Basically I'd like enough force in the SBZ that the sector garrison can turtle up behind Vega starbase for long enough for reinforcements to arrive, if the Sydraxians send C20 or more at them. What I don't want is for us to lose Vega in the opening week of a war.
 
Basically I'd like enough force in the SBZ that the sector garrison can turtle up behind Vega starbase for long enough for reinforcements to arrive, if the Sydraxians send C20 or more at them. What I don't want is for us to lose Vega in the opening week of a war.

Considering the advanced sensors of Starfleet and the location of the base I think the chances a re very good that an (big) attack on Vega would be detected early enough for reinforcements from the surrounding areas to be able to react before an actual battle starts.
 
I'd prefer to keep the ASTF as-is for the rest of this year. They're close enough to the SBZ to be able to respond in case we detect a major war fleet incoming.

SBZ, CBZ, and KBZ need at least one more ship within a year. But I'm also okay with temporarily keeping the CBZ and KBZ at 2 ships until the Endurance and Shield get repaired, and keep sending reinforcements to the GBZ.
 
Hmm, in some ways it would actually help to have the Avandar exchanged for two Centaur-As in Ferasa Sector. As we've noted, Ferasa sector has gotten freaking huge, extending to the Qloathi, and down to Risa. Having two less capable ships that can be in multiple places at once might be better than one ship that is very capable, but isn't where we need it. (At least narratively; not sure if it'll work that way mechanically.)

I'd prefer to keep the ASTF as-is for the rest of this year. They're close enough to the SBZ to be able to respond in case we detect a major war fleet incoming.

The trouble is, there's just nowhere else to go for a second Centaur-A in Ferasa sector. We can get the Bull from Tellar Sector, but where else do we go?

Hmmm, unless Ainsworth wants to trade one of her Centaur-As for an Excelsior, I suppose.
 
If we're gonna send a ship from Ferasa Sector to the GBZ, we should send Cheron instead of Avandar. She's got an extra point of hull over a green Excelsior, can be repaired at a 1mt berth, and has the luck of the devil when it comes to Cardassians.
 
Throwing in my 2 cents on deployment here before I have to go do things:

Send a centaur-A to the KBZ and put the other in an interior sector. Put a Miranda-A in the RBZ, CBZ, SBZ, and an interior sector.

Put the Renaissance in Sol, send the Hood to the SBZ. Send the remaining Connie-B and Miranda-A to the GBZ.

Finally, green-light the Amarki for the GBZ to increase the combat strength in the area. Also, see if you can't get more cargo vessels and other support by green-lighting other members.

Ainsworth can make do with merely having 20 combat for attack at her finger tips for a few months, she has back up from High Queen Nerzizza's task force which has 24 combat after all.
 
RE: The Yrillians:

I have been discussing with @Rogue 11 about how to deal with them, since they are multiple independent parties who ultimately want profit or some other fulfillment from their work. It was said that on a good day, a Yrillian Work Gang could be the protagonists of an episode of Trek, helping some broke-down spacer out, and then the next day they could be pirating a freighter for luxury goods they can fence in the next system over.


The balance of power that would suit the more aggressive, piratically-inclined Yrillians would be the Cardassians in ascendance over the Federation, though not a complete victory for the Cardassians either. Those corsairs that took a shot at Endurance were probably talked into that attack with that logic.


Now, how does the Federation and Starfleet make some Yrillians work for us? We can't give them letters of marque to go raid Cardassian shipping, it will look awful on the news back home. I think what we need to do is to offer Work Gangs and their ships the chance to do meaningful, non-criminal work and get paid for it. We would have to pay some sort of retainer fees for those Yrillians to maintain good behavior, so long as we can keep tabs on them to make sure they're not doing criminal work on the side.

Perhaps they can also collect payments for jobs well done: Crippled ships being rescued, scientific anomalies located for Starfleet to investigate, convoys protected, etc. We do need to structure the incentives correctly so the Yrillians don't fight each other in pursuit of a job, and so that we don't end up like perverse incentives (Like the British cobra bounty in India leading to people breeding cobras for cash!).


This will of course cost us, and we will not get as good of results as Starfleet would get for the same money... But having them not-misbehaving may well be worth it.
 
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Now, how does the Federation and Starfleet make some Yrillians work for us? We can't give them letters of marque to go raid Cardassian shipping, it will look awful on the news back home. I think what we need to do is to offer Work Gangs and their ships the chance to do meaningful, non-criminal work and get paid for it. We would have to pay some sort of retainer fees for those Yrillians to maintain good behavior, so long as we can keep tabs on them to make sure they're not doing criminal work on the side.

Perhaps they can also collect payments for jobs well done: Crippled ships being rescued, scientific anomalies located for Starfleet to investigate, convoys protected, etc. We do need to structure the incentives correctly so the Yrillians don't fight each other in pursuit of a job, and so that we don't end up like perverse incentives (Like the British cobra bounty in India leading to people breeding cobras for cash!)

That sounds like something that we could only initiate with a Sousa-deal, which is another 9 months away. Hopefully the Yrillians don't fall completely into Cardassian orbit in that time.
 
As I suspected; both we and the Sydraxians saw the battle of Deva IX as a loss.
For certain values of 'we.' ;)

We suffered some ship damage and heavy casualties aboard a single ship. They suffered a beating that destroted 10-20% of their combat strength.

Okay. In that case, I think it's better we know what the Cardassian's current ship production rate is than to get a possible +1C in engagements against them. I don't think entire fleet engagements are going to be common to be honest, and with a smaller force we're unlikely to get that extra +1C so....
Combat numbers didn't USED to be rounded off to the nearest whole number; decimals counted and 5% is 5%. I'm a bit unclear on whether decimals still count in the new combat engine, though, and if they do, they affect how much damage we do to the enemy, not our hit probability, which changes a few bits of the calculation.

Not that I can think of. It would seem that point defenses are just not a workable countermeasure to Trek torpedoes for whatever reason.
Those big Romulan plasma blast weapons can be disrupted by phaser fire. Individual photon torpedoes are small and fast enough that shooting them down would probably be very difficult even if it isn't actually impossible. If I were writing stuff I might portray torpedoes being shot down once in a while, especially when a ship can concentrate its full effort on doing so, but in general there wouldn't be any Honorverse-esque "launch fifty missiles, 48 of them were shot down" stuff going on.

WHICH REMINDS ME:

Unit Citation for the Kumari when? They've definitely earned it.
Soon. Definitely soon. Also for Endurance, or what's left of it.

I'm curious if the FDS/FBS currently have any plans to bombard Dawiar space with leaked news on how much we wanted to work something out with the Dawiar so we could colonize space around Risa together but their Cardassian masters won't let them talk to us, but we totally would talk with them if they declared independence and of course would love to see people join our federation, just wanted to mention that, no particular reason why do you ask, and even if people don't want to join we'd of course still protect them from outside agression by other superpowers.

After all, we're not talking with the Dawiar so the Cardies can't be upset, we're talking to ourselves and the Dawiar merely overhear it, Federation infosecurity is notoriously leaky after all.
:D I love this.
 
Regarding the Yrillians:

I agree that we should hire them ourselves. The Council won't let us use them as privateers, but if, say, we offer a bounty for the locations of resource deposits and habitable planets further coreward, we'll have a) encouraged a lot of adventurous Yrillians to move into an area where they can't bother us and b) gotten some mapping done. We probably won't have to offer as much as the Cardassians/Sydraxians are, since the work is less dangerous. And if our enemies do want to keep hiring Yrillian privateers they'll need to pay them much more to offset our counteroffer, so worst case scenario we're still digging into Cardassia's coffers.


Regarding the Dawiar:

We're not allowed to initiate diplomacy with them. However, we know that they have good relations with the Qloathi, with embassies on each other's homeworlds. I'll bet we can skirt the terms of the treaty by using the Qloathi as go-betweens.
 
One thing before redeploying ships in q3 would be to see if we can't get a Riala and escorts sent to the GBZ them. That would more than make up for our damaged ships and we originally had the Apiata and amarkia as the races tapped to move into the GBZ. Plus the Republic will be back in q4 which is a good 5c back in action and 2314 has 7 ships plus an Explorer corp finishing
 
If we're gonna send a ship from Ferasa Sector to the GBZ, we should send Cheron instead of Avandar. She's got an extra point of hull over a green Excelsior, can be repaired at a 1mt berth, and has the luck of the devil when it comes to Cardassians.

On the other hand losing a few points of crew to a battle means she loses all those stats*, while a green Excelsior can be repaired and recrewed and back to normal. I'd rather keep the Cheron kicking ass on Events than sending her into battle when she'll lose what makes her great.

*We've seen before that crew losses can reduce crew veterancy status. Happened to the Courageous.
 
One thing before redeploying ships in q3 would be to see if we can't get a Riala and escorts sent to the GBZ them. That would more than make up for our damaged ships and we originally had the Apiata and amarkia as the races tapped to move into the GBZ. Plus the Republic will be back in q4 which is a good 5c back in action and 2314 has 7 ships plus an Explorer corp finishing

I don't think we're going to get a full redeployment vote. It'll be more likely to be, "Do you respond to Ainsworth's request for reinforcements, and if so what do you send her?"

Anyway, the Amarkia already got a green light and are preparing to move in on their own. However they explicitly are not joining Ainswrth's fleet. We voted to allow them to operate under their own command, cooperating with Ainsworth but not taking orders from her.
 
On the other hand losing a few points of crew to a battle means she loses all those stats*, while a green Excelsior can be repaired and recrewed and back to normal. I'd rather keep the Cheron kicking ass on Events than sending her into battle when she'll lose what makes her great.

*We've seen before that crew losses can reduce crew veterancy status. Happened to the Courageous.
Crew skill drops are at 50%, if I remember correctly.
 
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