First Battle of Altair VI

The First Battle of Altair IV was a small engagement during the Earth-Romulan War.

Background
After Vulcan decided to stay out of the war they offered warp detection technology to the rest of the Coalition of Planets and it was installed shortly thereafter. However, the system turned out to be ineffective so Earth forces began installing upgrades in all their systems. Columbia (NX-02) was sent to Altair to install these upgrades. 

The Battle
As the Columbia was installing the upgrades to the detection system, they detected the system's outer nodes failing and moved to investigate. They soon detected a small convoy of 16 Romulan ships and moved to attack them, destroying 14 Romulan fighters immediately. The two remaining fighters moved into the inner system and were engaged by the ships, USS Heinlein and USS Kon-Tiki, resulting in the destruction of the fighter. The final fighter attempted to make a suicide run against the planet, but was destroyed by Columbia. 

Aftermath
While Altair was saved, it proved that there were still gaps in the effectiveness of the detection grid and that Starfleet still had to fix them. 

Involved Ships

 * Columbia (NX-02)
 * USS Heinlein
 * USS Kon-Tiki
 * 2 unnamed ships