The Syndicate

When you can please head over to the Star Trek: Engage website and apply and put in your biography so we can get the ball rolling over there. They are already working on adding us to their system but they need us registered so they can start assigning us to our ship, get the ship up. It may still be a few weeks before we can sim over there and were going to have to make some changes so the sooner we can start working on this the faster we can get set up over there. So I encourage you to take a little time and go over to the site and go through the signup process. If you need help I should be around before the sim Saturday and would be more than willing to help or answer questions as best I can.

Here is a link to the registration page: http://www.startrekengage.com/registration
Once your approved and you log in, it will prompt you to create a character. There is a reason for this. 8-)

Dan

When you sign up on the ST:E site, do your biography as she mentioned in the email above, make sure you put that your part of the Tempest, and what your position is. I'm not sure if that will help. once you submit your character profile it should give you access to the Handbook which will allow you to read how they do things. Its just slightly different than what we do here already.

Mine's already done.

Hello All.

As promised, I would keep you up to date with our joining the Tempest to Star Trek: Engage. Here is an update and request from Aoibhe our contact within ST:E, when you have some time please follow the instructions listed below.

Aoibhe Ní Shúilleabháin
5:29 AM (13 hours ago)

to cthulhuite, me, Annie
Hey Daniel and Annie!

It's great to hear from you guys.
I'm thrilled you've decided to join us, as is James, our Game Manager.

You're joining us at a great time, actually, as we've been getting a healthy influx of new players who we are having difficulty finding good positions for. I'm hoping that will lead to you guys, once we have the Tempest added to our roster, getting a nice, fresh supply of players. Maybe even a transfer or two from our current players.

OK, so down to business...
From your own forum I see you've recently had a mission with four players. That's a pretty decent place to start joining us.
I'd like all of your crew to enlist and register with STE here: http://www.startrekengage.com/registration
and then send in their character applications: http://www.startrekengage.com/odn/character_creator

Please have them mention that they're a USS Tempest crewmember at the beginning of the "Description" section, so we know who they are. If they could also add a link to their original profile so we can verify rank, that'd be great.

Once that's done, (so we know your players are comfortable with our chat protocols, etc) you guys are officially part of STE!

It's important to stress at this point that the Tempest crew use the protocols we use, etc, because any cadets or crew transferring or applying to join you will have gone through the same handbook I sent you and will have been tested on their comfort with those specific protocols when they apply. To avoid confusion between your current crew and any new players, we'd like to ensure consistency.

Ideally, I'd like to give a few weeks of promo on our Facebook page and across social media before we have the Tempest's official launch, (I've always found social media count downs are an effective way to stir up excitement...) but once your crew are all registered with STE, you are absolutely more than free to use our servers to sim in the meantime, and we'll do what we can to encourage players to join the ship prior to the official launch.

Either way, once your crew have had their characters accepted, James will add the Tempest to our roster (are you still running at 7PM Pacific, 10PM Eastern on Saturdays?) and I'll start work on a ship patch with you guys separately.

I think that's enough to throw at you for now, guys.
But on behalf of James and myself, welcome to Star Trek Engage. It's a pleasure to add you to the family.
Aoibhe.

I will see about getting the handbook again since my G-mail has eaten it and get that to you so we can look at the way they conduct their simulations as they may be a bit different than what we currently do.

Daniel

Recruitment:

I've been plugging our activity when I can to my friends on Facebook trying to gain interest from more people. Networking is pretty key with things like this and being that were independent right now from any active RP/Sim Group it's not easy. I would like to ask and encourage you to help in this matter however you can. We need a good solid crew but even having a few people that are in and out as time permits helps. If you know anyone that might be interested in this activity please don't hesitate to invite them. The success of this activity is up to us all. The more players, the more dynamic the stories will get. The more fluid and direct our sim's will get as we will have more people to interact with. I'm not asking you to go crazy with this, just once a month plug the sim to your social media. See if you get any bites. Any little bit helps.

Thank you guys and gals.

Another Audio Log Completed:

Hello All,

In the spirit of being open and honest as I try to be with people whom I work with and enjoy company I want to apologize for last weekend. I am a divorcee, and last weekend was my daughters birthday whom I rarely get to see but maybe once a year because of the distance that separates us. Not to mention that she's still very angry over my divorce. Between her and her mother being in the path of that Hurricane on the East coast and the birthday, I needed to just be with myself. I'm certain you understand. It's very hard for me, but I wanted to apologize to you all for not attending last weekend. While were still struggling to go forward with such a small group right now, each day is important so I do my very best to be present each week. There may be times in the future where I may want a Saturday to myself just as you do but my goal is to be present as often as I can. I know I don't have to share this with you but as we are a team in this, I feel I should be open with you. I do thank you for your understanding and appreciate you all.

I will see you later tonight power permitting. Were in the middle of some potentially bad weather here in the Pacific North West at the moment so there is a chance I could be without power tonight. I will endeavor to at least get on and message SpaceDaisy over Facebook so that she might pass the word should I not be able to attend.

Dan

Got another one done today, so thats 2.5. WOOT

I've got another audio log completed. Skipping around a bit until I figure out what I'm going to do about other voices. Anyone want to volunteer? I believe my roommates might help me with some. But I might need some lines done to add into the logs, until then these are going to be spotty. I did manage to get lines done for one of the other logs so I have 1.5 done. LOL. Anyhow, I hope you enjoy.

Hey Guys and gals, I do apologize but I will not be attending tonight's sim, something has come up. Please do have some fun though without me. Your welcome to run an off duty RP if you want. Gather up in the Holodeck for an adventure. Something to that nature.

Sorry that I wont be here tonight. I will see you all next weekend.

Another one done.

I added a little ambiance music at the beginning and end.

Alright, I'm still learning and getting the hang of this but here is Log # 2. Let me know what you think.

All caught up on logs, updated the Damage Control Board, Posted an FFN News thingie. This coming Monday I intend on resuming work on my Audio Logs to add to things.

Alright ladies and gents. Sim Reminder for tonight! 7PM Pacific, 10PM Eastern.

I've updated the logs for the last 3 sims today. Updated the time line with our last few sims so that its up to date as well.

Somewhat Important -

As we jump around time wise as we will to move the story along at times life happens, things break, and people get hurt. Under the Specifications page I've created a place where updates to the ships condition and other little tid bits of info will be kept so that you have some idea on what's going on with the ship. The ship itself is just as much a character in the story as you are. To keep up with the theme of a rush job to get us out and into space I believe that the current status of the ship is about right. Busy work to be done. I will be updating this each week as things develop so a brief glance or keeping this up on a screen and available might be advisable so you know whats broken and other useful information. Any question, just ask here or before sim during Q&A.

Here is a direct link to the Damage Control Post

Thank you guys for your patience I should be back in my normal schedule this week now that were done physically moving stuff in. So I really appreciate your understanding while this move was kind of unexpected it was going to happen soon enough. So I will be reading the log here in the next couple of days. I heard you broke the ship. I'm sure our new chief engineer is totally excited considering. LOL See you guys on Saturday!

I'm using Audacity, I'm using a gaming headset to record. If you know how to do that with Audacity let me know and I"ll give it a try. I'm moved now as of this weekend. I should theoretically be on tonight for the sim if not I will communicate with SpaceDaisy and she can run something fun with you guys tonight. Sorry this last two weeks is a bit hectic with the sudden move. But it will be great! I'm planning on holding a sim tonight if at all possible.

So I am going to do the audio logs just as a fun project. But I wont be doing them until I move. Where i stay right now the ambient noise is unavoidable and not conducive to recording voice stuff. But here in the next month or so. I might ask for volunteers for additional voices if your interested and have the means. It would just involve you recording potential scripted things. You can get Audacity for free. Let me know if your willing. So sometime in late Sept, Early Oct. I am going to start doing those old logs into voice recordings.

Sooo... I was thinking of doing something a bit different with the Captains log... Would like your input. How would you feel if they were an actual voice recording? Basically I would use an audio recording software to record the log add any sound effects, put it up as a "Video" on YouTube and link it here. This sound like something that would add something different and or interesting to this? I may do a few test runs to see how it goes and if its even possible. But I'm curious what you might think.

Great sim tonight, lots of good stuff! Thanks for coming all!

So I know were still pretty early into this but I would like to get some input from you. I have a direction planned for us to fit with the Exploration setting you've asked for.

What would you like to see in the SIm? Are there specific things you'd like to see? Events you'd like to take part in? Old Episodes that there was never really an answer to that you'd like to see a creative response too?

If you have specific Character events you want to see realized if you want to let me know what those are. These I would prefer you PM me with so they can remain a surprise.

If you have a storyline idea in mind you'd like to see realized into something you can also send me details and I can figure out how to make it happen and fit it in there. No idea is stupid or wrong. I may need to tweek it to keep it at a specific level so that it works, but the general idea will be there.

Until I can find a semi-Dedicated Sim Master I've got to come up with and chain some story line together. It may become more clear as we get into our actual mission so you know where were going and what our mission is going to be. But please do present ideas.

You don't have to be an active member on the ship to present an idea. If you have an idea that you feel would challenge the crew, your welcome to also submit ideas.

This sim and its story is just as much yours as it is mine. I want to give you all every opportunity to help mold its future. 8-)

So for your Regulars who are coming more frequently if you have a position preference on where you'd like to be specifically or what role you'd like to be in primarily and whenever possible please send me a PM with those requests.

For those of you who will be coming and going I would like the same, preferably a top 3 position requests this way I know what you'd like to be posted too whenever possible. You can see who's been essentially permanently positioned under the bio's page where a Roster has been started. But this will help as we start to get more people coming and going from the SIM.

Hey All,

I wanted to apologize for not being able to make this last weeks get together, my family made an unanticipated change of my Nephews birthday party which I agreed to help with. So I was unable to get online and in the process I didnt get a chance to post anything letting you know. Normally I would but I was so busy I completely spaced it. So I do apologize. We will resume our regularly scheduled programming next weekend Saturday the 23rd. Hope you see you there.

Hopefully it will be a bit easier to follow along now that were a bit more organized. 8-)

Your welcome to drop in anytime.

The one thing we lack is a place to put the actual Chat log from what happened. I will be looking for a solution to this so that if people want they can actually read what happened outside of the narration.

Pre Sim Information:
As Johnny Cleveland and Sully awaken they find themselves in a damp cave like structure, the smell of saltwater fills the air. They both find themselves bound to flat rock slabs, tight binding material much the consistency of sea weed wrapped around them and the rock. Their bodies feel as if they cannot move anyhow, it’s as if they were given a paralytic. A creature, large an imposing is nearby moving their hands around in a tank full of aqua blue fluid, it almost glows.
The creature which you wager is about nine and half foot-tall hovers over Johnny, its features remind you of a cross between a cow and a fish. It has scales like a fish, gills, but it has the features of a cow. It runs a device across Johnny’s body then moves back over to the tank pulling what looks very much like a star fish from the tank then moves back over pulling Johnny’s mouth open and dropping the thing on it. As much as he wants to move, yell, scream at the thing he can’t as his body is immobile.
There is a brief moment of panic as he feels something force its way down his throat, a sharp pain but only briefly. The cow like creature lifts Johnny gently from the stone and he’s suddenly dropped into a deep tank of water where he is met by another of those cat like creatures he met before and took several shots at. This one grabs him and drags him along towards the bottom of the tank until he’s pushed against an upright slab in front of three aging cats, all with grey scales, long whiskers. Shortly after Sully joins him in front of them.
Johnny & Sully both notice that they are breathing fine under water. There are several sounds that can be heard in the water, slowly those sounds become words and are intelligible. It’s almost like a universal translator has suddenly been turned on.
“What species are you?”

15 More Minutes to Sim time!

Just a reminder, Sim tonight at 7PM Pacific, 10PM Eastern. I should be on time now that I've got my days right. LOL

LOL ::Smacks forhead:: Derp!

So something like the "Soma Lounge" or something of that nature?

Soma?

To be more precise...

USS Tempest NCC-1852-A (There was already a version previously mentioned out there. Not cannon but why not...LOL Gives her a bit of history, speaking of which... )
Galaxy Class (Upgraded)
Originally launched on January 3, 2365 with Captain L'nar in command. Her recently deceased commanding officer was Captain Gregory David Philips.
She's got a few years on her, but a Yard period is in her future to get her back space worthy again.

A little history:
USS Tempest: Civil War Era Gun Boat (Mississippi River) – Year: 1862
USS Tempest: Monitor Class Sailing Ship – Year: 1869
USS Tempest PC-2: Cyclone Class Patrol Boat - Decommissioned: Sept 2005
NCC-1852: Miranda Class - Decommissioned: March 2281
NCC-1852-A: Galaxy Class (Currently In Service) <----- This would be us. LOL
NCC-1852-C: Sovereign Class (Future – There is already one on record in 2381)

So we have a Captains Yacht which will be so named: USS Mandrake NCC-75418

There will be 4 Runabouts on board 2 of which are pre-configured with sleeping quarters on board and 2 of them that are not.
USS Urania NCC-92707
USS Dauntless NCC-92708
USS Aruna NCC-92709
USS Kevin Spaceshipy NCC-92712 (Because why not... LOL)

Once we get a place to put up the ships specifications I can get those up. I'm slowly putting that together, if you can think of anything you would like to see, big ship, lots of room.

We also have a "Ten Forward" Lounge that we need a Name for at some point too.

Alright, she's officially the USS Tempest, Galaxy Class Starship.

I will be using some of the other voted names for her support craft. 8-)

Thank you all who voted. Now the real fun begins.

Thank you for voting S~V~S!

I have as well. I say we give it until Wednesday July 6th and settle on the one that has the highest vote count. I really do like Tempest, thats a good name.

I like Urania as well, and I also like the idea of getting some 3rd Party involvement. LOL

I'm open to suggestions on how to do that. Perhaps Daisy or MovingPics can help with that.

But we need to get a name and settle on a class since we still have a tie technically. Now Saint (Cj) has joined us he tossed a verbal vote for Galaxy Class. So unless someone ties the vote or goes another direction we are probably going through with that.

Once we get the name more things will happen so the sooner the better.

I should have a log out here tonight or tomorrow at the very latest.

Thank you to all those who attended.

So we've got a coming vote off or a "Command Level" decision on a tie breaker on the ship class. Now we need to get a name set. Here is a list which we will set up a vote for here soon.

Space Daisy Recommended: Varuna, Lakshmi, Hanuman, Mitra, Saranyu, Aruna, Chandra, Soma
Dharma Recommended: Mandrake, Mandolin, Opal, and Heisenberg
SokothQultuq Recommeded: Vally Forge, Seattle, Texas, Lake Stevens, Paul F. Foster, Kitsune, Tempest, Valhalla, Lexington, Midway
A friend of Sokoth Recommended: Indominable, Dauntless, Achilles, and Arcon.

I think INH gave me a few suggestions but I cannot find them.

Anything stand out to you? Any you want to include? Any you feel we should drop right off? Let me know what you think.

Mission Update: To get things going for us this coming Saturday 6/25/2016 -

It has been about 4 hours since Johnny Cleveland ran into what is believed to be the aggressive alien species. A heavy effort was spent getting both the camps defenses and shelters have been set up. Materials have been gathered enough that a roof has been erected over part of the camp, a few of the escape pods were able to be moved using what power and fuel was available to help with shelter efforts. It's starting to get dark, angry clouds are on the horizon and its starting to rain with a light wind having picked up. More people are showing up regularly from the woods in the dark.

Key Points of Interest:
As of right now there are about 83 Survivors in the camp. 61 from the Lake Stevens, 13 from the Syndicate, and 9 from the Texas.

Communicators are not working currently due to interference in the atmosphere. Its unknown what is causing it but it appears the signal is being reflected back.

No recent sightings of the big kitty Johnny Cleveland saw, or signs of movement at all. The forest all around appears quiet. No Birds, Bugs, or animals.

A sad day to be sure. 8-(

Good Sim Guys and Gals. I know it was a small group but holiday weekends have that tendency. I hope you have a great week, Happy Fathers day to anyone who might be. Thanks for coming, we'll see what happens next during our visit to Lyshan III.

Log/Update will be forthcoming. If anyone wants me to email them a copy of the chat I can do that.



Until Next week...

Hopefully that provides you with some inspiration. 8-) See you tomorrow night!

Feel free to post your own character's experience if you've decided where your character is starting from. Any one of the three ships, consider yourself a Junior officer.

The two balls of energy slammed into the ship, one of them must have gotten some through the shields as alarms for decompression and other rang through the bridge. “Damage Report!” the Captain called picking himself up off the floor.

“Hull Breach on deck 4! Shields are down to sixty four percent. They got us good on th… “Another teeth jarring hit came this one was worse than the last, it sent everyone flying across the bridge as the vessel suddenly changed directions. Deep within the ship there were explosions which vibrated through the hull and floor.

“We’ve lost the Warp Field, the starboard warp Nacelle took a direct hit!” the helmsman called as she pulled herself back into her seat.

“Aft Torpedo’s are offline, shields are down to twenty eight percent!”

“Multiple hull beaches, emergency force fields are in place.”

‘INCOMING!” someone yelled.

Explosions ripped through the bridge pitching bodies all over the place some recovered quickly a few didn’t move. The entire left side of the bridge was on fire and a jagged hole where a console once stood was the culprit. An EPS power conduit must have ruptured. Oliver scanned the bridge and spotted his Captain, his body not moving not far from the man’s chair. A large portion of the overhead superstructure lay across his body. “Captain!” he yelled moving quickly over to where the man lay.

“Oliver!” the mans voice was labored. Blood was bubbling up through his mouth. “Ollie!” he said, his free hand reached out and grabbed his uniform. “Save them!” he said, and his body went limp.

Oliver felt overwhelmed suddenly, his mentor was gone the chaos on the bridge seemed to fall away. He knew the crew was busy fighting that fire and trying to get control of the ship. He stared at the man, his beard red with blood.

“Commander?” he heard the helmsman call to him.

He slowly looked up. “Yes?”

“Helm control has been restored, Engineering is reporting were on our way to a Warp core breach ourselves. The core has been damaged. Containment is going to fail. We need to abandon ship!” she said.

He slowly stood up and walked over to the helm dropping into the chair. “All hands this is Acting Captain Savage. All hands to emergency Escaped Pods, all hands Abandon ship!” he said and glanced over at her. “I’ll be right behind you!” he said nodding.

“What’s the plan Captain!” he heard his tactical officer ask him as he too was now back at his station.

“You’re going to get off the ship with the rest of the crew.” He ran his hands across the ships helm controls the helm was sluggish. “Computer Reroute all remaining power including live support to the shields, weapons, and propulsion.” He watches as the escaped pods all around the ship began to depart. “Lock us down one close to the bridge will you!” he asked hazarding a glance back at the tactical officer.

“Aye,” he started working on something.

“Where going to give them a parting gift!”

“The Texas just gave the Lake Stevens a nudge towards the alien vessel. They’ve taken heavy damage as well.”

Oliver looked up and saw the Lake Stevens go past them towards the Alien vessel. It fired into the hulk and then it exploded. The vessel wasn’t nearly close enough to do enough damage but it was enough. “Give them everything we’ve got left, even the blasted kitchen sink!” he ran his hands across the console an started the ship forward. Their trajectory would take them past the enemy vessel. “Computer Eject the Warp Core Ejection Hatch and the hatches for the Antimatter pods. Prepare to release them on my command.”

“You weren’t kidding!” the tactical officer was now hard at work launching everything they had at the alien vessel.

The ship shook hard as two blasts from the enemy vessel hit them. It caused Oliver to nearly go head first over the helm but he managed to hold on. “Shields?”

“Not much left!” the tactical officer yelled.

The vessel shook violently again as two more shots hit them. He began watching the range quickly dwindle down between the two vessels.

“I’ve lost weapons!” the tactical officer yelled. “Shields are failing!”

Oliver began rolling the vessel as they were very close. “Computer Release the Warp Core and Antimatter pods!” he put the ship on a curved course away from the Enemy vessel and as he was getting out of his chair and the lights flickered all over the ship and died the vessel was nailed hard sending the two of them flying through the bridge as gravity cut out for a brief moment.

“Emergency Power online!” the computers voice echoed through the nearly dead ship.

“Come on!” Oliver yelled as he dragged his aching body up and rushed forward of the Helm and operations console. He hauled the hatch to the Jefferies tube access open. His tactical officer was right behind him, a streaming head wound was his reward. They slid down the ladder to deck two and ran out into the corridor to find it was a huge mess. They climbed their way through the structural damage and came to the Escape pod. Strapping into it Oliver hit the hatch door and auto sequence. “Enjoy the ride!”

The emergency ejection sequence was not the most enjoyable but it was used in case of emergencies like this one. He had preset the Planet Lyshan III as their destination, and held onto the acceleration couch.

“Emergency Ejection Sequence initiated. Three…two…One…” The outside hatch blew free and the sudden acceleration slammed both of them into their acceleration couches. It had been designed to get the escape pod away from a ship who’s warp Core was about to go. This was no exception and right on queue. There was a bright flash outside and the Escape pod was hit by the shockwave. It suddenly went tumbling through space. Oliver’s vision blurred, read and black continued to creep into his sight until finally everything went dark.

The sound of reentry woke Oliver but briefly, what came next was both terrifying and painful. It came in bits and pieces. Screaming, straining metal, Impacts, Snapping of wood, Water, then more darkness. Oliver wasn’t sure how long it was before he woke, his uniform was soaked and he lay suspended by his restraints. Rain was drizzling through a gash in the side of the escape pod. The sound of rushing water became clear, as his eyes cleared he could see what appeared to be a forest outside of the damaged craft. He slowly snaked his hands up and hit the release on his restraints which sent him to the bottom of the craft. Orienting himself to gravity he sat there for a long while allowing blood to flow back through the rest of his body.

Aside from cuts and bruises and what he was sure was a concussion and some bruised or broken ribs he was alright. He slowly moved over to check on the tactical officer who was still in their acceleration couch restrained.

“Captain the USS Texas has signaled they are likewise responding and is in route.” The ships operations officer called out from the front of the bridge pulling their attention.

This made the two exchange glances. “The Texas?” Oliver said aloud.

“That’s not good!” the Captain said right away. “What is that Captain thinking!” he said looking back at the main viewer.

“Why do you say that?” Oliver asked a little confused.

“You don’t read the FFN do you?” the elder officer said looking back at him once again.

Oliver shook his head. “Nope. Bunch of crap if you ask me!”

“The Texas is a trainee ship!”

“What?” Oliver said a little louder than necessary. “I thought they stopped those after the Enterprise incident!”

The captain shook his head. “I sure hope that ship’s captain knows what he’s doing!” he glanced around the bridge. “Or this could be another disaster!”

The bridge was quiet for a long while, you could almost cut the tension with a knife, and finally the operations officer broke the silence. “Long Range sensors are picking up the Lake Stevens, and…” the operations officer fell silent for a long moment.

“What is it Lieutenant?” Oliver asked.

“I don’t know sir, it’s big!”

“Coming out of Warp on the far side of Lyshan III Captain!” the helmsman called out. Everyone paused for a moment to watch as the elongated stars snapped back to pinpoints on the screen and Lyshan rushed into view. The planet gave way as they slipped past and then the Galaxy Class Lake Stevens streaked into being. She was badly damaged, her nacelles were venting gouts of super-heated drive plasma, and they had clearly pushed the engines hard.

“Helmsman, close with the Lake Stevens. How long till the en….” The captain’s words cut off as a massive ship appeared from a tear inspace. It almost seemed like water. The vessel a mighty wedge with blue and green hues of light with a dark green hull color appeared. Almost immediately an almost neon green liquid began to encircle the ship. “All stop!”

“Scans?” Oliver said likewise in awe of the new vessel.

“Sensors will not penetrate that liquid!” the operations officer called out.

The Captain slowly stood up. “Let’s see if they lik...” the Captains words were cut off as an ear shattering sound rolls through the ship just as a alien vessel seems to pulse a bright white for a brief moment. “Report!”

“I believe we were just scanned!” the operations officer said rubbing one of their ears.

“Captain I’m pick up…..” The ship rocked hard suddenly as something struck it. “They’ve fired something at us!” he said as he regained his footing.

“Evasive Maneuvers!” Oliver called.

“Return Fire!” the Captain Barked!

“Shields are down to 95%!” the Tactical Officer called. “Returning fire!”

The ships phasers played over the vessels shields and seemed to send a gout of evaporation into space, the torpedoes fired seemed to be swallowed by the liquid, then more evaporation and cast off from the explosion, but no discernable damage. Another hard hit was returned by the Alien vessel in response, the vessel shook and sparks shot from some of the consoles on the bridge sending the pungent odor of burnt electronics into the air.

“Shields Down to 80%!”

“Reroute Auxiliary Power to the shields!” Oliver Called out over the alarms and hurried voices.

“Sir the Lake Stevens!” the operations officer called out. On the viewscreen the Galaxy Class ship was turning away and heading towards the planet. “She’s retreating!”

“They’ve taken heavy damage sir, systems are beginning to fail, they appear to have lost main power.” The Tactical officer said.

“Hail them!” the Captain barked.

“Helm, move us between the Stevens and the alien ves…” his voice was drowned out by the gasps on the bridge as a massive beam of energy lanced out slicing an angry red jagged line across the ships saucer all the way across the amidships hull and impulse engines to the port warp nacelle. The lights on the vessel began to darken, and the Nacelle began to spill drive plasma from the damaged area as well as the vents.

“Continue firing!” the Captain barked at the Tactical officer. “Attack pattern Omega!” he hollered at the bridge crew. Anger was creeping into his voice.

“The Texas just took two, they are not doing so well!” the operations officer shouted. “They just signaled requesting a coordinated attack over open channel!”

“Confirm via Text, tell them to follow our lead. Tactical Target one of those weapon systems and give it everything we’ve got!” he shouted. The alien vessel began to loom large on the viewscreen.

Another blast from the zipped past the viewscreen and held for a short time.

“In Range!” the tactical officer called.

“FIRE!” the Captain barked.

The Viewscreen lit up as both the Texas and their weapons plowed into the enemy vessel. A massive cloud of steam, neon liquid and debris floated free but the liquid just simply closed around the wound. The vessel fired two more of its weapons at them.

“Evasive!” Oliver yelled, but it was too late.

((To Set the Mood of the next sim and to get you thinking about how you arrive on the planet....))

“The battle of Lyshan III”

Oliver sat back in his chair staring across the table, one of his eyebrows cocked in curiosity. “What do you mean no?” he leaned in and eyed his opponent.

The young girl sitting across from him giggled. “NO! Go fish!” she said slapping the deck of cards on the table between them making a pretty good attempt at a sinister glare.

He didn’t dare press the issue, he grinned and reached out and took one of the cards from the top of the deck and eyed her over the cards. “Ok. I see how it’s going to be!”

She continued to glare, and very quickly fell into a giggle as she lost her composure. “Ok… ok… do you have any…”

“Are you two at it again!” a voice called from across the room.

“She’s kicking my tail!” Oliver said turning to the woman who was standing across the room wearing a robe. “Save me!” he said in an overly dramatic voice.

The woman in the doorway grinned. “To bed with you evil one!” she said with a gesture to the young girl.

“Do I have too, were almost done!” the young girl said in mock despair. She slipped off the chair and started for her room yawning. “Night Ollie!” she said waving and disappearing into the room.

Oliver swept the cards into a pile and found that she had made her way across the room and had ensnared him about the waist. “She likes you!”

Oliver nodded. “I’m starting to get that feeling.” He put the cards in the wooden case dropped a hand on top of hers. “I’ve got duty early, I should probably go.” He said turning to face her.

She smiled. “You could stay?”

He shook his head. “I’m not sure that’s a good idea yet.” He shrugged. “I really should talk to the Captain about it first.” He smiled. “Don’t get me wrong Lori I want to but it’s not the right time yet.”

She nodded. “I understand,” she slowly moved away running her fingers down his back. “You cannot have the ships Executive officer dating one of the ships nurses without the old man’s permission.” She grinned as she made her way toward her bedroom. “I could make it worth your while.”

He sighed. “I hate you!” he said shaking a fist at her. “Soon enough.”

“Soon!” she said as she slipped through the door to her bedroom.

He stood there staring at the open door and the darkness beyond. He wanted to walk through that door but he knew he couldn’t because once that door was open it meant certain things. “Goodnight Lori!”

He heard her laugh from within the room. “Goodnight Ollie!”

Oliver turned down the lighting in the main part of her quarters and left heading down the hall towards the nearest turbolift. He stepped through the doors and into the lift standing to the side and leaning against the wall. It was a short ride before he was deposited on his desired deck, as he entered his Quarters he started stripping out of his uniform and headed into the bathroom starting up the sonic shower. He took a long look in the mirror and ran a hand over the stubble on his chin that had started to form.

He stepped into the shower and leaned against the back wall allowing the sonic waves to roll over his body. His muscles were still sore after his earlier work out and a bruise was still bothering him on his right thigh. It was nice and blue and black. He could easily see boot print on it now. He had managed to fall during their training exercise and someone trampled him when he fell. Only managed to land on his thigh but it hurt all the same.

Oliver’s eyes snapped open as the room was suddenly bathed in red, and the alert klaxon began to sound. “Red Alert, All hands to battle stations!” the night shift officer of the deck came over the ships intercom.

“Oh, this cannot be good!” he pushed out of the shower and moved quickly out into his quarters and began pulling on his uniform frantically, he managed his boxer briefs, an undershirt and his pants as he bolted from his quarters. Stepping into the lift he pulled both his socks on and his turtleneck shirt. It took another moment to pull his vest on, and as the lift arrived at the bridge he entered with his boots in hand moving to the center of the bridge. The Captain hand not arrived yet. “Report!” he said as he dropped in his own chair and began tying up his boots.

“We just received a Distress Call from the USS Lake Stevens, she’s under attack by an unknown enemy vessel. They’ve requested assistance and are heading towards the Lyshan system at maximum warp. That is about when they will have to power down they have already taken damage.”

“Very good commander, your relieved, Helmsman what is our ETA to the Lyshan System?” he said zipping up his vest just as the Captain exited the turbolift. “Captain.” He nodded.

“ETA is about 14 minutes at maximum warp!” the helmsman called out.

“What’s going on Commander Savage?” the old man with graying hair and a beard settled down into his chair. He was much how Oliver imagined Santa would if he was a real being.

“Distress call from the Lake Stevens, Unknown vessel, rendezvous in the Lyshan system.”

“Mr. Lucian what is the make-up of the Lyshan system?” the Captain asked.

“Uhh…” the man at the helm ran his hands across the console.” Three Stars, a Class A, F, and G Stars. Several planets, three class M. Most notable is Lyshan III which is a class M planet and appears to be the rendezvous point.”

Oliver exchanged glances with the Captain. “Nice place to drop out of warp I suppose. What do you think Captain Spencer is thinking?” he asked.

“No idea.” He frowned.

So...

Here's a little future information. The USS Syndicate is a place holder for our new ship. So, here is where you should start thinking about where your character comes from and ends up on our ship. You can make several decisions right now. To play a character that is stranded on the planet with the rest of these three ships crew having either been a Trainee or crew person from any of the three vessels involved here. Or a completely new person with no knowledge when our actual sim begins. So the storyline from here on is actually going to be included in our sim's history. Here is where you can start really developing your character. We may be on this planet for a few sims.

This alien species is going to be someone we will run into again and is going to be a home grown thing that I will use and that our future SM's can use in their storylines. It is a work in progress, I have a base ideas for this species. I will post more about it as we go and once we have a place to post information. Anything that is disclosed in SIM or other means will be on record at some point. As this develops if you have ideas your welcome to pitch them my way.

Eventually the goal is to have 1 or more SM's who will rotate the job of storyteller. If your interested in doing this let me know and we can find a way to talk about it more at some point.

Good Choices all around. I also like the well rounded ship for what were doing, and I want to do something other than an Akira since we spent a long time in one of those. This is a good fresh start. I see we have a 3 way Tie. I've had a couple of you submit ideas for the ship name as well. So we will see what more comes through for that and hopefully a few more votes and we'll go forward with what we have. So please feel free to chime in. Ask some of your fellow Syndicate community members perhaps they have some thoughts.

I will be working on a log, and some other important information for you before the end of the week. I anticipate having everything done to post by Friday Evening at the latest between the Log to Recap what happened in our last adventure and what is leading into the new.

Based on the Poll running so far the Nova Class is in the lead. Doing some research most ships from this class are named after persons from Greek Mythology. if we stay close to cannon we should consider a name from that for the ship. However we do not have to do that. But its an idea also. do you have a favorite greek god? or person from greek mythology?

This is just a preemptive post in case we stick with the Nova class as our ship of choice.

Just a reminder, the Star Trek Sim is at 10PM Eastern, 7PM Pacific. if your new and interested in checking it out just send a PM to myself or SpaceDasiy or post here in the board and we'll get a link to you for the chat.

Hope to see you there. Its going to be fun.

Nerolunar,

That is perfectly ok. This is built around the ability to come and go as you please. You are more than welcome to join us when you have time. You can follow the sim progression here or where ever they end up putting this stuff as we will submit logs and such to keep people up to date so you can jump in when you can. Life is more important, and we do our best to work around that. This is still in its infancy and as we get more and more poeple interested and playing the story will go on. Join us when your able. Right now its going to continue Saturdays at the same time so if your able to come you are, if not, no worries.

8-)

So you know where we will start from this coming week.... Just so you know where you are. 8-)


It has been 5 months since you’ve started your Training Cruise, you’ve had some fun times and some not so fun times but it has been relatively busy the entire time. You visited the following locations Tellar, Terra Nova, Mizar, and the Plexion Nebula. The USS Texas is currently in orbit of the Trill home world as a resupply layover before starting back towards the SOL system to return to Earth and your final days at Starfleet Academy.


You can see the map of explored space here: http://www.sttff.net/AST_MAP.html to give you a visual on where you are.

Some things you can start thinking about.

General Demographics of your character.
Family, Family History
Starfleet Record, if your going to play fresh or recent from the Academy that can be where your bio starts.
Medical Records for anyting telling.

Keep in mind, these are Starfleet Characters. You can have vices and quircks but keep that in mind.

Races I will not allow: Borg, Rescued Borg, Full Blooded Klingons, Romulans, Ferengi, Q. However... We can discuss it if you want it. I do not mind home grown species and chracters as long as you can explain to me how it works, why they would join Starfleet. Etc. I will even allow characters/species/things from other shows or things if you can give me a very good explanation as to why it can be or fit into the Star Trek universe. I do allow for creativity I just need reasons. But be prepared to accept limitations.

So with that in mind, turn on your thinking caps and figure out what kind of a character you want and lets grow!

That is a possibility. You could make it part of your coming Characters Background.

You should start taking notes on the character you want to play if you've not started. Once we get an idea of the ship and era which we have part of I will put together a bio so you can get an idea on what we could use. Your welcome to be as detailed as you like or limit the info so you can build on it as you go too. Or a little of both.

Lets see.... Here are some Basics about the Classes, and links to the more in depth stuff. Pictures and what not. Hopefully it will help

Akira Class (2365) - Heavy Cruiser/Carrier - Fairly New Design. This ship has some heavy firepower and is build for War, but can still do the Exploration thing too.
Crew of 500, Type X phaser Arrays, This vessel can mount a minimum of 3 Torpedo Launchers and up to 8 (4 Foward, 2 Aft, 1 Port, 1 Starboard) Total depending upon the configuartion and how we want to build it. ACTD only has it listed with 3 but its been in the specs for up to that many.
http://techspecs.acalltoduty.com/akira.html

Sovereign Class (2370) - Explorer - This is a somewhat new design. The new Enterprise E is this class. Crew of 885 officers & Crew. 24 Decks
http://techspecs.acalltoduty.com/sovereign.html
Type XII phaser Arrays, 2 Fixed Torpedo Launchers Forward, 2 Fixed Torpedo Launchers Aft, and 1 Swivel Mounted Launcher forward under the saucer. This is a tough Ship of the line.

Ambassador Class (2315) - Heavy Cruiser - The Enterprise C was this class. Crew of 750. This was designed for more Diplomatic reasons.
Type IX Phaser Arrays, 2 Torpedo Launchers Forward, 1 Aft
http://techspecs.acalltoduty.com/ambassador.html

Nebula Class (2353) - Explorer - This one is the ship that looks like a Galaxy Classes Saucer with a dish. Crew of 750. This is a Science Vessel primarily.
Type X Phaser Arrays, 1 Torpedo Launcher Foward, 1 Aft.
http://techspecs.acalltoduty.com/nebula.html

Galaxy Class (2353) Crew of 1012 + 200 "Visiting Personnel", - Explorer - The Enterprise D was one of these. 42 Decks. Big Frak'n ship.
Type X phaser Arrays, 1 Torpedo Launcher Forward, 1 Aft, and One Aft on the Saucer which can only be used while seperated.
http://techspecs.acalltoduty.com/galaxy.html

Intrepid Class (2370) Crew of 168 - Light Explorer - This is the same Class as USS Voyager. Exploration.
Type X Phaser Arrays, 2 Torpedo Launchers Forward, 2 Aft
http://techspecs.acalltoduty.com/intrepid.html

Nova Class (2367) - Crew of 80 - Frigate - This ship class was seen in Voyager. Small Science vessel.
Type IX Phaser Array, 2 Torpedo Launchers Forward, 1 Aft
http://techspecs.acalltoduty.com/nova.html

Saber Class (2358) Crew of 60, A "Fast Frigate. Usually used for Scout/Patrol.
Type X Phaser Array, 2 Torpedo Launches Forward, 1 Aft.
http://techspecs.acalltoduty.com/saber.html

Steamrunner Class (2353) Crew of 228, Light Cruiser
Type X Phaser Arrays, 2 Torpedo Launchers Forward, 2 Aft
http://techspecs.acalltoduty.com/steamrunner.html\

Norway Class (2368) Crew of 190, Medium Cruiser
Type X phaser Array, 1 Torpedo Launcher Forward, 1 Aft.
http://techspecs.acalltoduty.com/norway.html

So we have decided one thing. This sim will take place shortly before or right near the beginning of the Dominion War. So between 2370 & 2373. Which gives us a wide variety of vessels to use as well. Which is something we need to pick.

LOL yes they did. And one of them may be famous with a 18K year old Species and may very well be a god in their eyes one day when they get home.. who knows they might come looking for god. LOL

Thank you all who came! Most appreciated. I will get a log/recap done soon.