Starbase 12

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Starbase 12 is a Federation starbase located at Rhodes colony, at planet Rontelm in the Gamma 400 star system of the Fries-Posnikoff Sector. Starbase 12 is one of the most important outposts in the Federation as it is in reach of both the Klingon and Romulan empires. (TOS episode: "Space Seed"; TNG novel: Ship of the Line)

The USS Enterprise visited Starbase 12 at least twice during its fifth five-year mission. (TOS novels: Ishmael, The Final Reflection)

In 2285, the surviving crewmembers of the USS Reliant were transferred to Starbase 12 after their ship's destruction. (TOS comic: "The Wormhole Connection")

In 2370, the wife of USS Odyssey chief engineer Commander Rodzinski was stationed at Starbase 12. (DS9 short story: "The Second Artifact")

In 2372, construction of the USS Enterprise-E took place at Starbase 12. (TNG novel: Ship of the Line)

The timeline inside the FASA Star Trek IV Sourcebook Update claims Starbase 12 was built in 2265 in response to a Klingon base at Mastocal. However, the TNG episode: "Power Play" makes it clear that a facility with this name existed as early as 2167. There is some uncertainty as to which portion of Starbase 12 was built at that time, as Ship of the Line has the base being a planetside facility, while Ishmael describes it as an alien space station refurbished for Federation use, while Armada describes a standard Federation station. It is fully possible that all three are part of the same base complex.

In the late 23rd century, Starbase 12 supported 39,000 Starfleet personnel and over 150,000 civilian employees, two-thirds of whom were Orion. Starbase 12 was, at the time, the home of the 12th, 42nd, and 91st Strategic Forces as well as the 3rd, 6th and 7th Pursuit Groups of Scorpio-class corvettes, and reputedly was home base of an anti-pirate force which Starfleet denied the existence of at that time. The base was supplied by farms and mines on Rontelm, as well as mines on the neighboring fourth and fifth planets. (References: Federation Ship Recognition Manual, The Orions: Book of Common Knowledge)

By the 24th century, Starbase 12 had a fully operational Federation-built space station facility which was active in the late 2370s, after the Dominion War. (TNG video games: Armada, Armada II)

In Armada, the starbase's space station name was randomly assigned to a playing field station by the game software.

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[edit] External links

• Starbase 12 article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• Starbase 12 article at Star Trek Expanded Universe, the fanon Star Trek wiki.