Did mine. Made my location my fav place to get coffee. :)

-Xak

I'm from outside of Philly, zerofiftysix! Cool!

I added my little town to the map. It is on the location of my favorite Irish Pub downtown... :P

ST: Pandora [[Episode 1.3]
ST: Battlefront [[Episode 1.4]


Lieutenant Edgar Calvin’s Personal Log, Stardate 87730.4: The New Orleans has been destroyed by the Undine using a barrage of heavy plasma torpedoes. The ship had a full crew of two hundred, and I should be grateful that over fifty percent have survived at one hundred and seventeen. However, I view any consolations and optimisms minimize the impact of the lives that were lost and thus an insult to their memories.

The chime at Edgar’s temporary quarters broke the silence. “Enter.”

Aron-Mu walked into the room holding a PADD. “Sir, I’ve retrieved the biographical crew manifest from the flight recorder of the New Orleans. The logs and final events are being decrypted right now.”

Eddie took the PADD and started skimming through the first few names in an alphabetical order. His smile immediately turned into a hard frown. “I don’t recognize any of these people, and half of them are dead.”

“Sir...” Aron said trying to bring his commanding officer back to the current situation. “You can’t blame yourself for this. There was no way we could have been prepared for that kind of fight.”

“Aron, what was your experience on the Kobayashi Maru exam at the Academy?” Edgar asked as he tossed the PADD to the bed. Aron followed it and noticed the wide bed had imprints of two individuals instead of one. He quickly snapped back to attention and looked at Edgar.

“Sir I...failed that test.” Aron confessed. It was not something he liked to admit in the slightest and the embarrassment was completely obvious.

“Everyone does; it’s a test of character, not a puzzle to rescue the ship. Starfleet touts that it’s morally required to judge a cadet’s character in the face of a no-win scenario, to see how they handle overcoming the fear of death.” Edgar scoffed as he paced the room. “What a load of garbage! That test has no merit when you actually face that scenario in reality or on the battlefield.”

Another chime interrupted Edgar’s complaining. The two men exchanged glances. “Enter...”

At the door now was Lt. Matoya. “Captain, do you have a moment? I’d like to discuss some things that have happened during your tour on the New Orleans.”

Edgar grimaced an annoyance as he picked up the PADD he had tossed onto the bed. “Apologies, Lieutenant, but I need to assess the status of my crew right now...excuse me.”

Edgar slipped out of his quarters, dodging Maggie and any line of questioning she had hoped to get through. Maggie turned to Aron and looked fairly annoyed, and Aron deflected the look with one of his own. Maggie faltered slightly that her stare had been so easily deflected, but she quickly brushed it off under the pretense of Aron’s species. Maggie turned to chase after Edgar, but Aron stopped her. “Lieutenant, if I may advise you...”

“And what advice could you have for me, Ensign?” She shot at him, marking rank.

“I advise that you leave him alone until he’s ready to talk to you.” Aron said, making his own exit from Edgar’s quarters. “He can be quite unreasonable if you force the issue.”

Maggie scoffed and made her way to the bridge. Upon entry immediately requested to speak to her captain in his ready room. Once inside and the doors shut, Maggie explained what just happened. “What do you suggest sir, I do not know how long we can allow him to delay this.”

Oren-De thought for a moment then seemed to make a note on his console. “Lieutenant Calvin’s interview is your top priority. All of your other duties are relinquished until you have it. I don’t care how you get the information out of him, just do so quickly.”

Have added my pin to the map too. Great idea. The b/f was quizzing me about the [strike]Guild[/strike] Fleet membership and the best I could tell him was that there's lots of us from everywhere. :-D Really looking forward myself to seeing our gang's distribution.

Boston here. I did the map, great idea Brandon!

San Diego, CA :)

everyone! use this map and add your location:http://www.zeemaps.com/map?group=149208

Press "additions" at the top, then add marker, then click "map select a location", then click on the map where you are and it will fill in your Longitude and Latitude. Enter your user name as the "entry name" :)

I added myself and Peej

OK, here I go. My name is Mike and I'm 38 YO (end of April, I'm 39). I have lived in Tampa for the past 14 years. I work for a very large Health Care company (basically a bunch of hospitals, SNF's, and various other facilites working loosely together under the same umbrella). I have a B.A. in Psych from USF and have been working in health care 4-EVER (usually in a data analyst capacity). I'm currently a Six Sigma Black Belt working with other department to eliminate defects in the processes (variation is EVIL).

Prior to all of this I was in the US Navy for 4 years. Even though there is still a ban, there are a lot of queens in the military (at every rank, every branch, and in every unit). I'm really glad I went, but I'm really glad I'm out. Trust me, it's not as exciting as you would think. I lot of tedious boredom. At least the Marines and Seals onboard made things interesting. I love a man in uniform. Basically my ships (USS Guadalcanal, USS Nassau) only did Medditeranean "cruises". We almost went to Somalia while Clinton was in office (yes, Somalia), but he wised up and brought us back to the Med.

I love games. I remember going to the arcades when I was a kid and played Pac Man and Centipede. My first computer game was called "Wizard's Isle" and it was on a cassette tape that took 6 minutes to play into my Sinclair-Lewis. Gaaawd, I feel old. Now to modern times. I have an XBOX 360 and enjoy Mass Effect, Fallout 3, Borderlands, Dragon Age, and Overlord. For the PC I have Civ 4, Gallactic Civilizations 2, Sins of a Solar Empire, and WoW (been playing since retail).

For Star Trek, I've been watching it for a long time. Not old enough to see TOS when it was on CBS, but saw plenty of it in syndication (we need Horta in the game). TNG was my favorite series. So many good episodes. "All Good Things..." is my favorite. It was the perfect last show. I also enjoyed DS9. I saw some Voyager, but wasn't thrilled with it. My favorite of the movies are 1 (yes, I said the first one), Wrath of Kahn, Voyage Home, and First Contact. I also loved the new one as well and had to buy it on BlueRay.

Other things I love: BSG, B5, Firefly, X-Files, Venture Brothers, Family Guy, American Dad, Phineas and Ferb, Spongebob, Big Bang Theory, 30 Rock, Dune (original movie), Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Boondocks, Doctor Who, Les Miz, Wicked, V for Vendetta, and many other things.

OK, so I know I made a similar post on the forums, but that was before the game went live and the membership went through the roof lol So, here we go again. Why? Well, I for one would love to meet other members in my area (Tampa, Fl) so I'm sure others would like to do the same.. but we gotta know where everyone is right?

Reply with your location, and maybe a bit about yourself if you like. If you have a facebook or myspace that helps too. I'll start:

Names PJ, live in Tampa, Fl. Biochem major at USF. Facebook is PJ Mitchell, USF network.

Some of us in the fleet are already trying to get a RL social group in tampa bay (hence why I wanted to do this). If you are interested, let me know :)

hehe no need to apologize at all!
I said that was because i didn't want people to think i was spaming the thread lol
hope the tool helps

Well, ok, here goes....

My names Samantha, but friends and people who know me call me Sam, people like shortening names, whatever.

I live in Oregon, USA... there is some nice weather here, and no, it does not rain all the time here :p

I am NOT the best gamer out there, and will never be... I play for fun, usually.

I am an extremely shy person with a touch of social anxiety, so I may not talk much in chat for a while, at least till I get to know a few people. In fact, it's taken me a while to build up the courage to post anything about myself on here, hands shaking and all....

I'm bi, but moving to lesbian.... my current b/f is the last man I will ever be with, and its not even sexual relationship anymore anyway, but we are good friends still.

Thats about all I have for now. Better press the post button now before I get scared and delete this.

Ep 3:

*Captain's Log USS Eclipse Stardate 87758.12*

*Begin encryption protocol Stanton-Beta-Six*

"Captain Sean Stanton reporting. I encrypt this log for specific reasons I shall not go into here. Noone will ever be able to decrypt this, as there are only two other encryption specialists in Starfleet even capable of producing this encryption sequence. Captain Data has better things to do, and Seven wouldn't care enough to attempt. I received a communication from Seven this morning. Took me 10 minutes 15 seconds to decrypt the Borg heuristics she encrypted the message with. She had some intriguing warnings about Borg activity in the Delta Quadrant. She knew that, if the messages came from me, Starfleet might take a second look. As I was reading the message, a hard Red Alert was issued. As I arrived on the bridge, we were hailed by a Klingon Raptor that was decloaking off our starboard bow. It was K'trim. I knew I'd felt a familiar presence, but I just couldn't place it. I thought I was just imagining it. K'trim disappeared only 2 years ago, and he joined the Klingon military. I can't say that I'm surprised, but I had hoped I would never have to face him. He's one of the best friends I've ever had. He taught me everything I know about ground combat and martial arts. He even recommended me to a martial arts competition based upon my three bat'leth technique, where I mirror moves on three bat'leths, one in hand, the other two using my telekinesis. And now, here I am staring at his face as the commander of a Raptor that I will have to destroy. He greeted me, and told me what an honor our fight would be. Sam looked at me, expecting me to try to talk him out of fighting us. I really need to figure out how to shield my mind. Sam, even with our short time together, already knows me better than I know myself. I signaled battle stations and our combat began. The ship sustained little damage in the fight, but I killed a good man today. I can only hope this war doesn't last much longer, or more good men will die.
On a less somber note, we were just in space dock for refit and to requisition crew. I'm starting to get known around the fleet as a gay commander, and its showing. We just received another gay couple. One engineer and another security. Barring a few other ships, I'm starting to get the gayest crew in the fleet. I kind of like it. The crewman's lounge looks like Studio 54 sometimes. And of course, very few people running around these days would even understand what that means. Sam says I should start up some socials or something of the sort. I think he just wants he hook up with someone. And if I didn't know better, sometimes I think that its me. Don't get me wrong. Hes really good looking. Intelligent. And nice. Funny. He and Sabin are becoming rather a comedy duo, at that. But, as Captain, I have to stay apart from the crew. No true emotional attachments. Professional distance. If I fell in love with Sam, I couldn't let him do his job. Anytime he might go into danger, I'd worry. Not like I don't worry already about all of my guys. But Sam's special. And I just don't know what to do. Maybe Seven will know. Her thing with Chakotay seems to be going well.
*End Log*
*Encrypt and Code for Non-Retrieval*

Trying to catch up with posts so I'll read the rest of it tomorrow but looks awesome, great job everyone!

I have posted this before in another thread, but since alot of people still confused about what skills to spend points in here is a tool that will help anyone to better build thier ship

STO char builder

how to use:
on top of the page (right under the URL box)
select Federation or Klingon

then Select your captain class

then on the left of the screen select ship of your choice (defaulted as Advanced Escort, if thats the one you want select another ship then go back to the escort for it to show up
it will then show all the station and abilities your Bridge Officers are allowed to use in the chosen ship, when you select skill, the info on that skill will show up to the right side of the page that tells you what it is

once you have picked all the abilities you like, the middle of the page is the skill tree just like in the gamne, the skills you have picked earlier will be highlighted in yellow
those are the skills if you do spend points in them will improve all the abilities you have chosen for the officers

you will need to spend enough points in each rank to gain access to next tier just like in the game.

hope this helps
maybe the fleet officers can include the tool on the forum somewhere people can access easier? just a thought

Thanks, Brandon and all the writers...what a great read!

-Xak

Amazing job to all the writers! Looks fantastic.

Thanks Brandon for putting it together!

Wonderful job everyone! I'm looking forward to the next issue. :)

Nice pic my friend! Nice.

Great issue everyone!! Wicked funny :).

events updated :)

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