UbeOne
Daydreaming CPU
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- Philippines
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- She/Her
Where's an Oberth when you need one for the latest space anomaly?
To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
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- USA
Bad on the swarmer missing but great impact and Kadeshi relations, plus 15 pp
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- USA
AVander is an excelsior so would not have made a difference. Also Kadeshi is over 100 relations now!
- Location
- somewhere
They already were after the push, they are at 128 now.
Random Member
Gardener of Human Happiness
- Location
- Behind You
Uh oh. Time shenanigans?
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- USA
Ah forgot about that, checked the front page and that has not been updated yet.
cokerpilot
Here comes the rain.
Chekov would like to remind you that he is not in fact a member of any sort of temporal agency and even if he was star fleet regulations reminds that all maters involving temporal affairs are of maximum classification and not to be discussed out side of a state of emergency or a secure federation security location.Someone call Chekov to take a look.
lbmaian
a thirsty squirrel
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- USA
More good anti-Syndicate action, and one unfortunate event.
Worst case scenario is that Caitian swarmer was infiltrated by the Syndicate, but the most likely scenario is a failed event resulting in sudden ship loss. Actually, the absolute worst case scenario is the Biophage
Not the most massive thing ever encountered by the Federation, but by far the largest vessel ever constructed by a contemporary power.
Just to put this into perspective: A 60mt ship would have taken Starfleet 61 years to build (according to the ship design spreadsheet)!
Hot damn, the Kadeshi manufacturing capacity is astounding. But I do worry about whether this ship even has shields, since that was one of the downsides of the Kadeshi manufacturing techniques.
Huh, I wonder if we would've gotten this anyway without a Kadeshi push in Q2. Which would make that diplo push a mistake in hindsight. Granted even if this was a guaranteed event, this was still event-based and thus could have failed, but it looks like one of those low difficulty events.
Worst case scenario is that Caitian swarmer was infiltrated by the Syndicate, but the most likely scenario is a failed event resulting in sudden ship loss. Actually, the absolute worst case scenario is the Biophage
Not the most massive thing ever encountered by the Federation, but by far the largest vessel ever constructed by a contemporary power.
Just to put this into perspective: A 60mt ship would have taken Starfleet 61 years to build (according to the ship design spreadsheet)!
Hot damn, the Kadeshi manufacturing capacity is astounding. But I do worry about whether this ship even has shields, since that was one of the downsides of the Kadeshi manufacturing techniques.
Huh, I wonder if we would've gotten this anyway without a Kadeshi push in Q2. Which would make that diplo push a mistake in hindsight. Granted even if this was a guaranteed event, this was still event-based and thus could have failed, but it looks like one of those low difficulty events.
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Night
Widow Null
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- Hoff
I suspect it's far worse than that considering we've never tried to assemble a ship outside a berth, and mechanically I'm not sure we're even allowed to...so we'd have to build a 60mt berth first.
Hell, with our current technology can we even create a warp bubble big enough for that ship? I doubt it's as simple as "scale up the warp coils reaaaaaallly big!"
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- Patriarchova
Sometimes you fail a science roll and a Trek episode just doesn't happen.
Forgothrax
Not Going Gently
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I wouldn't. They could very easily just add them on via traditional manufacturing techniques.
But the ammount of special resources that it would take to build a warp core and shield system of that size... Assuming that it's 12 times as much as the estimated amount spent on the Galaxy class, we're looking at 3600 SR, an amount it would take Starfleet nine years to accumulate!
Starfleet only uses a relatively small amount of the resources available to the Federation (and most of them with a view of longterm viability, I mean we haven't had to to worry about mines getting depleted etc.) while the Kadeshi probably operate on a Total Mobilization mentality and completely "stripmined" their area.
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- USA
So looking at what we have coming out
'12 16D
'13 16D
'14 17D
'15 12D
14 or 15 may go down if an excelsior is crewed by Explorer corp.
'12 16D
'13 16D
'14 17D
'15 12D
14 or 15 may go down if an excelsior is crewed by Explorer corp.
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Shard
One and Many
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- Malaysia
There was the time the Demon!Voyager got destroyed shortly before the Voyage came. And they didn't find anything..
pheonix89
Wants to be Seven Of Nine
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- North American Plaguelands
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'Course: Oblivion'? That might possibly be the single most depressing episode of Star Trek.
Voyager was frequently terrible , and good quite rarely, but it had a few genuinely amazing episodes. Of ones I've personally seen: Course: Oblivion, Timeless, Year of Hell, Living Witness.
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2311.Q2.M3 - Master of Orion
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- Australia
Commodore T'Lorel leans forward at the table. "We have not yet properly secured this planet. It is not yet time to move on."
Through the windows of the Kearsage's conference room the planet of Bradia can be seen slowly spinning below, a white, violet and blue marble. Rear Admiral Uhura spends a moment studying it with a serene expression before she turns back to the Vulcan Commodore. "There are many planets in the Union, Commodore. It would be counter-productive to try to completely secure every last component of a planet before moving on. We need to be fast, hit hard, break them down from the top and pursue their strength."
"It is an accepted military truism that you should strike where the enemy is weak, reinforce success instead of failure," points out T'Lorel.
"Further success here gives diminishing returns," replies Uhura. "Meanwhile, on other worlds they continue to whittle away at our Caitian police. We can't stay in one place making it perfect."
"Or, for another truism," adds Commodore Eaton, "The perfect is the enemy of the good."
"Very well," says T'Lorel. "I will prepare for redeployment."
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Dearre Nixa walks nimbly past the pistol-whipped form of the chief of police's secretary into the head honcho's office. A woman long on smart talk and short on smart choices, the secretary had obstructed Nixa one time too many. Chief Detective Nixa has been following the trail of corruption on Bradia for too long. Clearly, her mistake was thinking too narrow. This wasn't the corruption of a beat cop or two on the take, or even a crooked Lieutenant. No, this time, 'Mr Big' was worthy of the name. This time it went all the way to the top. So as she lowers her heavy disruptor pistol at the head of the chief of police for all of Bradia, she can detect shock and panic, but also guilt coming off of the man.
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Union Interstellar Press Agency
The headquarters of the Department of Justice has been bombed by unknown assailants. Although the Executive Officer for Justice was out of the office at the time and is unscathed, many dozens of civil servants have been killed, and as many as one hundred are still missing in the rubble. No credit has been claimed, but all sources currently put the blame on Syndicate agents as a reprisal for the massive uptick in arrests of Syndicate members throughout Union space.
It is believed that the bomb was delivered into the basement of the building by a civil servant who was blown up by their own bomb. Pheremone influence is strongly suspected.
[+4 Cost]
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Duaba Planetary News
An attempted bombing of the ISSU barracks on Duaba has been thwarted, with a number of alleged agents arrested in possession of explosives and detailed plans. If the bombing had gone ahead potentially hundreds could have been killed. It will be alleged by Union authorities that the Syndicate was to blame for these plots, however, anonymous Syndicate spokespeople have stated that mercenaries have no direct ties or membership in the Syndicate.
[+4 Impact]
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Anti-Slavery Task Force Progress Report
Operations on Bradia have been in a consolidation phase. The last of the Syndicate mercenaries and major operating units have been rounded up, though not before a number of Frontier Police were harmed by their rear-guard attacks. A surgical beam-in and strike from an Office 24 team was instrumental in resolving this threat. The last piece to the puzzle that Rear Admiral Uhura wanted in place before moving the bulk of Starfleet attention on was to clean up the local PPU. Thankfully the Rixx Scrutineers were able to crack the case, arresting the planetary chief of police on corruption charges. [+5 Impact, +2 Cost, Bradia reduced to Low Syndicate Influence]
The bombing on Alukk and the foiled bombing on Duaba are both signs that the Syndicate still has teeth to fight back with, but, we believe, also a sign that we are inflicting damage on their networks that they are having difficulty absorbing.
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[Total: +9 Impact, +6 Cost]
Through the windows of the Kearsage's conference room the planet of Bradia can be seen slowly spinning below, a white, violet and blue marble. Rear Admiral Uhura spends a moment studying it with a serene expression before she turns back to the Vulcan Commodore. "There are many planets in the Union, Commodore. It would be counter-productive to try to completely secure every last component of a planet before moving on. We need to be fast, hit hard, break them down from the top and pursue their strength."
"It is an accepted military truism that you should strike where the enemy is weak, reinforce success instead of failure," points out T'Lorel.
"Further success here gives diminishing returns," replies Uhura. "Meanwhile, on other worlds they continue to whittle away at our Caitian police. We can't stay in one place making it perfect."
"Or, for another truism," adds Commodore Eaton, "The perfect is the enemy of the good."
"Very well," says T'Lorel. "I will prepare for redeployment."
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Dearre Nixa walks nimbly past the pistol-whipped form of the chief of police's secretary into the head honcho's office. A woman long on smart talk and short on smart choices, the secretary had obstructed Nixa one time too many. Chief Detective Nixa has been following the trail of corruption on Bradia for too long. Clearly, her mistake was thinking too narrow. This wasn't the corruption of a beat cop or two on the take, or even a crooked Lieutenant. No, this time, 'Mr Big' was worthy of the name. This time it went all the way to the top. So as she lowers her heavy disruptor pistol at the head of the chief of police for all of Bradia, she can detect shock and panic, but also guilt coming off of the man.
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Union Interstellar Press Agency
The headquarters of the Department of Justice has been bombed by unknown assailants. Although the Executive Officer for Justice was out of the office at the time and is unscathed, many dozens of civil servants have been killed, and as many as one hundred are still missing in the rubble. No credit has been claimed, but all sources currently put the blame on Syndicate agents as a reprisal for the massive uptick in arrests of Syndicate members throughout Union space.
It is believed that the bomb was delivered into the basement of the building by a civil servant who was blown up by their own bomb. Pheremone influence is strongly suspected.
[+4 Cost]
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Duaba Planetary News
An attempted bombing of the ISSU barracks on Duaba has been thwarted, with a number of alleged agents arrested in possession of explosives and detailed plans. If the bombing had gone ahead potentially hundreds could have been killed. It will be alleged by Union authorities that the Syndicate was to blame for these plots, however, anonymous Syndicate spokespeople have stated that mercenaries have no direct ties or membership in the Syndicate.
[+4 Impact]
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Anti-Slavery Task Force Progress Report
Operations on Bradia have been in a consolidation phase. The last of the Syndicate mercenaries and major operating units have been rounded up, though not before a number of Frontier Police were harmed by their rear-guard attacks. A surgical beam-in and strike from an Office 24 team was instrumental in resolving this threat. The last piece to the puzzle that Rear Admiral Uhura wanted in place before moving the bulk of Starfleet attention on was to clean up the local PPU. Thankfully the Rixx Scrutineers were able to crack the case, arresting the planetary chief of police on corruption charges. [+5 Impact, +2 Cost, Bradia reduced to Low Syndicate Influence]
The bombing on Alukk and the foiled bombing on Duaba are both signs that the Syndicate still has teeth to fight back with, but, we believe, also a sign that we are inflicting damage on their networks that they are having difficulty absorbing.
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Rixx Scrutineers clear up PPU-Bradia
2hp of Bradia-Local Assets arrested, now 1 and 2hp left.
1hp of Syndicate Mercenaries on Bradia arrested by Office 24, now wiped out
2hp of Syndicate Mercenaries on Duaba arrested
Syndicate Money Laundering Team arrested on Alukk
2hp of Bradia-Local Assets arrested, now 1 and 2hp left.
1hp of Syndicate Mercenaries on Bradia arrested by Office 24, now wiped out
2hp of Syndicate Mercenaries on Duaba arrested
Syndicate Money Laundering Team arrested on Alukk
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[Total: +9 Impact, +6 Cost]
SuperSonicSound
Shadowmancer of the Shadow Cabal
Ouch cost is ramping up quite quickly.