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This.

Made me giggle like an idiot, because what's unexpected, is often funny c:

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Up to Turn 12 nothing happens.


Then, Anticans accept our treaty, with some monetary gift in tow to that treaty. Our colony ships arrive at Malurian and are ready to start terraforming. Our scoutships find absolutely nothing.


Week later, though, USS Biko have found a subspace signature suggesting it might come from a spaceship. He has been ordered to investigate, but given that not everyone is destined to be friendly, he was ordered to not engage any vessels in close range.


However, they were intercepted and shot at! Fortunately, Cpt.Cain was able to get his ship out of combat and warp out from the system.


Soon we receive a delegation of this species, who call us primitive, inferior, and warn against any other intrusions to their space. Their system consists of dilithium-rich star, and three planets - desert, oceanic and barren.


That's very bad news, at least in terms of morale. Citizens of our home system are disgruntled about current situation with the Sheliak, and in turn our productivity takes a big spiked fist to face, crumbling. At least Mizarians are rather okay with it.


USS Oberth finds this peculiar system in the meantime. We might consider colonization if only to acquire dilithium refinery to supply our shipyards.


We find new race of species, they call themselves 'Mintakans' and claim to be an offshoot of 'Vulcan' race, whoever they are. As you see, their system is pretty large and estimates call for possibility of 410 million population, which is more than at Sol!
Our scouts will now exchange places - next week our shipyard at Mizar should be complete, and USS Biko shall investigate the western reaches, whilst USS Oberth shall go east. Transport ship was build at Sol and soon, an outpost near Altec will be built - our next target for colonization.


Just as our people colonize Malurian system, Mintakans want to join our Federation due to war concerns. What is it will all those aliens? Are we maybe really that scary? I'm lost now.


Amidst celebrations concerning Mintakans joining our society, Captain Cain makes contact with Takarans, species proficient in theoretical physics who are greatly interested in our scientific knowledge. Those would be potentially great allies, and their vast planetary system is worth it anyway! Diplomatic negotiations are underway as we speak.


And this is Mintaka system. As you can see, they are behind our standards, but we will gladly help them reach our level of living in the meanwhile.
All this good news calmed the citizens in Sol System, and production of ships has been restarted. On schedule, we have another colony ship that will help terraform Altec in the future, as well as additional scoutship. Starfleet branch also requests construction of a small fleet of Miranda-class vessels due to safety concerns - our Federation grows larger with each day but we possess absolutely no real firepower to fend ourselves, the example being Cpt.Cain's encounter with Sheliak. Few outposts at our member worlds would be good early defense as well.

Next week, USS Biko charters the yellow star near Takara, but it has only a gas giant and few barren planets. As the star lacks dilithium, we won't be colonizing this system.
In the meanwhile, we send Anticans an affiliation treaty, again, with small gift attached to the papers.


Here is current known map of galaxy. USS Biko, commanded by Cpt.Cain, is trudging through apparently empty space to the left, and on the right, you can see the icon of USS Oberth, which is going to explore a much more interesting region.
Who knows what awaits us there!

Curling

So. Another two takes on USS Enterprise.

Details: Per usual, I was making 'assault and hide behind' attacks, with cloak for protection. When I was preparing for final strike, getting behind the damn cruiser, it suddenly reversed speed from 1000km/s to -200km/s. I wasn't fast enough with brakes.
The other time, we were playing 'cat and mouse' at the edge of asteroid belt. Same as above, but this time I managed to turn to the right - and faceplant an asteroid that was big enough to not let me strafe it in any direction.

KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRK!!!

Dylan&Harpe:

In the hangar, engineers and assistans were busy replacing parts of the damaged mecha. Sometimes just smearing metallic paste into the scratches and tiny holes - sometimes, lifting off whole fragments of devastated armor and replacing it with new. The storage room gate was open wide, and small vehicles carrying parts and ammo went back and forth through it.

Repairs, resupply and rearming was still going on, and Chief Engineer was actually nowhere to be seen.

Posting to watch :3

Name: Elizabeth D. Ahling // c:
Description: A lady in her early thirties, with long red hair, strange accent, nervous giggle and a scar on her face. She never told anyone where she got said scar, maybe she doesn't even remember herself!
Elizabeth spent four years hunting black beasts, on the planet Cassandra, with  knives, spears and various pistols, under the constant watch of Master Uglopp, excelling in her training.
However, she eventually got bored and decided to leave the master and start a life as a mercenary, to hunt larger and more dangerous prey. Maybe even humans. And now, her current destination is Judecca sector, presumably to find both job and challenge there.
Stats:
Strength
Endurance
Intelligence
Agility +1
Perception +1