That said, putting him in charge of Personnel would be specifically a bad idea, but that's just because there'd probably be some kind of anti-time paperwork explosion, not because he's unfit for higher rank, a matter which I leave it to the voterbase to judge.
This has comnvinced me it's a brilliant idea that we should impliment immediately. Only Leslie can defeat the bureaucractic black hole preventing him from retiring. After all, everyone else in charge of Personel has been unable to do so, and who knows what other unseen monsters lurk in the paperwork?
Barradus IV research colony site @ -2B (in Vulcan sector)
XK-821 mining "colony" @ -6b (in Ferasa sector, below galactic plane somewhat due to map space reasons)
Mortuary Expanse research colony site @ 3a (between Rigel sector and Vermillions)
Neath Nebula @ 1G/1H (between Breen and Romulan territory)
Outpost to Lapruzziz @ -1g (indicated to exist in 2322.Q4 AoTO update)
Outpost to Apruzza @ 1g (indicated to exist in 2321.Q3 GBZ update)
Harmony of Horizon retcon update after piercing initial HoH disinformation campaign:
Made territory about 3 times larger
Moved Horizon from 7C to 10C
Moved Haven from 5D to 10B
Moved Tahlan from 8a to 10a
Moved Starfoam from 6C to 8C
Moved Jafa from 8E to 5D and renamed to Japha (Tauni colony world that remained in HoH)
Moved Mist from 6B to 8B and noted it as Moy homeworld
Moved Sanctuary from 6D to 9D
Moved Iskut from 5E to 11A
Moved Tiriad from 8A to 11G and noted it as Lintrid homeworld
Moved the lone unnamed major world from 7B to 9F (random other location that doesn't conflict with prior AoTO reports)
Added Stickine to 12B and noted it as Tseskiya homeworld
Klingon-Romulan aftermath:
Adjusted Klingon-Romulan borders according to WTT
Changed hands from Romulans to Klingons:
Vinum @ -4D - starbase was captured rather than destroyed by the Klingons
Iberius @ -4D - removed destroyed shipyard (since wasn't listed in the WTT)
Levoc III @ -4D - removed presumably destroyed outpost
Alixros @ -4E - noted as a major Romulan colony, so added a major colony symbol; Klingons heavily fortified it after its capture, but Romulans cleared them before war ended
Mothidum @ -4E - Romulan outposts destroyed, but were rebuilt before war ended, assumed handed over to Klingons
The Latch @ -4F
Aniak @ -4F - although research colony was destroyed, assume it was/will be rebuilt by Klingons
Ocutis @ -4F - removed destroyed starbase, assumed now a minor colony
Jarok's Beacon @ -4F - was "destroyed", assumed now a minor colony
Old Red Eye @ -4F - still assuming it has its research colony, since wasn't mentioned as destroyed
Additional Romulan infrastructure changes:
Removed destroyed shipyard at Terix II @ -3F
Removed destroyed shipyard at Rator III @ -3D
Upgraded Pompara minor shipyard to mid-sized shipyard @ -4E (2x1mt shipyard)
Made Klingon and Romulan territory colors brighter to represent more well-known territory
Changed:
Expanded map two subsectors corewards (now includes 12<x> and 13<x> subsectors)
Split Romulus/Remus ala Earth/Mars
Expanded Breen fuzzy borders down a bit toward Neath Nebula
Rename Adazzi Gulf to Adrazzi Gulf (Deployment Vote updates consistently spell it as Adrazzi, but the AoTO updates and TF updates always spell it as Adrazzi, and when it was first mentioned, it was Adrazzi)
Legend states "Ashalla Pact" instead of "Card. Client"
Moved the Compass Rose over toward the Legend card to avoid overlapping with HoH territory
Also, a bonus:
Total territorial area sizes of each great power
United Federation of Planets*: ~6800 ly2
Ashalla Pact: ~6000 ly2 (rough estimate)
Cardassian Union: ~3700 ly2
Harmony of Horizon: ~5000 ly2
Klingons: ~4000 ly2 (rough estimate)
Romulans: ~2500 ly2 (rough estimate)
Note that the Romulans lost ~500 ly2 of territory to the Klingons, so before the war, they were much more even in territorial area.
* including the enveloped Honiani, Laio, and Tauni territory, and excluding all other affiliate territory
Barradus IV research colony site @ -2B (in Vulcan sector)
XK-821 mining "colony" @ -6b (in Ferasa sector, below galactic plane somewhat due to map space reasons)
Mortuary Expanse research colony site @ 3a (between Rigel sector and Vermillions)
Neath Nebula @ 1G/1H (between Breen and Romulan territory)
Outpost to Lapruzziz @ -1g (indicated to exist in 2322.Q4 AoTO update)
Outpost to Apruzza @ 1g (indicated to exist in 2321.Q3 GBZ update)
Harmony of Horizon retcon update after piercing initial HoH disinformation campaign:
Made territory about 3 times larger
Moved Horizon from 7C to 10C
Moved Haven from 5D to 10B
Moved Tahlan from 8a to 10a
Moved Starfoam from 6C to 8C
Moved Jafa from 8E to 5D and renamed to Japha (Tauni colony world that remained in HoH)
Moved Mist from 6B to 8B and noted it as Moy homeworld
Moved Sanctuary from 6D to 9D
Moved Iskut from 5E to 11A
Moved Tiriad from 8A to 11G and noted it as Lintrid homeworld
Moved the lone unnamed major world from 7B to 9F (random other location that doesn't conflict with prior AoTO reports)
Added Stickine to 12B and noted it as Teskiya homeworld
Klingon-Romulan Aftermath:
Adjusted Klingon-Romulan borders according to WTT
Changed hands from Romulans to Klingons:
Vinum @ -4D - starbase was captured rather than destroyed by the Klingons
Iberius @ -4D - removed destroyed shipyard (since wasn't listed in the WTT)
Levoc III @ -4D - removed presumably destroyed outpost
Alixros @ -4E - noted as a major Romulan colony, so added a major colony symbol; Klingons heavily fortified it after its capture, but Romulans cleared them before war ended
Mothidum @ -4E - Romulan outposts destroyed, but were rebuilt before war ended, assumed handed over to Klingons
The Latch @ -4F
Aniak @ -4F - although research colony was destroyed, assume it was/will be rebuilt by Klingons
Ocutis @ -4F - removed destroyed starbase, assumed now a minor colony
Jarok's Beacon @ -4F - was "destroyed", assumed now a minor colony
Old Red Eye @ -4F - still assuming it has its research colony, since wasn't mentioned as destroyed
Additional Romulan infrastructure changes:
Removed destroyed shipyard at Terix II @ -3F
Removed destroyed shipyard at Rator III @ -3D
Upgraded Pompara minor shipyard to mid-sized shipyard @ -4E (2x1mt shipyard)
Made Klingon and Romulan territory colors brighter to represent more well-known territory
Changed:
Expanded map two subsectors corewards (now includes 12<x> and 13<x> subsectors)
Split Romulus/Remus ala Earth/Mars
Rename Adazzi Gulf to Adrazzi Gulf (Deployment Vote updates consistently spell it as Adrazzi, but the AoTO updates and TF updates always spell it as Adrazzi, and when it was first mentioned, it was Adrazzi)
Legend states "Ashalla Pact" instead of "Card. Client"
Moved the Compass Rose over toward the Legend card to avoid overlapping with HoH territory
Also, a bonus:
Total territorial area sizes of each great power
United Federation of Planets: ~6800 ly2
Ashalla Pact: ~6000 ly2 (rough estimate)
Cardassian Union: ~3700 ly2
Harmony of Horizon: ~5000 ly2
Klingons: ~4000 ly2 (rough estimate)
Romulans: ~2500 ly2 (rough estimate)
Note that the Romulans lost ~500 ly2 of territory to the Klingons, so before the war, they were much more even in territorial area.
Given the transcendental paperwork snarl that's preventing him from retiring because he's already legally dead, I would be compelled to write an omake in which Starfleet's personnel database eats a paradox to the face and collapses into a transdimensional Ouroboros singularity, causing demented scritchings at the walls of reality as the boundaries between life and death are literally blurred. At least in Starfleet's paperwork.
Would we see Leslie's personnel file joining Rincewind's lifetimer on Death's desk?
EDIT: My brain is weird. I now want a Star Trek/Discworld/Star Control crossover. Rincewind ends up on a Starfleet ship just in time for first contact with the Spathi.
I'm fairly sure there have been other events where we've lost serious amounts of Affiliate/Ally relations before. IIRC there was a string of bad luck with the Honiani a while back that set us back by over -50 Relations at least.
Task Forces and increased Diplo push numbers are taking up a large amount of our pp. You know what would be neat? A big, expensive pp option that made a single push per year free going forward or something.
As far as the PP shortage goes the completion of Arsenal of Liberty should make shipyards and related infrastructure cheaper to buy. So reduced costs for new berths and maybe HIP cost reduction in next years snakepit might make yard expansions a little more viable.
[X][EC] Vice Admiral T'Lorel
[X][ACAD] Rear Admiral Nash ka'Sharren, Chief of Staff, Explorer Corps
[X][PERS] Rear Admiral Gorac Crogan
Bonuses:
Nash ka'Sharren: +10% EC O/E/T recruitment, all new ships gain experience faster in their first year of operations
T'Lorel: +1 bonus to successive events involving the same polity, phenomenon, or opponent
Gorac Crogan: +1 DC to enemy sabotage attempts, +3 to Cardassian research
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Starfleet HQ, San Francisco, Sol III
Coffee was the order of the day for most of the sophonts gathered around the meeting room. A pair of Apiatan aides were all but mainlining a sweetened drink from their homeworld, the only thing that let them keep up with the dizzying array of instructions you and the rest of the Admiralty were handing out.
The USS Courageous was a peculiar ship, you reflected. When discussing the incident with Ainsworth, the outgoing commander of the Explorer Corps, she had confided in you that the nickname for the ship in Mission Control was 'Canary'. You hadn't got it at first, of course, so you had to listen through a talk on coal mines and gas deposits from the native earther.
Well, it had followed through on that nickname once more, managing to stumble upon an entire Breen warfleet. The notoriously secretive Breen had proved no less secretive this time around, and only a last ditch Dreamer Collective intervention staved off final disaster and a lonely anonymous grave.
You make a quick note to yourself to send the Dreamers a thank you note.
There was no keeping the crippling of a ship with the notoriety of the Courageous quiet. It started with the rumour boards of any number of Starfleet watching social collectives, and shortly after the journalists on the deep space beat. By the time Courageous returned to Federation space, your message queue was on the verge of burdening the HQ mainframe. A slight exaggeration, but not as much of one as you'd like.
The Council was predictably in turmoil, with closed-door debates on the prospect of war somewhat closer than you had expected. The Development faction had played the swing vote between the Hawks and Expansionists on the one side, and Pacifists and Mercantilists on the other. In the end, they fell in on the side of the President. However, no one, even the most ardent of the Pacifist faction, wanted to see the Breen left to proceed with their unprovoked assault unopposed. Moreover, no one wanted to see the nascent Romulan government backslide into xenophobia.
The office of the President has already summoned you to provide the President with options on how to proceed. What you have to say could have a tremendous impact on the future course of the Federation. For the first time, you start to really understand, bone-deep, the awesome power that comes with your position. Sure, you've always understood intellectually that Commander, Starfleet has been the joint most-powerful person in the Federation, but all the different ways you could push a course of action that would drag the fates of more than a hundred billion along with you are abundantly clear. You could even push a vote for war that would bring the Development faction on board.
Of course, that way lies madness and Admiral Rogers. At its worst extent, Admiral Cartwright. You must keep the needs of the Federation first and foremost. And so, as the ideas of the leading lights of the Tactical and Operations commands are exchanged around you, you sit back and do you best to fix in your mind what the Federation needs here.
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This is a riot-style vote. Every vote will count in terms of your presentation to the President is. You will be able to vote for up to three areas to emphasise. The more votes, the more strongly that part of a package of responses is prioritized.
[ ][PREZ] Industrial Support/Lend-Lease Response
[ ][PREZ] Alliance-Building Diplomacy Response to gain more participants in response
[ ][PREZ] Aggressive Diplomatic Response to isolate Breen
[ ][PREZ] Conciliatory Diplomatic Response to Breen
[ ][PREZ] Subterfuge & Sabotage Response
[ ][PREZ] Direct Action Response against Breen assets
[ ][PREZ] Romulan-Klingon Border Peacekeeping Response
[ ][PREZ] Recon & Intel Support
[ ][PREZ] Push for Federation Early Mobilisation
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Shipyard Operations Command Report
Refits Completed
USS Zephyr, Centaur-B (Starfleet Build Order NCC-2103) @ 40 Eridani A Fleet Yards Berth 1
USS Yukikaze, Centaur-B (Starfleet Build Order NCC-2101) @ Oreasa Starfleet Yard Berth 1
USS Rru'adorr, Excelsior-A (Starfleet Build Order NCC-2016) @ Ana Font Shipyard Berth A
USS Pleezirra, Excelsior-A (Starfleet Build Order NCC-2024) @ Lor'Vela OCF Berth A
Gaeni - Planning to scrap Tech-Frigates, 2 in 2323.Q2, 2 in 2324.Q2
Indorians - Ship of the Line, ICS Anvil, NCC-3401, was taken out of service last year. Two additional 'Frigate-class- ships will be withdrawn from service for scrapping this year.
Caldonian - 2 Caldonian Escorts will be scrapped in 2323.Q2, followed by two more in 2325, a part of phasing out these obsolete ships in favour of new Patroller-As, Centaurs and Keplers.
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* = A controversy is brewing over the status of these OSA ships, built under contract by the Licori, with the government stepping in to prevent transfer of title unless assurances are given by the OSA regarding future conduct.
Recon & Intel or Aggressive Diplomacy or Alliance-Building or Lend-Lease all seem like good answers. All but the last one can be sold to the Klingons as the Federation's usual pre-hostilities behavior.
Absolutely useful for the Romulans to hold on. Also a little worrying for the Klingons, but it's not like it's full military operations.
[ ][PREZ] Alliance-Building Diplomacy Response to gain more participants in response
Who would we even bring in for this? The Harmony, I guess, they're big on "peacekeeping." It'd probably end up with the Breen as a Harmony client, but you know what, I might be ok with that?
[ ][PREZ] Aggressive Diplomatic Response to isolate Breen
The Breen are already pretty isolationist, I don't know...they might end up having the Klingons reach out to them, which we might want to take this to blunt.
[ ][PREZ] Conciliatory Diplomatic Response to Breen
My instinctive response is "haha no" but there's merit in this. The Romulans might or might not understand, but it'd certainly match the stereotypical view of the Federation and if I were the Breen I'd grab the olive branch desperately to avoid getting invaded. We might be able to wring out some concessions, but probably not an end to the fighting-they know this is do or die.
[ ][PREZ] Subterfuge & Sabotage Response
Hm...
[ ][PREZ] Direct Action Response against Breen assets
I mean, we absolutely could just drop Task Force Beyond on the Breen, but I don't really want to get into it with them right now? We'd take losses, which are never fun. Would have to be paired with mobilization for maximum effect.
Might be handy. The Breen are sneaky, and the Romulans might enjoy being on the other side of the Federation sensor advantage.
[ ][PREZ] Push for Federation Early Mobilisation
I think it's very unlikely the Breen will attack us first. We should only pick this if we're going to enter an undeclared war with the Breen.
[X][PREZ] Aggressive Diplomatic Response to isolate Breen
[X][PREZ] Alliance-Building Diplomacy Response to gain more participants in response
[X][PREZ] Recon & Intel Support
This seems likeliest to blunt the initial Breen assault and then allow us to build a coalition that will prevent them from pulling this again in the future. I'm hoping the diplomatic response will avoid this turning into a general war and include diplomacy with the Klingons.
