Captain's Log, USS Odyssey, Stardate 25092.6 - Captain Langa Mbeki
The crew is getting settled into their roles. The fumbling eagerness, and the klutziness that follows, that characterises a maiden voyage has gone. The first glimmers of professionalism are starting to emerge from the crew like a springbok leaping out into the field.
I believe they have the makings of a fine, fine crew.
Today I will be continuing our exploration of the regions near the Licori, looking to pick up some information. I met with the Captain of the USS Selaya yesterday. The Diplomatic Service has them on taxi duty again, conveying their ambassadors to meet representatives of Licori noble houses.
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Captain's Log, USS Vigour, Stardate 25092.8 - Captain Nag fop Haduk
An automated distress beacon in the fringes of Betazoid space, on their coreward edge, has been activated. The beacon belongs to an expedition team who are conducting a level three suitability survey on a Class K world. They are looking to potentially terraform and adapt it to Betazoid life.
I'm not sure what has gone wrong, so we will have to be prepared for anything.
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Captain's Log, USS Thirishar, Stardate 25093.6 - Captain Norkair ch'Gharist
The Caldonians are calling for a diplomatic intervention urgently. One of their minor colony worlds further away from the Klingon border is on the verge of a revolt. A practitioner of pseudoscience has collected a following and persuaded them to try to throw off the Caldonian colonial government and declare themselves rulers.
This is a delicate situation. We hardly want to be seen as stymieing self-determination but these are close affiliates and the separatist group is borderline criminal in nature. We are heading there at full speed. The FDS expects that it will have consular aid to us within a few days of our arrival.
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Ambassador's Log, Morshadd, Ambassador Elisa Bairn, Stardate 25094.2
The arrival of investigators from the Council has provided me with sufficient resources to begin properly looking into the root causes of the Licori-Ked Paddah conflict. Hopefully it will pave the way to new, more effective avenues of mediating the conflict.
As near as we have been able to tell so far though, the basic story is correct. An escalating series of reckless Mentat experiments led to the Ked Paddah deciding to take drastic measures. Now, I have to say, this is a delicate point: do we consider the declaration to be an act of aggression? The Ked Paddah suffered no direct injury from the Mentat scientists, but nonetheless they viewed the safety of the galaxy to be at stake, and declared war. For the Arcadian Empire, that is to say, the Licori, this is unquestionably an unjustifiable act of aggression. For the Ked Paddah, however, it was simply a matter of defending themselves and others from the threat of rogue experiments.
Notably, the noble houses of the Licori have heavily constrained their Mentats since the start of this conflict.
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Captain's Log, USS Vigour, Stardate 25094.7
The expedition team had disappeared almost without a trace from first appearance. This is despite appearing to be in a locked room scenario, for all seeming intents and purposes. However, an eagle-eyed science officer reviewing the data from the expedition outpost discovered something crucial. A recent series of tectonic movements released a flow of magma through a series of cartonian crystal caves. One of these passages was directly below the outpost, and it created a tremendous effect whereby the surveyors were naturally transported to the wrong side of the planet.
We reached them just before their oxygen supplies were due to run out and brought them to safety.
[+5rp]
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Captain's Log, USS Odyssey, Stardate 25095.1
Our investigations has returned very odd results on a sensor sweep through one of the inner planets of the Kappa Tau star system. Based on tachyon spectrum reports, there is a solid and sustainable vein of duranium ore, with a number of other exotic compounds used in warp coils.
[+5pp, discover new colony option, Kappa Tau [+!5br/yr]
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Captain's Log, USS Thirishar, Stardate 25095.3
This is not going very well, unfortunately. This group is one that Sector Command had really hoped to arrange an envoy last month. Unfortunately, because we couldn't drop by, they have had no one around to remind them that this is an absolutely horrible idea.
Thankfully, popular support is with the government. However, it will take sometimes to stymie the attempts of this new agitator group, especially given their fanaticism.
[Lose -5pp, -10 relatons with the Caldonians]
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Sector Commander's Log, Gabriel BZ, Stardate 25095.5 - Rear Admiral Rachel Ainsworth
The reinforcements for Task Force 1 are now making their way through to Collie. I'm going to run a pair of battle exercises with the new sector command to get some experience into this group before we take them out to face the Sydraxians. This is crucial on two fronts. One is learning to maintain discipline under stress ... and the other is the fact that I have been quietly warned that under no circumstances at all am I to launch the attack within a week of the Apiatan or Indorian ratifications. Apparently it might make people agitated.
I'm trying to run a campaign here!
One thing that is fast becoming clear, however, it's that with all the construction and infrastructure projects I have in mind, I'm going to need more freighters. I'll have to ask Vice Admiral Eriksson if the Rigellians, United Earth, or the Tellarites will be interested in loaning a few.
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