Mission 4.3 - OCC comments

[brelev]

which is why I have the plastic surgery stuff, that takes care of the appearence of the non essential crew, however the senior officer group does not have this. Of course I'm sure they can work around it, perhaps play themselves as messangers of the gods or something sent to help them, thus avoiding being killed by the frightend locals.

complicated, but plausible.

This is Melain btw, I'm just too lazy to change accounts

[fthelev]

vreenak said:

On the planet the intention is that we integrate with the local civilisation, living and in the end, fighting alongside them... against each other

Isn't that a direct violation of the Prime Directive?

[Harrias Jira]

Break the prime directive or die... I know which I choose...

[davidramsey]

I don't think it's a violation of the Prime Directive, but I don't think that would be a logical way to deal with this. It seems like the crew would do all they could to avoid interracting with the natives while awaiting rescue. I mean, the less interraction there is, the less you have to worry about someone letting their secret slip.

[Deleted]

Yes, but the fact is, two awrring people are going to be on the look out for anything abnormal. They would have seen the pods land and send an entire army to investigate. The crew would be left with a choice: they could use their phasers and whipe out an entire army, possibly even changing the course of history on this planet. Or they could keep their mouth shut and let the army do with them what they will (capture, label as demons and kill, whatever) or find a way to join the army which found them and survive untill rescue. I think we need to decide is how exactly these aliens appear, will Frek fit in better then Harrias, will Melain match up better then a Bolian? if they are basic humanoid (like the original series) blending in won't be as difficult as it would if they are bright purple with horns and tails

A violation of the prime directive is not an impossibility, it could mean ramifications with Star Fleet command which could led us into the next mission (dealing with that)

[davidramsey]

Ok, we are talking about a primative culture ... if they did see the pods come down they would at first think it was a bad omen, like the medieval cultures thought of comets and meteors passing through their atmosphere. I imagine that the crew would at first attempt to stay out of the way, in caves and the like. Their pods could be found, but not explained ... and soothsayers of the day would call it what they would ... some could call them a bad omen for their army and the other would call it a sign that the gods are on their side.

[fthelev]

davidramsey said:

I don't think it's a violation of the Prime Directive...

I suggest you look the Prime Directive up.

If it's so primitive, it would be likely the planet is not very densely populated. So it wouldn't be that hard to set the pods down in a remote area somewhere in the middle of nowhere. Besides, we're in the middle of Federation space with 2 s47 starbases withing 5ly.

[Deleted]

alright,

We planned the pods to land in an area we suspected was not populated due to the fact it is in the Northern Hemisphere between two mountain ranges. But, this area could be the area of conflict, there might be historical or religouse signifigance to the land (think the Middle East).

Here is an idea. The non essential crew realises that the local army saw the pods land and head into the mountains to hide led by Commander Talla. Disguised Cyle and his marines stay to destroy the pods, Melain leads a search and rescue team to find the lost pods, (Steve and Loki I'm not sure if you where wanting to join us on the surface). These groups run into some trouble and are not able to do their jobs fast enough, they are discoverd by the investigating army on their way to the mountain hiding place. There, now only the simmers are the ones stuck with the delima, the rest of the crew (NPCs) are the ones who stay hidden.

does this work??

[Harrias Jira]

Right, yet again apologies for not posting yet, I seem to have never got around to it, but I do plan on doing so later this evening. As for the mission, I realise that there are a lot of holes in it, and this is again my own fault for not putting enough effort into the mission beforehand due to getting it started during my exams, a tactical error perhaps.

For the moment I think Melain's idea sounds good, I will look at exactly what is going on later before I post and perhaps put some more detail into explaining away some of the holes.

[davidramsey]

Ok, that mission plan would work.
So, the NPCs will be out of the equation and someone will be headed toward a starbase while the regulars would be trying to .... er, what? They are going to be trying to avoid interaction but they won't be able to do that?

Sorry to pester, but it's my first real mission and I really don't want to make a fool out of myself my first time out because I didn't know enough.

[Deleted]

that's quite alright David, this type of brainstorming is what helps keep the crew a team

Perhaps Cyle, and Melain's objective will be trying to get the armys not to find the rest of the crew while the rest of the regular's main objective is to find the rest of the crew? The best way for them to do this would be to act as allies to the army who found them and use the scouting reports etc from them as a tool, and for Melain and Cyle to try and direct any scouting away from the mountain area the NPCs are hiding

[davidramsey]

Ok, groovy.

So, shall I present my own imagine of where David and his podmates land? I have something planned out, but I am unsure of how it would be taken by the higher ups.

[steve]

Yes land where eva but you will need to meet up with Lorre so you are not simming on your own.

Doc to your question... me and Lex will crash land (some how) and you can find us or we will find you.... either way we will meet up

[fthelev]

Even so, there are still working distress beakons in the pods, since we are in the middle of federation/s47 space, rescue teams will reach us with one or two days. How you gonna explain their abscence?
Things simply don't add up on this one.

[Deleted]

fthelev said:

Even so, there are still working distress beakons in the pods, since we are in the middle of federation/s47 space, rescue teams will reach us with one or two days. How you gonna explain their abscence?
Things simply don't add up on this one.

so we make them add up

would it have been possible for the virus to have caused the distress beacons to fail? or perhaps in order for the evacuees to destroy the pods to avoid being found by the locals they have to destroy the becons that are in them?

[davidramsey]

If you negate the beacons you have to negate other systems on the pods ... perhaps that is why not all the pods would land together ... the virus could be responsible for the major malfunctions on certain pods ... they could lose navigation, beacons, and possibly life support.
It would be possible for crewmembers to survive for a short amount of time without life support so that could work.

Or perhaps we have to deal with sabotage ... I mean, we still have to solve the mystery of the exploding ship, so who's to say that the pods haven't been sabotaged too?

[Deleted]

yay, we finally broke into page 2, less scrolling

on a more important note, I will be on a short LOA untill Monday the 26th (I think that's the date). I mentioned this in the LOA thread, but thought I'd mention it here as well

[davidramsey]

Well, you know if you guys stopped posting so well ... scrolling wouldn't be such a problem. LOL. So ... you only have yourself to blame!

[fthelev]

Guess I fixed the better part of the problems and holes in the post last night. The explosion caused a solar flare which in turn fried all the electronic circuits. Let's stick to that shall we?

[davidramsey]

Yes, that was a brilliant solution! It works very well.

[Deleted]

GREAT post Mr Ramsey! I think you will fit in quite nicely here

[davidramsey]

Thank you very much ... you have no idea how nervous I was about that though ... lol. Perhaps I should keep that to myself ... ?

[Harrias Jira]

Group A: Harrias Jira, Hannah Stevenson, Frek Thelev, Jason Farsir

Group B: Steve, Alexis Loki, Lorre Melain, Cyle Johnson, David Ramsey

Group A will be on the 'Draamar' side
Group B will be on the 'Kreld' side

So far, I have identified that the Draamar use red and blue tents.

[Deleted]

and the Kreld will use Yellow and purple since those our complementry colours and they have an eye for art.... lol

[Deleted]

OOC ok, since i am back and hella confused, would some send me a PM on how this is gonna work.

So far i get my group destroy's the pods, and tried to lead away the investigated army, other than that i think i'm, lost