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To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)

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We were not the beings Councillor Stesk knows we can be :(


Meanwhile, the thing about nomadic civilizations is that to them, ships are life. If they allow themselves to get dragged into a pitched battle with a fleet a significant portion of their culture may literally get vaporized, so I wouldn't count out a diplomatic solution just yet.
 
I sometimes like to think of nomadic fleets as being like the quarian Migrant Fleet...
 
What happens if they use boarders and steal one of our ships?

Do we hunt that ship down to take it back or do we just kill it?
 
AKuz said:
What happens if they use boarders and steal one of our ships?

Do we hunt that ship down to take it back or do we just kill it?
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I would've thought a Romulan was familiar with the many, many issues that come with trying to steal a Federation ship. If anything, the crew is the least bad of the problems you'll have to deal with.
 
Hazard said:
I would've thought a Romulan was familiar with the many, many issues that come with trying to steal a Federation ship. If anything, the crew is the least bad of the problems you'll have to deal with.
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Exactly!

I need to have modern up to date ships stolen procedures!
 
AKuz said:
What happens if they use boarders and steal one of our ships?

Do we hunt that ship down to take it back or do we just kill it?
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Flush the decks with plasma, detonate the warp core if it doesn't work.

That would depend on the situation I guess. Is it worth chasing the vessel down, does destroying it lend any significant benefits; is there something else we could do?

And I imagine that the larger Federation ships are difficult to capture regardless. Even if most of the crew isn't capable of repelling boarders, they are trained technical personnel that can make your life difficult, and without the ability to actually cut off life support and straight-up plasma flush entire decks, killing hundreds of people by hand is long work.

Hell, you don't have to even scuttle the vessel. Just eject and detonate the warp core, and the ship suddenly looses a lot of value, since you gonna need to crew it and tow it.
 
There are redshirts dedicated security personnel on board, but I would think that most of the crew could at least defend themselves and handle a phaser in case of boarders.
 
Hazard said:
Actually we haven't. That's the standard UFP self destruct system; deliberately breaching the warpcore inside the ship.

We did take out the EPS modifications that made flushing entire decks with plasma possible though. Too much of a safety hazard.
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No, we also rigged up a rapid self destruct during the Biophage which bypassed most of the usual safeguards in case the modified EPS system failed to cauterize the infection. Luckily we never had to use it and so we removed it along with the modified EPS when the crisis was over.
 
As a reminder: The Kazon /the KAZON/ -the stupid third cousins of the Hishmeri Septs -Managed to take Voyager intact.
 
Nervos Belli said:
No, we also rigged up a rapid self destruct during the Biophage which bypassed most of the usual safeguards in case the modified EPS system failed to cauterize the infection. Luckily we never had to use it and so we removed it along with the modified EPS when the crisis was over.
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This!

We had a specific tech called "Big Red Button". That's what I was referring too.
 
Also Endurance probably highlighted the need for better anti-boarding procedures and tools and they've likely already been sent to the fleet. At the very least the ability to selectively vent compartments to space, which is honestly also a vital damage-control tool for a spacecraft.

And at least a few times it's been implied in Trek's wider works that aside from self-destruct, there's also an emergency command from the captain that will brick the non-life-support computer systems.
 
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