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http://startrekab.proboards.com/

Star Trek: Above & Beyond is live! Please sign up and get registered at your earliest convenience. Once I get you approved, please direct your attention to the 'Community Input' subforum, where we'll be discussing how we'll be playing and the names/classes of our two new ships, and probably a few other topics.

ETA: Please note that 'Odyssey Station' is a placeholder name. We'll discuss the name of the station during our next mission, which will still be using Mibbit for now. As I understand it, DH has registered the #TrekBeyond room, so we'll use that for the mission. If you get the chance, DH, would you also be able to register an OOC room? #STABLounge sounds inviting

Alright guys, now's as good a time as any to start talking about the name of the station that the Tempest will be assigned to, courts martial not withstanding :P

My top-of-the-head suggestion is Odyssey Station, but that might feel a little generic for y'all, so I'd like to hear your suggestions and try to get some consensus within the next week or two.

Thanks!

This is acceptable!

Hello all!

I've tallied the votes from the naming poll, and our game's official name will be:

Star Trek: Above & Beyond

STAB! Thank you once more to all of you who suggested a name, and thank you to all of you who voted in the poll despite the unusual format.

Now that we have a name, we're going to begin working in earnest to get a website and forum up. In addition, we'll be laying out our plans for community involvement, and will continue to seek your input.

We're not quite ready to give you an exact start date, but we'll let you know as quickly as we can. In the meantime, we'll keep you all up to date.

The journey continues!

C. J.

Glorfindel wrote:Google doc? You want me to do what?

You're breakin' my balls here, Glorf. These are the options. Tell me which one you prefer and I'll be sure to add it to the final count.

Star Trek: Above & Beyond

Star Trek: Ad Astra

Star Trek: Beyond The Stars

Star Trek: The Bold

Star Trek: New Horizon

Star Trek: The New Frontier

Star Trek: Phoenix

What up, Gs?

Sorry this is a little late, but I got the Google doc with the name suggestions made, and linked below. If each of you could visit it and leave a comment with your preferred option, that would be awesome. I'll be taking votes until Friday at 9pm. I'll then tally up the votes and announce the winner either shortly after that, or sometime on Saturday. If you have any issues leaving a comment, let me know!

New Name Poll!

Hello all!

This is CJ, finally getting around to posting here (I don't have internet in my apartment; it's a long story).

I sent out an email the other day for all players who were interested in joining my and Aoibhe's next move. After taking some time off after the STE situation, we've begun to discuss ideas for the next iteration of the game. Before getting into anything concrete, we discussed what we wanted to be the core principles of the game in order to ensure that it didn't meet the same fate as STE did, and what we came up with a prime directive, if you will (I'm sorry).

We want this next game to be Community-focused, and by that we mean we want everyone to feel some sense of ownership of the game and a sense of community beyond just the ship you play on. Our aim is to have as few unilateral decisions as possible, while also not letting the game get bogged down by requiring all decisions to be made by committee. We're working out what that will look like, but the main idea is that we want every player to be able to give input into the game, whether it's overall lore decisions, design elements (new ships, weapons, etc.), or development of the website.

And we want to start that right away. Before we can secure a domain or set up a message board, we need a name for our game, and I'm soliciting every player on our list for suggestions. I'll be taking them through the weekend and then put them in a Google doc on Monday. We'll have everyone vote for the one they like best, and the one that gets the most votes wins.

So far we've received the following suggestions:

Star Trek: Above & Beyond
Star Trek: Ad Astra
Star Trek: Beyond The Stars
Star Trek: The Bold

If you have any you'd like to add, go ahead and post it here or send me a PM. I'll post a link to the doc once I've got it set up, and we'll take votes throughout the week. We'll announce the winner next weekend.

Let me know if you have any questions. I'll see you all tonight

CJ