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Hopefully, she gets the award because nothing else happened :
To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
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I'd argue that fleeing as soon as the fight goes against them is entirely consistent with Sydraxian behavior as we've experienced it. If anything, the last battle with them (where they kept fighting after taking a ship loss) was the exception.
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Gardener of Human Happiness
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Cowards! They are without honor!
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Tisana Bessle: "I KNOW, RIGHT!?"
McAdams managed to save all but a few percent of her people from an erupting sun and three months stranded in space, and that's impressive. But someone else might manage to top it.
The thing is, people get the Matthews-Rayburn award by not getting their crew killed. Or by getting far, far less of their crew killed than you would expect under the circumstances. Having lots of Matthews-Rayburn candidates isn't necessarily a bad thing.
McAdams managed to save all but a few percent of her people from an erupting sun and three months stranded in space, and that's impressive. But someone else might manage to top it.
True; and notably that was the one time we had them pinned up against their own 'nest,' namely the Deva outpost. If they'd started warping out as soon as they lost shields, Rivers would probably have been able to maul the outpost pretty badly.
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They're a proud warrior race of cheaters and cowards.
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- Nova Scotia, Canada
The rarest and most unusual thing of all happened to the Enterprise.
They had a normal and boring mission.
"What's that on the scanners?"
"An asteroid, Ma'am."
"Is it hiding an unknown alien ship?"
"No, Ma'am"
"Is it causing any anomalies? Like time or gravity fluctuations?"
"No, Ma'am"
"Is it about to crash into a planet with a pre-warp civilization on it and we need to talk about whether or not we should save them?"
"No, Captain. It's in a stable orbit and there's no life in this system."
"Is it filled with rare and valuable elements we can use?"
"No, just nickel, iron and traces of other metals."
"...Are you sure there's no aliens hiding in it?"
"I'll check again."
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and it must rankle. The entire war from their perspective is just a long string of humiliations and resorting to increasingly underhanded tactics. I mean, they forced one of there allies to fake a distress call, and that resulted in the federation smirking at them as they had to slink away with their tail between their legs. Sure bias can cover a lot, but I rather doubt there civilian morale is super high right now.
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Thuir is cheating though. Captain Common Sense and all.
Sorry, where is Thuir now?
EDIT: Nevermind, found him. Can we feasibly eventually make him Commander?
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Hmm.
The rock whisperer must have temporarily transferred some of his knack for locating useful mineral deposits.
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His initial handling of the Biophage is why he's Captain Common Sense.
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They never had to "resort" to doing that. The Federation had engaged in absolutely no aggressive actions toward them whatsoever at that point.
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The gratians where forced by the sydraxians to fake a distress call. Which is a massive dick move by the sydraxians.
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"I did not send the away team" is still one of most memorable lines in the quest.
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- Way to where I ought to be.
I'm not sure it changes the strategic situation at all, but I think it's worth pointing out that an artificial core collapse actually has peaceful applications. Remember, the collapse which crippled the Courageous lasted for only a short period, and ejected a lot of stellar matter which then began orbiting the star. What if the brevity of the collapse was not due to an incomplete/imperfect device/technique, but was intended? With sufficient refinement, a momentary collapse of this type might be able to induce a star to spew out large clouds of BR and SR for (relatively) easy collection. And since the star doesn't entirely explode, its gravity will keep the valuable materials neatly contained in orbit, rather than flying off into the cosmos.
That said - regardless of the original intent of the device/technique, it is a functional superweapon, so the strategic situation may remain the same. I simply hope we'll remember that even a core collapse device is not proof positive of the Licori being maliciously hostile - all of this could be the work of one noble house, or even a few rogue mentats building off each others work. Does something need to change? Yes. But we have no reason - yet - to think that only war can bring about that change. Indeed, war with the Ked Paddah does not seem to have curtailed the Licori's incautious physics experiments; the threat of war with a larger power may have similarly little effect. Therefore, I support the general intent in the thread to prepare for war if it proves absolutely necessary, but to begin with (vigorous) diplomatic outreach and negotiation. Anything the FDS can tell us about the true power and role of mentats in Licori culture would also be very welcome, since it would help us understand whether this is something the Licori permit, or whether they are actually trying to restrain the mentats and failing, or what.
That said - regardless of the original intent of the device/technique, it is a functional superweapon, so the strategic situation may remain the same. I simply hope we'll remember that even a core collapse device is not proof positive of the Licori being maliciously hostile - all of this could be the work of one noble house, or even a few rogue mentats building off each others work. Does something need to change? Yes. But we have no reason - yet - to think that only war can bring about that change. Indeed, war with the Ked Paddah does not seem to have curtailed the Licori's incautious physics experiments; the threat of war with a larger power may have similarly little effect. Therefore, I support the general intent in the thread to prepare for war if it proves absolutely necessary, but to begin with (vigorous) diplomatic outreach and negotiation. Anything the FDS can tell us about the true power and role of mentats in Licori culture would also be very welcome, since it would help us understand whether this is something the Licori permit, or whether they are actually trying to restrain the mentats and failing, or what.
Alastor Mobius Toth
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*reads some more*
Oh look, an exploding star! More dead ships! Yaay?
Get your fucking shit together Ainsworth.
On the other hand, if the Council wants us to clean up Licori mess, it's a good opportunity to suggest to say "lol no". Either that, or we get permission to expand fleet or buildpre-Akiras actual warships.
Oh look, an exploding star! More dead ships! Yaay?
Get your fucking shit together Ainsworth.
On the other hand, if the Council wants us to clean up Licori mess, it's a good opportunity to suggest to say "lol no". Either that, or we get permission to expand fleet or build
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I doubt the Courageous had enough time to get readings beyond "Mentat here, star bad, run now." We'd get rp if we understood how the mentat did it by watching it happen, capturing a ship with their data about how they were doing it or putting together clues after it happened. This was more like trying to learn about explosions by seeing how many lit firecrackers you can juggle.
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Somethin's Fucky ...
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We got to keep the Courageous. That is reward enough for a nearly failed save.
Fuck the Akira! That thing's but ugly!
Alastor Mobius Toth
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