Torgamous
Aspiring Gynoid
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- She/Her
#notallstarships
To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
- Thread starter OneirosTheWriter
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- star trek exploration fully automated luxury gay space communism top level canon (canon) #hashtagcontent all-encompassing space amoeba cardassian boy bands cardassian magical girls darkest bureaucracy debate makes the qm cackle like palpatine hoh is an empire quest it has to be foreign infiltrators more ships ship happens singers delenda est starfleet this is not an empire quest ur waifu is collective?
AKuz
Been Better
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- A Rising Tide of Horrors
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- She/Her
- Location
- USA
And Romulans only have beautiful ships?
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Hey, you have to give unabashed lethality SOME points. 
#ReincarnationBelievers
#TheBigE
#ReincarnationBelievers
#TheBigE
AKuz
Been Better
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- A Rising Tide of Horrors
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- She/Her
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- Mid-Atlantic
But so shy, retiring, and self-conscious...
#TheBigE
#TheBigE
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- USA
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Psst hey, do you wanna tractor them and I torpedo them, or the other way around?
#TheBigE
#TheBigE
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- USA
So did anyone here ever play this:
Or the expansion:
I never got the expansion but played Starfleet Command 1 and 2, though with 2 I turned on conquest and booted up as a Gorn commander. All of the races in SFC 2 have Dreadnaughts and Battleships (including the federation). That and Birth of the Federation were my main star trek games (played a bit of the Armada series as well)
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- She/Her
Shots fired.
- Location
- USA
As long as no return fire from this, I should be good.
#FedShieldsAreLife
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- Mid-Atlantic
I'd be more inclined to worry about these, if I were you:
That is, of course, the duck's-eye-view of the shotgun blast.
That is, of course, the duck's-eye-view of the shotgun blast.
- Location
- USA
Wild Weasel! Wild Weasel! Though just hope its not the pseudo, if it is real wild weasel then charge while he is recharging.
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- He/Him
I know that SFC Gold is available through Gog these days; I hope they'll manage to secure the other entries in the series in the future.
- Location
- United States
I have just spent the last few days reading through this and I want to say, I love how this quest is being done.
AKuz
Been Better
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- A Rising Tide of Horrors
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Indeed, and the best Romulan warship:
#NeverForget
Omake - Syndicate Strategy Update - Iron Wolf
Syndicate Strategy Update - Lieutenant Commander Aaron Wolfe
Introduction
This is a weekly intelligence briefing to bring all departments and units up to speed concerning recent intelligence developments. Understanding the operations and analysis of current Threat factors and our own response facilitates better cohesion of action and response effectiveness. This week's briefing covers an examination of the Kearsarge attack from an Intelligence perspective, an update on possible use of marketing methods by Syndicate cells, and a report on possible Threat action against Rixx Scrutineers and possible countermeasures. These are quick briefs, and more in-depth analysis of any of these updates can be distributed by request or accessed with proper clearance.
Security Update: The Attack On The USS Kearsarge
It was once common thinking in Starfleet Intelligence that the anti-Syndicate campaign would be a simple one of corporate warfare, that the organization would crumble or move to different opportunities as soon as we put enough pressure on them. This thinking was bent as soon as the Syndicate began putting up heavy resistance, digging in, and acquiring heavy weapons with which to threaten our assets. This required new assumptions. Two of them that they would hit us economically and conventionally, avoiding attacks that inflicted undue civilian carnage, and that their agents were economic actors motivated by profit and thus would avoid willingly committing suicide attacks. Subsequently, we were not expecting nor adequately prepared for the attack on the USS Kearsarge by hijacked civilian transports. Office 8's planning team have thrown all such assumptions out the window, and we have begun wargaming for a variety of attack types and methods that were considered, until now, nonviable for the Syndicate. Already several deficiencies have been noted and countermeasures put in place to prevent similar incidents from happening again.
Also of note is that the Kearsarge was attacked when most of the senior staff was asleep or just starting duty, including the stationed Admirals and the Captain of the Kearsarge itself. While this may have been coincidence, it is also highly possible that our duty schedules have been leaked to the Syndicate, and they may strike at similarly vulnerable times in the future. It is also entirely possible they have simply conducted extensive research into our standard operating practices, hours, and shipboard standard times. Were it possible I would recommend our ships operate on different time schedules from each other, and duty rosters randomized, but at some point security has to give way to practicality. Implementing such procedures would be a logistical nightmare and hamper operations.
Expanded in Kearsage Security Analysis No.2 by Ensign Amalke
Enemy Activity Update: Rationalizing Terrorism
The attack on the Kearsarge, while having the hallmarks of a Syndicate operation in that it was surprising, well-planned, and well-executed, still broke from their methodology in a variety of ways, which as previously stated caught us off-guard. In addition to the profit motives discussed above, it was believed the Syndicate would not try such an attack for fear of public backlash. Indeed, on Orion social media and in the wider media the responses were quite negative to the attack, with many sympathetic stories penned about the thousands of innocent Orions lost in an attack that inflicted relatively few Federation casualties. For an organization that requires some level of popular support in order to stay hidden, and wishes to win the war politically, it was an incredibly risky move for little obvious gain public gain.
However, I am beginning to believe that the backlash to the attack was exactly what the Syndicate wanted, in order to collect data. Looking back through the logs of attacks, we have seen a pattern of carefully escalating attacks that cause indiscriminate civilian casualties. It is my belief that the Syndicate is using big data analysis methods and others to develop a sort of marketing matrix that will maximize impact to our material and political assets while minimizing backlash in the general public. As the title of this section states, they wish to rationalize terrorist acts, not from a moral perspective, but from a purely mathematical one to help determine what attacks are politically 'profit-maximizing' and thus worthy of being carried out.
There's a variety of ways to accomplish this. Most likely is that the Syndicate is using a marketing firm -- or a number of marketing firms -- to trawl Orion social media for raw data and to operationalize articles from more conventional news sources. These firms will then distill the data to find how broad and intense public interest was in a particular attack, if they were positively inclined to it or not, and if there is any change in trending support for the Federation or Syndicate. This would help them target their resources more effectively, and allow them to space out attacks and gain feedback into the efficacy of those already carried out. Their ideal attack would no doubt be one that uses a minimal of resources to achieve broad and intense public interest and ramps up Syndicate support.
The attack on the Kearsarge can be seen as an endpoint to their attempt to calibrate this metric, as an attack with high civilian casualties but also high impact on the Federation. We may see further unconventional attacks, such as last month's half-hearted attack on the Rigellian embassy, as further attempts to calibrate.
Finding ways to counter this new system will be difficult but not undoable. Our own signals and supercomputer group in Office 36 is capable of performing the same data-driven analysis, which may allow us to derive their operating metric and in turn, predict their attacks. Locating and disrupting marketing firms known to be doing such research for the Syndicate is also an option, but our ability to do so will be limited. The Syndicate operates best in the misty grey area between extremely deregulated corporation and criminal enterprise, and they will use multiple marketing firms to analyze the data, will do so as a legitimate customer, and may do so to firms who have no idea they are working for the Syndicate. Such analyses of social media are not uncommon in the Union, and even the Orion Union government has commissioned marketing firms to determine how Syndicate attacks are impacting their public support. If we sent in Aerocommandos to clear out every marketing firm that could possibly be involved in helping the Syndicate develop a terror metric, the workload would be so large we wouldn't be able to send them on any other mission.
However, my team has identified key data criteria and experimental controls that the Syndicate would no doubt need to include in any research study designed to gain actionable models for planning operations. This will help us on a first-pass to find firms more obviously or obliviously working for the Syndicate, and will help us determine which firms might be working for the Syndicate or the government.
In conclusion, the Syndicate has managed to create an unholy nexus of direct marketing, big data, political messaging, and criminal terrorism. The desire to gather more data may have been the precipitating factor behind the Kearsarge attack and explain why they chose the method they did. In the meantime, Plans Team has been tasked with wargaming Kearsarge-style attacks and others so that we will not be caught off-guard in the future in the event the Syndicate chooses to further pursue tactics that for them were seen previously as unconventional.
Expanded on in Threat Activity: Syndicate Attempts To Operationalize Terror by Ensign T'Hal and Ensign Pouren.
Vulnerability: Rixx Scrutineers
An area of security concern is the Rixx Scrutineers. Having been consistently our most effective asset against Syndicate corruption, and given a high public profile as a result, we believe the Syndicate will make countering the Scrutineers a top priority. Already we have seen an increase in anti-Scrutineer thinkpieces, more negative slant given to their mention in articles, and fairly typical social media brawls. Most of these stem from a underpinning philosophical basis: that the Scrutineers represent an unaccountable, unOrion force that is capable of privacy breaches that were hitherto unheard of and almost impossible to craft countermeasures for. Some of these will no doubt be concerned citizens with justifiable criticism, but it is almost certain that some of these articles are being penned with Syndicate support. Countering this avenue of attack will mostly be the job of the Betazoid government and their outreach programs, along with better education and increased Orion interaction with Betazoids.
While so far the threat to the Scrutineers has mostly been a public relations affair, the Kearsage attack reminds us that we cannot remain complacent, and it is highly likely that the Syndicate will begin operations to attack Scrutineers directly. This presents a major complication, as increased visibility of the Scrutineers in public and on patrol is one recommended course of action to counter negative public image [See attached Appendix C]. Plans believes that the risk can be mitigated by giving deployed Scrutineers on the ground more organic security support. We also believe that they should pair with the Caitian Frontier Police to receive enhanced security training and on-the-job experience so that the Scrutineers are better able to protect themselves if needed. Also proposed was to simply disguise deployed Scrutineers as Human security personnel, avoiding the risk of them being targeted directly. However, we believe this will actually exacerbate any PR issues, as making the Rixx Scrutineers visible is an important element of gaining the trust of the average Orion. If rumors spread that Starfleet Security squads could have a secret mind-reader embedded at any time, paranoia would seep in and trust would be lost. Therefore, disguise is only recommended in special circumstances. Wargaming to develop better security protocols for facilities housing Rixx personnel has begun, and often overlaps with wargaming unconventional attacks on our facilities.
We believe as well that the Rixx Scrutineers face an additional angle of attack: the mind. Reports from the homeworld Scrutineers report possible contact between Betazed dissident group Zeroth House and the Syndicate. Vulcan Security has also begun to investigate the recruitment of Vulcan citizens tempted by the Syndicate's promises of a life with order and emotion. These efforts reveal the darker half of IDIC - for all that a species might be friendly, open, or otherwise peaceful, there will always be some individuals willing to sign up with a group like the Syndicate. Indeed, we believe the Syndicate are pushing their newfound rebellious reputation to recruit outcasts from all species, promising family and adventure.
At the same time, the Syndicate has been scouring the Klingon menagerie of misery that is Rura Penthe for unique individuals or species with psionic abilities. In this case they do not need as much persuasion, reasonably assuming anyone trapped in Rura Penthe would rather work for the Syndicate and bribing the local authorities to cover it up. Further consultation is needed with the Betazoids as to their potential vulnerabilities in this area, but from initial inquiries it appears this might be an area of unknowns for them as well. Our covert agents should be warned of the possibility of the Syndicate using psionic species like we do our scrutineers, and consult with the Vulcans and Betazoids as to possible countermeasures they can use, where possible.
Expanded in Threat Assessment: Rixx Scrutineers Visibility and Vulnerability by Lieutenant Torrt Kinaek and Ensign Amalke
Introduction
This is a weekly intelligence briefing to bring all departments and units up to speed concerning recent intelligence developments. Understanding the operations and analysis of current Threat factors and our own response facilitates better cohesion of action and response effectiveness. This week's briefing covers an examination of the Kearsarge attack from an Intelligence perspective, an update on possible use of marketing methods by Syndicate cells, and a report on possible Threat action against Rixx Scrutineers and possible countermeasures. These are quick briefs, and more in-depth analysis of any of these updates can be distributed by request or accessed with proper clearance.
Security Update: The Attack On The USS Kearsarge
It was once common thinking in Starfleet Intelligence that the anti-Syndicate campaign would be a simple one of corporate warfare, that the organization would crumble or move to different opportunities as soon as we put enough pressure on them. This thinking was bent as soon as the Syndicate began putting up heavy resistance, digging in, and acquiring heavy weapons with which to threaten our assets. This required new assumptions. Two of them that they would hit us economically and conventionally, avoiding attacks that inflicted undue civilian carnage, and that their agents were economic actors motivated by profit and thus would avoid willingly committing suicide attacks. Subsequently, we were not expecting nor adequately prepared for the attack on the USS Kearsarge by hijacked civilian transports. Office 8's planning team have thrown all such assumptions out the window, and we have begun wargaming for a variety of attack types and methods that were considered, until now, nonviable for the Syndicate. Already several deficiencies have been noted and countermeasures put in place to prevent similar incidents from happening again.
Also of note is that the Kearsarge was attacked when most of the senior staff was asleep or just starting duty, including the stationed Admirals and the Captain of the Kearsarge itself. While this may have been coincidence, it is also highly possible that our duty schedules have been leaked to the Syndicate, and they may strike at similarly vulnerable times in the future. It is also entirely possible they have simply conducted extensive research into our standard operating practices, hours, and shipboard standard times. Were it possible I would recommend our ships operate on different time schedules from each other, and duty rosters randomized, but at some point security has to give way to practicality. Implementing such procedures would be a logistical nightmare and hamper operations.
Expanded in Kearsage Security Analysis No.2 by Ensign Amalke
Enemy Activity Update: Rationalizing Terrorism
The attack on the Kearsarge, while having the hallmarks of a Syndicate operation in that it was surprising, well-planned, and well-executed, still broke from their methodology in a variety of ways, which as previously stated caught us off-guard. In addition to the profit motives discussed above, it was believed the Syndicate would not try such an attack for fear of public backlash. Indeed, on Orion social media and in the wider media the responses were quite negative to the attack, with many sympathetic stories penned about the thousands of innocent Orions lost in an attack that inflicted relatively few Federation casualties. For an organization that requires some level of popular support in order to stay hidden, and wishes to win the war politically, it was an incredibly risky move for little obvious gain public gain.
However, I am beginning to believe that the backlash to the attack was exactly what the Syndicate wanted, in order to collect data. Looking back through the logs of attacks, we have seen a pattern of carefully escalating attacks that cause indiscriminate civilian casualties. It is my belief that the Syndicate is using big data analysis methods and others to develop a sort of marketing matrix that will maximize impact to our material and political assets while minimizing backlash in the general public. As the title of this section states, they wish to rationalize terrorist acts, not from a moral perspective, but from a purely mathematical one to help determine what attacks are politically 'profit-maximizing' and thus worthy of being carried out.
There's a variety of ways to accomplish this. Most likely is that the Syndicate is using a marketing firm -- or a number of marketing firms -- to trawl Orion social media for raw data and to operationalize articles from more conventional news sources. These firms will then distill the data to find how broad and intense public interest was in a particular attack, if they were positively inclined to it or not, and if there is any change in trending support for the Federation or Syndicate. This would help them target their resources more effectively, and allow them to space out attacks and gain feedback into the efficacy of those already carried out. Their ideal attack would no doubt be one that uses a minimal of resources to achieve broad and intense public interest and ramps up Syndicate support.
The attack on the Kearsarge can be seen as an endpoint to their attempt to calibrate this metric, as an attack with high civilian casualties but also high impact on the Federation. We may see further unconventional attacks, such as last month's half-hearted attack on the Rigellian embassy, as further attempts to calibrate.
Finding ways to counter this new system will be difficult but not undoable. Our own signals and supercomputer group in Office 36 is capable of performing the same data-driven analysis, which may allow us to derive their operating metric and in turn, predict their attacks. Locating and disrupting marketing firms known to be doing such research for the Syndicate is also an option, but our ability to do so will be limited. The Syndicate operates best in the misty grey area between extremely deregulated corporation and criminal enterprise, and they will use multiple marketing firms to analyze the data, will do so as a legitimate customer, and may do so to firms who have no idea they are working for the Syndicate. Such analyses of social media are not uncommon in the Union, and even the Orion Union government has commissioned marketing firms to determine how Syndicate attacks are impacting their public support. If we sent in Aerocommandos to clear out every marketing firm that could possibly be involved in helping the Syndicate develop a terror metric, the workload would be so large we wouldn't be able to send them on any other mission.
However, my team has identified key data criteria and experimental controls that the Syndicate would no doubt need to include in any research study designed to gain actionable models for planning operations. This will help us on a first-pass to find firms more obviously or obliviously working for the Syndicate, and will help us determine which firms might be working for the Syndicate or the government.
In conclusion, the Syndicate has managed to create an unholy nexus of direct marketing, big data, political messaging, and criminal terrorism. The desire to gather more data may have been the precipitating factor behind the Kearsarge attack and explain why they chose the method they did. In the meantime, Plans Team has been tasked with wargaming Kearsarge-style attacks and others so that we will not be caught off-guard in the future in the event the Syndicate chooses to further pursue tactics that for them were seen previously as unconventional.
Expanded on in Threat Activity: Syndicate Attempts To Operationalize Terror by Ensign T'Hal and Ensign Pouren.
Vulnerability: Rixx Scrutineers
An area of security concern is the Rixx Scrutineers. Having been consistently our most effective asset against Syndicate corruption, and given a high public profile as a result, we believe the Syndicate will make countering the Scrutineers a top priority. Already we have seen an increase in anti-Scrutineer thinkpieces, more negative slant given to their mention in articles, and fairly typical social media brawls. Most of these stem from a underpinning philosophical basis: that the Scrutineers represent an unaccountable, unOrion force that is capable of privacy breaches that were hitherto unheard of and almost impossible to craft countermeasures for. Some of these will no doubt be concerned citizens with justifiable criticism, but it is almost certain that some of these articles are being penned with Syndicate support. Countering this avenue of attack will mostly be the job of the Betazoid government and their outreach programs, along with better education and increased Orion interaction with Betazoids.
While so far the threat to the Scrutineers has mostly been a public relations affair, the Kearsage attack reminds us that we cannot remain complacent, and it is highly likely that the Syndicate will begin operations to attack Scrutineers directly. This presents a major complication, as increased visibility of the Scrutineers in public and on patrol is one recommended course of action to counter negative public image [See attached Appendix C]. Plans believes that the risk can be mitigated by giving deployed Scrutineers on the ground more organic security support. We also believe that they should pair with the Caitian Frontier Police to receive enhanced security training and on-the-job experience so that the Scrutineers are better able to protect themselves if needed. Also proposed was to simply disguise deployed Scrutineers as Human security personnel, avoiding the risk of them being targeted directly. However, we believe this will actually exacerbate any PR issues, as making the Rixx Scrutineers visible is an important element of gaining the trust of the average Orion. If rumors spread that Starfleet Security squads could have a secret mind-reader embedded at any time, paranoia would seep in and trust would be lost. Therefore, disguise is only recommended in special circumstances. Wargaming to develop better security protocols for facilities housing Rixx personnel has begun, and often overlaps with wargaming unconventional attacks on our facilities.
We believe as well that the Rixx Scrutineers face an additional angle of attack: the mind. Reports from the homeworld Scrutineers report possible contact between Betazed dissident group Zeroth House and the Syndicate. Vulcan Security has also begun to investigate the recruitment of Vulcan citizens tempted by the Syndicate's promises of a life with order and emotion. These efforts reveal the darker half of IDIC - for all that a species might be friendly, open, or otherwise peaceful, there will always be some individuals willing to sign up with a group like the Syndicate. Indeed, we believe the Syndicate are pushing their newfound rebellious reputation to recruit outcasts from all species, promising family and adventure.
At the same time, the Syndicate has been scouring the Klingon menagerie of misery that is Rura Penthe for unique individuals or species with psionic abilities. In this case they do not need as much persuasion, reasonably assuming anyone trapped in Rura Penthe would rather work for the Syndicate and bribing the local authorities to cover it up. Further consultation is needed with the Betazoids as to their potential vulnerabilities in this area, but from initial inquiries it appears this might be an area of unknowns for them as well. Our covert agents should be warned of the possibility of the Syndicate using psionic species like we do our scrutineers, and consult with the Vulcans and Betazoids as to possible countermeasures they can use, where possible.
Expanded in Threat Assessment: Rixx Scrutineers Visibility and Vulnerability by Lieutenant Torrt Kinaek and Ensign Amalke
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Night
Widow Null
- Location
- Hoff
Psst hey, do you wanna tractor them and I torpedo them, or the other way around?
#TheBigE
Captain pretends to be insane, nearly gets ship stolen by Romulans, steals their outfits (and their cloaking device) while Vulcan first officer seduces their commander, flies away as Federation vessel under cloak.
#BigEProblems
- Location
- Infraspace
That's an excellent idea! I'll see if I can give it more Ambassador stylings. That would also allow symmetrisation of the nacelles that seems to be a pretty consistent feature among its contemporaries. I imagine those pylons are right-angled? Seems to be the general style for Excelsior, Ambassador and Galaxy, emerging horizontally and then bending up to the vertical. I'll try bringing the shuttlebay back in line with the era too.
@Ato posted a general ship comparison here. However, it's worse than it looks from just the side view. The references I used give it a fairly squat secondary hull, making it significantly wider than the Constitution-B. To get the mass to make visual sense, we'd probably have to either shrink it a little or justify it narratively with 'modern materials/components' or something. Is the length set in stone?
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- Patriarchova
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Yeah the pylons are Ambsssador style.
This version is actually smaller than the one on the large chart. And the difference will be futher reduced when I upscale the connie to its proper length. Atm it is the length of the TOS connie, but the refit nacelles make it longer.
Hopefully once done it shoukd mean the visual size difference between them is minimized.
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- Infraspace
Well, I found half an hour to start reworking the pylons. Still need a bit more done on them though.
(Edit: album removed due to clutter, sorry. More later in the thread!)
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- Mid-Atlantic
The #1 front view and #4 stern view look a LOT like a Galaxy probably because it doesn't seem to reflect the new idea for the nacelle pylons. Though #4 is hard to tell because, as you note in the caption, space is dark.
2312.Q3.M1 - Master of Orion
- Location
- Australia
Freedom Gazette
Breaking:
A large plasma explosion has been registered at the site of the funeral service for the colony Vice-Governor. Dozens are feared dead in this latest outcropping of a wave of violence brought on by the arrival of Starfleet forces. With local community opposition, typified by such distinguished groups as the Children of Liberty Circle and the Orion Heritage Council, going unheeded, the outbreak of violence was surely an expected result. Even so, the colony world is ill-equipped to handle such levels of rebellion, and the PPU is retreating to their stations.
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Bridge, USS Lexington
"Commodore, I want you to go on the attack, suppress this now," declares Rear Admiral Uhura as she strides up next to Captain Winslow. "What do you need to do it?
On the viewscreen ahead of them, Commodore T'Lorel is dirt-smudged, with burns and tears in her officer's jacket. But her posture is parade-ground perfect, and if she feels any discomfort, no one would ever tell. "Personnel," replies the Commodore. "I require additional personnel in order to establish a visible presence to deter Syndicate activity. Office 24's three teams together with the wire-tapping provide sufficient offensive capacity."
"I will have the ship security detachments deploy to the surface, Commodore," replies Uhura. "Just bring this under control."
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Anti-Slavery Task Force Progress Report
For a time being it looked like Freedom was going to become a fiasco. The Syndicate began to attack any civilian targets that worked in concert with us, while also attempting a round of assassinations for any public official that was not on board with their agenda. However, an aggressive set of interventions from RAdm Uhura, and Commodores Eaton and T'Lorel proved decisive in smothering these attempts. Images of orbit-to-surface phaser strikes in support of beleaguered Frontier Police outposts, plus high-speed shuttle insertions, caused panic among the populace at first. However, they were effective at disrupting the Syndicate operational tempo.
A number of casualties were taken and sustained, but overall, many arrests were made, including of one Syndicate agent believed responsible for a number of bombings on Celos. Information gathered from initial interrogations allowed Commodore Eaton's task force to break up a smuggling operation based on the planet, arresting the crew of a cargo ship in the act. Overall, we ended the month in better shape on Freedom than we started, a prospect that seemed distant at one stage. In fact, they believe that they will be able to exploit this defeat to start declawing the Syndicate's hold on the planet early. [1hp Caitian Frontier Police, 1hp Starfleet Security, 1hp Syndicate Merc Team killed, 3hp Syndicate local assets arrested, +8 Impact, +3 Cost]
On Alukk, the Union government has been working frantically to stay ahead of media campaigns designed to further pressure them into extradite the Syndicate financial backers from Amarkia. This is being met with a peculiar and rather two-faced approach, whereby they speak of their desire to return the criminals to fact Orion justice, but they must recognise Amarkian claims. Segments of the administration are robust in their language towards Amarkia, which is causing frayed tensions in some quarters, but overall the mollification is working. [0 Cost]
In more operational matters, the Union government is doing their best to conduct a reconstruction from the ground up of the PPU on Celos, which they expect to take a further quarter before they are able to fully take over the effort. Unfortunately, on Alukk they attempted a crackdown of urban areas, and met with stiff resistance. Multi-dimensional, complex ambushes have resulted in dozens of deaths, as have a series of hovertruck bombings of ISSU and SSD stations. [1 hp ISSU, 1 hp SSD killed, +5 Cost]
Although we cannot put a high level of confidence on it, there is a belief among Starfleet Intelligence's Orion analysts that the Syndicate's overall operational tempo has been further reduced. We will report further on this in coming months.
[Total: +8 Impact, +8 Cost]
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Breaking:
A large plasma explosion has been registered at the site of the funeral service for the colony Vice-Governor. Dozens are feared dead in this latest outcropping of a wave of violence brought on by the arrival of Starfleet forces. With local community opposition, typified by such distinguished groups as the Children of Liberty Circle and the Orion Heritage Council, going unheeded, the outbreak of violence was surely an expected result. Even so, the colony world is ill-equipped to handle such levels of rebellion, and the PPU is retreating to their stations.
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Bridge, USS Lexington
"Commodore, I want you to go on the attack, suppress this now," declares Rear Admiral Uhura as she strides up next to Captain Winslow. "What do you need to do it?
On the viewscreen ahead of them, Commodore T'Lorel is dirt-smudged, with burns and tears in her officer's jacket. But her posture is parade-ground perfect, and if she feels any discomfort, no one would ever tell. "Personnel," replies the Commodore. "I require additional personnel in order to establish a visible presence to deter Syndicate activity. Office 24's three teams together with the wire-tapping provide sufficient offensive capacity."
"I will have the ship security detachments deploy to the surface, Commodore," replies Uhura. "Just bring this under control."
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Anti-Slavery Task Force Progress Report
For a time being it looked like Freedom was going to become a fiasco. The Syndicate began to attack any civilian targets that worked in concert with us, while also attempting a round of assassinations for any public official that was not on board with their agenda. However, an aggressive set of interventions from RAdm Uhura, and Commodores Eaton and T'Lorel proved decisive in smothering these attempts. Images of orbit-to-surface phaser strikes in support of beleaguered Frontier Police outposts, plus high-speed shuttle insertions, caused panic among the populace at first. However, they were effective at disrupting the Syndicate operational tempo.
A number of casualties were taken and sustained, but overall, many arrests were made, including of one Syndicate agent believed responsible for a number of bombings on Celos. Information gathered from initial interrogations allowed Commodore Eaton's task force to break up a smuggling operation based on the planet, arresting the crew of a cargo ship in the act. Overall, we ended the month in better shape on Freedom than we started, a prospect that seemed distant at one stage. In fact, they believe that they will be able to exploit this defeat to start declawing the Syndicate's hold on the planet early. [1hp Caitian Frontier Police, 1hp Starfleet Security, 1hp Syndicate Merc Team killed, 3hp Syndicate local assets arrested, +8 Impact, +3 Cost]
On Alukk, the Union government has been working frantically to stay ahead of media campaigns designed to further pressure them into extradite the Syndicate financial backers from Amarkia. This is being met with a peculiar and rather two-faced approach, whereby they speak of their desire to return the criminals to fact Orion justice, but they must recognise Amarkian claims. Segments of the administration are robust in their language towards Amarkia, which is causing frayed tensions in some quarters, but overall the mollification is working. [0 Cost]
In more operational matters, the Union government is doing their best to conduct a reconstruction from the ground up of the PPU on Celos, which they expect to take a further quarter before they are able to fully take over the effort. Unfortunately, on Alukk they attempted a crackdown of urban areas, and met with stiff resistance. Multi-dimensional, complex ambushes have resulted in dozens of deaths, as have a series of hovertruck bombings of ISSU and SSD stations. [1 hp ISSU, 1 hp SSD killed, +5 Cost]
Although we cannot put a high level of confidence on it, there is a belief among Starfleet Intelligence's Orion analysts that the Syndicate's overall operational tempo has been further reduced. We will report further on this in coming months.
[Total: +8 Impact, +8 Cost]
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