That's my point, out of the list of >20 pp picks, we can probably take two but not three. But I know there are people who really want the Betazoid Counsellors sooner than later, so I expect that to be a point of contention this vote.
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That's my point, out of the list of >20 pp picks, we can probably take two but not three. But I know there are people who really want the Betazoid Counsellors sooner than later, so I expect that to be a point of contention this vote.
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Edit: Missed it. Never mind, I love the plan
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Briefvoice, when's the next EC Excelsior likely to deduct? Do we have one slated for EC in the berths right now, or has that not been decided yet?
I don't have access to my sheet right now, but I believe I had the next one "scheduled" to deduce in 2312, putting a new Explorer Corps Excelsior out every four years. Nothing has actually been decided right now, though. Remember we vote whenever crew are deducted if there are enough EC personnel to make up a crew.
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Regarding who to target for Diplomacy, it's four of six options, with these, the Qloath, and the Gretarians. I get the Seyek, who are hopefully one push from finishing, the Yrillians, who we know the Cardassians are making moves on. That leaves the Dawiar, at 10 - way too low, the Bajorans, at 30, the Qloath, at 74 I believe, and the Gretarians at 25. Any thoughts about possibly swapping for one of these two instead of the Bajorans? They understand the Cardassians are liars, vs the Gretarians might be in the same boat as the Yrillians, and the Qloath are one good push (upper 33%, I suppose? -1 to 39 now) from Affiliates.
So TOS and movie era Klingons then?
(That said, Klingon engineering still seems to be competitive with Federation and Romulan engineering in TNG, even in the episodes where they travel to the future, so I question if all of Klingon society is as nuts as the parts that socialize with Starfleet officers - it is quite possible that what we see in TNG and DS9 is a decadent elite.)
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I'd be willing, but are folks really willing not to do the Bajorans? They're a race with such vast importance to canon that I figured there's a big demand to try and push them. If we could drop the Bajorans, I'd go with the Qloath. Bluntly, the Gretarians are a concern solely for humanitarian reasons. As committed pacifists, they certainly won't be used by the Cardassians to attack us or our allies, and their technology is positively ancient. (Compare to the Yrillians, who appear an equiv-tech civilization already inclined to piracy.)
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Just because Klingons are martial, does not make them not smart.
On the other hand, I assume Federation civilian technology leaks all over the sector. Lots of information is made public, and lots of people get their hands on bits of old cargo freighters and such.
I like the Qloath because they seem to be well-connected in this area of space, and have helped us out. That said, I am fine with pushing Bajor right now. I do think we want to get them to 100. Past that I can't say, likely a very slow process any farther, but it provides us pretext for intervention later that likely was not available in canon.
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A couple of CL comments.
See, this is why I talk shit about the Gaeni all the time. They're such arrogant, conniving, SOBs. Look out how Thuir talks about them. Every time they get into a negotiation, they always try to pull some stupid stunt to frame someone or other for something and it always blows up on their face. Watch as they cause a serious disaster one day, like getting us into a war with the Romulans because they wanted to know how Cloaking devices worked or something like that.
They "would like to hear the Federation's presentation". Okay, after rereading this I actually do think we should do a diplo push on them at least once and see what happens. It might make an Event more likely for them.
(sigh) The Gaeni up to it again. They have a disturbing tendency to see everything as a zero sum game where they have to "win" by any means necessary.
Once again, the Cheron aces an Event like a boss. Spirit of the 23rd century, they are.
Should @AKuz 's smugness increase? As I recall this is basically the Advice she wrote for the Federation president, and it worked like a charm and will hopefully end the war. Joy over this may mitigate how much the Council yells at us over the Courageous.
See, this is why I talk shit about the Gaeni all the time. They're such arrogant, conniving, SOBs. Look out how Thuir talks about them. Every time they get into a negotiation, they always try to pull some stupid stunt to frame someone or other for something and it always blows up on their face. Watch as they cause a serious disaster one day, like getting us into a war with the Romulans because they wanted to know how Cloaking devices worked or something like that.
They "would like to hear the Federation's presentation". Okay, after rereading this I actually do think we should do a diplo push on them at least once and see what happens. It might make an Event more likely for them.
(sigh) The Gaeni up to it again. They have a disturbing tendency to see everything as a zero sum game where they have to "win" by any means necessary.
Once again, the Cheron aces an Event like a boss. Spirit of the 23rd century, they are.
Should @AKuz 's smugness increase? As I recall this is basically the Advice she wrote for the Federation president, and it worked like a charm and will hopefully end the war. Joy over this may mitigate how much the Council yells at us over the Courageous.
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Works for me. If nothing else, once the Sayek hit 100, or maybe a push to get past the near 100 range, the next few could be for the Qloath.
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As a Romulan I am always at MAX SMUG. But I suppose I can TURN THAT SMUG UP TO TWELVE just for you! > : P
The other part of that is if it came to a crisis, they might actually come to us for help, even if we don't push them to affiliate. So instead of something like the Occupation happening in the background, we'd have to actively choose to reject their plea, which would probably be a lot harder to stomach than just knowing what's happening in the abstract. Also, it sounds like the Cardassians are putting the Bajorans under significant pressure if they jumped at the first opportunity to investigate alternatives, and also given the frequent presence in Bajor orbit.
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Excelsheet. *snrk*
In my headcanon the reason the ConnieBees have Hull 3 is that the original Constitutions had Hull 3. They got Hull 4 in the 2270 refit with that strengthening treatment I mention in my omake... the one that resulted in the hull disintegrating if you leave the structural integrity field turned off for a few years.
Cheron has Hull 4 because she's the only surviving Constitution-A, but has been in continuous service since the refit, or at least was never shut down long enough or improperly for the hull to fall apart like the other original Connies.
Thru is basically ONLY accepted, in standard American English, for applications where the word "through" wouldn't fit on a sign. Thus, "thruway" on a highway sign is used, where "throughway" would require a smaller font on a sign that needs to be legible from several hundred meters away. Likewise "drive-thru" is used on roadside advertisements.
In my experience, the word 'thru' is NEVER preferred in turn of the millenium standard English, except in that context, or when talking about a thing whose name is arrived at in that context. We say "the drive-thru" because that's the name it acquired on a road sign.
Using 'thru' outside that context has connotations of cheapness, commerciality, and mass-market illiteracy.
Could you give examples? I may be able to think of reasons why that happens in some languages but not others, once I am aware of which ones. I'm curious.
You're speaking a generally recognized dialect of English, which among other things possesses a second person plural (as standard English does not). He isn't, at least unless 'chatspeak' becomes a generally recognized dialect.
This is indeed an excellent example of what cloaks are helpful for. [nods]
Space is big. There is no way the Orions put a literal wall of mines blocking off their base from all other parts of the universe. There must have been space between the mines, and the mines must have sensors that tell them to detonate when a ship comes close. It is very likely that a cloaked ship could simply 'ghost' through the minefield without being either detected or blown up.
To have cloaks is preferable to not having them in and of itself. But the side effects of cloaking are... significant.
Honestly I'm favoring letting T'Rinta wait a few more years so we can get both McAdams and Mbeki. McAdams would have gotten a reroll on that failed Combat check, for instance. If she were in charge, Courageous might not be in the hospital. T'Rinta's GOOD, mind you, but a +1 to Combat isn't as good as getting to reroll failed combat checks.
Oneiros said a combat check was involved. I suspect there was a science check to spot the mine, then a combat check to deal with the consequences of triggering it- because Courageous was attacked AFTER hitting a mine, as I recall. She had damage from weapons fire, not just the mine blast.
McAdams might very well have been able to successfully fight the ship even after taking mine damage and fend off the Orions with a crippled ship, limping home with reduced damage.
@Briefvoice, I think maybe we should consider swapping out the academy expansion this year (plus another thing, since the price is higher) for the Betazoid counselors. We're getting more crew from affiliates over the past few years, and we could REALLY use more Explorer Corps personnel- replacing Courageous's losses has cut dangerously into our reserves. Two such incidents within a year of each other would wipe out our reserves entirely.
Alternatively, as you suggest, we should save up for the counselors.
The Bajorans are mainly a concern for humanitarian reasons too; they're of high canon significance in large part because of the brutal occupation. The other reason is the nearby wormhole, which IC we know literally nothing about and really shouldn't be motivating our decision-making process.
That said, I am largely neutral on the issue. There are maybe other, better choices we could make, but it's not like pushing Bajor is a BAD choice, and there are good reasons to do it at least once in the near future.
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We are building a lot of new ships and most of them take non-Explorer crews. I think the Academy expansion is the priority this year, but it's likely we'll take the Counselors next year, or possibly that option that starts getting an Affiliate to contribute to the Explorer Corps. (I haven't even seen that one discussed, strangely.) I think not taking the mining colony and "saving" 17pp for the Counselors purchase next year might be a good compromise.
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Oh fuck, that's a double whammy. Important secret mission that utterly failed. We've likely lost the opportunity in the near future to figure out what that secret module is. Far worse, we lost Captain Maryam and the Courageous needs repairs for a year (can this affect our 5 concurrent FYMs goal?).
While I know this is completely irrational, my gut is telling me this is karma from the Enterprise fluking that encounter a bit more than a year ago.
Fuck
Well, I suppose this revises plans a bit, hopefully including the Council (+threat, maybe cheaper pp costs on some things), and a larger crackdown on the Orion Syndicate. I'm not being a warmonger here - this is strictly police action against a criminal organization. I won't go so far as to call it terrorism (which is a term being thrown around way too liberally IRL in recent times), but the Orion Syndicate is clearly not something that can be addressed just with diplomacy.
I'm not sure if this revises our research and ship design priorities. We're already making headway toward a better explorer, and cruisers and escorts are/will be good enough for a while. Maybe need more Oberths, but that tech crew crunch... Research-wise, while it's not strictly confirmed those AM mines were cloaked, it's likely or how else did an Excelsior miss them, so may need switch to anti-cloaking research via short-range sensors, ideally with another tech team still on long-range sensors.
The rest of the captain's log is great news - yay coming ending of Dawiar war! Bajor that's not that far away and not already a Cardassian client state! - that ending is quite the downer.
While I know this is completely irrational, my gut is telling me this is karma from the Enterprise fluking that encounter a bit more than a year ago.
Fuck
Well, I suppose this revises plans a bit, hopefully including the Council (+threat, maybe cheaper pp costs on some things), and a larger crackdown on the Orion Syndicate. I'm not being a warmonger here - this is strictly police action against a criminal organization. I won't go so far as to call it terrorism (which is a term being thrown around way too liberally IRL in recent times), but the Orion Syndicate is clearly not something that can be addressed just with diplomacy.
I'm not sure if this revises our research and ship design priorities. We're already making headway toward a better explorer, and cruisers and escorts are/will be good enough for a while. Maybe need more Oberths, but that tech crew crunch... Research-wise, while it's not strictly confirmed those AM mines were cloaked, it's likely or how else did an Excelsior miss them, so may need switch to anti-cloaking research via short-range sensors, ideally with another tech team still on long-range sensors.
The rest of the captain's log is great news - yay coming ending of Dawiar war! Bajor that's not that far away and not already a Cardassian client state! - that ending is quite the downer.
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True. But did you watch TNG and DS9? Klingons were definitely shown as martial and stupid in those shows.
It probably doesn't matter.
The Soviet Union had the most effective industrial espionage machine in the world during the Cold War. It didn't help them. It turns out that it takes about as much skilled manpower to understand the information captured from the enemy as it does to invent something you already know is possible.
As such, the Federation could broadcast complete plans, blueprints and manuals for all its tech all over the quadrant and it is unlikely to change the technology of those powers already in contact with the Federation very much. Those with the educated personnel able to understand what the Federation was broadcasting would be able to replicate what the Federation was doing well enough just from hearing "the Federation has a ship that goes warp 9 now".
So either way, if the Klingons can build battlecruisers that give a militarized Galaxy a run for its money, whether the technology was stolen from the Federation or invented locally, the Klingons must have engineers equal to any in the Federation.
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Omake - A Requiem for Maryam Ajam - AKuz
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I cranked this out in the two hours following the last update, then sat on it until my proofreaders got home from work. > : |
Captain Maryam Ajam. You were loved by those around you and you will be missed
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Captain Maryam Ajam. You were loved by those around you and you will be missed
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Requiem for Maryam Ajam
USS Enterprise, Stardate 23188.8
Captain Nash Ka'Sharren of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-B lets herself relax back into her command chair, a satisfied smile creeping across her face, as she basks in the quiet beeping, shuffling, murmuring of her ship in normal operations.
They (Nash, Enterprise, and Ambassador Sarek) have done good work here today, and have almost certainly begun the process of ending a war before it started taking too many innocent lives.
It feels good to be in Starfleet. Creating peace is a much a perk of the job as exploration is.
Just a few more minutes and Enterprise will leave the Dawair capital to return Ambassador Sarek safely home before she sets back out again on her mission of exploration. Nash's heard that the Saavik on the S'harien just made a new First Contact; and that just makes the Andorian woman want to get back out there even more.
Someone to Nash's side makes an odd sickly choked sound.
She cocks her head slightly to face Lieutenant Brann, her comm officer. The Captain is formulating a quip that dies on her lips when she sees the man's blanched face, his brows are furrowed in a mix of anger and shock, and his jaw is clenched.
A moment passes as Ka'Sharren locks eyes with the Human officer, and spark of despair passes between them, something vital has gone out of the man. "Captain. Message from Starfleet. Courageous has been badly damaged, over three hundred and fifty crew killed outright." He pauses, steadying himself.
Oh no. Please no. Without thought Nash's fingers clench around her chair's armrests; fingertips flattening painfully against the metal.
"Captain Ajam, and he-" Brann swallows. "Her First Officer are reported as among those killed."
The news hits Ka'Sharren hard. She goes still, everything, everything she thought that she'd buried, that she'd healed, everything comes back all at once, a hundred built up deaths suddenly crashing upon her. "Thank you, Brann."
The Captain claps her hands together and brings them in front of her face. Her fingers work together, as she tries to focus on the friction of them together, and her vision goes far away.
"Ms Zhang." Ka'Sharren abruptly stands up. "Ms Zhang. You have the Conn."
"Aye, Ma'am," The Tactical officer says nodding as Ka'Sharren turns and strides off the bridge.
The Captain walks almost blindly through Enterprise's halls, each step, each corridor, bringing a brief flash of her former XO's face.
After a time she find here way to a spot in the bowels of her beautiful starship where she will be alone and no one will look for her; where she can be with Maryam Ajam's memory.
She cries, alone in a small observation area.
An hour later Leaniss pops out of the Jefferies tube next to her. "Nash," She ducks and slowly walks over to her friend, Captain, and former wife, "I heard about Maryam."
Ka'Sharren's antennae track Leaniss's movement as she remains propped up against a bulkhead, looking out a window into space, a discarded PADD next to her.
Leaniss sits close to Ka'Sharren and gently places an arm around her, staying silent.
Nash takes a long indrawn breath, "I shouldn't be this affected. I shouldn't," she shakes her head jerkily, "Death is part of the job. I know it." she bobs her head awkwardly. "I -uh, I would think that I would be immune to my friends dying after…"
Leaniss is slightly confused, but doesn't press, just rubbing Nash's back gently as she leans in close to listen.
"I guess I figured that we were charmed. The whole crew. Nothing would hurt us. Threaten sure. But we would always find a way to win through. We have adventures and everyone lives." Nash sighs, her face wet, "Intellectually I knew that one of my friends could die, I've even been forced to confront that fact. I thought it hurt then. But this" she gestures angrily at the PADD next to her, "She's dead. Not coming back. Murdered," she hisses the last word, "Her and her crew."
Leaniss nods, "The Syndicate."
Nash's face contorts in anger, snarling, "No, the Cardassians," She struggles to control herself, an only recently healed wound ripping wide open. "The Syndicate are catspaws, stooges of Cardassian murderers. They keep killing my people!"
"Nash" Leaniss says softly, "You've beaten the Cardassians over and over."
Something dark passes over a blue face, an expression that would be incomprehensible to most. "I haven't even started yet."
"You feel guilty," Leaniss says, a frown on her face clearing in sudden understanding, expression changing to sympathy.
"Of course I feel guilty, I was here, dealing with this," she gestures angrily, "When we should have been there. That should have been our mission. Maryam should have be-" she chokes again.
Nash blinks heavily, clearing the small amount of tears left to her from her eyes, and grimacing "She used to love this spot." Her antennae twitch towards the window. "Right on the leading edge of the saucer section. She could see ahead of Enterprise. See the unknown sta-" she sobs, "DAMN IT. WHY IS THIS SO HARD," she yells at the stars, "I'VE LOST FRIENDS BEFORE! I'VE BURIED CREW BEFORE!"
Leaniss just holds Nash, carefully considering, "I think" she begins slowly, "It's because you have no power over it. Because it seems so random, so useless. Nothing was accomplished by her death. No worlds saved, no great deeds done. She was just killed by slaver scum." She squeezes Ka'Sharren tightly. "It's because you do care deeply. Sometimes we have to grieve deeply. Amarki wisdom says that passionate grief is the mark of the greatest heroes."
Nash leans into Leaniss, "Thank you" she sighs, "I'm -- not looking forward to the funeral."
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From behind a lectern, Nash looks out over the assembled crowd - and it is a crowd. Ajam was a popular woman in Starfleet, and she had a large family. Many of them sat in sadness in the front rows, most of them quiet, a few weeping. Many in crimson Starfleet uniforms of their own. While a private funeral had been held by Ajam's family, with only a few close friends like Nash invited, the memorial was an event open to all.
Ka'Sharren takes a deep breath, resisting the urge to fiddle with her cuffs, choosing instead to rest them on the smoothed hardwood of the lectern. "It pleases me to see so many gathered here today to say goodbye to Maryam." Her memory fills with a brief flash of a body wrapped in white cotton, accompanied by the echo of alien prayers, "I'm not one for speeches, so I'll keep this short: Captain Maryam Ajam was the best First Officer that I've ever had. Sorry, Sam," A brief trickle of laughter follows. "She had a yearning for exploration and the new that represented the best of Starfleet, and of the Federation."
Nash is surprised at how well she is holding herself together, she'd broken down sobbing when saying goodbye to Maryam's body earlier, "There are whole species whose first interaction with her species, with Humanity as a whole, was with Maryam, and I dare say that they met the very best that your species has to offer. That our Federation has to offer."
Nash tries not to look at the extended Ajam family, she doesn't want to see tears and break down herself. "Maryam was a good friend and a good officer. She was enthusiastic about her work, energetic while at play, and-" Nash pauses for a moment, composing herself, "I don't have the words to express how much she's already missed. If there are any Betazoids here, I'm sorry for the emotional anguish. All I can say is that I loved her like a sister and I mourn her passing."
Nash steps back from the podium, subdued clapping following her back down to her table, to where she sat with other Enterprise crew.
Admiral Sulu follows Ka'Sharren in speaking. As Captain of Excelsior he'd been Ensign Maryam Ajam's first captain, and had personally promoted her to full Lieutenant when she left Excelsior for a posting on Earth, following the Battle at Khitomer.
Ka'Sharren only half listens, the anecdotes about a precocious and adventurous young Maryam Ajam are breaking her heart, no matter how funny they are. She scans the room, in addition to Sulu she sees a few other Starfleet officers with lots of golden braid, including Admiral Nash zh'Rhashaan, who is trying to keep a neutral face, but by watching her antennae Ka'Sharren can tell she is despondent. It was her orders after all that led to Ajam's death and that of three hundred and fifty other members of her crew. The worst loss of life since the Biophage.
Laughing politely at one of Sulu's jokes, Ka'Sharren continues to scan the room, Ajam had touched many people in her life, and it seems that a lot of them had decided to come pay their respects. Many of the Enterprise crew are here, including those who had long ago left the ship like Lieutenant Wolfe. Even the Amarki Knight Ralin is here, sitting a table over from the Enterprise staff with several of Maryam' siblings.
Ka'Sharren politely claps along with the rest as Sulu finishes his address, he had done an excellent job of lifting spirits, much better than Nash's own fumbling attempts to express her feelings. She's grateful for the Admiral for that.
A brother who is the MC for the event announces that it is time to eat, and Nash is almost relieved, food is a welcome distraction.
"I wonder if this is a sign that it might be my time to move on to somewhere safer," Zaardmani muses as the servers begin to circulate, steaming hot plates of… something Human made, held aloft on silver metal trays with expert grace. He takes Doctor Asurva's hand and holds it gently, "No offence Captain, but Pri and I were already talking about starting a family, and…" he trails off uncertainly, watching his Captain.
"No I understand. You only live once, and you want to make sure that you make the most of it" Ka'Sharren looks off into the distance. "Settling down isn't my path, or one that Maryam would have chosen, but it is a respectable one."
"Sorry Captain," the Orion Doctor says, "We will finish the five year mission with you though." The woman's eyes are bloodshot, every loss hits her hard, and the loss of a friend has been near incapacitating, Like anyone else on Enterprise she can ignore loss in a crisis, once it's passed however…
"Don't worry," Ka'Sharren says with a small smile, "I understand." She grabs something from a server's tray. "And now, if you'll excuse me. I'm going to get wasted and later find someone pretty."
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Someone sits down next to Nash, who has in the last two hours made a good start on at least the first of her two goals for the evening, but has failed in the third unstated goal of 'Don't be quite as mopey.'
"Captain Ka'Sharren?" It's Ralin, dressed almost entirely in variations on red, presumably his Order's mourning clothes, "Do you mind if I talk to you for a moment?"
Nash puts down her wine glass and shrugs at the Amarki officer, "By all means Ralin, I think Sam went off to find Wolfe and I've got no idea where the rest of my staff went. I would appreshhiate the company" Nash is pretty certain that whatever it is that the Ajams are serving, it's not synthehol.
Nash can't tell, but there is a sort of desperation on his handsome features, she really isn't that into males, but she can tell why Maryam would have fallen for him. "You knew Maryam well, yes?" Ralin says with miserable solemnity, setting his hands flat on the table.
"I would like to think so, we were friends and colleagues for five years, and I still talked to her after she took command of Courageous… which is why I know that she was looking into actually outdoing me in the 'marrying an Amarki' department." Nash pats him on the hands. "My condolences by the way. I can't imagine how hard this is for you."
Ralin briefly looks away towards the table occupied by Maryam's parents. "It has been hard for all of us. She was extraordinary." He looks back at Nash, "I want to ask you two things."
Nash decides against refilling her glass again, "Shoot."
"First. When Starfleet attacks the disgusting hogs that did this, I want to be there. I lead a unit of Amarki Frontier Knights, the best special operations unit in the Sovereignty." Nash nods. "Second…" Ralin looks away again.
The Amarki Knight makes an odd tisking sound, "We were talking marriage, yes. We courted apart much of the time, and we were certain that we could be wed and still continue to love while parted."
"It's been done," Nash says. Not by her, but it's been done. Many times successfully as well.
"We had also talked about children. Not while she was away on Courageous, but someday." He looks at Nash carefully, "We had, ah, samples taken by Starfleet Medical. We asked them about compatability. If it could be done with Vulcans and Humans, why not Amarki and Humans?" Nash's brow furrows as she starts to put the pieces together. "Yesterday they told me it was possible. And that owing to her dangerous lifestyle, they would recommend using an artificial womb."
Ohhh….
Ralin looks lost. "They told me that with her permission, they could even conceive the child at this very moment."
Nash frowns, "I guess they didn't get the message."
"I may have gotten angry with that poor Doctor, yes." Ralin sighs, clenching his hands together. "Her family is split on the issue, and I don't trust myself not to make a decision out of selfishness. You're her closest surviving friend…"
Ka'Sharren winces at the reminder of the other officers lost on Courageous. She pours another glass of whatever this thick, sweet, wine is, drinking most of it in one swift motion, "My opinion is just as selfish as any you have, I'd be delighted to have something of Maryam in the world, something stronger than a memory to testify to the fact that she lived and was loved." She begins to tear up, "Sorry. We never talked about kids, not really, she did say that you would make an excellent father though. So... there's that." She reaches for the bottle and finds it empty. "Oh, Ice, why did you ask me?" she mumbles.
"I apologize Captain. If I've offend-" Ralin begins, making to stand up.
Ka'Sharren waves him back into his seat, "No, no, it's fine. You know what? Do it. Take one of the greatest adventures that a living being can have. For her sake. Continue to live and love for her sake." And that's all Nash Ka'Sharren can do too. Live and love. For her sake.
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A great tribute AKuz.
This. Dice rolls man. Hitting my right in the feels.
This. Dice rolls man. Hitting my right in the feels.
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Ajam...
Anyway, can we ask for permission to take out the Syndicate during our next Snake Pit? Obviously, even asking will probably make us eat a Militarization point, but frankly I'm okay with that. We're nowhere near close enough to our cap that we should let our Militarization score prevent us from doing what we feel is right.
Anyway, can we ask for permission to take out the Syndicate during our next Snake Pit? Obviously, even asking will probably make us eat a Militarization point, but frankly I'm okay with that. We're nowhere near close enough to our cap that we should let our Militarization score prevent us from doing what we feel is right.
Look, obviously they're jerks. But I still want that sweet, sweet RP that they're going to be giving us. And I get the feeling that part of their integration process will be learning that this kind of asshattery is counterproductive.
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Okay, that's all very good, but, uh...how?
Like, we're talking a crime syndicate with power and size comparable to interstellar governments. We can't just shoot them all, it's probably an act of genocide. We can't arrest them all; we don't have prisons big enough. If we kill all the heads they'll just produce new ones and it seems that whatever they're doing with the Cardassians is profitable enough they're willing to get into a shooting war with us over it.
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From memory and on my phone: French and German both had spelling reforms in the 1990s, German another one in the early 20th century before the first ww. Russian had one after the october revolution. Turkish switched from arabic to latin alphabet in the 1920s. Chinese had people work on various proposuals throughout the first half of the century (even switching to the latin script), then the Communists adapted simplified characters as well as changing which characters are used in various words. Also a new official system of romanization. Vietnamese switched from chinese to latin script (might have been late 19th century?)
Korean went from using a mix of Hangul and chinese characters to just Hangul, at least in South Korea. Japanese simplified kana spellings and also chinese characters (they are still using a mix) after ww2, but in a way incompatible with Chinese. Other than Arabic and English these are all of the major Languages I know enough about to know whether their spellings were reformed, and some of these might have had additional ones I don't know about.
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Slava Ukraini!
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Obviously they haven't gotten the message hard enough.
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Dismantling the Syndicate will be a decades long operation, utilizing diplomatic, military and economic pressures across a wide spectrum of targets spread out in space and time.
It's going to be complicated, and the sort of thing that probably requires a serious SFI project to even start.
It's going to be complicated, and the sort of thing that probably requires a serious SFI project to even start.