USS Danton

The USS Danton (NCC 42765) was a Excelsior class starship, and was formaly captained by the Vulcan-Klingon hybrid, Scott Shepherd, the current captain the the USS Vortex.

Comission and Early History
The ship was comissioned in 2370 and its first mission was to covertly investigate the new Maquis threat. In 2371, the ship's efforts to produce new intel on the Maquis fails and the ship is reasigned in favour for the Vulcan, Tuvok to finesh the ship's original mission.

Assignment to the Neutral Zone
The ship is assigned to patroling the neutral zone after DS9 is threatend by a Romulan attack. But in 2373 the klingons attacks a romulan station across their border and the Romulans send out a distress call, the USS Danton responds but cannot take down the more powerful warships and is forced to retreat, taking serious damage in the process, and resulting in the deaths of 13 crew members, including the ship's first officer, Commander Michael Bristow.

Repair, Refit and New Assingment
The Danton is sent back to Earth for repairs and also a refit. The ships' first officer is replaced by a Commander Natalie Coleman. The ship is given a newer more efficiant warp cire and engancements to the ships sensors and shields. Three weeks later it is sent back out into space, with a new assignment, Defend starbase 71 from a Klingon Attack. Their defencive strike is sucessful and the ship destroys two Klingon warships.

Sector 001
In 2373 the ship is sent to sector 001 in an attempt to stop the Borg incursion. The ship is severly damaged, loosing its left nacelle, thaking damage all across the main hull, with the bridge barely intact, and the resulting death of 21 crew members. But the ship luckly survives the battle after the USS Enterprise-E destroys the Borg cube with the help of remaining ships, including the Danton. After the battle, the Ship is again repaired and refitted, this time it is made battle ready for the Dominion incursion.

Dominion Threat
Later that year The ship is refitted. It is implimented with newer phaser arrays and retrofitted torpedo tubes, capable of firing both Photon and quantum torpedoes. The ship stays in Federation space and scouts the a small sector of space, close to the neutral zone. It helps in the destruction of a small dominion fleet, that engaged with klingon and federation ships. A year later The ship was part of the Immense federation-klingon fleet that retakes that bajor sector including DS9. The ship is then assinged to the protection and scouting of the Bajor sector, and gets into many small skirmishes with the Cardassians and the Dominion, Dealing more dammage than they took. It then takes part in the invasion of the Chin'toka system, where it sufffered Slight hull damage, but the death of 2 crew members. And after the ship returns back to patroling the Bajor sector.

Future Assignments
In 2375 the ship is assigned to transport federation delegates to the Federation-Romulan conference, after the assignment they returned to the bajor sytem and docked at DS9 for 4 days before it returned to Earth for a brief decomissioning.

Breif Decomissioning and Recomissioning
But she is then recomissioned 4 mounths later to take part in the Battle of Cardassia. The ship was part of the last invasion force, but the ship suffered severe damage, beyond repair, and the ship lost a total of 79 crew members, but luckly the Captain and his first officer were able to survive, after being beamed onboard the USS Defiant, when the Defiant detected the ship was loosing life support. The Defiant also beamed over 23 other crew members that would later join Scott and Natalie, in being part of the USS Valkyrie's crew a year later.