| COMMLINK FOR DECEMBER 2001 |
TF NEWSLETTER =EDITOR'S NOTES= Happy new year Tango Fleet. Ok, here is the newsletter to end off 2001, and lets hope 2002 will be as good as this year. .............................................................................. =SHIP REPORTS - Division 1= VESSEL: USS Arizona Ship Report for the month of December, 2001. For the month of December the USS Arizona and its crew continue their investigation of the previously unknown alien homeworld. After a nearly a couple of weeks observation, a third phase, that of finding a place for a permanent observation post for future studies by a science crew sent from starfleet, begins. With the universal translators having finally managed to process the aliens' strange syntax, Captain Crowley and an away team head down to the surface, in native disguises, to find one. At the same time, Commander Jaxx(XO) assembles a second team to further investigate the mysterious fourth party and the secret installation. Lieutenant Chekov(CSO) also puts together an away party to closer observe the natives and the planet they live on. Lieutenant Chekov(CTO) remains on the ship in charge. Captain Crowley's team, consisting of Lt.Cmdr. Carter, Lt.(jg) Cruix, Ensigns Stephens, Me'tchel and Ward, PO's Batok and Kor, begin their search for a place where the future starfleet science observation teams will be situated. They have decided to search among the various natural tunnels spanning several kilometers in diameter below the surface of a long-dead volcano. Once underground, however, the Captain's team discovers that there are faint readings that aren't consistent with the technology of the planet. In fact, it registers as Romulan. Commander Jaxx's team, having infiltrated the secret installation's compound, were also getting readings of Romulan technology located somewhere inside. He tasks his team on determining why and how the Romulans had arrived here on this remote planet and how much, if any, cultural infection may have happened. Chief Engineer Vahl manages to download all the Lieutenant Mandy Chekov and her science team, meanwhile, are still in an underwater temple. This place has most, if not all, the information that is needed in order to learn about the origins of the "Demons", "LF's" and "Angels", the Angels inhabiting the world-wide hologrid. One of the holo-agents that Chekov and Carter sent into "Mu", discovers a place which turns out to be a download archive with the history of the world. The holo-agent, Roam, downloads and transfers the information directly to Back in the volcanic tunnels, Captain Crowley's team splits. Lieutenant Commander Carter leads his half further into the underground tunnels to the inside wall of the inactive volcano. After analysis by Ensign Ward, SO, and PO3 Kor, Engineer, they determine this particular place to be an ideal one for the future, permanent observation post. Carter informs the Captain Meanwhile, Crowley's half of the team have moved closer to where the secret installation is, via underground tunnels, and to where they are getting a stronger reading on Romulan technology. They come to a door where, it is soon discovered, Romulan technology was used and incorporated into the aliens'. Further study shows the possibility of Romulan-like bio readings - Commander Jaxx's team who, after obtaining all the intel and information they can on the facility, return to the ship and wait for... Lieutenant Mandy Chekov who, after having a chance to view the information transferred to her via the "Mu" agent Roam, returns to the ship for more than just a cursory glance at the information at hand. Back on the ship, Ensign Torber Gra'el, who previously had had some kind of device - linked to the "Mu" world somehow - implanted in his head, had it removed by Doctor Grace Kelly and her medical staff. Gra'el is recovering, but suffers from fatigue and depression. How long the effects will last is uncertain. The post mission briefing reveals this. The alien world was once, first and only, inhabited by the blue-skinned "LF's" (Little Fellas). They were a sparse population that stayed only within the main continent of the planet. This was due, mostly, to the intense climatic situation of the planet. Eventually they became curious about the rest of the world. They set off to This second group, believed to have settled in the island archipelago a long, long time ago, had been so much separated from the original group that they had evolved differently - all owing to location and climate of that area. This group was taller, hairless and appeared to have tattoes all over their bodies that gave a green-scaled effect. To the "LF's" this new group was nothing they had ever seen before...they were...Angelic. And the "LF's" took to worshipping them. And the "Angels" became Gods on this world. Over time, ages, the world grew...in terms of science and technology. But the "Angels" controlled that level of growth. They allowed only so much information to be had to the "LF's". Those who became especially smart were made priests and, in turn, learned more. As time passed, those certain priests had learned enough and deduced that these "Angels" were no better than the rest of the "LF" world. The only true advantage that the Angels had was knowledge. Those certain few priests had taught and convinced a small group of their fellow "LF's" to understand and believe that fact. Soon, a faction was created to oppose the, what was now deemed, oppressors...the Angels. The Angels, who's divine mystique was aided by the use of implants that gave them strength and allowed them to control certain things...even at a The "LF's" - those many who still believed in the Angels - felt horrible about what had transpired and looked to punish the small faction that had killed off all but one of the Angels. The faction was captured and ordered to death but the last remaining Angel forbade it. The remaining Angel was a scientist who worked to create the holo-world of "Mu" in the hopes to recreate her population of Angels in another form. In memory of her fallen brethren. The "LF" anti-Angel faction was used to help create the proper synaptic templates. They didn't survive, but many more devout "LF's" were willing, and did, sacrifice their lives to achieve this. Other attempts were made as well, to recreate the Angels. This was done with genetic tampering of the remaining Angel to some select "LF's". The result was the creation of the "Demons". These being were, at first, believed to be sub-standard forms of life, but that was proven wrong. In time, the "Demons" took over the world, the "LF's" became subservient and the holo-world "Angels" went about their existance...the original programming to look after the "LF's" long since corrupted. The "Demons" have no love for the "Mu" world Angels but don't dare try to destroy it for fear of revolt from the "LF's". Instead, a group of them had decided to create a secret facility where plans were put forth to build a starship and explore the galaxy, in hopes of leaving behind the Holo-world Angels and discover more of their galaxy around them. Now especially Just before Jaxx's away team left, they did pick up what could have been the first attempt at creating a stable warp field. Further study is now up to the future starfleet science and observation teams. The USS Arizona gets recalled to Starbase 432 to receive their new mission. Arrival at the starbase allows the Arizona to take on extra supplies and crew transfers. As well, Agent Parmeter of Temporal Investigations arrives to brief them on their new mission. The planet Nalphaki was home to a race that was on the verge of becoming warp capable. The inhabitants of the world were almost completely destroyed by an Asteroid impact. Very few A group of them had created a cure of sorts to heal them of all the contamination suffered by the impact of the asteroid on their world. The cure worked...for a time, but because of a miscalculation many more - and soon the entire race - died off. The Arizona is to time-slingshot back roughly 70 years to replace the default cure, travel back, and observe how the Nalpahki would have fared had they survived... Of course, not everything goes according to plan... ROSTER CHANGES: ARRIVALS: PROMOTIONS/COMMENDATIONS: .............................................................................. =SHIP REPORTS - Division 2= VESSEL: USS Casey ================== Additions: Lt. Commander Bron Mahon ---------- VESSEL: USS Hyperion-D The Hyperion was making it's way to DS9. On the way there, Andrews worked on getting better aquainted with the captain. Endu and her crew and the Engineers worked on getting sickbay back together and also on the new Mindy EMH. Strazzco comes onto the bridge and sees that our ops officer was gone and that the newbie didn't quite know what he was doing so Strazzco lends a hand in getting all the supplies and new crew assigned into their places. Serin and Deeks arrive onto the Bridge to get themselves aquainted with their stations. Deeks puts in a request for a special office for him to set up and work from. Hannah OK's it and an office is put together for him. Reyaga spends time in his quarters reflecting on how the recent events has changed his life. Hannah comes up with an idea to help her get to know her senior staff better. She runs the idea by the captain who thinks it is a good idea to help pass some of the time until the ship reaches DS9. All senior staff and a date if they have one, were invited to holodeck 3 for a formal dinner party. Hannah goes to sickbay and enlists Thomas' help. Everyone except Pretor of the senior staff and Eyri, as Brend'ell's date go to the party. At the dinner party, Endu shows up fashionably late and with a big entrance and not wearing the required Starfleet dress uniform. Also at the Party the Captain and MCapt. Sumrak announce their engagement. Hannah and Seriva go off for a bit so that Seriva could help Hannah with her blocking. After the dinner, a game of charades was organized. The Hyperion finally gets to DS9. After the Hyp is docked, Captain Brandel and Hannah go to the bridge of the starbase where they are taken to meet with Colonel Kira Nerys. When they get to her office, she hands over the rest of their orders and explains to them the importance of the mission. Brandel and Hannah then go back to the ship and brief Thomas on what is While at DS9, the Hyperion picks up a new crewmember, Ensign Michael Sutherland, a fighter pilot. He is put into the position of Gamma Flight leader. Strazzco, decides to put Vidane in charge of the fighters while he explores maybe going to ops. After all the supplies are stored onto the Hyperion, the Hyperion then enters the wormhole and heads towards the Rocarpes' new world in the Gamma quadrant. Unknown to them, the Xenepox, the Rocarpes' old enemy has found out about the Rocarpes. They send a ship to stop the Hyperion from helpingthe Rocarpes. The Hyperion arrive and are greeted by the Prime Minister Tauld. He is beamed aboard the Hyperion to sickbay to be checked first to make sure he isn't contagious to the crew of the Hyperion. He is then taken to the Conference room, where Brandel, Brend'ell and Hannah try to get negotiations together. Endu is ordered to co-ordinate with Thomas on helping the Rocarpes with the epidemic and to help try and find a cure. While in the conference room, Hannah and Brandel are told that an unidentified ship was approaching. Just as the ship is in range, a message comes from DS9 telling the Hyperion that the ship is the Xenepox. The Xenepox fire upon the Hyperion. The Hyperion launch their fighters and try to fire back. After some manuverings from the Hyperion and fighters, the Hyperion is able to get the upper hand. The Xenepox then release a shuttlecraft that has a biological bomb attached. The Hyperion works to get the shuttle disabled without destoying it. During the battle, Zidane is injured. The fighters are able to move the shuttle out of the way of the planet in case of an explosion. Sumrak, Kurtz and Endu take a shuttle and go to the Xenepox shuttle to try to dismantle the bomb on the shuttle. Brandel orders the Xenepox ship to surrender, but the Xenepox end up destroying themselves. Hannah goes to sickbay to check on the injured and offer her help. Seriva during the battle, comes to the bridge to offer her help with Brend'ell in calming down the Rocarpes' Prime Minister. In sickbay, Hannah helps and gets overwhelmed. Thomas and she take a break in his office where they talk. Strazzco after getting hurt somehow during his flight, comes to sickbay to check on Zidane and get some medical treatment. Hannah goes back to the bridge for duty while Brandel goes and checks on how things are going in the conference room. Sutherland does some patrols in his fighter and then heads in and after changing goes to sickbay to also On the Hyperion, the Prime Minister, after some calming down by Seriva, agrees that his people need the Hyperion's help, but he refuses to re-enter the Federation. He is escorted to the transporter room and transports back down to his planet. In Sickbay, Strazzco has a run in with Mindy. Sutherland comes to sickbay to check on Zidane and Strazzco introduces him to The away team on the shuttle, trying to disarm the bomb, end up having trouble and end up in sickbay with ratiation exposure. Endu and Shokan didn't get hurt as badly as Sumrak though. Captain Brandel, upon hearing about the accident goes to sickbay to see how Sumrak is doing. Osron can tell that the Captain is more upset then he's letting on, so he contacts the Counselor to have her talk to the Captain. Crew members celebrate Christmas, while in their quarters, Thomas remembers that Christmas is also Hannah's birthday and gives Hannah a special gift. Sutherland is in the mess hall (called the Hy-deaway) having some fun with other crew. It is time for the away team to get the supplies together and head to the planet. Hannah is in charge of the away mission. The away team consists of Thomas, Osron, Shackleton, Seriva, and Endu along with Hannah. They put supplies in two shuttles. One has medical supplies and the other has supplies to erect a quarantine building on the planet. After the Shuttles are loaded, they head to the planet, escorted by one of the Hyperion's fighters. On the Planet, the away team leave the shuttles in Evac suits to help protect them from the virus. They meet with the Health commissioner and two council members. They request that Thomas go to their hospital to look at the patients. Thomas agrees to go. Back on the Hyperion, the Prime Minister is transported back to the Hyperion for more talks. One of his companions that comes with him is detected to have the virus during transportation and is immediately transported to sickbay in a quarantine force field. After hearing about what happened, Captain Brandel orders Ensign Sutton to go to sickbay and help assist Mindy <<< MANIFEST UPDATES/PROMOTIONS/COMMENDATIONS >>> Left: Lt.Cdr Hannah O'Halloran ................................................................................ VESSEL: USS Edison <<Mission Summary>> The Edison's mission is to build a first contact and to determine if the Federation should offer them certain treaties, including trade, etc. Each section of the ship is supposed to study their planetary counter-parts. On our way to Venatt we learn that Lt. Verona won't be with us on the mission as he's to attend Command School and that Lt Pax and Lt jg Rimmer are responsible for this mission. Both aren't throughoutly comfortable with this new task but they will arrange themselves. In the meantime Ryan Bones tells Ens Die about his past as a mercenary. The new Doctor - Capp Yetis - is being instructed by Lt jg Tiqlek as Lt jg Rimmer is currently in charge of the mission and therefore unable to train the new collegue. The ship soon reaches the system of Venatt and enters the orbit of the little ball of rock that is protected from its suns harsh light only by a very thin ozone layer. The beamed down to investigate and learn as much about the Venatt society as possible. Ens Seraph, for example, tours a powerplant. He asks Ens Cochrane and Ens Die to do the tour with him again as he is susicious. The Command crew is asked to return to the ship and the situation is discussed. The decision to confront the Venatts with their unusual power readings and their lies is drawn quickly. It turns out to be a bad idea - a group of Romulans storms the hall and Captain Drab gets captured. Also on an other part of the planet, Izumi and Cochrane are captured. A rescue attempt doesn't reveal the Captain who was meanwhile brought onto a romulan ship. He was returned and the Romulans and the USS Edison departed... <<End of "Venatt" mission; Start of "Shore Leave 4">> This shoreleave takes place right after the Venatt mission and the ship is still in the orbit of Venatt. The upcoming celebration of christmas leads to a decorated christmas tree standing in 10 Forward with all kinds of people helping in the process of replication, transportation and decoration. Led by June Craig some of the crew start a holoadventure that takes place in ancient egypt. The task seems simple: find and recover the scepter hidden within the temple. After setting the highest possible difficulty the friends start out into the adventure facing all kinds of traps and hidden paths. Through the middle of the program the friends split up into two teams taking Of course, both teams face another pair of dangerous situations ending up together at the scepter after opening a stone door with the symbol of Ankh! The rejoined team is faced by a bunch of creatures whom they fight well until teh scepter is taken from high above their heads. It was in the hands of a huge sculpture and got into the hands of Seraph now. Unfortunately the fight isn't over yet - a 3m tall creature attacks the friends - determined to kill them... (Special thanks to PO3 Solak for writing the above summaries; they can be found on the Edison webpage in the "Logs" section.) <<Promotions and Commendations>> Captain Drab awarded the Captain's Star Regards, ---------------- Academy Report *Search and Rescue* Co LT Sonra Rahl Xo LTCDR Kien Engineer Mate Grimm figures out away for the Uss Argylle to be able to communicate with he Away team. Cadet Swain thinks he might have stumbled upon a way to stop the virus from infecting any new people. Cadet Neera Baliya is able to land a rescue shuttle in the storm and is searching for the Away team. After locating the away team and evading the Planets Natives. The away team makes it to the shuttle and cadet Baliya lifts off headed back to the Uss Argylle. The shuttle makes it back to the ship. Cadets Naala and Nightheaven are treated for the virus but unfortunly cadet Naala pass away from to much exposure to the virus. But Nightheaven will survive. Warning beacons are placed in orbit around the planet to quantine it so no-one else caught the virus. Then Argylle heads for home. **End of Mission** *Culture Shock* LTCDR Bron Mahon They are on the trail of some antimatter that their tricorder is leading them too. *Leviathan* LT Roman Carter CPO Romano along with cadets take the Shuttle craft Nexus over to the ship. They are able to dock with the ship without any trouble and enter her. The first few rooms that they go thru give them the imprison that the inhibities of this ship are very Large. They continue exploring and one of the doors in the ship opens up and reveals a inhabinit. But it turns out to be some sort of maintence droid. They move on and discover the engine room. Engineer Cadet Zevart Quince Figures out how to work some of the controls and finds out that the ship has traveled at least two million light years, The distance to the next Galaxy. Cdr Carter joins the away team. Security robots surround the away team and escort them deeper into the ship. They are escorted to a room that looks like the brig and left there. Cadet Swan scans the room with a tricorder and figured out a way to adjust his comm badge to be able to talk to the Dauntless. While waiting in the cell. The Tellarite captain walks in. He explains to them that his crew has been missing around with the ships controls in attempt to learn as much s they can about the ship. They have learn much and hope to learn more. It is also a possibility that the Gorn are descendent from this race. this is because the robots look like the Gorn. **At the Academy** The Auerlian Ambassador arrives to discuss preparations for setting up a colony of theirs on Eta Tuari II. They consider Eta Tuari II to be their long lost home world. A colony ship with 50,000 Aulerians is already on it's way. New Cadets Graduated cadets Captain John Warner ................................................................................ 1. What is the name of Data’s cat? ................................................................................ Welcome to another edition of Marley’s Corner, with another exciting interview with captain Tzipora Simcha, aka Becky Manes. As in other interviews, we first asked two people about Becky, her ‘M.O.’ and the work relation aboard the ship. “She cares more for her crew as individuals than she would ever care for the durralloy and metal that makes up the ship she commands. She takes the game a bit further than most players. She cares for her people as friends, not just characters.” - Commander C. Dean Hays "Captain Tzipora Simcha is what I would call the Fleet's 'quiet achiever'. Never one to attract attention, she subtly and unobtrusively moulds her crew and guides her command staff. She is also happy to take a back seat and let budding young RPG'ers have a real chance at learning something new. She is the sort of Commanding Officer that makes you feel special and honored if your lucky enough to be promoted or commended by her - something she rarely does for it makes it seem more important and respected that way. She is an excellent CO/GM, and I am extremely proud to be her Executive Officer aboard Now we continue with the interview, which proved to be quite interesting. Let’s just hope the readers think so too. Marley: This concludes this month’s interview. Next month I will of course be here again, with another great interview with a TF captain. Right now I’m late for a poker match with the good captain and commander Cho, so until then, I wish you love and life. Jason Marley ............................................................................... TANGO FLEET Medical CORPS REPORT The Medical Corps for Tangofleet is there for the fleet for anyone needing medical terminology, equipment, ect.. There hasn't been anything new this month to report about for the medcorps. There is a mission that the Medcorps is in the process of putting together though for a fleetwide mission. More info to come later. end report: LT CDR Melissa Bottomley ------------------------------------ CORPS/ BUREAU: ADVERTISEMENT PRESS & INFORMATION BUREAU INFORMATION/ACTIVITY REPORT: ANY OTHER BUSINESS: -/\- LT(jg) Tom Hamilton, Director, TFAPIB ------------------------------------ TANGO FLEET SCIENCE CORPS REPORT The Science division will be taking the month of December off, to celebrate and take a breather. But watch for new features in the New Year that will include additions to the Encyclopedia and a look at TF Science Headquarters. See you then! For information, comments or questions, email Lt. Cmdr. Tan Eryx at bron_mahon@hotmail.com ................................................................................ 1. Spot ................................................................................ I would like to thank everyone for contributing to the last issue for 2001. Lt.jg Craig Clarkson |