Story:Star Trek: Conflict/Aftermath

The aftermath of the Siege of Earth.

Chapter One
It is 12:00am Eastern Standard Time. Stardate: 87439.5. Old Earth Calendar: January 1st, 2407.

New Year's Day has not yet dawned on the city of New York. In lieu of the annual merriment of the new year, there is chaos. The greater portion of the city has been flattened; once a proud city now reduced to rubble in less than a few hours.

On the streets, the truth is shown. Mankind's demons show themselves. Without power, the replicators cannot function and therefore cannot replicate the much-needed food, water and medical supplies and with thousands dead, dying, wounded, buried alive in the rubble or missing, panic strikes. People raid, loot and pillage, burning whatever gets in their way.

Broadway, a group of Starfleet personnel have made a make-shift command post around one of the only working transmitter stations (which they hijacked and powered with their tricorders). With them are several civilians, including Jake Sisko, a reporter for the FNN, who was sent to New York City to report on the mayhem. Using up all their power, they try to contact the fleet, but communications are down all over the planet and some of the orbital stations are destroyed. Finally, they contact the USS Invincible (NCC-88777), one of the few remaining vessels of the Vanguard Fleet, under the command of Alynna Nechayev. She says that Starfleet needs to reorganize before they can begin rescue efforts, and cuts off just as the officer tries to ask when that will be.

They are stuck in the middle of chaos, and some of the people have seen the transmitter and are attacking en masse. The Starfleet personnel open-fire on the civilians with stun-blasts, but this doesn't halt the advance. One gets over their barricade, holding a white-flag, and begs for mercy, telling them that there's something else out there in the city's wreckage that they SHOULD be shooting at other than the people.

Chapter Two
In orbit, the USS Invincible (NCC-88777) moves over the Enterprise-C and the Admonitor and brings them into its massive hangar. Shield tells Admiral Nechayev to explain herself, and she says that the appearance of a new threat has forced the Federation to forget its battle with the New Insurrection for now and asks them to accompany her to Starfleet's new command center: Station Frontier.