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Star Trek: Birth of the Federation Let's Play 3.01! Disaster at Malcor.
Haspen:
Always remember that expansion is achieved by diplomacy, not by the military
Starfleet's mission is to preserve the peace
Our ships are not intended to start wars, but to end them
We attack only as the last resort
Star Trek: Birth of the Federation Let's Play 3.01
...Miranda-class vessel, with registry barely visible on the hull - NCC-21264 - is shaking badly, leaving the last of stars in this part of the galaxy, slowly approaching a vast amount of deep, empty, black space. Whole vessel is shaking, and the warp nacelles blink with bright blue color.
"Are we there yet?"
Young officer shakes his head, and an old man in the Captain's seat sighs heavily, grasping on the armrests, a grimace on his face.
"Approaching Warp nine point eight, sir! We're dangerously close to-"
"Warning! Temperature of antimatter containment chamber is approaching thermal limits. Warp core breach in two minutes, seventeen seconds."
"Shut off that blasted piece of diodes!" The old man shouts as consoles start sparkling all over the bridge. For next several seconds, there was just constant crackling and crashing noises of the hull being ravaged by the stress.
"Sir, we're here! Right between Alpha and Delta Quadrants, in the year 2151!
"Turn on the transphasic particles generator! For the Federation! For the Alpha Quadrant!"
One second later, the vessel exploded in a cloud of purple and blue lights, and a ribbon of energy began spreading, slowly, bit by bit, separating the two quadrants from each other.
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And here we are. Back to the beginning, when Humanity is just to start the journey into the stars, to meet friends and natural enemies, vast resources and terrible tragedies alike. This time, however, we will have the Borg turned off, as well as random events. That way we will avoid situations like this nightmare.
Speaking of random events - I just found out that random events and borg have different variable in the settings file!
Of course, we're still playing Vendetta mode on Impossible difficulty.
Well, stay tuned for the first post, and hopefully we will enjoy another installment of my Let's Play Star Trek: Birth of the Federation! :3
Chapter List:
Chapter 1: When History Starts Anew.
Chapter 2: My Neighbour Totoro Cardassian.
Chapter 3: The Malcorian Incident.
Chapter 4: The Wormhole Shenaningans.
Chapter 5: Diplomacy and even more diplomacy.
Chapter 6: Back on track, hostilities inbound!
Chapter 7: Federation as proper Technology Power.
Chapter 8: When Things Escalate Quickly.
Chapter 9: War with Ferengi; Battle of Malcor.
Spoiler: Captains and important stuff (click to show/hide)To simulate a tenure of 'real Federation captain', in this LP you have to earn your beloved ship. At the beginning, you can only get your hands on scoutship (Oberth) or destroyer (Miranda). Later, you can start on light cruiser (Ambassador) as well. You can request specific ship/fleet, though. Even if it's something I don't want to produce or it is obsolete.
Hypothethical advancement tiers:
Oberth/Miranda/Ambassador -> Nebula/Galaxy/Constellation -> Galaxy-X/Sovereign/Defiant.
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Captain Illi Kor:
USS Alacrity A, Oberth-class scout.
USS Sitak A, Miranda-class destroyer. Killed during Battle of Malcor at turn 200.
Captain Jak Euchre:
USS Adams A, Edward-class colony ship. Established colony at Xerxes system and returned to Sol.
USS Reliant A, Miranda-class destroyer.
USS Iroquis A, Ambassador-class cruiser. Killed during Battle of Malcor at turn 200.
Captain Bob Roberts:
USS Khartoum A, Oberth-class scout.
USS Tian An Men A, Miranda-class destroyer. Killed during Battle of Malcor at turn 200.
Captain Burnt Pies:
USS Lantree A, Miranda-class destroyer.
USS Monroe A, Ambassador-class cruiser. Killed during Battle of Malcor at turn 200.
Captain Han Zoku:
USS Stratford A, Miranda-class destroyer. Killed during Battle of Malcor at turn 200.
Captain Ebb Ro:
USS Brittain A, Miranda-class destroyer. Killed during Battle of Malcor at turn 200.
Captain Neer Dell:
USS Cavalier A, Oberth-class scout.
USS Nautilus A, Miranda-class destroyer.
USS Zarnitza A, Ambassador-class cruiser.
Captain Jarod Cain:
USS Khartoum A, Oberth-class scout.
USS Rockford A, Miranda-class destroyer. Killed during Battle of Malcor at turn 200.
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Waitings:
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Haspen:
1.
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As you can see, we again start near southern rim of the quadrant. There are two stars close to our home system. USS Osiris shall check one of them, whilst the other shall be visited by our colony ship.
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Pretty much standard research layout when I'm playing as Federation.
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Woah, neat! Two large systems with max.pop around 300 million, + one of the stars have dilithium. We're clearly on a good start there!
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Next week we find this system which isn't nothing spectacular, but, in a long run, we could colonize it. Sol began constructing two additional colony ships and an Oberth-class scout, but those will take a long while at current industry output.
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Osiris is on a roll with interesting systems. This one is glitch in the matrix, as a volcanic world have desert image. We decided to colonize Tarsus as soon as one of the arctic planets there is terraformed.
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Week by week we're discovering that we have plenty of living space around on fairly comfortable planets!
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Derp, just look at this... midget of a system. Well we can be greedy! We bought spare parts for our colony vessel so soon it will depart to terraform Thelka system. USS Osiris will go south now, with it's 'end' destination being that single star below Sol that you can see on previous pictures.
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It's not that large of a system but it has dilithium source. We might colonize it later. Still not even a slightest sign of alien vessels or cultures.
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Just ten weeks since we finished Warp 5 Project and we already have a colony outside Sol. Citizenry is beaming with happiness and excitement. USS Osiris have to stray from it's course as it found a red giant star just on the very edge of it's range. Naturally, we have to charter it!
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Another neat system and a potential colonization target. At Sol, we bought spare parts again and USS Alacrity A was completed ahead of the schedule. It will go 'north' and then right, and possibly meet with USS Osiris somewhere to our 'right'. As soon as we find a captain for it, as there's slight argument between the military and scientific departments who claim equal rights for the deep space vessel.
Ilikor:
I'd like to be made captain of a oberth class science vessel.
Hyo:
... I don't think the President would be willing to captain me anytime soon, I'm afraid. ;P
Still, will be watching!
Iituem:
Captain Bob Roberts requesting a scout, for glory and adventure!
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