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| Her first captain, a human woman named Aloura Castell, only had command for six months before she was killed while on an away mission at a mining colony on a Class L planet. The Revenant had been called in to assist in repairs after a devastating quake. Captain Castell was killed when an aftershock brought an already weakened structure down on her. The executive officer at the time had only recently been promoted and had served as XO for just six months. He was passed over for command of the Revenant in favor of Bolian Captain Tobin Plet. Commander Harvis Jansen, the ambitious XO, was livid at being passed over and left the Revenant within weeks of Plet assuming command. Plet has the distinction of having the longest tenure as Captain of the Revenant, holding the slot for two and half years. He left the Revenant in 2366 to command a Galaxy class ship. Executive Officer Commander Bael Recor, of Alpha Centauri, next assumed command. Recor was killed during the Battle of Wolf 359 when a Borg cutting beam sliced into the ship and vaporized him in his command chair. The Revenant was disabled but not destroyed in the battle. Suffering severe damage, she was in space dock until 2370, being rebuilt and repaired. During the rebuilding, the Revenant was modified to expand her weapons capacity. As a result, she has a 37% smaller shuttle bay than the standard Steamrunner class vessel and carries a 42% larger payload. |
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| Commissioned in 2363, the USS Revenant NCC-61269 was one of the last Steamrunner class vessels launched by Starfleet. The development of the Intrepid class vessels would soon begin and that class would eventually eclipse the Steamrunners. The Revenant was named by the designer, who knew that his class of vessels would no longer be assembled. He wanted to let everyone know that the Steamrunners would not fade away. Ironically, the name was be an omen for the future of the ship. NCC-61269 is considered jinxed, or perhaps even cursed, by many in Starfleet. She has an unusually high personnel turnover rate and unexplained �phenomena� seem to plague the Revenant. |
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| Noth�s command was plagued by reports of mysterious noises and complaints of items either moving on their own or disappearing. Some crewmembers suffered from insomnia and nightmares. The Revenant acquired the reputation of being haunted. Crew turnover reached an alarmingly high rate over the next year and it became increasingly difficult to find personnel who would willingly accept assignment on the Revenant. Captain Noth suffered a breakdown due to constant exposure to the anxiety and stress from which his crew suffered. He became unable to shut out their negative emotions and eventually collapsed in mid-2377. Starfleet Intelligence requested and received permission to bring the Revenant into their service and is now staffing the ship for her first mission. Captain T�Ket, a Vulcan/Human female, is in command. |
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| In 2370, the Revenant left Utopia Planitia once more, bound for the Romulan neutral zone and a standard patrol mission under Captain Elizabeth Glass, a human. This was virtually the only mission undertaken by the Revenant that could be described as uneventful. In 2371, while en route to Federation Outpost Gamma 12, Captain Glass died of what appeared to be natural causes. The CMO logged the death as suspicious since Glass was only 47 at the time. Despite a complete autopsy and full investigation, no other explanation was found for the captain�s untimely death. |
| It was at this point that the crew began to request transfers off of the Revenant. Only a few at first, but the rumors had begun. The Revenant was not a "happy" ship. The Executive Officer, Commander Nalan of Vulcan, commanded the Revenant next. During Nalan�s year and a half tour, the Revenant was called upon to search for the USS Voyager after her disappearance in the Badlands and remained in the area as tensions began to escalate between the Dominion and the Federation. Nalan left in 2373 to command another vessel. In an unusual twist, Harvis Jansen, now a captain, returned to command the Revenant. He joked that he was like the ship�s namesake, a returning spirit. Jansen commanded the vessel in what would be her darkest time since the Battle of Wolf 359. Early in 2374, the Revenant was sent on a mission away from the Dominion War to investigate odd messages from a small Federation colony. When they arrived, the colony was abandoned. No trace of the settlers was found. Several messages indicated that most of the inhabitants had left to attempt a return to Earth. |
| With the Dominion War in full swing, Starfleet could not afford to have the Revenant out of action for the length of time it would take to do a full investigation and she was ordered back to the war zone. She never made it. The USS Charleston found the Revenant adrift weeks after she reported her departure from the abandoned colony, over 100 light years off her course for the Bajoran sector. |
| Half of the crew was missing, though no escape pods had been launched. Almost all of the rest were found dead, the result of an apparent mutiny. The ship's counselor was discovered in a locked storage bay, nearly catatonic, mumbling incoherently about shadows moving when she wasn't watching them. Captain Jansen's body was found near an escape pod. It was noted that no "abandon ship" order was in the log, though obviously Jansen had been shot in the back while trying to flee the ship. A tow ship took the Revenant to the nearest star base where a full investigation was completed. Most of the findings were inconclusive. Many crewmembers had been killed with Starfleet-issue phasers. Some had apparently committed suicide. The counselor died aboard the Charleston as the CMO tried unsuccessfully to bring her out of her state of shock. No indication was ever found of what had happened to the missing crew. |
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| After being scanned from stem to stern, Starfleet sent a new crew out to staff the Revenant, commanded by Captain Anna Johns-Masters. With her new crew, the Revenant fully rejoined the Dominion War, suffering the same losses as any other ship and participating in the advance to Cardassia that eventually ended the Dominion War. Captain Johns-Masters left Starfleet in 2376 after the war, saying she had seen enough of hell and wanted to see peace for a while. She is retired and lives with her husband on a farming colony. The Revenant remained in the DOZ on patrol under a new captain, Latos Noth, a Betazoid. |
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