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To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest) Starfleet Ship Design Bureau, Refit ("To Boldly Go...")
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I will list mechanical, narrative and political considerations separately.

Mechanical (order of preference):
  • Ajam / Mbeki. I'd have to know what the rolls are and see the event tables to be able to separate these, but stat boni are really good, and non-first contact diplomacy has only recently been made more likely on the event table.
  • T'Rinta, stat bonus, but just one, though to an important stat (if it was hull, shields or defense she'd be ranked significantly lower).
  • Revak. 5pp is like an automatic extra degree of success once a year, and you can't really expect most rerolls to happen more than once a year on average (and the reroll can still fail anyway).
  • Thuir. Distress calls are pretty frequent and can be pretty high stakes.
  • Straak. I'm not sure how frequent surprise encounters are, but failing them seems like it could be pretty bad.
  • th'Zahliss. See Revak, but rp are significantly less valuable than pp.
  • McAdams. Personal combat seems to mean that usually the ship is not at stake.
  • ch'Zelil. More limited version of McAdams.
Narrative (order of preference):
  • Thuir. Challorn protocoll.
  • McAdams. The buildup demands payoff.
  • Revak. He has been waiting the entire 5 years, though he is a bit boring.
  • ch'Zelil. Has performed reasonably well as captain so far.
  • Ajam. Has just sort of been there?
  • Straak. Has been waiting for a while.
  • T'Rinta/th'Zahliss. Nothing to go on there, really. I suspect they will pop up for something else if we don't choose them.
  • Mbeki. I want him to be captain of the Challorn for a while.
Political:
It would probably be best to pick one Vulcan and two humans, we already have an Andorian captain and humans are the bulk of Starfleet. Given that we only had female captains before at least two should be male. Mbeki should not be picked without Thuir also being picked because that would send a weird signal.
 
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I would pick:
Captain Michel Thuir - Good head in a crisis, good bonus.
Captain Rosalee McAdams - Narrative reasons, and personal combat does come up a fair bit.
Captain Straak - Because I like the bit about his yen to return to the stars, it would be nice to have a Vulcan in the mix, and his bonus seems fine. (I mean, "reroll mapping missions" didn't set the world on fire either and we all loved Eaton.)

I would not pick Captain Revak because I like shitting on him. It amuses me to think of him as the consummate politician, constantly frustrated we won't just let him have the Explorer he thinks he's due.
 
I think I'm in minority here, but I'm not excited about Rosalee McAdams at all, narratively or otherwise.
And wouldn't a not-explorer ship let her see her wife more often?
 
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As long as we do not pick all humans we should be good. In our command slots we have 4 humans, 2 andorians, 1 Vulcan and 1 tellarite. There are still two old guard positions which ideally will be filled with non humans, Explorer Corp replacments for Chen would be Sulu I think
 
So let's see if I totally wasted my omake reward. I asked for a refit option to on Constitutions to reduce crew requirements. Let's say that reduces crew requirements by 2 and leaves them requiring the same crew as a Renaissance. Here's how the stats might compare with the Renaissance (theoretical).

Constitution [289m, 1m t]
C5 S4 H4 L4 P5 D5
Cost [100br, 100sr, 4 years], Crew [O-4, E-3, T-4]

Renaissance 2320-2360 [330m 1m t]
C5 S3 H4 L5 P4 D5
Cost[100br, 80sr, 3 years], Crew [O-3, E-5, T-3]

Just hypothetically, what would people think of that comparison? The Constitution costs an extra year to build, 20 more sr, and has one less Shield. On the other hand, it has superior Science and superior Presence. The Connie is slightly less of a bargain, but would anyone be tempted to simply do a refit option and start pumping out Connies as our primary light cruiser? They are very nice ships. I mean, they once handled Exploration duties. I'd feel pretty good about any mission that had a Constitution attending to it.
 
Logistics-wise, refitting ships tends to be more convenient, I think.

Until they reach their design limit or become too expensive to maintain.
 
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The T4 kinda hurts since we're already struggling on techs. Plus, we actually only have exactly one Constituition still in service, and even with this refit package I'm not sure we want to build more, which makes this thing kinda moot

Edit: Plus, the Rennies have better survivability with that extra shield, and -1S&P still leaves it with decent science and presense for random encounters. Overall any sort of refit Connie is still not as good as a Rennie due to cost and build time
 
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@Briefvoice @Yeangst

You both probably realise this already but just incase you weren't aware

Utopia Planitia Design Group
Preference: Light Cruisers
Skill 4
Principally: Human
XP: 0 / 6

If you both take the XP bump then our cruiser design team jumps up to skill 5.
 
Can we please stop using Connie as an abbreviation for Constellation? It just causes unnecessary confusion with the Constitution.
 
tryrar said:
The T4 kinda hurts since we're already struggling on techs. Plus, we actually only have exactly one Constituition still in service, and even with this refit package I'm not sure we want to build more, which makes this thing kinda moot

Edit: Plus, the Rennies have better survivability with that extra shield, and -1S&P still leaves it with decent science and presense for random encounters. Overall any sort of refit Connie is still not as good as a Rennie due to cost and build time
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...You have a point.

Refitting would make more sense if we have a fleet of Constitutions, not just one ship.
 
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Just hypothetically, what would people think of that comparison? The Constitution costs an extra year to build, 20 more sr, and has one less Shield. On the other hand, it has superior Science and superior Presence. The Connie is slightly less of a bargain, but would anyone be tempted to simply do a refit option and start pumping out Connies as our primary light cruiser? They are very nice ships. I mean, they once handled Exploration duties. I'd feel pretty good about any mission that had a Constitution attending to it.
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The SR cost is the biggest disadvantage I see. That's more than the 85SR for the 1.74mt cruiser with stats better than an Excelsior I posted a while ago (which wouldn't take longer to develop than the Renaissance either and would still build in 3 years). Though of course it also only costs 3/5ths of the BR. If the refit becomes available much faster I could see us go for it and build them for a decade or so before switching to a custom cruiser.
 
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