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The ninth Bravo Fleet campaign, The Devil to Pay covered the Fourth Fleet's efforts to clamp down on criminal activity and organisations benefitting and still trading in looted equipment and technologies stolen from the Daystrom Institute in the wake of the Changeling Conspiracy.

The Story

Background

With the confirmation of increased criminal activity, particularly that led by the Orion Syndicate, across multiple Federation sectors, the Fourth Fleet is primed to engage in anti-criminal activities across the breadth of the Federation. This is made even more of a delicate matter for the Fourth Fleet as not only is this a civil and legal issue, but intelligence indicates that a vast trove of stolen Starfleet and Borg technologies have hit black markets across the frontier and border sectors.

Some of these technologies include experimental or outlawed weapon systems, advanced computational algorithms, and other sensitive assets of strategic worth to the Federation that are no doubt desired by her enemies.

Response

From the start, there were significant intelligence reports highlighting Orion Syndicate cooperation with other criminal enterprises across the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, as well as with elements of the Romulan Free State and some of the more belligerent houses of the Klingon Empire. With this knowledge, operations to curtail such activities were launched by the Fourth Fleet across the Federation’s border regions and occasionally beyond them as required.

In the Archanis Sector, the Polaris Squadron stumbled across a plot to stir up domestic issues on a formerly marginalised colony world, Duraxis, with a Changeling plot to cause a catastrophe involving the colony’s recently installed fusion reactor and then sway a local election to put an anti-Federation figure in a key political position. A figure that was ultimately revealed to be a Changeling infiltrator by the crews of the Polaris Squadron during their investigations.

Meanwhile, USS Republic was tasked with engaging a resurgent pirate organisation in the Archanis Sector that members of the crew had history with. This turned out to be a cover by a rogue Hysperian noble who was intent on ultimately causing chaos in the region as a cover for his procurement of a Genesis Device from the Orion Syndicate. This was all in service of a plot to eventually overthrow the Hysperian crown with the assistance of the Syndicate. Not only was the Genesis Device recovered, but a phase cloaking device, kept in storage at Daystrom Station, was as well.

Blackmarket and smuggling operations all across the border come under scrutiny as well, ranging from the Ferengi moon of Ilior, Freecloud, Xandaria and the Jade Exchange. As Starfleet operatives infiltrate such operations, Changeling interference and even active participation in the recent criminal uprisings becomes more apparent. With this comes signs as well of the Syndicate beginning to take active anti-Changeling operations of their own, though with no coordination with Starfleet.

Outcome

As operations against the Orion Syndicate, both the ‘Old Guard’ and the Changeling-controlled elements, continue, Starfleet forces are able to recover or deny a considerable amount of stolen Daystrom Institute technologies and equipment. Particularly dangerous Borg technological samples are also collected and removed from circulation. With further evidence of continued Changeling infiltrations outside of their traditional avenues of influence, Starfleet Intelligence is left needing to ascertain just how much further Changeling influence continues.

Orion Syndicate operations are severely interrupted in the meantime, with many key members either neutralised by infiltrators or revealed to have been infiltrators themselves during Starfleet operations. Evidence suggests that the Syndicate has begun to voluntarily curtail its own operations in an effort to appease Starfleet and Federation civil law enforcement, as well as allow for their own house-cleansing operations, much as the Federation has recently undertaken. Starfleet Intelligence is continuing to monitor the situation with the Syndicate, but anticipates minimal activity from the Syndicate in the near future.

Major Annoucements

The Devil to Pay
The Devil to Pay Briefing Launches
The Devil to Pay Begins!
The Devil to Pay: Week 1 Fiction Update
The Devil to Pay: Week 2 Fiction Update
The Devil to Pay: Week 3 Fiction Update
The Devil to Pay: Week 4 Update
The Devil to Pay – Conclusion - Includes Week 5 & 6 fiction updates

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-{{Fleetaction
+{{Campaign
-|name=The Lost Fleet
+|name=The Devil to Pay
-|image=[[File:The lost fleet logo-1.png]]
+|image=
-|theme=[[Dominion]], [[Deneb Sector]]
+|theme=[[Orion Syndicate]]
-|start=5 May, 2023
+|start=1 November 2024
-|end=18 June, 2023
+|end=15 December 2024
-|winner=[[bfms_user:2121|Alexandra Sudari-Kravchik]]
+|bfmsLink=[https://bravofleet.com/mission/136376/ The Devil to Pay]
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-|templatemode = nocats
+}}The ninth Bravo Fleet campaign, '''The Devil to Pay''' covered the Fourth Fleet's efforts to clamp down on criminal activity and organisations benefitting and still trading in looted equipment and technologies stolen from the Daystrom Institute in the wake of the Changeling Conspiracy.
-}}
-'''The Lost Fleet''' was the fourth Bravo Fleet [[Fleet Action]] which ran from 5 May, 2023 to 18 June, 2023. It consisted of three phases that each progressed the story of the return of the [[Dominion|Dominion's]] Lost Fleet, last seen<ref>DS9 6x06 : [[ma:Sacrifice of Angels (episode)|Sacrifice of Angels]]</ref> being removed from history by the [[ma:Prophet|Bajoran Prophets]] and the subsequent invasion of the [[Deneb Sector]] in early 2401 by Dominion and [[Breen Confederacy]] forces.
-The Fleet-wide mission can be found [https://bravofleet.com/mission/76499 here].
 ==The Story==
 ===Background===
-====Return of the Lost Fleet====
+With the confirmation of increased criminal activity, particularly that led by the Orion Syndicate, across multiple Federation sectors, the Fourth Fleet is primed to engage in anti-criminal activities across the breadth of the Federation. This is made even more of a delicate matter for the Fourth Fleet as not only is this a civil and legal issue, but intelligence indicates that a vast trove of stolen Starfleet and Borg technologies have hit black markets across the frontier and border sectors.
-In February of 2401<ref>Lost : https://bravofleet.com/story/76502</ref> the crew of the research ship ''Sef'' under the direction of the Trill scientist Doctor Marl Trojet attempted to reproduce the work of Doctor Lenara Kahn - the creation of an [[MA:Wormhole#Artificial_wormholes|artificial wormhole]]. Due to scientific institutions across the Federation not willing to entertain Trojet, he was forced to conduct his experiments without support and outside of Federation space.
-The artificial wormhole that was created by Trojet et al however was not a true wormhole with two fixed aperture points as desired. Instead, the aperture that his team had managed to create, inherently unstable much like Doctor Khan's was in the 2370s, had pierced into whatever pocket of reality that the Prophets, the entities residing within the [[ma:Bajoran Wormhole|Bajoran Wormhole]], had stashed the Dominion invasion fleet that had been transiting the wormhole during the height of the Dominion War and effectively blockading the Alpha Dominion from support from home territories.
+Some of these technologies include experimental or outlawed weapon systems, advanced computational algorithms, and other sensitive assets of strategic worth to the Federation that are no doubt desired by her enemies.
-These vessels, now free, had not experienced the passage of time and were still on a war footing, believing the Federation to still be their target. While they found themselves out past the Federation's Deneb frontier, their leaders continued with the orders they had when they had departed - assaulting, conquering and occupying Federation territory in the name of the Founders and the Dominion.
+===Response===
+From the start, there were significant intelligence reports highlighting Orion Syndicate cooperation with other criminal enterprises across the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, as well as with elements of the Romulan Free State and some of the more belligerent houses of the Klingon Empire. With this knowledge, operations to curtail such activities were launched by the Fourth Fleet across the Federation’s border regions and occasionally beyond them as required.
-====Invasion of the Deneb Sector====
+In the [[Archanis Sector]], the [[Polaris Squadron]] stumbled across a plot to stir up domestic issues on a formerly marginalised colony world, Duraxis, with a Changeling plot to cause a catastrophe involving the colony’s recently installed fusion reactor and then sway a local election to put an anti-Federation figure in a key political position. A figure that was ultimately revealed to be a Changeling infiltrator by the crews of the Polaris Squadron during their investigations.
-With surprise on their side, Dominion forces, aware of the Breen's amenable attitudes to their intentions, reached out to the Confederacy to assist in the resumption of a war long finished. Seeing an opportunity for territorial expansion, the Breen agreed with the Dominion's assault on the Federation and a series of border raids and skirmishes first started along the frontier. Remote colonies, small outposts and ships operating by themselves were the first to be hit, whittling away at the Federation's early warning systems. Those messages that did manage to get through found silence or dismissal at the claims of Dominion or Breen incursions - the results of a Changeling conspiracy within Starfleet and the Federation find advantage in the chaos across the borders.
-Having managed to successfully gauge the strength of the Federation's local defenders and silence any attempt at a Federation-wide response to the attack, Dominion forces, operating still without communication with the Dominion in the Gamma Quadrant, launched their full-scale invasion across the entire Deneb Border, plunging the entire sector into chaos as refugees fled from the border for the core territories, only to find a Federation and Starfleet that didn't believe them and was woefully unprepared for what was to come.
+Meanwhile, [[USS Republic|USS ''Republic'']] was tasked with engaging a resurgent pirate organisation in the Archanis Sector that members of the crew had history with. This turned out to be a cover by a rogue Hysperian noble who was intent on ultimately causing chaos in the region as a cover for his procurement of a [[ma:Genesis Device|Genesis Device]] from the Orion Syndicate. This was all in service of a plot to eventually overthrow the Hysperian crown with the assistance of the Syndicate. Not only was the Genesis Device recovered, but a phase cloaking device, kept in storage at Daystrom Station, was as well.
-====Fourth Fleet response====
+Blackmarket and smuggling operations all across the border come under scrutiny as well, ranging from the Ferengi moon of Ilior, Freecloud, Xandaria and the Jade Exchange. As Starfleet operatives infiltrate such operations, Changeling interference and even active participation in the recent criminal uprisings becomes more apparent. With this comes signs as well of the Syndicate beginning to take active anti-Changeling operations of their own, though with no coordination with Starfleet.
-As reports of the Dominion and Breen incursions into the Deneb Sector began to filter through, Changeling infiltrators within Starfleet and the Federation bureaucracy worked to stifle any response at a Federation-wide level. With no orders or even acknowledgement of an issue occurring, Fourth Fleet Command opted to respond to the issue independently of Starfleet Command under the unique authorisation that had formed the Fourth Fleet in the first place to respond to rapidly developing crises.
-Multiple Fourth Fleet vessels were dispatched on a variety of endeavours to buy time for a concentrated response and to address the Dominion forces from multiple angles. Other assets were ordered to assemble a defence for the sector capital before any form of large-scale Dominion attack could be arranged.
+===Outcome===
+As operations against the Orion Syndicate, both the ‘Old Guard’ and the Changeling-controlled elements, continue, Starfleet forces are able to recover or deny a considerable amount of stolen Daystrom Institute technologies and equipment. Particularly dangerous Borg technological samples are also collected and removed from circulation. With further evidence of continued Changeling infiltrations outside of their traditional avenues of influence, Starfleet Intelligence is left needing to ascertain just how much further Changeling influence continues.
-<pre>Mention the key missions that took place? ie Off to go speak with the Great Link, Operation Phone-a-friend etc etc</pre>
-===Battle of Farpoint===
+Orion Syndicate operations are severely interrupted in the meantime, with many key members either neutralised by infiltrators or revealed to have been infiltrators themselves during Starfleet operations. Evidence suggests that the Syndicate has begun to voluntarily curtail its own operations in an effort to appease Starfleet and Federation civil law enforcement, as well as allow for their own house-cleansing operations, much as the Federation has recently undertaken. Starfleet Intelligence is continuing to monitor the situation with the Syndicate, but anticipates minimal activity from the Syndicate in the near future.
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-| name = Battle of Farpoint
-| image =
-| date =
-| location = [[Farpoint Station]], [[Deneb Sector]]
-| result = Federation Alliance victory
-| belligerents left =
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-{{belligerent|KDFicon.png|House Lorkoth}}
-{{belligerent|ROMicon.png|Romulan Republic}}
-{{belligerent|Tholian Assembly.png|Tholian Assembly}}
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-| commanders left =
-{{belligerent|FEDicon.png|ADM Dahlgren}}
-{{belligerent|FEDicon.png|VADM Beckett}}
-| commanders right = {{belligerent|DOMicon.png|Unknown Founder}}
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-*Multiple allied vessels badly damaged
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-*Majority of vessels destroyed
-*All Jem'Hadar forces lost
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-| templatemode = nocats
-}}The Battle of Farpoint in the Deneb system marked the last major action of the crisis caused by the reappearance of Dominion forces assaulting the Federation. Forces of the Lost Fleet, unwilling to follow the [[ma:Great Link|Great Link's]] orders to stand down and be escorted to the Gamma Quadrant formed up for an assault on [[Farpoint Station]] with the intent to capture the regional capital and its facilities to allow for continued operations against the Federation.
-[[Fourth Fleet]], with no reinforcements from Starfleet Command, or the old Federation Alliance members, fell back to Deneb alongside elements of the [[Cardassian Union]]'s 9th Order to defend the system and hopefully break the back of the Dominion assault. As preparations were made to reinforce the system as much as possible, ships that had been dispersed across the Deneb Sector to blunt the Dominion advance were recalled post-haste to join the defenders.
+==Major Annoucements==
+#[https://bravofleet.com/group_news/the-devil-to-pay/ The Devil to Pay]
-Dominion forces eventually arrived in the Deneb system and began their assault on the system, rapidly moving in system and engaging the defenders on multiple axes. Unbeknownst to all but a few, efforts to engage with the historical Federation Alliance members or their successor states, had been undertaken by Captain Theodoras on the direction of Vice Admiral Beckett. These efforts were largely successful and ultimately timely as the [[USS Atlantis|USS ''Atlantis'']] arrived soon after the Dominion attack began<ref>What Price for Peace - 20 : https://bravofleet.com/story/82569</ref>, bringing with it a collection of [[Romulan Republic]] ships, a large collection of House Lorkoth forces from the [[Klingon Empire]] and a handful of Tholian vessels that were there to ensure no temporal disturbances were present or unaccounted for after the battle.
+#[https://bravofleet.com/group_news/the-devil-to-pay-briefing-launches/ The Devil to Pay Briefing Launches]
+#[https://bravofleet.com/group_news/the-devil-to-pay-begins/ The Devil to Pay Begins!]
-With the Lost Fleet now sandwiched between two large allied forces, the numerical advantage they had carried in against the defenders had evaporated and more importantly, their strategic and tactical positioning was completely ruined.<ref>Lost and Found : https://bravofleet.com/story/82958</ref>
+#[https://bravofleet.com/group_news/the-devil-to-pay-week-1-fiction-update/ The Devil to Pay: Week 1 Fiction Update]
+#[https://bravofleet.com/group_news/the-devil-to-pay-week-2-fiction-update/ The Devil to Pay: Week 2 Fiction Update]
-===Outcome===
+#[https://bravofleet.com/group_news/the-devil-to-pay-week-3-fiction-update/ The Devil to Pay: Week 3 Fiction Update]
-While a considerable number of Dominion vessels had heeded the orders of the Great Link to stand down and be escorted back to the Gamma Quadrant, a majority of the ships had instead opted for the attack on Deneb, fighting with no quarter given by either side, with none expected.
+#[https://bravofleet.com/group_news/139532/ The Devil to Pay: Week 4 Update]
-<center>{{quote|''Victory is Life.''|Jem'hadar battle mantra}}</center>
+#[https://bravofleet.com/group_news/the-devil-to-pay-conclusion/ The Devil to Pay – Conclusion] - Includes Week 5 & 6 fiction updates
-The damage and devastation across the Deneb Sector was considerable and after the fact, not something that the Federation could deny. Multiple small colonies had been abandoned in the face of Dominion attacks. Entire worlds had been ravaged and ruined in the fighting, leaving scars across the sector that will last for generations.
-===References===
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