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[X][FYM] Captain Samhaya Mrr'shan
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To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
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So do I, but I'm already planning to vote in Captain Mrr'shan next year anyway. Whereas it makes supreme narrative sense to give Captain McAdams this specific ship, a ship which will not be available again for five years, by which time she may well have retired or moved on.
Therefore, while I totally favor Captain Mrr'shan as AN explorer captain, both because of her great skill and because of diversity...
I do not favor Captain Mrr'shan for this specific position. I would rather appoint her as captain of another ship at a later time, and allow McAdams (who has good skills in her own right) to take the position that is most rightly and properly hers.
Our explorer panel is looking kind of thin. Surprised we don't have more applicants.
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[X][FYM] Captain Rosalee McAdams
Mrr'shan and Mbeki next.
For the intelligence reports what about these, Romulan Fleet Strength, Klingon Fleet Strength and Romulan/Klingon War Objectives? This would give us a pretty good idea of the relative strength and probable goals for each side and could give us a good mediating position for helping to end the war. I think there was also an option to ask for a report on the needed level of Impact to defeat the Syndicate. It would give us a good idea of how long it will take to be finished with them. Cardassian Crisis Response and Sydraxian War Reasons to round this out and we've covered the end of this crisis, the 2 current operations and the likely next major war to happen on our borders unless the Cardassians start one.
Mrr'shan and Mbeki next.
For the intelligence reports what about these, Romulan Fleet Strength, Klingon Fleet Strength and Romulan/Klingon War Objectives? This would give us a pretty good idea of the relative strength and probable goals for each side and could give us a good mediating position for helping to end the war. I think there was also an option to ask for a report on the needed level of Impact to defeat the Syndicate. It would give us a good idea of how long it will take to be finished with them. Cardassian Crisis Response and Sydraxian War Reasons to round this out and we've covered the end of this crisis, the 2 current operations and the likely next major war to happen on our borders unless the Cardassians start one.
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Nah, nah, we should name it the USS James Bond.
USS Christopher Lee.
So given these corrected numbers, I would like to push for an explorer corps recruitment drive THIS snakepit, with the intent of crewing the 40E A excelsior with EC when it draws in 2311 Q1.
In fact, it's almost necessary to do this. If we do not do an EC drive, the next Excelsior we can crew with EC is the UP B build in 2312 Q1.
Skip even farther, to, say, the one in SF A which draws in 2313 Q1 and we have a second low period of techs and regular officers.
I will mention we have a major regular officer and regular enlisted problem coming up in 2316 Q2, to the tune of 2-3 of each. That is presuming we:
1. DO do the recruitment drive this snakepit.
2. Use EC to crew ALL of 2311 Q1, 2313 Q1, and 2316 Q1. If we skip any of those, the regular officer and enlisted shortage gets even worse.
If we don't, we're looking at 7-8 each, which is really difficult to make up.
e2: Briefvoice seems to already have included new members and one expansion, so we need even more.
e: This is also another reason to buy both refits, as a well-paced refit program alongside regular shipbuilding relaxes our crewing requirements by using berths but not using crew.
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pheonix89
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Looks like we're going to be spamming acadamy expansions for a while, then. There's a also a few helpful techs in Medical, Xenopsych and Warp Tech.
Edit: And don't forget that we can stand down Mirandas/Constellations to cover crew shortfalls if need be. I'd be perfectly fine with treating those as crew banks for Connie-B's/Rennies.
Edit: And don't forget that we can stand down Mirandas/Constellations to cover crew shortfalls if need be. I'd be perfectly fine with treating those as crew banks for Connie-B's/Rennies.
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New techs is good. Counselors is good. 300-level affiliates is good. Even 100-level affiliates are good. Dropping an entire Rennie in favor of three Miranda refits is good. I'll take it all.
e: A fourth EC excelsior through another future recruitment drive isn't terrible either, as it frees an entire Rennie worth of regular crew. Although kind of questionable in terms of actually getting excelsiors into our regular fleet.
Good point.
e: A fourth EC excelsior through another future recruitment drive isn't terrible either, as it frees an entire Rennie worth of regular crew. Although kind of questionable in terms of actually getting excelsiors into our regular fleet.
Good point.
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Remember that the person who controls appointments to that panel is the last of the Old Guard. It shouldn't be any surprise that we're not fully satisfied with the results. Also, it's not a matter of applicants. Only exceptional individuals are chosen.
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We have more good captain choices than we have ships to assign them to. That's good enough for me. So far, every debate about who to have running a five year mission has been of the form "which of these good candidates do we assign," not "wow, some of these people have lame bonuses." Every explorer to date has been assigned a captain with a desirable special ability that has come in handy one or more times, as far as I can tell.
Care to bet we'll have more next year? Then Oneiros doesn't have so much else on his mind that he lacks the time to come up with more applicants, and we'll have two new explorers in need of captains at once (theoretically, three).
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I'm projecting no such shortfall.
It's not quite that bad, but there is indeed likely to be a shortfall in 2316.
Yes, my current calculations assume the Rigellians entering in 2311 (and thus providing a boost to 2312 income). But there actually doesn't seem to be much support for doing a push on the RIgellians. People don't like the idea.
Convincing people to not build Rennies will be hard....
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The real question is whether we'll be building the Renaissance-class at the same breakneck pace we built Constitution-Bs (complete with having to beg resource allocations from the Council), or whether we'll be taking it easier and trying to live more fully within our means.
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I would prefer to instead request they found new mining colonies so that our annual amount of supplies would be greater. That, in my mind, is better than any one time bonus.
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Well, the only controls we have over mining colony acquisation are progress on the mineral tech lines, progress on the survey sensor lines and how many EC explorers we have active.
Well, asssuming Straak's post 5YM boni don't come into play, and I'm half expecting one of his boni to be something like automatic +5 RP per year to geological/survey sensors subtechs, independent of research teams.
Well, asssuming Straak's post 5YM boni don't come into play, and I'm half expecting one of his boni to be something like automatic +5 RP per year to geological/survey sensors subtechs, independent of research teams.
We don't have any SR colonies available right now. Our BR reserve isn't really ever too low.
Ah, I see, I entered the current numbers in the wrong box. However, I still think that we're in a much better position in 2316 Q2 if we get in 3 EC ships using a recruitment drive. You're looking at a ~7-8 shortfall on regular officers and enlisted, with an immediate EC recruitment we'd be looking at ~3-4 only, or the equivalent of a single academy expansion. That's manageable whereas ~7 is really hard to make up.
We save considerable PP in the long run.
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Quick list of intel options that anyone has voice support for, combined and organized by target political group
Romulans
Romulans
- Romulan Fleet Strength
- Romulan War Objectives
- Klingon Fleet Strength
- Klingon War Objectives
- Impact required to defeat the Syndicate
- Cardassian Crisis Response
- Cardassian Diplomatic Posture
- Kadak-Tor Details
- Sydraxian War Reasons
- Sydraxian Diplomatic Posture
- Syndraxian Fleet Strength
- Federation Counter Intel Status
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Oh, would be nice if we were able to tell that if the mines (current and potential) for Special resources were different from the mines (current and potential) for bulk resources with a glance. As for dealing with our surplus of bulk resources, our review of Karak'Tor should provide us with some design elements that will eagerly consume said surplus. Now, on the topic of knowing things at a glance, getting a clear idea of our foe's current borders and worlds of note is important, if only to allow us a point of reference to compare ourselves against to see where we need to improve.
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People objected very harshly to using multiple requests for an Excelsior's worth of resources. Won't we see the same objections from this?
A note of caution about these. They are likely to be some of the mostly highly guarded secrets of those respective empires since "how far are they willing to go" is one of the things you are incentivized to keep your opponent wondering about.
What we'll get will be Starfleet Intelligence's best guesses and analysis, and having them spend time doing that analysis is worth something... but it will still be only a guess.
Not sure it's really worth an action for this. Is there a great deal of value in being able to estimate if it's three years or five?
Shouldn't need a separate action now.
I'm not sure I understand what this means.
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No? We're going to end up with more EC missions sooner if we do this, which is kind of the point of requesting more EC crew. Not to mention it genuinely does save us PP in the long run.
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Me either! I'm just acting as an aggregator at this point as work is frying my brain.
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Okay the vote-thing is closed, can I get a tally?