Didn't Bev Crusher's ship endure the attacks of a couple of Klingon Negh'Var ships before it eventually died? I would imagine that hospital ships have more power available to put into shields as they don't have a lot of offensive capabilities.
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Didn't Bev Crusher's ship endure the attacks of a couple of Klingon Negh'Var ships before it eventually died? I would imagine that hospital ships have more power available to put into shields as they don't have a lot of offensive capabilities.
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Yeah, I thought about that too. Even though the ship wasn't designed in the future it would have received countless upgrades especially due to the increase of Klingon aggression. And it's safe to say that due to the stagnation of the Klingon Empire I believe that the Negh'Var's would never be upgraded or refitted.
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I think the Klingon Empire will recover and be back stronger than ever. General Martok becoming the Chancellor of the Klingon Empire will revitalize key areas of the Empire and remove some of the corruption which had caused much of the Empire's stagnation. I think we will see more Negh'Vars in the future along with newer, better Klingon starships.
One thing which is a certain; The Klingon Empire took severe losses during its wars with the Cardassians, Federation, and the Dominion during the 2370's. They announced that they would need a full decade to recover to their pre-war strength. It will take some time before they're taking a more active role in the events of the Beta and Alpha Quadrants.
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OR, another idea...there's already a hospital ship in the area under fighter escort...we rendezvous with them. This way, we barely go off course, stay on schedule and get him the help he needs in a more timely manner. Even meeting the Defiant halfway at warp 9 is pushing it.
I just saw your post haha good idea. I like this idea better, too.
This also changes our JP, it won't be much of a discussion, just an update on the captain. It might not really be JP worthy, we could cover this in a simple log entry and we all respond or play our parts in the transfer, having a send off for the captain and all that.
For the JP with the colonists, I'll provide all the information we're going to discuss and tell the crew about, which everyone pretty much knows already from reading the title post. Then, you guys all put your comments, reactions, questions together and I'll splice the characters all together in one JP.
Right, the Defiant would have to have the needed equipment, probably on loan from DS9, a hospital ship, or replicated. I wouldn't mind the escort duty idea EXCEPT, Starfleet wouldn't send a whole hospital ship just for one captain; all of the patients don't need to be in that kind of situation, unnecessarily. I can see the Defiant being used for the recovery of the captain, but not a whole hospital ship of patients and resources.
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Yeah, I was about to ask, isn't there a heavy Starfleet presence in Cardassian space? And maybe we won't need to go off course. A medical ship could be helping us with one of the colonies which are in dire need of medical supplies or maybe it's in the next system over. And we could always send him in a shuttlepod but that would be inadvisable.
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In conclusion, we'll say that there's already a hospital ship in the area, the USS Hippocrates, under fighter escort...we rendezvous with them. This way, we barely go off course, stay on schedule and get him the help he needs in a more timely manner.
We will do ONE JP, which will let the senior staff know about the captain and rendezvous, and about our first stop at Dorvan V. I'll provide all the information we're going to discuss and tell the crew about, which everyone pretty much knows already from reading the title post. Then, you guys all put your comments, reactions, questions together and I'll splice the characters all together in one JP.
Commander Kitty will pretty much introduce all this in his character's words and his perspective, an independent, binary system of a G-class star and a K-class star, not associated with Cardassia or the Federation. Home to a colony of Native Americans from Earth, featuring a Habak. The colonists renounced their Federation citizenship and agreed to be governed by the Cardassian government in 2370. The planet's features include at least one continent, as well as mountains and rivers similar to ancient North America, Earth. Since the attack, crops have not grown to their full potential, due to radiation exposure. Colonists suffer from malnutrition, growing the minimum amount of crops necessary to their survival. Nausicaans raid remaining crops and torment the colonists for sport. Additionally, our mission is to find the weapons cargo, sort of like a treasure hunt. We'll see how that goes, justifying that Starfleet doesn't want it falling into the wrong hands, pirates and whatever, which we'll obviously run into haha
Commander Kitty will tell the crew that first mission of humanitarian aid to Cardassian colony worlds, located en route to unexplored space in the Alpha Quadrant. Our mission being to drop off supplies, including portable matter replicators and one industrial replicator for reach colony. Our goal is to temporarily help with making these colonies self-sufficient as part of the Cardassia Union's Reconstruction.
He'll remind us that, as representatives of Starfleet Command, we are to meet with the colonists and their leaders, earning the proverbial "hearts and minds" by taking 2 weeks per colony, to give Federation aid and hospitality, helping the injured, and creating new homes and infrastructures, in addition to any general relief efforts.
Security and our diplomatic officer can chime in that Cardassian space is teeming with Orions, Nausicaans, and Ferengi; they are taking advantage of the logistical chaos of these Cardassian colonies. Reports of Orions enslaving colonists, Nausicaans raiding ships, and Ferengi profiting by exploiting colonists, due to the desperate situation.
Docs, you guys say his status and how bad off he is, how bad we need to get to the hospital ship.
Commander Kitty will remind us that the Ares is expected to take all lawful steps necessary to safeguard the colonists through both negotiation and/or defense.
Commander Kitty will also be moving Teriir to first officer while Kitty becomes Captain Kitty. We should have Admiral William Ross appear on screen to give the promotions in real-time during the conference.
At the end of the conference meeting, the now Captain Kitty will announce that we'll have a send off for the captain while he's transfering to the Hippocrates. We shouldn't have to do JP on that one, we'll just write our responses as it happens, as usual.
The rest of the crew, engineering, ops, including me, will chime in our 2 cents if we want for the story. You guys all put your comments, reactions, questions together and I'll splice the characters all together in one JP.
This sound good to everyone? If everyone's cool, I'll put the JP together one week from today, that way we all have time to write our comments and everything. Just PM it to me and I'll put them together.
Even if they have the power, they wouldn't send a hospital just for one person. They should have good offensive capabilities, but it wouldn't be worth the risk. If we play it that the hospital ship is already nearby, like Astro is saying, and under fighter escort, everything makes sense in the world.
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I bet Martok would find a way to knock a couple years off, too haha. Being six years later, they might be looking pretty good nowadays.
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In my head, there is a heavy Starfleet presence in Cardassian space, similar to what must have happened to the Romulans in 2387. Come to think of it, with the Romulans/Cardassians out of the way, the Klingons barely recovering, the UFP is going to be the superpower of the Alpha Quadrant.
I thought of that, too, but would a hospital ship go all the way out there for a colony? Wouldn't it be in a more populated system? A hospital ship could alter their course while we alter ours, just slightly, for the rendezvous. Nothing to it.
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You guys are WAY overthinking this ...
USS Dakota anyone?
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The captain's got four days to live haha max, how are we over thinking it?
haha do you mean the Lakota, the one that took Sisko, Jake, and Odo from Deep Space 9 to Earth following the bombing of the Antwerp Conference? What about it? haha I'm lost. Send him to Earth?
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I've done some research on the Olympic Class starship and will share some information I have dug up. There isn't much to go on with the Memory Alpha so a lot of this is subject to fan speculation;
Hope this information helps with the JP and also provides some additional insight into the Olympic Class starship.The Olympic Class starship is a mobile hospital and biology research facility which entered service by 2365. An unnamed ship of this class was responsible for the rescue of the survivors of the Battle of Wolf 359, leaving the battlefield abandoned by the time the Federation's Flagship, the Enterprise - D, arrived on the scene. Ships of this class saw some action during the Dominion War as relief vessels, providing much needed medical assistance to wounded officers who had to abandon their ships. After the war, the Olympic Class starship became a common sight within the outlying systems of the Federation. This allows the ships to be in locations where they can swiftly respond to the medical needs of surrounding planets, where hospitals have yet to be constructed.
At 330m long and weighing 640,000 metric tons, these starships carry a crew of 350, including 100 medical personnel. The ship has 23 decks, including 4 within its sphere shaped primary hull fully dedicated to medical bays. There is a unique mark on the exterior of all Olympic Class starships to indicate their devotion to medical needs and are universally recognized as humanitarian ships. The personnel on board are all required to understand basic field medicine to ensure the most care can be provided to patients. The medical facilities include enough room to effectively manage as many as 300 patients at a time while the evacuation limit reaches 1300. The Olympic Class also makes use of a number of large biology labs to further study anatomy of various species and also analyze pathogens to help find cures. They could be further outfitted for roles in disaster relief, planetary evacuations, and humanitarian aid missions. The ship has one small shuttlebay with enough room for 4 shuttles and 6 shuttle pods.
The Olympic Class starship is very limited in its weaponry, featuring only 2 torpedo launchers and 4 phaser arrays. Both torpedo launchers are of the photon variety with one facing forwards and one aft. The starship has fairly powerful shields for its size but lacks armor is not very maneuverable, its maximum speed at Warp 9.2. It requires an escort when traveling into potentially hostile territory and is often partnered with a Norway Class starship to ensure its security. The Norway Class' slightly higher speed, good evacuation limit, and much heavier weaponry made it an excellent choice for this role.
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Wow, thanks, that's really cool. One of our doctors or Captain Kitty might bring up those details.
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Sounds pretty good to me. One request I'll make though;
Since Admiral Ross assigned R'Turan (aka Captain Kitty) to the Ares, it would make a lot of sense if he was the one to hand out the promotions.Originally Posted by Nesta
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Good idea, just updated it.
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Mein Gott! How long did it take for you to write all of that Allan? You have blown me away with your dedication to Ares.
Anyway sounds like a plan! Can't wait to see all the pieces come together.
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Thanks, I just copy/pasted stuff I wrote weeks ago, been waiting for this day haha
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haha!
You do the same thing I do with longer posts or posts needing lots of information! Much easier to post when you aren't scrambling to remember all the fine details.