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So no special post for the launch of the new Enterprise? :(

Hopefully someone will write the omake, because I'm sure there was a huge party at Sol to see them off.
 
anon_user said:
Calling this one in while getting whipped in the face by rain, sorry for the audio quality. I just want to get it recorded in case any details fade. I'm on a rooftop right now, at night. In a rainstorm. To meet with an informant, the Orion Union's favorite vigilante. I'd rather he requested it somewhere less exposed.
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[Hugs Hood]

Just for reference, a blooded Constitution-B is C6 S4 H4 L5 P4 D5, which is good enough performance to justify keeping around for quite a while to come IMO.
 
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Morshadd Daily Crier, Stardate 27684

MORSHADD -

House Manan Trading Co. confirms the loss of the prospector Antinoc yesterday, in the CA-5688 system. Antinoc was finishing a run when she reportedly responded to a distress call from the civilian ship Siren, which went missing a week ago. Fifty-five souls were aboard Antinoc; all are believed lost.
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Only 55 crew? I guess that shows what it means that civilian ships don't require nearly as much work to maintain.

Morshadd Daily Crier, Stardate 27686

MORSHADD -

A survivor of the Antinoc disaster seems to have come forward with an account of the ship's loss that pins the blame on the Laio. Jine Nedohl, age 35, listed as second officer aboard Antinoc according to House Manan Trading Co. records. Nedohl claims to have led a team from Antinoc's shuttle onto the Siren, where he allegedly found a Laio beacon; soon after, Antinoc was destroyed by torpedo. Under Nedohl's theory, the Laio sought to remove the primary Licori prospector in the region, and used Siren as bait. Nedohl made these claims in an audio recording broadcast on open frequencies; two other voices were heard, suggesting that he was not the only survivor of the Antinoc.

At press time, we were unable to contact Nedohl. Laio officially denies the claims; however, long-range sensor scans from Morshadd reportedly do suggest torpedo detonations. The Laian explorer Odanner is present in the region, on a patrol mission.
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Rigellian Daily News, Stardate 27687.25

LAIAN -

The Laio Cosmological Office formally announces the loss of the explorer Odanner with all hands last night. Odanner reported contact with a group of unknown vessels, twelve hours after picking up the survivors of the Licori prospector Antinoc.

The head of the LCO, Vazd Norrenzer, delivered the following statement: "We unexpectedly lost contact with Odanner at 2150 last night, in a manner consistent with signal jamming; the ship's track disappeared from our long-range sensors at 2238. By 0600 this morning, the frigate Sicorran had arrived at Odanner's last known position and reported no sign of the ship, nor of its attackers. Local subspace distorsions and elevated radioactivity suggested multiple torpedo detonations and a warp core breach. Reviewing sensor logs, we have found a possible track in the vicinity of Odanner in the last day, which had previously been thought to be a gormungandr given its presence on a known migratory route and observed course and speed; we are still conducting a complete review at this time."

Lt. Tizaanuv, a spokesperson for the Horizon Border Zone Task Force, reported, "With all three Starfleet ships of our task force busy and out of position, we were unfortunately unable to respond to Odanner's distress call."

Our security analyst, former Rigellian Defense Force Captain Irdask, had this to say about the incident: "Some might say it's not appropriate to speculate at a time like this. But with nobody taking responsibility, it is up to us to determine the responsible party. In light of the Antinoc incident, the Licori might be to blame, or perhaps one of the other rival powers in the region, but considering Laio's new alliance with the Federation, it seems unlikely that the Arcadian Empire would risk again antagonizing the UFP. That might lead to suggestions that the Harmony, or even the distant Breen, was behind this incident, but more likely, in my opinion, we're looking at the work of rogue Klingon or Romulan warships. A Laio explorer is ill-equipped to spot cloaked ships, and a few veteran ship captains gone pirate could easily be behind this."

[Lose 12 pp for failure to respond to Odanner]
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Huh. What the heck happened out there? Can't help but think this Jine Nedohl is key to figuring it out. A rogue cloaked vessel could have been behind it... but to what possible gain?

A pity about the lack of response, but we had an Excelsior-A, a Renaissance, and a Centaur-B posted in the sector. The response DC must have been damn high of none of them managed to make it.

Captain's VLog, Stardate 27688, USS Hood - Captain Xuggaed

Hey it's ya girl Xug Xug, here with another exciting ship update! We are in Alukk orbit today to discuss private industry involvement in the cleanup on the Yizgisi. I'm going to be honest -- I'm not sure to what degree companies are doing this because it's The Right Thing, or if they're looking for some sort of hidden profit motive. Probably weapons testing.

That is not my problem though. I'm here to make sure everything goes smoothly while the FDS and Orion Union folks do their magic.
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Looks like the Yizgisi cleanup mission is going to move forward even if Starfleet didn't jump on it. That's good, I guess?

Captain's Log, Stardate 27689, USS Challorn - Captain Hazag Daz-Hara

Zadar-Shirna IV is a planet with a fascinating history. According to the records, andorians have attempted to colonize it twice; once during the pre-Federation era, and once during the height of the last century's Klingon/Federation tensions. In both instances, the colony was abandoned early in its development. Settlement of this world has now begun a third time, and the colonists have sent out a request for assistance. We will be attempting to ensure that insufficient data points to establish a pattern can be generated.

Fortunately, the complication is not due to military threats as in the previous cases, but rather some indigenous elements of the Zadar-Shirna IV biosphere.
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Another quarter, another Challorn Event. Seriously, that ship sees all the action. It has to be well on its way to Veteran status by now, what with all the responses it racks up year after year.


Captain's Log, Stardate 27690, USS Sojourner - Captain Jeanette Devereaux

We are responding to a distress call from the crew of the Vulcan ship VCS An'Toor, who report the loss of their ship. An'Toor encountered an unexpected ion storm, dropped out of warp, lost navigational control, and crashed on 89 Eridani IX, a K-class world on the edge of the system's Oort cloud. Time is of the essence - many crewmembers were critically injured in the crash.
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@anon_user For purposes of tracking the VHC fleet, what type of ship was the An'Toor?


Captain's Log, Stardate 27694.6, USS Hood - Captain Xuggaed

Calling this one in while getting whipped in the face by rain, sorry for the audio quality. I just want to get it recorded in case any details fade. I'm on a rooftop right now, at night. In a rainstorm. To meet with an informant, the Orion Union's favorite vigilante. I'd rather he requested it somewhere less exposed.

Camasura has actually been much less active on Alukk lately. Like myself, he seems to have focused on battling corruption among hypercorps, who have moved their shady operations out of Alukk and to the fringes of the Union. That being said, I couldn't really trust him. His custom equipment is likely provided by a hypercorp; it's always been a longstanding question in Starfleet Security and Intelligence circles if he's a true hero to the people, or a Hypercorp enforcer cloaked in egalitarianism. That's why I wasn't sure if I could trust his information about one of the bidding Hypercorps using their contract as a cover to study Yizgisi nanites for weapons development. I'm going to try and verify it as fast as possible.
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Could probably use a link to the appropriate omake here; I barely remembered what this was referring to.


Captain's Log, Stardate 27695.2, USS Sojourner

We brought aboard the An'Toor survivors, without any further casualties. Then two dozen of them tried to take over my ship. Logically, they waited to be rescued before trying to take us on.

Vulcan 'logic-extremists', the An'Toor's captain called them when we talked to her in medbay - an obscure but motivated ultranationalist group. They abused our trust to take control of our navigation systems first, before a smaller team hit our propulsion systems. The fact they have attached several kilograms of plastic explosive to the primary deuterium tank to prevent us from cutting fuel flow also presents a problem.

They have put us on a collision course for the star itself, then issued demands: One, that we turn over control of Sojourner to the Vulcan High Command, and two, that we permit them to broadcast their manifesto explaining their actions. It seems they believe that Starfleet will be taking control of the Vulcan fleet, and in protest sabotaged their own ship as a setup to take over the Starfleet ship that'd inevitably respond. That that inevitable response shows our value to the Vulcan people apparently counts for little in their twisted 'logic'.

Unfortunately for them, Jeanette Lin-Manuel Devereaux doesn't turn over her ship that easily.
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Now that Devereaux has a badass CL to her credit, will she finally get an EC command?

[Hood gains Crew Rating +1; Lose -2pp]
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Crew veteracy is really a pretty badass mechanic, even if it takes a long time to kick in. Who else's ships just sometimes gain 5 effective stat points due to being worked so efficiently?

Captain's Log, Stardate 27696.5, USS Aurora

While scouting the Tauni frontier, our attention was drawn to 4D-7842, where long-range sensors detected significant deposits of nelerium.

We have entered the system and prepared for survey operations, but a small wrinkle has manifested. An OSA survey vessel under the ownership of FRESHploration Ltd has also entered the system, and is claiming the nelerium deposit belongs to them.
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Huh, the Aurora being busy here explains one of the three non-responses to the Odanner disaster. I wonder if over the next two months we'll see the BZ rolled four events, and the Frontier and Justice were just completely tied up with their own events.


Captain's Log, Stardate 27703, USS Challorn - Captain Hazag Daz-Hara

The quick arrival of the USS Yukikaze and the research cruiser ASC Ithimmi, the latter with an armed purpose-built submarine vehicle redlined from Andor Starbase in its cargo bay to supplement our hastily modified shuttles, has provided the requisite manpower and firepower to corner the leviathan and chase it close enough to the surface for an emergency beamout of the shuttle's occupants, all of whom were recovered unharmed along with some key components of the shuttle itself.

With the telepathic nature of the leviathans confirmed, the colonists are devising a system of automated facilities to exploit the coastal resources, with delta-radiation emitters in place to allow for periodic maintenance.

[Gain +5 rp, +5 pp]
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Everyone, I think I have it worked out. It's not Tellar Sector that has unusual Event activity. It's the Challorn. Whatever sector we put the Challorn in starts generating Events at triple the normal rate. Seriously, Andor sector was quiet for years, but the year we move the Challorn there, everything changes.
 
anon_user said:
Daily Crier, Stardate 27684

MORSHADD -

House Manan Trading Co. confirms the loss of the prospector Antinoc yesterday, in the CA-5688 system. Antinoc was finishing a run when she reportedly responded to a distress call from the civilian ship Siren, which went missing a week ago. Fifty-five souls were aboard Antinoc; all are believed lost.
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Morshadd Daily Crier, Stardate 27686

MORSHADD -

A survivor of the Antinoc disaster seems to have come forward with an account of the ship's loss that pins the blame on the Laio. Jine Nedohl, age 35, listed as second officer aboard Antinoc according to House Manan Trading Co. records. Nedohl claims to have led a team from Antinoc's shuttle onto the Siren, where he allegedly found a Laio beacon; soon after, Antinoc was destroyed by torpedo. Under Nedohl's theory, the Laio sought to remove the primary Licori prospector in the region, and used Siren as bait. Nedohl made these claims in an audio recording broadcast on open frequencies; two other voices were heard, suggesting that he was not the only survivor of the Antinoc.

At press time, we were unable to contact Nedohl. Laio officially denies the claims; however, long-range sensor scans from Morshadd reportedly do suggest torpedo detonations. The Laian explorer Odanner is present in the region, on a patrol mission
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Rigellian Daily News, Stardate 27687.25

LAIAN -

The Laio Cosmological Office formally announces the loss of the explorer Odanner with all hands last night. Odanner reported contact with a group of unknown vessels, twelve hours after picking up the survivors of the Licori prospector Antinoc.

The head of the LCO, Vazd Norrenzer, delivered the following statement: "We unexpectedly lost contact with Odanner at 2150 last night, in a manner consistent with signal jamming; the ship's track disappeared from our long-range sensors at 2238. By 0600 this morning, the frigate Sicorran had arrived at Odanner's last known position and reported no sign of the ship, nor of its attackers. Local subspace distorsions and elevated radioactivity suggested multiple torpedo detonations and a warp core breach. Reviewing sensor logs, we have found a possible track in the vicinity of Odanner in the last day, which had previously been thought to be a gormungandr given its presence on a known migratory route and observed course and speed; we are still conducting a complete review at this time."

Lt. Tizaanuv, a spokesperson for the Horizon Border Zone Task Force, reported, "With all three Starfleet ships of our task force busy and out of position, we were unfortunately unable to respond to Odanner's distress call."

Our security analyst, former Rigellian Defense Force Captain Irdask, had this to say about the incident: "Some might say it's not appropriate to speculate at a time like this. But with nobody taking responsibility, it is up to us to determine the responsible party. In light of the Antinoc incident, the Licori might be to blame, or perhaps one of the other rival powers in the region, but considering Laio's new alliance with the Federation, it seems unlikely that the Arcadian Empire would risk again antagonizing the UFP. That might lead to suggestions that the Harmony, or even the distant Breen, was behind this incident, but more likely, in my opinion, we're looking at the work of rogue Klingon or Romulan warships. A Laio explorer is ill-equipped to spot cloaked ships, and a few veteran ship captains gone pirate could easily be behind this."

[Lose 12 pp for failure to respond to Odanner]
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Do we have to worry about the Protomolecule sowing up?
 
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Captain's VLog, Stardate 27688, USS Hood - Captain Xuggaed

Hey it's ya girl Xug Xug, here with another exciting ship update! We are in Alukk orbit today to discuss private industry involvement in the cleanup on the Yizgisi. I'm going to be honest -- I'm not sure to what degree companies are doing this because it's The Right Thing, or if they're looking for some sort of hidden profit motive. Probably weapons testing.

That is not my problem though. I'm here to make sure everything goes smoothly while the FDS and Orion Union folks do their magic.
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Cool, something new but not too crazy from Alukk...
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Captain's Log, Stardate 27692, USS Hood - Captain Xuggaed

Nothing particularly interesting to report from the summit. Except that a guy from Embpor -- the company that built the Felicity Xanathos, and designed it in part -- chided us for having cramped and 'cheaply furnished' reception areas. Whatever man, I've seen the working spaces on the Xanathos. They look like the interior of a Tellarite sandcrawler from their Asshole Age. Of course I said to him we would take his feedback into consideration. I'm glad my species is hard to read for mammalians.

Since the FDS and Union were doing the hardest work, my time was taken up by a lot of chit-chat like this with various CE-, CF-, and CT-Os. Most annoying was dealing with the public face of the Sharseca Star Conglomerate, Muradino Sharseca. Rich guy playboy who seemed really focused on trying to charm me. Asked for a private communicator code, everything. One of my Betazoid staff said he had something private to tell me -- given his reputation, probably something depressingly basic. Maybe he's into ectotherms. Too bad for him the money and the ego are a turn off.

I managed to evade him for the rest of the evening, while making sure the event was run to FDS-pleasing standards.
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....Wait. Wait.


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Captain's Log, Stardate 27694.6, USS Hood - Captain Xuggaed

Calling this one in while getting whipped in the face by rain, sorry for the audio quality. I just want to get it recorded in case any details fade. I'm on a rooftop right now, at night. In a rainstorm. To meet with an informant, the Orion Union's favorite vigilante. I'd rather he requested it somewhere less exposed.

Camasura has actually been much less active on Alukk lately. Like myself, he seems to have focused on battling corruption among hypercorps, who have moved their shady operations out of Alukk and to the fringes of the Union. That being said, I couldn't really trust him. His custom equipment is likely provided by a hypercorp; it's always been a longstanding question in Starfleet Security and Intelligence circles if he's a true hero to the people, or a Hypercorp enforcer cloaked in egalitarianism. That's why I wasn't sure if I could trust his information about one of the bidding Hypercorps using their contract as a cover to study Yizgisi nanites for weapons development. I'm going to try and verify it as fast as possible.
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YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Captain's Log, Stardate 27696.1, USS Hood - Captain Xuggaed

I dictate this as a deeply humbled woman. While my crew and I messed around trying to confirm Camasura's intel, he went ahead and busted a conspiracy by Luthannii Peaceful Development Corporation LLC to… do exactly what he warned us about. Cleared out an entire platoon of private goons single handedly to get to the evidence and extract a confession from CEO Xels Luthannii. Couldn't have been easy… Probably wanted some backup…

Needless to say, this is really embarrassing. We're only getting out of this with our shells intact because the FDS failed to do proper vetting on Luthannii. Next time, I'll make sure to trust the guy meeting me in a crazy rainstorm while wearing a scary costume, okay?

On the bright side, I feel like my crew has gotten really comfortable working with the ship, and the smoothness with which we hosted the summit is a testament to that. Even if what came after wasn't so great, I won't let that diminish all the hard work they've done! And failure is often the greatest teacher. I was joking earlier but -- next time someone says something crazy, we'll confirm it a lot faster.

[Hood gains Crew Rating +1; Lose -2pp]
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Always trust Camasura!


anon_user said:
Aurora, Hood, and Vigour logs courtesy of @Iron Wolf, Challorn logs courtesy of @Leila Hann
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OMG thank you so much for putting him in the official logs after I sadly let his omakes lapse...I keep meaning to try and pick them up. So many ideas for so many different things rolling in my brain these days...


Theunderbolt said:
Orion Batman...

I guess his Bruce Wayne disguise was too good for our dear Captain.
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"Dumb, ineffectual playboy" is even easier to pull off in a matriarchal society.

Who knew? ;)

Briefvoice said:
Could probably use a link to the appropriate omake here; I barely remembered what this was referring to.
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Here you go. Was supposed to be the first of many. I just....didn't ever write more. :(
 
Briefvoice said:
Only 55 crew? I guess that shows what it means that civilian ships don't require nearly as much work to maintain.
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Stands to reason, 18-17 crew per shift, assuming three shift/day,if crews get too big, it makes it difficult to operate under civilian purview (as they would need to operate in a more regulated manner and would be a more regimented chain of command and what not due to the challenges of administering so many crew in such close spaces for so long)
 
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Vulcan 'logic-extremists', the An'Toor's captain called them when we talked to her in medbay - an obscure but motivated ultranationalist group. They abused our trust to take control of our navigation systems first, before a smaller team hit our propulsion systems. The fact they have attached several kilograms of plastic explosive to the primary deuterium tank to prevent us from cutting fuel flow also presents a problem.
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The logic-extremists had two problems. First was their unfamiliarity with the Excelsior class. The second was their small number. Both proved their undoing. While they could hold critical systems, I have hundreds of crew to assist me in rooting them out.
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A part of me would like to imagine an Andorian/Human judge casually remarking that for a "logic" based extremists group they didn't take many logical precautions.
 
Theunderbolt said:
A part of me would like to imagine an Andorian/Human judge casually remarking that for a "logic" based extremists group they didn't take many logical precautions.
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There are limits to what pure logic can accomplish in the face of being outnumbered ten minds to one, plus the force multipliers that the resources of a starship represent.

If you're going to accept those odds, audacity is probably a better friend.
 
Night said:
President Cat is many things.

But not THAT.
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A controversial politician deeply connected to the Federation's science-industrial complex, and withh a record of previous agression towards the Licori? You can't prove she isnt involved!

The conspiracy is real sheepoids! I must leave now, I hear Section 31's Black runabouts coming.
 
Ato said:
A controversial politician deeply connected to the Federation's science-industrial complex, and withh a record of previous agression towards the Licori? You can't prove she isnt involved!

The conspiracy is real sheepoids! I must leave now, I hear Section 31's Black runabouts coming.
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I believe Night meant that N'Gir isn't our favorite former president.
 
Ato said:
A controversial politician deeply connected to the Federation's science-industrial complex, and withh a record of previous agression towards the Licori? You can't prove she isnt involved!

The conspiracy is real sheepoids! I must leave now, I hear Section 31's Black runabouts coming.
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Leslie:

"They're cargo runs. You know we just paint those things black so we can troll people with them, right?"
 
Briefvoice said:
Everyone, I think I have it worked out. It's not Tellar Sector that has unusual Event activity. It's the Challorn. Whatever sector we put the Challorn in starts generating Events at triple the normal rate. Seriously, Andor sector was quiet for years, but the year we move the Challorn there, everything changes.
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It all makes sense now!

We must post an Excelsior to the Challorn sector!
 
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