Starbase 900

Starbase 900 is an Immense class starbase located in the Delta Quadrant.  It is minutes away from the newly formed Solarian Wormhole, created when the Iconian Gateway at the same location was destroyed while connected to its sister gateway in the Beta Quadrant.  The resulting explosion formed a stable and always-open wormhole between the Delta and Beta Quadrants.  She is the home of the Delta Quadrant Operations branch of Starfleet spearheading the Federation's move into this vastly unexplored area of space.  Voyager made many discoveries in the Delta Quadrant but her travels were mostly in the far reaches of the area, nowhere near where 900 is now.

For over one hundred years, Starfleet relied on two primary Starbase designs; the Space Dock class and the much smaller Regula types. For years, a very large station was needed for remote areas of space that need more then what a Space Dock class could supply. Variants to the Space Dock and Regula were designed to try and fill the gap, and while they did their jobs well, they still weren't what was needed. Finally, in the late 2360s, a new proposal was submitted. Originally designed to be more the 50% larger then the Space Dock, the Immense class starbase was scaled down to being only approximately 25% larger, but it would be able to support a mid-sized task force, house and store plenty of supplies and provide a good defense position to protect Federation interests as an outpost-type station.