For the past few weeks, Starbase Bravo has served as a bastion of Starfleet stability, resources, and coordination.  Planets and star systems across the Alpha and Beta Quadrants have gone quiet.  No planets have gone missing; they’re simply isolated.  In a few instances, entire sectors have been affected.  Swaths of Federation space and beyond have become afflicted with the Blackout.

Starships and planets within the Blackout have become unreachable by long-range subspace communications and sensors.  Worse, warp travel has become impossible in these areas too, with warp fields collapsing as soon as they’re formed.  Starfleet has determined no pattern to predict the areas of space affected by the Blackout.

Starbase Bravo has been untouched by the Blackout.  Until now.