Section 31 - Federation Spyship!

[bsheridan]

Ever wanted to be a rogue starfleet agent? Now's your chance to serve aboard a federation spyship and go where no secret agent has gone before!

Section 31 is a secret extremist Starfleet group dedicated to defending the Federation at all costs, including violation of Federation and interstellar law and Starfleet regulations. Participate in missions to assassinate leaders, engineer weapons and plagues, spy on other races, and even investigate and spy on the federation itself!

The NX2574 is a small, sleek spyship visually reminiscent of the stealth technology of the 20th century. It is capable of tailing a starship for weeks unnoticed while the spyship crew infiltrates the Starfleet crew undercover. The ship is loaded with highly advanced and experimental technology for deception, sabotage, and manipulation.

Only on IRC. Contact Ben Sheridan immediately if you are interested! bsheridan@ufed.org
Check out the website: http://section31.ufed.org/

[Phoenix]

Well first, the "N" part of the prefix needs to be changed, after all Section 31 is not the "Navy". Honestly, I wouldn't give the ship identifying features like that, just in case some part of the stealth system breaks down the ship could not be traced back to the Federation.


Number Id theories (to the best of my memory)
NX = Navy experiment
NCC = Navy Contract/Commissioned
NAR = Navy Auxiliary (?)
Basically if it starts with a 'N' it is related to Starfleet.

[bsheridan]

I used "NX" because it typically means "experimental" in the Trek world. I came up with the ship before I decided to put it under Section 31, so I forgot about the prefix. Thanks for the input. I may just shorten it to X2574 or maybe S31X-2574. Sound better?

[Balok]

It's extraordinarily unlikely that the ship would bear any external markings at all. If it did, they'd use some sort of liquid crystal that could be turned on and off. And no designation would contain *any* indication of who operated the ship, so "S31X-anything" is right out. It would probably be a simple sequence of symbols meaningful only to Section 31. And possibly not even in a human alphabet.

When the United States sent SOG teams into Vietnam during that war, they typically travelled in unmarked planes or helicopters. And the soldiers were "cleaned" before every mission: everything that could tie them to America was removed. Cigarettes were even swapped for brands common in that part of the world. Some men ate only the native foods, so they'd *smell* like the people who lived over there.

Spook work is unrewarding, because even your closest friends and relatives will probably never know what you did -- and in the case of Section 31, they might be ashamed if they did know. Any reward comes from the agents fanatical belief that what he's doing is the *right thing* for his people -- the Sloane character captured this nicely, although he might not have been quite fanatical *enough* -- IMO, a true Section 31 agent would have murdered Bashir as soon as he realized Bashir was working on a cure for the Founder Plague.