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Well, a large part of that is too classified to actually tell anyone about.
To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
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Working on distant stars is a minor concern the main reason was that i wanted them to find more mining colony sites with the planned refit wave lack of BR/SR might be the limiting factor of our shipbuilding.
I wanted to combine this mission with one or more other ones we wanted have done and distant stars was the easiest to combine with a colony hunting task force.
He gets torch as i want starfleet ships near Trill capable of combat in case there is trouble at Trill.
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- Mid-Atlantic
I'm not sure it's a good idea to start building task forces whose job is basically "do what the Explorer Corps does" unless we're specifically given missions of the form 'map this region of space' that we know need to be carried out. We have enough else on our plate at the moment that trying to invent missions for task forces may not be efficient.
Also, refits tend to consume LESS resources than conventional shipbuilding, or at least not significantly more even when you measure the cost of 2-3 refits over the cost of building a new ship in the same berth.
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- Aotearoa
Seems the Trill want some of their own. Anon asked SDB for some new designs for Trill ships.
(I know you know this, but for the non-Discord types). Some of my designs for a new 2.2Mt Explorer, or a System Defense 1.3Mt Cruiser (uses a custom frame size part, won't display in the builder without it). These are both Tender designs, they're looking for new 770kt Swarm skirmish fighter and possibly a Scout, too.
I like the C6S8H6L7P6D7 +survey sensors O4E5T5 220/150 4yr build design, with room in the subframes for a future 2.4Mt refit with easy H7 at T4 SIF.
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Unless I misread the update, the suggestion from Chekov is to beef up the squadron at Ruby Eyes' Folly.
I don't remember if I already ranted about this before, but if I was designing a ship building engine I would actually migrate it from Excel into Paint. The jrpg Infinite Space used something similar to Smash Bros Brawl sticker system or the inventory in Resident Evil 4 for creating your ship and it was super intuitive and fun. Balancing would of course need to start from square one, but the system has so much design space for possible parts that one could actually make some unique parts for each species, thus allowing for stuff like diplomancing species A to get access to their sweet L-shaped shield generators speci or doing industrial espionage to species B to steal their easily stackable I-shaped torpedo launchers. Stuff like experimental parts or photon lances could just be awkwardly shaped monstrosities that you need to build the whole ship around.
Chaos Blade
Procrastinating Writer
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Come one, give the old girl's Chameleon circuit some credit!
We can totally say it is not a TARDIS and the captains aren't a time lords many, many regenerations (some existing concurrently no less)
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Well, they are on our side of the Prime Directive, so...
Now, be honest, the Federation doesn't have allies, we have members and future members
You know? I'd agree to that, while I have mentioned how much the Hyphenated NCC of Enterprise annoys me, having others would water down the special snowflake thing and make it a rare honor, something we'd reserve for those ships that went above and beyond
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- Aotearoa
If any To Boldly Go quest ship deserves the same reverence and carries the same honour as the name Enterprise, its T'Mir. So, yes, let's mark it a forever-ship in the same way.
Thors_Alumni
Proud member of Thors Class VII from Liberl
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- Liberl Zemuria.
At this rate T'Mir is going to end up in the Fleet Museum when it comes time for her to be retired from service. Oh T'Mir you are an absolutely amazing ship and you deserve every accolade in the book for all of your achievements in doing your duty to Starfleet and the federation as a whole.
Why would you think that was an allowable task force?
ClawClawBite
Mad Engineering!
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- Seattle, WA
I don't think we are going to pull it out of service so soon. First we decide when to retire them, then we can figure out what to do. It may be when we do Kepler refits that it is finally time.
We can always ask and get told it is not allowed but if we do not ask will not know what is allowed as a TF target, as our fleet goes from the current 90 ships to 140 in 2326, and even with a lot of additional ships for sectors and the existing taskforces a few smaller 3 to 5 ship forces might work on lower priority tasks. Like hunting for mining colonies to have enough BR/SR to supply the second UP style yard or work on relations with potential members.
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- Aotearoa
Perhaps. Though @Forgothrax has been tinkering with a design for a *monstrously* capable near-future fast scout heavy frigate.
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- Mid-Atlantic
Should be a Kepler. That legacy shouldn't be a martial legacy.
AKuz
Been Better
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- A Rising Tide of Horrors
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Just keep T'Mir in the back pocket for an Amby or.... GALAXY! She deserves and EC mission some day I think.
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- Aotearoa
Might have to wait for Kepler-A refits then, because Dreams T'Mir would probably be just a little disappointed that her shiny new hull isn't any better at Science! than her beloved old crew.
These Fast Scouts aren't especially martial- a single phaser/array, C3 H3 probably- just they have Explorer-grade Science and D.
Though as I said, I don't think an Explorer is too much to ask.
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Nervos Belli
Don't think this means you've won!
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- Murica
I thought we'd established that no one would be able to find T'Mir when the orders to scrap her came in?
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I just remembered-the Allupii are apparently strong enough to hold off the Cardassians, so we could dedicate a task force to chatting them up and dealing with their Serfdom tag. Their feudal society will take longer to address but having a strong contact on the other side of the Cardassians is quite useful. If we paired that with trying to affiliate the Chrystovians we could potentially enclose the Ashalla Pact in the future.
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- Mid-Atlantic
If I can ever get the next few chapters of 'Kadesh Dreams' unstuck and put together, we'll meet her. I think she'd be okay.
How does T'Mir and Romulan T'Mir work in Dreams-verse? Aurora is our only basis of comparison, and I'm not entirely sure what that says one way or the other.
Thors_Alumni
Proud member of Thors Class VII from Liberl
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Has Romulan T'Mir met the Ship T'Mir?