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.
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)
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
Well, following the mechanics as established by the Star Trek: Adventure roleplaying game for this circumstance, you'll need to draw 5 poker cards and see what your hand is.
Jenny realized there, as she was snuggled against by the anthropomorphic form of the USS Voyager and her Maquis ally, the Val Jean, that her plan to flaunt her new grayzone friends to her ex was a pretty deceptive one...to herself. It was all rooted in her desire to be with Sidney again - something simple and clear and easy. To turn back the clock to before the breakup. But the problem wasn't just that Sidney had dumped her.
Sidney had also shown Jenny how Sidney had seen her.
And in the upper zones, you are how you're perceived to be.
Jenny was lying to herself if she thought she could get back and be back and still grow.
She should get them home herself. She should learn to branchiate. She should be being Jenny, as Jenny was, not Jenny as she had been! But more importantly!
Jenny turned, feeling the slip of Voyager's hand along her shoulders, grabbed onto Val Jean and kissed her fiercely. Passionately. Val Jean's arms flailed, and she fell back into the sofa as Voyager put her hand over her silvery lips and exclaimed. "Oh my," she whispered.
Then she grinned.
"Well, this is interesting. And we in Starfleet..."
A leather jacket went sailing away, to thump onto the ground.
"We like sc-" Voyager started.
Val Jean managed to slip a long, muscular leg past Jenny's slender body and kick her hard in the hip.
Jenny, Val Jean and Voyager share one another's company. We also see things from a...different perspective. Branchiation is accomplished!
Val Jean's mouth was warm and wanting and eager. Her fingers caressed along Jenny's neck, sliding down along her shoulders, feeling the fine dappling of her scales as their tongues played together. Soft. Needy. The caress of radar and other low, slow pulses that came on the deepest edge of the electromagnetic spectrum tickled along Jenny's spine, until Val Jean's hands found her ass. She squeezed her, roughly, dominantly, tugging her in close. The kiss shifted then, from Jenny's kiss, to Val Jean's. The other woman pushed back, up, making Jenny draw away and sit back at the same time, until she was pressed against sofa sheets, pinned down by Val Jean's weight - and she had no idea how. No idea how. She moaned as Val Jean drew her mouth back. Jenny kissed her chin, tongue sliding along the rough ridge of her scar.
"Well, you two are having fun..." Voyager said. She grinned, slightly. "But I think, while your proximity is valuable..."
It seems that our sensors are better calibrated to understand exactly what this thing is. Don't you think?
True, Kat. But there's a lot more people on your ship than mine. And while we can't move, we're not exactly in any short term danger.
Voyager leaned in. Her mouth caressed along Jenny's ear. She sucked on the tip of one fin, her hand starting to undo Jenny's buttons. One by one. Jenny shivered as she felt the gentle caress of the air being cycled through the apartment's first floor - pushed around by a lazy AC fan - tease along her achingly hard nipples. Voyager's fingers were blazingly hot next to that caress, and they found her breast. Cupping her gently.
Captain, I've got the subspace topography mapped out. You know how this anomaly has been following us?
Yes, Ensign.
I think it's...
Jenny moaned. Voyager's mouth closed around one nipple. Sucking.
...aware. And I think it's communicating with us.
I haven't noticed any communication, not since the Val Jean got encased in the energy field that blew her cloak out.
Val Jean tugged her shirt off, tossing it away. Her muscular frame pressed to Jenny's back as Jenny found herself caught between Voyager's gentle strength and Val Jean's aggressive eagerness. Val Jean was the one who reached between her legs, kissing along her neck. SHe murmured in her ear. "Someone's needy." She sounded amused.
"T-This...ah...oh fuck..." Jenny gasped as Val Jean's fingers pressed against her sex - then thrust up, crooking, finding her center of pleasure with shocking, embarrassing ease. She trembled and clung to Voyager. The elegant Sovereign class hadn't even lowered her shields or removed her clothes. But she did grip onto Jenny's hips, holding her gently.
We just need to keep the field in the tractor inverter and start pulsing the psi-waves we've been getting in our subconscious back into the matrix.
"Yeah, give her what she needs," Voyager purred to Val Jean, holding Jenny in place as Val Jean casually finger-fucked Jenny. Jenny's moans grew fiercer and more ecstatic as her back arched.
We're sending the data to the Val Jean. But I think...
Yes, T'are?
I think that we should try a positive feedback loop on the psi-waves. Not a negative one. If it's communicating, and if the anomaly is extradimensional, uh, maybe all it needs is more clarity. Not less.
Would there be a risk?
Only a little, I think. If it starts going wrong, we can just warp out of there.
Jenny gasped as Voyager reached down. "You're close," she murmured, her voice hungry. "So close." Her elegant fingers pressed to Jenny's clit, working at the same pace, the same languid skill, as Val Jean. Jenny's eyes widened and she clung to Voyager, then bit down on her shoulder, an instinctive reaction as pleasure exploded between her thighs. She trembled and moaned.
Shields at 70%, Captain.
Reinforce them, Tuvok. T'are?
It's...I think it's working!
Jenny released Voyager - who cradled her cheek with one palm, purring softly. "You are a beautiful girl, Jenny. And you can do it. I know you can." She leaned in. Jenny's mouth opened, then closed, then opened again, this time accepting Voyager's kiss.
And she figured it out.
It's all a matter of perspective, isn't it?
With an explosion of light, pleasure, sound and shifting diegesis, Jenny realized the trick of it. In the low red, in the conceptual zones of thought she had invited Voyager and Val Jean into, perception shaped the perceiver. She had seen them, and she had changed them.
She never needed to branchiate anyone at all. She just needed to realize-
Jenny blinked as she found herself back in realspace, in the gray zone, with two very powerful, very sensual looking starships hovering nearby. She fluttered before them - then blinked as her perceptions unfolded and the communication fro the larger ship appeared. A bunch of grayzoners peered at her, the leader of their impossibly primitive metaself standing before her chair. She was...very familiar. Embarrassingly so. "Greetings," she said, her voice upshifted by a relatively primitive piece of psionic technology into a language Jenny could grasp. "We come in peace, from the United Federation of Planets. We did not mean to caues you any distress or confusion."
Captain Janeway blinked, then turned to glance at T'are. T'are, who was checking over the universal translator, turned back to her and shrugged.
Yeah, it's working fine, that shrug said.
Janeway turned back to the shimmering collection of glowing orbs of pale light that had cohered into the form of a sinuous serpent, which no longer wrapped around the Val Jean, nor did it bar their path and blast them with erratic pulses of exotic energy that had nearly burnt out half their forward scanners.
"Well, Jenny," she said, politely. "We're glad that we finally sorted out the-"
"It's cool!" The echoing, dimensionally tinged, godlike voice somehow managed to sound...embarrassed? Janeway frowned. What the hell did a dimensional creature have to be embarrassed about? She kept her face and voice controlled as she nodded.
"We're glad that there is no hard feelings between us. We in Starfleet like to learn about the new lifeforms we meet," Janeway said.
"...yes?" Janeway asked, when Jenny didn't continue.
"What did the past, um, from your perspective, twenty four hours, uh, appear to be? Like. What happened? Exactly?" Jenny's orbs shimmered and intersected, then flew apart again, swirling around and configuring into a new spiral shape.
Janeway smiled. "We, ah, found you - though, at the time, we thought you were just an anomaly. Well, okay, more accurately, we ran directly into you - you weren't visible on our scanners but you knocked us out of warp. It was pretty frightening, but we're used to this kind of strangeness. We went to yellow alert, and our fellow ship, the Val Jean joined us, flanking you. We started to scan you to find out what you were, and learned you intersected with higher planes of existence, similar to energies that the Federation has read on beings like the Q. In fact, heh, you may be surprised to learn this, but at first we thought you were similar to the Far Point Net, a rather famous Q construct."
"Yes, really!" T'are said. "You weren't quite as net-shaped, but, still, similar energy structures."
"I looked like the Far Point Net!" Jenny giggled. "Okay! Uh, keep going."
"Right," Janeway said. "We detected strange energy readings that might have been weapon systems arming. Since there have been stranger ships out there, Val Jean brought her weapons online, just in case, while we attempted a deep scan. This caused us both to get kind of ensnared in your energy fields. We noticed that the pulses from your energy fields were attempts at communication, and so, we adapted our tractor beams to assist in that communication."
"D-Did...you both...use your tractors?" Jenny asked, her voice oddly tight.
"Well, first, the Val Jean did, because-"
"OKAY! So, uh, you guys are, uh, uh, uh, uh, really good at...tractoring!" Jenny said. "Now, um, I have to go! Uh..."
There was a long pause.
Then a glowing crystal the size of a small potted plant appeared in the air before Janeway. She caught it before it hit the ground, grunting with the impact.
"C-Call me! If you want...to...ever, uh...tractor me again! Okaybye!"
And then Jenny vanished in a spray of sparkles.
The entire bridge crew stood in silence.
"What do you think this looked like from her perspective?" Tom asked.
"I dunno, a fucking meet cute and a date?" C'nola said, sarcastically. "She was a frigging extraplanar being, basically a mini-Chaos god, how could we even begin to imagine what it was like?"
"Yeah, fair," Tom said.
"Call me," Janeway said, looking down at the crystal she held.
She pursed her lips.
"Think Amelia will be jealous?" D-91 asked.
"Dr. Leah Brahms might," Janeway muttered under her breath.
"Didn't quite catch that, Captain," D-91 said.
"Nevermind," Janeway said, then sighed. "Someone get an ensign up here, we have something for anomalous storage."
The USS Voyager and the Val Jean started to cruise away.
***
Jenny hummed cheerfully as she twined around in space around Albert, who grunted as he lifted several small plexdimensions in both of his arms. "And then she took my number! She took my number, Albert!"
"That's marvelous, my dear Jennifer!" Albert boomed.
"And...then...I branchiated!" Jenny exclaimed, spreading her arms wide. "I folded up into teal! I was so excited! And...even if Voyager and Val Jean don't call me, I still won't forget them. Their metaselves were extremely...good. They were good ships."
"Heh, didn't you say you were just mucking up perceptions?" Albert asked between grunts as he continued to pump quasi-iron.
"I mean. I don't think I was mucking up perception. I was just seeing things in a way that worked best for me. And I think that those metaselves really were the gestalt of Voyager and Val Jean. That's how those ships are, even if the grayzoners might not really be able to fully see it." She sighed. "But then again, maybe they do. I don't think we should underestimate them."
"Indeed!" Albert said. "And what of Sidney?"
Jenny sighed. She wished she could say Sidney had seen her branchiate and that she had gotten hopelessly jealous, or impressed, or she had begged to be taken back. She wished she could say a lot. But she hadn't even seen Sidney since the breakup - and she was pretty sure she wouldn't be too impressed with her adventure. So, she just shook her head.
"I'll get over her," she said. "Even...even if it'll hurt for a while."
"A mature and reasonable perspective, my good Jennifer! You are becoming an astute and level headed woman!" Albert said jovially.
"Ugh," Jenny said. "I have to fix that. I'd hate for my tombstone to say 'here lies Jenny, an astute and level headed woman.'"
"You would prefer a better elogium?" Albert asked, his voice playful.
"Huh?" Jenny asked.
"Elogium. Inscription on your tombstone, from the days of the Roman Empire!" Albert said.
"THAT'S what the episode title means!?" Jenny exploded, her self flying apart into hissing sparks. She reformed with a furious crackle, buzzing with a violence that emitted into the hard gamma. "WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING!?"
"And...then...I branchiated!" Jenny exclaimed, spreading her arms wide. "I folded up into teal! I was so excited! And...even if Voyager and Val Jean don't call me, I still won't forget them. Their metaselves were extremely...good. They were good ships."
To come up with the least charitable interpretation. It's because it only happens once. Once the elogium is past, you might as well be dead, so your child is the text you put on your gravestone, your only possible legacy.
More charitably, the Elogium was not a mere RIP. In the roman era, it was a respected literary form, and famous elogia would be thought and recited as rethorical exercises. Once again though, you get here the idea of the child as one's legacy, if a very important one.
Gotta be honest, looking ahead, and I have genuinely no idea what the fuck to do with like, the next...three episodes, they're all incredibly boring anomaly of the week bullshit
Gotta be honest, looking ahead, and I have genuinely no idea what the fuck to do with like, the next...three episodes, they're all incredibly boring anomaly of the week bullshit
Gotta be honest, looking ahead, and I have genuinely no idea what the fuck to do with like, the next...three episodes, they're all incredibly boring anomaly of the week bullshit
I feel like the point of some of the anomaly of the well stuff is small character moments. Could just use it to have fun little shipboard moments, mb only mention the anomaly in passing. But yeah, definitely skip it or come back when you feel inspired, or not at all imo!
More power to you. Tried playing it after playing supcom and pa first and couldn't handle not being able to zoom out and look at the whole map. Felt like an arbitrary restriction, like playing basketball in handcuffs or something.
Gotta be honest, looking ahead, and I have genuinely no idea what the fuck to do with like, the next...three episodes, they're all incredibly boring anomaly of the week bullshit
Dang, just as I have caught up with the quest^^ (enjoying it a lot - although I would argue vehemently your point of OG!Voyager and also *Enterprise* having been a bad show...that if I had been a part of the quest from the start, I would have lamented the fact of us not being able to make the Voyager a friggin Kelvin-verse Dreadnought class aka a version of the Vengeance, because I just *love* that ship for the absolutely insane amount of punishment it can both take and deal)
But yeah, if your muse favors Starcraft more rn, I wouldn´t mind a quest for it either
Gotta be honest, looking ahead, and I have genuinely no idea what the fuck to do with like, the next...three episodes, they're all incredibly boring anomaly of the week bullshit
Easy-peasy lemon-squeezy way to solve that: a quick retcon that Jenny told Voyager and Val Jean about where a couple anomalies are, and the shipselves decided that it's best to avoid them entirely as being wastes of time?
Gotta be honest, looking ahead, and I have genuinely no idea what the fuck to do with like, the next...three episodes, they're all incredibly boring anomaly of the week bullshit
How about fusing the boring anomaly episodes with "Projections" into a fun two-parter episode the features Voyager's synthetic, holographic, and cybernetic crew? Off the top of my head that should be the Doctor, Sarah Connor, Danara Pel, D-91, and Harry's robot girlfriend Bifurcate.
There's got to be some fun character interactions and plot to be derived from that.
Write what you like
Even when you start with something I have never heard of, I still find your quests highly enjoyable. And I remember starcraft being a lot of fun, so I'm keen to see what you do with it.
It's not like we're paying you (in anything other than likes), so we're just lucky that you share your talents with us.
This was a fantastic choice to go "oh wait, I need to read this before I go to sleep" about! What a wonderful chapter- I really liked the perspective blending. I like how bemused Janeway is- it feels right for the character.
I'm certain you can tease something out of those episodes if you want, but even as someone who would completely not get the Starcraft quest I'm sure whatever else you end up doing will be great too! ^_^
It certainly is a raunchier take on Voyager, but for some reason, *it works* - just like some games like Stellaris get enhanced a lot with the addition of sex for me via vertain mods like Lustful Void...dunno why but it just works.
That being said, @DragonCobolt , recent cultural information about the Orions offered by Lower Decks might end up contradicting your portrayal somewhat - in short, LDS portrays Orions less as very open polygamists and mushy lovers and more as pirate clans relying on political marriages and intrigues
It certainly is a raunchier take on Voyager, but for some reason, *it works* - just like some games like Stellaris get enhanced a lot with the addition of sex for me via vertain mods like Lustful Void...dunno why but it just works.
That being said, @DragonCobolt , recent cultural information about the Orions offered by Lower Decks might end up contradicting your portrayal somewhat - in short, LDS portrays Orions less as very open polygamists and mushy lovers and more as pirate clans relying on political marriages and intrigues
It'd be easy enough to handwave some of that by averting the whole "Single Culture Species" thing. Especially since Tendi is the daughter of a high-ranking pirate clan leader, while T'are doesn't seem to have any illustrious family connections that would make things like arranged political marriage something she'd need to worry about. Lower Decks does seem to make a point of saying that Not All Orions are part of the Orion Syndicate.
Very true, even if a lot of the changes do feel pretty sensible for a fix fic, like trying to make the Ocampa into less of a confusing mess of a species.
Very true, even if a lot of the changes do feel pretty sensible for a fix fic, like trying to make the Ocampa into less of a confusing mess of a species.
Yeeeeaaaah, the OG!Ocampans were a *mess* of a species full of unfortunate implications, so fixing them was a good idea.
As for the Orions, QM could either ignore the new data about them completly or introduce a cultural split/shift, with the OG Orions being a "nobility caste" in the process of dying out, while the "peasantry" is cut from T´ares cloth.
What can I say? I like splitting things down the middle to cover my bases.
