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12.17.08 Agincourt Mission Update:
TBS: None
Mission Brief: The Agincourt is heading back to Tervan to pick up the Away Team, and once everyone is back together, there will be a debriefing meeting in the Observation Lounge.
(The Mission Brief is pretty much what the entire sim consisted of, and the sim ended just as the crew was heading to the obs lounge for the meeting. This is the shortest update. Ever. :-P)
We do have events elsewhere in the quadrant though, the below blurb is from the Federation News Network topic on the Boards, entitled Praetorian Candidate Assassinated:
ROMULUS—Tragic news emerged early this morning when a spokesman for Senator Akael Donatra announced that the candidate for Praetor was found dead in her capital city home by an aide.The cause of death was immediately unclear, but early reports suggest that the Senator did not die of natural causes. At least one source close to the Senator, who asked to remain anonymous, speculated heavily that foul play was involved but couldn't confirm any details at press time.
Word of the Senator's death spread quickly throughout the Romulan Empire and caused the Romulan Mercantile Exchange to drop sharply by over 18% before being closed by regulators by mid-morning as a noticeable pal descended across the entire planet on the eve of the first democratic election for the position of Praetor in the history of the Empire and in the shadow of the devastating attacks on Earth.
Noticeably absent in the immediate response to the news was the Senator's chief rival, Admiral Destorie N'Dak. The Admiral, trailing in some polls and in a dead heat in others, was off world at the time the news broke, campaigning in the toss up system of Alpha Jahari. Upon hearing the news, the N'Dak campaign canceled all events for the rest of the week and began making preparations to return to Romulus. A spokesman for the campaign said only that like all Romulans, the Admiral was "deeply saddened by the loss," but would "wait for more information" before making an official statement.
In recent weeks the campaign had taken on a feverish pitch as it waned into the final days. Both the Senator and the Admiral had renewed their attacks on each other after a short, unofficial truce as both candidates joined in unity to support the Federation in their time of need. Acting Federation President T'Kaal added to the call of sympathy for the House s'Donatra, but like Admiral N'Dak kept her remarks short until more information can be confirmed.
"The Federation has lost a true ally today," she said from her office on Vulcan. "Having experienced the loss of President Swaggert so recently, the people of the Federation extend their condolences to the people of Romulus."
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Mission Brief: The Agincourt is heading back to Tervan to pick up the Away Team, and once everyone is back together, there will be a debriefing meeting in the Observation Lounge.
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MISSION BRIEF: The Science teams have uncovered the location they believe where the Founders hid out at after the destruction of their homeworld. Corizon has recalled the teams and is having a briefing in the observation lounge with senior officers. The Excalibur, meanwhile, has broken orbit and is exiting the system at impulse as they finish the data upload.
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12.14.08 Excalibur Mission Update:
TBS: Five Days
- The data upload from the Miriamano Library Archives is completed. Science continues to process the data.
- The Blood Cult prisoners will be shot back into their home space via escape pods.
- A briefing was called by Captain Corizon among the senior officers and department heads.
- The Library data yielded a solid lead: a direct trail to a planet where the Founders may have hid out, or at the very least a chance to find the device that will locate them or to find where the Founders went next.
- The new planet is three weeks away at Warp 7. It is known as the Black Marsh. The surface contains cooler marshland, jungle, and high radiation levels. And, the data charts and graphs on record about the Marsh are ten thousand years old, so the Excal crew really doesn’t know how much the planet and sector surrounding the planet may have changed.
- Preparations: once we are in range of the Black Marsh, a fighter recon team will be sent out to assess the sector, with the Excal keeping distance a few light years away. Marines and Security officers will be tapped to participate in the landing party; Captain Ah-Windu Corizon himself will lead the team, with Commander L.E. JoNs remaining on standby backup on the ship.
- Personnel: The new Brikar Security officer made some patrol rounds, butting heads with the provisional Engineering officer, and the wasp defense project continues with the engineers and Security officer Beckman assisting them. Medical started their new part time orderly.
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Copyright 2008 Comcast.net News:
The gender of Rudolph and his or her sleigh-hauling friends — the subject ofgoofy Internet chatter every year around this time — is now being pondered by
renowned wildlife experts at Texas A&M University.
"Santa's reindeers were really females, most likely," said Alice Blue-McLendon,
a veterinary medicine professor specializing in deer who cites the depictions of
Santa's helpers with antlers as the primary evidence. It turns out reindeer grow
antlers regardless of gender, and most bulls typically shed their fuzzy
protrusions before Christmas.
But Santa's sleigh helpers might also be castrated males, known as steers, said
Greg Finstad, who manages the Reindeer Research Program at the University of
Alaska Fairbanks.
Young steers finish shedding their antlers in February and March, just as
non-expecting females do. Bulls generally lose theirs before Christmas, while
expectant mothers retain their antlers until calves are birthed in the spring.
This allows them to protect food resources through harsh weather and to have
enough for developing fetuses, he said.
Sledders most often use steers because they maintain their body condition
throughout the winter, he said. Bulls are tuckered out from rutting season when
they mate with as many as a dozen females in the months leading up to December.
That leaves them depleted and too lean to pull a sleigh or sled through heavy
snows, Finstad said.
Many females are pregnant after rutting season, which lasts from summer and into
the fall. That would mean long hours of backbreaking work for an expecting
Rudolph, as well as Donner, Blitzen, Cupid, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Comet and
Vixen.
"You don't hook up your pregnant females to a sled," Finstad said. "That is not
good animal husbandry."
But other aaspects of the Christmas story support the all-girl sleigh team
theory, Blue-McLendon said.
For example, would a boy reindeer really sport a shiny red nose that almost
glows?
"Females like accessories," said Blue-McLendon, who in 2003 led the school's
cloning of a white-tailed deer. "I think that fits because females like bling.
We like shiny stuff."
As for the reindeer games, forget the rough antler-smashing stuff. Blue-McLendon
suggests a female Rudolph would be more up for "games of wit."
And as for the name, Rudolph could certainly still work.
"Why not?" Blue-McLendon said. "I know women named Charlie."
::blinkity, blink blink:: ::eyebrow on Spock stun:: ::say what what??::
..... this Holiday article definitely falls under the stuff we really don't need to be informed about. Scary!
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Oh no!
You know, from Chapel on down the line to Troi, she was a fixture throughout the franchise, putting aside any behind the scenes involvement. I got very used and comfortable with hearing her voice for all the computer work on the Trek shows, and she was Luwaxanna Troi, and she owned that part; Majel Barrett took that part and ran like hell with it, and the character was awesome.
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Kick azz. Nice one Mister Kent!
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I would like to comment on this, as a Real Life Player and RPG Player:
Real Life Player: assassinations are never a good thing, and the ripple effect can be devastating.
RPG Player: Cool! w00t! Bring on the intrigue! Yeah, now that's what I'm talkin' about. Nothing like a good assassination to shake things up a bit.
- K >^..^<
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T’was the Night of the Star Trek Simulation Forum
T'was night right at the top o’ the hour, and all through the site, Real Life was not stirring, not even a byte.
The coding was entered by Webbie with care, in hopes that the Players soon would be there.
The Advanced Players were nestled name after name, contained with in the live chat where we all play out our Starfleet fame.
And you with your mouse, and I with my keyboard, had just settled in for a long hours chat.
When over the speakers there arose such a clatter, my senses perked and my head whipped up to see what was the matter.
There on the monitor screen I did see, a Player gone newbie it be; sound after sound option was played, oh me.
When, who to my wonderment should appear, a small red chess piece and bolded name, have no fear. I knew in a moment it was the Command Team, performing their volunteer GM career, how keen.
Our attention was called and we all typed ::AA:: to be committed by our chosen code names into the boo yah fray. On Commander, on Lieutenant, on Ensign on Midshipman, on top of your Playa game and onward to the Mission!
Type away, type away, type away all! All for one, and one for all!
Our fingers flew over the keys, and the dictation software did tweak, as we launched our characters into the Trek RPG World that is so neat.
Pirates, Rihans, Borg, Maquis, Outlaws and Baddies to scuffle with, oh my, we Fleeter officers never give up and always look out for the little guy.
The fun and adventure was soon at an end, but I had nothing to dread, for next weeks game I can look forward to instead.
On Commodore, on Admiral, on Lieutenant, on Midshipman, onward to our glory, adventure and the next Mission!
Happy nocturnal RPG Simming to all, and to all a Good Night!
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Seasons Greetings Everyone! Have a Good One!
>^..^<
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MISSION BRIEF: When we left off we were finding things in the ruins of a colony attacked by the Soltans, and the Court was investigating the possible subspace trails left by the ships.
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12.10.08 Agincourt Mission Update:
TBS: 6 Hours
MISSION BRIEF: When we left off we were finding things in the ruins of a colony attacked by the Soltans, and the Court was investigating the possible subspace trails left by the ships.
- The ground team (TLak, Karrigan, Colonel Harper) on Tervan Four encounters a recent blast crater and some wreckage that just doesn’t seem to coincide with the rest of the attack damage on the planet and colony. The new evidence does not seem to be adding up to a straight on Soltan attack. Is there a more sinister development to be concerned about?
- The remaining bridge officers of the Agincourt (Condacin, Shadow, Murray, Kairi, and Commander JoNs) continue to sweep the sector for the Soltan approach vector; they find, thanks to the Resident Energy Being, that there is a “photographic image” contained in the subspace ether of the ships that marauded the planet and quadrant. That image yields odd results – the expected Soltan ship configurations (scout ships and larger assault ships), but also Breen inspired ship design.
Colonels Note: Ok, let's do a 6 hour TBS, and next week we'll grab the AT and debrief one another and the Klingons.
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Happy B-Day Chief Caitian Admiral BluRox!
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12.07.08 Excalibur Mission Update:
TBS: Six Hours
- The disorderly security officer has now been made a medical orderly, helping out in the medical bay after his primary shift in Security.
- The XO is semi traumatized by that one friendly wasp that landed on her head, and the other one who crawled into a pocket.
- The Captain and his away team are still searching around a really big and old library; the site offers many many research opportunities, with both digital and actual hardcopy options.
- The Science dept is still cataloging all the incoming data.
- The Engineering dept likes their new mechanical tech countermeasure wasps, and they are moving forward with the project.
Note: The Away team is welcome to come back to the ship, and start checking out the library in shifts as well. As for the crew? The Command Team really didn't get into the whole Shore Leave thing, so let's stick with the 6 hour TBS, stay with what we did during the 12.07.08 Sim, and go from there for the next Sim.
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Mission Brief: The Excalibur has arrived in orbit of the Miriamo Archives and has begun the data upload of thousands of years of recorded history. The planet itself lay in ancient ruins, save for the Central Library Archives, which remains mostly intact. It is clear that this planet was once very important. The Archivists have given us permission to beam down away teams to do some looking around of our own.
- Engineering continues to work on their countermeasure device to guard against any more technological intruders such as the Spider Mole employed by the Blood Cult raiding party. The Excal countermeasure beasties look just like small mechanical wasps. Dude, where’s my bug spray?
- Medical deals with multiple patient injuries and recoveries that are healing within the medical bay. We had a semi-cranky vampire with a broken foot, tended to by the CMO. A bullheaded Klingon patient was also dealt with. And, CMO Wydown laid down the law with a recovering and disruptive Security officer.
- The bridge ops were left in the XO’s command paws.
- The Captain and his Away Team (Teykier, Khal, Tr’Lorin, Ramson, Security Escort) zoomed down to the Miriamano planet for some library and general planetary recon via the Captains Yacht.
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Ghost Rider! Dude! You gonna get on World of Warcraft tonight? There's a big Undead raiding party planned - we should totally be there!
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12.03.08 Agincourt Mission Update:
TBS: Twenty Minutes
- The Away Team made planetfall and the devastation on Tervan Four is about the same as Earth: burned and bombed out buildings, many buildings wiped off the map. However – carbon scoring, consistent with weapons fire, as well as red and green colored blood stains were found at various spots in one of the buildings being explored by the away team.
- The Agincourt set off to patrol the sector, and picked up a Soltan bread crumb trail so to speak; it was semi-determined that the Soltan attack fleet approached Tervan from a southern vector prior to launching their attack. The IKS VaKang accompanies the exploratory warship as a “wing man”.
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MISSION BRIEF: The Away Team has beamed down to the surface of Tervan Four, the largest Soltan attack site other then Earth. The Agincourt herself is heading away from the planet and doing a recon of the sector. Both the planetary away team and the 'Court are searching for any further Soltan data that may be of use.
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Welcome back and have fun!
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Happy Birthday Admiral A-9. Have a good one!
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First off, I will say that websites rock out. If I'm checking out a sim website, and you have messed up text, dead links, and a generally nasty appearance with the choice of your colors and layout a nightmare of a mess .... chances are I'm not going to join your sim.
However! I did not join STSF because of websites; I joined because of the Message Board layout, content, and general community.
I lurked for four months before jumping in to make sure there were no god awful flame wars and generally stupid people ... then again, every once in a while ... ::ducks:: :-P
Then I joined. While the various linked sites of the offered sims did help with a ship decision (s), there is/was also enough pinned briefing information (ship specs, crew rosters, general updates) within each sim message board section to more then help me with my choices of what ships I did join through these years.
Websites are great, I admit that up front, and they are an invaluable tool for RPG simming.
But sometimes, it ain't all about the flash bling blang boom; it's the content within. Sort of not judging that good book by its cover?
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11.30.08 Excalibur: Lower Decks Mission Update:
The USS Excalibur is currently in planetary orbit around Miriamano. The purpose: to foster relations with the Miriamano, and gather as much digital (or hardcopy data, possibly) as we can from their large archival storage.
The enlisted personnel of our Lower Decks would/could/might be handling any one of the following depending on their positions and duties:
- The Culinary Specialist staff might be interested in incorporating/purchasing some local cuisine or foodstuffs into the Excal mess hall menu.
- The Flight Deck Crews would be repairing equipment. Pilots (enlisted or non-com) might be working on their simulator training.
- The Master at Arms department would probably be concerned with working with the Security line officers and checking out the ship for any security breaches.
- The Transporter (Engineering Support) Operations Dept would be handling any transporter exchange of cargo and such with the planetary surface.
- The Musicians might be interested in locating any sort of musical compositions from within the Miriamano archival knowledge that is being transmitted to the ship.
- The Aviation Ordnance enlisted personnel might be taking inventory of the flight craft guns, torpedoes, small arms, etc, during the layover.
- The Aviation Mechanics would be repairing any flight vehicles.
- The Quartermasters office might locate some new cloth or supplies located on the planetary surface.
The above are just some examples, and I did not cover all of the enlisted and non commissioned officer positions that are outlined in our primer brief; the imagination of the enlisted officer writer can take you anywhere on the lower decks of the Excalibur.
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ROFL. I rest my case.Maybe it's not so much the film I object to as the article? One can hope.
I object to the article.
I get the fact that the author was trying to compare two different Kirk incarnations, but the article reads like a blatant Public Relations stunt. PineKirk might very well be a lecherous idiot, but we have no idea until we see the movie, and rule of thumb - the main hero of any film can never be the full on lech idiot, because an audience (any audience) will never accept him.
Case in point - Mel Gibsons character (Porter) in "Payback". The man was dangerous, and a hardcase. But, he had his own principles (he wanted his dang money, period), and the character had what I call dark honor. I don't know what other watchers of the film consider him to be, but I consider Porter to be a hero. Or perhaps a dark hero.
IMO, the article is a big time stink.
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11.30.08 Excalibur Mission Update:
TBS: Six Hours Pre-Sim, Three Hours Post Sim
Mission Brief: The Excalibur has arrived in orbit of the Miriamo Archives and has begun the data upload of thousands of years of recorded history. The planet itself lay in ancient ruins, save for the Central Library Archives, which remains mostly intact. It is clear that this planet was once very important. The Archivists have given us permission to beam down away teams to do some looking around of our own.
- Engineering continues to work on their countermeasure device to guard against any more technological intruders such as the Spider Mole employed by the Blood Cult raiding party. The Excal countermeasure beasties look just like small mechanical wasps. Dude, where’s my bug spray?
- Medical deals with multiple patient injuries and recoveries that are healing within the medical bay. We had a semi-cranky vampire with a broken foot, tended to by the CMO. A bullheaded Klingon patient was also dealt with. And, CMO Wydown laid down the law with a recovering and disruptive Security officer.
- The bridge ops were left in the XO’s command paws.
- The Captain and his Away Team (Teykier, Khal, Tr’Lorin, Ramson, Security Escort) zoomed down to the Miriamano planet for some library and general planetary recon via the Captains Yacht.
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Mission Brief: The Excalibur has arrived in orbit of the Miriamo Archives and has begun the data upload of thousands of years of recorded history. The planet itself lay in ancient ruins, save for the Central Library Archives, which remains mostly intact. It is clear that this planet was once very important. The Archivists have given us permission to beam down away teams to do some looking around of our own.
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Heads up STSF community at large for you book readers and anyone who is a Mirror Universe Nut like myself. Can you guess what I'll be reading this weekend?
Star Trek: Shards and Shadows was released Tuesday 01.06.09 and is a follow up collection of short stories to 2007's Obsidian Alliances and Glass Empires.
The first paragraph on the below book synopsis, quoted from the Barnes and Noble site, is probably the most accurate description of the Mirror Universe that I have ever read. Star Treks MU is an alternate extension of what and who we know, and it just so happens that the characters have a darker honor: