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To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)

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Glassware said:
Have the Orion Megacorporations ever had a secret project that didn't go rogue and kill everyone? I guess we just don't see those projects since there aren't explosions and mysterious deaths.
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In two years, a secretive Orion megacorp will resurrect Commodore Saavik, in time to face the resurgence of an enemy the Federation Council thinks destroyed.

"Ah, Eternal Empire. We have dismissed this claims."
 
anon_user said:
The question is, who did it?

The Fiiral police suspect that the likely culprits would be disaffected workers, who may have seen us as unduly biased in favor of management and sought to 'demonstrate' the unsafe working conditions with a faked accident. I've presented this theory to the union heads, but they dismissed it out of hand, claiming that a more likely explanation is that management set this up themselves to try to pin it on the workers.

It seems illogical to me that either side would have escalated to murder. What would they stand to gain?

In any case, the Fiiral unions have pulled out of the negotiations again, citing my 'accepting police slander' as a sign that I am no longer seen as neutral.

[Lose 15 pp]
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I'm guessing Obsidian Order. Harmony is usually too subtle for this sort of play, and the Tal'Shiar has better things to do with their time.
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Personal Log, Stardate 27421, Captain T'Arvit - USS Selaya

I have been reviewing the notes Commander Roland took while on Fiiral. It is possible that the unions will return to the negotiating table, and I intend to be as ready as I can be in case of that eventuality. In this process, I have stumbled on something curious.

I searched for any personal logs in the time Roland was at work on Fiiral. I found none. This is unexpected, particularly in light of the communications of a personal nature he received during this time. Further, humanity, in my experience, tends to self-document incessantly. Commander Roland was no exception, until now.

It might seem that Commander Roland was not himself.

What would this support? What would this explain? I suppose it's academic at this point, considering his death.

Wait.

Perhaps Commander Roland did not die. Necessarily, that would suggest that the transporter traces weren't necessarily something being beamed in, but Roland being beamed out. If so ... perhaps Commander Roland was replaced by an infiltrator, who has since escaped to somewhere on Fiiral (if not points beyond, by now).

Computer, identify all files accessed by Commander Roland, and all queries made by Commander Roland, since the stardate of his last personal log.

Ah. I have work to do.

[To be continued...]
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...Lecarre infiltrators count as Obsidian Order, right?
 
Iron Wolf said:
Dat "Chenkethi Rising" title...
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anon_user said:
It might seem that Commander Roland was not himself.

What would this support? What would this explain? I suppose it's academic at this point, considering his death.

Wait.

Perhaps Commander Roland did not die. Necessarily, that would suggest that the transporter traces weren't necessarily something being beamed in, but Roland being beamed out. If so ... perhaps Commander Roland was replaced by an infiltrator, who has since escaped to somewhere on Fiiral (if not points beyond, by now).
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I really hope this isn't another infestation of those puppeteer critters we saw on that Tellar colony last year, now having improved their infiltration tactics so that it's harder to spot. Cuz if they get Chen, they get an overwhelming ace card that has direct access to a lot of our government and infrastructure.

I'd be happier if it was a Lecarre. As great they are at playing espionage, they're unlikely to be able to fake Chen's raw administrative skills.

OneirosTheWriter said:
When was the last time anyone who wasn't Lecarre successfully infiltrated the UFP, after all?
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Probably the Tal Shi'ar agents that bombed the Cheron in Vulcan space.
 
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Looking at the failed events:

USS Selaya, a Constellation-A, seems to have failed a P check (with P4) for negotiations and possibly also a S check (with S5) for detecting infiltrators.

USS Hood, a Connie-B, failed a S check (with S3).

USS Voshov, a green Excelsior-A, failed a S check (with S7).

The Kepler/Ambassador wave can't come fast enough...
 
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charysa said:
Looking at the failed events:

USS Selaya, a Constellation-A, seems to have failed a P check (with P4) for negotiations and possibly also a S check (with S5) for detecting infiltrators.

USS Hood, a Connie-B, failed a S check (with S3).

USS Voshov, a green Excelsior-A, failed a S check (with S7).

The Kepler wave can't come fast enough...
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Kepler is S7 .... So if that was a S check that Voshov failed, so would have a Kepler.
 
Goat said:
Kepler is S7 .... So if that was a S check that Voshov failed, so would have a Kepler.
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Voshov was also EC, and EC ships automatically get a higher caliber of events, so a Kepler wouldn't have had to make that check anyways.

A Kepler would have had a better chance at the other two events. An Ambassador would've had a better chance at the mission Voshov undertook.
 
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Winged One said:
I'm guessing Obsidian Order. Harmony is usually too subtle for this sort of play, and the Tal'Shiar has better things to do with their time.
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Not to mention, those other two are so far away that it's a little absurd.

Horizon cares less about breaking bits off the Federation, and more about breaking bits off they can take. The Tal'Shiar are extremely busy elsewhere and have a similar agenda. Disruption for disruption's sake isn't nearly as useful as disrupting the immediate border.

The cardassians (btw, that word is never capitalized, unless you are writing it as the name of the nation, rather than the people) actually have a vested interest in destabilizing the STO, both because of proximity, and the Dawiar situation.
 
pbluekan said:
The cardassians (btw, that word is never capitalized, unless you are writing it as the name of the nation, rather than the people) actually have a vested interest in destabilizing the STO, both because of proximity, and the Dawiar situation.
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Uh... you then immediately went on to refer to the name of the nation, and not the people. :p

Because if you're drawing a distinction between the Cardassian species and the polity we know as the Cardassian Union...

Well, the Union has an interest in destabilizing the STO. The Cardassian species does not, except insofar as the Union truly serves the best interests of the Cardassian species, which is a doubtful and self-serving claim on their part.

Also on the capitalization point, most species in Star Trek (there are exceptions) have a name we derive from their homeworld. Following the capitalization conventions common in standard English, that makes the name of the species a proper noun and the corresponding adjective a proper adjective- therefore, capitalized. We talk about the Italians from Italy and their characteristic Italian cuisine, we do not talk about how all the italians in Italy speak the italian language.

(note capitalization in last sentence of above paragraph)

By similar logic (heh), it would be entirely reasonable to refer to Vulcans from Vulcan and their Vulcan music. Or, to keep things consistent, Earthlings from Earth and their colorful Earthling expressions. You can make an argument that species names should be kept lower-case, but that invites the question of whether Star Trek treats species affiliation more like the way we treat species identity today, or more like the way we treat national cultural identity today.

I would argue more for the latter, in a lot of ways. Different species are viewed as different, but not in ways that fundamentally alter their rights and responsibilities. And when a species/culture with disagreeable customs is found, the arguments for showing tolerance or interest in their customs is usually rooted more in cultural terms than in biological ones.
 
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While not capitalizing species names is something common to Mass Effect (and... irl I guess) it's worth noting that Star Trek has consistently taken the stylistic choice to capitalize Klingon, Romulan, Andorian, etc and is the style choice on Memory Alpha. E: mem alpha even capitalizes Human lol
 
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