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The closest I have gotten to a convincing argument in favor came from my XO, and he's not even a Vulcan himself, for all that he pretends to be one. He argued that we Vulcans may be able to temper the Romulans' worst impulses if we join; however, I pointed out that such a union would put us under the same flag as a weakened polity that has fought and lost two wars in recent memory, leaving us under threat in the event of a new war with the Klingons or the Breen. Besides, we would be leaving the economic security of the Federation for the uncertainty of the postwar Romulans, and our political freedoms would be weaker under the Romulan constitution, and it is in no way our duty to 'temper' the Romulans, even assuming they would listen, AND -

I am becoming overly emotional about this subject.

Computer, end log.
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...Oh god, Captain Paranoid Analytical meets the Anti-Brexit.

Personal Log, Stardate 24072.5, Commander Miguel Savea - USS Curiosity
(Human, male)

This whole reunification thing has been hitting T'Arvit pretty hard lately. This morning, I arrived early at medbay, only to find the Captain already there, poring over scans of a normal-looking Vulcan brain, running analysis after analysis on it. When I asked for more details about the case, she said that it was her own. To her, reunification is too bizarre a prospect to be real, so she's searching for evidence of delusions or hallucinations or her own memory having been altered.
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Poor T'Arvit.

Personal Log, Stardate 24079.7, Lieutenant Commander Zonshu blasch Furlav - USS Curiosity
(Tellarite, female)

Hypothesis: Captain T'Arvit has hypothesized that the recent push for Vulcan reunification is a Romulan plot.

Fact: USS Curiosity, at my direction, has been monitoring IRW Mol'Rihan's message traffic.
Fact: IRW Mol'Rihan sent a single message to Vulcan after arrival at Ornsh, namely a rebroadcast of Velim announcing her support for reunification.
Fact: IRW Mol'Rihan has sent zero messages to Vulcan since our departure from Ornsh.
Fact: IRW Mol'Rihan averages about 97 outbound messages a day.
Opinion: IRW Mol'Rihan has sent normal message traffic for a spaceship of her size, all directed towards various parts of the Romulan Star Empire.
Opinion: IRW Mol'Rihan's impending visit to Vulcan has generated an ordinary amount of news coverage for this sort of event.
Fact: IRW Mol'Rihan has rejected all 97 requests for interviews received thus far.
Opinion: Empress Velim is concerned about damaging the prospects for reunification.
Opinion: Empress Velim may not privately desire reunification.
Conjecture: IRW Mol'Rihan may have hidden messages to agents on Vulcan within ordinary message traffic.
Fact: Without permission to intercept messages sent by IRW Mol'Rihan, USS Curiosity cannot confirm or deny the above conjecture.

Fact: USS Curiosity's social sciences section has, at my direction, been analyzing polling data on the topic of Vulcan-Romulan reunification.
Fact: Support for reunification has risen from an average of 23% to an average of 49.7% in the past four weeks.
Fact: Polling analysis shows a 97% correlation between polls.
Opinion: This is an unusually high level of correlation between polls.
Conjecture: If polling on the reunification referendum is inaccurate, it is inaccurate in the same direction.
Conjecture: It is unlikely that the polling collectives are following any one (suborned) leader, based on patterns in the data and the nature of Vulcan polling collectives.
Counterargument: Four weeks of data is inadequate to make valid conclusions about polling data.

Fact: At my direction, USS Curiosity's political science division, in cooperation with our Underway Intelligence section, has conducted roleplaying-based simulations of the ramifications of a reunified Vulcan Star Empire (VSE).
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Leslie:

"Oh yeah, I remember the ones we used to do back at the Academy. And the time Hikaru damn near set off Galaxy War One by throwing paper airplanes."

Opinion: Reunification does not make sense.
Conjecture: Empress Velim may have not expected reunification to actually pass.
Conjecture: Empress Velim may have been attempting to signal a warmer stance towards the Federation in general.
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Ah crapbaskets.

This really IS the anti-Brexit. Like, the exact opposite of a Brexit, the mirror image of one in which every feature is preserved except opposite.

Vunion?

First Officer's Log, Stardate 24089, USS Curiosity
(Ambassador, EC -> Vulcan Sector)

CENG reports warp coil efficiency at 97%. Curiosity is holding steady at Warp 9.7.

Tactical reports shield strength at 97% of maximum. This will need to be improved. Hull integrity is also inadequate, at... 97%.

Operations reports overall crew efficiency rating of ... 97% over Curiosity's first month in commission.

Medical reports ... ... 97 cases over the last month.

This is improbable.
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@_@

Personal Log, Stardate 24062, Captain T'Arvit
(Vulcan, female)

The '97' plan worked, and when the simulation terminated, Dr. Savea, Commander Nalaya, Lieutenant Commander blasch Furlav, and I found ourselves on the floor of the high-energy physics lab of USS Curiosity. Apparently, we have been out of phase with the universe for seven days, in spite of the fact that we perceived ourselves as having been inside the simulation for much longer.

I wish I knew the motives behind the simulation. I cannot determine what our kidnapper has, or would have, gained, nor how they accomplished this. I cannot even determine who our kidnapper might have been. Perhaps whoever did this was simply filled with… curiosity about our possible actions.

Curiosity is unfortunately late for the ceremonies at Ornsh. However, I am relieved to note that the universe is back to normal levels of illogic.
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Yay!

Normal levels of illogic!

Also, GOD, this is one of the best pieces of conspiracy-weirdness-crypto-whozit writing I've seen that wasn't written in the '90s.
 
Well that was an extremely trippy log. Really interesting though, and pretty tense during the parts where you though that something might actually happen on Reunification.
 
AntiSanity said:
Are we sure that 27 isn't our number? Or just 7's?

The whole log was a rollercoaster of emotions for me.

At one point, I was thinking: Vexit, possibly from widespread HoH infiltration of the populace without our knowledge? Especially when it said Velim didn't want it but proposed it and it was almost going to win.

EDIT: Oh crap. Sevens... turns out our simulation number is just seven.
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Well, that's not that crazy. I mean, we'd need a big trend of 7s to really be weird.
KnightDisciple threw 1 100-faced dice. Reason: Definitely not a simulation Total: 2
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i am not at all sure whatever the heck that was or was not.

but that was one very interesting way to kick things off with the logs.

still nice to know vulcan is not stepping out and joining the romulan`s for random reasons out of the blue
 
The five new Ambassadors this quarter are:

[X][4903N] Friendship
[X][4904N] Kumari
[X][4905N] Huáscar
[X][4906N] Sappho
[X][4907N] Curiosity

I think all of these have been assigned to the Explorer Corps?

Next quarter USS Polaris is out of the ship yard, if I am remembering correctly that vessel is going into general service?
 
Derpmind said:
So in other news, Siflux has almost caught up. Hi, Siflux! *waves hello* :D

To explain, Siflux is a reader who's been going page-by-page through the quest for months now, and he's been very generous with giving out ratings. I've found it fun to revisit some of those old posts, but more importantly the ratings have been prolific enough that I (and I'm sure some more of us) have found it fairly easy to track his progress. Just a few minutes ago, Siflux was only 12 pages behind, so I expect him to get here probably today.
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I feel personally called out :p

Thanks!

Anime_Fan35 said:
Same here. you have to admire his dedication to do something like read every page in this thread which is 4283 pages long.
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To be fair, I only shifted from reading threadmarks to the full thread when the first set of additional QMs started posting. Granted, that's still something like 2000 pages.
 
I also caught up just recently, but I wimped out and just did reader mode after a while.

It is WILD how close we came to going at the Cardassian's that one time.
 
Goat said:
The five new Ambassadors this quarter are:

[X][4903N] Friendship
[X][4904N] Kumari
[X][4905N] Huáscar
[X][4906N] Sappho
[X][4907N] Curiosity

I think all of these have been assigned to the Explorer Corps?

Next quarter USS Polaris is out of the ship yard, if I am remembering correctly that vessel is going into general service?
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That actually does look uncannily like someone attempted to discreetly lay down disparate elements of a Sanctuary-killing task force.
Three pairs of Ambassadors, with task force support. In a force where ship deployments are deliberately ambiguous.
I suspect the Harmony is keeping a very close eye on your Amby desployment patterns.

In conjunction with your Comet wave, which is due just as the Amby refit designs become available?
A paranoid person might be forgiven for being.....paranoid.
And not to poke a sore spot, but how long has Thuir been gone now?
 
How long has it been since Thuir disappeared? And why is it taking Qute so long to rescue her boy toy?
 
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