I'd be okay with drawing down on the ASTF at this point.
e: We can give them a Miranda or Miranda-A once one is available.
e: We can give them a Miranda or Miranda-A once one is available.
So maybe put one of those Connie-B's in the SBZ? I don't think that's a bad idea, actually.It's possible that if we bully the Sydraxians enough, they'll say "to hell with Celos" and just start a war on their own for real. They're almost on war footing already. I think the SBZ should be covered better than it currently is. High presence there would also help our ongoing diplomatic efforts.
"You need to learn to be more careful with your toys before we trust you with such expensive ones again. You can play with a Renaissance in the meantime, it's almost as good."Depends how you answer when Ainsworth comes to say "Rivers broke my Excelsior, gib replacement. Also, freighters."
And the Yukikaze has never really seemed to be doing very much in the ASTF.
...haven't we talked repeatedly about how Yukikaze is basically a one-ship task force in the ASTF and made jokes about adding a Master of Orion reference to the ship's patch?
Might be a bit mixed up with the Cheron....haven't we talked repeatedly about how Yukikaze is basically a one-ship task force in the ASTF and made jokes about adding a Master of Orion reference to the ship's patch?
Our flagship for that armada needs to be the USS 70% Approval.
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.
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.
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!)
For certain values of 'we.'As I suspected; both we and the Sydraxians saw the battle of Deva IX as a loss.
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.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....
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.Not that I can think of. It would seem that point defenses are just not a workable countermeasure to Trek torpedoes for whatever reason.
Soon. Definitely soon. Also for Endurance, or what's left of it.WHICH REMINDS ME:
Unit Citation for the Kumari when? They've definitely earned it.
I love this.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.
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.
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
Crew skill drops are at 50%, if I remember correctly.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.