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8.


ROMULANS EVERYWHERE.
Besides that large group of 11 destroyers, there are two scouts near Yridia and colony ship accompanied by destroyer, most propably going toward Vilmor. USS Brunswick A, Miranda-class destroyer, was completed at Yridia.
Cardassian transport, according to the plan, ran away when intercepted by our scouts.


They've attacked.

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Cpt.Cain: Where are they? Are they still under cloak-
Weapons Officer: Captain, they're decloaking right between our own ships!


First Officer: They are ignoring us!
Weapons Officer: They've concentrated fire on the outpost!


First Officer: Our weapons cannot pierce their shields, sir!
Cpt.Cain: ...Order our retreat. There's no way we can win this battle.
Helm: Course laid in, sir.
Cpt.Cain: Engage.
*pshooooooooooooom... blam!*

Five seconds later...

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Yep, our outermost outpost has been obliterated. RNZ Task Force have failed but honestly there was no other way to end this fight, at least we saved the ships. Our defeat is reason for protests in Sol system, the citizens are disgruntled with our inability to defend our border
Ferengi ask us for a small donation, and we agreed as a gift of goodwill. At Yridian star system, USS Everett is completed.


In middle of hostilities, we colonized another star system.
USS Covington built at Yridia.
USS Biko and USS Osiris were ordered to join RNZ Task Force, along with two Mirandas built earlier at Yridian shipyards. To quicken the construction of new vessels, Takaran system was queued with several destroyers as well.


Turn later, it is Cardassian scout that enter Romulan Neutral Zone. It has been destroyed.


This happens as well. Romulans, of course, are prime subjects, with Cardassians behind.


Next week, Ferengi break our non-aggression treaty.
USS Coronado, a Miranda ship, is completed at Takara. After Captains Cain, Jack, Dell and Kor formed one small fleet, they were ordered further 'south' to meet the two Mirandas dispatched from Yridia.


More bad news come from eastern edge of our territories. Our aggressive neighbours just signed a peace treaty with our enemies.


USS Monroe, an Ambassador-class cruiser, is completed at Yridia. Along with USS Everett, they were sent toward Romulan Neutral Zone.
RNZ Task Force is en route to Quadra Sigma where they shall meet with two destroyers, which shall join the border fleet.


One turn later, our RNZ outposts detect eight destroyers, split into two even groups, at two different regions.
USS Rockford and USS Newport, Miranda-class destroyers, are completed at Takara and Yridia, respectively.

That's all for now, as Starfleet Command and I have to discuss future plans concerning Romulan activity and recent attacks.

Bleh.

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I just read too much into the last line of your turn.

Haha

As far as I know from the rumors coursing the vast internet, there's some kind of internal game blockade so Borg won't appear too fast. Propably turn-related.

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6.


Besides another warning from Romulan Empire, we also manage to hastily finish our first Miranda-class starship, USS Majestic. Cpt.Cain took command of it after accustoming Cpt.Dell to the old USS Biko. The scoutship's mission continues, but with new commanding officer.
For a while, Captain Jarod Cain shall be performing tests and shakedown cruises with USS Majestic around Sol system.


Few weeks later, Cpt.Dell reports his first and possibly greatest discovery - another spacefaring empire of species calling themselves Cardassians. They are somewhat reptilean and are very territorial and suspicious of us. It seems we have met someone very similar to Romulans...
In the same time, Takarans at last built their Physics Institute. This prompted us to shift 5% of research from Energy to Weapons.


The Cardassians didn't mind our intrusion until USS Biko sent us this report - they don't need to be scared of us. There are at least fifteen subspace distorsions matching that of a warp drive, including two larger than other, possibly coming from destroyers. It has been noted that Cardassians are fairly militaristic species. Captain Neer Dell has been ordered to leave Cardassians space immediately, hopefully before the aliens will do that by force.
Also, with next week, second Miranda starship will be completed, and production of starships at Sol shall cease - the shipyard queue will be moved to nowhere else than Takara. Their construction facilities are better than those at our homeworld. Whilst it's kind-of far from Sol, we can host a small fleet of destroyers in less than 20 weeks. In the same time, we would have around 2 and half of a destroyer completed at Sol.


USS Miranda is completed at Sol. Young but competent Illi Kor from Mintaka have took command and joined Cpt.Cain. The two destoyers shall proceed to Romulan Neutral Zone Outpost #4, the one pushed toward our space, where they will be joined by USS Oberth scout, and then they will began their task of intercepting Romulan ships as well as actively scouting the border regions.


What we have feared, happened.
Romulans broke our non-aggression treaty few days before our destroyers arrived at Romulan Neutral Zone. Whilst our sensors report no enemy activity, all ships and outpots at RNZ have been put into yellow alert, and crews are to be ready for combat at any moment.
Non-officially, we're at state of war.

From other news, Takara shipyard completes few colony ships, whilst USS Biko leaves Cardassian space without any incidents. However, the reptilean aliens bluntly refuse any treaty proposals.


We receive a warning from Cardassians. Might be about our latest RNZ outpost that's is just beyond Cardassian space.


The very moment our border task force arrives at RNZ Outpost #5, sensors pick up a strange subspace distortion, which soon materializes into fleeing Romulan scout. Our ships didn't managed to catch it.


The same evening, out scientists finish the Beam Hardening theorem, bringing us several advances across the board, including a new design of a Ambassador-class light cruiser. One of the prototypes shall be build at Takara after it's initial queue of ships is completed.
USS Biko reports completing it's secret mission - flying through a nebula located in Cardassian space for two-fold reason - to scout the border and reach non-claimed regions faster.


Citizens in every Federation system celebrate both colonization of Hurada - allowing us to build our second dilithium refinery - as well as Yridians joining our society. As you can see, the crafty informers are equals of Takarans in terms of technological advancement. This, coupled with vast resources and proximity to Romulan border, caused Starfleet Command to shift ship construction planning:
A) RNZ-destined ships at Yridia
B) Transports, colony ships at Takara.

The Yridians also given us control of their two advanced scouts. They are faster than our Oberths and have much more powerful scanners, not to mention possessing a cloaking device akin to Romulans. They were immediatelly sent toward east and then up, to spy a little at our neighbours' border.

From scouting news:
USS Biko have at last left Cardassian space and is chartering regions around it, toward Takara, whilst USS Osiris is almost done with chartering upper rim of Takaran supply range. So far, no special discoveries were made nor first contacts have been established.

And from border news... our task force again bumped onto that Romulan scout.

It is just scouts for now. Tomorrow... there might be destroyers, or something worse...

First time ever I had to check for a word in a freestyle RP game.

Psh, gentle persuasion. I persuade people with death warrants and spear-to-face >:U