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So Bright It's Burning: A Star Trek AU Quest

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These are OC ships, like the captains; I wanna try more art in the new year, but it can be slow, so it's a secondary priority. Descriptions are very doable!

The Bubo-class is easiest to describe because it comes straight from a movie; in the background of First Contact, the VFX team from ILM leaved a little calling card in the form of a little, fuzzy Millennium Falcon! To turn it into a Trek ship, I assumed it was out-of-scale, ignored the asymmetrical cockpit, and flipped the whole thing around; scaled it to be roughly the same size as the Protostar, the mandibles became the nacelles, and the bridge went over the top turret. It's a Tellarite-made convoy escort that mostly handles moving personnel and cargo between Starbases.

The Galileo-class is my take on a vertical saucer; take a Galaxy-class saucer, shrink it a lot, then stand it on one of its narrow points like a football. Attach an in-line engineering hull at the back, then hang a pair of scaled Miranda nacelles off the side - whole thing is roughly as long as a CR-90 from SW. This one is about handling expeditions; the saucer and nacelles have retractable landing gear so the corvette can land on a planet's surface. It's somewhat fragile and high-maintenance, however, so Starfleet is slowly chipping away at a replacement.

The Peregrine is an Andorian design; take the Andorian battlecruiser from Enterprise and replace its nacelles with the Connie refit's and you're basically there. She's a swift response craft built by the Andorian Royal Guard to test out a new model of rapid-fire torpedo launcher that's become standard-issue within Starfleet.
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So sort of like this? Bubo, Galileo, Peregrine, top to bottom.

 
[X] Plan: Connections

Maybe the rando starfleeters who rescue the Mayweather will become our next hero crew? :)
 
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    • Turn 6 - Sub-vote


    TRAIT: The Floor is Open. Choosing this option will prompt a sub-vote for determining the method of intel gathering. A hero cannot be assigned to this task until the sub-vote, at which point, any hero that isn't assigned to a task can be assigned to this task. If the hero is on cooldown, the action will be delayed until next week and taken automatically.

    With elements of the Klingon Empire attempting to stoke anti-Federation sentiment, we need to consider how we want to respond. With regional stability as fragile as it is, even skirmishing with a Great House could pose a threat to peace and distract us from addressing the brewing conflict. We have a number of options available to us, depending on whether we want to play this straight or engage in cloak-and-dagger. Bear in mind that higher-profile options will be more difficult than subtler options, but will contribute more to long-lasting peace instead of merely playing damage control.

    [] Launch an investigation into allegations of Klingon arms dealings and see if we can politicize the findings.

    [] Quietly arrange a meeting with House Mo'kai's rivals and encourage them to politicize the Treaty of Organia.

    [] Reach out to the chancellor's office and request a diplomatic summit at a neutral location to shore up relations.

    [] Run reconnaissance operations along the Klingon border to determine whether House Mo'kai is gathering forces to support future military operations.

    [] Send a Starfleet Captain to meet with Captain Kell at a neutral location and encourage a peaceful dialogue.

    [] Write-in

    AVAILABLE HEROES: Iris Imonim

    ON ASSIGNMENT: Sauda el-Uddin

    ON COOLDOWN: James T. Kirk, Ishrasis Th'achaalrit, z'oll T'hirlem

    No moratorium!
     
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    • [X] Send a Starfleet Captain to meet with Captain Kell at a neutral location and encourage a peaceful dialogue. Sauda el-Uddin
     
    [X] Send a Starfleet Captain to meet with Captain Kell at a neutral location and encourage a peaceful dialogue. Sauda el-Uddin
     
    [X] Send a Starfleet Captain to meet with Captain Kell at a neutral location and encourage a peaceful dialogue. Sauda el-Uddin
     
    Isn't Sauda el-Uddin assigned to the write in vote, or will voting for here here delay the write in a turn?

    [X] Send a Starfleet Captain to meet with Captain Kell at a neutral location and encourage a peaceful dialogue. Sauda el-Uddin
     
    [X] Send a Starfleet Captain to meet with Captain Kell at a neutral location and encourage a peaceful dialogue. Sauda el-Uddin
     
    [X] Reach out to the chancellor's office and request a diplomatic summit at a neutral location to shore up relations. (Iris Imonim)

    My reasoning: The Chancellor is pro-Federation, may as well make use of that. Risky, but could pay off big.
     
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    Apologies for the extensive radio silence; I have been wrestling with this Quest for the past two weeks and just been completely stuck. I think that, for my first Quest, I might have bitten off more than I could chew. I've been considering other possibilities for exploring the world of the Quest, but admittedly, I've made little progress and not just because I got completely caught up in making my own interior layout of the Constitution and wrestling with completely unhelpful software in the process. I've been considering something more character-focused with a tighter lens so I'm not wrestling multiple competing plot threads at once, but I can understand how that would be a hell of a 180 from the top-down Starfleet quest that's been running so far. I'm completely open to feedback on this front, though it might take a while for me to get around to responding to it while I work through some IRL stuff. Thank you all for your patience!!
     
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    • So, I'm officially closing this Quest and opening the reboot! Thank you all so much for accompanying me on this Quest and helping refine the mechanics; hopefully, the new format should prove easier to navigate and open new possibilities for storytelling! I hope you'll all join me over at the new Quest as we get into the heads of a familiar Captain and prepare to take command of one of the finest vessels in the Federation...

    So Bright It's Burning: A Star Trek AU Quest 2.0
     
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