STAR TREK: A Long Road (Voyager Fix It Quest)

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SHIP & CREW ROSTER
  • Informational
    • The Dragon: Once per episode, at the beginning of combat place an Advantage on the field representing a cunning tactic or strategy devised by Danara Pel.

    NAME​
    		USS Voyager
    PROF.​
    		MULTIROLE
    CLASS​
    		Sovereign Class Heavy Exploration Vessel
    CONST​
    		2371
    SHIELDS​
    13/13​
    RESISTANCE​
    6​
    SCALE​
    6​
    POWER ​
    13/13​
    CREW SUPPORT​
    6​
    SMALL CRAFT​
    5​
    COMMS​
    ENGINES​
    STRUCTURE​
    COMPUTERS​
    SENSORS​
    WEAPONS​
    BREACHES​
    0/6​
    0/6​
    0/6​
    0/6​
    0/6​
    0/6​
    ​
    ​
    9​
    11​
    10​
    11​
    9​
    10​
    COMMAND​
    3​
    12​
    14​
    13​
    14​
    12​
    13​
    CONNING​
    2​
    12​
    14​
    13​
    14​
    12​
    13​
    ENGINEERING​
    2​
    11​
    13​
    12​
    13​
    11​
    12​
    SECURITY​
    3​
    13​
    15​
    14​
    16​
    13​
    14​
    SCIENCE​
    2​
    11​
    13​
    12​
    13​
    11​
    12​
    MEDICINE​
    2​
    11​
    13​
    12​
    13​
    11​
    12​
    TALENTS​
    		Command Ship: Can give advantages using Command within range to Away Missions or to supporting ships.

    EMH: Has an EMH!

    Improved Warp Drive: When going to warp, roll 1cd on an effect, regain the power point.

    Quantum Torpedoes: Can use Quantum Torpedoes! (60 total)

    Secondary Reactors: +5 to Power

    High Resolution Sensors: +1 momentum to out of combat sensor checks.
    TRAITS​
    		Federation Starship – A highly sophisticated and advanced vessel, with holodecks, replicators, and similar comforts, primarily designed to handle multiple operations. Highly sensitive and requiring constant maintenance, the vehicle is less rugged than other interstellar craft

    Maquis Crew - a good chunk of the crew are former Maquis troublemakers. Expect discipline problems and unorthodox plans.
    WEAPONS​
    		Phaser Arrays
    Power Cost: 1-3 | Range: Medium | Damage: 9cd [+1 per extra power spent]
    Can Use Spread: Hit +1 time at ½ damage per effect OR Area: hit +1 ship per effect within close range.
    Versatile 2: Gain 2 bonus momentum with a successful hit

    Photon Torpedoes
    Power Cost: 0 | Range: Long | Damage: 6cd
    High Yield: If it causes 1 breach, it causes +1 breach

    Quantum Torpedoes
    Power Cost: 0 | Range: Long | Damage: 7cd (Vicious 1 - +1 damage on effects)
    High Yield: If it causes 1 breach, it causes +1 breach
    Calibrations: Requires 1 minor action to calibrate

    Tractor Beam (Strength 5)
    Power Cost: 0 | Range: Close | Damage: None
    Effect: If successfully established, enemies face a diff 5 check to escape.

    CREW COMPLIMENT (Base Stat: 9 | Base Skill: 2)
    CO: Captain Katheryn Janeway (Skilled: Command, Science | Weakness: Combat)
    SPECIAL ABILITY: "We Can Be Better" - if you succeed on any diplomatic check with Janeway, Get +1 momentum​
    XO: Commander D-91 (Skilled: Command | Weakness: Socialization)
    HELM: Lt. Tom Paris (Skilled: Conn | Weakness: Not Being A Fucking Up)
    TACTICAL: Ensign Harry Kimm (Skilled: Gunnery | Weakness: Harry Kim)
    SECURITY: Lt. JG Amy Strong (Skilled: Personal Combat | Weakness: Lying)
    MAQUIS HEADBREAKER: C'nola (Skilled: Combat, Sneaking and Scheming | Weakness: Emotional Wreck)​
    SCIENCE: Tuvok (Skilled: Science | Weakness: Emotionless)
    COMMS: Lt. Bian T'are (Skilled: Communications | Weakness: Combat)
    MEDICAL: The EMH (Skilled: Doctor | Weakness: Kind of a Dick)
    ENGINEER: B'lanna Torres (Skilled: Engineering | Weakness: Also a dick)

    SECONDARY CHARACTERS
    Ensign Steve (Useless Security Goon)
    Ensign Becky (plural fighter jock)
    Petty Officer Third Class Jessie (Hard working engineer)
    Crewman Billingsly (Dude, Billingsly!)
    Crewman Chandra (Concerned Crewman)
    Bifurcate (bidimensional robot girlfriend of Harry Kim)
    Princess Lyan Positron (runaway daughter of magician most foul and girlfriend of Harry Kim)
    Soria Flyte (Pegasus girl and girlfriend of Harry Kim)
    Mirror Universe Trevor (he's fine!)
    NAME​
    		MRSS Val Jean
    PROF.​
    		TACOPS
    CLASS​
    		Keldon Class Heavy Cruiser
    CONST​
    		2370
    SHIELDS​
    12/12​
    RESISTANCE​
    5​
    SCALE​
    4​
    POWER ​
    7/7​
    CREW SUPPORT​
    4​
    SMALL CRAFT​
    3​
    COMMS​
    ENGINES​
    STRUCTURE​
    COMPUTERS​
    SENSORS​
    WEAPONS​
    BREACHES​
    0/4​
    0/4​
    0/4​
    0/4​
    0/4​
    0/4​
    ​
    ​
    9​
    9​
    9​
    8​
    7​
    10​
    COMMAND​
    3​
    12​
    12​
    12​
    11​
    10​
    13​
    CONNING​
    2​
    11​
    11​
    11​
    10​
    9​
    12​
    ENGINEERING​
    2​
    11​
    11​
    11​
    10​
    9​
    12​
    SECURITY​
    3​
    12​
    12​
    12​
    11​
    10​
    13​
    SCIENCE​
    1​
    10​
    10​
    10​
    9​
    8​
    11​
    MEDICINE​
    2​
    11​
    11​
    11​
    10​
    9​
    12​
    TALENTS​
    		Electronic Warfare Suite: Whenever making a Jamming or Intercept communications check, can spend 2 momentum to select +1 target (repeatable.)

    Fast Targeting Systems: No +1 diff for called shots

    Improved Hull Integrity: +1 Resistance

    Cloaking Device: Spend 3 power, and make a Control+Engineering + Engines + Security check with a diff of 2. If successful, gain the Cloaked Trait (impossible to detect, cannot attack, shields are down.) It takes a minor action to decloak.
    TRAITS​
    		Cardassian Ship – Durable, uncomfortable, close, cramped and cheap. Thinks creature comforts are for other people and technical sophistication is for people who haven't spent decades starving to death. The fact that the starving could have been avoided if the government were less...you know, monstrous doesn't seem to have occurred to that many of them.

    Okampan Crew – the crew are bright, perky, cheerful, and incredibly psychically powerful. Individually, they're all better than Vulcans, and as a gestalt? Who knows!
    WEAPONS​
    		Phaser Arrays
    Power Cost: 1-3 | Range: Medium | Damage: 7-9cd (Spread: Hit +1 time at ½ damage per effect OR Area)
    Versatile 2: Gain X bonus momentum with a successful hit

    Disruptor Banks
    Range: Medium | Damage: 8-10cd (Vicious 1: Each effect adds +1 damage)

    Tractor Beam (Strength 3)

    CREW COMPLIMENT (Base Stat: 8 | Base Skill: 1)
    CO: Lt. Commander Brian Wacoche (Skilled: Commando Tactics | Weakness: Independent)
    TACTICAL: Seska (Skilled: Being Seska | Weakness: Everything Else)
    CONN: R'lash skilled: Piloting | Weakness: Romulan Fuckup)
    ESPIONAGE: Kes (Skilled: Commando Tactics | Weakness: Naive)

    Crewman Stadi - Age 23, Betazoid, born Beta Colony-5 to Zani and Talwyn of the House of Riis, survived by her sisters Tari and Batri.
    R'mor - age 182, Vulcan, burn on Romulus to R'tan and Leslali, survived by his twelve nieces and nephews across the Empire
     
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    • [X] Kat thinks Phoebe is right

    [X] Spend momentum to learn more about it (write in)
    -[X] Summon the manual
    -[x] Are summoned things temporary/dependent in proximity to the structure?
     
    [X] Kat thinks Phoebe is right
    [X] Spend momentum to learn more about it (write in)
    --[X] Summon a comprehensive and comprehend-able manual that is within our scientific and technical range.'
    ---[x] Are summoned things temporary/dependent in proximity to the structure?
    [X] If the tests on Phoebe come back clean, and the manual seems legit and also says it's okay, have everyone break out every wishlist they've written since arriving in this quadrant
     
    You know, this cake reminded me of a book by Gianni Rodari where some state was trying to create a nuke that would produce a remotely controlled fallout cloud. Due to the combination of a mistake when making it and a pastry dropped onto the bomb, the fallout instead became a kilometre-sized cake.
     
    Adhoc vote count started by DragonCobolt on Dec 5, 2022 at 12:33 AM, finished with 33 posts and 22 votes.
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    So, I'll be answering questions in the order of their vote wins, until you're out of momentum!

    Also, hi everyone, I hope you're enjoying the Stars Treks, I promise to bring back what you're all clamoring for (sexy Neelix)
     
    CATHEXIS (1.3)
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    • Kat sighed, slowly. She unclenched her hands. "Okay," she said, softly. "I think...part of it might also be..." She bit her lip. "You were always...my...sister. Not..." She trailed off. Just trying to say what she felt felt both stupid, trite, and impossible. Phoebe stood up, then put her hand on her shoulder with a smile.

    "Lets go to the medical bay," she said, cheerfully. Maybe it was forced. Maybe it wasn't.

    Kat wasn't about to call her on it.

    The two of them stepped from the room and started down the corridor - coming to the turbolift just as Neelix bustled towards it, carrying a huge bushel of plants and other hydroponic products from the forward crew section gardens. While technically more energy efficient than replication, growing plants aboard the ship was more about moral than practicality, and the proof was in the pudding: Neelix looked delighted at the tubers and alien vegetables that he had gathered up. Seeing Phoebe, he beamed. "Ah, Captain! The club's going just perfectly - even if the..." He trailed off, seeing Kat. "The..." He blinked.

    "Duplication from local anomaly," Kat explained.

    "Of a sorts," Phoebe said.

    "Ahhh!" Neelix said. "You know, this actually happened to me on my third tour with the TDF - we were patrolling the old boarder between us and the Haakonians and we flew through a cloud of charged quantons, and before you know it, there's another me, trying to strangle me and take my place!"

    "See?" Kat asked.

    "And you wonder why I never front outside of the holodeck!" Phoebe hissed.

    "...front?" Neelix asked, as the two women stepped into the turbolift.

    "Long story," Kat said, as the door shut.

    Neelix frowned.

    Then he scowled. "They stole my turbolift...so much for post-scarcity communism..."

    ***
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    The Doctor looked between the two Janeways. "You're a median plural system with minimal cross-talk and no shared experiences between fronting," he said. "Possibly traumatic in origin and stable for the past fifteen years? And none of this was in your file?"

    Kat shuffled in her stance. "...not...many doctors in Starfleet-"

    "Not many doctors in Starfleet have access to every medical file known to humanity in their databases," the Doctor said, his voice prim as he started to attach monitoring devices to Phoebe and Kat - assisted by a goggle-eyed Okampan nurse who was learning from him. "I do. Now, these files are woefully out of date, plurality is terribly underresearched by 24th century doctors. Too many alien species to study, not enough people interested in their own psychological makeups." He brightened. "I could write a paper!"

    "No thank you," Phoebe said, her voice firm, glancing at her sister nervously - Kat rankled, actually, at that look. She's looking worried for me? I'm worried for HER! "We prefer to remain private."

    "Of course, I would immediately blab your names to every newsfeed in the galaxy," The Doctor said, his voice sarcastic. "I'm only programmed with six redundant ethical subroutines..."

    Phoebe frowned at him, while the Doctor stepped over to his console and began to run the devices. "Now," he said. "Your neural patterns are showing signs of linkages - quantum signatures that mean that...yes, okay...I see...ahh...fascinating."

    "What is it?" Kat asked.

    "Phoebe Janeway is remote piloting that body," the Doctor said, tapping at his console to bring the brain scans up on the wall. He pointed. "See, this is the brainwave pattern of your plural system - two minds, running on the same hardware, to to speak. But there is no similar pattern on Phoebe - her body is merely receiving the signals from some as of yet undetermined source."

    "So, we're still a system!" Kat said, perking up.

    "Yes," the Doctor said. "Now, it does mean that if anything were to happen to you, Captain, your sister would die, despite having her own body at the moment. Assuming whatever technology is facilitating this - I am going to assume it is the psychic megastructure that we're parked beside - doesn't then copy the system over to the new body. But when it comes to death and recovery from its negative effects, I wouldn't-

    The sudden trill and darkening of the lights from a red alert cut the Doctor off. He frowned. "Oh goodie. Some horrible space monster or high powered warship is on its way."

    Kat tapped her badge. "Report," she said.

    "The away team has experimented with finding more information about the dark matter construct," Tuvok said. "Kes hit upon the idea of creating a manual for using it out of thin air. However, several minuets afterwards, our long range scans detected several ships on an approaching vector - warp factor six. The percussion bow-waves of their hulls and their com-net signatures all read...as Kazon."

    "...shit," Kat hissed. "Stay here." She said to Phoebe. "Help the Doctor, we may be having wounded soon."

    ***
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    Brian Wacohe was enjoying his coffee when the alert signal came from R'lash's console. The Romulan expat was, at that moment, fiddling with the sensors and muttering in Romulan that her universal translator was politely not translating to Seska, who sat ramrod stiff at the tactical console.

    "Did you break the-" Wacoche started.

    "No, subcommander" R'lash said, forgetting her current posting in her excitement. "We read seven ships - repeat, seven ships, IFF confirms they are hostiles."

    "Cloak us right now," Wacoche said, sitting up in his seat. "All hands, red alert!"

    The screen shimmered - and then a moment later, the first of the eerie, sudden snap of ships arriving from warp flashed out - the blunt nosed Kazon ship appeared, only to then have the stretched out light of its arrival come afterwards. With a series of other snaps, the seven other ships came, four of them looking like light attack craft, two sitting closer to medium cruisers, and the largest being almost as big as a Constitution class, and just...bristling with forward mounted, aggressively positioned heavy particle cannons.

    The coms crackled.

    "Attention, Starfleet ship Voyager and Starfleet ship Val Jean," the female voice that came through. "This is Fleet Commander of KDF-Mostral Attack Squadron Six, speaking to you from the KDF-BC Righteous Path. You have encountered a class two Borg attractor and thus pose a potential existential threat to this sector of space and the Kazon people. Retreat immediately or be destroyed. You have sixteen minutes to comply."

    "...who are these guys again?" R'lash whispered to Seska, who frowned.

    "Captain, that battlecruiser has two air wings prepped and ready to launch."

    ---
    TRUTHS: "Dark Matter Nebula!"
    MOMENTUM: 0

    Oh those pesky Kazons, what with their...eminently rational response to living within a few hundred light years of Borg space...what do you do?

    [ ] Attempt to negotiate limited access to the nebula - it has enough resources and potential value to be worth the risk
    [ ] Withdraw - and take the risk that something bad happens to Phoebe.
    [ ] Delay so you can find a way to safely disentangle Phoebe and Kat from the nebula
    [ ] Write In
     
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    • [X] Attempt to negotiate limited access to the nebula - it has enough resources and potential value to be worth the risk
     
    [x] Withdraw - and take the risk that something bad happens to Phoebe.
    -[x] Ask about this borg attractor classification system while we're moving, we probably need to know that.

    You know for once I just don't feel like shooting the Kazon for some reason. Huh... amazing what miracles explaining shit can work.
     
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    [X] Attempt to negotiate limited access to the nebula - it has enough resources and potential value to be worth the risk
     
    [x] Withdraw - and take the risk that something bad happens to Phoebe.
    -[x] Ask about this borg attractor classification system while we're moving, we probably need to know that.

    Yeah, I mean, I don't see anything wrong with shooting kazon, but since we confirmed that phoebe is still running on Kat's brain, I'm not really seeing any reason to be stubborn about this
     
    [X] Delay so you can find a way to safely disentangle Phoebe and Kat from the nebula
    -[X] Ask about this borg attractor classification system while we're delaying, we probably need to know that.
     
    [X] Delay so you can find a way to safely disentangle Phoebe and Kat from the nebula
    -[X] Ask about this borg attractor classification system while we're delaying, we probably need to know that.
     
    [X] Attempt to negotiate limited access to the nebula - it has enough resources and potential value to be worth the risk
     
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    ," the Doctor said. "Now, it does mean that if anything were to happen to you, Captain, your sister would die, despite having her own body at the moment. Assuming whatever technology is facilitating this - I am going to assume it is the psychic megastructure that we're parked beside - doesn't then copy the system over to the new body. But when it comes to death and recovery from its negative effects, I wouldn't-
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    You could test this in a less permanent manner by just temporally disabling Janeway's brain usibg funny drugs.
     
    [X] Attempt to negotiate limited access to the nebula - it has enough resources and potential value to be worth the risk

    It's worth trying to talk, even though I really don't expect it to work.

    But I'd honestly rather withdraw than fight. I'm confident Phoebe will be okay and the Kazon really aren't wrong under the circumstances, given that they lack the powers of federation super-science and plot-armor.
     
    [x] Withdraw - and take the risk that something bad happens to Phoebe.

    As I understand it, it really should be fine?

    This thing actualizes expectations. Both Kat and Phoebe expect to be their own person, and also the other to be their own person. The grid could have actualized this by duplicating Janeway's brain and disabling the respective other self, but it did so in a minimally invasive fashion. That speaks of fundamentally prudent design. I think we can trust it to be safe.

    Also there's a psychic wish-granter outside and nobody has died yet. The safety checks in this thing must be ludicrous.
     
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    Anyone else find the timing of the Kazon arrival odd?

    If they knew about the superstructure beforehand why did they leave it intact for Voyager to find?

    Might this might be a problem one of the crew accidentally created by thinking it?
     
    Adhoc vote count started by DragonCobolt on Dec 5, 2022 at 1:29 PM, finished with 16 posts and 14 votes.
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    A tie!?

    A TIE!?

    how dare
     
    [X] Attempt to negotiate limited access to the nebula - it has enough resources and potential value to be worth the risk
     
    [X] Attempt to negotiate limited access to the nebula - it has enough resources and potential value to be worth the risk
     
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