To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
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Winged One
Not the Simurgh
- Location
- definitely the ground
- Pronouns
- They/Them/It
And most likely an S or P check to detect that faked claim as well. But it's not like we need more BR anyway.
Lexington is a Connie-B.
So S = 3 (our combat cruisers are not exactly known for their sensor suites)
Rru'addor is an Excelsior-A (I think)
S, P and D are all 6 (short of a veteran hull, about as good as we can currently deploy, until the Ambassador twins set sail)
Edit: cruiser science scores
Amoung our members, a high S cruiser is actually quite rare. Some are S2, most are S3-4. The Gaeni Tech-Cruiser is S5 and the Caldonians are building the prototype of a S8 Science Cruiser.
For everyone in our domain, they either depend of their capitals for a superior sensor platform, or have a frigate class dedicated to the role.
So S = 3 (our combat cruisers are not exactly known for their sensor suites)
Rru'addor is an Excelsior-A (I think)
S, P and D are all 6 (short of a veteran hull, about as good as we can currently deploy, until the Ambassador twins set sail)
Edit: cruiser science scores
Amoung our members, a high S cruiser is actually quite rare. Some are S2, most are S3-4. The Gaeni Tech-Cruiser is S5 and the Caldonians are building the prototype of a S8 Science Cruiser.
For everyone in our domain, they either depend of their capitals for a superior sensor platform, or have a frigate class dedicated to the role.
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Kolar
Is Not A Robot
So make new ones?
I found Iron Wolf's original write up for the Seyek/Fiiral. Can someone threadmark this under Informational?
- Location
- Austin, TX
The Benden system, a mico-organism that lives in the Oort cloud, is threadlike, and is highly dangerous to the M class planet? Heh, any colorful flying lizards on Benden III?
- Location
- Australia
So are the failed event rolls because we have our ships busy on Task Forces? or just bad luck?
What do we need to be passing these events? (im guessing more EC Ambassadors to free up Excelsiors)
What do we need to be passing these events? (im guessing more EC Ambassadors to free up Excelsiors)
Based on the text, the ships just failed their rolls. They were there, just not observant/quick enough.
Now if there had of been more ships in the area, maybe those ships might have also rolled for the events.
If we passed everything, then the events are too easy anyway.
Now if there had of been more ships in the area, maybe those ships might have also rolled for the events.
If we passed everything, then the events are too easy anyway.
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Retire the existing fleet of Mirandas, Constitutions, Constellations, Oberths, Renaissances, and Centaurs and replace them with ships with 5+ in all stats. That might cut the failure rate in half, but you'll still have failures.
If that's impossible (hint: we won't be able to do it), then just take your failed event lumps.
Theunderbolt
"Prepare for trouble..."
- Location
- USoA
Basically the dice will be dice and we'll always get the occasional snake eyes.
- Location
- United States
did we find Pern?
They're not... super tentacle-y. This is the image from Stellaris they're based on.
The Seyek and Fiiral are probably the puppet/CGI species of the show
On one hand, you created the Fiiral. On the other hand Leila has been depicting them as an adorable blue sphere with tentacles for months now and you never corrected her once.
He can keep her for all I care.
There's a reference I'm either not getting or overlooking.
Leila drew them that way because she didn't know what their body shape looked like, and then kept it. I wasn't exactly going to push her to draw complicated feathermen anyways
- Location
- Australia
The Dragonriders of Pern is a series by Anne McCaffrey which turned out to be less fantasy and more sci-fi than originally suspected.
lbmaian
a thirsty squirrel
- Location
- USA
While I'm sure that the Dragonriders of Pern series was not the first such instance of science fantasy of the "magic from technology" form (not the Star Wars kind), it was indisputably one of the classics and helped popularize the whole genre. Sadly, the author passed away and left the series in the hands of her far less capable son.
Night
Widow Null
- Location
- Hoff
Leila drew them that way because she didn't know what their body shape looked like, and then kept it. I wasn't exactly going to push her to draw complicated feathermen anyways
Besides, the Apiata aren't literally bee-people, but you'll have a hell of a time convincing anyone in this quest that. Lelia has special reality-defining privileges.
Thebigpieman
I've got this, I think.
- Location
- United States
And there's the shame of it all...
- Location
- Austin, TX
It would be nice to see some sort of ability or tech that is something like 'in situation x, on an auto failure - all ones - re-roll the check at a penalty (-2, -5, something)', and isn't limited to once per year or quarter.
- Location
- Patriarchova
Hard event. Biological threat to a colony world that isn't a disease. First gaeni captain in Starfleet is facing it, so I figure I should make it a puzzle boss to let her use her gaeni-ness.
So I looked at those dice and decided "Threadfall time."
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Chaos Blade
Procrastinating Writer
- Location
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
Regarding the Challorn's entry... I find it odd he'd think it was the asteroid, I mean if the asteroid was the carrier, the fact that the oort cloud was now chock full of the things meant they had far more serious issues.
As it stands, there is one serious question in how it wasn't detected sooner, like during the surveying of the colony
As it stands, there is one serious question in how it wasn't detected sooner, like during the surveying of the colony
- Location
- Patriarchova
It was established that these things are very hard to detect unless you know what you're looking for.
Also, "meteor brought an eldritch abomination in" is a very reasonable first assumption in a setting like Trek.
NHO
Dumb is a state of existence
- Location
- ᓚᘏᗢ
And first hypothesis was
With current and in prototype designs, the fleet would have to consist of nothing but Ambassadors, Excelsior-As and Keplers. We have no currently buildable cruiser designs that meet the design goal of all event response stats of 5+.