Station-history
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Station History
Kepler Station was built in 2325 in the Bellatrix system. Though the design is based on the Regula-1 space station, Kepler was a prototype station, intended to replace the aging Regula-1 stations. However, it quickly became clear that the station, though quite a bit larger than the Regula-1 stations, would not be large enough to handle the kind of traffic that flowed through many Federation starbases. Starfleet expanded the design in favor of what eventually became the Regula-2 class station, which served as the main design for many starbases, including Starbases 173 and 257.
Kepler was used as a secondary science station after the construction of a Regula-2 in orbit around Bellatrix, and was eventually abandoned in 2379. Starfleet returned to Kepler in 2384, deciding to salvage the station and place it in the Delta Quadrant to support exploration efforts there, the effort and cost of moving and retrofitting the station being less than constructing a new station from scratch. By early 2385, the station was operational, under the command of Captain Gregory Blake.
However, Kepler was not to have a placid life cataloging artifacts and supplying science vessels. Late in 2385, a spatial anomaly transported the station from the Delta Quadrant to the Gamma Quadrant, placing it squarely in the Gavarian Frontier in an area of unclaimed space between the Cardassian Union and the Romulan Empire.
Kepler became the center of a new exploratory force in the Gavarian Corridor until early 2386, when the station once again fell victim to a spatial and temporal anomaly, which transported the station back to the Alpha Quadrant, into one of the few unexplored regions left in that area of space, and caused the station to jump forward five months in time. In the Expanse, Kepler finds itself between more trouble than simply the Cardassians and Romulans; instead, the Cardassians, Tholians, Breen, Tzenkethi and Ferengi are all nearby, as are the Badlands, with the nearest Federation installation being Deep Space 9.
Kepler Station is the main outpost for Task Force 92.