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.
Don't jinx it, Neville!
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
Agreed.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.
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.Duuuuuuuuude Nice!
Seriously, if you aren't already employed in the animation field, you should be!
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.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.
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.
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]
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.
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.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.
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.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?
Can't set it up thanks to Celos.We don't seem to have gotten a relationship status with the Goshawnar after this first contact.
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.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.
"But our Mentats have to engage in crazy dangerous experiments. We couldn't hold our dick waving contests otherwise."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.
Odds that we'd have jumped in the side of the Ked Paddah if we'd have met them first: increasing."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.
Are we at war with the Lecarre? Because by now there would be enough reasons to declare one.
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.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.