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@AKuz I'm afraid you've lost this round of clever word play, would you like to play again?Like I said Nerd²!
To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
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cokerpilot
Here comes the rain.
The what now?The more you know
So brief update, massive amount of tech revising has occurred (take a look at the last couple pages of the ship design thread) and I'll be implementing that tree whenever I get back from groceries and errands today. Hopefully tomorrow we can get the plot back on trek.
AKuz
Been Better
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*ahem*
At least because I'm a queer Double Romulan I leave a double rainbow across the Galaxy behind me!
(WTF autocorrect. QUEER is absolutely a word. *grumbles*)
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ClawClawBite
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Omake - An Annotated Letter - ClawClawBite
ClawClawBite
Mad Engineering!
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Tonights punchiness brought to you by another Omake - An Annotated Letter:
*****
From: Gul Zinther
To: Legate Dunor
Sir:
Per your request, here is the raw text of the personal communication intercept that the our outside intelligence agreement BLUE 17 (Yes, that Orion Cartel.) recently provided us, along with our analysts' commentaries. All cryptography and meta-data is consistent with a civilian message sent to Federation military personnel according to our current data, but as you are well aware, even the a minimally effective intelligence agency can easily cause the actual people involved to write spurious messages.
*****
Dear Aunt Vitalia;
[Analyst Note(AN): This is Admiral Vitalia Karhurangi, Commander, Federation Starfleet, extended psych profile still under development.]
Dad probably already told you, but I'm so excited that I had to share the news! I just got a permanent position at Yoyodyne! [AN: Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems, a major Warp Tech research station] They liked my work as a post-doc so much they gave me an early offer (apparently they only do that every few years). I'm now working on 17 dimensional warp field theory with a pair of inter-dimensional refugees named John Ya Ya and John Small Berries. [AN: Refugees is an easy cover for advanced scouts and spies. We should study these individuals in order to investigate possible contact with these individuals to see if they can be persuaded to contact their native planet and coordinate anti-Federation activities.] They may be odd, but living on Andor, and spending time at Yoyodyne is making me change my standards of odd.
That reminds me, I have gotten so much use out of the Amanda Grayson Inter-species cookbooks you sent me when I moved out here. I am getting so much use out of them. I still get a kick out of using the recipes that Spock ate when he was growing up.
[AN: This seems to strongly imply that the person listed under the name Spock in the Federation history files they provided us may actually be real and not a propaganda figure.
Previous analysts considered Spock, and Captain Kirk who he served under to be pro-federation fiction, much in the vain of our Obsidian Order: Riotous Vengeance Unit; Obsidian Order: Treasonous Intent; or Gul Walker, Frontier Ranger. This prior evaluation was based on the Klingon Opera "The Trial of Kirk" which we have recordings of a number of different performances. Given the purported records of these two individuals, contingencies should be made, if they do in fact have similar field performance equal or exceeding Captain ka'Sharren, then they should be prioritized as targets in case they are placed in command positions for a Federation battle-fleet.]
I'm not sure I'm going to want to spend too many years out her, but hey, I get to decide. I know I was kinda whiny at you years ago when I did not get into Starfleet Academy, but having worked with some visiting Startfleet folk who were here to do some modeling, I think your advice about there being lots of other great opportunities out there was right, and this is a better fit (and I hope not all lower rank Starfleet officers are that grabby with other peoples food. What are your people feeding them? Do you need to give out more cookbooks?!?).
[AN: By all evidence, the writer of this letter appears to be close to the commander of Starfleet, while Starfleet Academy claims to be impartial and selective, claiming for appearances sake is different than making sure to accept the right people and reject the wrong one. Why was an exception not made? Is Karhurangi unusually protective of her extended family? Unwilling to sacrifice them for the success of the larger family and state? We will keep this in mind in trying to find tactics to pressure her.]
Also on that subject, moms tell me that Tibby is all over himself studying for the entrance exams. I know you can't give him answers, but an encouraging call before the exams should really calm him down. You know he thinks the world of you.
Your favorite (I hope) Niece, Dr. Susan Karhurangi, Yoyodyne, Andor
[AN: Extended Analysis is attached...]
*****
To: Admiral Khev
CC: Director Temon
From: Praetor Camir
Our operatives have informed us that the nephew of Admiral Karharangi, one Tiberius Karharangi, has just been accepted to Starfleet Academy. As the highest ranking officer who has been in contact with the Federation, and in light of the current diplomatic situation, we think it is appropriate that you send a brief congratulatory message on this subject. Due to the rare nature of Romulan Ale in the Federation, I have selected a lesser bottle from my personal collection to accompany your message.
*****
From: Gul Zinther
To: Legate Dunor
Sir:
Per your request, here is the raw text of the personal communication intercept that the our outside intelligence agreement BLUE 17 (Yes, that Orion Cartel.) recently provided us, along with our analysts' commentaries. All cryptography and meta-data is consistent with a civilian message sent to Federation military personnel according to our current data, but as you are well aware, even the a minimally effective intelligence agency can easily cause the actual people involved to write spurious messages.
*****
Dear Aunt Vitalia;
[Analyst Note(AN): This is Admiral Vitalia Karhurangi, Commander, Federation Starfleet, extended psych profile still under development.]
Dad probably already told you, but I'm so excited that I had to share the news! I just got a permanent position at Yoyodyne! [AN: Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems, a major Warp Tech research station] They liked my work as a post-doc so much they gave me an early offer (apparently they only do that every few years). I'm now working on 17 dimensional warp field theory with a pair of inter-dimensional refugees named John Ya Ya and John Small Berries. [AN: Refugees is an easy cover for advanced scouts and spies. We should study these individuals in order to investigate possible contact with these individuals to see if they can be persuaded to contact their native planet and coordinate anti-Federation activities.] They may be odd, but living on Andor, and spending time at Yoyodyne is making me change my standards of odd.
That reminds me, I have gotten so much use out of the Amanda Grayson Inter-species cookbooks you sent me when I moved out here. I am getting so much use out of them. I still get a kick out of using the recipes that Spock ate when he was growing up.
[AN: This seems to strongly imply that the person listed under the name Spock in the Federation history files they provided us may actually be real and not a propaganda figure.
Previous analysts considered Spock, and Captain Kirk who he served under to be pro-federation fiction, much in the vain of our Obsidian Order: Riotous Vengeance Unit; Obsidian Order: Treasonous Intent; or Gul Walker, Frontier Ranger. This prior evaluation was based on the Klingon Opera "The Trial of Kirk" which we have recordings of a number of different performances. Given the purported records of these two individuals, contingencies should be made, if they do in fact have similar field performance equal or exceeding Captain ka'Sharren, then they should be prioritized as targets in case they are placed in command positions for a Federation battle-fleet.]
I'm not sure I'm going to want to spend too many years out her, but hey, I get to decide. I know I was kinda whiny at you years ago when I did not get into Starfleet Academy, but having worked with some visiting Startfleet folk who were here to do some modeling, I think your advice about there being lots of other great opportunities out there was right, and this is a better fit (and I hope not all lower rank Starfleet officers are that grabby with other peoples food. What are your people feeding them? Do you need to give out more cookbooks?!?).
[AN: By all evidence, the writer of this letter appears to be close to the commander of Starfleet, while Starfleet Academy claims to be impartial and selective, claiming for appearances sake is different than making sure to accept the right people and reject the wrong one. Why was an exception not made? Is Karhurangi unusually protective of her extended family? Unwilling to sacrifice them for the success of the larger family and state? We will keep this in mind in trying to find tactics to pressure her.]
Also on that subject, moms tell me that Tibby is all over himself studying for the entrance exams. I know you can't give him answers, but an encouraging call before the exams should really calm him down. You know he thinks the world of you.
Your favorite (I hope) Niece, Dr. Susan Karhurangi, Yoyodyne, Andor
[AN: Extended Analysis is attached...]
*****
To: Admiral Khev
CC: Director Temon
From: Praetor Camir
Our operatives have informed us that the nephew of Admiral Karharangi, one Tiberius Karharangi, has just been accepted to Starfleet Academy. As the highest ranking officer who has been in contact with the Federation, and in light of the current diplomatic situation, we think it is appropriate that you send a brief congratulatory message on this subject. Due to the rare nature of Romulan Ale in the Federation, I have selected a lesser bottle from my personal collection to accompany your message.
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What a world we live in.
aeqnai
Nerdy Homu
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Not if you've done your damnedest to forget that the majority of Generations ever happened, like say, me >_>
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What are you talking about, Generations was a great film.
Its only problem was that it was way too short - they should have put something after the launch of the Enterprise-B
AKuz
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Ohh, those poor naive Cardassians, they wish Those two were Propaganda, and Ka'Sharren hasn't quite met their heights, but you're certainly giving her opportunities to > : V
Also: Ale direct from Romulusl what a time to be alive, I tell you what.
Wow, yes. That's neat, Kirk as the "King In the Mountain" for Starfleet. That's pretty rad.
NHO
Dumb is a state of existence
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Yes. First launch of Ent-B got interesting, Adm. Kirk is missing in action, presumed alive (It's James Kirk, he got in weirder anomalies, we haven't found the body and this thing was very, very weird, of course he's alive!), "King in the Mountain" for Starfleet.
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At least he could be talked out of some of his bad ideas. (IIRC Fontana was like "A) this would look stupid and B) be expensive")
AKuz
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Sureeeeeee, that 's what Harriman tells himself to go to sleep every night > : V
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Honestly if I was in charge of Starfleet records I'd put everyone lost to an anomaly without a body down as "Missing In Action - Anomaly". There are just too many cases of people disappearing only to show up later to conclusively mark them down as dead unless you've got a body.Sureeeeeee, that 's what Harriman tells himself to go to sleep every night >
As a side note; I liked Generations. While sure there were various things wrong with it I'd solidly rate it as the best odd numbered Star Trek movie.
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Missed opportunity to have them speculate about Federation abundance being propaganda and even the higher middle classes suffering food shortages when starfleet sizes food for their own use.
Gear
Set Moon to Ramming Speed!
Oh yeah, whatever happened to that guy anyway?
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- somewhere
Commander of the RBZ fleet last we saw him (2304 rat race).
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- California
Not ST3?
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- Australia
Computer Research Node converted into slides, whee.
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- somewhere
That's basically just +7.5 rp though, not much better than the +5rp offered for various other techs. The outright research bonuses to ship design from mainframes are better.Ooh, I really like the free team activations on the Research Centers
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trooperist
Cinnamon Roll AI
Minor nitpick. The link for 'Map of Known Space' under the Current Fleet Status post has had 'Space' misspelled as 'Sapce' for quiet a while.
It twinges my inner hatred of typos.
It twinges my inner hatred of typos.
AKuz
Been Better
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If only the Cardassians were capable of learning the True Secret of Starfleet: Food as Metaphor.
aeqnai
Nerdy Homu
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- Laniakea Supercluster
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- She/Her
shhh Larry Niven might hear, or worse... his lawyers!