New Eden is currently the Confederation stronghold of the Gamma Quadrant. The Confederation posessed all the space from New Eden to the Worm Hole, but the Dominion is starting to rebuild. Currenly there are 2 Starfleet ships in the Quadrant with a dozen more on the way. Withing 4 months the Quadrant will have a total of 14 "official" Confederation ships within its border, all focused around the New Eden system.







Going along with the terms of Ka'Leigh acceptance into the Confederation is a Starfleet Engineering Team, who are arriving with the first Starfleet vessel in one month. Once they arrive they are going to survey the planet in order to decide what possible sort of starbase is suitable. There is debate about building a full Spacedock, and possibly a shipyards to base Gamma Quadrant operations from.

From the the information currently available to them the Confederation wants to build a heavily fortified space station with weaponry exceeding that of Deep Space Nine (given its even closer proximity to the Dominion). It is also being suggested that the space station is assigned a heavy battle cruiser such as a Prometheus, Steamrunner, or Lancer class ship in order to aide in its defense.

With the quick need of a Starbase around New Eden the Federation is going to be trying something desperate and new in order to get it together in record time. Once the Federation Engineering team finishes its assesment they are going to take their pick from about a dozen proposed designs for a heavily armored and designed starbase which will fit their needs. Once they have decided on what type of base they want every ship yard in the Federation is going to begin immediate construction on sections of the base small enough to fit inside shuttle bays of Federation starships. Once these sections are constructed they will be transported at high warp to New Eden where they will be Gamma Welded together and then ablative armor will be applied.

The entire opperation will take approximately 6 months, but if the situation in New Eden gets hotter hopefully a month can be cut off that. The Dominion has invaded our space for decades, now it is our turn to stop them from ever reaching the wormhole again. Not only that, but we get to really begin exploring vast regions of new space in a different quadrant of the galaxy!