The TOS Veterans Fleet would like to wish an Fleet Diplomat or Ambassador a warm welcome. We are visitors in your time from the 23rd Century and realize that we are indeed guests in your time however, we are under orders from your Starfleet to help fight a war that is our future as well.
Please feel free to visit our Mariner 10 Space station. This space station was built for us over the last 150 years in a secret Starfleet operation to bring a fleet of decommissioned starhips (most of which are the Constellation Class) and handpicked captains to the 25th Century.
Mariner 10 was named after an early 20th century Earth’s robotic space probe launched by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (Which later became part of United Earth Space Probe Agency) The Mariner 10 was launched on November 3, 1973, to fly by the planets Mercury and Venus. The Mariner 10 probe was the first spacecraft to use the gravitational slingshot effect to reach another planet, passing by Venus on February 5, 1974, on its way to becoming the first spacecraft to explore Mercury.
The Slingshot effect, also known as the Light-speed breakaway factor, is a method of time travel that requires a starship to travel at warp speed towards a star. As the ship approaches the star, it begins to travel back in time, using the gravitational field of the star, then breaking free the starship is sent forwards or backwards in time. It requires very precise calculations - variables include availability of fuel components and vessel mass through a time continuum.
Our ability to achieve our goal of forth dimensional travel is due to the courage and risk taken on by Captain Kirk and his crew of the USS Enterprise. After being hurled into the 20th century and gambled on a theory that he could return to 23rd century. We are also aware that this has been done a number of times since our time but never at this scale and never this well planned out.
We would like to offer our hand in alliance with whatever fleet wished to accept us into your time. We are willing to make diplomatic sacrifices to do so however, we will not deviate from our orders to help to bring an end to this war.
Please contact any of the Council members or state your alliance or treaty offerings on this thread.
Again we would like to thank you for visiting.
Fleet Ambassador Katra
