Prelude to a Swansong is a short episode set in the year 2387 on Stardate 64467.12 and takes up after the events that appeared in the Star Trek comic series Countdown, which is also a prequel to the 2009 movie Star Trek. The episode itself appears in the Duras Sisters Alien Pub of Sin (RPG) site on September 11, 2011. It consists of the transcript between starships of Task Force 143.34.3b sent by Admiral Jeffery Higdon from Starbase 12 to assist in the evacuation of the the Biscayne Star System within the Cha'ouw Empire due to the massive supernove that had destroyed the Romulan Star System.