Himmelhand
Giant Sinkhole 2020
- Location
- Midwestern US
Woo! New logs! Xuggaed and Jameson for EC captaincies, please.
To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
- Thread starter OneirosTheWriter
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Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
I think maybe you should release logs by sector or maybe theater.
Sometimes everything happens in like, 1 theatre, so an update could be just one ship finding a rock in Amarki sector.
Random Member
Gardener of Human Happiness
- Location
- Behind You
That's what they want you to think!
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
Have we reached sufficient log mass to post updates by weeks instead of months, or to summarize similar logs together?
Confusion is not too much of a problem, at least for me, but what I think adds to it a bit is PoV changes. I am not against them, but that's something to keep in mind. Logs from one ship also probably shouldn't be spread out too much from each other - first and second Enlightenment had 9 other logs between them, and that second log was literally nothing.
Night
Widow Null
- Location
- Hoff
No, we need more! Ten thousand words a post!
CAPTAIN CAPITALIZER in command of a CAPITAL SHIP can make his points with even more VOLUME. I'm not worried about his performance but I do fear for Shey and his successor's ears.
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- Location
- Mid-Atlantic
Leslie:
[rubs the back of his neck]
"I was figuring on them to be a bit more resistant than the average computer from the '60s. Plus, hell, I have to actually install the stuff anyway even if the elevators are already dead. Friends don't let friends create predestination paradoxes, y'know?"
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KnightDisciple
Love God. Do Right. Fear No Man.
- Location
- Midwest, USA
WHAT do you mean? I think it sounds AMAZING!
Theunderbolt
"Prepare for trouble..."
- Location
- USoA
The little ship that could and did.
Himmelhand
Giant Sinkhole 2020
- Location
- Midwestern US
How would Picard's career turn out if he started on the T'Mir? Spooky spec ops Jean Luc?
- Location
- Infraspace
Bigfoot may not be a pirate any more, but they're still a communist!
Night
Widow Null
- Location
- Hoff
I mean, apparently somewhere before assuming command of Stargazer he did spend time doing something like this, hence why he picked up the occasional Four Lights assignment.
- Location
- Earth
The Dominion worries about human infiltrators in the Great Link.
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Not to mention he's done "Die Hard on a starship" not once, but twice with the baryon sweep and First Contact. Gambit counts as a four lights assignment right?
...I'm starting to rethink what happened in Best of Both Worlds now.
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- Location
- Here and there
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- He/Him
Having just caught up with this quest, I'll say that intermixing the logs together made the captains logs sections incredibly painful to read. It worked in the beginning when we had three captains each with a distinct personality. Now it's gotten to the point where I have to go back and reread an entry once or twice to make sure I remember which story thread belonged to which ship.
KnightDisciple
Love God. Do Right. Fear No Man.
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- Midwest, USA
Jean Luc Picard knows what sound a Cardassian makes when you stab one in the back.Technically speaking he went on the Four Lights assignment because he was an expert on a specific kind of deadly radiation weapon.......... which admittedly doesn't really discount the idea of spooky Operations Picard
- Location
- Illinois
- Pronouns
- He/Him
This is why we have science staff! Anyways, good luck!
This is... very bad. Could have been expected, but that doesn't make it any less bad. Mutinies over federalization are very much the kind of thing I'd like to avoid.
Good luck, Captain Capitalizer.
No way. Hey, maybe we'll discover a new kind of superweapon that we can be afraid of other people figuring out!
LECARRE. How about it, we start a campaign to infiltrate the Lecarre, see if they leave us alone after that.
Good to see this resolved neatly.
Sure buddy. Don't think workplace protests are generally allowed on warships, but we can call it a workplace protest.
Hm. They might not be wrong, honestly. Still not the right way to go about it, but I have some respect for this at least. I assumed it would be simple "ew Federalization".
Did I just notice this? Because of course Xug Xug has a VLog.
Wow that's super morbid. Really really morbid.
I've got to say I agree with you. This is some gangster movie stuff, shouldn't be happening on Earth in the 24th century.
Lmao.
Ah, there we go, some nice capitalization. Also, uh oh.
Uhhh. This is also very bad. Two mutinies in one log, both in groups that had strong opinions about Chrystovia (the Tellarite one, was, admittedly, "don't you dare take our ships away"). They're probably going to do something stupid.
Are they suicidal? Going up against a Sunrise? Oh. Oh no. Valaia is a Riala, isn't she.
Yes, Valaia is a Riala. That is deeply, deeply, incredibly bad. Radical elements have apparently seized control of Amarki capital units. Wow, that's something I really didn't want.
This sounds worrying.
Yeah, that would be about what I expected.
SOUNDS FUN. At least they found delicious jellyfish? Anyways, that's pretty sad. Life on this planet totally reset back to the oceans, without much chance of recovery for millions more years, unless the Fed Paddah decide to sink huge amounts of time and resources into terraforming it.
An Oberth and a Renaissance up against a Riala. I really do hope you can end this peacefully. The Oberth is T'Mir, admittedly, but it's it the principle of the thing.
Good that the commissioner isn't actually dead, but I'm not liking this infiltration business. This is the third event in one month where there's been the potential for serious tensions within the Federation. Not exactly a surprise, after how divisive the Chrystovia vote was, but still not good.
WOW. Ok, I didn't know that it was possible for me to discover something I really didn't want happening like this. That is very bad. Our most glory and honor focused member combined with "PURGE THE IMPURE" is not something I ever wanted to see.
Ah the Gaeni. The only species that could create a computer designed to be so cautious that it would immediately go rogue, in an attempt to build a reasonable machine on the principles of the ISC.
Well, all I can say is that I'm glad this is getting put under serious classification. This had the potential to massively blow up. I'm pretty worried about the Amarki right now though, hopefully this is a one-off occurrence, and not something that's a new normal.
I actually forgot to put it in the logs, but Maneric arrested a large portion of the crew and shot them off in escape pods. I'd say he was probably operating with under 50% crew, a weird mix of old-school militarist veterans like Maneric, and a bunch of young idealists.
E: so not so much a widespread belief in the CAN.
E2: of course politically motivated and armed group is always to some degree dangerous.
E: so not so much a widespread belief in the CAN.
E2: of course politically motivated and armed group is always to some degree dangerous.
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Chaos Blade
Procrastinating Writer
- Location
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
My big issue with the logs is that sometimes I care about one thread over all and having to go though all the other plots (specially when you have an extremely uninteresting one in the mix) a bit of a slog, I think at times I would prefer to have all the plots together rather than the events in a chronological manner
If you note the Star dates (please don't) they're actually not ordered chronologically (when I do the logs).
Ultimately I kinda rushed putting this one together and I think it shows