USS Memphis
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USS Memphis NCC-91817 is a Sutherland-class Federation starship currently assigned to Sirius Squadron, Fourth Fleet Operations. She is currently under the command of Captain Khalid El Sayed. She is the premier research platform for the squadron, with her vast array of laboratories and the expertise of her crew providing other starships crucial scientific support.
Memphis acts as flagship for the squadron's research division, where she is the hub for all major operations. Her primary role is that of a research vessel. All scientific data collected by the squadron worthy of long-term study and analysis is dispatched to the Memphis once other vessels have completed their mission, and she has multiple science teams aboard whose projects stretch back to operations several years old. In her day-to-day operations, the Memphis will also follow up on discoveries made by the squadron, particularly by the exploration-focused Liberty Division, studying regions, phenomena, and cultures once those explorers have moved on.
When the squadron deploys together, Memphis and the other ships of her division provide cutting-edge analysis of key operational data, freeing up other vessels to resolve emergent issues and gather crucial intelligence. She is the beating heart of the squadron's knowledge, charged with both advancing Federation scientific understanding, and ensuring Sirius Squadron is informed and ready for agile responses to crises and challenges.
While the rest of the division goes boldly where nobody has gone before, the Memphis proceeds thoughtfully in their wake, providing the highest levels of scientific expertise and equipment. Her crew are all seasoned scholars and researchers, though some have more experience in laboratories than the final frontier, and the ship is known for an atmosphere aboard more akin to that of a research facility than a starship: somewhat informal, and veering between highly collegiate as crewmembers collaborate on research projects, and highly competitive when the time comes to share the spoilers of scientific war.