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
» 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
» Former Crewmembers
Posted on Sat Feb 28th, 2026 @ 8:15pm by Captain Dick Sprague in General News
Crew,
Lieutenant JG J.B. Dersch & Ensign Adrian Locke have left the sim. They will be written out before or as the next mission begins.
-Capt. Sprague
» Another award winner
Posted on Sat Feb 28th, 2026 @ 8:13pm by Captain Dick Sprague in General News
Congratulations to Cmdr. Key for winning the latest Most Improved award from the fleet! Well done!
Monthly Awards: January 2026
-Capt. Sprague
Latest Mission Posts
» The Quiet Time Ends Here
Mission: A Fondness For
Posted on Mon Mar 9th, 2026 @ 9:48pm by Captain Emily Janeway
Previously on A Fondness For:
Captain Emily Janeway beamed to return back aboard the USS Albion, resumed commanding officer of the Marines, ordered a sweep on Charles Star, and called a muster in the Marine Ready room.
:ON:
{USS Albion – Marine Ready Room, Deck 10}
::The doors hissed open. Captain Emily Jones Janeway stepped in, combat armor still sealed, rucksack striking the deck with a muted thud. The room was unchanged — matte gray bulkheads, tactical display pulsing with Cumulonimbus V’s storm patterns, faint gun oil scent. Home. She felt the weight of absence, but the space hadn’t changed.…
» Beaming Down
Mission: A Fondness For
Posted on Thu Mar 5th, 2026 @ 8:48pm by Captain Dick Sprague
ON:
{Star Fleet Executive Transporter Shuttle, Guest Room}
#SNIP#
Charles Star: ::wearing a Hawaiian shirt while getting his suitcase together::
#SNIP#
Star: "Captain Sprague really came through this time." ::accidentally knocks two pieces of decorative art, one of which is a Horga'hn replica, from the console table into his luggage::
{USS Albion, Bridge}
Florian: "Captain, we're receiving new orders."
OFF:
Captain Dick Sprague
Commanding Officer
USS Albion NCC-3020
» Reality’s Quiet Hour
Mission: A Fondness For
Posted on Mon Mar 2nd, 2026 @ 6:49pm by Captain Emily Janeway
:ON:
::The transporter hum faded as Captain Emily Jones Janeway stepped off the pad, boots hitting the deck with practiced certainty. She shifted the weight of her marine rucksack, dog tags glinting under the lights—still carrying the quiet engraving she’d added years ago: adopted daughter of the Janeway family namesake. Albion never questioned it. That alone made stepping back aboard feel like coming home.::
Janeway ::nodded to the transporter chief:: “Chief. Report on Alpha Three?”
Transporter Chief ::glanced at his console:: “Standard orbit over Cumulonimbus Five, ma’am. Passenger—civilian, Charles Star—being prepped for beam-up now. Captain Sprague cleared the transfer.”
Janeway…
» That's all folks!
Mission: A Fondness For
Posted on Sat Feb 28th, 2026 @ 7:14pm by Captain Dick Sprague
OFF:
Great ending to the mission, Don!
ON:
#SNIP#
USS Albion, Cargo Bay Two
DON: Universe, I don’t know what your problem is with me, but you really need better hobbies.
He walks out.
Behind him, reality behaves.
For now…
#SNIP#
{Star Fleet Executive Transporter Shuttle, Control Room}
Comms Officer: =/\=This is Star Fleet Alpha Three, entering standard orbit of Cumulonimbus Five to drop of our passenger.=/\=
{Star Fleet Executive Transporter Shuttle, Guest Room}
Charles Star: ::wearing a Hawaiian shirt while getting his suitcase together::
OFF:
Captain Dick Sprague
Commanding Oficer
USS Albion NCC-3020
» A Clone For Our Time!
Mission: A Fondness For
Posted on Sun Feb 1st, 2026 @ 10:50pm by Commander Donald ‘Don’ Key
:ON:
{Two weeks later. USS Albion, Cargo Bay Two}
Commander Don Key is upside-down in a Jefferies tube. Not metaphorically. Literally. Only his boots are visible, sticking out of the ceiling like the ship has rejected him.
DON (muffled): For the record, this is not how heroic officers are supposed to go.
Something squelches.
DON: …That’s alive. That is definitely alive.
He wriggles, slides out, and lands flat on his back. The deck beneath him glows faintly and pulses like it’s breathing.
DON: Okay. Okay. So. The floor is alive now.
The cargo bay lights flicker. The air hums. The…
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…