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[[OOC – Just wanted to post quickly, I fully intend to jump back in here and take command of my ship, just a little busy with a goal of writing 50K words of my Novel this month so haven’t had time to focus on my RP 🙂 Hopefully soon I’ll get back in here to get my glorious ship]]
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It’s the Kentari group circling our Dranuur colony planet on the other side, so everyone who visits our new colony holding (in all our three fleets) will find them circling our colony world opposite side of the Lukari ‘flying saucer’ group on their minimap. Wonderful pictures everyone, very well done. This one is closed, new one soon.
I checked the colony, but didn’t go around to the other side I guess was my problem…thanks, gonna have to go check again then :).
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Capt Daniel Barr may have had a slightly itchy trigger finger on the maiden voyage of the U.S.S. Sun Tzu…
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“Captain’s Log, Stardate 95398.47”
Captain Daniel Barr was watching the dim glimmer of Starbase 39-Sierra fade into the distance as he began his last log to be filed as Captain of the U.S.S. Rising. Over the past four years he had managed to maintain a grand impression of admiration for her, a facade that the crew had seemed to accept. Four years in deep space is a long time to be away from ones family, so it was imperative for Captain Barr to ensure the crew saw their ship as home to maintain morale. He would never tell a soul, but truth-be-told he hated that ship.
Maintenance issues that appeared at random on an almost daily basis. The need to realign warp coils and intermix levels every 71 hours was an annoying but necessary evil after an encounter with a patch of subspace micro-anomaly’s during their surveillance of the Hobus system 2 months ago. Not to mention the inability of the replicator to produce anything that came even remotely close to his mother’s famous Hot Dog Casserole.
It took 2 months of restless days and headache filled nights due to a limited ability to enter warp for extended periods, but they had finally arrived at 39-Sierra. After filing his report of the micro-anomaly incident and the seemingly irreparable damage they had cause to the warp coils, he was not saddened when he received the order to have the Rising towed to Earth Spacedock for decommissioning.
“Good riddance” he thought as he began his final log.
“After four years of deep space exploration aboard the Rising, it seems strange to be on a starship and not sitting in the center chair.”
Captain Barr slowly turned his head to the large floor to ceiling window to his left, and took a long look at the ship being towed outside as the distant stars stretched across his field of view in all directions. She was bruised, he could see the marks of a long journey on her hull. Discolorations from where the many gases and phenomena of the past few years had worn, eaten, and weakened the hull plating. Scorch marks from a few small altercations. He caught a glimpse of the warp nacelles pulse, quickly losing their ever-present glow and regaining it again almost instantly. “71 more hours until I’ll see that again,” he thought to himself before realizing that in reality he would most likely never see it. They would be back at home, Earth, long before then.
“Looking at her from the outside, I can see the marks of age. 4 generations of captains have been in command of her, and she has plenty to show for it. She might not be the newest ship in the fleet, but she did get us out of, and into, some pretty hairy situations. For all her quirks, she was a decent ship…but maybe 70 years of space travel was enough for her.”
“I do hope that I get something a bit newer, with maybe a few more weapons on her the next time around. Four years of deep space study and being on the sidelines while I read the news of the many enemies the Federation is facing has me hoping for something more…interactive.”
>>> Incoming subspace transmission, Priority 1. <<<
“Computer, play audible transmission.”
There was a slight pause as the computer began to read the contents of the message.
“To all my fellow Captains and Commanders pending promotion in the fleet, for those not aware there has been several new ships assigned to the 44th that are currently stationed at starbase Eden pending assignments…”
“Perfect timing!” he proclaimed with a newfound excitement in his voice.
“Computer, delete last line.”
“This is the final Captains log of the U.S.S. Rising, NCC-2392.”
He took one small breath and another quick look out the window before walking towards the door. It was just about time to head to dinner. The chef on board this warp tug was surprisingly talented; he didn’t want to miss it while it was hot.
“Computer, end log. Search for all departures from Earth Spacedock to Starbase Eden departing within the next 48 hours and display on my PADD.”
He exited the room and turned left into the corridor, not looking back a second time at the familiar sound of the door sliding shut behind him…signaling what was hopefully the end of long, boring missions; and the beginning of a new adventure.
“48 hours should give me just enough time for a quick visit home for some of mom’s delicious Casserole.” He smirked at the thought as he headed towards the Mess Hall.
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[[OOC: I don’t have any extra to spend on Zen ships at the moment…but as soon as I’m admitted into the main fleet (3 more days!) I’d like to grab the Fleet Tactical Escort Retrofit…so if that counts as a Defiant Class…or if you want to add the Valiant Class to the list…that would be awesome.
Barring that, I do have the Long Range Science Vessel Retrofit available for use as the Intrepid class…but I’d rather have a T6 Escort if possible.
Thanks for the fun!]]
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That was slightly more boring that I was expecting.
Ship giveaways that more than one person can win would be a nice prize…that’s what I was thinking, guess I was way off on that, lol.
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for those of us that aren’t in the main fleet yet…is there a way to visit another fleets holdings? (As this building isn’t complete in 44th Delta)
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I think it might be fun, I haven’t done RP in a long time but I was actually just feeling the need to start writing again, so this could be a good way to jump back in.
I also just purchased a new Xindi-Aquatic Narcine Dreadnaught Carrier to mess around with, could make for an interesting RP on why I’m getting assigned and Alien ship :).
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Sad I missed it, looked like it would have been a fun “meet and greet” for my first day in the fleet.
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