To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
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- Australia
*looks for a handy barge pole*
Happerry
Bat out of Hell
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- Kanto
Did anyone else mentally add 'For Once' or 'This time' to the end of this sentence and then have to reread it to make sure it didn't actually say that?
Katsuragi
The 1%
I personally would have gone with some variation of mouth or tongue. (silver, maybe)
So you get the induendo but can also be innocuous.
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A little out of order, as usually Q2 Captain's Logs don't come until after the Snakepit. I guess it doesn't really matter, other than to keep in mind we may be pp light next year if it shifts back and we only have three CLs between Snakepits.
Sulu, you still benching the Miracht because of the Sydraxians?
Thank you ka'Sharren, always make sure to notice when a race doesn't have antenna.
Failed Mineral Extraction roll mission ahoy!!!
VIGOUR: It's not my fault I was born a Constellation. My limitations are as Starfleet made me.
Kirk rules? Kirk rules. And the species in this region of space are talking to each other. How fortuitous.
Assigning the T'Mir to Intelligence was a pretty good call.
Sulu, you still benching the Miracht because of the Sydraxians?
Thank you ka'Sharren, always make sure to notice when a race doesn't have antenna.
Failed Mineral Extraction roll mission ahoy!!!
VIGOUR: It's not my fault I was born a Constellation. My limitations are as Starfleet made me.
Kirk rules? Kirk rules. And the species in this region of space are talking to each other. How fortuitous.
Assigning the T'Mir to Intelligence was a pretty good call.
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- Patriarchova
Aside from pledge the entirety of their resources and military strength to Cardassia of course. Just because we don't know about it yet doesn't mean it isn't plot relevant.
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- somewhere
They were at 65 before. There is a pretty good chance that a diplomatic push this year can get them over 100 though.
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- Patriarchova
Hmmmmmm.....
Is there any way we can turn the Qloath into a trap? If we make it known that we'll be using them as mediators for the Daiwar/Caitian situation, the Cardassians are sure to try something. If we're expecting it, we might be able to capture some Cardassian black ops agents or even destroy another deniable ship or base of theirs, while also making them look bad by foiling whatever plot they're trying.
Not sure how or if it can be done, though.
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- Mid-Atlantic
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In regards to creating a trap... I guess we just set up a well protected situation, perhaps with some of the extra protections out of sight, and anything they try to poke us with, we bring down a hammer on.
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Also, if we diplomat-push species it means contact with them, which means we aren't completely clueless and unaware of what's happening to them.
So far, the Cardassians have only succeeded at our expense when they tried to subvert species we had ignored.
In regards to creating a trap... I guess we just set up a well protected situation, perhaps with some of the extra protections out of sight, and anything they try to poke us with, we bring down a hammer on.
(ORIGINAL TEXT)
Also, if we diplomat-push species it means contact with them, which means we aren't completely clueless and unaware of what's happening to them.
So far, the Cardassians have only succeeded at our expense when they tried to subvert species we had ignored.
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- Patriarchova
We hadn't ignored the Sydraxians.
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- somewhere
We had anything but ignored the Sydraxians. No, the difference between their successes and their failures is dice rolls and how far away Nash ka'Sharren is.
Nitpick: there are no local representatives in the Seyek government. Party and personal politics rules the day. Unless you envisioned the Colonial Council as something different?
What you probably meant is just a 'no-confidence' vote in the Council itself.
PS: we should probably have the Seyek mediate and the Quolath (sp) host.
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- Mid-Atlantic
Could someone give me a rundown of our dealings with the Sydraxians? Given that two people slapped me down within as many minutes, I've obviously forgotten something...
[grumbles]
[grumbles]
Possibly, but Admiral Kahurangi isn't going to be planning that operation. Our contribution was, "Go do something about the Cardassians," and the intelligence assets we picked will do as they think best.
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- Patriarchova
Their greatest successes have been in places where we weren't expecting them to intervene. The Dawiar? No one expected the Cardies to recruit them. The Sydraxians? Ditto. The bombing of the Amarki ratification that would have succeeded were it not for the Terror of Cardassia being in charge of security? No one expected the Cardies to be that bold.
So, with regards to the Qloath, Yrillians, Seyek, etc? We need to assume that the Cardassians are already interacting with them and be prepared for diplomatic sabotage with all of them.
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- somewhere
The Sarek contacted them, then tried to transport an ambassadorial delegation to them but suffered damage and had to hide from Cardassians, then the Miracht tried to pick up that mission instead but was apparently framed for some sort of sacrilege, and the Federation council took over to try to mend things. The Sarek circled around their territory to see if we'd learn anything.
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- Patriarchova
We visited them on a couple of occasions, diplomacy got off to a decent start, they looked like they were going to become allies soon...and then suddenly Captain Thuir was framed for desecrating an important religious site of theirs and they became Cardassian cheerleaders.
I'm fine with spending two diplomatic actions on non-Affiliates this turn, but I'd like to spend any others on Affiliates due to the greater returns.
Before this set of Captain's Logs I was thinking the Seyek and the Yrillians. Would it now be better to do the Seyek and the Qloath?
Before this set of Captain's Logs I was thinking the Seyek and the Yrillians. Would it now be better to do the Seyek and the Qloath?
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- somewhere
Neither of these is even remotely close to true. We explicitly discussed whether we should push the Dawiar, Gretatians or Yirillians to prevent the Cardassians from recruiting them last year. The conclusion was that we couldn't really do anything about that because we couldn't justify pushing all three (the Indorians an Apiata were more important), pushing them wouldn't necessarily help that much, and the Cardassians could always just choose whoever we didn't end up pushing.