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[X][EXCEL] Send the Avandar. Replace it on garrison in Ferasa Sector by detaching the Yukikaze from the Anti-Syndicate Task Force and bringing in the Stalwart from Tellar Sector. Personal note to Ainsworth, highest encryption. "The pantry is now bare, Rachel. No more reinforcements until second quarter next year. Plan accordingly."
[X][OPS] Rear Admiral T'Faer
[X][FREIGHT] Send 2 extra freighters, 2 extra Cargo Ships (-15pp)
 
[X][EXCEL] Send the Avandar. Replace it on garrison in Ferasa Sector by detaching the Yukikaze from the Anti-Syndicate Task Force and bringing in the Stalwart from Tellar Sector. Personal note to Ainsworth, highest encryption. "The pantry is now bare, Rachel. No more reinforcements until second quarter next year. Plan accordingly."
[X][OPS] Rear Admiral T'Faer
[X][FREIGHT] Send 2 extra freighters, 2 extra Cargo Ships (-15pp)
 
[X][EXCEL] Send the Avandar. Replace it on garrison in Ferasa Sector by detaching the Yukikaze from the Anti-Syndicate Task Force and bringing in the Stalwart from Tellar Sector. Personal note to Ainsworth, highest encryption. "The pantry is now bare, Rachel. No more reinforcements until second quarter next year. Plan accordingly."
[X][OPS] Rear Admiral Nyota Uhura
[X][FREIGHT] Send 2 extra freighters, 2 extra Cargo Ships (-15pp)

People, I would advise you to remember that we're seeing Rule-Abiding/Aggression/Nerve/Diplo/Politics listings here for a reason, and the Uhura's are much better than T'Faers.
 
pheonix89 said:
People, I would advise you to remember that we're seeing Rule-Abiding/Aggression/Nerve/Diplo/Politics listings here for a reason, and the Uhura's are much better than T'Faers.
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Uhura will take initiative, and will (mostly) get away with it. That's my interpretation of her stats.
 
Keep in mind that appointing Uhura means pulling her away from the Anti-Syndicate task force. If we're taking one of their ships and their commander at the same time, that might be a bit much. Personally, I think we should have Uhura replace Sulu at Starfleet Tactical when he presumably gets the big chair. By then hopefully the ASTF will be nearly done. She was Chief of Staff for him at Tactical before the ASTF, so she knows the command well. That seems smarter to me than sending her somewhere she's not familiar with while she's in the middle of a vital task.
 
[X][EXCEL] Send the Avandar. Replace it on garrison in Ferasa Sector by detaching the Yukikaze from the Anti-Syndicate Task Force and bringing in the Stalwart from Tellar Sector. Personal note to Ainsworth, highest encryption. "The pantry is now bare, Rachel. No more reinforcements until second quarter next year. Plan accordingly."
[X][FREIGHT] Send 2 extra freighters, 2 extra Cargo Ships (-15pp)
[X][OPS] Rear Admiral T'Faer
 
Nervos Belli said:
Keep in mind that appointing Uhura means pulling her away from the Anti-Syndicate task force. If we're taking one of their ships and their commander at the same time, that might be a bit much. Personally, I think we should have Uhura replace Sulu at Starfleet Tactical when he presumably gets the big chair. By then hopefully the ASTF will be nearly done. She was Chief of Staff for him at Tactical before the ASTF, so she knows the command well. That seems smarter to me than sending her somewhere she's not familiar with while she's in the middle of a vital task.
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Good point.


[X][EXCEL] Send the Avandar. Replace it on garrison in Ferasa Sector by detaching the Yukikaze from the Anti-Syndicate Task Force and bringing in the Stalwart from Tellar Sector. Personal note to Ainsworth, highest encryption. "The pantry is now bare, Rachel. No more reinforcements until second quarter next year. Plan accordingly."

[X][FREIGHT] Send 2 extra freighters, 2 extra Cargo Ships (-15pp)

[X][OPS] Rear Admiral T'Faer
 
[X][EXCEL] Send the Avandar. Replace it on garrison in Ferasa Sector by detaching the Yukikaze from the Anti-Syndicate Task Force and bringing in the Stalwart from Tellar Sector. Personal note to Ainsworth, highest encryption. "The pantry is now bare, Rachel. No more reinforcements until second quarter next year. Plan accordingly."
[X][FREIGHT] Send 2 extra freighters, 2 extra Cargo Ships (-15pp)
[X][OPS] Rear Admiral T'Faer
 
[X][EXCEL] Send the Avandar. Replace it on garrison in Ferasa Sector by detaching the Yukikaze from the Anti-Syndicate Task Force and bringing in the Stalwart from Tellar Sector. Personal note to Ainsworth, highest encryption. "The pantry is now bare, Rachel. No more reinforcements until second quarter next year. Plan accordingly."
[X][FREIGHT] Send 2 extra freighters, 2 extra Cargo Ships (-15pp
[X][OPS] Rear Admiral Nyota Uhura
 
[X][EXCEL] Send the Avandar. Replace it on garrison in Ferasa Sector by detaching the Yukikaze from the Anti-Syndicate Task Force and bringing in the Stalwart from Tellar Sector. Personal note to Ainsworth, highest encryption. "The pantry is now bare, Rachel. No more reinforcements until second quarter next year. Plan accordingly."
[X][OPS] Rear Admiral Nyota Uhura
[X][FREIGHT] Send 2 extra freighters, 2 extra Cargo Ships (-15pp)

Uhura was born for OPS. And we need to keep up a strong front to the Cardie Alliance in the Gabriel Battle Zone.
 
We have other capable commanders for the ASTF and we should not appoint a poor diplomat or politician to ops. As long as we keep Eaton and T'Lorel or even promote one of them to RA, the ASTF will be fine. Again, we do need someone with Uhura's skillset in ops.

[X][EXCEL] Send the Avandar. Replace it on garrison in Ferasa Sector by detaching the Yukikaze from the Anti-Syndicate Task Force and bringing in the Stalwart from Tellar Sector. Personal note to Ainsworth, highest encryption. "The pantry is now bare, Rachel. No more reinforcements until second quarter next year. Plan accordingly."
[X][OPS] Rear Admiral Nyota Uhura
[X][FREIGHT] Send 2 extra freighters, 2 extra Cargo Ships (-15pp)
 
With starfleet spread so thin right now, we NEED T'Fear's bonus.

Plus, Uhura will be invaluable in the later stages of the anti-syndicate operation. The Syndicate may be badly wounded, but the Orions will be facing a difficult political fight that Uhura's sneaky competence will be useful for IMO.

[X][OPS] Rear Admiral T'Faer

fasquardon
 
We're flip-flopping between priorities again. This time from the Syndicate to the GBZ. Both campaigns are high priority, and it's dangerous to lose sight of one just because we've temporarily routed the Syndicate. They're starting to act up again just this past quarter.

Despite what some may have claimed, the ASTF ships HAVE proven useful in ground operations. Remember how precarious Freedom was and how the ship security contingents helped tip the scales?

What I can agree with is that the Yukikaze is no longer as useful in this fight. It has a small enlisted pool and is geared more for fighting threats from space (and diplomancing and sciencing which are not as relevant here).

So instead, I'm proposing to send the blooded Yukikaze to the GBZ, while replacing it with the Stalwart. The Stalwart, being a Constellation with as much enlisted as a Constitution-B, would be more useful in the anti-Syndicate effort now.

Rear Admiral Ainsworth doesn't need another flagship-class vessel. She needs more ships to cover until the Endurance and Shield are repaired, and the Yukikaze is a fine ship. With Amarki reinforcements and the Apiata support, I believe she can also temporarily pull off a ship from the escort task force to reinforce the primary task force. Do remember that there are now 5 ships under Commodore Revak, two of which are powerful Constitution-Bs.

[ ][EXCEL] Send the Yukikaze from the ASTF. Replace it with Stalwart from the Tellar sector. Personal note to Ainsworth, highest encryption. "The pantry is now bare, Rachel. No more reinforcements until second quarter next year. Plan accordingly."

The pp cost is painful, but I do think we should aggressively support expansion the GBZ logistically, so 2 freighters and 2 cargo ships it is.

[ ][FREIGHT] Send 2 extra freighters, 2 extra Cargo Ships (-15pp)

The choice for Operations director boils down to Uhura and T'Faer. I do think T'Faer's bonus is better than Uhura, and she definitely has sufficient time in grade. But her poor political skill and middling diplomacy is very concerning. This is a position that requires a massive degree of coordination between many entities within the Federation, from other Federation services to member worlds and their fleets.

[ ][OPS] Rear Admiral Nyota Uhura

Putting vote together:
[X][EXCEL] Send the Yukikaze from the ASTF. Replace it with Stalwart from the Tellar sector. Personal note to Ainsworth, highest encryption. "The pantry is now bare, Rachel. No more reinforcements until second quarter next year. Plan accordingly."
[X][FREIGHT] Send 2 extra freighters, 2 extra Cargo Ships (-15pp)
[X][OPS] Rear Admiral Nyota Uhura
 
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SynchronizedWritersBlock said:
I feel this is a poor reason to appoint a Vice Admiral who could last a decade.
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T'Fear's bonus does seem better for getting Starfleet to do what Starfleet is supposed to do. I think the political positive of that outweighs the political positives of Uhura.

Of course, if Uhura doesn't go into Ops, where does she get promoted to? We definitely don't want her career to stall. As such, if Ops is the only way to get Uhura where we want her to be in another decade, I'm OK with that.

fasquardon
 
So for those interested in what the stakes of this vote actually are, here was an exchange from yesterday.

Forgothrax said:
I do wonder if, next year, we could gather up SF+member fleets in the GBZ and throw them at Deva or 67 Gabriel.
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OneirosTheWriter said:
Depends how you answer when Ainsworth comes to say "Rivers broke my Excelsior, gib replacement. Also, freighters."
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If we give Rivers what she asks for, looks like we could get a big throwdown at Deva (the Sydraxian entry point to the Gabriel Expanse) or 67 Gabriel (the Cardassian entry point to the Gabriel Expanse).
 
Briefvoice said:
So for those interested in what the stakes of this vote actually are, here was an exchange from yesterday.





If we give Rivers what she asks for, looks like we could get a big throwdown at Deva (the Sydraxian entry point to the Gabriel Expanse) or 67 Gabriel (the Cardassian entry point to the Gabriel Expanse).
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Ainsworth is terrifying.

I'm glad we kept her in out pocket until now. It's probably making a lot of heads explode on Cardassia Prime.

...once this war is done we'll need to find somewhere harmless to place her again, though, or force her retirement.
 
@OneirosTheWriter could you confirm whether removing the crew bonus from Secure Console EPS Taps (EPS Console Taps I) in 2320s EPS Safety was intentional or an error when removing bonuses referring to the old design sheet? It would be a bit problematic to nerf a project we already started researching so much, particularly when that sort of bonus still seems to exist in other projects, even higher tier versions of EPS Safety. If the removal of the crew bonus stands we'll probably want to abort the research and shelve it until we are ready to make a push for 2330s EPS Safety (assuming that still keeps the crew bonus?).
 
Glassware said:
Ainsworth is terrifying.

I'm glad we kept her in out pocket until now. It's probably making a lot of heads explode on Cardassia Prime.

...once this war is done we'll need to find somewhere harmless to place her again, though, or force her retirement.
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The entire Cardassian Pact (Ashalla Pact?) Is probably quietly freaking out that a switch seems to have been flipped and we've gone from weak pathetic Pacifists to aggressive hard chargers.
 
Glassware said:
Ainsworth is terrifying.

I'm glad we kept her in out pocket until now. It's probably making a lot of heads explode on Cardassia Prime.

...once this war is done we'll need to find somewhere harmless to place her again, though, or force her retirement.
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I've been thinking that she would make a fine replacement for Sulu in Starfleet Tactical when he vacates the position. Though now she'll be competing with Admiral Lathriss for that spot.

But yes, if she can follow up by smashing Deva before the Sydraxians can get an Outpost built there, we could potentially lock them out of the Gabriel Expanse completely. That would achieve one of our major strategic goals, which is to permanently split Cardassian and Sydraxian territory. Trade caravans would have to make long detours coreward to get through, making them less economically viable.

It will probably be impossible to do the same with the Cardassians. They're starting further away from us, and they have more time to dig in because of it. But we can keep their chunk of claimed territory as small as possible.
 
Nix said:
@OneirosTheWriter could you confirm whether removing the crew bonus from Secure Console EPS Taps (EPS Console Taps I) in 2320s EPS Safety was intentional or an error when removing bonuses referring to the old design sheet? It would be a bit problematic to nerf a project we already started researching so much, particularly when that sort of bonus still seems to exist in other projects, even higher tier versions of EPS Safety. If the removal of the crew bonus stands we'll probably want to abort the research and shelve it until we are ready to make a push for 2330s EPS Safety (assuming that still keeps the crew bonus?).
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That was an error, I'm planning to go back and double check what it was and add it back in.

I'm keeping everything that wasn't a direct spreadsheet reference.
 
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