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Last update before bed syndrome strikes again. Fixed now.
To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
- Thread starter OneirosTheWriter
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- somewhere
Pretty sure it's just a copy-paste error. We weren't interested in it this year anyway, no spare pp for it.
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- somewhere
The Excelsior already started construction in Q1, the Centaur-A's were delayed until the refit design was ready. We are (almost certainly) going to start another Excelsior in the upcoming Shipyard Operations turn, too.
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Two Centaur-As to commence at Q4 at each Shipyard.
It's now Q4, they have commenced.
The Excelsior commenced at Q1
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- Patriarchova
Dawwww, they think they're scarier than the biophage. <3
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- Austin, TX
Yeah, I just noticed as soon as I posted, and yanked it.
Random Member
Gardener of Human Happiness
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- Behind You
If only the Klingons declared war on them....
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- Patriarchova
If they haven't already learned not to underestimate us by the time the Rennie comes out, something has gone wrong.
UbeOne
Daydreaming CPU
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Well, they are afraid of being assimilated by Federation freedom and post-scarcity.
pheonix89
Wants to be Seven Of Nine
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- She/Her
Looking at the techs available to us, I'm seeing a few really important research priorities.
Computers. Get that SIGINT tech and keep pressing on the cost reducer. Yes, it's weaker than the last, but it's still big. We may want to assign Starfleet Science Academy to finish the SIGINT stuff while Daystrom keeps going after the research stuff.
Lone Ranger. Way of the Elephant has amazing bonuses for outnumbered Excelsiors. That extra point of shields is huge. Lone Ranger is also showing some lesser cruiser bonuses.
Comms. Get that infosec stuff.
Shields. We now know roughly how much work getting Shield Regen is. It's quite a bit, but shield regen is a massive force multiplier.
Computers. Get that SIGINT tech and keep pressing on the cost reducer. Yes, it's weaker than the last, but it's still big. We may want to assign Starfleet Science Academy to finish the SIGINT stuff while Daystrom keeps going after the research stuff.
Lone Ranger. Way of the Elephant has amazing bonuses for outnumbered Excelsiors. That extra point of shields is huge. Lone Ranger is also showing some lesser cruiser bonuses.
Comms. Get that infosec stuff.
Shields. We now know roughly how much work getting Shield Regen is. It's quite a bit, but shield regen is a massive force multiplier.
The Cardassians were still underestimating the Federation by Season Seven of Deep Space Nine.
I tried hard to make sure that the Cardassian analysis of the Federation had a strong "true from a certain point of view" vibe, where it's the Federation viewed through maximum cynicism but the history is more-or-less accurate and the speculation is reasonable given what is known.
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Huh. 20? And opening this tech tree is also 20? Yeah, this is definitely needed.
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So it seems no one is interested in discussing the upcoming shipyard ops turn. How about the snakepit after that? We currently have 119pp available, let's assume new must-have items and the event income from the two Captain's Logs balance out and we are spending 119pp on currrently known things.
- Renaissance design 20pp
- 3x diplomatic push 30pp
- RBZ starbase 18pp
- 21 Themis VII mining colony 8pp
- budget request 30pp
- Comms & Xeno team 10 pp
- ONA Research Team 10 pp
- Academy expansion
- Science academy
- Affiliate recruitment drive Caitians (actually pretty likely to increase EC officers seeing that they give mostly officers and enlisted)
- Constellation refit (next year)
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- madison
do romulans enjoy schadenfreude? cause if so they are probably going to be getting a kick out of watching the obsidian order try and make heads or tails of the federation.
I'll get to it! Give me some time.
I believe the Academy expansion and Science academy should be prioritized over the budget request. I'll try to come up with some numbers to prove it. Additionally, if the Caitians are so close to being members an affiliate recruitment drive might be a waste.
I really like the subtle (and sometimes less-than-subtle) indications of Cardassian arrogance. This line stood out in particular:
Making some pretty big assumptions there, Cardassians
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Being close to joining means it might be the last chance, and therefore more urgent. Or do you expect the 0.3 bonus to go away? The Amarki continue giving all their various bonus crew contributions even after becoming members, the only thing that was replaced was the 0.05 from Xeno tech.
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That's basically the plan (some want to push the Betazoids and/or Caitians over 500 but I disagree). Apiata, Indorians and Orions are all getting close and might not even need a push to cross 300 because they often get events. All other affiliates are within range with a push as well.
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I'd like to see at least one diplomatic push out of three, or two of four, start being reserved for non-affiliates, particularly near the CBZ.
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- somewhere
Yes, the Seyek should get one.
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- Austin, TX
So no interest in the Coordination Office?