Something to feast your eyes on:


I'm hopefully going to add to it, but I wanted to refamiliarise myself with animating, as it's been years since I last had any proper practice. Also want to get the model a bit further before I commit to a longer animation.

Duuuuuuuuude Nice!

Seriously, if you aren't already employed in the animation field, you should be!
 
With these reinforcements it might be time to double back and sweep the Sydraxian sectors again, keep punching them out while they don't expect it.
 
20 pp and 10 rp which is a nice haul but unless we get another five RP I would want to hold off on the new tech team. Also seyek are now over 300
 
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Wow, the potential to eliminate the RNZ completely in another few decades. That's serious progress when it comes to the Romulans! :)
 
Not kidding about a lot of events this quarter. Well, right before the Snakepit was a good time to have a political will rush like this. +20pp in a single month.

A little ominous about the Lecarre, though. Their 'body snatcher' shtick is starting to seem less funny all the time.
 
Not kidding about a lot of events this quarter. Well, right before the Snakepit was a good time to have a political will rush like this. +20pp in a single month.

A little ominous about the Lecarre, though. Their 'body snatcher' shtick is starting to seem less funny all the time.
Agreed.

Hey, anyone want to see if we can make one of our next-gen ships look like a Constitution-class from the outside as a psychological tactic? Between Enterprise, Cheron, the Connie-B's and various other ships I'm sure a third of the quadrant is scared of Connies and another third sees an incoming Connie as an angel.
 
Chag, son of Kowrak and Straak in some popular science program together would be great. They would play on each other quite funny and they will put finer points of science in the minds of everyone who watches it.
 
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Duuuuuuuuude Nice!

Seriously, if you aren't already employed in the animation field, you should be!
It's kind of you to say that, but compared to some people out there, that's really nothing. Take a look at SCRUBBED they do what takes me weeks in less than a day.

My internet security is tripping at that - it's probably a false positive but I'm not comfortable just leaving it alone - OneirosTheWriter
 
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[x] [Geology lesson] : Yes
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So, do we have estimated stats for the Aieles and the larger warbirds?
 
Chag, son of Kowrak and Straak in some popular science program together would be great. They would play on each other quite funny and they will put finer points of science in the minds of everyone who watches it.
Straak can be a bit boring when he writes AARs. When he demonstrates? Well, one of the perks of having an EC Excelsior for your geology demonstrator tool is that you get to do things like blast asteroids off impact trajectories by turning them into bombs, or bounce transporter beams off rare minerals to deploy commandos behind syndicate lines.

Straak's demonstrations are action movies. I have no doubt there's some entertainment studio salivating at the chance to buy up the rights to Captain Straak, ACTION GEOLOGIST.

Also, we just saw what +C +P looks like. Mrr'Shan just diplomatically resolved a standoff by reminding people that just because the Federation prefers to talk doesn't mean she doesn't have the biggest single stick in the known galaxy.
 
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Another thing I noticed, because there was so much in this CL it was hard to take it all in the first read-through.

Ambassador's Log, Morshadd, Ambassador Elisa Bairn, Stardate 25388.5

It seems like controlling mentats is something that there is considerable resistance to within the noble Houses of the Licori. Notably, the ability to exploit the power of their mentats is a large part of the wrangling and competition between Houses, who are forbidden by their Emperor from engaging in more direct forms of conflict.

In other words, the domestic politics of the Arcadian Empire make it very difficult to restrain the mentats to a degree that the Ked Paddah will accept.

As an update to the war, the last several months have passed in a faux-war sort of state, with no major battles engaged in. Some skirmishing has occurred, but no Ked Paddah offences have been launched, and no move has been made to retake the major colony world now occupied. There are reports that mentats captured on that world have been confined to quarters, allowed only to access theory work instead of practical work.

So let me get this straight. The terrifying mentats, the reason they went to war in the first place, and what do the Ked Paddah do when capturing them? Executions? No. They get confined to quarters and told to occupy themselves with theory work. The Ked Paddah really don't seem like such bad eggs, now do they?

Captain's Log, USS Enterprise, Stardate 25391.1

So the little ones are Aieles, but there is a larger cruiser. Well, not cruiser in the usual sense of a higher endurance vessel with broad capabilities. More just a really big warbird. Dangerous looking, I wouldn't want to meet one in a dark alley. On the other hand, they've been scanning us, and I get the distinct impression they wouldn't want to run into Enterprise by surprise in a sunny alley either.

They are beginning to withdraw now, possibly spotting the inbound warp signatures of a pair of Seyek crusiers, which will occupy this colony site until their engineers can establish an outpost.

[Gain +15sr, +25 with Seyek]

We don't seem to have gotten a relationship status with the Goshawnar after this first contact.

Sector Commander's Log, Gabriel BZ, Stardate 25394.5 - Rear Admiral Ainsworth

Our prospectors are telling us that our entry subsector is probably one of the poorer areas within the Expanse, and that we will encounter more noteworthy holdings as we progress. I should hope so.

Boned by procedural generation. I now have a theory that the reason the Cardassians haven't been particularly aggressive is that their entry subsector turned out to be incredibly rich, so they didn't have a motivation to move in hard.
 
Is there any way we could introduce some more stringent security testing for high ranked officials in the Federation? I don't like the fact that they managed to maintain an infiltrator for three years.

Tricorders should make such testing easy and untroubling, so we shouldn't face too much resistance.

Straak can be a bit boring when he writes AARs. When he demonstrates? Well, one of the perks of having an EC Excelsior for your geology demonstrator tool is that you get to do things like blast asteroids off impact trajectories by turning them into bombs, or bounce transporter beams off rare minerals to deploy commandos behind syndicate lines.

Straak's demonstrations are action movies. I have no doubt there's some entertainment studio salivating at the chance to buy up the rights to Captain Straak, ACTION GEOLOGIST.

Also, we just saw what +C +P looks like. Mrr'Shan just diplomatically resolved a standoff by reminding people that just because the Federation prefers to talk doesn't she doesn't have the biggest single stick in the known galaxy.
You know, that'd be one way to increase Starfleet and EC recruitment, even if it'd be hilariously meta. Create the Star Trek series, inside the Star Trek universe. We could simply use the EC reports as episode scripts.
 
So let me get this straight. The terrifying mentats, the reason they went to war in the first place, and what do the Ked Paddah do when capturing them? Executions? No. They get confined to quarters and told to occupy themselves with theory work. The Ked Paddah really don't seem like such bad eggs, now do they?
Remember, the Ked Paddah thing is "prudence". They're not going to throw away genius researchers, they're going to let them do research that doesn't break things.

We don't seem to have gotten a relationship status with the Goshawnar after this first contact.
Can't set it up thanks to Celos.

Boned by procedural generation. I now have a theory that the reason the Cardassians haven't been particularly aggressive is that their entry subsector turned out to be incredibly rich, so they didn't have a motivation to move in hard.
It's not all that poor. We've found two very nice colonies in one sector. That's pretty rare. It's not Laprycories, but it's not bad.

I still have money on there being more deposits to be found in Laprycories, IC because that many rare deposits shouldn't be a fluke, OOC because it makes narrative sense for any rimward CBZ colony events to be decided to be Laprycories followups.

God the Cardassians would RAGE if they knew we grabbed a double colony system on their border like that.
 
Do we not get starting relations with the Goshawnar? I doubt they are positive, but I'd like to know where we stand.
 
It seems like controlling mentats is something that there is considerable resistance to within the noble Houses of the Licori. Notably, the ability to exploit the power of their mentats is a large part of the wrangling and competition between Houses, who are forbidden by their Emperor from engaging in more direct forms of conflict.
"But our Mentats have to engage in crazy dangerous experiments. We couldn't hold our dick waving contests otherwise."

Yeah, my sympathy for the Licori is waning.
 
"But our Mentats have to engage in crazy dangerous experiments. We couldn't hold our dick waving contests otherwise."

Yeah, my sympathy for the Licori is waning.
Odds that we'd have jumped in the side of the Ked Paddah if we'd have met them first: increasing.

The Licori appear to be carrying out experiments with megadeaths as potential results as part of internal dickwaving competitions. And they won't even keep in their own territory where it won't hit other people.
 
Are we at war with the Lecarre? Because by now there would be enough reasons to declare one.
 
War with the Lecarre would mean war with the entire Ashalla Pact. Something that we have gone well out of our way to avoid everywhere but the GBZ
I realize that. However, the Federation council should prepare some reaction. Because that stunt simply isn't tolerable - replacing diplomats must be answered. Perhaps a trial in absentia or a conditional declaration of war or some other diplomatic way to tell them that they crossed several lines.
 
I realize that. However, the Federation council should prepare some reaction. Because that stunt simply isn't tolerable - replacing diplomats must be answered. Perhaps a trial in absentia or a conditional declaration of war or some other diplomatic way to tell them that they crossed several lines.

"The Lecarre have no knowledge of this individual, if indeed he existed, and deny responsibility for any crimes that may or may not have occurred. Would the Federation like to present some evidence of our culpability beyond the species of the offender?"
 
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