Cornuthaum
Be kind to each other.
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one thing I missed is where, apparently, the post in which we recruited our tech team is
To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
- Thread starter OneirosTheWriter
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The research mega post was updated after we voted for it without any story post making special notice of it (beyond the biophage research stuff which is somewhat related).
One thing I noticed is that according to the front page sector commanders are commodores, but we know from promotions that star base commanders are rear admirals. I suppose the sector command only extends to the sector fleet?
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- Wollongong, Australia
Oh, @OneirosTheWriter , right now Klingon Doctrine gives -1% Romulan Combat Power. Now, I don't particularly object to that, but I don't think that's your intent for the Tech 
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We did during the second quarter of this year, the Snakepit
SuperSonicSound
Shadowmancer of the Shadow Cabal
Oh, @OneirosTheWriter , right now Klingon Doctrine gives -1% Romulan Combat Power. Now, I don't particularly object to that, but I don't think that's your intent for the Tech
Makes perfect sense obviously klingon doctrine is a counter to romulans
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They're in now.
Along with a few more things to stop people from presenting cheesetastic non-Fed ship designs!
Although if I wanted to be really malevolent, I should let people continue to make designs like that with the proviso that anything that looks non-Federation in style will be given to the Klingons, Romulans, or Cardassians
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Why not just prevent negative power requirements in general by wrapping those formulas in a MAX(..., 0)? Or is a certain level of negative power requirement intended? I'm not sure what that is even supposed to represent, jokes about shields fueled by ugliness aside.They're in now.
Along with a few more things to stop people from presenting cheesetastic non-Fed ship designs!
Although if I wanted to be really malevolent, I should let people continue to make designs like that with the proviso that anything that looks non-Federation in style will be given to the Klingons, Romulans, or Cardassians
The other side of this is that we probably shouldn't think of people who have been 'retired' as being forced to go home and tend their gardens. I expect that most of them continue to work with Starfleet in on capacity or another, much as Spock does. It's only that they've been removed from the explicit military chain of command. In fact, the tiny number of admirals shows how much of the Starfleet's administration is probably handled by civilians.
Captain's Log - 2303.Q3
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- Australia
Captain's Log, USS Enterprise, Stardate 21295.5 - Captain Nash ka'Sharren
We are diverting from the Mesuuvi system to pursue a rather loud burst of subspace comms traffic that we are detecting from a nearby starsystem. From assessing these communications, we suspect that the civilisation we are encountering may in fact be a technological peer of our own. If so, this could be a momentous day for the Federation. I have high hopes. I yearn to deliver the people of the Federation some better news than the recent tales of plague and fear.
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Captain's Log, USS Sarek, Stardate 21295.6 - Captain T'Lorel
We have arrived at the planet Ferasa to negotiate on behalf of the Federation. A Caitian mining colony has recently hit a windfall of special materials used in shipbuilding, such as EPS manifolds or deuterium cryo regulators. We will be assisting Ambassador Shaan sh'Pelleth in discussing the particulars of this arrangement.
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Captain's Log, USS Eketha, Stardate 21295.7
We are responding to reports from an Andorian colony that an infestation of dangerous animals is coming from down from the hills to harass the colonists. It is unsure what has prompted this unusually aggressive behaviour.
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Captain's Log, USS Excelsior, Stardate 21295.8
A science station in Vega Cylonis III has issued a distress call, reporting a rampant disease, and then fallen silent. We are responding with all available assets in the Sol Sector, led by the Excelsior. I don't know what we'll find when we get there, but we're going in ready for bear.
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Captain's Log, USS Courageous, Stardate 21296.0
We are delivering a research team from Andor to a new science outpost at Hallark II. There they hope to study energy oscillations in the Pekoe Nebula field. It is a bit of a milk run mission, and after our run to the Amarki flagship last year, I worry that Starfleet is treating us like fine china rather than an Explorer. Nonetheless, it is a straight forward duty we will perform to the best of our ability.
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Sarek, Stardate 21296.1
The Ambassador is missing.
This clearly represents an obstacle to negotiations proceeding. We have been informed that the last known location of the Ambassador was the moon colony of Ollasa IV-2, which is a nearby Caitian colony. We have broken orbit and are en route to attempt to locate the missing ambassador.
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Enterprise, Stardate 21296.3
We have come in peace to the Gaen system, and met the Gaeni people. Collectively they are the Illuminated Technocracy of Gaen. They have settlements in every corner of their system, but surprisingly for their level of advancement only one colony world. I can see that these are a people who value knowledge and learning for its own sake. Thankfully, we have much to share, and share alike. Of course, they are not great engineers, so their ships are more like Mirandas that have had every gadget known to Andor strapped to the hull. It is a somewhat preposterous sight. However, they are rather further along in a number of technologies, including a new device they are calling a Energy-Protein Modulator, that can, in a similar manner to a transporter energiser coil, convert stored matter into energy and then back into matter according to a pattern.
It is the real deal! I have had a mass produced meal that tasted like it just came straight from a chef's kitchen. Far more advanced than our Food Synthesisers.
I think our two peoples have a lot to offer each other, and have told the Gaeni as much.
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Personal Log, Nash ka'Sharren, Stardate 21296.4
May my warp core be a test lab for Murphy's Law, these things can replicate cocktails.
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Courageous, 21296.6
We have lost all power and are currently operating on Reserve Battery. An unauthorised experiment was run by a member of the Hallark II research team involving a dampening field set up in our cargo bay. I'm told the intention was to suppress interference around long range instrumentation and ... Bugger it.
I don't care what they were doing, their self-perpetuating field has managed to suppress our matter/anti-matter intermix! That shouldn't even be possible! This is infuriating.
You know, back in the good old days of wet water navies, we could make people walk a plank for things like this.
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Sarek, 21296.8
Ambassador sh'Pelleth's runabout has seemingly been hijacked. By tracking the trace tachyon particles left in the wake of their full impulse burn towards a separate moon station, we have identified the path the shuttle took. By carefully re-calibrating the sensor array to bounce signals off the powerful magnetic field of the local gas giant, we were able to also identify and track the course that a set of apparent bandits took when they hijacked the runabout.
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Excelsior, Stardate 21297.5
I won't say false alarm, because the staff of the station has sadly passed away. However, it was not the Biophage, but rather a more conventional source of pestilence. Andorian Greenjacket Fever, which swept through the mostly Tellarite crew like wildfire.
The fleet has mostly dispersed, and a crew from Starfleet Medical is here to disinfect the station.
[Gain +5 pp]
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Courageous, Stardate 21297.9
We are seemingly no closer to a solution to this problem, and our reserve battery will soon run dry. Commander McAdams is nearly resorting to boiling water with an actual fire.
Unfortunately, the dampening shield also serves as a transport dampener, and because it operates on some manner of thermal decay battery - for reasons which entirely escape me - the field will last far longer than our reserves.
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Sarek, Stardate 21298.1
To avoid detection, we will launch three shuttles from the ventral bay, led by my security chief and first officer. They will prepare to storm the facility, and use a variant of transporter pattern enhancers to mark the pirate base's defences for the Sarek to destroy without endangering the rest of the compound. Once these preparations are complete, the Sarek will execute a micro-warp jump to orbit around the moon and strike, after which the security teams will advance.
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Enterprise, Stardate 21298.4
We have hit a snag. Although there is only one world government, the more that the locals learn of the technology sharing that is possible, the more the internal divisions and jockeying intensify. There are intrigues upon intrigues occurring around us. I feel like I'm back on Orion, except now the trade isn't for currency ... it's for knowledge.
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Sarek, Stardate 21298.8
The mission has been satisfactorily completed. The pirates are apprehended, the base destroyed, and the Ambassador back in our possession. Being non-Vulcan, they are suffering from some distress, but I believe they will still be function for our upcoming negotiations. I have noted the actions of my security officer in the ship's report to Starfleet as 'quite acceptable'.
[Gain +25 SR, +25 diplomacy with Caitians]
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Courageous, Stardate 21299.0
We have had to access manual systems and functions that I don't think even the Chief Engineer knew existed. However, one of the Lieutenant Commanders in the Engineering sector had worked in the San Francisco Fleet Yard Design Team before deciding she would rather work with actual warp drives, and she knew a surprising amount of the emergency functions. The shuttle bay has been depressurised, the bay doors slowly hand-cranked open, a prong welded to a shuttle, and the gravity plates deactivated. After this, we were able to simply float a shuttle out beyond the range of the dampening field, which allowed it to start it's engine. After opening a cargo external access door, the shuttle was able to harpoon the cargo pod, and haul it away from the ship.
We have mains power again!
[Gain +10 rp]
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Eketha, Stardate 21299.1
After several dangerous skirmishes on the ground with the creatures, and the loss of two members of my away team, we have discovered that a recent cave in is causing a nearby geological formation to begin emitting an EM frequency of some manner that is driving these predators away from their usual nesting grounds. We have worked with the colonists to establish a reverse polarity signal from the base that will nullify this natural signal. In the first few hours of operation, the number of attacks has plummeted.
[Gain +5 pp, +5 rp]
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Enterprise, Stardate 21299.5
One of the senior researchers of a major research institute, a Gaeni council member or senator in parlance we would be familiar with, has been murdered, and one of my officers is implicated. We know they're innocent, however, as they were busily experimenting on a dampening device that would have made it impossible to fire their weapon, with a different researcher at this institute. Leaniss suggests that this is a ploy to put pressure on us for preferential treatment.
What low dealing! If only we could show that device, it would prove that my officer is innocent!
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Enterprise, Stardate 21300.4
When James T Kirk was faced with the unwinnable Kobayashi Maru scenario, he blatantly cheated to win the scenario. In much the same way, when faced with this court case, I too have blatantly cheated. From observations of the functioning of their replicator system, we have used our transporters and a little good ol' Starfleet ingenuity to mock up the same effect, and create a perfect duplicate of the device and presented it as the real one. The research institute cannot gainsay it without admitting that they have been duplicitous themselves!
Our officer has been found not guilty of all charges and the diplomatic summit is a success!
[Gained Federation affiliates the Gaeni, +5pp, +5rp]
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Captain's Log, USS Kumari, Stardate 21312.6 - Captain Rachel Ainsworth
A Romulan heavy warbird has arrived in Federation space. They did so without cloak, broadcasting a single, loud message.
'The Enterprise must come with us to Romulus.'
We are diverting from the Mesuuvi system to pursue a rather loud burst of subspace comms traffic that we are detecting from a nearby starsystem. From assessing these communications, we suspect that the civilisation we are encountering may in fact be a technological peer of our own. If so, this could be a momentous day for the Federation. I have high hopes. I yearn to deliver the people of the Federation some better news than the recent tales of plague and fear.
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Captain's Log, USS Sarek, Stardate 21295.6 - Captain T'Lorel
We have arrived at the planet Ferasa to negotiate on behalf of the Federation. A Caitian mining colony has recently hit a windfall of special materials used in shipbuilding, such as EPS manifolds or deuterium cryo regulators. We will be assisting Ambassador Shaan sh'Pelleth in discussing the particulars of this arrangement.
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Captain's Log, USS Eketha, Stardate 21295.7
We are responding to reports from an Andorian colony that an infestation of dangerous animals is coming from down from the hills to harass the colonists. It is unsure what has prompted this unusually aggressive behaviour.
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Captain's Log, USS Excelsior, Stardate 21295.8
A science station in Vega Cylonis III has issued a distress call, reporting a rampant disease, and then fallen silent. We are responding with all available assets in the Sol Sector, led by the Excelsior. I don't know what we'll find when we get there, but we're going in ready for bear.
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Captain's Log, USS Courageous, Stardate 21296.0
We are delivering a research team from Andor to a new science outpost at Hallark II. There they hope to study energy oscillations in the Pekoe Nebula field. It is a bit of a milk run mission, and after our run to the Amarki flagship last year, I worry that Starfleet is treating us like fine china rather than an Explorer. Nonetheless, it is a straight forward duty we will perform to the best of our ability.
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Sarek, Stardate 21296.1
The Ambassador is missing.
This clearly represents an obstacle to negotiations proceeding. We have been informed that the last known location of the Ambassador was the moon colony of Ollasa IV-2, which is a nearby Caitian colony. We have broken orbit and are en route to attempt to locate the missing ambassador.
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Enterprise, Stardate 21296.3
We have come in peace to the Gaen system, and met the Gaeni people. Collectively they are the Illuminated Technocracy of Gaen. They have settlements in every corner of their system, but surprisingly for their level of advancement only one colony world. I can see that these are a people who value knowledge and learning for its own sake. Thankfully, we have much to share, and share alike. Of course, they are not great engineers, so their ships are more like Mirandas that have had every gadget known to Andor strapped to the hull. It is a somewhat preposterous sight. However, they are rather further along in a number of technologies, including a new device they are calling a Energy-Protein Modulator, that can, in a similar manner to a transporter energiser coil, convert stored matter into energy and then back into matter according to a pattern.
It is the real deal! I have had a mass produced meal that tasted like it just came straight from a chef's kitchen. Far more advanced than our Food Synthesisers.
I think our two peoples have a lot to offer each other, and have told the Gaeni as much.
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Personal Log, Nash ka'Sharren, Stardate 21296.4
May my warp core be a test lab for Murphy's Law, these things can replicate cocktails.
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Courageous, 21296.6
We have lost all power and are currently operating on Reserve Battery. An unauthorised experiment was run by a member of the Hallark II research team involving a dampening field set up in our cargo bay. I'm told the intention was to suppress interference around long range instrumentation and ... Bugger it.
I don't care what they were doing, their self-perpetuating field has managed to suppress our matter/anti-matter intermix! That shouldn't even be possible! This is infuriating.
You know, back in the good old days of wet water navies, we could make people walk a plank for things like this.
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Sarek, 21296.8
Ambassador sh'Pelleth's runabout has seemingly been hijacked. By tracking the trace tachyon particles left in the wake of their full impulse burn towards a separate moon station, we have identified the path the shuttle took. By carefully re-calibrating the sensor array to bounce signals off the powerful magnetic field of the local gas giant, we were able to also identify and track the course that a set of apparent bandits took when they hijacked the runabout.
-
Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Excelsior, Stardate 21297.5
I won't say false alarm, because the staff of the station has sadly passed away. However, it was not the Biophage, but rather a more conventional source of pestilence. Andorian Greenjacket Fever, which swept through the mostly Tellarite crew like wildfire.
The fleet has mostly dispersed, and a crew from Starfleet Medical is here to disinfect the station.
[Gain +5 pp]
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Courageous, Stardate 21297.9
We are seemingly no closer to a solution to this problem, and our reserve battery will soon run dry. Commander McAdams is nearly resorting to boiling water with an actual fire.
Unfortunately, the dampening shield also serves as a transport dampener, and because it operates on some manner of thermal decay battery - for reasons which entirely escape me - the field will last far longer than our reserves.
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Sarek, Stardate 21298.1
To avoid detection, we will launch three shuttles from the ventral bay, led by my security chief and first officer. They will prepare to storm the facility, and use a variant of transporter pattern enhancers to mark the pirate base's defences for the Sarek to destroy without endangering the rest of the compound. Once these preparations are complete, the Sarek will execute a micro-warp jump to orbit around the moon and strike, after which the security teams will advance.
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Enterprise, Stardate 21298.4
We have hit a snag. Although there is only one world government, the more that the locals learn of the technology sharing that is possible, the more the internal divisions and jockeying intensify. There are intrigues upon intrigues occurring around us. I feel like I'm back on Orion, except now the trade isn't for currency ... it's for knowledge.
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Sarek, Stardate 21298.8
The mission has been satisfactorily completed. The pirates are apprehended, the base destroyed, and the Ambassador back in our possession. Being non-Vulcan, they are suffering from some distress, but I believe they will still be function for our upcoming negotiations. I have noted the actions of my security officer in the ship's report to Starfleet as 'quite acceptable'.
[Gain +25 SR, +25 diplomacy with Caitians]
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Courageous, Stardate 21299.0
We have had to access manual systems and functions that I don't think even the Chief Engineer knew existed. However, one of the Lieutenant Commanders in the Engineering sector had worked in the San Francisco Fleet Yard Design Team before deciding she would rather work with actual warp drives, and she knew a surprising amount of the emergency functions. The shuttle bay has been depressurised, the bay doors slowly hand-cranked open, a prong welded to a shuttle, and the gravity plates deactivated. After this, we were able to simply float a shuttle out beyond the range of the dampening field, which allowed it to start it's engine. After opening a cargo external access door, the shuttle was able to harpoon the cargo pod, and haul it away from the ship.
We have mains power again!
[Gain +10 rp]
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Eketha, Stardate 21299.1
After several dangerous skirmishes on the ground with the creatures, and the loss of two members of my away team, we have discovered that a recent cave in is causing a nearby geological formation to begin emitting an EM frequency of some manner that is driving these predators away from their usual nesting grounds. We have worked with the colonists to establish a reverse polarity signal from the base that will nullify this natural signal. In the first few hours of operation, the number of attacks has plummeted.
[Gain +5 pp, +5 rp]
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Enterprise, Stardate 21299.5
One of the senior researchers of a major research institute, a Gaeni council member or senator in parlance we would be familiar with, has been murdered, and one of my officers is implicated. We know they're innocent, however, as they were busily experimenting on a dampening device that would have made it impossible to fire their weapon, with a different researcher at this institute. Leaniss suggests that this is a ploy to put pressure on us for preferential treatment.
What low dealing! If only we could show that device, it would prove that my officer is innocent!
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Captain's Log, Supplemental, USS Enterprise, Stardate 21300.4
When James T Kirk was faced with the unwinnable Kobayashi Maru scenario, he blatantly cheated to win the scenario. In much the same way, when faced with this court case, I too have blatantly cheated. From observations of the functioning of their replicator system, we have used our transporters and a little good ol' Starfleet ingenuity to mock up the same effect, and create a perfect duplicate of the device and presented it as the real one. The research institute cannot gainsay it without admitting that they have been duplicitous themselves!
Our officer has been found not guilty of all charges and the diplomatic summit is a success!
[Gained Federation affiliates the Gaeni, +5pp, +5rp]
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Captain's Log, USS Kumari, Stardate 21312.6 - Captain Rachel Ainsworth
A Romulan heavy warbird has arrived in Federation space. They did so without cloak, broadcasting a single, loud message.
'The Enterprise must come with us to Romulus.'
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Well then.
"...Sure, but she won't be the only one of her class there."
Night_stalker
Slava Ukraini!
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Riiiiight, I'm not going to say it's a trap because it involves Romulans, QED, it's a trap. That's racist.
I WILL say they're trying to imitate Nemesis.
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I SWEAR TO GOD T'Lorel is the Vulcan incarnation of The Most Interesting Man In The World!
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Remember our "Research the Biophage" action that successfully completed asking for more information from the Romulans? I think this is the result.
I'm actually hopeful. The Romulans sent a Warbird uncloaked and broadcast a very direct message. By their standards, this is some incredible level of "let's put aside the bullshit". They must be terrified by the biophage, and for some reason they think the Enterprise can help them solve the problem.
I'm actually hopeful. The Romulans sent a Warbird uncloaked and broadcast a very direct message. By their standards, this is some incredible level of "let's put aside the bullshit". They must be terrified by the biophage, and for some reason they think the Enterprise can help them solve the problem.
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- Wollongong, Australia
Ugh, can we transmit a copy of 'A Dummy's Guide to not being a Prat' to the Romulans?
Derek58
Rocket Punch is Best Punch
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- Getter Valhalla
Oh hell yes!
AKuz
Been Better
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- A Rising Tide of Horrors
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Hey this is the Romulan equivalent of crawling naked across a field of thorns.
EDIT: seriously, even a tacit admission that they need help would be like pulling teeth. Of course one the beautiful loopholes in Romulan Honour is doing whatever it takes to get the job done.... Including dishonorable behavior.
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Honestly thought it's about time Enterprise and her Captain gets to do more than First Contacts and finding excuses to pick up babes and get sloshed. > : V
Speaking which I have an omake around here somewhere about the Dunwich event from the perspective of Enterprise..... and surprise guest stars GLORIOUS RIHANNSU FOLDED 1000 TIMES.
Of course that'll be up when I get off work in about 5 hours ish
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Night_stalker
Slava Ukraini!
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I'm actually surprisingly worried as to how badly I'll screw this next part up
AKuz
Been Better
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- A Rising Tide of Horrors
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I'm actually surprisingly worried as to how badly I'll screw this next part up
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Like getting characterization wrong, wrong? Or just straight murdering Enterprise and then half the Federation dies screaming to necromorphs, wrong??
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cokerpilot
Here comes the rain.
Dear federation we accept your gift and in response give you the "Beginners Guide to being properly paranoid and prepared. "
AKuz
Been Better
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- A Rising Tide of Horrors
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To be fair we've done that before, but the diplomats keep thinking it's some sort of obscure insult and file it under "Myths and Legends of the Romulan people as told to Children"
> : V
We should still send the USS Sarek with her just in case we need to phaser any planets.
+1 to this.
fasquardon