USS Daystrom Beta Prep

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:08 am

Thorin wrote:...Also, is Tsuki playing a temporary character? Because we still need a chief engineer.

Pretty much, yeah. Although Captain Thompson is an engineer, I doubt he'd give up command to work in your engine room.

Though I'm sure he'd help with the refits if someone asked nicely.

Thorin · Post by **Thorin** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:20 am

If you intend on joining the main cast then I don't think you can keep a Captain as your main character, though I suppose you could still follow him in a quasi-NPC manner. I meant if you intended on giving him up that there is a spare Chief Engineer role.

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:22 am

Thorin wrote:If you intend on joining the main cast then I don't think you can keep a Captain as your main character, though I suppose you could still follow him in a quasi-NPC manner. I meant if you intended on giving him up that there is a spare Chief Engineer role.

I see. I'll run some calculations and get back to you guys on that.

Thorin · Post by **Thorin** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:23 am

Calculations?! What do you need calculations for?!

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:29 am

Thorin wrote:Calculations?! What do you need calculations for?!

Calculating how much involvement I can commit to, calculating what sort of character would fit best with the established material, calculating how much alcohol I'll need to consume to write properly, etc...

Actually, this has been great practice; I've had a bad case of writer's block since January, and work on my novels and current short story have stalled out. Needless to say, that isn't good for the bottom line...

Now, I'm fired up again. I'm glad to be part of this, even if it does turn out to be a temporary assignment.

Thorin · Post by **Thorin** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:34 am

Regarding the involvement, it's pretty much as little or as much as you want. With regards to the RP; Seafort stopped posting about 7 months ago, and we've only just started thinking about 'replacing' him. I left for about 3 months and it wasn't even noticed.

Any sort of character would do, I'd assume. It depends whether Seafort wants to keep his character alive (in which case, I'd assume, we could offload him at a Starbase then he could come back if he wished), whether you'd want to/he'd want you to take over his character, and/or whether we'd just get rid of his and add yours (via a process called 'retcon')

Post by **Mikey** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:37 am

Or the standard method of bowing out around here - a gruesome, improbable, and sometimes false death.

Post by **Teaos** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:53 am

I dont think we can easily win.

They out number us 3 to 2. They have the subspace weapons which can take down a capital ship in one hit when they work.

They hace the platform weapons,

They know we are coming so have the adventage of suprise.

Over all I'd guess we have a hell of a fight.

Thorin · Post by **Thorin** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:57 am

Seems strange to me that a mega-superpower would be genuinely concerned about the military power of essentially a bunch of pirates.

Monroe · Post by **Monroe** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:58 am

Not only do they know we're coming but we think they don't. So they have the surprise element.

I'm all for a gruseome battle. Let the bad guys win sometimes.

Blackstar the Chakat · Thu May 22, 2008 1:03 am

Teaos wrote:I dont think we can easily win.

They out number us 3 to 2. They have the subspace weapons which can take down a capital ship in one hit when they work.

They hace the platform weapons,

They know we are coming so have the adventage of suprise.

Over all I'd guess we have a hell of a fight.

So what do we have in our favor?

Post by **Teaos** » Thu May 22, 2008 1:03 am

Its the fact they are tryong to provoke a war between us and the Tholians and the fact that they really do have quite a bit of power and are growing.

Basically the only rules for the end of this battle are the Daystrom has to survive, we all are alive, and we should win the battle adventually.

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Thu May 22, 2008 1:08 am

I already have a plan to take out the ODP's, but it doesn't work out that well when we find out the platforms have a cloaking capability, and there are three times as many as estimated. I was planning to win, but take heavy losses, but that's only one stage of the battle...

Post by **Teaos** » Thu May 22, 2008 1:10 am

Thats the idea!

A few turns in the battle and finally just winning.

Monroe · Post by **Monroe** » Thu May 22, 2008 1:10 am

Well we don't have to win

Just the ship and us have to live.