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They sent one of their cruisers to shadow the Endurance while it was in the SBZ. Still if we can get them a mega tortoise has 6C, 9L and 8H so it is a tough ship and would do quite well in combat.
To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
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Well, once can argue that they can secure that flank just as well from Gabriel Sector. No, hear me out.
All those ships in the Gabriel Sector represent a huge threat to Cardassia. If the Cardassians start a war what happens? Ainsworth calls together all the Federation ships (Starfleet, Amarkian, Apiata, and whomever else is there), they form up, and they head straight for Karadoc to paste the hell out of one of Cardassia's major colonies and shipyards. If they do really well, maybe they just keep going straight for Cardassia itself.
The big advantage of a surprise attack is that your enemy doesn't have their forces formed up into fleets. The Gabriel free-for-all means that we have a large fleet pre-assembled. And if the Cardassians keep a big enough fleet of their own assembled near Gabriel to halt our fleet, then those ships are also up there and not in a position to launch any surprise attacks.
So basically, however much we draw down in other parts of the Cardassian border, we've correspondingly drawn up in that one location into a big enough doom fleet to be a dagger at the throat of Cardassian space.
Like I said, we will see what the full repercussions are. I'm not being harsh on Ainsworth and as far back as the original vote I was speculating we would evenetually replace her for more of a consolidation commander.
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I was looking at their ships and only the ship of the line has shield 5, the rest are shield 3 or less and all are hull 2. They also only have one ship of the line so they are kind of vulnerable in combat. For Amarkia I hope they will send a second Riala once the syndicate is beaten down some more as it is a solid combatant. Still what is more likely to me is us getting most of the members to send off a ship or two as escorts, Betazoid I would skip as their ships are not strong enough, but any member with a Miranda-A or equivalent that does not have prior commitments could send one or two to give us a strong escort force, with some like Rigellians sending their explorer or cruisers instead.
I think what we need is yellow-lighted member fleet escort forces. Our Starfleet GBZ force is a very, very big hammer. Having it split into two squadrons is weakening it considerably. If we can get member fleets to cover part of the escorting forces, we're in much better shape for offensive operations. I'm not terribly keen on the other way around, I feel that the attack force needs to be the best and have the most coordinated command. I would like to start search and destroy operations on the Cardassian raiding/probing Jalduns as soon as the Sydraxians are further neutralized, the larger the fleet, the easier that goes and the less damage we take.
That also means that we might have escort forces like two Miranda-A vs Jaldun, which I much prefer to one Connie-B. This is in part because we can pull in member fleets that have different doctrines than we do, which are more suited to escorting.
That also means that we might have escort forces like two Miranda-A vs Jaldun, which I much prefer to one Connie-B. This is in part because we can pull in member fleets that have different doctrines than we do, which are more suited to escorting.
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I'm not sure most of our Member Fleets even have doctrines. They are pretty expensive and difficult to develop.
Anyway, my understanding it that it works like this. Member worlds will approach us when they decide they want some of the Gabriel Zone goodies. They won't be doing it for free; it'll because it grants them rights to mining colonies and such in the Expanse. Many of them may not commit until they're convinced we can hold it and that the goodies are in fact there.
When they do make the request, accepting them will cost us political will. It'll annoy the closer members that they have to share, because Starfleet isn't enough to hold the Zone on its own so that they have to parcel it out to Members far away. If we decide to spend the political will to accept the request, then the amount of ships they send will be determined by whether we give them the green light (act as you see fit) or the yellow light (act only under Starfleet direction).
Does that match everyone else's understanding of how this will work, based on game posts so far?
pbluekan
Somethin's Fucky ...
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Pretty much this. We can't just go asking for fleets unless things turn to shit. We're exploring, prospecting, and securing the frontier. That's our job. Asking the member worlds to contribute without guarantee of results and recompense is kinda like telling them we can't do our job.
We know member fleets have doctrines - the Betazoids of all people approached us to develop one, and if Betazoid has one then everyone else should too. We also know the Apiata have a specialist doctrine tree of their own, because they used it in the war games.
I agree with you on the requests, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't make them if needed. Yellow-lighting members for the escort force means that their ships are closely tied to their political and economic goals in the GBZ. They may well end up escorting their own freighters, or those of a fellow member doing the same thing. Yellow-lighting them for the striking force is the opposite - purposes at odds or tangential with what they want out of the GBZ. Which is why I think members for the escort force makes sense and for the attack force does not.
Captain's Log - 2313.Q3.M3
- Location
- Australia
The birds chirp in the outer, mixing with the chatter of the crowd and the odd shout. A crisp, cool breath flows over the ground, ruffling the whites that Langa Mbeki wears. It is South Africa, well into autumn. A cherry red ball with six lines of stitches flips up from Langa's hand only to be caught by his great mahogany mitts again. He feels the leather of the ball, runs his fingers over the glossy surface. Forty metres ahead lies his opponent, and he zeroes in on the man. He has always been blessed with good eyesight: he sees the emu and kangaroo on the man's crest clearly.
He is going to enjoy this.
His feet pound the turf as he comes in, first at a jog, then a run, and into a sprint as he approaches the crease. The feeling of shock as his backfoot lands on the pitch, and again as his front foot lands, is just as it was in his youth. The ball pitches short, rises up on the batsman. He hears the sharp crack of willow on leather as the batsman steps across and pulls him through mid-wicket, beating the fielder and heading down to the rope. Langa bites back a curse and turns to head back to his mark. As he does so, a red-toned Gaeni walks out from the boundary rope to meet him halfway.
"So, what do you think of our new technology?" asks Jirgid Toan-Ban, a High-Senior Researcher for Toanath & Klinid Institute.
"I think there's only one thing you got wrong," says Langa with a broad grin. A look of alarm comes over the Gaeni's face. "Back in the day, I would never have been dispatched like that. But maybe that's just age catching up with me!"
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Captain's Log, USS Enterprise, Stardate 25233.9 - Captain Samhaya Mrr'shan
We are in the Tsalcurious system on the edge of Seyek space and we've stumbled across a rare treat. The great Seyek battleship, the Sign of Rethelia, is present, putting a pair of refitted engines through their paces after undergoing work at nearby Fiiral. Weighing in slightly heavier than ourselves, it is a beast of a ship, and one rarely seen. We were challenged on approach to the system by one of two attendant corvettes, but a little horsetrading on the name of the Enterprise - thank you Kirk, Nash - has allowed us access. The Captain of the Sign, one Acitos Sanos, has joined me for a meal as we join their shakedown team.
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Captain's Log, USS Gale, Stardate 25234.3 - Captain Gorth sh'Hashok
There is an independent human colony near this space that we have tracked the shipment to. The ranger team from Vail, a quartet of young women with some truly exotic weapon systems, all of whom could probably snap a Vulcan's arm off at the arm wrestling table, is feeling almost frighteningly eager. The more I read about the species being trafficked, the more terrified I am. Unfortunately, as this colony recognises no Federation authority, we will have to arrange a more quiet ingress. The Suvek has used its sensors to secure us a vector we can coast shuttles in on undetected by the colony sensor grids.
I did get a chance to ask them about the Yan-Ros relations with the Honiani. It seems that the Honiani first encountered the Yan-Ros immediately following their first successful warp test, and swooped in to help guide them, in a manner that I believe is not too dissimilar to the Vulcans and Humans. The view of the Honiani is very positive among the Yan-Ros, and much of their more spiritual approach to combat is strongly influenced by Lakhept. I sent a report off to the Diplomatic Service and, to be honest, I don't think I've ever had a happier reply from them.
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Captain's Log, USS Odyssey, Stardate 25234.6 - Captain Langa Mbeki
At the invitation to Starfleet of a consortium of Gaeni Tech-Institutes, we have come to Gaen for a demonstration of their new technology. I was sceptical at first, but it actually appears to be the real deal: a true holographic environment. As of yet, there are a number of limitations, and even the institutes themselves say it may be a decade before it can be produced in quantity, let alone have the power levels made practicable.
Still, after having experienced it, I can tell you that I am fascinated by its potential. I do have some ideas for things I would like to see them program into the system, however.
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Captain's Log, USS Intrepid, Stardate 25234.9
We detected a fresh distress signal in Vulcan space, but it wasn't in space that anyone was known to be travelling in. The signal itself is not one that anyone recognises, and my science officer is trying to decrypt it as we approach. However, it will take considerable time.
[Intrepid responds, but unable to decipher warning in time to warn USS Sappho]
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Bridge Transcript, USS Enterprise, Stardate 25235.3
-2nd Bridge Watch-
[Lt JG Tissana Bessle]: That's odd...
[LCdr Bilash th'Arlash, Watch Officer]: JG?
[Lt JG Tissana Bessle]: The Sign of Rethelia is powering weapons. Were there weapon tests scheduled today?
[LCdr Bilash th'Arlash]: No... stand by shields.
[Lt JG Tiberius Kahurangi]: Aye, sir.
[LCdr Bilash th'Arlash]: Ensign Nixa, hail the Rethelia, just check everything is okay.
[Ens Lwaxana Nixa]: Aye, s-
*General chatter*
[LCdr Bilash th'Arlash]: Shieds, weapons up. Red Alert! Nixa, get the Captain to the bridge. Sensors, report.
[Lt JG Tissana Bessle]: It just blew away it's escorting corvette!
[LCdr Bilash th'Arlash]: Calmly, JG.
[LCdr Bilash th'Arlash]: Aye, sir. She fired photon lances and destroyed one corvette, she is now targeting the second, which has brought shields on-line. ... Rethelia has taken her warp core off-line. Looks like a voluntary drop, their weapon power is out.
[Lt JG Peter Woodruff]: They must have disconnected their main power reserves manually, they're only on auxiliary now, not enough for the photon lances.
[Ens Lwaxana Nixa]: Lieutenant-Commander, there is a hail going out. Automated repeat: "Reformation for Fiiral".
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Captain's Log, USS Odyssey, Stardate 25235.8
I have asked, and the Gaeni have delivered, a simulation of the Miracht's last mission to the Geruda system. I feel it's use a learning tool will exceed that of the Academy stunt bridges, based on the immense scale of its simulation capacity.
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Captain's Log, USS Gale, Stardate 25236.1
We have sucessfully landed on the planet with the rangers, and are preparing to make our move. Our role in this is helping our Yan-Ros friends blend in, and also use our scientific know-how to open the path through the colony. We believe that we can modify the mag-sealant field on the holding pen to weaken the largest of the captive beasts, to allow it to be more easily defeated.
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Captain's Log, USS Enterprise, Stardate 25236.4
It has been hard-fighting through the decks of the Sign of Rethelia. Many of the fiercest battles are not the grand movements of ships or troops, but little pockets of hell in a very small place. The defence of main engineering will go down as one of those, unsung and unknown, but the site of savagery and desperation in equal measure. The Fiiral seperatists had intended to use the photon lances of the ship to destroy the Seyek enclaves on Fiiral and force their fellows to join them by taking away any chance of reconciliation. Holding the ship, and thus holding the warp core, was crucial.
Commander Acheson and officers Tybek, Kahurangi, Jelan, and many others, gave tremendous credit to Starfleet's willingness to put themselves in the breach for the helpless. Although we lost many fine security personnel, it was not as bad as it could have been. The heroisim of Doctor T'Les and her Rethelian counterpart, Narcis Hashonus, stole many from the jaws of death. My own part in all of this was limited, but I salute their service.
[Chief of Staff NB: She's lying her ass off about the "limited" involvement. I know she personally led the counter-assault to reclaim the engineering control chamber when it was overrun, and had to be treated twice for phaser burn]
[Disaster averted, gain +10pp, gain +25 relations with Seyek]
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Captain's Log, USS Odyssey, Stardate 25236.6
I've tried a dozen times, there really is no way to get a better result than what happened, based on what long range prospector surveys detected of Geruda's defence grid. Even if I had simply volley fired photon torpedoes, GO-24 style, I would have been unable to knock out sufficient defences before they destroy the Miracht.
[Gain +10rp, +25 relations with Gaeni]
[Langa Mbeki gains some inner peace]
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Captain's Log, USS Gale, Stardate 25236.9
And we're off! The Gale swooped on the colony at high impulse and rendezvoused with our shuttle even as the comms board lit up with angry messages. Thanks for my previous report on the Yan-Ros, it seemed the Diplomatic Service is happy to overlook the agitation there.
Seeing the rangers in combat was awe-inspiring. It doesn't seem very practical, but I guess when you can hit like a hovertruck, it doesn't matter!
[Gain 10pp, Gale +1 Crew Rating, gain +25 Relations with Yan-Ros, gain +10 with Honiani]
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Captain's Log, USS Sappho, Stardate 25237.1 - Captain Vol Chad
A Licori ship has entered Vulcan space and is refusing to respond to demands to stop. There is a mentat aboard, and is possibly the only person aboard, who is refusing to heed to anything that may interfere with their research. Unfortunately, we are not sure what that research is!
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Captain's Log, USS Lightning, Stardate 25237.2
Together with the Blizzard, we responded to an alert from Starfleet Intelligence that some potential Syndicate assets were preparing to move out of Orion space into Amarkia. We patrolled the expected route and were disappointed to not find anything.
However, we later learned from Intel that the Syndicate couldn't find a way through and turned back, allowing Orion assets to arrest them.
[Gain +3 Impact]
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Captain's Log, USS Sappho, Stardate 25237.7
A quantum filament. He was trying to run high-energy experiments on a quantum filament.
Well, my crew is fine, by the Sappho is adrift. We had to eject the warp core, which is on any captain's list of a things that make for a bad week. Still, could have been much worse; the gravitic shear simply tore the other ship apart. The Licori Mentat is dead, but not before transmitting the last data needed for his thesis. Good for him.
[-10br, -15sr repair costs, 6 month repair to create a replacement Constellation warp core]
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Personal Log, Captain Vol Chad, Stardate 25237.7
Jerk.
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Captain's Log, USS Stargazer, Stardate 25240.2 - Captain Maryam Ajam
The Pride of Kadesh is stopping by an asteroid belt to collect some new resources. The Federation Engineering ships are helping to build waystation platforms according to Kadeshi patterns to help improve harvesting speed.
Their ability to recover the top layers of resources is startling, I have to say that. With the new infusion, the Kadesh has also begun work on a heavy cruiser in its cavernous dock. It should be done next month.
[Kadesh: Gain 40br, spend 30br and 30sr]
[Kadesh: +1 Cruiser]
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Kadeshi Fleet Status
Pride of Kadesh
4 Motherships
7 Heavy Cruisers
15 Frigates
4 Sensor Ships
USS Stargazer
1 Engineering Ship
1 Hospital Ship
1 Indorian Engineering Ship
Current Resource Stockpiles:
210 Br, 150 Sr
He is going to enjoy this.
His feet pound the turf as he comes in, first at a jog, then a run, and into a sprint as he approaches the crease. The feeling of shock as his backfoot lands on the pitch, and again as his front foot lands, is just as it was in his youth. The ball pitches short, rises up on the batsman. He hears the sharp crack of willow on leather as the batsman steps across and pulls him through mid-wicket, beating the fielder and heading down to the rope. Langa bites back a curse and turns to head back to his mark. As he does so, a red-toned Gaeni walks out from the boundary rope to meet him halfway.
"So, what do you think of our new technology?" asks Jirgid Toan-Ban, a High-Senior Researcher for Toanath & Klinid Institute.
"I think there's only one thing you got wrong," says Langa with a broad grin. A look of alarm comes over the Gaeni's face. "Back in the day, I would never have been dispatched like that. But maybe that's just age catching up with me!"
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Captain's Log, USS Enterprise, Stardate 25233.9 - Captain Samhaya Mrr'shan
We are in the Tsalcurious system on the edge of Seyek space and we've stumbled across a rare treat. The great Seyek battleship, the Sign of Rethelia, is present, putting a pair of refitted engines through their paces after undergoing work at nearby Fiiral. Weighing in slightly heavier than ourselves, it is a beast of a ship, and one rarely seen. We were challenged on approach to the system by one of two attendant corvettes, but a little horsetrading on the name of the Enterprise - thank you Kirk, Nash - has allowed us access. The Captain of the Sign, one Acitos Sanos, has joined me for a meal as we join their shakedown team.
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Captain's Log, USS Gale, Stardate 25234.3 - Captain Gorth sh'Hashok
There is an independent human colony near this space that we have tracked the shipment to. The ranger team from Vail, a quartet of young women with some truly exotic weapon systems, all of whom could probably snap a Vulcan's arm off at the arm wrestling table, is feeling almost frighteningly eager. The more I read about the species being trafficked, the more terrified I am. Unfortunately, as this colony recognises no Federation authority, we will have to arrange a more quiet ingress. The Suvek has used its sensors to secure us a vector we can coast shuttles in on undetected by the colony sensor grids.
I did get a chance to ask them about the Yan-Ros relations with the Honiani. It seems that the Honiani first encountered the Yan-Ros immediately following their first successful warp test, and swooped in to help guide them, in a manner that I believe is not too dissimilar to the Vulcans and Humans. The view of the Honiani is very positive among the Yan-Ros, and much of their more spiritual approach to combat is strongly influenced by Lakhept. I sent a report off to the Diplomatic Service and, to be honest, I don't think I've ever had a happier reply from them.
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Captain's Log, USS Odyssey, Stardate 25234.6 - Captain Langa Mbeki
At the invitation to Starfleet of a consortium of Gaeni Tech-Institutes, we have come to Gaen for a demonstration of their new technology. I was sceptical at first, but it actually appears to be the real deal: a true holographic environment. As of yet, there are a number of limitations, and even the institutes themselves say it may be a decade before it can be produced in quantity, let alone have the power levels made practicable.
Still, after having experienced it, I can tell you that I am fascinated by its potential. I do have some ideas for things I would like to see them program into the system, however.
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Captain's Log, USS Intrepid, Stardate 25234.9
We detected a fresh distress signal in Vulcan space, but it wasn't in space that anyone was known to be travelling in. The signal itself is not one that anyone recognises, and my science officer is trying to decrypt it as we approach. However, it will take considerable time.
[Intrepid responds, but unable to decipher warning in time to warn USS Sappho]
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Bridge Transcript, USS Enterprise, Stardate 25235.3
-2nd Bridge Watch-
[Lt JG Tissana Bessle]: That's odd...
[LCdr Bilash th'Arlash, Watch Officer]: JG?
[Lt JG Tissana Bessle]: The Sign of Rethelia is powering weapons. Were there weapon tests scheduled today?
[LCdr Bilash th'Arlash]: No... stand by shields.
[Lt JG Tiberius Kahurangi]: Aye, sir.
[LCdr Bilash th'Arlash]: Ensign Nixa, hail the Rethelia, just check everything is okay.
[Ens Lwaxana Nixa]: Aye, s-
*General chatter*
[LCdr Bilash th'Arlash]: Shieds, weapons up. Red Alert! Nixa, get the Captain to the bridge. Sensors, report.
[Lt JG Tissana Bessle]: It just blew away it's escorting corvette!
[LCdr Bilash th'Arlash]: Calmly, JG.
[LCdr Bilash th'Arlash]: Aye, sir. She fired photon lances and destroyed one corvette, she is now targeting the second, which has brought shields on-line. ... Rethelia has taken her warp core off-line. Looks like a voluntary drop, their weapon power is out.
[Lt JG Peter Woodruff]: They must have disconnected their main power reserves manually, they're only on auxiliary now, not enough for the photon lances.
[Ens Lwaxana Nixa]: Lieutenant-Commander, there is a hail going out. Automated repeat: "Reformation for Fiiral".
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Captain's Log, USS Odyssey, Stardate 25235.8
I have asked, and the Gaeni have delivered, a simulation of the Miracht's last mission to the Geruda system. I feel it's use a learning tool will exceed that of the Academy stunt bridges, based on the immense scale of its simulation capacity.
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Captain's Log, USS Gale, Stardate 25236.1
We have sucessfully landed on the planet with the rangers, and are preparing to make our move. Our role in this is helping our Yan-Ros friends blend in, and also use our scientific know-how to open the path through the colony. We believe that we can modify the mag-sealant field on the holding pen to weaken the largest of the captive beasts, to allow it to be more easily defeated.
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Captain's Log, USS Enterprise, Stardate 25236.4
It has been hard-fighting through the decks of the Sign of Rethelia. Many of the fiercest battles are not the grand movements of ships or troops, but little pockets of hell in a very small place. The defence of main engineering will go down as one of those, unsung and unknown, but the site of savagery and desperation in equal measure. The Fiiral seperatists had intended to use the photon lances of the ship to destroy the Seyek enclaves on Fiiral and force their fellows to join them by taking away any chance of reconciliation. Holding the ship, and thus holding the warp core, was crucial.
Commander Acheson and officers Tybek, Kahurangi, Jelan, and many others, gave tremendous credit to Starfleet's willingness to put themselves in the breach for the helpless. Although we lost many fine security personnel, it was not as bad as it could have been. The heroisim of Doctor T'Les and her Rethelian counterpart, Narcis Hashonus, stole many from the jaws of death. My own part in all of this was limited, but I salute their service.
[Chief of Staff NB: She's lying her ass off about the "limited" involvement. I know she personally led the counter-assault to reclaim the engineering control chamber when it was overrun, and had to be treated twice for phaser burn]
[Disaster averted, gain +10pp, gain +25 relations with Seyek]
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Captain's Log, USS Odyssey, Stardate 25236.6
I've tried a dozen times, there really is no way to get a better result than what happened, based on what long range prospector surveys detected of Geruda's defence grid. Even if I had simply volley fired photon torpedoes, GO-24 style, I would have been unable to knock out sufficient defences before they destroy the Miracht.
[Gain +10rp, +25 relations with Gaeni]
[Langa Mbeki gains some inner peace]
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Captain's Log, USS Gale, Stardate 25236.9
And we're off! The Gale swooped on the colony at high impulse and rendezvoused with our shuttle even as the comms board lit up with angry messages. Thanks for my previous report on the Yan-Ros, it seemed the Diplomatic Service is happy to overlook the agitation there.
Seeing the rangers in combat was awe-inspiring. It doesn't seem very practical, but I guess when you can hit like a hovertruck, it doesn't matter!
[Gain 10pp, Gale +1 Crew Rating, gain +25 Relations with Yan-Ros, gain +10 with Honiani]
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Captain's Log, USS Sappho, Stardate 25237.1 - Captain Vol Chad
A Licori ship has entered Vulcan space and is refusing to respond to demands to stop. There is a mentat aboard, and is possibly the only person aboard, who is refusing to heed to anything that may interfere with their research. Unfortunately, we are not sure what that research is!
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Captain's Log, USS Lightning, Stardate 25237.2
Together with the Blizzard, we responded to an alert from Starfleet Intelligence that some potential Syndicate assets were preparing to move out of Orion space into Amarkia. We patrolled the expected route and were disappointed to not find anything.
However, we later learned from Intel that the Syndicate couldn't find a way through and turned back, allowing Orion assets to arrest them.
[Gain +3 Impact]
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Captain's Log, USS Sappho, Stardate 25237.7
A quantum filament. He was trying to run high-energy experiments on a quantum filament.
Well, my crew is fine, by the Sappho is adrift. We had to eject the warp core, which is on any captain's list of a things that make for a bad week. Still, could have been much worse; the gravitic shear simply tore the other ship apart. The Licori Mentat is dead, but not before transmitting the last data needed for his thesis. Good for him.
[-10br, -15sr repair costs, 6 month repair to create a replacement Constellation warp core]
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Personal Log, Captain Vol Chad, Stardate 25237.7
Jerk.
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Captain's Log, USS Stargazer, Stardate 25240.2 - Captain Maryam Ajam
The Pride of Kadesh is stopping by an asteroid belt to collect some new resources. The Federation Engineering ships are helping to build waystation platforms according to Kadeshi patterns to help improve harvesting speed.
Their ability to recover the top layers of resources is startling, I have to say that. With the new infusion, the Kadesh has also begun work on a heavy cruiser in its cavernous dock. It should be done next month.
[Kadesh: Gain 40br, spend 30br and 30sr]
[Kadesh: +1 Cruiser]
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Kadeshi Fleet Status
Pride of Kadesh
4 Motherships
7 Heavy Cruisers
15 Frigates
4 Sensor Ships
USS Stargazer
1 Engineering Ship
1 Hospital Ship
1 Indorian Engineering Ship
Current Resource Stockpiles:
210 Br, 150 Sr
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UbeOne
Daydreaming CPU
- Location
- Philippines
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Team RWBY?
Recoil is one's best friend?
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I would be rather shocked if United Earth or Vulcan have doctrines, just as an example. As you said, the Apiata have one, but I'm not sure about Amarkia- they may simply have decided that other research trees took priority. Rigel could go either way. Etc. As for the Betazoids, it seems likely to me they decided that they were never going to bother developing their own ship designs again and could put the research budget they were formerly putting towards ships into doctrine research. While the Amarkians, for example, are still interested in spending their research on ship designs and refits.
There is no "yellow-lighting for escort force" and "yellow-lighting for striking force". There is only yellow lighting, and then the Rear Admiral in charge decides where she wants to put the ships. I think your argument makes some sense, but it would be rank political interference to tell our Rear Admiral that she's in charge, but then tell her where she's allowed to assign specific ships. She'll put them where she thinks they'll do the most good.
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- Australia
Second after USS Yukikaze received blooded post-Biophage.
Edit: I do love that ships are developing their own decade+ long histories
- Location
- USA
Poor that Sapho is out but great that Gale got some experience.
Comments on the update.
Wow, Combat 9 on a hull only slightly bigger than an Excelsior? That's some damn fine engineering. I guess those photon lances pack a punch.
Team RWBY cameo and some more information about the Yan-Ros, yay.
So the Gaeni are the creators of the holodeck. (Thinks back to all the episodes about the holodeck going out of control and nearly killing everyone.) Yes, I'd have to say that makes perfect sense. When you think about it, Gaeni fingerprints are all over the design of holodeck "safety protocols".
I see some omake characters making an appearance....
Nice performance, good show. We can certainly use the political will and getting the Seyek a little more firmly on side.
Wow, that's +50 relationship with the Gaeni in a single quarter.
Another Blooded ship, awesome! I feel much better about the Gale being out there as lead ship in Rigel sector now.
Every little bit helps....
Goddamn mentats. At least no one (of ours) was killed. Hey, I wonder how many times this happened to the Ked Peddah.
Normally the Council doesn't seem to make us reorganize ships for temporary outages like this, but if they insist we move in replacements to meet Defense requirements I would pull the Inspire from the KBZ and the Eketha from the SBZ.
I would have used stronger language myself, but Vol Chad is a gentleman.
Well, so far things seem to be going well for them.
Wow, Combat 9 on a hull only slightly bigger than an Excelsior? That's some damn fine engineering. I guess those photon lances pack a punch.
Team RWBY cameo and some more information about the Yan-Ros, yay.
So the Gaeni are the creators of the holodeck. (Thinks back to all the episodes about the holodeck going out of control and nearly killing everyone.) Yes, I'd have to say that makes perfect sense. When you think about it, Gaeni fingerprints are all over the design of holodeck "safety protocols".
I see some omake characters making an appearance....
Nice performance, good show. We can certainly use the political will and getting the Seyek a little more firmly on side.
Wow, that's +50 relationship with the Gaeni in a single quarter.
Another Blooded ship, awesome! I feel much better about the Gale being out there as lead ship in Rigel sector now.
Every little bit helps....
Goddamn mentats. At least no one (of ours) was killed. Hey, I wonder how many times this happened to the Ked Peddah.
Normally the Council doesn't seem to make us reorganize ships for temporary outages like this, but if they insist we move in replacements to meet Defense requirements I would pull the Inspire from the KBZ and the Eketha from the SBZ.
I would have used stronger language myself, but Vol Chad is a gentleman.
Well, so far things seem to be going well for them.
Mentats are jerks...
Night_stalker
Slava Ukraini!
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Can we just make it a standing order, period, that shields should be kept ready to be fully activated at a moment's notice?
If it were any ship other than Enterprise, there would be trouble. For that ship, it's Tuesday.
- Location
- Australia
Yes, but it helps to hand the DS a big favour before you do something sketchy.
Edit: and in general the Feds/United Earth are not huge fans of independent colonies like that. They tend to be high on the Mos Eisley Rating Scale.
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Lord of Otters
- Location
- Northrend
I meant the USS Gale mission.
Gale helped a potential affiliate in tracking dangerous stolen goods to an independent human colony.
The colony does not have any good grounds for complaint (extremely dangerous creatures), and who would they complain to anyway? They have deliberately kept the Federation out.
The colony does not have any good grounds for complaint (extremely dangerous creatures), and who would they complain to anyway? They have deliberately kept the Federation out.
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- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
[A wild Amarki Admiral appears!]
Ainsworth: "Pokéball, go!]
[You missed the Pokémon!]
[/me points to Lt. Tisana: ]
"Admiral, if you don't show up for the big fight, you're going to make her cry."
[Simon_Jester uses Emotional Blackmail!]
Unless, of course, Ainsworth turns out to be not merely aggressive, but actually good.
Stay cool, man.
In-game, we make certain assumptions, like "most of TOS happened." In-game, we also have certain mechanical issues, like "it's impractical for Oneiros to keep track of fifty different species of aliens all at once." The combination results in some apparent contradictions like "we're not in steady contact with the Tholians and Gorn." The Gorn have been repeatedly referred to in omakes without Oneiros uttering a word of criticism.
There is every reason to believe they're out there somewhere. We already had reason to think they were a considerable distance from our space; remember that in all of the TOS/movie era Kirk only encounters them once, whereas he encounters the Klingons and Romulans several times each.
However, since there's nothing we can 'do about' our reasonable belief that the Gorn and Tholians exist except keep poking around with the Explorer Corps, which we would have done anyway... [shrugs]
There's nothing to get exercised about.
It can't hurt to give them permission to do so, at any rate. If we give someone a yellow light to enter the Expanse, that doesn't mean they HAVE to come in with heavy force. Our biggest concern would be offending the Federation member species that were already counting on that territory for themselves.