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To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)

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Joshrand1982 said:
Why not give us a complete breakdown of each of the MISC choices with their Pro's and Con's? That might help to clear up some of the confusion among the fandom on this thread.
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Here's the best I can do....

[ ][MISC] The surprising advances of House Bene are concerning, and you should try to look into them.

House Bene and House Tartesis are the only two Houses really left in contention to rule the Empire. House Taresis is our preferred candidate (because we're told they are 'noble') and should have the advantage because they're much richer, but House Bene seems to be doing unexpectedly well. This option would let us investigate why, though we won't know until we do if there's anything to be done. Some posters suspect (without any particular evidence) that Bene is supported by the Romulans.

[ ][MISC] There are rumours of an independent research house rimward of Gammon, carefully hidden away. It should be investigated.

Obviously uncontrolled mentats are the reason for the war, so an "independent research house" that is "carefully hidden away" is cause for concern. We've seen what they do in public... what do they feel the need to hide away? Of course, rumors may be just rumors and maybe there's nothing there.

[ ][MISC] Reports of a Honiani tramp moving through Arcadian space should be looked at.

Why is a Honiani ship moving throguh an active warzone? Seems most suspicious. Maybe it's there to evacuate mentats and their technology or Operation Paperclip them or something similarly worrisome.

[ ][MISC] Linderley's team on Morshadd could be the nucleus of a useful asset if you can reinforce them.

Having an active Intelligence team on the homeworld of the Arcadian Empire could enable us to get improved intelligence and allow for active operations there. Could be very important during peace negotiations, as they try to spy on us and we try to discern their intentions. Combines nicely with the investigate House Bene option.

[ ][MISC] Start a discreet program of tachyon tracking devices along the main routes between Arcadian star systems, like in Orion space.

If the Arcadians get up to something we won't like, they'll use starships to do it. Knowing exactly which ships are coming and going from their systems could help uncover plots. Also, if there is indeed Romulan interference, we might spot some cloaked Romulan ships.

[ ][MISC] Continue to establish protective outposts in fringe Federation systems

We've seen how much outposts can beef up a planetary defense. Not only will this strengthen us against potential mentat raids, but we get to keep these outposts after the current crisis ends and have them for the next crisis. Could be very important if things ever go hot with the Romulans.

[ ][MISC] Have retired Admiral Kahurangi start appealing for recruits for Starfleet and the member world fleets.

Starfleet is in desperate need of more Officers, to the point where we might end up having to delay the (re)launch of ships due to not having enough crew. Kahurangi boosting recruitment could help with that.
 
Briefvoice said:
Starfleet is in desperate need of more Officers, to the point where we might end up having to delay the (re)launch of ships due to not having enough crew. Kahurangi boosting recruitment could help with that.
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While it might help to replace our losses I have my doubts it is going to do much more than that. The limited crew is far to useful and effective of an mechanic to limit/slow down our growth for Oneiros to drastically change that.

And I really think you goes are a bit paranoid when it comes to the Bene/Romulans. I think it is far more likely that they simply had to do something to do with the fact that the Emperor got killed/was on the frontline and got intercepted since that fits well within their characterisation (as well as that of their inspiration...)
 
Erandil said:
While it might help to replace our losses I have my doubts it is going to do much more than that. The limited crew is far to useful and effective of an mechanic to limit/slow down our growth for Oneiros to drastically change that.

And I really think you goes are a bit paranoid when it comes to the Bene/Romulans. I think it is far more likely that they simply had to do something to do with the fact that the Emperor got killed/was on the frontline and got intercepted since that fits well within their characterisation (as well as that of their inspiration...)
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I was trying to give the best argument I could for each of the options, as requested.
 
[X][MISC] Linderley's team on Morshadd could be the nucleus of a useful asset if you can reinforce them.
[x][MISC] Start a discreet program of tachyon tracking devices along the main routes between Arcadian star systems, like in Orion space.
[x][MISC] Continue to establish protective outposts in fringe Federation systems
[X][KED] Allow the Ked Paddah to destroy the research station debris.
 
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cast2007 said:
Hmm we still haven't tapped our Reserves. Can we still do so even in a limited state of emergency?
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The problem is that the reserves only help us crew ships during the emergency itself- when it goes, they go. That would help us if we had ships standing empty for want of warm bodies to crew them. It doesn't help us crew ships that come out of the repair yards in 6-12 months. By that time, the state of emergency may well be over and done with, and it hopefully won't be lasting long after that.

If not, I hate to say this but we may need to stop-loss some of our recent retirees.

Stop-loss policy - Wikipedia
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Starfleet seems to be a long-service organization. The rate of retirements (for reasons other than age, medical disability, etc.) is not high. So stop-lossing the people who want to retire doesn't necessarily do a lot of good.
 
Stop-loss programs will also have a morale effect. Starfleet members who don't want to be Starfleet anymore but are forced to stay on will have worse morale and affect the morale of their co-workers.
 
That said, it's actually fairly normal to say "sorry, we won't process your resignation during a war." The trick is that this is based on the assumption that the war will happen for a restricted span of time, rather than just tacitly becoming the "new normal" for years to come. It's one thing to tell someone to wait six months or a year to retire because you can't find a replacement during wartime. It's another thing to tell someone to wait indefinitely, while fighting a 'war' that will go on at low intensity for a decade or more.

Fortunately, it does seem like one way or another we'll be able to wind down from the Licori War, rather than having it become a protracted slog like the Orion campaign.
 
The Orion campaign also wasn't nearly on the same intensity on Starfleet. Starfleet outsourced a lot of its manpower on the ground to the Caitian border police and similar organisations. We're actually quite lucky we did; you can say a lot about the cats, but their dedication to justice and the blithe acceptance of casualties that come with attempting to enforce justice in a society with as much corruption as the Orion Republic had was an absolute godsend.
 
Well, I already voted and said my piece about the options we have. But I did find a few ideas for the Kahurangi Recruitment Campaign:
 
JesseJ said:
Well, I already voted and said my piece about the options we have. But I did find a few ideas for the Kahurangi Recruitment Campaign:
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Not only are all those a bit too martial for my tastes I also have my doubts that those are very effective in convincing the people we want to join up. Considering the sheer size of the Federation (and thus population we draw from) I have a very hard time believing that our crew problem stems from to few applicants/willing recruits. Far more likely seems to me that our problems stem from the stringent requirements for Starfleet and the highly demanding training and indoctrination that recruits have to undergo that are costly. We don't need average joe we want the geniuses and truly driven and motivated which I don't think will be very impressed with such PR - or at the very least that is how I view it.
 
Erandil said:
Not only are all those a bit too martial for my tastes I also have my doubts that those are very effective in convincing the people we want to join up. Considering the sheer size of the Federation (and thus population we draw from) I have a very hard time believing that our crew problem stems from to few applicants/willing recruits. Far more likely seems to me that our problems stem from the stringent requirements for Starfleet and the highly demanding training and indoctrination that recruits have to undergo that are costly. We don't need average joe we want the geniuses and truly driven and motivated which I don't think will be very impressed with such PR - or at the very least that is how I view it.
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Indeed. I plan on exploring this in my Academy series.

Once I finish sorting a few things out first, that is.
 
An idea ive had to alleviate our crew problems in the short term would be to ask member fleets if they would mind lending us some spare crew.
 
Ato said:
An idea ive had to alleviate our crew problems in the short term would be to ask member fleets if they would mind lending us some spare crew.
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I'm not sure if that's wise. Many of the member fleets operate quite different types of ships than us, and have more limited mission types.

The exceptions would be the Human, Vulcan, Andorian, and Tellarite fleets, half of which have taken heavy losses of their own.
 
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Simon_Jester said:
Yeah. The combination of "lack of experience with our hardware" and "lack of training for some of the things we do" would be a killer.
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Im not sure it would be that severe, though there may be downsides beyond what the member fleets might want in return. The members most likely to agree to such an arrangement are the older members, who all operate Starfleet type ships anyway.

And it is not as if we would be staffing whole ships with member crews. The numbers we would be getting would be a drop in the bucket spread out across our regular ships. It would be more like a massive one way exchange program. With a couple of dozen member crew on each ship at most.

Overall of it is possible I think it would be good for interservice cross training and co-operation.
 
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