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
» 6 New Crew!
Posted on Tue Sep 2nd, 2025 @ 8:14pm by Captain Dick Sprague in General News
Crew,
Please help me welcome 6 new members to our ranks (in no particular order):
Lt jg Tessa Ferra, Chief Counselor
Ens Adrian Locke, Chief Diplomatic Officer
1st Lt Slr’el, Marine Detachment XO
2nd Lt Naasya Epeyi, Marine
Staff Sergeant Naasya Epeyi, Marine
Theridion Grallator, Bartender
Welcome aboard!
For story purposes, let’s say that they are on a long-range shuttle en route to the Albion.
-Capt. Sprague
» It's that time again...
Posted on Sat Jul 5th, 2025 @ 12:51am by Captain Dick Sprague in General News
Happy anniversary, Independence Fleet!
The Most Important 24th Anniversary in the Universe
And congratulations to our latest Hall of Fame inductees!
-Capt. Sprague
» Today is Independence Fleet's 23rd Anniversary
Posted on Thu Jul 4th, 2024 @ 4:59pm by Captain Dick Sprague in General News
Congratulations to all fleet members today!
Happy 23rd Anniversary, Independence Fleet
2024 Hall of Fame Inductees
-Capt. Sprague
» New Crewmember
Posted on Wed Apr 10th, 2024 @ 7:01pm by Captain Dick Sprague in General News
Please help me welcome our new Ops Officer, Lt (jg) Leo Pendragon. For story purposes, we'll assume that he was onboard since the beginning of the mission.
-Capt. Sprague
» Crew Changes
Posted on Wed Aug 30th, 2023 @ 6:48pm by Captain Dick Sprague in General News
All,
Please welcome two new crewmembers:
Lieutenant JG Aevum Divus, our new Counselor
Lieutenant JG J.B. Dersch, our new Chief Operations Officer (his character of Master Chief Petty Officer Chris Townsend is hereby retired)
-Capt. Spargue
Latest Mission Posts
» No Need For A Res-Q
Mission: A Fondness For
Posted on Sat Jan 10th, 2026 @ 4:45pm by Commander Donald ‘Don’ Key
:ON:
The device behind them emits one final, contented thrum, like a cat settling on a warm console.
DON pauses mid-step.
DON: Sir… tell me you felt that.
DICK: If you’re about to say “sense of narrative closure,” then yes.
JULIUS: Chronal harmonics have collapsed into baseline reality.
ANDREWS: Translation?
JULIUS: We are no longer inside a metaphor.
DON: Thank God. I hate metaphors. They always end in explosions or lessons.
They round the corner and nearly collide with two men in identical gray suits, identical expressions, and identical disapproval radiating like a subspace field.
DULMUR: Well, well, well. Captain…
» I Got That Reference!
Mission: A Fondness For
Posted on Tue Jan 6th, 2026 @ 6:34pm by Commander Donald ‘Don’ Key
:ON:
The channel opens with a delay. Not a technical one—an administrative one. The kind that only exists because someone, somewhere, had to find the correct button.
DON (squinting at the hologram buffer): Sir… the transmission is asking us to “Please Hold For The Next Available Temporal Representative.”
DICK: Of course it is.
The storm outside obligingly fills the silence with a low, judgmental woooooom.
JULIUS: Chronal pressure is increasing. The universe does not enjoy hold music.
ANDREWS: Neither do I, and I survived three hours of Klingon opera.
Finally—pop. The hologram snaps into clarity.
Three figures appear. One Vulcan…
» Making Some Subtle Progress
Mission: A Fondness For
Posted on Mon Jan 5th, 2026 @ 4:22pm by Commander Donald ‘Don’ Key
:ON:
The separatist leader studies Dick for a long moment, as if recalculating the probability that this conversation will go anywhere useful.
SEPARATIST LEADER: You expect us to believe Starfleet can be reasoned with after it arrives armed?
DICK: No. I expect you to believe I can be reasoned with while Starfleet figures out how much paperwork this would cause.
DON (aside): Sir, I’ve seen Starfleet paperwork. Entire civilizations have surrendered to avoid it.
ANDREWS: Captain, tactical estimate says they’re disciplined enough not to panic—but nervous enough to misinterpret a sneeze.
DICK: Then let’s not sneeze.
JULIUS steps closer to…
» This Could Get Messy
Mission: A Fondness For
Posted on Sat Jan 3rd, 2026 @ 1:50pm by Commander Donald ‘Don’ Key
:ON:
{USS Albion, Transporter Room}
The transporter room hums with that familiar this-is-probably-fine vibration.
TRANSPORTER CHIEF: Away team ready.
Commander Jackson Andrews stands ramrod straight, hands clasped behind his back. Lieutenant Julius Mack is already scanning ahead, eyes flicking through sensor readouts. Lieutenant Sheeraashaa Genno—immaculate, unreadable—rests a hand near her sidearm, posture coiled and ready.
Dick and Don step onto the pads.
DON: Sir, last chance to stay aboard and let literally anyone else do this.
DICK: Don, if I stayed behind every time someone suggested that, I’d be a very relaxed admiral with no friends.
DON: You say that…
» Happy Temporal Marker Day
Mission: A Fondness For
Posted on Thu Jan 1st, 2026 @ 11:06am by Commander Donald ‘Don’ Key
:ON:
{USS Albion, Bridge}
SHIP’S COMPUTER: ATTENTION. TEMPORAL MARKER APPROACHING. NEW YEAR’S EVE IN… TEN MINUTES.
DICK: Oh thank God.
DON: Sir?
DICK: If we’re going to die, I’d like it to be in a new calendar year. Symbolic.
DON: The storm planet is still pulling us in!
DICK: Yes, but with optimism, Don. With optimism.
The ship shudders. Somewhere, party streamers deploy from the ceiling and immediately catch fire.
DON: Sir, Festive Mode has escalated to “New Year’s Gala.”
DICK: I knew installing that disco ball was a good idea.
SHIP’S COMPUTER: WARNING. GRAVITATIONAL lol STRESS INCREASING. ALSO, CONFETTI…
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…