To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
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I don't mind either way. Would rather your workload lessens.
This, it's already 4 updates a turn at least. The candle can only burn so bright for so long.
2309.Q4 - Academy Steering Committee
- Location
- Australia
2309.Q4
Starfleet Academy - Steering Meeting
As you did four years ago, you travel to meet Certunn Guk, who still holds the post of Starfleet Academy Commandant, and his staff. It is time for the four-yearly Steering Meeting. In addition to yourself, Rear Admiral Viraan zh'Dohlen of the Explorer Corps, plus Captain Tomas Meyer, his Director of Personnel, and Seruk from Starfleet Personnel Command. Officials from the Federation, the Board of Trustees, and many other put in an appearance. Certunn Guk has naturally lost none of his argumentativeness, as likely to lose that as to have a limb spontaneously fall off. So instead you spend most of your attention watching the cadets, as the Graduating Class of '09 prepare to move out into their careers as Starfleet officers. Amarkians are now much more common than the last time you were here, present in numbers in all the pathways, not just emulating Commander Leaniss. Betazoids are also present, and causing all manner of problem with their unique abilities that people with higher paygrades than your own were dealing with throughout the Federation. But Rigellians, Indorians, Risans, Gaeni, Caldonians, and many others are also present.
You even spy the distinctive antenna of Apiata workers, the girls who for whatever reason did not imprint strongly on a Queen. They are almost all in the enlisted or technician tracks. Customarily, the Apiata use very few officers in the sense you would know them, and all of them Queens of one stripe or another. But it is still good to see them here, knowing that they can have a fulfilling life, and not be regarded as castoffs or defective. Here, in Starfleet, you can be whatever you make of yourself. The stars are no barrier, but rather the gateway into unlocking your own potential.
The main purpose of your meeting was to change the quotas of the different types of cadet, to better suit the needs of Starfleet. With a certain intake of qualified candidates, you could open up more spaces in some programs, less in others.
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Current Personnel Pool:
Standard Starfleet: 32.65 Officer, 41.05 Enlisted, 24.95 Techs
Explorer Corps: 3.5 Officer, 5.60 Enlisted, 7.25 Techs
Starfleet Academy:
Officers (O): 8.35pts (+1.75 Explorer Corps)
Enlisted Crew (E): 9.45pts (+1.70 Explorer Corps)
Science Techs (T): 11.65pts (+2.00 Explorer Corps)
[ ][ACADEMY] No Change
[ ][ACADEMY] Emphasise Officers (9.35/8.95/11.15)
[ ][ACADEMY] Emphasise Enlisted (7.85/10.45/11.15)
[ ][ACADEMY] Emphasise Techs (9.35/8.95/12.65)
[ ][ACADEMY] Custom - Shift up to 1 pt any Crew type
[ ][EXPLORER] No Change
[ ][EXPLORER] Custom - Shift up to .25 to any Crew type
=======================
With a slew of different promotions, some of the billets you had previously selected have been reopened. Commodore Uhura is now Rear Admiral Uhura, and has moved back to San Francisco. This leaves you in need of a commander for the Cardassian Border Zone. Rear Admiral Seruk at Starfleet Personnel has, as always, found a shortlist of candidates for you.
[ ][CBZ] Captain Jessica Rivers
Human Female, 46
Current Posting: Commander, USS Yukikaze
An aggressive but also a perceptive one, with a great sense for danger. Survival hull tests take place with a +1 modifier.
* If not selected will be promoted to Commodore and assigned to Sol Sector as planned
[ ][CBZ] Commodore T'Lorel
Vulcan Female, 76
Current Posting: Director of Operations, Starfleet Explorer Corps
Patient, insightful, with a bizarre penchant for finding situations where the only rational course of action involves nadions hitting planets. +1 to any roll that would involve Relationship changes with a Cardassian frontier power.
[ ][CBZ] Commodore Hurgok Sagek
Tellarite Male, 60
Current Posting: Operations Officer, Starfleet Tactical Field Command
A tough and canny battle commander. +5% to Fleet Battle combat for battles under his command.
Starfleet Academy - Steering Meeting
As you did four years ago, you travel to meet Certunn Guk, who still holds the post of Starfleet Academy Commandant, and his staff. It is time for the four-yearly Steering Meeting. In addition to yourself, Rear Admiral Viraan zh'Dohlen of the Explorer Corps, plus Captain Tomas Meyer, his Director of Personnel, and Seruk from Starfleet Personnel Command. Officials from the Federation, the Board of Trustees, and many other put in an appearance. Certunn Guk has naturally lost none of his argumentativeness, as likely to lose that as to have a limb spontaneously fall off. So instead you spend most of your attention watching the cadets, as the Graduating Class of '09 prepare to move out into their careers as Starfleet officers. Amarkians are now much more common than the last time you were here, present in numbers in all the pathways, not just emulating Commander Leaniss. Betazoids are also present, and causing all manner of problem with their unique abilities that people with higher paygrades than your own were dealing with throughout the Federation. But Rigellians, Indorians, Risans, Gaeni, Caldonians, and many others are also present.
You even spy the distinctive antenna of Apiata workers, the girls who for whatever reason did not imprint strongly on a Queen. They are almost all in the enlisted or technician tracks. Customarily, the Apiata use very few officers in the sense you would know them, and all of them Queens of one stripe or another. But it is still good to see them here, knowing that they can have a fulfilling life, and not be regarded as castoffs or defective. Here, in Starfleet, you can be whatever you make of yourself. The stars are no barrier, but rather the gateway into unlocking your own potential.
The main purpose of your meeting was to change the quotas of the different types of cadet, to better suit the needs of Starfleet. With a certain intake of qualified candidates, you could open up more spaces in some programs, less in others.
===
Current Personnel Pool:
Standard Starfleet: 32.65 Officer, 41.05 Enlisted, 24.95 Techs
Explorer Corps: 3.5 Officer, 5.60 Enlisted, 7.25 Techs
Starfleet Academy:
Officers (O): 8.35pts (+1.75 Explorer Corps)
Enlisted Crew (E): 9.45pts (+1.70 Explorer Corps)
Science Techs (T): 11.65pts (+2.00 Explorer Corps)
[ ][ACADEMY] No Change
[ ][ACADEMY] Emphasise Officers (9.35/8.95/11.15)
[ ][ACADEMY] Emphasise Enlisted (7.85/10.45/11.15)
[ ][ACADEMY] Emphasise Techs (9.35/8.95/12.65)
[ ][ACADEMY] Custom - Shift up to 1 pt any Crew type
[ ][EXPLORER] No Change
[ ][EXPLORER] Custom - Shift up to .25 to any Crew type
=======================
With a slew of different promotions, some of the billets you had previously selected have been reopened. Commodore Uhura is now Rear Admiral Uhura, and has moved back to San Francisco. This leaves you in need of a commander for the Cardassian Border Zone. Rear Admiral Seruk at Starfleet Personnel has, as always, found a shortlist of candidates for you.
[ ][CBZ] Captain Jessica Rivers
Human Female, 46
Current Posting: Commander, USS Yukikaze
An aggressive but also a perceptive one, with a great sense for danger. Survival hull tests take place with a +1 modifier.
* If not selected will be promoted to Commodore and assigned to Sol Sector as planned
[ ][CBZ] Commodore T'Lorel
Vulcan Female, 76
Current Posting: Director of Operations, Starfleet Explorer Corps
Patient, insightful, with a bizarre penchant for finding situations where the only rational course of action involves nadions hitting planets. +1 to any roll that would involve Relationship changes with a Cardassian frontier power.
[ ][CBZ] Commodore Hurgok Sagek
Tellarite Male, 60
Current Posting: Operations Officer, Starfleet Tactical Field Command
A tough and canny battle commander. +5% to Fleet Battle combat for battles under his command.
T'Lorel. Should there be any doubt?
Sagek is not bad at all, though. 5% combat can easily make the difference in a fight, even the kind of skirmishing we do now
Derek58
Rocket Punch is Best Punch
- Location
- Getter Valhalla
[X][ACADEMY] Custom: 0.5 Enlisted to Techs (8.35/8.95/12.15)
[X][EXPLORER] Custom - 0.25 Techs to Officers (2/1.75/1.75)
[X][CBZ] Commodore T'Lorel
Planet, what planet?
[X][EXPLORER] Custom - 0.25 Techs to Officers (2/1.75/1.75)
[X][CBZ] Commodore T'Lorel
Planet, what planet?
Preventing the Occupation. I want to avoid decades of horror and suffering for them.
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- Location
- somewhere
I think we have a slight tech shortage still for normal crew, but the other types aren't plenty either, and long term Officers are the most lacking. So half a unit from enlisted to techs? We will probably shift from techs to officers in the next steering vote.
For EC we have an officer shortage and enough techs, so 0.25 from them to officers.
[X][ACADEMY] Custom: 0.5 Enlisted to Techs (8.35/8.95/12.15)
[X][EXPLORER] Custom - 0.25 Techs to Officers (2/1.75/1.75)
[X][CBZ] Commodore Hurgok Sagek
For EC we have an officer shortage and enough techs, so 0.25 from them to officers.
[X][ACADEMY] Custom: 0.5 Enlisted to Techs (8.35/8.95/12.15)
[X][EXPLORER] Custom - 0.25 Techs to Officers (2/1.75/1.75)
[X][CBZ] Commodore Hurgok Sagek
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Forgothrax
Not Going Gently
- Pronouns
- He/Him
As a "fuck you, Cardies" I think.
- Location
- USA
[X][CBZ] Commodore T'Lorel
Algalon
Herald of the Titans
- Location
- Celestial Planetarium
Has the time come? Shall we reveal to the Cardassians our secret weapon? Will they finally witness the might of the:
T'LOREL TACTICAL MANEUVER
"Is it not illogical to not use the tool that solves a situation the easiest? The quickest? The most efficient? Never have I seen a tool mightier, swifter, more beautiful or awe inducing than this one. Oh do my emotions rise whenever I see it. Nadions dancing through the atmosphere. Never have I not joined the chorus of astonishment. Such a mighty show of force. Orbit-to-Ground Phaser Strikes, oh how I love thee"
- T'Lorel (presumably), Ode to the T'Lorel Maneuver.
T'LOREL TACTICAL MANEUVER
"Is it not illogical to not use the tool that solves a situation the easiest? The quickest? The most efficient? Never have I seen a tool mightier, swifter, more beautiful or awe inducing than this one. Oh do my emotions rise whenever I see it. Nadions dancing through the atmosphere. Never have I not joined the chorus of astonishment. Such a mighty show of force. Orbit-to-Ground Phaser Strikes, oh how I love thee"
- T'Lorel (presumably), Ode to the T'Lorel Maneuver.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
@OneirosTheWriter
Just wondering, but are there degrees of success and failure in the rolls used? Just like Snake Eyes (3E lookin at you) are terribad, are there extraordinary bonii for double sixes? Has double sixes turned up before?
In any case, though, we'd select another char to provide bonii wherever she was.
Just wondering, but are there degrees of success and failure in the rolls used? Just like Snake Eyes (3E lookin at you) are terribad, are there extraordinary bonii for double sixes? Has double sixes turned up before?
2 PP/Year is like.. nothing. Nash burns 5/Year, for comparison.
In any case, though, we'd select another char to provide bonii wherever she was.
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- Location
- somewhere
@Briefvoice's spreadsheet shows techs going down all the way to 2, but Enlisted never lower than 15.9 in the time frame until the next academy steering vote. An argument could even be made for shifting a full unit, but that would mean we'd probably need to shift to officers and enlisted instead of just officers next time.
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aeqnai
Nerdy Homu
- Location
- Laniakea Supercluster
- Pronouns
- She/Her
[X][CBZ] Commodore T'Lorel
The wormhole, preventing the Ocupation, fucking with the Cardies to make them focus on issues closer to home/get back at them for the shit they pulled with the Sydraxians, Syndicate and Dawiar, and despite Bajor being in a bad cultural situation right now, we can certainly influence them over time to get in a better position. It's like, exactly what the Federation does.
Nervos Belli
Don't think this means you've won!
- Location
- Murica
[X][ACADEMY] Custom: 0.5 Enlisted to Techs (8.35/8.95/12.15)
[X][EXPLORER] Custom - 0.25 Techs to Officers (2/1.75/1.75)
[X][CBZ] Commodore T'Lorel
[X][EXPLORER] Custom - 0.25 Techs to Officers (2/1.75/1.75)
[X][CBZ] Commodore T'Lorel
Derek58
Rocket Punch is Best Punch
- Location
- Getter Valhalla
Definitely. Just look at the progress we're making with the Apiata, and that's something heavily linked to their biology, compared to the Bajoran caste system being purely social (and a bit religious too, I think)
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- Location
- Austin, TX
[X][CBZ] Commodore T'Lorel
][X][ACADEMY] Custom: 0.5 Enlisted to Techs (8.35/8.95/12.15)
[X][EXPLORER] Custom - 0.25 Techs to Officers (2/1.75/1.75)
][X][ACADEMY] Custom: 0.5 Enlisted to Techs (8.35/8.95/12.15)
[X][EXPLORER] Custom - 0.25 Techs to Officers (2/1.75/1.75)
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