Space: An Independent Frontier
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship. Tyrit. Its ten-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Or so it was. The Tyrit was an Oddessy Class Cruiser commissioned by Starfleet 15 years ago, and was almost immediately launched into Deep Space with its crew, sending in reports over long range comns as often as it could. Then, about 8 years ago, it stopped sending in any kind of transmissions. The only transmission that was received, was a long period of static before the ship's systems stopped transmitting. It was long believed that the Tyrit was lost to the Borg, until it was realized that the Borg (while still attempting to ever expand their territory and culture) are still confined to a relatively definable area of space.
Of course… You probably didn't care about that. Your group was part of a trade convoy, heading out into space following a Starfleet Escort to trade with recognized planets, and to earn a good profit. Your warp technician almost completely ruined everything though, by drinking on the job, and adding a few extra zeros to the Warp-Core formulae. Your group ended up in Deep Space, with few supplies, and almost no possibility to return to civilization. Finding the Tyrit was your saving grace. The Ship, although shut down, and in need of several repairs, was still in amazing condition. The life support systems were the first to come back online, and everything you added from the scrapping of your trade ship restored the ship to its former glory…
Now the question is what do you do with this massive ship? If pirates had a ship of this size they could be scourges of the quadrant. A ship of this caliber could easily be one of the best trade ships in the galaxy. Starfleet would love to see the return of the ship, and might recognize your crew as the "rightful" owners of the ship. Perhaps you may follow the Captain's Oath… And further yourselves in space, expanding the universe and galaxy as its known.
