To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
- Thread starter OneirosTheWriter
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pheonix89
Wants to be Seven Of Nine
- Location
- North American Plaguelands
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- She/Her
No clue what the explicit mechanical one is.
She seems to have the power to reach through the fourth wall and rig Oneiros's RNG, though.
- Location
- Germany
- Pronouns
- He/Him
And they might ask themselves - what happened there? Because last time an emergency deployment like this was - Biophage?
Dirtnap
Kanmusu Affecionado
something something inazuma setting sail something something.
What no, Lightning certainly doesn't have a below average height japanese woman with an updo bustling around...does she?
Shadows
Sacred Priestess of the Benevolent Dice Gods
- Location
- USS Civilian, DDG-214
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- She/Her
something something inazuma setting sail something something.
What no, Lightning certainly doesn't have a below average height japanese woman with an updo bustling around...does she?
let me dream dammit
Nope. Probably has one of the more diverse command staffs in the Federation, though. Her chief security officer is a Yan-Ros Ranger
Night
Widow Null
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- Hoff
NanoDEATH!
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- The internet
The Earth people may actually have stock Connies... revenge of the Connie-B part 2: the Rebellion Refit.
khan2012
Very Tired.
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- North Carolina
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- He/Him/They/Them
So... it appears that I've missed quite a lot and we've encountered this universe before. Can someone direct me to a good post to start catching up on this storyline? I'm scrolling through the 1000+ thread marks and am quite lost.
Try the captains logs from the start of... 2321, iirc that's when Tarrak jumped into the Looking-Glass universe which directly leads to this plot
Nervos Belli
Don't think this means you've won!
- Location
- Murica
This is the start of the current chain. It references a previous Captain's log that was our first encounter with this universe.
khan2012
Very Tired.
- Location
- North Carolina
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- He/Him/They/Them
Thanks, starting to read now.
Theunderbolt
"Prepare for trouble..."
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- USoA
Enterprise: "Amby! Get the tables!"
Ambassador: "Sister tables of sufficient size to begin negotiations were not on the manifest!"
Enterprise: "Amby you're killing the mood..."
We should get a project either in SDB or Snakepit to upgrade our starbases/outposts with isolinear computers, once the isolinear tech is considered mature and no longer experimental. (BTW, anyone know what's our progress on that? Where is that tracked?)
Not sure how useful that would be since I doubt either of those polities actually seriously considered an attack on Sol. Our capital is just so far away from both of their territories that it's pretty much a logistical impossibility for them to bother seriously treating as a military target. The Klingons and Romulans would have a better shot, but they probably already know about Sol's response efficiency due to having observed us through the V'ger and whale probe incidents.
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- Germany
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- He/Him
Or it happens automatically behind the scenes ...
I'd assume once you have researched "production isolinear computers"
I presume we should get a stat benefit for the upgrade. Like a +1S or a +1D or something, and that would merit some kind of cost associated. Maybe not pp, but we've plenty of RP to spend.
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- somewhere
It could be modeled with one of the T4 starbase design techs (or one of the listed effects) having isolinear as prerequisite, so far the tech tree only goes to T3 in that area.
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- Germany
- Pronouns
- He/Him
If you see them it doesn't matter anymore.
Enterprise: "~We go to fight for freedom, which shall never be abhorred.~"
Lightning, sharpening a rapier: "~We are tramping out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;~"
Luna: "~We have loosed the faithful Lightning and her terrible swift sword.~"
Tarrak: "The fleet comes sailing on!~"
Ambassador: "I'm almost certain that isn't how that goes."
Enterprise, nudging Ambassador with an elbow: "Loosen up Sis.:lol"
Liberty: "...You are all a bunch of weirdos."
Note: Luna's line is, of course, what has been going through my mind since Lightning came up as the isolinear testbed option and the axis on which this turns. So it goes.
Lightning, sharpening a rapier: "~We are tramping out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;~"
Luna: "~We have loosed the faithful Lightning and her terrible swift sword.~"
Tarrak: "The fleet comes sailing on!~"
Ambassador: "I'm almost certain that isn't how that goes."
Enterprise, nudging Ambassador with an elbow: "Loosen up Sis.:lol"
Liberty: "...You are all a bunch of weirdos."
Note: Luna's line is, of course, what has been going through my mind since Lightning came up as the isolinear testbed option and the axis on which this turns. So it goes.
Given that the Ambies took seven year from clean sheet to finished prototypes and the tech was frozen once design began the sensor/computer tech onboard will have been available for seven years so one might reasonably expect the starbases at least to be upgraded during that time.
lbmaian
a thirsty squirrel
- Location
- USA
And off we go!
Obviously the majority of those ships are around Betazoid and Gaeni space, respectively, but as this quoted snippet shows, we did get a "responding" Betazoid Patrol Cruiser
You know, when I tried tallying the "most optimistic possible yet within game rules" response fleet, I totally forgot that the Betazoid Defense Force and the Institutes of Gaeni are technically in the Sol sector too. That would've added to the maximum: 1 Renaissance, 3 Patrol Cruisers, 1 Centaur-B, 1 Centaur-A, 7 Patroller-As, 1 Tech-Explorer, 7 Tech-Cruisers, 9 Tech-Frigates, and oh, another Tech-Cruiser and Tech-Frigate are only 1 quarter away from commissioning.
Obviously the majority of those ships are around Betazoid and Gaeni space, respectively, but as this quoted snippet shows, we did get a "responding" Betazoid Patrol Cruiser
Before the task force system, there was no mechanical bonus except how whimsy Oneiros is feeling with setting up the battles. That's why I was always so worried about promoting important characters to military campaigns - I knew it made complete narrative sense to do so, but knowing at the same time that there was no actual bonus... I was paranoid failure was just around the corner for even the most apparently plot-armored characters.
ClawClawBite
Mad Engineering!
- Location
- Seattle, WA
The Gaeni tech ship captains are all going to be very sad they did not make excuses to be at the launch and missed the rip in space-time. Just think of the lost sensor data. They would even promise to behave while in Sol (prime) and not use anti-matter charges to probe the distortion.