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    #46
    That's very cool!
    haha thanks, I was only going to do a couple, then it just exploded
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    #47
    I can't seem to get a good pic of my toon
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    #48
    I can't seem to get a good pic of my toon
    From STO? Can you think of any celebrities that they're like?
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    #49
    From STO? Can you think of any celebrities that they're like?
    I looked up some head shots and used one that I thought was close.
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    #50
    @ LogicalLeopard, THAT is well-written love for the Excelsior.

    <3

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    @ LogicalLeopard, THAT is well-written love for the Excelsior.

    <3

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    LOL! Thank you very much! Those Excelsiors are pretty sleek!
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    #52
    Check out our updated star chart! I completed the sector that was cut off abruptly and added some known stars, one with a planet.
    https://ufplanets.com/showthread.php...152#post365152
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    #53
    So, Benteen is out, but her legacy remains. Do we just want to keep it a generic captain with no name? If we wanted to go with an actual character, I'd suggest Shelby from Best of Both Worlds. I know she's a character in those Excalibur books as well, but I don't think those are canon.

    I was working out some ideas for a bridge scene, and as of now I was only envisioning a serious human female captain simply referred to as "The Captain."
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    #54
    So, Benteen is out, but her legacy remains. Do we just want to keep it a generic captain with no name? If we wanted to go with an actual character, I'd suggest Shelby from Best of Both Worlds. I know she's a character in those Excalibur books as well, but I don't think those are canon.

    I was working out some ideas for a bridge scene, and as of now I was only envisioning a serious human female captain simply referred to as "The Captain."
    Lets avoid having more lore characters join us at this time so we can focus our creative energies on the ongoing story.

    Given the fact we're interacting with the Lakota's Captain at least for a little while means we should put some effort into this character. Like you, I was thinking about having a Human Female Captain and was thinking about naming her "Karin Joan". I'll have us talk to her briefly in the post I'm currently wrapping up but will leave her name up to you since your character has served under this Captain.
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    #55
    Lets avoid having more lore characters join us at this time so we can focus our creative energies on the ongoing story.

    Given the fact we're interacting with the Lakota's Captain at least for a little while means we should put some effort into this character. Like you, I was thinking about having a Human Female Captain and was thinking about naming her "Karin Joan". I'll have us talk to her briefly in the post I'm currently wrapping up but will leave her name up to you since your character has served under this Captain.

    Yeah, staying away from lore characters is good. To keep Ira Stephen Behrs in joke going, though, let's make it Karin Joan Terry. Benteen was named for US Army Captain Frederick Benteen, who was criticized by some of kinda abandoning Custer at Little Big Horn to the Lakota Sioux and other groups. General Alfred Terry's forces show up on the scene afterward and when Benteen asks where Custer is, he basically tells him "He's dead, Jim."
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    Yeah, staying away from lore characters is good. To keep Ira Stephen Behrs in joke going, though, let's make it Karin Joan Terry. Benteen was named for US Army Captain Frederick Benteen, who was criticized by some of kinda abandoning Custer at Little Big Horn to the Lakota Sioux and other groups. General Alfred Terry's forces show up on the scene afterward and when Benteen asks where Custer is, he basically tells him "He's dead, Jim."
    Done.
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    Yeah, staying away from lore characters is good. To keep Ira Stephen Behrs in joke going, though, let's make it Karin Joan Terry. Benteen was named for US Army Captain Frederick Benteen, who was criticized by some of kinda abandoning Custer at Little Big Horn to the Lakota Sioux and other groups. General Alfred Terry's forces show up on the scene afterward and when Benteen asks where Custer is, he basically tells him "He's dead, Jim."
    hahaha that's cool.
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    hahaha that's cool.
    LOL! Yeah, it's fitting, because in the end, Benteen kind of did Leyton that way.
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    #59
    Okay, everybody, so I just remembered something I wanted to ask earlier:

    During my review of the whole Benteen thing, I heard a throwaway line in Paradise Lost that I never noticed before. Don't worry, I'm not bringing that up again! LOL!

    "Mister President, we can use the Lakota's transporters and communications system to mobilise every Starfleet officer on Earth in less than twelve hours. We've been preparing for something like this for a long time. We have stockpiles of phaser rifles, personal forcefields, photon grenades, enough to equip an entire army. I can start getting men on the streets immediately."

    Personal forcefields? I always thought those were a Star Trek Online invention. Worf jury rigged one from a combadge to stop bullets in a Fistful of Data's, but I can't ever remember seeing one at any other time.

    So what I'm asking, as we begin the ground portion of this, are these things we want to consider using? They apparently exist in canon in some form.
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     –  Last edited by Allan Hood; Fri 31 Aug, 2018 1:18 AM.
    Okay, everybody, so I just remembered something I wanted to ask earlier:

    During my review of the whole Benteen thing, I heard a throwaway line in Paradise Lost that I never noticed before. Don't worry, I'm not bringing that up again! LOL!

    "Mister President, we can use the Lakota's transporters and communications system to mobilise every Starfleet officer on Earth in less than twelve hours. We've been preparing for something like this for a long time. We have stockpiles of phaser rifles, personal forcefields, photon grenades, enough to equip an entire army. I can start getting men on the streets immediately."

    Personal forcefields? I always thought those were a Star Trek Online invention. Worf jury rigged one from a combadge to stop bullets in a Fistful of Data's, but I can't ever remember seeing one at any other time.

    So what I'm asking, as we begin the ground portion of this, are these things we want to consider using? They apparently exist in canon in some form.
    Sounds like personal shields are a thing and they might be used in Starfleet Security. I wondered about that, too. The answer probably has to do with budget concerns and plot devices haha I was surprised to hear that, too.

    Since Starfleet Security had been stockpiling personal force fields on Earth in case of a planet-wide emergency, that makes me think that they are rare or hard to make. Why else stockpile them? Why only during an emergency? Why planet-wide? Why not use them for minor problems?

    Makes me think of Quark in "Business as Usual," "the Breen CRM-1-14 works equally well against moving vessels or surface emplacements. It's guaranteed to cut through reactive armor in the 6-15 cm range, and shields up to 4.6 gigajoules."

    The fact that it's able to penetrate shields as being a selling point, tells me that these shields are so effective, that weapons that can overload them are really rare. Maybe it's a relatively new development? Tech from the Borg?

    As Chief Tactical Officer, I don't see why security personnel can't use them, it is the 2380s, afterall haha
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