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The trick is in convincing them not to chew before you get past the teeth.
To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
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Just in time to meet the USS Ambassador. :lol
The Amby is one hell of a newspaper.
aledeth
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I'm rather certain the Tofii are named after Oneiros's recently deceased pet bunny, Toffee.
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Omake - So That Happened - Iron Wolf
So That Happened
The bridge of the Atuin was silent, every officer was still, most of them staring off into thie distance. Ozzgrizzira idly tapped away at the ops console, from which the triumphant hoots and shouts of Ranger Team 37 were being piped in, the crystalline entity on the viewscreen vibrating in what Chad could only assume was agony. It was a hard thing to witness.
Harder still was what they had seen earlier inside of the beast, lightning-forked digestive energy crackling off their shields and hull, needle-like microcosmozoa battering against them, the piercing sing-scratching of their frantic efforts to open up the Atuin coming from all around.
Even T'Arvit was silent, idly tapping away at a PADD while her eyes occasionally darted to look at the creature. The only person on the bridge who didn't look like they'd just slapped Death in the face was Liacross, who was leaning back in his chair, hands entwined behind his head, jaw working as he chewed gum. "Hey Khiwoulo," he said, grinning, "Hey."
Khiwoulo turned towards him, blinking slowly as she idly powered down phasers, "Yes?"
"I just want you to remember this next time you're like, 'Hey, Cyaug Rigellians could probably take Yan-Ros.'"
Khiwoulo scratched the scales on her snout. In her mind's eye she remembered the image of a Yan-Ros, standing on the back of a Honiani runabout, swatting away crystalline shards as long as her and sharper that anything previously encountered. "Yeah. Fair."
Liacross smugly blew a bubble towards the Rigellian woman and then flailed as Quessa leaned over and popped it with a swipe of her claws, the pinkish substance covering his face.
"I'm trying to think what I'm going to call this part of my memoir," Chad mused, as the blue-haired Yan-Ros flopped to the floor behind him, "Chapter 18: That Time My Ship Was Useless? Or, maybe The Tale of How I Helped A Bunch of Kids Spit In The Face of God."
"This entity hardly qualifies as a deity," T'Arvit said, picking up a small teacup and taking a slightly haughty sip.
"Vulcans have criteria for that?" Chad said, turning to look at her. She just raised an eyebrow in response. "Alright, fair enough. Don't even know why I'm surprised."
Chad stood up and walked to his readyroom. He returned with a dark green bottle and a handful of tumblers. Silently, he went to each station and poured his bridge officers a finger of a purplish substance, leaving Liacross' on an armrest as the Yan-Ros struggled with the gum stuck to his face. When he got to T'Arvit, she just held out her teacup, and he poured it straight in.
"Right." Chad said, as he officers drank in silence, "Well at least that's--"
"Hey!" The audio feed from the rangers cut him off, "Hey, Old Man! Put us on video!" Chad nodded at Ozzgrizzira, and soon Rinidy's face filled the viewscreen. "What's up? So, I was looking through your profile during the mission--"
"She found time in the midst of the operation? Sheer insanity," Quessa whispered.
"--And it says you ran a party ship. I'm thinking, given our pretty major success here, we probably deserve a party. I mean, all of us, you were an important part too." She crossed her arms, "You gotta host it though, the Honiani are nice but not always very um, extroverted. We go pretty hard though, you think you're up to it?"
Chad tilted his head down, sighing dramatically, "Oh," he said, wistfully, "I am afraid since I became an explorer corps Captain my skills might have atrophied. I can barely keep up with young, bright, energetic people like you."
"Oh." Rinidy said, appearing to deflate somewhat, "I was hoping the legend would match up. Oh well. If we have to run most of it, that's fine. I guess we'll see! Rinity out."
As soon as the screen clicked off Chad was on his feet, a dangerous gleam in his eyes. He turned to Ops, "Ozzy--"
"I was dispatching spacers to collect the kegs during your conversation, Captain," Ozzgrizzira reported.
"Good. Khiwoulo, you're on setup duty! Volleyball and Springball, Cargo Bay 2, on the double!" The Rigellian rose from their consoles and trundled off.
"Liacross--" He began, tilting his head, "Liacross, is that gum still on your face?"
"It's really sticky!" He muttered, tearing only small chunks away from his face.
Quessa snickered, "That's because I convinced Lieutenant Canroi to work some Caldonian sorcery and synthesize that with stronger adhesive."
"Nice move." Liacross laughed, then whined as he stripped off more of the supergum, angry red skin underneath.
Chad sighed, "Get him down to Engineering and have Canroi take that off, I need you two on bar prep, stat!" The Seyek leaned down and cradled the Yan-Ros man in her arms before slithering off. Chad turned to his right, "T'Arvit!"
The Vulcan raised an eyebrow.
"Go down and greet our guests. Keep them busy so we can get everything just right."
T'Arvit tucked her PADD under her arm, "Yes, Captain." She paused, "And I will organize the most effective teams from our crew."
Chad grinned at her, "Excellent." He tapped at his armrest to zoom in on the approaching runabouts, "No one every out-parties Captain Chad." He said, grinning, "Not even people who lobotomize creatures the size of a small moon."
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Just realised I need to dumpster dive for anything I've ever said about Sousa's past assignments :X
Thebigpieman
I've got this, I think.
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To be fair 98 posts over 2000 pages is not the worst it could have been.
Oh boy, have fun
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I literally have those search results up already in another tab.
Oh boy, have fun
Yeah but some of those are going to be 1000+ word posts he'll have to double check to see if some minor character was like, "YA KNOW, BACK IN MY DAY, I SERVED WITH HER [Sousa] WHEN SHE WAS 3RD GUNNERY OFFICER ON THE USS OBSCURA FROM 2281 TO 2283, THEN SHE WAS PROMOTED IN 2284 TO"
I mean, most of it is in this post.
I actually researched this for my Vice Admiral omakes and I'm pretty sure you didn't go into detail beyond that.
Jenny
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o:< "Don't worry, we'll be ready."
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AKuz
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"GET ME.... MY SUNGLASSES"
Actually, I'm not sure the Ambassador will be out of it's construction dock, if the Cardassians are early on those time estimates.
Call base prototype build time ~7 years (probably is a bit more but this rough estimating). We plan to do a double build for Chen's bonus (I do wonder when we will lose that) and maybe have Heavy Industrial Park bonus. Assume that between them, these drop the time down to 5 years. Start in 2316 so won't be released until 2321 - at the earliest.
Even if the Ambassador and the Enterprise-C are worked up and deployed in time, a solo encounter against a pair of Jalduns sims in the Cardassians favour too often to be risked without strong reason.
Yay! Tofii!
Way to ruin everything pal.
Guys, this "Legend of Galactic Heroes in Star Trek" omake might actually happen. The plot is already unspooling in my head.
Commander Wenlai versus Commodore Renhadd son of Gramm at Alixros. Watch as the Magician salvages a mere defeat from the jaws of total disaster.
Commander Wenlai versus Commodore Renhadd son of Gramm at Alixros. Watch as the Magician salvages a mere defeat from the jaws of total disaster.
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Having essayed something similar six or seven years ago, I shall watch your efforts with great interest and appreciation.
Weird thought since nothing's going on:
kinda odd how on a website built in part to argue on, Tellarites aren't actually that popular.
Good Tellarites are hard to write. I've read some of the really excellent Tellarite characters in omake here and there's no way I'd be able to write anything similar. Being argumentative without being belligerent is a difficult line to tread and requires quite a lot of creativity, all the while teetering on the edge of accidentally presenting a character as an asshole.
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Ear-scratching imminent!
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Alright *cracks knuckles*
This month is going to be a big ugly bastard.
This month is going to be a big ugly bastard.
Um
Because of a lot of passed events?
Or because of a lot of failed events?
Thebigpieman
I've got this, I think.
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You assume he'll answer instead of leaving us to stew in our worry and doubts?
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... again?
A lot of events in general.
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I wonder if Eaton will be an option for the new head of the SDB. Between 2.5 and 3 years TIR (depending on when exactly the hand-off happens) would usually seem like too little, but she successfully resolved the Syndicate and Licori crises and we created a lot of new vice admiral positions that needed to be filled. The position itself would be right up her alley, she worked in the SDB for about 5 years and wanted a calmer shore position after the Licori war. Also she's already 60, so there aren't going to be many other chances after this.
@OneirosTheWriter, have you already made up your mind on when the replacement votes will happen? If not two requests:
@OneirosTheWriter, have you already made up your mind on when the replacement votes will happen? If not two requests:
- Please do the vote for Commander of Starfleet first so we can do the two Vice Admiral votes at the same time (if someone who is currently active is picked), there might be candidates suitable for both positions and I would prefer to avoid needing to guess whether it's better to use them for the position that's voted on first or hold them back.
- If the replacements happen before the research turn please do them early enough that we have time to take any new research bonuses into account for planning our choices (before the intelligence steering vote at the latest).
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