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At this rate, I would think Starfleet would send an heavy escort fleet consist three Ambassadors to bring back an copy of the Preserver database considering the fact it would shake the foundation of everyone influenced by them plus their tech.
 
So it may just be me but month 1 and 3 of this captains log may be the best trek ever. It really had the feel of trek. That scene of forgiveness on the steps.... the find g of a preserver database reminds of the enterprise episode where they were competing with the other races for a preserver message. Love it!
 
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Captain's Log, USS Endurance, Stardate 26209.1

The Risan colony of Third Risa has added yet another spectacular and potentially lethal predator to its mix. The southern continent contains deep valleys, which contain a variety of incompletely catalogued lifeforms. One of these valleys, near the polar regions, is apparently home to small, long-eared creatures that make their homes along untapped seams of Nythenium Phosphate, using the nutrients in some form of hibernation process. The unassuming little creatures stick to their burrows unless startled, at which point they become a very high speed engine of gnawing and destruction. As is apparently standard procedure for the Risan teams, upon encountering things that would like to eat them, the Risans beamed out of the area and requested Starfleet aid.

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BOTH the Risan colony worlds are full of deathworld predators? Talk about bad luck.

Still, killer bunnies are an order of magnitude less awful than fluffy puffies, and several orders less than the giant psionic death starfish.

Captain's Log, USS Endurance, Stardate 26210.4

The pandemic has reached Rethelia, and a death toll well into the tens of thousands is set to become worse. Arguably worse, there are accusations it was deliberately spread there by a Fiiral Typhoid Mary, and that this is why the plague has proven so resistant to containment. We were at Rethelia at the time, and the local Ambassador has pleaded with us to do everything in our power to prove that this is not the case. We have been aided in this task by the T'Mir's comprehensive research. With it, we proved that Fiiral DNA leaves distinct genetic markers on the plague, and that it was impossible for the Rethelian Patient Zero to have been Fiiral.

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The Seyek have just been the universe's chew toy these last few years. Multiple plagues, civil unrest, crystalline entity attacks. All they need now is for the Ashalla situation to turn hot and put them on the front lines. :(

Still, glad we kept it from getting worse.

Aboard the USS Valiant

"So, as it actually turns out," says Councillor Izzidiera to a most unimpressed Queen Akkazitka as the Captain watches on anxiously. "I am your distant descendent, from a line of those you left behind on Irrizizza when you started your journey."

Queen Akkazitka looks the younger Queen up and down, face scrunching balefully. "Balderdash, there's no descendent of mine could-" She stops as a new noise starts up. An enormously loud buzzing sound begins to to fill the lounge, such that the attendant workers Apiata begin clustering around their Queens. The old Queen pauses and then nods. "Never mind, I can see it."

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Three hundred years old. Given what we've established about Apiata history, this would have had to be one of their first ever colony ships. Pre-dilithium. Well, all's well that ends well I suppose.

At the Caldonian Corrections & Reparations Directorate Building

Caldonian newscasts are going a mile a minute as Starfleet Captain Langa Mbeki embraces his friend's assassin, the tall Caldonian man on his knees in grief. His words are transmitted throughout the Caldonian colonies. "With every life lost we are all of us lessened. With every round of vengeance and reprisal we tear down not only the lives of those dearest to us, but the bedrock of civilisation upon which we all stand."

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Okay, so we've been joking about how one EC captain or another should run for president. But I am not joking now.

Once his 5YM is up, Langa Mbeki should honestly quit Starfleet, go into politics, and hopefully make it into the Council. I think he would be an amazing president, probably better than Sh'Arreth.

Aboard the Pride of Kadesh, Karen Sarjan's Uplink Chamber

"Are you sure about this, Karen?" asks Maryam Ajam. "I'm no stranger to risk taking-" with a quick rap of metal replacement limb for emphasis "-but I can't advise this."

"My mind is backed up by the memory banks of the whole Pride of Kadesh, it will be fine Captain," comes a voice over speakers, rather than from the slender form among the wires in the centre of the chamber. "But I appreciate your concern."

"Alright," replies Maryam slowly. She taps at her communicator. "Ajam to Derelict, begin the connection."

A high-pitched whine of massive monotronic mainframes going into overdrive begins to make itself known. Soon the lights begin to flicker, and after several long seconds, the lights extinguish, plunging the room in darkness punctuated only by the indicator lights on Karen's light support suite. "Ajam to Stargazer, we've had a problem..."

"We see that, Ajam, power is out across the entire Pride. Ah, hold on, the management systems appear to be rebooting, power is coming back up, life support is coming back online. You should be getting it there shortly."

"Thanks, Stargazer, the lights just came on," replies Maryam. "Ajam out." She stops and walks to stand in front of Karen Sarjan's vacant gaze. "Well I hope you're satisfied."

Long seconds wait in the gloom, until finally, just as Maryam started to really worry that their Fleet Commander had become brain damaged, the speakers wake again.

"Very. The Preservers have uploaded a gift. I have their database."

"Their technology?!"

"Their history, their culture. More than crude tricks, my memories now contain who the Preservers were... But I'm not sure how to get it out..."

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Sarjan leveled up. And has been added to the list of characters who could conceivably warn us about the Reapers, along with Ensign Whatsisname from the Enterprise.
 
Jrin said:
At this rate, I would think Starfleet would send an heavy escort fleet consist three Ambassadors to bring back an copy of the Preserver database considering the fact it would shake the foundation of everyone influenced by them plus their tech.
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I suspect that Stargazer's transmission back to HQ is just "Located preserver relics. Bringing scans back with us. Hopefully not toilets"

Because if it gets out that Stargazer is loaded down with secrets than she'll be jumped by everyone on her way home from the Ferengi on over to the Cardassians. Best to just not temp fate and bring home a surprise.
 
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The Risan colony of Third Risa has added yet another spectacular and potentially lethal predator to its mix. The southern continent contains deep valleys, which contain a variety of incompletely catalogued lifeforms. One of these valleys, near the polar regions, is apparently home to small, long-eared creatures that make their homes along untapped seams of Nythenium Phosphate, using the nutrients in some form of hibernation process. The unassuming little creatures stick to their burrows unless startled, at which point they become a very high speed engine of gnawing and destruction. As is apparently standard procedure for the Risan teams, upon encountering things that would like to eat them, the Risans beamed out of the area and requested Starfleet aid.
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Bring the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch!
 
Leila Hann said:
Okay, so we've been joking about how one EC captain or another should run for president. But I am not joking now.

Once his 5YM is up, Langa Mbeki should honestly quit Starfleet, go into politics, and hopefully make it into the Council. I think he would be an amazing president, probably better than Sh'Arreth.
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Yeah. Give this man a Pacifist Council seat. Right now.
 
OneirosTheWriter said:
Captain's Log, USS Endurance, Stardate 26209.1

The Risan colony of Third Risa has added yet another spectacular and potentially lethal predator to its mix. The southern continent contains deep valleys, which contain a variety of incompletely catalogued lifeforms. One of these valleys, near the polar regions, is apparently home to small, long-eared creatures that make their homes along untapped seams of Nythenium Phosphate, using the nutrients in some form of hibernation process. The unassuming little creatures stick to their burrows unless startled, at which point they become a very high speed engine of gnawing and destruction. As is apparently standard procedure for the Risan teams, upon encountering things that would like to eat them, the Risans beamed out of the area and requested Starfleet aid.

[Gain +5pp, +25br]

Captain's Log, USS Endurance, Stardate 26210.4

The pandemic has reached Rethelia, and a death toll well into the tens of thousands is set to become worse. Arguably worse, there are accusations it was deliberately spread there by a Fiiral Typhoid Mary, and that this is why the plague has proven so resistant to containment. We were at Rethelia at the time, and the local Ambassador has pleaded with us to do everything in our power to prove that this is not the case. We have been aided in this task by the T'Mir's comprehensive research. With it, we proved that Fiiral DNA leaves distinct genetic markers on the plague, and that it was impossible for the Rethelian Patient Zero to have been Fiiral.

[Gain +10pp, +25 relations with Seyek]
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I know it's been said before, but Chen is so OP. An Excelsior-A able to respond to two events in one quarter? Yes, please!

Aboard the USS Valiant

"So, as it actually turns out," says Councillor Izzidiera to a most unimpressed Queen Akkazitka as the Captain watches on anxiously. "I am your distant descendent, from a line of those you left behind on Irrizizza when you started your journey."

Queen Akkazitka looks the younger Queen up and down, face scrunching balefully. "Balderdash, there's no descendent of mine could-" She stops as a new noise starts up. An enormously loud buzzing sound begins to to fill the lounge, such that the attendant workers Apiata begin clustering around their Queens. The old Queen pauses and then nods. "Never mind, I can see it."

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A touch of comedy... always nice. The tsunderbees are a lot of fun.

At the Caldonian Corrections & Reparations Directorate Building

Caldonian newscasts are going a mile a minute as Starfleet Captain Langa Mbeki embraces his friend's assassin, the tall Caldonian man on his knees in grief. His words are transmitted throughout the Caldonian colonies. "With every life lost we are all of us lessened. With every round of vengeance and reprisal we tear down not only the lives of those dearest to us, but the bedrock of civilisation upon which we all stand."

[Gain +25 with Caldonia, gain +25pp]
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Awww, sterling work Mbeki. I think this tour of duty is going to leave him with a really deep connection to the Caldonians.

Too bad the Odyssey will likely be "in the shop" for refit when we get to the Caldonian ascension in 2318.

Long seconds wait in the gloom, until finally, just as Maryam started to really worry that their Fleet Commander had become brain damaged, the speakers wake again.

"Very. The Preservers have uploaded a gift. I have their database."

"Their technology?!"

"Their history, their culture. More than crude tricks, my memories now contain who the Preservers were... But I'm not sure how to get it out..."

[Gain +10rp, portents for future events]

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Portents! Who were these mysterious Preservers, really? What obsessions drove them?

And the question nobody ever asks, what threat were they attempting to preserve against?
 
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Complicating matters, the assassin holds a high post within the Directorate, and there is a considerable resistance to trying him for the death of the the dissident statesman, though they are willing to see him face a "summary administrative indictment", a quaint Caldonian term for a rarely used instrument for suspension of civil rights, over the death of Commander kap Glorch. It won't do, it won't do at all. Do they think I want vengeance for my friend? A Star Chamber to knock his killer down to size?

I want to end this cycle of violence. He must answer in a fair court of law not for the Commander, but for this internecine strife. I counsel the dissidents not to take up the arms again. I counsel the Directorate not to presume that peace will fail. It holds for now, but I need a statement. A symbol. And I think I know what I need to do.
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Given that most likely cause of lash out was the fact that any agreement that would hold* would make killers of his family unprosecutable*... eheheheheh. Sound kinda hypocritical.

*Blanket pardon for all past crimes. Because otherwise all pseudoscience cult leadership have a prison term waiting for them. Meaning they wouldn't agree. And "this we will forget, this we will not" is shortest way to crash negotiations.

Action was less hypocritical though.
 
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Night said:
If you were to picture the Preservers as a more distant version of Stargate's Ancients, you'd not be far wrong. They're kind of responsible for everything in the ST universe, in a distant way.
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The interesting thing is how even the Federation kind of holds the Preservers in awe, but at the same time the Preservers are one of the most stunning middle fingers to the idea of the Prime Directive that I can imagine. Not only did the Preservers meddle and meddle constantly with every pre-warp civilization they could get their hands on, they didn't hesitate to go muck with the the building blocks of life to ensure that "funny forehead humanoids" would be the order of the day in the galaxy. The Preservers laugh at the idea that they shouldn't interfere with the development of other species.

I think their rationale for that would be one of the most interesting things to get from this cultural package. Do they have a good argument? Do they know something we don't that would tear down the very idea of the Prime Directive?

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The Preservers are probably time-displaced homo sapiens, aren't they?
 
OneirosTheWriter said:
From memory, it was the Courageous, Odyssey, and Tarrak that received the boosts from the Enterprise-B?
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That sounds right to me, going to check the ship database spreadsheet ....

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The spreadsheet I'm looking at lists Courageous and Odyssey as getting ex-Enterprise crew, it does not confirm that Tarrak is the third crew receiver though. Does anyone have something that confirms it is Tarrak for the crew?
 
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AKuz said:
I suspect that Stargazer's transmission back to HQ is just "Located preserver relics. Bringing scans back with us. Hopefully not toilets"

Because if it gets out that Stargazer is loaded down with secrets than she'll be jumped by everyone on her way home from the Ferengi on over to the Cardassians. Best to just not temp fate and bring home a surprise.
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Hmm there might be a good chance the Kadesh could do better and modify Stargazer by adapting some preserver tech to it thus turning it into an prototype super battleship. They do work with preserver tech at basic level or higher.
 
Briefvoice said:
The interesting thing is how even the Federation kind of holds the Preservers in awe, but at the same time the Preservers are one of the most stunning middle fingers to the idea of the Prime Directive that I can imagine. Not only did the Preservers meddle and meddle constantly with every pre-warp civilization they could get their hands on, they didn't hesitate to go muck with the the building blocks of life to ensure that "funny forehead humanoids" would be the order of the day in the galaxy. The Preservers laugh at the idea that they shouldn't interfere with the development of other species.

I think their rationale for that would be one of the most interesting things to get from this cultural package. Do they have a good argument? Do they know something we don't that would tear down the very idea of the Prime Directive?

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The Preservers are probably time-displaced homo sapiens, aren't they?
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The thing is that the Preservers never really moved to interfere directly. They seeded life way back when. And if the more recent group are the same peeps they just preserved specimens and moved them around, they never tried to influence them. In fact it seems that they took dying cultures and moved them somewhere else so they would survive and did nothing deliberatly past that to influence the culture in question.
 
OneirosTheWriter said:
From memory, it was the Courageous, Odyssey, and Tarrak that received the boosts from the Enterprise-B?
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Here is a tally of that vote between the two relevant threadmarks. You recall correctly.
Adhoc vote count started by Briefvoice on Jul 10, 2017 at 9:05 AM, finished with 344 posts and 39 votes.
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