Iconian Remnance

In 2377, the crew of the USS Artemis WS seconded by Starfleet Admiral Haran, who had uncovered an ancient Iconiqn tabletshe suspected of holding an artificially intelligent memory Engram of Iconian creation.

The engram was one of many left behind by the long-dead Iconian race, to safeguard some of their Portals and associated facilities.

This discovery touched of an away mission through space as well as across Iconian portals.

Iconian Engrams were complex, quasi-sentient program, partly comprised of Iconian DNA and incomplete race memory. They had the ability to possess or share consciousness with sentient hosts.

The search for these Engrrams was spearheaded by Starfleet Admiral Haran. Central to her long-standing secret searching for these Engrams was a crewman lost during testing of one previously recovered by Starfleet: the Admiral's daughter, possessed by the Engram before disappearing via Iconian Portal.

Thanks to the intervention of a holographic security officer aboard USS Artemis, the crew won the trust of the first Engram the crew encountered. Eventually it helped them gather more of the Engrams, defend themselves and eentually make peace.

A Romulan mission into Federation space to recover this advanced techhnology was thwarted, in part by the Engrams and Starfleet Officers.

The Engrams, Admiral Haran and her daughter, herself possessed by the consciousness of an actual Iconian mind, took possession of the Romulan's warp -and cloak- capable vessel and declared it Embassy of the Iconian Remnance.

Before departing for parts unknown, with the stated mission of finding other Remnants and learning more about their past, the Captain granted the Iconian Remnance standing as a government in the eyes of the Federation.