protocols. The President of the planet knew the name and class of the Copernicus as well as her Captain’s name, and claimed that their ancient prophecies had predicted their arrival. Scans found Federation power signatures across the planet and it seemed as if there had been extensive influence by the Federation on their society and technology.

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