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- Patriarchova
"And then they came back with three times as many ships and blew up Rexasodie's entire fleet. The end."
To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
- Thread starter OneirosTheWriter
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- Mid-Atlantic
Well yes. That is pretty much how it ended.
Unfortunately, life and psychology prevented me from blitzing this particular N-thousand-word story immediately after Deva IX happened in-game. Sorry about that.
But it's like watching a World War Two movie. The artistic value doesn't come from it being in doubt who wins the war, or even the battle.
At least, that's what I think I'm going to keep telling myself for now, so I ever actually do finish the thing.
Unfortunately, life and psychology prevented me from blitzing this particular N-thousand-word story immediately after Deva IX happened in-game. Sorry about that.
But it's like watching a World War Two movie. The artistic value doesn't come from it being in doubt who wins the war, or even the battle.
At least, that's what I think I'm going to keep telling myself for now, so I ever actually do finish the thing.
NHO
Dumb is a state of existence
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- ᓚᘏᗢ
Heat till molten, spin into a circle precisely.
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- Mid-Atlantic
Honestly, I think it'd be easier to slab it into smaller pieces and assemble the pieces. Getting a thirty-five kilometer asteroid up to a uniformly molten state, and spinning it into a fifteen thousand kilometer disk while retaining the same molten state, without causing the whole thing to fall apart from centrifugal force,... That sounds like the kind of thing Q can do but real engineers can't, not even with we-be-Trekking levels of technology.
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- Patriarchova
Yes. Hence 'Devas' in the title and 'Six Light-Minutes off Deva IX' in the "location" headings.
Also, quite frankly, the story of a desperate stand against better-equipped and alarmingly competent alien boarding parties in the corridors of the Endurance makes a much, much better story than "one of the enemy's shots scored a critical hit and flooded a quarter of the ship with poisonite gas and 200 people died instantly"
The REST of Devas and Asuras, much of which is already written, focuses on the defense of the Endurance rather than the battle as a whole. Much more up-close-and-brutally-personal, as a result.
Then, of course, there's the sequel.
AKuz
Been Better
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- A Rising Tide of Horrors
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- She/Her
Then, of course, there's the sequel.
I almost want to see any omake about Lora have in the lead up indications that Rexodie really is an example of the best of Sydraxian civilization wants to be. Rexodie is very honorable, intelligent, driven, etc. She is going to change her society through her amazingness, ability to inspire loyalty in her people, and willingness to challenge the people in charge like some sort of Mil Sci-Fi protagonist....
...And then she dies.
In an ultimately pointless battle in an ultimately pointless war being waged purely on Pride and the fear that if the Sydraxians give up it means they've been wrong for nearly a decade. An example of the Sydraxian leadership blindly feeding their best into a woodchipper for no gain over and over again and all they have to show for it is open graves, broken ships, and civilians that they've killed like cowards..
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- Patriarchova
"Woodchipper" having been Ainsworth's nickname in the academy.
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At nine hours since that post it's probably safe to say the vote is closed:
Vote Tally : Sci-Fi - To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest) | Page 1703 | Sufficient Velocity
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[X] Plan Diplomats and Starfleet Engineers
-[X] Starfleet Engineering Command (5pt from Starfleet, to deploy will require 2 cargo ships and 2 freighters to be sourced from member worlds)
-[X] Shorc Xurth Resource Combine - Heavy Industry (5 Cost to Tellar, gain Heavy Industry asset)
-[X] Retired Vice Admiral Heidi Eriksson - Doctrine Specialist (5pt Cost to Starfleet, gain Doctrine Specialist)
-[X] Generate Generic External Diplomacy Team from United Earth (10 Cost to Starfleet, 5 Cost to Member World, gain External Diplomacy Team)
No. of Votes: 16
[X] Federation Industrial Might and Doctrine
-[X] North America Productivity Commission - Heavy Industry (5 Cost to Earth, gain Heavy Industry asset)
-[X] Shorc Xurth Resource Combine - Heavy Industry (5 Cost to Tellar, gain Heavy Industry asset)
-[X] Andorian Imperial Star Engineers - Engineering Team (10 Cost from Andor, gain Engineering Team with 2 Engineering Ships, 2 Cargo Ships, 1 Freighter)
-[X] Retired Vice Admiral Heidi Eriksson - Doctrine Specialist (5pt Cost to Starfleet, gain Doctrine Specialist)
-[X] Retired Vice Admiral Lachlan Ablett - Doctrine Specialist (5pt Cost to Starfleet, gain Doctrine Specialist)
No. of Votes: 3
Total No. of Voters: 19
Captain's Log - 2314.Q4.M3
- Location
- Australia
[X] Plan Diplomats and Starfleet Engineers
-[X] Starfleet Engineering Command (5pt from Starfleet, to deploy will require 2 cargo ships and 2 freighters to be sourced from member worlds)
-[X] Shorc Xurth Resource Combine - Heavy Industry (5 Cost to Tellar, gain Heavy Industry asset)
-[X] Retired Vice Admiral Heidi Eriksson - Doctrine Specialist (5pt Cost to Starfleet, gain Doctrine Specialist)
-[X] Generate Generic External Diplomacy Team from United Earth (10 Cost to Starfleet, 5 Cost to Member World, gain External Diplomacy Team)
-[X] Starfleet Engineering Command (5pt from Starfleet, to deploy will require 2 cargo ships and 2 freighters to be sourced from member worlds)
-[X] Shorc Xurth Resource Combine - Heavy Industry (5 Cost to Tellar, gain Heavy Industry asset)
-[X] Retired Vice Admiral Heidi Eriksson - Doctrine Specialist (5pt Cost to Starfleet, gain Doctrine Specialist)
-[X] Generate Generic External Diplomacy Team from United Earth (10 Cost to Starfleet, 5 Cost to Member World, gain External Diplomacy Team)
Captain's Log, USS Odyssey, Stardate 25681.3 - Captain Langa Mbeki
A passing cargo ship reported unusual sensor readings coming from the sixth planet of the Cronulla system. Of course, with the recent demands on the attention of the Explorer Corps, this task has sat for about a year, so I'm not sure what we will find when we arrive.
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Personal Log, Commander Jennifer Zhang, Stardate 25682.3
My time aboard the Basilica of Lakhept is coming to a close, but we still have a mission to go on. The Honiani have discovered a new spacegoing power on their coreward border and Big Lak is going to pay our respects. We're not sure of too many details about what these people are like, but we mean to put our best foot forward.
I will be allowed to make contact on behalf of the Federation as well, and the Diplomatic Service have sent me some details to help me make a good impression.
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Captain's Log, USS Bulwark, Stardate 25682.7
[Chief of Staff's NB: FYI - This one came my way from the Director of Starfleet Engineering along with a lot of colourful invective]
As per orders from Starfleet Engineering, we deployed to Viridia IV, at the coreward end of the neutral zone, where the new listening post was meant to go.
Turns out that the mapping run that was meant to pass over this planet first before we established the facility was never run and there's semi-intelligent life down there. I don't know who fouled this up over on Operations end, but I can't put this facility down without violating, at last count, forty-two Federation laws.
[Lost 10pp]
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Captain's Log, USS Odyssey, Stardate 25683.4
The gas giant at Cronulla VI is still putting out unusual energy readings. Highly localised and utterly mystifying, well within the cloud layer, just hovering along above the liquid ammonia layer of the planet, we are having a hard time isolating its sensor signature through the natural interference.
My chief science officer has proposed cleaning up the sensor image by placing probes at three points around the anomaly.
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Personal Log, Commander Jennifer Zhang, Stardate 25683.7
The Obar are a rather long-limbed and spindly race, with a covering across their head and shoulders that truthfully makes me thing of tree moss. Their chief emissary, Ambassador Akthuun, puts me in the mind of a stern but gold-hearted grandfather. A somewhat dangerous impression for someone who you are meant to be conducting diplomacy with!
A thoughtful and ponderous man, he seems quite taken with the Honiani. I hope I have made as good an impression for the Federation.
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Captain's Log, USS Odyssey, Stardate 25684.1
There's something incredibly strange about this energy reading. After we isolated it down with the probes, it began to emit EM pulses through the atmosphere. My science officer believes that there is something pattern-like about these pulses, and is trying to identify what it could be.
The ship's counsellor is telling me that she senses a presence down in the gas giant's atmosphere as well.
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Personal Log, Commander Jennifer Zhang, Stardate 25684.5
I have started making arrangements for an envoy from the Obar to travel to Rigel to meet with the Federation. And even some of the normally taciturn members of the Obar delegation have expressed enthusiasm about the Federation.
Some kind words thrown in our direction by the Honiani also helped.
[New Race Encountered: the Obar - starting 65/100]
[Gain +50 relations with Honiani for successful completion of Jennifer Zhang's tour]
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Captain's Log, USS Odyssey, Stardate 25685.1
The energy anomaly is an intelligent life form! It is using the energy pulses back through the atmosphere in an attempt to communicate with us. We've managed some primitive exchanges by sending pulses indicating basic electrical principles, plus leaning on our telepathic ship's counsellor. I'm thrilled to be a part of this discovery, to find life in such an unexpected visage.
[Gain +10rp, Cronulla VI is now a research colony option]
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- USA
Captains logs are great. And a new friendly species and a new sentient life form to talk with!
I'm pleased we were able to start at positive relations with the Obar, but a little puzzled how that even worked mechanically since Zhang wasn't attached to a Federation ship with a Presence stat to roll.
- Location
- Australia
Half quirk of the event type, half me taking pity and wanting to have a trekky episode.
UbeOne
Daydreaming CPU
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- Philippines
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- She/Her
Vulcans: This is another good example of IDIC in action. It's only logical that unusual life like this one would eventually be encountered.
Katsuragi
The 1%
@OneirosTheWriter -Slylandro?
Finagle007
[Verified Great Old One]
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- He/Him/His
Ouch. Good thing it's only semi-intelligent life down there; if they had been more advanced, someone would have been for the high jump for fucking up that badly.
Nervos Belli
Don't think this means you've won!
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- Murica
Is it just me or are the Obar basically just minature Ents? Spindly, hair like moss, taciturn and grandfatherly. That's basically Treebeard in a nutshell.
Shard
One and Many
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- Malaysia
While somewhat annoying to lose 10 pp, I have to say that this was hilarious to me.
Pretty much my impression.
Night
Widow Null
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- Hoff
Roll against Basilica of Lahkept's presence (the kind words)?
Alternately, Zhang's rubber ducky is P3, much like Sousa's.
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Can't be, they haven't made terrible probe decisions! Maybe the gas-giant dwellers from Stellaris.
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Now we just need to give them a musician schtick and they can ENTertain us.
Nervos Belli
Don't think this means you've won!
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- Murica
Boooooooooooooooooooo.