To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
- Thread starter OneirosTheWriter
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- Germany
Potential new pet for the Rock Whisperer?
AKuz
Been Better
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- A Rising Tide of Horrors
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Remember when we thought the Gaeni were nuts?
And going farther back: Remember when we thought that the Humans were nuts?
I shudder to think of who we will meet next!
Random Member
Gardener of Human Happiness
- Location
- Behind You
Goddamn Licori! I'm beginning to think the Ked Paddah were on to something.
- Location
- Patriarchova
Okay, did we seriously just abort the Crystalline Entity?
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
I like it! If I omake one of Renaissance's trials can I use that for an illustration?
I'm pretty sure this thing is to the Crystalline Entity (and silicon-based life in general) what the Biophage is to us.
[Pictures Captain Mbeki using every scrap of his athletic skills to dodge affectionate friendly Horta hugs]
Omake - The Rock Pt 2 - Night
Night
Widow Null
- Location
- Hoff
SECOND OF THE SERIES ON SERUK.
Stealing this outright. Hope that's okay.
Stealing this outright. Hope that's okay.
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- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
None of it's mine to give away.
Leslie:
"The hard part is getting that new car smell. But it's true. It's really true. I haven't seen this many old hands with this many warm fuzzies since that time off Deep Space K-7."
Leslie:
[sniff]
"I'm so... proud of you... kid."
[wipes eyes]
[Seriously, I probably shouldn't spare the time to write an omake I've had bouncing around my head for Mbeki, not this week- may do it anyway]
- Location
- Northish
This why we can't have nice things Licori, this is why!
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- Patriarchova
What exactly was this "something different" they were attempting?
aeqnai
Nerdy Homu
- Location
- Laniakea Supercluster
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- She/Her
- Location
- Australia
Speaking of Rogers.
What was he hoping the stat line for the Ares cruisers to be?
What was he hoping the stat line for the Ares cruisers to be?
- Location
- Patriarchova
Probably a less well rounded Rennie.
Night
Widow Null
- Location
- Hoff
Considering it was close to an Excelsior in size, probably C7 or C6 with a similar shield and D line to an Excelsior, low presence, middling Science. Eats militarization points like candy.
Or it was basically the Friendly Snake Explorer class the Seyek have built, known to us as the C9 fives everything else "Freedom of Navigation Motherfuckerssss".
lbmaian
a thirsty squirrel
- Location
- USA
+20rp and +20sr - pretty good so far. With the presumed +30rp for getting the Ambassador project, I think we have enough to activate all our research teams, but without any boosts.
But...
That's not far from the earlier proposed Collie station (less than a week away at military cruising speeds) AND it's much better protected.
When the Apinae sector fleet arrives, although its admittedly tiny at just 1 Cent-A and 1 Oberth, it could free up another Stinger to join the Apiata GBZ fleet. Not sure if the Apiata fleet doctrine is comfortable with leaving just a single Stinger with a Little Queenship, since they favor their 1 Little Queenship + 2 Stinger teams.
edit: Actually, since the Apinae sector fleet is going to be helping out throughout the whole sector doing what Starfleet does, they're not going to be spending time defending this outpost except in an emergency.
That's more than a fourth of their total fleet at C28 S28 D36. Plus possibly another Stinger if the Apinae sector fleet can free that up.
The 6 cargo ships (Bumblebees) and 4 engineering ships (Worker Bees) are also appreciated.
I actually forgot about these guys. (Seriously, too much going on) I hate to think of them this way, but while they're around, they're effectively acting like a vanguard trailblazing through the Gabriel Expanse, while the GBZ sector fleet can follow up. It's one hell of a fleet too.
Oh that omake's been made canon
But...
...that's painful. I wish the Thirishar responded to this instead of the science event because we badly need pp.
Hmm, is this bigger than the 5th fleet in the Ghost and Whispers crisis? I'll have to check...
That's not far from the earlier proposed Collie station (less than a week away at military cruising speeds) AND it's much better protected.
When the Apinae sector fleet arrives, although its admittedly tiny at just 1 Cent-A and 1 Oberth, it could free up another Stinger to join the Apiata GBZ fleet. Not sure if the Apiata fleet doctrine is comfortable with leaving just a single Stinger with a Little Queenship, since they favor their 1 Little Queenship + 2 Stinger teams.
edit: Actually, since the Apinae sector fleet is going to be helping out throughout the whole sector doing what Starfleet does, they're not going to be spending time defending this outpost except in an emergency.
That's more than a fourth of their total fleet at C28 S28 D36. Plus possibly another Stinger if the Apinae sector fleet can free that up.
The 6 cargo ships (Bumblebees) and 4 engineering ships (Worker Bees) are also appreciated.
I actually forgot about these guys. (Seriously, too much going on
) I hate to think of them this way, but while they're around, they're effectively acting like a vanguard trailblazing through the Gabriel Expanse, while the GBZ sector fleet can follow up. It's one hell of a fleet too.Oh that omake's been made canon
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- Location
- Infraspace
Go ahead. I'll probably update it at some point as I develop the mesh, though, so keep an eye out!
Edit: formatting!
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lbmaian
a thirsty squirrel
- Location
- USA
So here's Starfleet's Biophage Response Fleet before meeting up with the Romulans, Klingons, and the remainder of the Kadesh:
| C | S | D | |
| Enterprise | 9 | 8 | 6 |
| Courageous | 8 | 7 | 6 |
| Sarek | 6 | 6 | 6 |
| Excelsior | 6 | 5 | 6 |
| Kumari | 6 | 5 | 6 |
| Riala* | 6 | 4 | 6 |
| Challorn | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Shakalash | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Centaur | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Yukikaze | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Svai | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Faithful | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| T'Mir | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 60 | 50 | 51 |
edit: oops, got the Constellation D wrong - fixed the D2 to D3
edit2: also forgot the 2 Mirandas - fixed
Ghost & Whispers 5th Fleet:
| C | S | D | |
| Kumari | 6 | 5 | 6 |
| Enterprise | 9 | 8 | 6 |
| S'harien | 6 | 5 | 6 |
| Cheron | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| Challorn | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Zephyr | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Winterwind | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 37 | 31 | 31 |
| C | S | D | |
| Endurance | 6 | 5 | 6 |
| Kumari | 7 | 6 | 6 |
| Republic | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| Korolev | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| Saratoga | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| Challorn | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Winterwind | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| 35 | 26 | 33 |
| C | S | D | |
| Endurance | 6 | 5 | 6 |
| Kumari | 7 | 6 | 6 |
| Republic | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| Korolev | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| Saratoga | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| Valiant | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| Challorn | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Winterwind | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Bull | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Shield | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Fidelity | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| 49 | 36 | 45 |
It's also true that it's not as large as Starfleet's response to the Biophage. Combined with the Apiata reinforcements it is, but if we're making that comparison, it would only be fair to also include Romulan+Klingon+Kadesh assets. Biophage crisis still stands as the record of largest fleets in recent history.
Note: the above numbers are somewhat misleading, because the combat and event effectiveness of a ship does not scale linearly with stats - it's actually more of a power function - and I'm only considering 3 out of the 6 stats. But in this case it doesn't matter since the overall fleet proportions haven't changed much - Biophage fleet and G&W fleet were explorer heavy, while GBZ fleet is more cruiser heavy, yet those cruisers are nearly as powerful as the explorers.
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Is this the first time we've had a log from Ainsworth? I know her name has been floating around in various positions since the beginning of the quest.
The Cardassians? What they really need to be worried about is being placed under arrest by the Dylaarians for their blatant theft of Preserver intellectual technology. Lock 'em up! Lock 'em all up!
Huh, I guess the pre-warp civilization lucked out form not being in Cardassian space.
The Licori are not the safest neighbors in the galaxy, are they? I mean apart from being an autocratic empire. One begins to understand why the Ked Peddah felt they had to launch their war.
We really need to reinforce the KBZ with one of those new Centaurs when they come out next year. I do not like having it down to so few ships.
Does that include the 20br/20sr we sent with the Stargazer, or is that a separate resource stockpile?
I have to say, this feels like it's written with a distinct political bias to it. Like the author is someone who has an obvious axe to grind with Rogers and wants to make him sound as terrible as possible in order to puff up Seruk. Which isn't to say that's wrong; most political histories have at least a bit of an axe to grind. But "acceptance of civilian control waning" and "slide into autocracy"? Really?
Would I think would improve this series is if you gave it an actual author, someone these sentiments can be attributed to and who is writing it and whose biases we can judge, rather than making it sounds like a voice of objective authority.
ADDITIONAL: Also @Night you should consider not putting your omakes in spoiler boxes. It makes them a lot easier to miss reading through the thread and harder to quote in a reply. Generally everyone else doesn't put their omakes in spoilers.
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