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Widow Null
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- Hoff
Cute recurring animals are a curse because writers keep using them. (See "NO CUTE KIDS OR ROBOTS" from JMS on B5.) Spot is very much the exception.
To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
- Thread starter OneirosTheWriter
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Cute recurring animals are a curse because writers keep using them. (See "NO CUTE KIDS OR ROBOTS" from JMS on B5.) Spot is very much the exception.
Nervos Belli
Don't think this means you've won!
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- Murica
The more I think about it, the more diplo-pushing the Honiani and Yan-Ros makes sense. We'd probably be able to get them both to +300 fairly easily, which would make them more likely to get involved in the upcoming war. The Yan-Ros might even enter the GBZ on our side.
Looks at front page. @OneirosTheWriter I think you copied down the wrong set of Captain's bonuses for T'Rinta.
That there is Demora Sulu's bonus.
That there is Demora Sulu's bonus.
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Widow Null
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- Hoff
Hold your horses a bit there. At 300+ we would have to defend them if the Syndraxi lashed out, too; and we're not sure they've got much of a fleet to menace the Sydraxi with. We need them to at least have a credible ability to not get rolled under.
- Location
- Australia
"What!? Me, Demora Sulu!? I am a Vulcan torpedo enthusiast, not that dashing, outstanding Captain who should be made an Explorer Corps commander..."
Nothing is ever as it seems with that family around ¬.¬
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Here's an idea, could be stupid, could be brilliant.
We take the D7s the Romulans don't want anymore off their hands for cheep, rip out the guns, and convert them into freighters. We'll finally solve our lack of cargo ships and earn brownie points with the Romulans all in one go.
We take the D7s the Romulans don't want anymore off their hands for cheep, rip out the guns, and convert them into freighters. We'll finally solve our lack of cargo ships and earn brownie points with the Romulans all in one go.
Nervos Belli
Don't think this means you've won!
- Location
- Murica
Maybe, but I see two issues. One the Romulans are in full war preparedness mode, and they don't have a combat cap like us. If they're selling ships the ships are probably on the verge of a core containment failure. Two, D7's are small ships, and so lack the most important feature of cargo ships, that they can carry a lot.
Finally caught up with this quest. Easily in the top three best quests across SB/SV for me. It manages to get that Star Trek feel that gets missed way too often.
As for that current affiliate push, we should definitely get the Yan-Ros asap for one very simple reason. We'll have them on our ships when an inevitable boarding attempt by the Caradassians happens and then we can watch the hilarious image of the Yan-Ros crew punting them back into space.
As for that current affiliate push, we should definitely get the Yan-Ros asap for one very simple reason. We'll have them on our ships when an inevitable boarding attempt by the Caradassians happens and then we can watch the hilarious image of the Yan-Ros crew punting them back into space.
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Point.
Nervos Belli said:
Just strap cargo modules to the sides.
Edit: Another point; Freighter are slow and vulnerable, they're H1 L1 D1. Cargo-D7s would be H2 L2 D3. Three times the speed and twice the protection.
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AKuz
Been Better
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- A Rising Tide of Horrors
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It's funny because Brent Spinner fucking hated that Cat. Just absolutely hated working with it. And it hated him
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- Mid-Atlantic
Cpt. Chekov:
"We are in agreement, comrade..."
[stares into space, looking grim]
That's hilarious. I've heard many times, "Never work with children or animals."
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
The good news is, TBG rotates between ships so much that no one ship's annoying trope has time to become overwhelmingly irritating.
We've been ignoring them, Red-Lighting attacks on them. All with the intent of eventually turning them to our side.
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- Mid-Atlantic
I think we didn't pay attention because they're like 45 light years from our starting position, we're not so worried about them openly attacking us because of how chill they seem about everything except copyright, and they've never actually done anything to us.
The catch is, yes, that if they quietly build forward bases far enough forward, it could cause us real problems. For example, we're trying to push forward into the Gabriel Expanse to 'cut off' the Sydraxians from the Cardassians. If the Dylaarians can secure positions in the center of the Expanse, then the detour Cardassian convoys have to take in order to reach Sydraxian space winds up being a lot shorter, and the strategic advantage we gain is considerably less.
So I agree we should pay more mind to them, as we build up a bit and are in a better position to do more reconnaissance further forward.
There's a difference between "not attacking" and "not knowing what they're doing." I think the distances involved, and the risks involved in pushing scout ships so far forward while the Cardassians are still active, have more to do with the latter.
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- Australia
@anon_user will tell you that that is a dangerous path to travel
I'm just throwing ideas at the wall to see what sticks and I'm not yet convinced this one is without merit.
If you skipped it when you were catching up, this is for my money still the funniest omake in the entire thread. And it's all about modules.
"Chekcad uour waifu adn difasepar"
Gets me every time.
No seriously, I'm sober. Just thicken the D7s neck a few meters, add attachment ports for four rows of cargo modules, rip out the guns, give it a 50 K lightyear tuneup and done.
Hey if we can tow whole ships reliably why can't we tow shipping containers HUH? Solves our shipping problem in one fell swoop.
How many tractor systems on one of our ships?
How many shipping contains can one tractor system hold on to at once?
What is the chance of failure of each tractor system? (Less relevant when towing another ship because you would put ALL the tractors on the one target, so one fails, you have redundancy)
How well can the shipping containers and their contents handle the acceleration when they are outside of the ships structural integrity field? (Possible the big one?)
- Location
- madison
we know the cardassians are using their war fleet to supplement their shipping, that might be how you use a warship to haul cargo. course with our fleet largely committed to the Gabrial expanse we really should not be using our warships for that.
Surplus D7s for the win!