Star Trek: The Quadratic War

[Lys]

Huh. Well all right, then. I apparently did describe them as Capital Ships, albeit, in my defense, I did so literal years ago as a throwaway remark.

If by "years" you mean "eight days" then yes...

No, by my definition, the Exterminator frigate is indeed not a Capital Ship. The reason I described it as such was so that people would not dismiss the Exterminator as a "mere" frigate, unable to hurt them. Exterminators merit their name, after all. As to Jem'hadar Attack Ships and Klingon Birds of Prey, I do not know if they are capital ships or not. I assume not. The empires that produce them do not seem to employ them on the sorts of missions that would warrant inclusion in the term. This does not make them any less lethal. Defiants are not capitals either, after all.

Indeed, it seems only Marcao is suitably weary of the things. Which is understandable given his ship's lack of secondary armament. No fear my man! Someday (hopefully soon), your intrepid Romulan captain will have another Romulan to watch his back! This will most assuredly make him feel much more secure. ^_^

[General Havoc]

As I said, it was a slip of the tongue, intended merely to communicate the fact that Exterminators are quite capable of inflicting lethal destruction upon even the heaviest ship, a fact which remains the case. I thought you were referring to a different slip of the tongue I had made in the old thread, years ago. If we dive back through the immense backlog of material I have prepared for this thread, we are likely to find many inconsistent lines and typos, none of which alters the primary mechanics of the game itself. If players treat the Exterminator-class of frigates as mere shuttlecraft, incapable of harming their mighty vessels, they will be violently disabused of their illusions. And when they do so, citing such throwaway lines as though they trump the pages of reference materials I have provided on the subject, will provide no succor.

[White Haven]

Steeeeaaaam!

[Josh]

Steeeeaaaam!

Ask and ye shall receive.

The ship's going to engage the nearest probes with its secondaries, how many it manages to knock out are up to Havoc.

[White Haven]

You are going to seriously fuck up at least one probe's paint job. Maybe two.

[Josh]

Bitch, I'll fuck up your paint job.








...as soon as I find your car. And my keys. At the same time.

[White Haven]

The chunk torn out of my front bumper and the scrape-marks along the left-hand side of my car and the dent in the rear bumper say that my fucks given are remarkably low.

It's almost as beat-up as the Meh'ta.

[Josh]

The chunk torn out of my front bumper and the scrape-marks along the left-hand side of my car and the dent in the rear bumper say that my fucks given are remarkably low.

It's almost as beat-up as the Meh'ta.

Okay, you're a trashed-car bro. All is forgiven.

[rhoenix]

Sorry I haven't been on or posting as much this week. This week I've been strongly tempted to side with the Borg against all life.

[Josh]

Engage in some heroic badassery to buck up your mood.

[rhoenix]

My recent post makes the assumption that there were Tal'Shiar and/or Section 31 protocols in place for sneaking through places like the Badlands with a minimum of detection, given a particular ship configuration.

Given the extensive wrench-work performed over the past six years to fine-tune its performance for what was needed, a ship such as the Gilgamesh would have need to become a ghost from time to time, even in places like the Badlands.

Havoc, if this assumption is a bridge too far given my ship and its capabilities, please let me know.

[Josh]

I for one think it is badass.

[rhoenix]

I for one think it is badass.

Thank you - once I got the idea, and it passed the initial self-sanity-check, I couldn't stop myself. The imagery in there is just great.

[rhoenix]

As per the GM, post edited to remove passive cloaking shenanigans.

[rhoenix]

As per GM:

rhoenix rolled 1d100 and got a total of 23:
23

[Cynical Cat]

My recent post makes the assumption that there were Tal'Shiar and/or Section 31 protocols in place for sneaking through places like the Badlands with a minimum of detection, given a particular ship configuration.

Which wouldn't be worth much. Those are intelligence agencies. You're in a starship, not manipulating a contact in a cafe into trusting you when he shouldn't. You want the skills of a Maquis terrorist who operated here during the Occupation or a Starfleet helmsmen who served here in the Dominion War not the skills of an interrogator or a code cracker or a field recruiter.

[Lys]

Guys, a question if you don't mind:

The character i'm playing is the daughter of Liviana Charvanek, the Romulan Commander from The Enterprise Incident (and the only woman in the entire TOS shown with command authority). Currently on what picture to use as her character portrait. There's this one and that one. Since Romulans live about twice as long as humans, they presumably age at about half the speed, meaning that my 53 year old character should look to be about in her mid-20s in human terms. That would mean the second picture is best. On the other hand, the Romulan Commander in the Enterprise incident was only a little older (given she's still alive into the 2380s) and looks mid-30s at the youngest. So maybe the Romulan physical ageing curve isn't as simple as twice that of humans. What do you guys think?

[Cynical Cat]

The first picture looks like a woman with authority. The second like a pretty girl in a Romulan uniform.

Go with the first.

[Josh]

Definitely the first one.

Also: WHOOHOO! It's on, baby!

[Josh]

Oh yeah, we're in the shit now!

[rhoenix]

Honestly Lys, I'd say it's a tossup. As CynCat said, the first one shows a Romulan woman of power an authority - the second looks younger, but still has a nice spark in her eyes, and looks similar to how I envisioned my Commander Inzeti looks.

The problem here is that the second one is definitely rocking a non-regulation Romulan Empire haircut.

[General Havoc]

Because I'm sure THOSE are still enforced...

[rhoenix]

Because I'm sure THOSE are still enforced...

It's a flavor issue, sure. I'm certain Riov Cretak's ship still operates according to the proper Romulan Star Empire dress code.

A few Romulans on the Gilgamesh, such as Lieutenant Adranis, still rock the proper haircut. Commander Inzeti, however, grew her hair out and wears it in a braided bun, and Swift pretty much went punk-rock - hair dye, hair gel, and all.

[Josh]

Just because it's the end of the quadrant doesn't mean we can go soft on grooming standards.

We must meet our ends in style, after all.

[rhoenix]

It's because of that very fact that I imagine Riov Cretak suppresses an eyebrow twitch every time he looks at Swift. At least when she was in the Star Empire she'd at least make an attempt at looking and acting properly Romulan. Now... say what you will about Captain Solheim's command style, but he's obviously not much of a stickler for dress code.

Probably because he'd have to enforce it on his doctor too, and doing that is a truly excellent way to wake up somewhere unfamiliar, and discover that you're missing your kidneys.