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It seems a number of OOC comments have been made in Tuchanka's Thread so I am making an OOC Thread to keep the chatter from cluttering up the real story.

For the record, I was inhabiting a system we called Herschal 3752 for almost a millenium ICly. We have abandoned it sometime early last summer so I really have no claim over it anymore and it is part of my Investigation Thread. I am assuming this system is not the same one I had because that would mess up the RP so I am assuming this is not "The Garnet Star".


If Tuchanka wants me to hold back my arrival, just let me know here and I will. Otherwise it takes about ten minutes to navigate my wormholes.

I came into this assuming my Herschel was within a cluster that wasn't touched too much. Considering how many stars and how vast the galaxy is, and assuming that FT doesn't bend the laws of physics to it's will, this isn't anything to be surprised by. With FTL it would still take years to get around, centuries if you're going tip to tip. That's why I don't use FTL to go from star to star. I use Mass Relays, which use the theorized possibility of instant travel through massless corridors.

This stuff about colonizing every star and materializing people from one place to another is.. >.>

I came into this assuming my Herschel was within a cluster that wasn't touched too much. Considering how many stars and how vast the galaxy is, and assuming that FT doesn't bend the laws of physics to it's will, this isn't anything to be surprised by. With FTL it would still take years to get around, centuries if you're going tip to tip. That's why I don't use FTL to go from star to star. I use Mass Relays, which use the theorized possibility of instant travel through massless corridors.

This stuff about colonizing every star and materializing people from one place to another is.. >.>

I didn't say colonizing, I said been to every one. It's pretty easy to send out a probe and designate the territory as yours by leaving a marker or buoy. At any given time, I have over a million probes out in various destinations, with a huge swath of territory. Others have giant chunks of galaxy in their name, which they have explored much. Every civilization has obviously not seen every system, but the entire NS FT society as a whole very much so has seen the entire galaxy through the eyes of their droids, probes, markers, buoys, fleets, convoys, trade stations, etc. There's just so much variety.

As for materializing from one place to another, see Star Trek. As for quick FTL, see Stargate, Star Wars (my type...go from the Rim to the Core in 'bout a week). Traversing dimensions is a major part of FT. The thing about FT is that it's not restricted simply to the basics - it's very open-ended.

It's just like amazon said, a LOT of area has been explored and seen, that's the entire premise for my Human hating, a war in the Opius constellation (It's not real, don't bother looking). So if you've been in FT for a while you start to get a backstory going with your nation at least, if not individual characters.

Another thing to remember is what I call Herschal 3752 doesn't have to be the same one you have. Names commonly repeat themselves through translations.

I will never claim your system and I have even abandoned mine a while back so right now there are only ghosts there, and a few unlucky pirates/salvage crews they get to eat... Your Hershel is yours alone and I only know what is going on by the passing of a probe which has already left the area so I don't know about any other races there besides the initial colonization fleet.

Again, if you wish me to hold my arrival back a while, just let me know. This is your RP and we are just players in your story. If you wish me to back out of the Thread, I will do so. You only have to let me know. A good time is before I even arrive so it will not change anything.

Hi. I hope I haven't commandeered your RP Tuchanka, it wasn't my intention :). My characters had always intended to invite yours aboard for talks about culture and aid, and the appearance and complications of the Amazonians saw the Vincennes become something of a neutral ground by default... and then Scaveutland appeared and wanted in on the talks as well...

Anyway. I may not be able to post much tonight - office Christmas party is happening later on. Hopefully, by then we'll be able to start the talks and your characters will be able to discuss the situation amongst each other for a while, so you shouldn't miss my presence too much.

Just letting you know! It's all good fun so far though, eh?

for the record regarding one of my posts, '090' refers to heading, not number. The designation is based on which way you land. 360-north, 180-south... so on. Sorry for not clearing that up. And sorry Interstellar, I was using the heading based on starmaps and kind of assigned you one, sorry if I overstepped my boundaries.

Hey no problem - it looked like you were assigning a number to the shuttlebay when you said "Shuttlebay 090" and I was just confused, is all. I mean, you'd have to have a pretty big ship to have ninety shuttlebays, eh?

not 90, 6, but they're big enough to have sublevels. By the way, what class is your ship interstellar?

And barring a question from AB, no one notices the admittedly stealthy(yaknow, as best that may be applied to a multikilometer long cruiser) ship burning in system at an appreciable fraction of light speed, why? Just thought I'd ask why the doom ship full of human hating aliens is being totally ignored. Danke.

That's because I haven't arrived yet.

Oh, you meant your ships.

Sorry.

I'm not noticing anyone popping into the system because my people simply weren't coming here prepared for the possibility of alien contact.

I'm not just popping in. I'm probably registering as a middling asteroid moving very fast for your area. I'm not exactly hard to spot.

I can pick you up Andermani, but I thought you didn't want to be picked up. I can getcha if you want me to - your ship's easily big enough, even with active sensor masking engaged in cloak, for me to pick up with gravitic sensor arrays. They'll pick up virtually any fluctuation as long as it's within the dimension, which is why Telros's cloak is protected against them (he rips from the dimension).

I'm not just popping in. I'm probably registering as a middling asteroid moving very fast for your area. I'm not exactly hard to spot.

And again, my people aren't prepared to be detecting aliens. What would be the point of them having sensors made to pick up stealthed alien ships when they didn't even think there were aliens?

That is some good reasoning.

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And barring a question from AB, no one notices the admittedly stealthy(yaknow, as best that may be applied to a multikilometer long cruiser) ship burning in system at an appreciable fraction of light speed, why? Just thought I'd ask why the doom ship full of human hating aliens is being totally ignored. Danke.

You seem fairly content to remain unnoticed, at least as far as the Vincennes officers are concerned. You'll remember that they also waited for the Intrepid to make contact directly before responding in kind. It's the Krogan's star system as far as they're concerned (at least now that the Dominion has cleared up their preconceptions of a territorial dispute, anyway), so they have no intention of policing it on their behalf - if you want to remain private, they will let you.

That's not to say that they haven't noticed you, though - they are keeping an eye on you, with passive scanners. If your people came in looking for a fight for whatever reason, randomly firing on an unshielded starship aboard which are the representatives of four separate interstellar powers would probably assure you one, though. I'm quietly hoping that they're not looking for a fight :)...

You seem fairly content to remain unnoticed, at least as far as the Vincennes officers are concerned. You'll remember that they also waited for the Intrepid to make contact directly before responding in kind. It's the Krogan's star system as far as they're concerned (at least now that the Dominion has cleared up their preconceptions of a territorial dispute, anyway), so they have no intention of policing it on their behalf - if you want to remain private, they will let you.

That's not to say that they haven't noticed you, though - they are keeping an eye on you, with passive scanners. If your people came in looking for a fight for whatever reason, randomly firing on an unshielded starship aboard which are the representatives of four separate interstellar powers would probably assure you one, though. I'm quietly hoping that they're not looking for a fight :)...

Depends. Krogans would make fair allies, but humans tend to die when I meet them. Something about a fairly brutal war of enslavement and genocide prosecuted by humanity...

EDIT: I'm also the biggest ship in the system. That must count for something.

AB, feel free to say something. I'm fairly ok with just sitting around, but some interaction would be nice eventually.

Not really sure why people keep calling it a human ship; less than half of the crew of the Vincennes are human. They certainly don't have any slaves either...

Not really sure why people keep calling it a human ship; less than half of the crew of the Vincennes are human. They certainly don't have any slaves either...

Is that going to matter to the admittedly pissed off Setians?

Is that going to matter to the admittedly pissed off Setians?

Depends who you're attacking. Bajorans and Vulcans are admittedly pretty darn close to humans, but if a pissed of Setian called an Amazonian shipful of Sangheili and Skrawl - very non-human - a shipful of humans, they might end up with a fairly pissed off group of angry, large, aggressive and powerful aliens trying to beat down their door, despite the Dominion having a good compliment of humans in the Dominion.

Depends who you're attacking. Bajorans and Vulcans are admittedly pretty darn close to humans, but if a pissed of Setian called an Amazonian shipful of Sangheili and Skrawl - very non-human - a shipful of humans, they might end up with a fairly pissed off group of angry, large, aggressive and powerful aliens trying to beat down their door, despite the Dominion having a good compliment of humans in the Dominion.

If the CO is human, odds are fair that they will not be pleased. If there are any humans in positions of authority, other than something really minor, over a non-human, they'll assume the humans are in absolute command just gave a nice present to a trusted underling.

If the CO is human, odds are fair that they will not be pleased. If there are any humans in positions of authority, other than something really minor, over a non-human, they'll assume the humans are in absolute command just gave a nice present to a trusted underling.

Well, good luck to your guys than. My aliens have a nasty habit of belligerence when they're insulted...

Well, good luck to your guys than. My aliens have a nasty habit of belligerence when they're insulted...

I just have a nasty habit of belligerence. Insulting human pawns won't upset them one bit. :p

interstellar, you never answered my question, what class is your ship? It could come in handy later.

The USS Vincennes is an Excelsior-class starship, launched out of Novus Romulus Shipyards six months before her expedition commenced. She's the two hundred and eighty-first ship of her class, service registry NCC-2320, and her dedication plaque bears a quote by a Romulan scientist named Suvan Ta'al circa 124 A.F.: "life without knowledge is not worth living; knowledge without life is not worth knowing."

Sorry about the delay, guys. I've been busy over the holidays. I'll have a post up soon.