- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Tasoli, as far as I can tell, you're arguing "it must be a burdensome problem for us because we can't prove it's NOT a burdensome problem."
Do we have any concrete evidence that these responsibilities are a burden to Starfleet and that we'll be better off without them? Do you think interior sector Defense requirements are likely to go down if we persuade the Council to create the Federation Bureau of Investigation? Because I don't; the existence of the FBI won't remove our need for warp-capable starships patrolling our own space. Are we paying pp every year to cover the 'cost' of carrying out internal criminal investigations? So far as I know, we're not.
Frankly, there isn't much evidence that this is our problem, or that even if it is, it's actually hurting us.
So I disagree, we don't have to "shed some of these extra fat/responsibilities," we certainly don't have to do it this year, and we certainly shouldn't do it at the expense of ignoring an ongoing war on our borders, or at the expense of preventing the Yrillians from uniting against us, or at the expense of ignoring our internal shipping problems.
On another note I've been so preoccupied with other stuff that I didn't have time to vote. I'm with @Briefvoice on this one.
[X] [COUNCIL] Plan Intelligence, Education, Diplomacy and Industrial Expansion
-[X] Request Academy Development, 35pp (Gain +.5 Officers/Enlisted/Techs throughput)
-[X] Request Science Academy Development, 15pp (Gain +1 Techs throughput)
-[X] Request new Tech Team to be added to your Ship Design Bureau, 20pp [pure medical, possible background: split Starfleet Medical Command research into two divisions, Medical Equipment (existing team) and Experimental Treatments (new team)]
-[X] Request Mining Colony at Ulen Gao VII, 8pp (4 turns, gain +20 (25) br/year)
-[X] Request Mining Colony at Peco Sigma, 8pp (4 turns, gain +10 (20) sr/year)
-[X] Request Mining Colony at Castor IV-2, 8pp (4 turns, gain +20 (30) sr/year)
-[X] Request new Starbase I [Betazed] (15+12) * 0.75 = 20.25pp
-[X] Request new Shipyard at Betazed, 18pp (8 turns, 2 1mt Berths)
-[X] Request new Shipyard at Apinae , 33pp, (12 turns, 1 3mt Berth, 1 1mt Berth)
-[X] Request focused Diplomacy on a potential member species, 20pp [Yrillians]
-[X] Request focused Diplomacy on a potential member species, 20pp [Ittick-ka]
-[X] Deploy Improved Listening Posts to a Border Zone to gain a 25% chance of generating +1 Intel report for powers on that border. (Cardassian Border Zone), 20pp
-[X] Reorganise a Starfleet Command from a Rear Admiral position to a Vice Admiral position: 20pp for Starfleet Intelligence
[X][FACTION] Approach the Expansionists. Doubtless they have heard of pro-Cardassian leanings among the Yrillians that would have them siding with the Sydraxians in the event of a general war. The Council has also given frequent reminders of how squeezed Starfleet is for transports in its auxiliary fleet. Why not solve one problem with another? Yrillians are famous for building more ships than they strictly need. We would like to begin an outreach program by hiring Yrillian cargo ships and freighters to alleviate our temporary shipping crunch. Depending on availability, this could be extended to include other auxiliary ship work where the Federation's expansion has left us straining. The goal is to alleviate that strain and simultaneously to show ordinary Yrillian work gangs how working with the Federation aligns with their interests, thus increasing pro-Federation sentiment among the Yrillians at large.
[X][NAME] Lasieth Craft Yards
