AKuz
Been Better
- Location
- A Rising Tide of Horrors
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I suspect whoever deals with them next is going to have an even harder check. Hopefully they run into Enterprise > : P
To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
- Thread starter OneirosTheWriter
- Start date
- Sci-Fi
-
- Tags
- star trek exploration fully automated luxury gay space communism top level canon (canon) #hashtagcontent all-encompassing space amoeba cardassian boy bands cardassian magical girls darkest bureaucracy debate makes the qm cackle like palpatine hoh is an empire quest it has to be foreign infiltrators more ships ship happens singers delenda est starfleet this is not an empire quest ur waifu is collective?
I suspect whoever deals with them next is going to have an even harder check. Hopefully they run into Enterprise > : P
Finagle007
[Verified Great Old One]
- Pronouns
- He/Him/His
Forget a star going boom... It's quite possible that some mentat might stumble upon the means to creating Omega molecules...
Night_stalker
Slava Ukraini!
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Come on, give in....
I don't want another war on our watch, this is getting worrisome.
I don't want another war on our watch, this is getting worrisome.
Eh, the fact of that matter is that the commanding officer in such campgains is always far more visible than his "underlings". Such a thing is always far more about impressions than any hard facts and impression wise we have a tendency to have humans in our (visible) top slots.
Huh. I was just going over the front page and I noticed this:
this seems new to me.
Night_stalker
Slava Ukraini!
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I dunno, cloning is illegal, right?
- Location
- somewhere
Much of that has been there since the beginning of the game, some of it has been added later or expanded but I couldn't tell you when.
- Location
- Infraspace
Not sure how better relations with the Ked Paddah would have helped avert any war; if anything, we might have been drawn in earlier! And we already had decent relations with the Licori (
- Location
- Patriarchova
Chad botched that diplomacy roll. Hope it doesn't blow up too badly, or literally.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
Perhaps it might have been possible to convince the Licori to stop outputing Mentats with higher relations. Would have been appropriately Trek-y.
- Location
- USA
Well we had a tech that reduced the first crew rating to seven events, I guess Vol Chad reduced that by 3 more. Hopefully he can start passing checks now that they are blooded.
- Location
- Infraspace
Perhaps, but I'd think that the issue of the Mentats would have prevented us from reaching the relation level that would require that. We couldn't even make them basic affiliates (can't remember the term for when they reach 100) due to the Mentat issue initially and then also their war with the Ked Paddah.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Maybe Chad triggered a hidden +1 XP somewhere or something, too?
Yes, but mentats are the cornerstone of their civilization. We'd have had to reach them much earlier and push them very hard to have much of a chance of having a positive effect before the Ked Paddah attacked in a wave of STOP THAT DAMMIT!
Yeah. That said, we're about to appoint a nonhuman as Eaton's direct superior, a point which I hope will blunt that a bit. Too bad we can't show our critics TNG episodes and tell them they should be glad they have it like they do.
I'm... beginning to see why the Ked Paddah aren't winning this war themselves...
For all we know that mentat is going to do something completely harmless. I suspect a lot of mentats do. They can't ALL be doing destructive mad science.
Enterprise:
"Mhm... My first five year mission was with Captain April. It was... it was nice for about six months. Then- th-"
[trails off]
"Then Tarsus IV happened. I- I blame myself."
[looks desolate for a moment]
"You be nice to him Nash. Oh, who am I kidding. Of course you will."
[looks relieved]
aeqnai
Nerdy Homu
- Location
- Laniakea Supercluster
- Pronouns
- She/Her
I wonder if she couldn't remember, say, doing approach and landing tests atop a Boeing, or blockading Cuba as the world teetered on the brink of annihilation, or keeping her planes flying over Iwo Jima for weeks on end, or sinking the 14-gun corsair Tripoli...
There have been a lot of ships Enterprise, and not all of them sailed the starry skies.
This thing with the trap disabling the explorer is exactly why we're running the mentat hunt exercise.
AKuz
Been Better
- Location
- A Rising Tide of Horrors
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Her first "Five year mission" not her first mission period.
Dreams Enterprise is clearly estsblished as remembering her Earth history.
Yeah, that drove the point home.
- Location
- Infraspace
So, I realised that it's been a while since the last update on the Renaissance... I'm afraid I've not had much time to work on it, but here's a taste:
I wasn't happy with the way the thrusters stuck out, so I've been trying to make them level with the saucer, with an indent around it. I think it works far better.
Edit: I've stripped the textures while I add detailing, as it screws with the topology of the mesh.
Edit: I've stripped the textures while I add detailing, as it screws with the topology of the mesh.
Last edited:
Forgothrax
Not Going Gently
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I wonder if he actually halved it with the number required rounding up. Given that it appears that you need around 20 or so events to hit Veteran, it will be interesting to see if the ship makes Veteran during his tenure.
At least there were no failed-to-respond event notices in the first month. Hopefully those Constellations we left in place will be able to continue to manage responses.
A capital ship and two frigates! (Obviously Vol Chad was brought up under the old terminology system and still slips up occasionally.) But besides nitpicking terminology, that's quite a little squadron to be chasing a single ship. I wonder if part of the issue the Ked Paddah are having is a refusal to engage unless the odds are massively stacked in their favor. That's not necessarily a bad idea, but it leads to a long war.
Starbase 9 is Lapycorias Station, for those who didn't both to check the front page. Once again, the Cheron is on top of things. But check out the new captain since we promoted T'Mina. Is that a Tellarite name?
I think that might not just be "a Daljerra" but actually the Daljerra, as I don't think they've completed any beyond the prototype yet.
EDIT: No, it's specifically identified as a different name.
In any case the S'harien far outgunned them, and I'm not surprised they were willing talk rather than fight. Lucky we made that sensor check, though.
---> "a five-year administration at the start of the Kahurangi administration"
I think that was supposed to be "a five-year mission".
Beyond that, maybe we should have put T'Lorel in charge. Oh well. However it played in the press, Eaton's high Politics mean the Council probably won't get too excited.
I'm much happier that we made this check than that the Atuin failed its check. Blow a few of these Romulan checks, and suddenly we're at war with the Romulan Star Empire.
I like how you can almost see the sneer and eye roll whenever Federation people have to talk about the Arcadian Emperor. Having a hereditary monarch just seems so incredibly backwards to them.
The Klingons, Cardassians, and Romulans may not be democracies, but:
1. Power tends to be at least somewhat more distributed.
2. There is at least some sort of meritocratic component to the system. You fight (politically or literally) your way to power.
This Arcadian Emperor, I mean, who knows! He was born into power. We've gotten enough reports to make that clear. I know there's been a lot of speculation about his lack of response to mean that he's incapable of reigning in the mentats or that they're secretly holding the puppet strings, but it seems to me that it's just as likely the Licori rolled poorly on the monarch dice. Maybe they got their equivalent of a Charles I (from the English Civil War) or a Louis XVI (from the French Revolution). Maybe the Emperor is just incompetent and inflexible, out of touch with reality and convinced that things will work themselves out somehow if he just holds firmly. I mean, why not? He never had to fight for power. There's no winnowing mechanism to keep someone bad at the job out of power.
A capital ship and two frigates! (Obviously Vol Chad was brought up under the old terminology system and still slips up occasionally.) But besides nitpicking terminology, that's quite a little squadron to be chasing a single ship. I wonder if part of the issue the Ked Paddah are having is a refusal to engage unless the odds are massively stacked in their favor. That's not necessarily a bad idea, but it leads to a long war.
Starbase 9 is Lapycorias Station, for those who didn't both to check the front page. Once again, the Cheron is on top of things. But check out the new captain since we promoted T'Mina. Is that a Tellarite name?
EDIT: No, it's specifically identified as a different name.
In any case the S'harien far outgunned them, and I'm not surprised they were willing talk rather than fight. Lucky we made that sensor check, though.
---> "a five-year administration at the start of the Kahurangi administration"
I think that was supposed to be "a five-year mission".
Beyond that, maybe we should have put T'Lorel in charge. Oh well. However it played in the press, Eaton's high Politics mean the Council probably won't get too excited.
I'm much happier that we made this check than that the Atuin failed its check. Blow a few of these Romulan checks, and suddenly we're at war with the Romulan Star Empire.
I like how you can almost see the sneer and eye roll whenever Federation people have to talk about the Arcadian Emperor. Having a hereditary monarch just seems so incredibly backwards to them.
The Klingons, Cardassians, and Romulans may not be democracies, but:
1. Power tends to be at least somewhat more distributed.
2. There is at least some sort of meritocratic component to the system. You fight (politically or literally) your way to power.
This Arcadian Emperor, I mean, who knows! He was born into power. We've gotten enough reports to make that clear. I know there's been a lot of speculation about his lack of response to mean that he's incapable of reigning in the mentats or that they're secretly holding the puppet strings, but it seems to me that it's just as likely the Licori rolled poorly on the monarch dice. Maybe they got their equivalent of a Charles I (from the English Civil War) or a Louis XVI (from the French Revolution). Maybe the Emperor is just incompetent and inflexible, out of touch with reality and convinced that things will work themselves out somehow if he just holds firmly. I mean, why not? He never had to fight for power. There's no winnowing mechanism to keep someone bad at the job out of power.
Last edited:
Also we have a NAP and they aren't going to break it on a whim.
- Location
- somewhere
Looks like an Andorian name of thaan gender.
- Location
- Cyberspace
You would *think* they would. I mean, at least go for the 'summit' and see what would actually satisfy the Federation...
But not, I expect that, according to the rules of drama, the Federation has a war on its hands. That kind of irks me, to be honest - that I get the impression that there's no chance that the Federation's ultimatum (which, hell, is more or less "settle down and come meet with us") will work.