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To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)

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Erandil said:
If the Biophage really makes another appearence all the Klingons have to do to profit from it is to do nothing and attack after the threat is dealt with/contained which is not something Starfleet has the right, ability or even willigness to sanction/act against, esepcially consideirng the power of the Klingons.
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The Federation will not appreciate this apparent biowarfare strike by the klingons. At best it will sour relations.
 
It is very unlikely to be a deliberate action by the Klingons.

We have no idea who killed our KBZ listening post though. Another infection vector (probably the worst case scenario)? In the way of a Klingon strike on a Romulon force? In the way of a Romulon strike on a Klingon force? A third party up to something? An attempt to make us think the other side is breaking their treaty with the Federation?

Who knows?

We really need to up to fleet numbers enough to have at least three ships in every sector.
 
Goat said:
It is very unlikely to be a deliberate action by the Klingons.

We have no idea who killed our KBZ listening post though. Another infection vector (probably the worst case scenario)? In the way of a Klingon strike on a Romulon force? In the way of a Romulon strike on a Klingon force? A third party up to something? An attempt to make us think the other side is breaking their treaty with the Federation?

Who knows?

We really need to up to fleet numbers enough to have at least three ships in every sector.
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We do have three ships in the KBZ. It's just that the Excelsior we're hoping will tie down the sector is Little Miss Fuckup Thirishar.
 
lbmaian said:
Fortunately, warp vessels that are capable of flying under the radar (so to speak) in the Romulan neutral zone are too few and far between for the details of the above scheme to work out.
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Why would they need warp capable vessels? From what we have seen, the biophague cells don't age. If that is the case, they can afford to take the long way around and run on impulse alone. Combine that with the fact that the biophague can use purified metals as well as biomass to make more of itself and it turns out that it could grow without any of the powers noticing. I wonder if the change of diet would result in physiological changes to the biophague? Might change the form they take into something akin to Stargate Replicators in they remain unable to absorb biological material for long enough.
 
clearly we should send Chad to the Thirishar after all this to get its veterancy up, so it's less likely to fail, and also because HIS bad luck might cancel out the Thirishar's :V
 
Simon_Jester said:
Enterprise, sounding more ethereal than usual:

"If 'it' were always the same, I'd be a very confused sailing frigate right now. Change happens, and I was never made to desire that any one of my lives should last beyond its time. Sorry if you don't feel the same."
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"I'll grant you that, but as much as you exsist, it's still very much appearent that each ship has it's own character. I'm just saying I'm going to miss the 'girl' I grew to love, she grew into every bit the Enterprise she was supposed to be, and went out with all the dignity and awesomeness that one should expect from a ship named Enterprise."
 
Mr Tebbs said:
The real question is what does our head of personnel, Rear Admiral Biophage, have to say about all this wild speculation?
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He has a phaser in every meatpuppet's hands and is hiding under his desk. He won't come out until we assure him there is no Biophage in the area.

This has been something of a problem, akin to the time the Caitian ambassador Ralgha nar Hhallas was told there was a tiger in the building and refused to come out of the bathroom.
 
"Hhallas we need you to talk down this tiger dude."

"THAT IS, FIRSTLY, WOW, SPECIESIST AND SECONDLY, OKAY, NO, IT WILL EAT US."

"lamo dude it's an uplift tiger and it speaks Caitian. We need you to translate."

"Oh. If that is the case then I will -- wait. Your universal translator should have handled that."

"..."

"A clever ploy, Mr. Tiger. Your mimicking of my assistant was flawless."

"Thank you."

"What has become of him?"

"It is better you don't know."
 
Hm. Suddenly, option to explode sun a little to cleanse a planet from biophage sounds very sensible.
 
NHO said:
Hm. Suddenly, option to explode sun a little to cleanse a planet from biophage sounds very sensible.
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... I would think that the rule of thumb about use of the biophague would also extend to any other item we consider existential threats. In other words, if we go to war over something, it should be expected that discussing doing said action or using said material would be liable to lead to repercussions.
 
ThoughtMaster said:
... I would think that the rule of thumb about use of the biophague would also extend to any other item we consider existential threats. In other words, if we go to war over something, it should be expected that discussing doing said action or using said material would be liable to lead to repercussions.
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Controlled solar flares were often used by Starfleet. I don't speak of "Burn sector in artificial supernova", I'm speaking of "Sterilize planet/asteroid facility by enhancing sun temporarily"
 
OneirosTheWriter said:
I'm almost at the point of giving them a crew rating purely for having found every last possible failure mode by now.
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"Attention all hands. It's Norkair ch'Gharist. You know me, I'm the captain. So listen, I've been hearing some rumors about failure and bad morale and I wanted to speak up and set the record straight. When the desk jockeys back at Starfleet Command told me to be more careful on our missions it gave me an idea. We should take more risks! Things are bound to start working out in our favour soon.

They told me we should be exploring safer areas of space and to stick to the missions they assigned. They asked why we were going to dangerous areas. I said exploration isn't about WHY. It's about WHY NOT. Why are so many of our missions dangerous? Why not marry safe missions if you love them so much. In fact, why not find a special safety door that won't hit you on the butt on the way out, because you're fired. They told me I couldn't fire them because they're all Admirals. So we're not going back to Earth anymore.

But the point is we're good at what we do. We're not banging rocks together here. We know how to put a space time fracture back together. Cause we did. Back when that shipment of medical supplies turned into one. And I know the science teams are working really hard trying to figure out why that happened. And how. Any day now we'll have it figured out.

And the mission in Alukk was a complete success. We dodged the sensor nets, we evaded the patrols and then we caught that smuggling ring red handed. Green handed. Whatever non-racist hand colour you want. But we caught them. Threw them all in the brig and blew up their ship. And maybe President Oyana was mad when we turned over her own crew and told her we destroyed their newest ship. And maybe it did turn out that the orders we received weren't from Starfleet and it was just two kids playing with an old subspace radio. But that's on them. We got a mission and by god did we carry it out.

We're here because Starfleet wants the best of the best, and we are it! I know going forward this kind of positive attitude and can-do spirit will be felt on every level by every man and woman on this ship. So when we get to the Horizon black hole we are going to track down that signal and analyse it the way I know this crew can. Captain out."

- An excerpt from "And Then They All Died - The Biography of the USS Thirishar" written from the recovered logs by Leihanzza of Mirizziana Hive.

Yes, that was a Stellaris reference. More about it here if you haven't played Stellaris. TL/DR Black hole + Time Travel + Outsider = Bad Times

Leihanzza was the reporter from @Briefvoice's omake about the Apaita reporter interviewing Ainsworth.
 
Also, if you guys don't remember, there was pretty much nothing off limits when it came to killing the biophage. The existential threat it posed was recognized and we were allowed to ventilate EPS plasma into our own ships even if it killed crew.

We demoted a guy for saving refugees from a doomed freighter. That's practically anti-Starfleet.

Flat out, if the biophage is back, the Council will likely unanimously give us a SoE and send us to go burn the fuck out of wherever the biophage might be hiding.

It is that bad.
 
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