To Boldly Go... (a Starfleet quest)
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I played like three missions from one of the Homeworld games, on my uncle's computer, once, fifteen years ago.
But I like the plucky little Hiigarans, and their Trekkified version seems reasonably compelling to me.
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Plus, we have two candidates to get replicators from in this game- them, and the Gaeni. I'd rather listen to the Kadeshi...
But I like the plucky little Hiigarans, and their Trekkified version seems reasonably compelling to me.
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Plus, we have two candidates to get replicators from in this game- them, and the Gaeni. I'd rather listen to the Kadeshi...
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[X][PLAN] Plan Material Support + Journalists
Or we can invent them ourselves!!
AKuz
Been Better
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Dryad was also the one ship that Didn't take part in the sterilization of Dunwich IV. Maybe the Captain is as much a Pacifists as a Starfleet Captain can get?
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...sigh, fine. You never let me have any fun.
Unfortunately not the same Captain. Actually, I very much doubt the captain didn't take part in Dunwich IV was the same captain who wrote this log:
Which was Captain Ushag brinc Haguk:
Who has since been replaced with Captain Sabek, first appearance was the Dryad's listing in the Anti-Syndicate Taskforce.
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I can actually imagine a stubborn, combative Tellarite refusing to bombard the Dunwich colony, but I'm not saying that's what happened.
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Well, if he's not in the EC list, he'll probably be switched to one of the new Connies.
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I admit I'm weird about it, but Cataclysm was arguably my favorite of the series. I side-eyed things pretty hard reading that at first, but Oneiros handled it well enough.
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Those aren't mutually exclusive, though most of the time I'd expect a captain freshly promoted to a regular fleet starship to be ineligible for explorer command for at least a year or two. They might be on the list with a "temporarily unavailable, will be back later" or something, though.
lbmaian
a thirsty squirrel
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I, for one, am glad for those exploratory "distractions". Reminds us of Starfleet's goals, and that we aren't just about defending the Federation from Cardassians and Syndicate and other hostile forces.
Well, that made me re-read some of the Biophage chapters
As SWB pointed out, there wasn't a mention of the Dryad not taking part in the Dunwich IV sterilization. Maybe you were thinking of captain O'Hara of Excelsior:
Also, you know for all the attention that Sousa gets for her poetic musings, Kahurangi is no slouch there either:
Well, that made me re-read some of the Biophage chapters
As SWB pointed out, there wasn't a mention of the Dryad not taking part in the Dunwich IV sterilization. Maybe you were thinking of captain O'Hara of Excelsior:
Also, you know for all the attention that Sousa gets for her poetic musings, Kahurangi is no slouch there either:
It was an omake that Akuz wrote.
I am not sure if Sousa has the soul of a poet or merely a poet's fancies (time will tell), but Kahurangi definitely had the vision of one. Just look at her introduction:
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And she did her job well enough that this probably will be.
EDIT: Tally? I'd like to know who's in the lead.
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Since Plan Extra Light Year has received a total of 1 vote, I'm switching.
[X][PLAN] Plan Material Support + Journalists
[X][PLAN] Plan Material Support + Journalists
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I wonder how difficult it would be to juggle a full list of starship Captains. Would give a lot of fodder for promotions that (some) people will recognise. I'd probably let people submit names/bios, preference given to people who have written omakees...
AKuz
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[X] [PLAN] Plan Moderate Kadeshi Support
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"Free to a good ship?"
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I'm also thinking of scrapping the sector commander bonus system as a bit too unwieldy in practice, and instead sticking with something similar to what the bios that went into picking the Syndicate task force commanders was. Chief benefit is that you get a clearer picture of how commanders will react, and avoid things like everyone being surprised when TLorel opted for fleet preservation. Second benefit is I stop drowning in trying to remember everyone's bonuses.
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Hm.
I think we should have trackable bonuses but only for border zones. That reduces the total number of bonuses you need to track, and border zone commodores matter in a way most interior sector commanders don't. For instance, Uhura's knack for communications and coordination made a very real difference on the Cardassian border in the early years. Not having that would have made the game a bit poorer.
But yeah, most of the bonuses we now have apply to specific types of events and are unlikely to fire, since a given sector may only experience on event a year and there are several kinds of events. I think we could stand to drop them, aside from the border zones.
This also incentivizes us to put our most talented flag officers on the borders, which makes sense with Frontier Defense.
And narratively it works too, because in interior sectors, a lot of what any given flag officer does involves coordination with the member world fleets. Their personal command style doesn't get as much chance to shine through, because they spend a lot of their time having to modify and compromise that style in order to satisfy the government of Vulcan or Amarkia or United Earth or whatever.
Am I making sense? To recap, I'm suggesting that we have "personality bios" like the ones you used for the Syndicate task force commanders, ones that give us a sense of what we can expect from them in wartime. But that bonuses only be applied when commanders are being considered for the border zones, and not applied to other sectors.
I think we should have trackable bonuses but only for border zones. That reduces the total number of bonuses you need to track, and border zone commodores matter in a way most interior sector commanders don't. For instance, Uhura's knack for communications and coordination made a very real difference on the Cardassian border in the early years. Not having that would have made the game a bit poorer.
But yeah, most of the bonuses we now have apply to specific types of events and are unlikely to fire, since a given sector may only experience on event a year and there are several kinds of events. I think we could stand to drop them, aside from the border zones.
This also incentivizes us to put our most talented flag officers on the borders, which makes sense with Frontier Defense.
And narratively it works too, because in interior sectors, a lot of what any given flag officer does involves coordination with the member world fleets. Their personal command style doesn't get as much chance to shine through, because they spend a lot of their time having to modify and compromise that style in order to satisfy the government of Vulcan or Amarkia or United Earth or whatever.
Am I making sense? To recap, I'm suggesting that we have "personality bios" like the ones you used for the Syndicate task force commanders, ones that give us a sense of what we can expect from them in wartime. But that bonuses only be applied when commanders are being considered for the border zones, and not applied to other sectors.
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Hmm. That might be an okay compromise. Not sure though.
I do regret retconning things that have already been voted upon but this would both reduce a large chunk of mechanical overhead and, I feel, better reflect the details you would actually be making these decisions on as Valentina Sousa/Heidi Eriksson.
I do regret retconning things that have already been voted upon but this would both reduce a large chunk of mechanical overhead and, I feel, better reflect the details you would actually be making these decisions on as Valentina Sousa/Heidi Eriksson.
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Yeah. They'd be thinking very carefully about who they put on a border zone command, so there'd be higher-resolution vetting that would include stuff the mechanical bonuses model. But by and large, they'd know personality, not the specific consequences of putting officers in command.
Although I think you might throw in a core sector bonus once in a while if you felt like it; for example, Revak's pp/year bonus has very little mechanical overhead.
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And then suddenly, Borg Cube.