Nervos Belli
Don't think this means you've won!
- Location
- Murica
Assuming they are lead by alternate-Kirk, then I expect they'll hold the questions until after the ass-kicking and only then worry about the details.
To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
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Assuming they are lead by alternate-Kirk, then I expect they'll hold the questions until after the ass-kicking and only then worry about the details.
Enterprise: "Are you an Ambassador or not?"
Theunderbolt
"Prepare for trouble..."
- Location
- USoA
Ambassador: "Do you know how many tables are involved in Vulcan tea ceremonies?!"
I hope they actually do something awesome!
The ONA is closest to leveling up, I guess.
Night
Widow Null
- Location
- Hoff
At the moment I'm leaning towards ONA or 40 Eridani since I'm 75% sure that the Oressa Yards team didn't exist for some of the time the Omake covered.
And it'd actually be thematically appropriate to do 40 Eridani A since they're working on 2320s Escort Combat.
Hmmmm. Marginal efficiency boost or fluffy choice.
Go with 40 Eridani A, then. I don't think it actually makes any difference as far as finishing the project they're currently on.
- Location
- Southampton, Great Britain
- Pronouns
- He/Him
If you want my opinion, always go for the fluffy choice.
- Location
- somewhere
It doesn't make a difference for 40EA, it does for ONA (at the minimum it saves a boost).
- Location
- Australia
Honestly, for omake rewards I don't think anyone should be under an obligation to go with efficiency. You put effort in and made the thread a little more interesting, so you've already provided a service to the thread. You may as well get the fluff reward for yourself then.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Fortunately, someone briefs us, if Temporal Affairs works the way I think it should.
[A dusky-skinned woman in a white gown flickers over]
"Hiya!"
Enterprise:
"Oh hi! We thought we were the only ships in range!"
Ambassador, trying not to look relieved:
[phew!]
Night
Widow Null
- Location
- Hoff
It's less that I feel compelled to go with efficiency and more that if there's an obvious, large good to be accomplished I'd like to do so. And to be honest having it go to what is our longest-serving design group would also be appropriate for what is arguably our longest-running discussion of a design. Arguments can be made both ways.
That said, saving a boost isn't much of a difference in the current research environment.
(Though if somebody asks for a history of the Kepler or Ambassador design projects, punch them in the face and leap out the window. It's justifiable. Absolutely a you or them situation.)
@anon_user
[O][MIRANDA] +1 XP to the 40 Eridani A Shipyards tech team
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The Sandman
So Zetta Slowpoke
- Location
- Wherever I am, which isn't where I'm not
Okay, see, now I need to hear the history of those design projects to understand why you'd say that about the history of those design projects.
- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Suffice to say that they are stupidly intricate, being as how they've been underway through multiple iterations of the ship design rules, and that everyone's been working like crazy on the designs. There are dozens and dozens of design studies for those ships by now.
That's gotta be worth two bonuses!
Night
Widow Null
- Location
- Hoff
There are upwards of a hundred and twenty iterations of the Amby, and that's based on a "stopped counting" estimate from threadmarks in the Ship Design thread; some of the most important discussion and design work gets done in this thread and has to be searched for, which requires manual filtering of the results. Most of them don't have unique names. Most of them don't have much stat variation.
So, in summary: punches @The Sandman and @chriswriter90 in the face and leaps out a window
The Sandman
So Zetta Slowpoke
- Location
- Wherever I am, which isn't where I'm not
Meanwhile, cruisers get no love.
Christ alive, I didn't realize it was that bad.
- Location
- Australia
Yes, there are times when even I feel bad about what I have done to these people.
If you want cruiser love, you want the alternate universe Cardassia quest. The things they try to ship with their Jaldun-waifus....
Explorers are technically heavy-cruisers.
The Sandman
So Zetta Slowpoke
- Location
- Wherever I am, which isn't where I'm not
That reminds me: we still have no idea what the stats are for the Kaldar-II, right?
What intel has listed:
Kaldar II 2318-Now [405m, 1.5m t]
C7 S3+ H5 L6 P3+ D5+
Cost [Unknown, 3 Years*], Crew [O-4, E-5, T-3]
Refit Cost [Unknown]
Night
Widow Null
- Location
- Hoff
Excelsiors or Devoras Heavy Warbirds are technically more like superheavy cruisers, because they lack the crushing superiority of some combination of size, firepower, and durability implied by the terms battlecruiser or battleship compared to other cruisers like Jalduns or Kalindraxes.
On the other hand, an Ambassador does have the durability to live up to the title of battleship, and even the 2.4mt Khellian Heavy Warbird is sufficiently heavily armed compared to standard cruisers to earn the title of battlecruiser. Even a Kaldar II is arguably more like one of the heavy-cruiser-killer classes from the early '40s such as Alaska or B.65, if not quite so large and overgunned as a true battlecruiser.