Star Trek: Death of the Federation

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 1:32 am

I'm just thinking of all that wasted effort to get out of the 40K mindset and here I should have just stayed in it.

Alright everyone... FOR THE GOD EMP.... i mean the rights of all sapient beings.

Ah, fuck it.

EVERYONE FOLLOW ME!

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 2:30 am

F.Y. I. the Breen are slavers. Sometime I would like to see the conversation between your Breen tactical officer and Captain Anderson when the subject comes up.

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:25 am

--Helmsman: Acting Ensign Scylla (Upgraded and heavily modified Starfleet computer core and custom operating system, female?)
The Scylla is a complicated beast to pilot, largely because it can't see the ass end of the Starfleet Design Bureau past the blizzard of design modification blueprints. It gets even worse given that the modifications are ongoing, changing the performance envelope of the hodgepodge ship on a weekly basis. Fortunately, one of those very modifications has provided what will hopefully be a solution. The Scylla's original layout is a relic of an earlier era, an era with, notably in this case, far more primitive computing technology. Accordingly, the internal space allocated to the ship's computer core is proportionally much larger than it would be on a more modern ship.

A ship full of engineers and scientists were bound to take advantage of that fact.

With nothing else to do with the excess computer hardware stripped from numerous newer hulls and salvaged from wrecked ships, much of it ended up integrated together into an over-sized cluster of smaller cores running in parallel, giving the Scylla ridiculous amounts of processing power to work with. After a series of near-disasters stemming from the overcomplexity and variability of the ship's modifications, Project Helmsman was born. Lacking the Emergency Medical Hologram support hardware of newer ships (something the ship's minuscule medical staff would have killed for), a fully holographic officer was out of the question.

After a lengthy development cycle and a simulated time-accelerated training program that ran both the computer systems and the entire tactical staff ragged trying to keep pace, Acting Ensign Scylla was ready for duty. Given a provisional commission by Leyton, a crash-course in combat maneuvering by what tactical staff the Scylla hosts, and a full, realtime link to every internal structural sensor and damage control reporting system the ship has, the Scylla finally had a helmsman who could push the ship to her treacherously-variable limits. There was some discussion of turning over weapons control to the AI, but Leyton vetoed the idea on the grounds that no Acting Ensign in Starfleet history had ever simultaneously held the posts of helmsman and tactical officer at the same time, and this wasn't the time to change that.

When asked about the AI's gender, one of the science officers responsible just shrugged and said, "Ships are female, and who ever heard of a man named 'Scylla' anyway?"

Helmsman added, since I entirely forgot to fill that vital position initially. No special benefit to flight abilities beyond simply being able to compensate in realtime for modifications to the ship and battle damage causing alterations to the ship's structural tolerances.

General Havoc · Post by **General Havoc** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:01 am

I reserve the right to turn this AI into Glados.

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:42 am

If it means my away teams and the Scylla get portal-gun technology, I'm surprisingly comfortable with this.

General Havoc · Post by **General Havoc** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 12:16 pm

No portal-gun technology, but you may* get cake!

*(The above statement was not intended to be taken factually)

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 12:53 pm

Schroedinger's Cake is not worth Death By Testing. :(

frigidmagi · Post by **frigidmagi** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 1:47 pm

Damn Cake is a lie anyways.

Hotfoot, Rheonix, CT, Tev, Charon and Nitram, I humble request that you wake up and start shooting slavers. If you leave me and Cat twisting in the wind, we may get irritated.

Wake up music

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 3:54 pm

Given that you guys know where the Scylla was, you can probably assume that it's responsible for the 'Starfleet cruiser squadron' bearing down on this merry little clusterfuck. The same cannot be said for CynCat's little borg stunt.

Comrade Tortoise · Post by **Comrade Tortoise** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 4:58 pm

frigidmagi wrote:Damn Cake is a lie anyways.

Hotfoot, Rheonix, CT, Tev, Charon and Nitram, I humble request that you wake up and start shooting slavers. If you leave me and Cat twisting in the wind, we may get irritated.

Wake up music

AYE Sir!

Comrade Tortoise · Post by **Comrade Tortoise** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 5:31 pm

An image of fleet positioning would be very useful if a crude one could be drawn up.

LadyTevar · Post by **LadyTevar** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 6:16 pm

Wake me up when there's something to blow up

Marcao · Post by **Marcao** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 6:19 pm

I will be posting tonight if all goes according to plan.

rhoenix · Post by **rhoenix** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 7:18 pm

As shall I.

I say we give the pirates five minutes to stop being stupid - if they don't, the fleet-tender dies, and we give the Borg the exact location of this little fleet before we go.

Before anyone whines about civvie casualties, we have no way of verifying the loyalty or intentions of any civilian in that fleet.

LadyTevar · Post by **LadyTevar** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 7:31 pm

I meant that JOKINGLY, without reading the thread or the prior OOC commentary.

Did you *have* to start the fire the same week I have to be finalizing plans for the very first Royal Progress I've ever been in charge of?

IF I'm not posting fast enough, Havoc, please have the Spectre moving defensively while providing cover fire for the other ships in the fleet, including the Scylla

rhoenix · Post by **rhoenix** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 8:05 pm

I've been AFK from the forums for a bit, so I'm still catching up.

But, I say that if Anderson's return isn't an option, what he knows cannot be allowed the possibility of falling to the Borg. So, if he isn't returned in x amount of time, the fleet tender and every ship in that fleet dies.

Far better the ships and people be a resource destroyed and denied to the Borg than for the Borg to be allowed access to secrets that are not theirs to have. I'm sure Section 31 still has the Federation forms for "pacification."

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:31 pm

Well, there goes the Empyrean, didn't expect to get boarded this quickly by Borg, but, hey, whatcha gonna do?

General Havoc · Post by **General Havoc** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 11:20 pm

Have I ever mentioned that I hate everyone?

Rhoenix, Cyncat, and Tev: I would like you to roll a d100 please.

rhoenix · Post by **rhoenix** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 12:06 am

Roll per GM request:

[roll]1d100[/roll]

At this point, unless someone makes a strong argument otherwise, nobody in that pirate fleet is going to live past today.

They had their chance - they have shown that they find the Borg to be preferable to dealing with the Federation. Therefore, they cannot be considered responsible for their own actions as a fleet, and should be denied as a potential resource to the Borg.

rhoenix · Post by **rhoenix** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 12:06 am

Bah - actual roll:

Charon · Post by **Charon** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 12:22 am

General Havoc wrote:Have I ever mentioned that I hate everyone?

Rhoenix, Cyncat, and Tev: I would like you to roll a d100 please.

What was that about how I charge at dangerous enemies while screaming Havoc?

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:37 am

Where did this "Breen are slavers" thing come from? Because of the 4th Season DS9 episode that introduced Ziyal? Just that one incident?

Star Trek Online has picked up on it as well, though the novel EU has let it slide (it hasn't made the Breen nice, but it's made them interesting).

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 2:25 am

Steve wrote:Where did this "Breen are slavers" thing come from? Because of the 4th Season DS9 episode that introduced Ziyal? Just that one incident?

You mean that actual incident of slavery, one of the few to feature any details at all about the Breen? Yes, that and allying with the Dominion which pretty much puts them in the tyrannical slaver douchebag camp.

Ben, you might want to edit your post on account of Hotfoot's sensor ghosts.

rhoenix · Post by **rhoenix** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 3:06 am

IC post deleted - I'll read up and post tomorrow.

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 3:14 am

Trying this again.

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