Iconia Launch Site

A Iconian launch facility on Iconia that functions as the suspected origin point for active Iconian probes and as the repository for launch records the away team must retrieve. The site combines features of an offworld industrial scar — silent runways, ruined infrastructure and lingering electromagnetic interference — with internal launch infrastructure: cavernous launch bays, heavy blast-doors, ringed vents and conveyor gantries that feed sleek autonomous devices into space. The atmosphere is one of mechanical strain and ozone; tactically it is both the source of world‑shaping hardware and a focal point for denial and sabotage operations.

2 events

2 rich involvements

Detailed Involvements

Events with rich location context

S2E11 · Contagion

Choosing the Sacrifice — Picard Claims the Away Mission

The Iconia Launch Site is cited as the probable location of launch records that could explain or counteract the probe; it becomes the operational objective the away team must reach to retrieve actionable data.

Atmosphere

Offscreen but ominous — a remote, information‑rich site implied to be dangerous and technologically potent.

Functional Role

Target destination for retrieval mission, the likely source of diagnostic records needed.

Symbolic Significance

Represents the unknown technological legacy that both tempts and threatens the Federation.

Access Restrictions

Remote and hazardous; presumably contested or unstable.

Described as source of records near the probe's launch Implicit electromagnetic/technological interference suggested by probe activity

S2E11 · Contagion

Picard Volunteers for the Away Mission; Riker Assumes Command

The Iconia Launch Site is named as the probable origin of the probe and as the location where records might exist that could explain or halt the probe's destructive behavior; it becomes the explicit destination for the away team Picard volunteers to lead.

Atmosphere

Implied hazardous and eerie — a ruined site with automated systems and dangerous legacy technology.

Functional Role

Objective of the retrieval mission and the narrative pivot that forces Picard's personal involvement.

Symbolic Significance

A threshold between present danger and possible knowledge: where past technology meets current responsibility.

Access Restrictions

Off‑world, mission-only access; dangerous and likely uncontrolled.

Identified as the likely origin of the probe (dialogue). Characterized by the implication of automated systems and recoverable records.

Events at This Location

Everything that happens here

S2E11 · Contagion

Choosing the Sacrifice — Picard Claims the Away Mission

In the captain's ready room Picard and Riker confront a collapsing timeline: life support is already failing on multiple decks and an Iconian program may be actively rewriting ship systems. …

S2E11 · Contagion

Picard Volunteers for the Away Mission; Riker Assumes Command

In the captain's ready room, Riker delivers grim news: life support is failing on multiple decks and an Iconian probe may be rewriting the ship's systems. Picard, haunted by the …