Welcome to the USS Albion!
Welcome to the USS Albion (NCC-3020), a Star Trek role play-by-post/email sim set in the TNG/DSN/VOY era. The Albion is a Galaxy-class starship with a mission of deep space exploration. We like to push the boundaries of our imaginations and delve into areas & ideas that haven't yet been traveled.
This game continues the simming tradition of Independence Fleet's historical USS Avalon. Please see the Sim tab for more information as the Albion is somewhat of an acquired taste.
Otherwise, we would love to have you Join our Adventure!
Sim Content Rating:
This closely corresponds to PG-13 from film ratings.
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Latest News Items
» Another new crewmember!
Posted on Mon Mar 23rd, 2026 @ 2:44am by Captain Dick Sprague in General News
Crew,
Please help me welcome aboard our new Nurse, Ensign Bloom Reyes. For story purposes, we will assume that Ensign Reyes has been onboard since this mission began.
-Capt. Sprague
» Welcome aboard!
Posted on Fri Mar 20th, 2026 @ 1:26am by Captain Dick Sprague in General News
Let's welcome aboard our new Chief Security and Tactical Officer, Lieutenant Alexander Carter!
-Capt. Sprague
» Three More Departures
Posted on Sat Mar 7th, 2026 @ 11:34pm by Captain Dick Sprague in General News
Crew:
Three more crewmembers will be leaving us.
Ensign Vattaash Zh'raallir
Lieutenant Philiana Eldridge
2nd Lieutenant Naasya Epeyi
All the best!
-Capt. Sprague
» Another departure!
Posted on Sat Mar 7th, 2026 @ 11:24pm by Captain Dick Sprague in General News
Crew:
Original crewmember Lieutenant Sheeraashaa Genno is leaving the sim as well. It was a great run!
-Capt Sprague
» New Crewmember
Posted on Thu Mar 5th, 2026 @ 8:42pm by Captain Dick Sprague in General News
Crew,
Please help me welcome our new Support Craft Pilot aboard: Lieutenant JG Tessa Vale!
-Capt. Sprague
Latest Mission Posts
» Third time's a charm
Mission: How do you do it?
Posted on Mon Mar 30th, 2026 @ 6:06pm by Captain Dick Sprague
ON:
{USS Albion, Bridge}
#SNIP#
Sprague: :: The captain walked onto the bridge.:: "Looks like something's on your mind Alex."
Carter: :: "Yes Captain I'm getting unusual tachyon readings. This is very peculiar."
#SNIP#
Chatsworth: ::enters with the rest of the evaluation team minus Tom:: "Captain Sprague, aren't you going to address this supposed 'time machine' down in Main Engineering?"
The ship rocks and lurches forward. Then again. And again.
Key: ::enters with an ice cream cone::
Pendragon: "I'm getting a collision alarm, Captain."
Andrews: ::waits for Sprague to give an order::
OFF:
Updated locations:
Bridge:
Sprague (CO)
Andrews (XO)…
» Strange Readings
Mission: How do you do it?
Posted on Mon Mar 30th, 2026 @ 5:37pm by Lieutenant Alexander Carter
{USS Albion, Bridge}
Carter: :: getting unusual readings from the tactical station.:: "well someone wake up the commander I'm getting unusual signals here."
Carter: :: Alex looked over to the first officer. He wondered how much sleep the man was getting. Between the time he went from engineering back to the bridge he noticed that the first officer was sleeping. He already been woken up once. At least the first officer was an obsessing over the sandwich debacle.::
Sprague: :: The captain walked onto the bridge.:: "Looks like something's on your mind Alex."
Carter: :: "Yes Captain I'm getting unusual…
» Cloaked x3
Mission: How do you do it?
Posted on Mon Mar 30th, 2026 @ 4:27pm by Captain Dick Sprague
OFF:
This is getting interesting!
ON:
(Cloaked Klingon Bird of Prey, Bridge}
Po’rok: "We're getting dangerously close to the Albion."
{Cloaked Romulan Warbird, Bridge}
Shonzin: "We're getting dangerously close to the Albion."
{Cloaked Ferengi ship, Bridge}
Boson: "We're getting dangerously close to the Albion."
OFF:
Updated locations:
Bridge:
Andrews (XO)
Pendragon (COO)
Florian (2O)
10 Forward:
Dwyer (EO)
Divus (C)
Grallator (Bartender)
Main Engineering:
Sprague (CO)
Key (FCO)
Grexx (CEO)
Mack (CSO)
Von Haeften (CIO)
Carter (CSTO)
(Chatsworth)
(rest of the evaluation team)
Transporter Room:
Lt jg Tessa Vale (SCP)
Lt jg Tessa Ferra (CC)
(Tom the Evaluator)
Cumulonimbus Five…
» Second Opinion
Mission: How do you do it?
Posted on Mon Mar 30th, 2026 @ 10:12am by Lieutenant JG Tessa Vale
ON:
{USS Albion, Transporter Room}
#SNIP#
Lieutenant JG Tessa Ferra: ::enters::
#SNIP#
Vale's Mom: "Tessa?"
Vale and Ferra: "Yes?"
Vale: ::Blinks::
Ferra: ::Blinks::
Tom the Evaluator: ::sees double::
Vale: "This is even weirder than usual."
Computerized voice: "I beg to differ."
OFF:
Lt Jg Tessa Vale
Support Craft Pilot
USS Albion
» It's Alive!
Mission: How do you do it?
Posted on Mon Mar 30th, 2026 @ 4:08am by Commander Jackson Andrews
ON:
#SNIP#
Pendragon: "Commander, we are reading an enormous amount of neutron radiation."
Andrews: "Where?"
Pendragon: "Strangely enough it appears to be emanating from us."
Andrews: "The Albion?"
#SNIP#
Florian: ::miffed look on her face:: "Good job Lieutenant"
Computerized text-to-speech style voice over the intercom: "Good indeed."
Andrews: ::stands up immediately:: "What the hell?"
Pendragon: "Sir, I think you mean, who the hell?"
Florian: ::shoot dirty look at Pendragon: "Shush."
Computerized voice: "Do not fret. It is I, the Albion. I have become sentient"
Andrews: ::Does a Picard facepalm:: "Good lord."
OFF:
ruh roh spaghettio
Commander Jackson Andrews
Executive Officer…
Latest Personal Logs
» A Reflection on Recent Events
Posted on Wed Jan 7th, 2026 @ 8:06pm by Commander Donald ‘Don’ Key
Personal Log — Don, Stardate: Erm, today.
Personal log. Don speaking. Still Don. Confirmed not a transporter duplicate, not a mirror universe evil goatee version, and not temporarily merged with a Vulcan, Talaxian, or anyone named Neelix. So frankly, a good day by Starfleet standards.
We beamed down to Cumulonimbus 5 today, which already sounds like a theme park that gets shut down after the third mysterious disappearance. The transporter did that familiar hum that always makes me think, Ah yes, the sound of my atoms being politely disagreed with. Chief says “Away team ready,” and I’m standing next to…
» Holodeck dreams
Posted on Tue Mar 12th, 2024 @ 11:44pm by Captain Emily Janeway
the Holodeck simulation, the Janeway family's farmhouse was next to an old horse barn. The barn recreated the sounds of horses and the agricultural landscape in the evening.
As Emily approached the farmstead on a lovely evening, she noticed two men walking towards her from a distance. These men were Peter Anderson, the eldest son of Mr. Lawrence Anderson, who had taken care of Emily's grandmother's equestrian equipment and farmhouse, and Mr. Lawrence Anderson, who had a long-standing relationship with Emily's grandmother's horses. They greeted Emily warmly with a "Howdy, Miss Emily Jones Janeway." She was standing by the gated…
» Faces of her own past
Posted on Tue Sep 5th, 2023 @ 10:58pm by Captain Emily Janeway
Janeway was just laying there in the hospital bed in critical condition & comatose state after suffering from the illness of being poisoned during her stay at the hotel Shortly afterward her teammates and herself had spent time together for several hours before her return to her hotel room before she could enter her reserved private hotel room for the vacation week she planned ahead of time for her tournament, shortly after she left the hotel room to attend and get her self ready for her regional ice hockey tournament. She had spoken to an old friend who had once…
» Having some time to myself
Posted on Tue Jul 11th, 2023 @ 8:20pm by Captain Emily Janeway
Uss.Albinon crew mass hall / bar lounge
:: Janeway walks into the room with her tactical gear equipment rucksack strapped to her back while she is wearing her duty combat armored protection body suit and the full combat weapon utility strap to her midsection as well as the main standard issue phaser as far as her protection from the unknown attacker from last month that attempted to attack her to be disabled, or exterminated disabled, or in the line of duty without any apparent reason why:: she heads over to the bar to get a refreshing cold beverage along with…
» An empty house
Posted on Thu Jun 1st, 2023 @ 12:33pm by Captain Dick Sprague
Captain's log. With our forward phaser array mostly rebuilt, we're almost home. Yet I feel uneasy and I wonder why. Perhaps it's the emptiness of this vessel. Most of our trainee crew has been reassigned, along with the Hydra Gammatian recruits now at Star Fleet Academy. Indeed, Ensign Score is even conducting an infiltration mission on the USS Sunfire. And Albion feels like a house with all the children gone. No, more empty than even that. The death of Ensign King is like an open wound. It seems that I have left the noblest part of myself back there... on…