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Rana IV Warship (Recreation / Unidentified Contact)

Sensors register an anomalous, non‑communicative contact near Rana IV that manifests as a fully detailed, battle‑ready warship created by KEVIN: a starship‑sized craft with metal‑like hull plating, visible weapon arrays and sensor bulks, which projects tactical posture and closing vectors on viewscreens. Bridge consoles treat it as a coherent tactical contact even as witnesses perceive its sudden appearance and disappearance. Its presence drives alarms, reroutes tactical power, and frames the Enterprise command’s assessment of threat and the moral/legal implications of responding to a recreation with apparent hostile capability.
5 appearances

Purpose

To function as a combat vessel capable of threatening, pursuing, or engaging opposing starships.

Significance

Serves as demonstrable evidence of Kevin's ability to generate ontologically false but experientially real recreations; its hostile posture raises stakes by revealing divine-level culpability and frames Picard's moral and legal decision about how to respond.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

5 moments
S3E3 · The Survivors
The Oasis in the Ashes

The 'unidentified spacecraft' functions as a referenced cause of the garbled distress transmission; its mention shapes the crew's initial threat assessment even though tactical sensors report no evidence of an armed vessel in the system.

Before: Alleged attacker referenced in the distress call; unknown signature and threat level.
After: Not detected by current sensors as an armed presence, remaining a contextual but unresolved variable in the investigation.
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S3E3 · The Survivors
Oasis Among Ashes

The 'unidentified spacecraft' exists as the reported but undetected antagonist: referenced in the distress call and Picard's log, its possible presence justifies caution despite its absence on current sensors, creating an unseen threat that shapes command decisions.

Before: Reported as the presumed attacker via the garbled transmission but not detected by current sensor sweeps (potentially cloaked or otherwise hidden).
After: Remains undetected by bridge sensors; its presence is hypothesized and unresolved, continuing to represent an unknown tactical variable.
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S3E3 · The Survivors
Bridge Confrontation — The Uxbridges Unmade

The Rana IV warship is referenced by Picard as another recreation used to manipulate the Enterprise. It functions narratively as a decoy/antagonist clue demonstrating the scope and intentionality behind the creations.

Before: Seen earlier as a recreated contact that engaged the Enterprise.
After: Remains an evidentiary clue referenced in Picard's explanation; no immediate change indicated in this event.
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S3E3 · The Survivors
When the Illusion Breaks

The recreated Rana IV Warship is referenced as part of Picard's deduction — evidence of Kevin's recreations being used to intimidate and force the Enterprise away — highlighting the scope and malevolence of the phenomenon.

Before: Appeared earlier as a sensor/visual recreation used to harass the Enterprise.
After: Remains part of the evidentiary corpus but not physically engaged in this bridge confrontation; its pattern supports Picard's accusation.
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S3E3 · The Survivors
Douwd Revealed — Rishon Dissolves

The recreation of the warship, referenced by Picard earlier and present on sensors, functions as circumstantial evidence of Kevin's ability to fabricate large-scale, convincing phenomena and to threaten the Enterprise, heightening the stakes of the moral confrontation.

Before: Registered intermittently on tactical displays as an appearing/disappearing contact used to intimidate or drive the Enterprise away.
After: Remains an evidentiary sign of Kevin's capabilities and is treated as part of the larger pattern of recreations to be investigated.
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