Biophage was very clearly a bioweapon made by a terrifyingly competent and advanced intelligence.

If it was designed with the traits shared by ST species (because precursors) in mind, then for it to be defeated so completely and so fast by a polity with our level of biotechnology (or more accurately what biotechnology we had back then) seems very unlikely. It would be a very bad weapon if that was the case, and in all other aspect, it was a very, very good one.

Well, if its makers could control it that is.

Unless... it could adapt and overcome the vaccine. It just never had the chance to do so before we destroyed it. If it returned, it would have to put some work into adapting, and we would have to make a new one.

That would be perfectly plausible to me.

If it was not designed with the traits shared by ST species in mind, then it would have to be far more robust, versatile, and adaptable to work, which would make a vaccine like that even more unlikely.
The biophage did return at one point and caused the thread to freak out. Fortunately it was quickly tracked down and destroyed by Starfleet and Romulan ships.
 
The biophage did return at one point and caused the thread to freak out. Fortunately it was quickly tracked down and destroyed by Starfleet and Romulan ships.

that we know of (cue suspensful music)
Though I do wonder about the vaccine (naming asides) if it is immunity to the biophage or more like denying the assets to the biophage (that is to say you still become a piece of goo, but the biophage doesn't gain anything from you, be it raw materials, information or what not)
 
The UFP almost certainly has advanced nanotechnology. One of the good threads to come out of the daystrom institute suggested the pills that McCoy gave to the woman with kidney failure in ST4 The One With The Whales were some sort of dose of nanomachines that repaired her organs, because little else makes sense. Nanomachines may also be involved in stuff that gets injected by hypospray. Most pointedly, nanomachines were given to Wesley like you'd give a kid a microscope.

One thing people constantly get wrong about the Federation is that they are against genetic augmentation beyond a vague baseline, but they are not against using nanomachines and gene therapy for medical or therapeutic reasons.

The reason for this is that Gene Roddenberry was trying to avoid a "transhumanist" setting for two reasons: budget, and also to make the characters therein relatable to 20th century humans instead of a sentient cloud of nanoparticles that thinks in subspace code.

(Note to some degree you can see this in Andromeda as well, where a lot of the characters are genetically engineered to some degree but they aren't like, impressive by the standards of Eclipse Phase or even the MCU)

Not sure how that all that explains Geordi's eyes but maybe his mom got hit by Horrible Space Radiation and it wasn't fixable or something.
 
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Omake - Starfleet Colony List - Briefvoice
Every Starfleet Research and Mining Colony as of 2324.Q4

Notes
(1)Production is "unmodified production" before technologies take effect.
(2) List includes colonies built and currently on order, but not sites discovered but not claimed.
(3) I have included a little extra commentary/worldbuilding with many of these. See if you can spot it!

Research Colonies

Biroth System

  • Approximate Location: -5a, Klingon Border Zone
  • Year Active: 2304
  • Production: +15 Sr/year, +5 RP/yea
  • Description of Site: The Biroth binary system consists of two tightly orbiting neutron stars. Matter passes between the two dense bodies in enormous arcs of colour and heat, producing radiation waves we don't even have a theoretical basis for yet. Additionally, certain alloys can be made superconducting by exposure to this field.
  • Other Notes: Per a 2312.Q4.M1 log, Biroth is serviced by an orbital platform. The superconducting material production staff and the radiation scientists share the platform but live virtually separate lives, with the former made up mostly of short term workers from Shrantet III and the latter radiation scientists from all over the Federation conducing long term research projects. An omake called "Debts Incurred" by Leila Hann implies an energy being was freed from between from between the stars during the Enterprise's initial visit and repaid the debt by helping them survive.
Athos V (Joint Colony with Romulans)
  • Approximate Location: -3C, Romulan Neutral Zone
  • Year Active: 2307
  • Production: +5 rp / year
  • Description of Site: Caverns beneath the planet are host to a form of parasite, winged insectoid creatures the size of a large dog. Phasers work poorly against them, but they are sensitive to resonances from the cavern's crystalline walls. The creatures nest in a great chamber that is a naturally occurring dilithium matrix, producing subspace disturbances the parasites have learned to harness.
  • Other Notes: Athos is most notable for being the sole joint Federation-Romulan research center and indeed the sole joint Federation-Romulan continuing operation in the Neutral Zone. Its minor value as a research center for biological/subspace interactions has been far eclipsed by its major value as a location for discreet diplomatic exchanges on neutral ground.
Aelin System
  • Approximate Location: -2f, Apinae Sector
  • Year Active: 2306
  • Production: +5 rp / year
  • Description of Site: The system's center is a protostar/new star that was only a month away from initiating fusion when the Enterprise discovered it in 2305.Q1. Since then it has been under continual observation, providing many new insights into stellar formation.
  • Other Notes: As part of continuing security measures against the Ashalla Pact, a Starfleet Outpost has been located in the Aelin system and it has become a frequent stopover for ships making the journey between Indoria and Apinae and vice versa. The small stellar cartography team required to operate the research station has been completely swamped by the Outpost's personnel and interstellar traffic.
Meridia VI
  • Approximate Location: -2/-1A, above the galactic plane, Vulcan sector
  • Year Active: 2309
  • Production: 5 rp / year
  • Description of Site: In 2407.Q4 the Sappho discovered, "a fascinating artifact of the Preservers, one which has been activated by a chance tectonic shift." There is also an excellent white sand beach nearby.
  • Other Notes: Meridia is a sleepy Preserver archeological site that sees only one interstellar ship a year most years.
Ke'Luur
  • Approximate Location: 4B, Horizon Border Zone
  • Year Active: 2312
  • Production: +7rp/year
  • Description of Site: Site is the location of the 150 year old wreck of the Suurok-class starship Ke'Luur. And the ship had survivors, though they could never repair the ship. Since they could find no way to repair their ship, and knew that their long-range exploration mission left them far beyond any hope of rescue from Vulcan, they instead worked to develop systems to preserve their memories and the products of their long voyage towards the Galactic Center and back. It was discovered by the Miracht in 2320.Q2. In 2323 a new Starbase was completed in the system to serve as an anchor for the Horizon Border Zone in addition to the output it already hosted.
  • Other Notes: In the decade prior to the Starbase's construction, most possible research on the Ke'Luur database had been completed or was on the verge of wrapping up. However the addition of the starbase has breathed new life into the Ke'Luur Institute, changing it from a soon-to-be-abandoned backwater into a well-protected and traveled-to archive that collates and analyzes data flowing back from the galactic coreward direction.
Aga Carmide [DEACTIVE 2315 AND PLACED UNDER OFFICE 0 JURISDICTION]
  • Approximate Location: 0B, Sol Sector, also temporally displaced
  • Year Active: 2313
  • Production: +7rp / year (formerly)
  • Description of Site: In 2311.Q3.M2, the Courageous reported that the USS Lion had disappeared in the Aga Carmide system with all hands due to a tremendous spacetime shear. A followup visit by the Bull in 2311.Q4.M1 concluded that the turbulent spacetime of the region made it suitable for a station researching temporal phenomena. In 2315 the Enterprise-B entered the Aga Carmide system in pursuit of a mentat ship, leading to the classified "Enterprises Incident" and the disappearance of the entire Aga Carmide research colony into a temporal pocket for 20 years, leading to the creation of Office 0.
  • Other Notes: Despite the temporal effects seemingly subsiding, the area has been declared a navigational hazard and no starships are to enter the system without Starfleet Command's express authorization.
Cronulla VI
  • Approximate Location: 3A, in Okatha Sector.
  • Year Active: 2316
  • Production: 5 rp/yr
  • Description of Site: The gas giant Cronulla VI is inhabited by an intelligent lifeform well within the cloud layer, just hovering along above the liquid ammonia layer of the planet. It made first contact with the Odyssey in 2314.Q4.M3 by sending energy pulses through the atmosphere to signal the ship. (Note the lifeform had made prior attempts to communicate by signaling a passing cargo ship back in 2313, which the Odyssesy was following up on.) The Odyssey was about to reciprocate some primitive exchanges by sending pulses indicating basic electrical principles, plus leaning on our telepathic ship's counsellor. Since then communication efforts have continued via an orbiting station.
  • Other Notes: As part of an effort to better secure the coreward region, a Starfleet Outpost was built in the system. The lifeform has been reticent to make direct contact, but has demonstrated a knowledge of the galaxy beyond its gas giant home that raises a number of questions.
Acacia V
  • Approximate Location: -1B, below the galactic plane and near 82 Eridani in Vulcan Sector
  • Year Active: 2317
  • Production: 5 rp/yr
  • Description of Site: In the polar atmosphere of Acacia V, a gas giant, recent cometary impacts have introduced exotic heavy metal gases where they is mixing in very unusual ways. This is serving as a natural laboratory demonstrating potential plasma coolant methods. Surveyed by the Docana in 2316.Q1.M1.
  • Other Notes: Due to its proximity to 82 Eridani, the research station receives supply runs as often as six times a year; quite frequent for one of these remote research outposts.
Tolinar VII
  • Approximate Location: 3C, Paddah Sector
  • Year Active: 2319
  • Production: 5 rp/yr
  • Description of Site: In 2317.Q4.M1 the Courageous learned that an apparently pre-warp agrarian society on Tollinar VII was actually the remnants of a very old spacefaring race, who had settled in the Alpha Quadrant after a long voyage from the Gamma quadrant thousands of years ago. (The local community strongly resembles a cross between Amarkians and Andorians.) The Tollin allowed a small research colony to be established to study both themselves and some anomalous materials in the planetary crust.
  • Other Notes: During the OSA/Arcadian conflict the Tollin revealed themselves to have means of monitoring their interstellar neighborhood and threatened an interdiction on interstellar traffic entering the Tolinar system. How they could have enforced such an interdiction with no apparent starships is uncertain, but they evidently maintain access to at least some of their former technology.
Beta Cthon
  • Approximate Location: 3D, Licori Border Zone
  • Year Active: 2321
  • Production: 10 rp/yr
  • Description of Site: In 2318.Q4.M1 the Courageous detected a geothermal anomaly beneath the surface of an ice-covered moon in the Beta Cthon system. The moon's core is not inert, but absent, and in its place is a crystalline organism of at least forty million ton displacement that is a larval member of the same species of cosmozoan that destroyed the USS Suvek and crippled the USS Tarrak. The Courageous used a constant vibrational bombardment to drive the larva into a state of hibernation, which will be maintained until Starfleet may someday devise a method of harmlessly deterring this species from attacking starships.
  • Other Notes: In addition to studying the larval organism, the research station holds responsibility for constantly maintaining the high-powered sonic reverberation devices that hold the larva in a state of hibernation. A Starfleet Outpost has been located in the system to aid local navigation and aid in securing the border zone.
Theya Oliek
  • Approximate Location: 3D, Paddah Sector
  • Year Active: 2321
  • Production: 5 rp/yr
  • Description of Site: In 2319.Q4.M3 the Courageous discovered a natural phenomenon in which the unusual crystalline formations of the inner system interact with the Photonic output of the star to create brief, and incredibly large, but very unstable Photonic hard light formations of a similar sort to those produced under controlled conditions in Gaeni "Holodecks". Occurrences of this phenomenon are, with some study, easy to predict.
  • Other Notes: While predictable, the photonic light formations do cover vast stretches of the solar system. Hence the research station is more of a large, mobile ship (albeit not equipped with a warp drive) that moves periodically around the system on impulse power to better position itself to avoid/study the hard light. The station is equipped with a small prototype holodeck system to better test insights gained from observation. The system also hosts a Starfleet Outpost, but the outpost is located in the farthest outreaches of the system beyond reach of the hard light projections.
Pure Intent Array
  • Approximate Location: 2b, between Yrillian space and the Vermillion Connectivity
  • Year Active: 2323
  • Production: 5 rp/yr
  • Description of Site: In the system known as LX-9175 there are detected extensive ground facilities on the fourth planet, M-class, making up a very large telescope array that utilizes gravitational lensing. It was controlled by an ancient Yrillian AI (though limited and not truly sentient) created in the waning days of the Yrillian Condordat by scientists who did not wish to see their science turned into a tool of conquest. The databanks are overflowing with information. Pure Intent has been studying deep-space anomalies for five hundreds years uninterrupted, including a century-long deep-penetrating observation of Sagittarius A*. It's automatized routines continue to gather information.
  • Other Notes: Pure Intent is a research station that is itself an archeological site. It also hosts what is currently the most powerful active scanning telescope in known space, though it is expected to be handily eclipsed once the first Argus Array comes online. However its remote location, outside all regular trade routes and patrol areas, means visitors are very rare.
Ariya Minor
  • Approximate Location: -3d, in Alukk Sector
  • Year Active: 2323
  • Production: 5 rp/yr
  • Description of Site: The Ariya Minor system contains twenty-four planets and thrice that many moons and planetoids, as well as two asteroid belts and some unusual plasma rings around the blue sun itself. The system hosts a natural superlaser, referred to in Orion legends as "spear of the gods, piercing the worlds of Ariya's Daughter." Every 48.31 years, three belts of extremely dense crystalline objects suspended within the star's trio of plasma rings move into alignment and catalyze each other to release their energy along a straight line. A significant amount of the star's output is focused into a series of multi-yottawatt superlasers that fire outward across the system, melting continent-sized holes in the rocky planets deep into the mantles and setting entire gas giant atmospheres alight. The two asteroid belts are the remains of smaller planets that were utterly destroyed by this natural superlaser. The objects inside of the plasma rings that cause this effect have properties unlike those of any material known to science. Discovered by the Torbriel in 2320.Q2.M3.
  • Other Notes: While the superlaser effect occurs only ever 48 years (next expected in early 2368), the plasma ring effect is continuous and can be studied. Currently the station is in close solar orbit to be near the rings, though it will have to be moved before the next 2368 firing. Rumors are that agencies in Celos and Duaba are considering running interstellar tours of the system's natural wonders including the half-destroyed worlds and the plasma rings.
Mortuary Expanse
  • Approximate Location: 3a, just spinwards of the Rigel Sector patrol area
  • Year Active: 2324
  • Production: 10 rp/year
  • Description of Site: In interstellar space there is an expanse where unknown subspace phenomena are tearing ships out of other timelines and dropping them in varying states of disrepair in our own. The direction is strictly one way; solar wind particles sometimes appear out of nowhere since we started looking for them, but nothing vanishes. The interior space of the ships is twisted, causing random teleportation effects that are hazardous for boarders and make them unsuitable to salvage. In all cases their computers were deliberately ransacked and erased, with any backups eliminated. There are no signs of any crew, not even corpses or residue.
  • Other Notes: A station has been established in the expanse with research teams to study the dimensional phenomena itself as well as utilizing drones to continue to explore the ships for clues and information. Surrounding space is also slowly being scanned, as ships that came through in the sufficiently distant past might be completely "cold" and hard to distinguish from the vacuum. The Vermillion indicate that this area has been acting strange for some time. Most importantly of all, the station has a well-stocked sickbay and fast runabout on ready for when the next ship comes through, if it does. Whatever is being done to these ships appears to have conscious intent behind it, and who knows- next time they might miss eliminating some well-hidden crew member and leave them in need of rescue.
Barradus IV
  • Approximate Location: -2B, on the border between Vulcan Sector and the Romulan Border Zone
  • Year Active: Expected 2325.Q2
  • Production: 6 rp/year
  • Description of Site: Barradus IV is one of the missing "pit stops" that the original Rihannsu must have made during their ancient voyage to Romulus. However, in modern times the planet of Barradus IV is inhabited by the Bropal, a breakaway Vulcan culture that turned isolationist in the mid nineteenth century and have remained politically autonomous ever since. The Bropal have perfected mind-meld and katra-manipulating techniques that allow them to preserve the identities of the long dead in the form of exchangeable personality fragments. Talking to any individual bropal is almost like speaking to a representative of an immense superorganism. Barradus IV in particular houses an ancient computer backup facility that retains knowledge of the entire state of the Vulcans' known galaxy at the time of the exodus. In exchange for enough information to assimilate a somewhat faithful simulacrum of the Romulan identity, the Bropal will permit Starfleet to place a semipermanent research group. Access was negotiated by the Korolev in 2322.Q4.M2.
  • Other Notes: After a short delay waiting for engineering resources to be freed up, construction on the research station is underway. In an unusual move, the Vermillion Connectivity has requested they be allowed to send a small team of representatives for long term psionic knowledge exchanges with the Bropal. Apparently the Bropal's psionic practices mirror ones the Vermillion use for bouts of group decision making. The FDS has taken the request under advisement and will attempt to convince the isolationist Bropal to accept a Vermillion embassy.
Galoria Delta-LXIg
  • Approximate Location: -4f, near Hajatar (a Bajoran colony) in the Cardassian Border Zone
  • Year Active: Expected 2325.Q2
  • Production: 5 rp/year
  • Description of Site: The Galoria Delta system contains nearly three hundred separate planetoid or larger stellar bodies, of which at least one is a full M-class world, three are capable of supporting life and another five rate a solid .8 on the terraformability scale. The most promising M-class planet, Galoria Delta-LXIg, contains a form of silicon based pseudo-prion capable of bypassing standard Starfleet filters and rendering the subject highly susceptible to suggestion. The research station, which will study both the silicon-based ecosystem and the stellar mechanics of the system, will be fitted with bio-7 level filtration gear. Surveyed by the Pathfinder and the Valiant in 2323.Q1.M3.
  • Other Notes: The nearby Ur'razzi have made some noises about using this system (or at least one of the worlds within) as a potential colony site, and have requested that Starfleet share any data pertinent to future colonization efforts. Any such colony may be decades out, however.

SR Colonies

Hophos III-2
  • Location: -2c, Amarkia Sector
  • Year Active: 2303
  • Production: 20 Sr/year
  • Description of Site: During an orbit where the second moon of the third planet eclipses the sun, a great subterranean crystal lattice of a remarkable material emits an energy field that affects the thought patterns of living creatures and causes them to enter a dreamlike, meditative state. Stellar wind neutralizes the effect. Found by the Enterprise in 2301.
  • Other Notes: The mining colony is removing smaller deposits of the crystal scattered over the planet, which has uses in computing and transporter buffer construction. The main crystal lattice has been left alone and the effect it produces declared a protected natural wonder of the galaxy.
Biroth System
  • Approximate Location: -5a, Klingon Border Zone
  • Year Active: 2304
  • Production: +15 Sr/year, +5 RP/yea
  • See "Research Colonies" for more details.
Beta Corridan
  • Approximate Location: -1e, Apiata Sector.
  • Year Active: 2308
  • Production: +10 br / year, +10 sr / year
  • Description of Site: A population of Vertorium Nesters, rare deep-space organisms that are drawn to subtle radiation bands emitted by some ores, led to discovery of a number of ore deposits in the asteroid belts of Beta Corridan 31. The Sarek made the discovery in 2306.Q3. Additionally, in 2307.Q4 the Courageous led the sector fleet in diverting a rogue dwarf planet from smashing into the mining colony under construction and nudged the dwarf planet into a stable orbit around Beta Corridan.
  • Other Notes: As part of continuing security measures against the Ashalla Pact, a Starfleet Outpost has been located in the Beta Corridan system where it serves as a convenient stop-off between Leas Akaam and Apiata space. Exploitation of the asteroid field requires work by many dozens of tiny in-system mining ships whose occupants must spend days at a time in confined spaces, leading to a famously "rowdy" atmosphere when they are able to take leave in the comparatively spacious Outpost. The Outpost orbits the system's newly placed dwarf planet as a convenient gravitational anchor and source of common elements.
21 Themis VII
  • Approximate Location: -4e, Alukk Sector
  • Year Active: 2309
  • Production: 15 sr / year
  • Description of Site: Enormous EM fields generated by the 21 Themis VII gas giant cause ionising radiation to flood its thirty seven moons. This creates a fascinating advanced growth of Dilithium crystal in many instances. Discovered by the Sarek in 2307.Q3.
  • Other Notes: As part of continuing security measures against the Ashalla Pact, a Starfleet Outpost has been located in the 21 Themis System. This is of great comfort to the miners, who can retreat behind the stronger radiation shielding of the outpost and its amenities. As a Starfleet posting, however, it's something of a backwater as the borders have expanded and the nearby Gamma Canidae Starbase receives most of the local traffic.
Tagh Pakot
  • Approximate Location: -2b, high above the galactic plane in Tellar Sector
  • Year Active: 2312
  • Production: +10 sr / year
  • Description of Site: Exotic particle fields that have energized the rings of a gas giant. The gas giant's star is small but has a tremendous rotational speed, which when combined with the gases of the local nebula, generates a tetryonic field, which is sparking nucleosythesis, expelling exotic heavy particles out into its stellar wind. Much of these are being caught by the gravitational field of the gas giant and infusing into the rings. Many of the rocks in these planetary rings have pure dilithium at their cores. In addition, there are recoverable traces of many other very difficult to acquire minerals, such as the woznium used in warp core reaction chambers
  • Other Notes: The rings of Tagh Pakot are mined primarily by remote-operated drones, with drone operator miners living and working out of a small station in polar orbit. This is necessary in order to allow personnel to spend as much time as possible behind the station's extensive radiation shielding and avoid exposure to the tetryonic field. It's a boring lifestyle, and the station's crew is always eager to interact with their infrequent visitors.
Corvo
  • Approximate Location: -6c, outside the borders of patrolled Federation space, near the Lecarre, and along the path of Gorn outposts connecting Gorn space with the Dawiar
  • Year Active: 2313
  • Production: +10 sr/year
  • Description of Site: One of the fifteen moons of the system's sole gas giant is highly volcanic, and operates on an elliptical orbit that takes it from deep within the EM protection of the gas giant, to its outer reaches. This elliptical orbit gives the volcanic atmosphere of the planet regular bathings in radiation from its unusually close proximity to the system's primary, which converts much of the gas into substances that can be condensed into plasma coolant. Discovered by the Sarek in 2311.Q2.M1.
  • Other Notes: Outside regular Federation patrolled space, the early years of the Corvo colony were characterized by isolation and justifiable paranoia at the nearness of the Lecarre. Workers were recruited on the promise of working only half-year shifts, with the six months off-shift taken on the nearby beaches of Risa. However since the development of the Dawiar/Gorn trading network the small mining colony has found itself frequently visited by both Dawiar and Gorn freighters whose crew are looking for the novelty of meeting Federation citizens.
Peco Sigma
  • Approximate Location: -4c, Ferasa sector near Merfara
  • Year Active: 2315
  • Production: +10 sr/year
  • Description of Site: In a system where an old supernova occurred, stellar debris have been steadily cooling, and a great deal of matter is falling into a steady, if distant, orbit around the remaining neutron star. Stellar wind from the degenerate matter is mixing with the decaying isotopes generated by the r-process and creating a number of interesting materials that can be harvested with some proper safety precautions. Discovered by the Yukikaze in 2312.Q1.M1.
  • Other Notes: Harvesting these debris requires enormous filter nets of lightweight material hauled by massive in-system vessels, similar to how some large species of earth whales feed. The nets fill over a period of weeks before the vessels turn and return to the processing station where the material is refined and packed for transport. The system is considered to be a marvel of Caitian engineering.
Castor IV-2
  • Approximate Location: -6c, above the galactic plane near Risa
  • Year Active: 2315
  • Production: +20 sr/year
  • Description of Site: The second moon of the fourth planet of the system has unusually strong magma convection currents containing special materials such as Icurium ores, which are used in deflector emitters. It was discovered by the S'harien in 2313.Q4.M1.
  • Other Notes: Several novel techniques for high temperature magma mining were pioneered at this site. It is otherwise unremarkable and sees little traffic other than ore transporters.
Kohl II
  • Approximate Location: -4a, below the galactic plane in Andor Sector
  • Year Active: 2317
  • Production: 25 br & 25 sr /yr
  • Description of Site: In 2315.Q4.M3 the Sarek discovered an ancient supply cache of the Tkon, which had been preserved by being shunted into a form of slipstream space out of phase with the rest of the universe. As we many such T'kon remnants, the cache was concealed in caverns deep beneath the planet's surface with natural rock carved and shaped to conceal the facility's artificial nature.
  • Other Notes: While the site is incredibly productive in terms of starship construction resources of all sorts, there continue to be many reports of objects (though no people) seemingly phasing out of existence and then returning. As of yet, these sightings remain unconfirmed. In 2324.Q2 Klingon birds of prey briefly decloaked in the system as part of an effort to distract the sector fleet.
2 Curacao VII
  • Approximate Location: 4A, in Okatha Sector
  • Year Active: 2318
  • Production: 20 sr/yr
  • Description of Site: A gas giant at 2 Curacao VII, discovered by the Tarrak in 2317.Q1.M2, is harboring very dense pockets of important gaseous elements. These highly excitable gases are very dangerous, making safety a priority.
  • Other Notes: As part of continuing effort to secure the coreward region, the orbital mining station was expanded into a full Starfleet Outpost. At the request of the mining colony, the outpost's computer core was installed with extra capacity that allows it to fully simulate the fluidic environment of the gas giant atmosphere and increase the safety of the extraction teams.
An Arai V
  • Approximate Location: 2B, Rigel Sector
  • Year Active: 2319
  • Production: 10 sr/yr
  • Description of Site: In 2317.Q4.M2 the Sarek surveyed the An Arai system. One of the gas giants has an unusually weak magnetic field, and as a result, solar winds cause much more atmospheric disruption, including shedding some of the upper-layers, which are captured by the gas giant's many moons. One of these moons contains natural deposits of some exotic particles which, over millions of years of this behaviour, have become charged as Norcidium Sulphates, a key part of the tempering process for a number of our ultrastrong warp core building materials.
  • Other Notes: Due to constant infusions of gas from its primary's atmosphere, the moon the mining colony is built on has an atmosphere despite its relatively weak gravitational field. This results in a near-constant storm on the surface. Some miners have claimed they can hear meaningful words in the wind's howls, though most people think it's just a joke.
Freddy-419
  • Approximate Location: 3A, Rigel Sector
  • Year Active: 2321
  • Production: 20 sr/yr
  • Description of Site: In 2319.Q4.M3 the Vigour discovered a temporal phenomena linking to eight hundred thirty-one million years in the future, when the class W star known to us as Freddy-419 will undergo a core collapse and become a supernova. It produces a gamma ray burst that strikes a rogue planetoid, creating a natural, self-sustaining temporal reactor that instantly collapses into a temporal wormhole. The Vigour was able to set up a semi-stable temporal loop where some of the rare, transmuted materials are forced out of the future and into the past, causing them to disappear from the present when they are harvested in the future.
  • Other Notes: The system is under navigational control, with freighters directed on a tight course to the refinery where rare materials are gathered for transport out of the system. Rumors that there is a secret temporal research station have been repeatedly dismissed. Besides, if it existed they'd probably place it 100 years in the future.
Ruby-Eye's Folly
  • Approximate Location: -8d, adjacent to both Lecarre and Trill and in designated Ruby Eyes' Folly Patrol Zone.
  • Year Active: 2322
  • Production: was 20 sr/yr (now base 10 sr/year after sharing)
  • Description of Site: In 2320.Q3.M1 the S'harien discovered a starbase-sized facility built into one of the largest of the system's asteroids. The original builders of the asteroid base are unknown, but it is currently inhabited by hishmeri and brosmen fleeing the Livefleet. It was a mining station originally; the surrounding asteroids are thick with exotic materials, everything from woznium to dilithium to tzo crystals. The Federation was able to set up its own mining facility in the system, which contains enough resources to support both claims. However in 2322.Q1, immediately after the Federation's mining station finished, the Ittick-ka laid claim to the system stating they had deeded it to the Hishmeri. At the same time, the Federation agreed to share the system with the Dawiar as a favor to the Gorn. In response the Federation established a Patrol Zone for the area.
  • Other Notes: The Hishmeri in the system are trading with the Ashidi freighters to sell the products of their mining. Dawiar freighters move in and out to take their share, guarded by patrols of Dawiar ships. Starfleet's REF sector fleet bases itself here. This is a busy system with three separate stations (one Dawiar, one Starfleet, one Hishmeri), all of which are hubs for diplomacy and trade in addition to their mining output.
Dark Shoal
  • Approximate Location: -6e, Imelak Border Zone
  • Year Active: 2322
  • Production: 20 (35) sr/yr
  • Description of Site: In 2320.Q3.M2 the Odyssey investigated a star system corresponding to the "Dark Shoal" of Fiiral religious tradition, into which a number of interstellar expeditions had disappeared. The system's star is dark, cold, surface smooth with thin lines hinting at crystallization. It's a black dwarf, a star that shouldn't exist. Crisscrossing beams of strange physics cut across the system,. Based on how some of beams bloom as if striking some sort of deflector screen, the current theory is that this system was the site of some titanic battle, between two fleets using weapons almost beyond our comprehension. The intense EM emission comes from the convergence of several thousand of these anomalous beams, which could have been concentrated fire on some important flagship or installation. If this battle happened in the distant past, the future, or is the afterimage of colossal energies released in some other dimension entirely is a matter of considerable debate. Shortly after the Odyssey reached the inner system, the object orbiting the black dwarf accelerated upwards at warp 25, relative to the galactic plane. The star transitioned to a white dwarf as normal physical laws suddenly applied to it. The minerals in this system are pure and in large quantities, so so after placing navigational beacons to avoid the weapons fire and a shield erected in the front of the EM source, it was possible to build a station and start mining operations.
  • Other Notes: Every miner who works in this system agrees it is "spooky as hell". In their off shifts, several amateur archeological teams are slowly mapping the system in an attempt to locate the wreckage of the destroyed Fiiral ships and who knows... perhaps the fabled sword of King Hiir-Addit, the Fiiral king who supposedly threw it into the black star to prevent capture.
Sael II
  • Approximate Location: -5e, Rethelia Sector
  • Year Active: 2323
  • Production: 20 sr/year
  • Description of Site: Deep underground, where neither light nor transporters can penetrate, dwells a strange species of feline. These unusual cats have a usual habit - they collect shiny objects, including, notably, deposits of Seralium. The size of the deposits represents hundreds, even thousands, of years of collecting. Giant echolocating spiders inhabit the same deep tunnels as the Seralium-collecting felines. The cats take advantage of the spiders, building lairs near them and relying on them to intimidate would-be attackers. The mining colony uses a similar arrangement and convinces the cats to bring their shiny crystals to colony collection points by mimicking the vibrations and scents of the giant spiders to attract the cats. Discovered by the Selaya in 2321.Q2.M1.
  • Other Notes: But no one asked, what "would-be attackers" are the spiders guarding the cats from? Sael II has an ecosystem that would make a Yan-Ros smile indulgently, and the "mining colony" is mostly a fortified camp from which you do not venture without arms and armor. On the plus side, the cats have proven amenable to being tamed and there is even potential for domestication.
Calculated Risk (Joint colony with ISC)
  • Approximate Location: 3e, midway between the patrolled Gabriel Border Zone and Interstellar Commonwealth territory.
  • Year Active: 2324
  • Production: 15 br/year, 10 sr/year
  • Description of Site: In 2323.Q1.M2 the Zarayet, joined with the Vigour and the CSF Illuminator to survey systems on the border of our the UFP and ISC's respective GBZ sectors. They located a valuable asteroid containing rare materials about to collide with a gas giant and were able to boost it back into stable orbit around the gas giant. The system is highly radioactive and magnetic, requiring strong shielding on mining stations to prevent radiation poisoning.
  • Other Notes: The usual monotony of mining operations in a vacuum (nowhere to go off shift) are somewhat alleviated by the entertainment of Federation and ISC citizens interacting with each other. The miners have formed amateur theater companies and are taking turns putting on plays for each other.
71 Apizza V
  • Approximate Location: upper-middle of -1g, in the Adrazzi Gulf
  • Year Active: 2324
  • Production: 15 SR/year
  • Description of Site: 71 Apizza V is a lush world well within the habitable zone of the system, but with a toxic atmosphere that lethal to humanoid life. Mining the Ocyllete resin requires full hard suits to be worn at all times when on the planetary surface. Discovered by the Excalibur as part of Task Force Boldly in 2322.Q3.
  • Other Notes: 71 Apizza is in the center of the Badlands, a stretch of space that distorts navigation, sensor readings, and communications. This, paired with the knowledge it would be a target for raids during any Ashalla Pact offensive, makes working the mine a somewhat nervous affair even as the mining itself is perfectly straightforward. Even more than most such stations, the miners know that if trouble strikes then rescue might be far away. The Apiata outpost at Lapruzziz checks on them frequently.
105 Arrazziz I
  • Approximate Location: 0g, 2ly spinwards of 101 Arrazziz in the Adrazzi Gulf
  • Year Active: 2324
  • Production: 25 sr/year
  • Description of Site: 105 Arrazziz I contains significant concentrations of dilithium; though exploitation is complicated by the planet's proximity to its star making surface temperatures quite hot. Specialized heat shedding technology is required to allow for long term occupation.
  • Other Notes: 05 Arrazziz I is located in the Badlands, a stretch of space that distorts navigation, sensor readings, and communications. This, paired with the knowledge it would be a target for raids during any Ashalla Pact offensive, makes working the mine a somewhat nervous affair even as the mining itself is perfectly straightforward. In an emergency, 105 Arrazziz has an agreement with the listening post at 101 Arrazziz (on the far side of the Badlands) to respond to each other's distress calls using a small runabout fleet.
17 Onidesin IV
  • Approximate Location: -2g, tailwards, Adrazzi Gulf
  • Year Active: Expected completion 2325.Q2
  • Production: 20 sr/year
  • Description of Site: In 2323.Q1 the Kepler, working as part of TF Boldly, discovered an exploitable vein of Woninium on 17 Onidesin IV, about half a kilometer under the planetary ocean's surface.
  • Other Notes: Perhaps surprisingly, this is the first underwater mining colony Starfleet has built in a number of decades. The sophonts in Starfleet Engineering Command are having a lot of fun with this one, updating old designs with newer technologies.
Collie
  • Approximate Location: 1f, anchor for the Gabriel Border Zone
  • Year Active: 2314
  • Production: 10 br/yr, 15 sr/yr
  • Description of Site: A Class M world with mine-able deposits of a number of important spaceship metals and exotic materials. Gateway to and logistical hub for the Gabriel Border Zone, protected by both an outpost and a starbase.
  • Other Notes: The weather on Collie is famously awful, pretty much planetwide, as well as extreme tectonic activity. The entire mining colony was destroyed and then rebuilt during the Gabriel conflict.
19 Dorsata II
  • Approximate Location: 1g, spinwards of the badlands in the Gabriel Border Zone.
  • Year Active: 2320
  • Production: 10 sr/yr
  • Description of Site: Claimed during the Gabriel expansion. No details.
  • Other Notes:
29 Baker V
  • Approximate Location: 2e, Gabriel Border Zone
  • Year Active: 2317
  • Production: 10 sr/yr mine
  • Description of Site: Mining colony placed during the Gabriel Expansion.
  • Other Notes: System hosts Starfleet outpost and has minor colony potential.

BR Colonies

Josephine III
  • Approximate Location: -3a, Andor Sector
  • Year Active: 2304
  • Production: 20 Br/year
  • Description of Site: A mineral-rich world that can be easily exploited, found by the Sarek in 2301.
  • Other Notes: An icy, unpleasant world with gravity just high enough to be irritating but not high enough to be worth grav plating to reduce it and an unbreathable atmosphere. Miners here are usually desperate for any entertainment that might come their way.
Pygmalion 337 IV-3
  • Approximate Location: -4b, in Ferasa Sector.
  • Year Active: 2307
  • Production: +20 br / year
  • Description of Site: The 3773 Canyon Feature contains a large deposit of Victoride Oxide Ore, one of the key components in Victurium alloy, a notoriously disruptive component used in starship hulls. Discovered in 2305.Q1 by the Courageous.
  • Other Notes: In 2321.Q1.M2, the Defiant encountered a magnetic cosmozoan in an asteroid field near Pygmalion 337. It was accidentally killed in an attempting to relocate it to Ferasa's outer belt to help in mining activities, but where there was one there is possibly a greater cosmozoan ecosystem.
Beta Corridan
  • Approximate Location: -1e, Apiata Sector.
  • Year Active: 2308
  • Production: +10 br / year, +10 sr / year
  • See "SR Colonies" for more details.
Galus V
  • Approximate Location: -2/-3e, well above the galactic plane, Apinae sector
  • Year Active: 2309
  • Production: 15 br / year
  • Description of Site: At a rough midway point between Amarkia and Indoria, although higher on the galactic plane, there is a world that would be suitable for a mining colony. Discovered by the Miracht on its first mission in 2306.Q1.
  • Other Notes: Though not suitable for settlement without significant bioforming, Galus V has an atmosphere where you can walk outside without wearing a vacuum suit on a surface with temperatures acceptable for humanoid life. Mining assignments are long term and visits by anything other than freighters picking up ore are extremely rare.
Gamma Canidae
  • Approximate Location: -4e, Apinae Sector (Straits of Themis)
  • Year Active: 2311
  • Production: +20 br / year
  • Description of Site: The fifth planet in the Gamma Canidae system has a heavy presence of co-mingled carbon arkanides and trace amounts of Woznium through the planet's crust. Gamma Canidae V proved to be a very rich source of resources, which will be productive for a considerable length of time. It was discovered by the Sarek in 2309.Q1. In 2319.Q4 the mining colony the suffered a sudden outbreak of Choriocytosis, which was relieved by three thousand doses of Strobolin-B delivered by the Salnas.
  • Other Notes: The mining colony at Gamma Canidae V is somewhat overshadowed by the starbase that was completed there in 2321, meant to safeguard the Straits of Themis during the brief existence of the Themis Border Zone. Today it still serves as a valuable stopover for traffic between Rethelia or Fiiral and Indorian space, particularly given the desire to allow 'breathing space' for the newly discovered Ur'razzi. Consequently, the mine site is extremely well supplied and connected to the rest of the Federation.
Lapycorias VII
  • Approximate Location: -3f, Cardassian Border Zone
  • Year Active: 2311
  • Production: +20 br / year
  • Description of Site: Lapycorias VII has substantial duranium deposits should keep any mine in operation for centuries. These were discovered by the Sarek in 2309.Q3. The mining colony was constructed in simultaneously with a starbase intended to allow the system to serve as an anchor for the rimward half of the Carddassian Border Zone. In 2310 Q4 the Courageous discovered an additional mining colony site on Lapycorias XII, the furthest planet from the primary.
  • Other Notes: Intended from the beginning to support a key defensive interstellar position, the mines of Lapycorias have been augmented with extensive underground bunkers meant to allow a ground force to hold out for months or years even against Cardassian orbital control and/or bombardment. In the event the Lapycorias starbase is captured or destroyed during a war with the Ashalla Pact, the intent is that a holdout group would be able to remain in the tunnels and operate a ground-based subspace sensor network that would continue to collect information on Ashalla Pact ship movements near the system and transmit them back to Federation forces.
Lapycorias XIII
  • Approximate Location: -3f, Cardassian Border Zone
  • Year Active:
  • Production: +25 br / year
  • Description of Site: In 2310 Q4 the Courageous discovered an additional mining colony site on Lapycorias XII, the furthest planet from the primary, in same system that already hosted a starbase and a mining colony on Lapycorias VII.
  • Other Notes: Captain Straak has expressed recriminations (in a Vulcan manner) at missing the XII site during his initial survey in 2309. This was likely due to the orbit of Lapcorias XII placing it at the extreme opposite side of the system from VII during the survey. XII is a cold, remote, vacuum world, but mineral extraction is comparatively easy and the workers operate out of a small but cozy orbiting station.
Ulen Gao VII
  • Approximate Location: 2B, Rigel Sector
  • Year Active: 2315
  • Production: +20 br/year
  • Description of Site: System near the Laio with resource vein discovered by the Odyssey in 2314.Q1.M1.
  • Other Notes: A very standard standard planet-based mine on a large vein of duranium, its lack of any unique requirements has allowed Ulen Gao VII to become something of a showpiece demonstrating Federation mining techniques for the Laio. For the past decade a steady stream of Laian "students" take shifts at the mine to learn techniques and technologies that they can take home and use in Laian mining operations.
Piara V
  • Approximate Location: 1C, in the Licori Border Zone.
  • Year Active: 2317
  • Production: 25 br/yr
  • Description of Site: A very large tritanium deposit exists along the northern hemisphere of this world. Discovered by the Hood in 2314.Q3.M1. In 2323.Q4.M1 the Bon Vivant responded to a distress call by a Yan-Ros team trying to produce electromagnetic fields by electrifying crystals found in the tailings of the Piara V tritanium mine that would tranquilize some of Vail's native wildlife. The specimen, a "Cruncher", ate the polycarbon cladding of the Piara colony domes. This was problematic, as the local biosphere contains substances likely to cause near-fatal allergic reactions among many of the miners if the domes are breached. On a positive note, the crystals can substitute for trellium buffering media in low-end applications, to free up supplies of the rare mineral.
  • Other Notes: Unsurprisingly, the mining colony is now extremely skeptical of research teams of any sort, especially Yan-Ros.
Mica III
  • Approximate Location: 2B, Rigel sector near Abadan
  • Year Active: 2317
  • Production: 25 br /yr
  • Description of Site: In 2315.Q3.M2 the Atuin discovered a solid source of duranium mid-way between Kleda and Ulen Gao.
  • Other Notes: An unremarkable ground mining operation.
Kohl II
  • Approximate Location: -4a, below the galactic plane in Andor Sector
  • Year Active: 2317
  • Production: 25 br & 25 sr /yr
  • See "SR Colonies" for more information
Fornost VII-19
  • Approximate Location: -1d, Amarkia Sector
  • Year Active: 2318
  • Production: 40 br/yr
  • Description of Site: An Amarkian survey team conducting deep-crust sample coring inadvertantly caused a loss of planetary integrity, revealing vast supplies of duranium hidden in the moon's core. The Kearsage rescued them in 2317.Q1.M3.
  • Other Notes: While the mine is very productive, the instability of the moon requires use of starship-grade structural integrity fields throughout the mining base. An accompanying SIF engineering team works constantly to ensure their maintenance and function.
Kappa Tau
  • Approximate Location: 1C, Licori Border Zone
  • Year Active: 2318
  • Production: 15 br/yr
  • Description of Site: In 2313.Q2.M1 the Odyssey discovered that one of the inner planets of the Kappa Tau star system has a solid and sustainable vein of duranium ore, with a number of other exotic compounds used in warp coils.
  • Other Notes: The star system has both an Outpost and a Starbase, serving as an anchor for the Licori Border Zone and would be expected to hold the approach to Betazed in the event of hostilities from that direction. As with a similar starbase/mine setup on Lapycorius VII, emergency holdout shelters have been constructed deep in the mines to allow for a small observation team to remain even if the starbase is abandoned. Absent such an event, the minders enjoy having the facilities of a starbase available as well as frequent visits from Arcadian traders on their way to Federation space.
Proxima Eridani
  • Approximate Location: -1A, below the galactic plane in Vulcan sector
  • Year Active: 2318
  • Production: 15 br/yr
  • Description of Site: In 2313.Q2.M3 the Sappho overcame interference patterns formed by lycinerite crystals and uncovered rich duranium seams in a subterranean cavern system.
  • Other Notes: The lycinerate crystals have continued to cause issues in mapping the caverns, even as the mining operations continue. Mapping work that would ordinarily be done by sensor systems is instead carried out by miners manually exploring the vast cavern systems with hand sampler kits. On the plus side, it's a paradise for caving enthusiasts.
Sigma Delphi
  • Approximate Location: C2, Licori Border Zone
  • Year Active: 2323
  • Production: 20 br/yr
  • Description of Site: The Sigma Delphi binary white dwarf system's innermost planet is an ice world with methane oceans and a great deposit of woznium, a super-dense element used principally in warp core reaction chambers. Its eccentric orbit periodically takes it between the binary stars' orbit. The materials interact with the tremendous gravitational forces and generate a spur of space-time curvature that that extends out into passing space lanes. Discovered by the Lexington in 2322.Q1.M1.
  • Other Notes: The mining site will have to be periodically abandoned whenever the planet's orbit takes it between the binary stars, something that fortunately occurs only every 5.2 years or so and for a period of 3 months (including safety margin). Not that anyone will be too sorry to leave an ice world with methane oceans; there's nowhere to go and nothing to do but hang around the hab-domes when you're off-shift.
Calculated Risk (Joint colony with ISC)
  • Approximate Location: 3e, midway between the patrolled Gabriel Border Zone and Interstellar Commonwealth territory.
  • Year Active: 2324
  • Production: 15 br/year, 10 sr/year
  • See "SR Colonies" for more details
41 Arrazziz
  • Approximate Location: middle of 0g, in the Adrazzi Gulf
  • Year Active: 2324
  • Production: 20 br/year
  • Description of Site: Operating under TF Boldly in 2322.Q2, the USS Hawking and Zorirazza uncovered a substantial deposit of coralinite, suitable for exploitation, under the surface of a Kuiper belt object. The mining colony is cold and far from its star, with boredom a constant enemy.
  • Other Notes: 41 Arrazziz is is in the center of the Badlands, a stretch of space that distorts navigation, sensor readings, and communications. This, paired with the knowledge it would be a target for raids during any Ashalla Pact offensive, makes working the mine a somewhat nervous affair even as the mining itself is perfectly straightforward.
Falling Down
  • Approximate Location: -6d, Imelak Border Zone
  • Year Active: Expected completion 2325.Q2
  • Production: 20 br/year
  • Description of Site: In 2322.Q3.M1 the Incorruptible discovered a gas giant similar to Sol-V with a captive moon whose orbit hads decayed enough to bring it into the intense radiation belt of the gas giant. This charged the large tritanium deposits in the moon's crust, causing them to emit energy anomalies capable of destroying ships. As part of the effort to construct a mining colony for the tritanium, the STO has lent some ships to move the moon into a more stable orbit outside the radiation belt.
  • Other Notes: A Gaeni member of the design crew has suggested building a radiation generator that would allow the colony to reproduce the original energy anomaly at will as a "self defense measure", ostensibly because of the proximity of the Lecarre.
Collie
  • Approximate Location: 1f, anchor for the Gabriel Border Zone
  • Year Active: 2314
  • Production: 10 br/yr, 15 sr/yr
  • See "SR Colonies" for more details.
41 Miele IV
  • Approximate Location: 1e, near Sydraxian Border, Gabriel Border Zone.
  • Year Active: 2316
  • Production: 25br/yr
  • Description of Site: Class C frozen rock. Colony planted during Gabriel expansion.
  • Other Notes: This system also contains a Starfleet Outpost and 41 Miele II in the same system is a Class L habitable planet with minor colony potential.
29 Baker II
  • Approximate Location: 2e, Gabriel Border Zone
  • Year Active: 2318
  • Production: 15 sr/yr mine
  • Description of Site: Mining colony placed during the Gabriel Expansion.
  • Other Notes: System hosts Starfleet outpost and has minor colony potential.
 
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Not sure how that all that explains Geordi's eyes but maybe his mom got hit by Horrible Space Radiation and it wasn't fixable or something.
Well, maybe a combo of that and allergies? Kirk was allergic to whatever it was they did in his day that eliminated the need for glasses (I WOULD SHANK A FLOCK OF GEESE FOR THAT). Maybe it's one of those "one in a million" sort of things, where several factors came together to mean they couldn't just give him his regular eyes back?
 
Well, maybe a combo of that and allergies? Kirk was allergic to whatever it was they did in his day that eliminated the need for glasses (I WOULD SHANK A FLOCK OF GEESE FOR THAT). Maybe it's one of those "one in a million" sort of things, where several factors came together to mean they couldn't just give him his regular eyes back?
Maybe it's because Geordi has Special Eyes and in the Federation's anti-capitalist dystopia, there's no 1-800-CONTACTS to ensure he receives his brand.
 
Sael II
  • Approximate Location: -5e, Rethelia Sector
  • Year Active: 2323
  • Production: 20 sr/year
  • Description of Site: Deep underground, where neither light nor transporters can penetrate, dwells a strange species of feline. These unusual cats have a usual habit - they collect shiny objects, including, notably, deposits of Seralium. The size of the deposits represents hundreds, even thousands, of years of collecting. Giant echolocating spiders inhabit the same deep tunnels as the Seralium-collecting felines. The cats take advantage of the spiders, building lairs near them and relying on them to intimidate would-be attackers. The mining colony uses a similar arrangement and convinces the cats to bring their shiny crystals to colony collection points by mimicking the vibrations and scents of the giant spiders to attract the cats. Discovered by the Selaya in 2321.Q2.M1.
  • Other Notes:On the plus side, the cats have proven amenable to being tamed and there is even potential for domestication.

But can the Giant Echolocating Spiders be domesticated?

 
Other Notes: Athos is most notable for being the sole joint Federation-Romulan research center and indeed the sole joint Federation-Romulan continuing operation in the Neutral Zone. Its minor value as a research center for biological/subspace interactions has been far eclipsed by its major value as a location for discreet diplomatic exchanges on neutral ground.
It would be nice to see that mechanically. If it wasn't a Major Power, relation points would be appropriate, but here... maybe PPs?

I am not saying this out of greed, I just really like IC appropriate rewards/penalties. Even if they are lower/greater then they would otherwise be.

Most importantly of all, the station has a well-stocked sickbay and fast runabout on ready for when the next ship comes through, if it does. Whatever is being done to these ships appears to have conscious intent behind it, and who knows- next time they might miss eliminating some well-hidden crew member and leave them in need of rescue.
This is so very UFP. I approve!

Other Notes: The mining colony is removing smaller deposits of the crystal scattered over the planet, which has uses in computing and transporter buffer construction. The main crystal lattice has been left alone and the effect it produces declared a protected natural wonder of the galaxy.
Good! I would be very disappointed if that was not the case.


Excellent omake BV! Thanks a lot for fleshing out our universe so much!
 
It would be nice to see that mechanically. If it wasn't a Major Power, relation points would be appropriate, but here... maybe PPs?

I am not saying this out of greed, I just really like IC appropriate rewards/penalties. Even if they are lower/greater then they would otherwise be.


This is so very UFP. I approve!


Good! I would be very disappointed if that was not the case.


Excellent omake BV! Thanks a lot for fleshing out our universe so much!

I checked, and that Omake was about 7.5K words. It must have taken forever to write that, speaking from experience.
 
It would be nice to see that mechanically. If it wasn't a Major Power, relation points would be appropriate, but here... maybe PPs?

I am not saying this out of greed, I just really like IC appropriate rewards/penalties. Even if they are lower/greater then they would otherwise be.


This is so very UFP. I approve!


Good! I would be very disappointed if that was not the case.


Excellent omake BV! Thanks a lot for fleshing out our universe so much!

Not mechanical, but Athos V has had a few concrete benefits already. Admiral Yang was able to covertly meet with Federation legal scholars, which led to some changes to the new Romulan constitution. And looking farther back, I believe the groundwork for the Treaty of Mars was done there. So we might not get PP from it, but it has meant we haven't had to worry greatly about Romulan aggression for almost two decades.
 
I checked, and that Omake was about 7.5K words.

As someone who's had to do whole-thread surveys based on the Miranda thing, that's not the most impressive part. This stuff isn't listed anywhere. I'm guessing the process went Review Snakepit Posts -> Compile List -> Search Thread For Colony Names, but even so it's still an awful lot of work.

(Speaking of which, wiki transfer time)
 
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As someone who's had to do whole-thread surveys based on the Miranda thing, that's not the most impressive part. This stuff isn't listed anywhere. I'm guessing the process went Review Snakepit Posts -> Compile List -> Search Thread For Colony Names, but even so it's still an awful lot of work.

(Speaking of which, wiki transfer time)

I've used lbmaian's ToBoldlyGo Audit Ledger from the Public Spreadsheet Index for looking up colonies and colony income before. (Income tab, scroll down past the core worlds.) I don't know if it'll be updated for 2324, though.

That said, if you're gonna wiki this stuff, could you maybe fit in the current colony income bonuses somewhere? We currently have:

  • +5 RP/year from research colonies ([T2] 2310s Computing Installations, [T3] 2320s Research Centers, [T4] 2330s Mobile Computing, [T3] 2320s Colony Datanets)
  • +3 RP/year from non-research colonies ([T4] 2330s Colony Cores, [T3] 2320s Colony Datanets)
  • +1 pp/year per Colony ([T4] 2330s Colony Cores)
  • +15 BR/year from BR mining colonies ([T1] ToC Mineral Technology, [T2] 2310s Bulk Resources, [T3] Dispersed Industry)
  • +25 SR/year from SR mining colonies ([T1] ToC Mineral Technology, [T2] 2310s Special Resources, [T3] 2320s Special Refining, [T4] 2330s Special Refining, [T3] Dispersed Industry)
Of course, this isn't all of our income. In addition to our member/affiliate incomes, we have a bunch of one-off bonuses that provide annual income. Not just omake bonuses, but also things like the T'Kon resource synthesizer the Kadeshi Expedition found that gives +10 SR per year. It's probably better to leave all that in spreadsheet form than try to wiki all of it...
 
Dark Shoal
  • Approximate Location: -6e, Imelak Border Zone
  • Year Active: 2322
  • Production: 20 (35) sr/yr
  • Description of Site: In 2320.Q3.M2 the Odyssey investigated a star system corresponding to the "Dark Shoal" of Fiiral religious tradition, into which a number of interstellar expeditions had disappeared. The system's star is dark, cold, surface smooth with thin lines hinting at crystallization. It's a black dwarf, a star that shouldn't exist. Crisscrossing beams of strange physics cut across the system,. Based on how some of beams bloom as if striking some sort of deflector screen, the current theory is that this system was the site of some titanic battle, between two fleets using weapons almost beyond our comprehension. The intense EM emission comes from the convergence of several thousand of these anomalous beams, which could have been concentrated fire on some important flagship or installation. If this battle happened in the distant past, the future, or is the afterimage of colossal energies released in some other dimension entirely is a matter of considerable debate. Shortly after the Odyssey reached the inner system, the object orbiting the black dwarf accelerated upwards at warp 25, relative to the galactic plane. The star transitioned to a white dwarf as normal physical laws suddenly applied to it. The minerals in this system are pure and in large quantities, so so after placing navigational beacons to avoid the weapons fire and a shield erected in the front of the EM source, it was possible to build a station and start mining operations.
  • Other Notes: Every miner who works in this system agrees it is "spooky as hell". In their off shifts, several amateur archeological teams are slowly mapping the system in an attempt to locate the wreckage of the destroyed Fiiral ships and who knows... perhaps the fabled sword of King Hiir-Addit, the Fiiral king who supposedly threw it into the black star to prevent capture.

I forgot about how hilariously weird this one was. Just this physically impossible stellar object that turned back to normal when we took a closer look.
 
so on the off chance i might put some food for thought here.

are we at some point going to make more work of the mining / refining / anything else thing we can do with colony`s
because apparently those open up options for old ones and new ones too
 
Omake rewards:
@Briefvoice for the Starfleet Colony Survey, choose one:
[ ][COL] Create the concept for the next BR colony site. If there is no BR Colony event in 2325.Q1, we will change one mapping event to be a BR colony event (featuring your concept).
[ ][COL] Create the concept for the next SR colony site. If there is no SR Colony event in 2325.Q1, we will change one mapping event to be a SR colony event (featuring your concept).
[ ][COL] Create the concept for the next RP colony site. If there is no RP Colony event in 2325.Q1, we will change one mapping event to be an RP colony event (featuring your concept).

@SynchronizedWritersBlock for the 200 Berth Strategy, choose one:
[ ][BERTH] -2 pp to the cost of the first new Starfleet shipyard ordered at snakepit
[ ][BERTH] Pick a Federation member; a snakepit project will be available in 2325 to provide Starfleet support for construction of new berths to be operated by that member.
[ ][BERTH] Pick a Federation ally; a snakepit project will be available in 2325 to provide Starfleet support for construction of new berths to be operated by that ally.

@Voikirium, for Swords & Stares, choose one:
[ ][DOB] +3 relations with the Dobetian Commonwealth
[ ][DOB] +3 on [Distant Stars] tag on the Dobetian Commonwealth
[ ][DOB] +2 pp

@SakSak for Klingon Logistics Wants You!, choose one:
[ ][KLING] In 2325, gain +1 analysis point on the Klingon Empire
[ ][KLING] -2 pp to the cost of the next extra auxiliary ship build order (of any type)
[ ][KLING] Pick a power to have their efficiency increased, resulting in a higher infra income for that power.

@75% Certain for Inside of the Empire, choose one:
[ ][KDF] Help write a (Starfleet) captain's log in the KBZ.
[ ][KDF] Reroll the next event failure in the KBZ; regardless of the results of the reroll, the KDF will be involved in the event.
[ ][KDF] Get +1 on the next Explorer Corps event involving Klingons

@Night for Tell 'Em I Ain't Coming Back, choose one:
[ ][HOME] Reroll the first failed event involving whatever ship Dilear Rincler is assigned to after she finishes re-training for Starfleet.
[ ][HOME] Get +1 on the next mapping event in Alukk Sector
[ ][HOME] +2 pp

@Derpmind for Everyone Else Keeps Trying, choose one:
[ ][SPY] In 2325, gain +1 point in Research Signals Decryption
[ ][SPY] Gain +5 on Positronic Theory
[ ][SPY] An event in 2325 will directly involve an operative from one of the intelligence services mentioned in the omake.
 
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[O][BERTH] Pick a Federation member; a snakepit project will be available in 2325 to provide Starfleet support for construction of new berths to be operated by that member.

The [O] Confederacy of Amarki Navy are going to need a serious berth build program or update program to transition from 1mt cruisers to 1.5mt+ cruisers, which should be available either with 2325 technology (phaser arrays) or 2327 (isolinear). They have nothing but the single 3mt and single 2.5mt Riala berths right now.
 
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