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Personality Focus:
Mandie Brite, Reluctant Officer
PHOENIX, ARIZONA -- There are many ways for someone
to join STF. One of the most common is drafting: whenever the population
drops, some loyal officer -- such as B.J. Phillips -- manages to draft
a friend or acquaintance into the club. That is what happend to Mandie
Brite, a long-distance friend of B.J. B.J. drafted her into STF back
in August of 1997, but she left when school started in September, claiming
that she didn't have the time for STF. When her homework load dropped
back to a manageable level in December she rejoined, and currently serves
as Rebecca Cadogan on the USS Athena in Fleet Three.
Mandie, 14, is in the 8th grade at Oasis High School in Phoenix, Arizona.
She considers her age to be a severe handicap, as it associates her with
"teenybopperism." She also is currently conducting an investigation
as to why her school (located in the Desert State) has a team called the
Dolphins. She has been involved in computers since she was five and
claims to be able top run rings around her programmer father, and enjoys
criticizing sarcastic media [Sarcastic, eh? I don't know about any sarcastic
media. . . . --Ed.].
STF 'sex scandal' turns out to
be security hole
USS COLUMBUS, FLEET FOUR -- Recent events on the
USS Columbus have demonstrated a security problem on the WeBB.
During an off-duty scene, sexually offensive material was posted under
the name of Jerry Phelps, containing activites unbecoming an officer (The
entire thread was deleted, so don't even bother looking). CO Matt
Agee immediately recommended to STF President Gerg Hertzsch that Phelps
be demoted and reassigned. Hertzsch, however decided to carry out
the transfer only. Further investigation, however, revealed that
Phelps had been out of town at the time the post was made, and a co-worker
of his at his office had gained access to his workstation and begun to
order merchandise over the Internet with Phelps' credit card, commit other
rather illegal acts, and post this (and other) faux-Phelps messages and
emails. The individual in question was quickly terminated from the
company. Phelps has been exonerated, and Agee and Deanne Morgan,
the victim of the post, have eagerly agreed to allow Phelps back onto the
Columbus. President Hertzsch has asked that all officers self-censor
their posts at an "R" rating; others suggest a "PG-13" limit. Concerns
about security have also been raised, as WeBB designer Mike Bourdaa is
currently exploring the possibility of using a cookie system in place of
the current login method.
Fleet Five goes active
STARBASE 257, FLEET FIVE -- STF's Fifth Fleet,
our second-in-a-row unprecedented WeBB fleet, has officially begun to RPG.
FComm-5 B.J. Phillips of the USS Olympic and AFComm-5 Larry Garfield
of the USS Alliance have assumed command of the new fleet, and Captain
Randy McCullick has been given command of the newly-recomissioned USS Andorian.
Fleet Five is located in the Alpha Quadrant, slightly above the galactic
plane, and some crewmembers are already nicknaming it the "Zenith Fleet."
Starbase 257 will remain NPC for the time being. There are as of
yet no plans to add additional ships to the new fleet, however, it is likely
to expand in the near future.
Trivia Answers
SNN CENTER, CHICAGO -- Our prestigious "Wow!
He actually Responded" Award goes to Matt Agee this week, for being the
only person with the guts to respond. Never mind the fact that he
got only one question right. The correct answers were:
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The Dreadnought Entente was mentioned in comm trafic from Epislon
9 in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
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Outpost 42 has been commanded by Paula Kirk ever since it was opened.
It is the only Fleet Three ship to have had the same CO since then.
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New Fleet Five FComm B.J. Phillips is the oldest WeBBster who has never
served on STF*Prodigy. He joined STF on August 4, 1997, only four
days after the WeBB opened.
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The USS Ares was initially commissioned the USS Concorde.
Its name was changed before it began its first mission. The name
Concorde was later used for the NPC ship the crew of the USS Montgomery
salvaged and used to destroy Deep Space 19 to keep it out of Crag hands.
It was later recomissioned the USS Concorde-B, now serving in Fleet
Three under the command of Jean Flinois.
MicroNews
by Will Yates, SNN Society Editor
WeBB Co-PDir BJ Phillips has announced that he will allow COs to
handle all secondary character requests themselves. This includes
primary characters and controlled NPC characters. Phillips will contine
to handle all new-member requests.
Although Spring officially started only a few days ago, BIO Tallen
and Eng-1 Hawkins of Outpost 42 have started a rather interesting
relationship. Though not as far as the recent marriage yet, there
is potential for a long and happy relationship. Further developments
have been delayed due to the constant chaos that has wracked the station
in recent weeks.
Crell, homeworld of the Crag, has now been officially admitted to the Federation.
Everyone is encouraged to read the speech made by Alliance Captain William
Bligh during the ceremonies, as well as the Crell Planetary Anthem.
(They're both a lot of fun.) As it is now a full member of the Federation,
Crell Prime Minister Daltuak has decreed that shore leave has been
extended to all Starfleet officers. Captain
Larry Garfield, Crell Administrator, is encouraging all STFers
to contact him to have their characters mirrored on Crell, which will be
serving as an Open-RPG area for anyone who stops by.
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STF*Prodigy News-in-Brief
SNN CENTER, CHICAGO -- In a heartwarming show
of sympathy for Commodore Field's resignation, the combined cast and crew
of STF*Prodigy observed a one-week Moment of Silence. Fortunately, they
got a head start before Field actually resigned, so we ought to get back
to RPing any day now. . . .
Fleet Three -- The Coreward Fleet
by Seamus Hughes
USS Athena, NCC-71819:
Welcome! Come one, come all to the slowest ship in the Fleet. When
we last left the Athena, it was off in the Sol system, trying to
capture the Olympic. Well, that didn't work. The Oly
destroyed the USS Quebec, and then the Athena decided, in
retaliation, to do nothing. Great tactic, guys! While this was going on,
CSO Gavin Bishop and Med-1 Lt. Henry Tudor began to be fed up with the
nothingness of the Athena and after having a long "arugement" with
Captain Phillips, took a runabout and drifted away into space. Another
great plan, by the ingenious crew of the USS Athena [Well, someone
woke up on the wrong side of the sleep unit this morning! --Ed.].
USS Concorde, NCC-97123-B:
Gee, not much to say about this ship . . . the Concorde was en-route
for Earth with two cloaked Romulan ships when it was attacked by Tartikov
fleet of cloaked ships. The Concorde has yet to fire back,
or even raise shields, but they're not worried, since Colin's not there
GM.
USS Dresden, NCC-1837-B:
Viruses? Half-brothers? This is worse than the FOX Network. On the
Dresden, while en-route to help the Concorde, some of the
crew suddenly got a diease that made them change their physical features,
and a security officer who used to be a human was turned into a Cardassian.
What this has to do with the Fleet-wide RPG is still unknown. Also, it
seems the Dresden is full of half-brothers and sisters. All of the
Security officers are related somehow, which leaves us at WeBBsights
to ask . . . West Virginia?
USS Hopper, NCC-78333:
New name? Oh yes, and a new ship class. The USS Boston last week
fired on the USS Hopper, the mysterious Independence-class
ship. After crippling it servely, Captain Hughes decided that "Hey!
why have a Traf when you can have a ship that cloaks?" He and his
crew transported aboard the Hopper, and blew up the Boston
(scratch 2 Trafs and two Captains). After getting the Hopper back
together again, they proceeded to Earth where Captain Hughes stated that
he wanted to know just what the hell was going on, and why he wasn't invited
to the party. The Hopper is currently aiming weapons at the
Athena and waiting for a response as to why there aren't enough
drinks for everyone.
Outpost 42: Despite the
fact that Commodore Kavox Cox did not dock at the station, Task Force Tango,
under the command of Lt. Andrew Patrell, has insisted that BCO Paula Kirk
stand down and be boarded. Patrell has also ordered that any ship
entering or leaving the area is to be destroyed on sight. Meanwhile,
further disaster has struck, in the form of the sabotage and explosion
of the USS Terra Nova during docking procedures. The plot
has thickened even more, not surprisingly, with the revelation by SNN Correspondent
Elliot Carver that William Garner, the head of Starfleet Intelligence,
was assassinated several weeks ago, around the time of the assassination
of late President Fred Perch. BIO Tallen suspected that James Perry
would likely be his sucessor, at the time unaware that Perry had recently
died on board the USS Boston. Additional investigation has
also revealed Federation President Stadt was being held in Moscow on Earth
(No, not at Nyetscape, they already have a contract). The apparent
President on the station has also been determined to be an imposter, however,
no action has been taken as of yet.
Fleet Four -- The Forceful Fleet
by Randy McCuillick
USS Ares, NCC-finished-a-mission-but-still-doesn't-have-a-registry:
Everyone, let's give the crew of the USS Ares a big round of applause
for finishing what was probably the longest running RPG in STF history!
After diverting all power to engines, the Ares has finally gotten
out of the Anomaly, ahead of the alien ships. The CO and the CSO were quickly
placed in sickbay and were sedated; the ships fired an aft torpedo, and
destabilized the anomaly, but not before half of one of the pursuing ships
go through . . . with predictable results. The crew has retired to rest
and recuperate. They are just waking up (which they'll probably be doing
for the next two weeks!)
USS Columbus, NX-97000:
Further investigation has revealed that the Columbus now exists
in two different dimensions at once, the normal dimension we all know and
love and a different one in which a Klingon-Romulan Alliance is at war
with a rebel Earth. To make things even more confusing, some crewmembers
are in "our" dimension, some are in the alternate, and some are in both.
In the alternate dimension, the crew was approached by the alternate Captain
Jeff Field and are asked to help the rebel Earth ships beat the Klingon-Romulan
ships. After a staff debate where the Prime Directive was brought up and
abolished, they accepted, as any good Starfleet officer would do.
Repairing their ship, they prepared for battle. The "real" Columbus
made an attempt to return things to some sense of normality, or at least
sanity, but managed to have their magical device blow up in their faces
instead. Back in the alternate dimension, preparations were made
to attack the 30-odd ships of the Alliance. A fighter was loaded with high
explosives, and the saucer and battle sections were separated (Insert tension-building
music here).
USS Montgomery, NCC-84704:
It has been revealed that Dr. Humphreys was, in fact, not defecting to
Delmaron's side but was attempting to infiltrate his clique to break it
from the inside. Meanwhile, renegade Captain Jacob Delmaron ordered
the Romulan ships to break off their escort, allowing the loyal crew, who
was by this point in control of the computer system, to seize the ship
in a direct attack on the Bridge. Delmaron was killed, but before
he died he managed to rig the antimatter inducers to jam open, resulting
in an instability which almost destroyed the ship. Quick action on
the part of CE Murri Kep, his pet python, Monty, and the Engineering NEs
was able to avert disaster by blowing the lower deck of the ship off into
space, taking the antimatter with it. The Montgomery is currently
being towed back to Deep Space 20, which has fresh parts standing by, as
it expected something like this to happen. (Track record update:
3 Bridges, 1 Ready Room, 1 Aux Control Room, 1 crash landing, 1 warp core,
1 Observation Lounge, 2 nacelles, 1 deck 14, 1 pair of fuzzy dice, one
Chief Engineer's sanity, and a partridge in a pear tree.)
IKS chunDab:
After the party (last issue), the crew of the chunDab began to "acclimate"
themselves to their new human Doctor, the last one now being the Captain.
During the Party a Klingon Named Kahless turned the ship towards the planet
of Tychon. The ship achieved standard orbit before anything could be done.
The president of Tychon opened hailing frequencies and ordered the chunDab
to leave his planet's air space. The president also ordered his entire
fleet to attack the chunDab. The captain then ordered that some of the
antimatter be ejected into space and a course set for Quo'nos. The
antimatter dump was successful and a torpedo was fired into the dump causing
one BIG explosion. The chunDab then acclerated for home leaving the Planet
of Tychon in a horrible mess. Kahless, being cornered for starting the
mess, revealed he had a disease and blew himself out an airlock, leaving
cyanide cheese crackers for the crew.
(special thanks to Jason Becker [Ensign Xebus Du'Chok] for helping
me weed through the chunDab notes!)
Starbase 202: The
crew has come to the realization that nearly everyone on board is missing.
CMO Matt Agee, upon return to the station, has borrowed a EMH from the
Indy and is treating a survivor on board. The tests on the Endeavor's
hull revealed nothing, to the dismay of Haley. Counselor Benni and Agee
planned a diner together, but Benni was stood up. Later, while walking
the decks, she discovered that Agee had actually passed out. Taking him
to the EMH, she manageed to save his life . . . barely. While the EMH operateed,
Benni was comforted by Ty. Several decks and a few bottles of hooch
later, while on the bridge, she witnessed two Romulan warbirds decloaking.
The station was hailed by a Prefect Rekolok, who accused them of destroying
the warbird, and stealing the shuttle. Demanding the right to take a prisoner,
they beamed Captain McKee aboard, forgetting momentarily that McKee wasn't
on the station as he had left with the Independence some time ago.
Before anyone could point this out to the Romulans, Agee woke up from his
recuperation and he and Benni finally had dinner.
Fleet Five -- The Zenith Fleet
by Larry Garfield
USS Alliance, NCC-82396-A:
The Alliance crew managed to return from the Seetha ship.
They even managed to beam the Seetha crew aboard before the ship exploded.
Returning to Crell, the crew recieved word that the admission process had
been nearly completed and that the ceremonies were almost ready.
Captain William Bligh, the keynote speaker, made a moving speech to the
assembled delegates and formally signed the treaty. Unfortunately,
the first item of business was to investigate the assassination of Ambassador
Ralf, who was killed by an Alliance Sec-66 as the ceremonies completed.
It was discovered that the Ensign, Forn, was actually yet another Seetha
spy. With that settled, the Alliance left the Crag Annexation
for Fleet Five, where it was to take over as the lead diplomatic vessel
of the region. Stopping on the way at the Arbuckle Ship Yards at
Zeta Maxtor III to be upgraded into an Aurora-class vessel, eh,
NCC-82396-A, the Alliance is commencing First Contact procedures
with the planet Tttic, beginning with an undercover investigation of the
political situation, eh?
USS Andorian, NCC-2019-D:
Captain McCullick arrived on the ship with Ensigns. Slowly, the crew began
arriving. Nick Bolar and the Engineering crew begin putting the scarred
warship back together again, as the new crew got settled in and waited
for orders. Finally, orders arrived, and the Andorian pulled out.
During this time, the Engineering was most active fixing numerous systems,
removing a tribble infestation, and sending slime to Science for analysis.
Nick Bolar was revealed to be an android. The Andorian was
finally assigned to escort the USS Addison and the USS Wesley,
formerly destroyed by the USS Montgomery under the command of renegade
Captain Jacob Delmaron, to the planet T'Bete to help with a plague on the
planet. Off duty, many of the officers are noticing a similar hobby: antique
sword collecting and use, and a possible off-duty romance is blossoming
between Chief Nurse Sesenta Nyan and Ensign Scurvy. The rest of the crew
passed the time by arguing with the ship's AI system, the Professor (the
only Starfleet AI system not designed by Nyetscape; also used on the USS
Ark Angel in Fleet One), and sharing a few drinks. Finally,
the Andorian arrived at the planet, only to get waved off by the
planet's goverment, which accused them of spying. Even attempts to
just let the medical ship do their work was refused. For lack of
authority to do otherwise, McCullick ordered the ship back to Federation
space at space normal speed.
USS Olympic, NX-80000:
"Nope, try again" has become the mantra of Olympic GM Owen Ashcroft.
As a result, the ship that won the February Ship of the Month award in
Fleet Three has decided to go on strike. At last report, the Olympic
had been infiltrated by someone bia the computer who had attacked and destroyed
the USS Quebec, part of the task force led by the USS Athena.
The task force has surrounded the Olympic. In other news,
the Bajoran Ambassador has been rescued from the surface but President
Stadt is still in Moscow with XO Jolanne Jaxa.
Starbase 257: The newest
Starbase in Starfleet will remain NPC for the time being. FComm-5
BJ Phillips, AFComm-5 Larry Garfield, and Larry Cardinal Garfield of the
Church of Sisko have taken up residence on the station, and all members
of Fleet Five are encouraged to direct any questions, comments, ideas,
and religious experiences to the command staff.
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