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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Fabrux: [QB] Sorry everyone for the delays. I'm running Daddy Day Care these days due to funemployment, and the end of the month conicided with both my club's annual model show and my daughter's first birthday. Busy busy! [b]Question Two[/b] A) Snay: Placing your new base at an established colony doesn't seem to be fitting in with the mandate of expanding/defining a border in the sector, especially if your two proposed colonies lie between the base and Cardassian interests in the sector. But, YMMV. B) My fleet breakdown is as follows: USS [i]Vindrus[/i] NCC-25390, [i]Excelsior[/i]-class USS [i]Pikes Peak[/i] NCC-36607, [i]Renaissance[/i]-class USS [i]Soengdeok[/i] NCC-43916, [i]Renaissance[/i]-class USS [i]al-Kazim[/i] NCC-44289, [i]Freedom[/i]-class USS [i]Vittoria[/i] NCC-45433, [i]Freedom[/i]-class USS [i]Toowomba[/i] NCC-51216, [i]Istanbul[/i]-class USS [i]Ajuntunen[/i] NCC-57120, [i]Olympic[/i]-class USS [i]Rocchemback[/i] NCC-46529, [i]Oberth[/i]-class B.1) The ship in question would be the [i]Vindrus[/i], who's captain is none too pleased with the shadow and performs a few Crazy Ivans to try and shake them off. B.2) The colonist's council on J123-III has passed the motion to name their new home Beaumonde. As for the next candidate for colonization, I would like to recommend G38-IV. It is located near Beaumonde and will be easily serviced by local patrols as well as tightening up the UFP border. B.3) I've sent the [i]Ajuntunen[/i] off to Iadara to render assistance with the disaster. B.4) If the Cardassians are showing interest in L860, I have no immediate problems with that. It puts them closer to my new base at E73-VII, but that just means I can keep a closer eye on them. I divert the [i]Pikes Peak[/i] to the Xepolite trading post to see if they can sniff around and see what the Cardassians are up to, running better scans along the way. C) Seeing as how I've placed my outpost in the system closest to the Cardassian-occupied portion of the sector, I imagine the border negotiations in this sector will be somewhat dicey. Obviously, I would recommend keeping E73-IV within the UFP border, but if push comes to shove we could move the outpost if necessary. Or blow it up. That being said, I suggest that the border should start right smack dab in the middle of the nebula. It presents too much of a blind spot to potential forces build up and I would like to keep that avenue closed to the Cardassians if possible. The border would then continue "south" 20 ly "west" of E73 and then run between K484 and T734 on its way out of the sector. However, given the suspected shortage of mineral resources in the Cardassian Union suggested by information coming out of Bajor, I expect the Cardassians will want to include R047 on their side of the border. This would cause some issues with the nebula, but I think a "bubble" in the border may be workable. D) As expected, your ship closest to the nebula picks up a Cardassian convoy consisting of several transports and a [i]Keldon[/i]-class vessel coming out of the nebula and heading on a course that will take them straight to system R047. How does this affect your colonization efforts/recommendations? How do you react? [b]Question Three[/b] A) (Ginger) We don't like slavers, no siree. But, if this is an internal Cardassian matter there is really little we can do about it. Some intel gathering is required of this situation, if at the very least to confirm/deny the suggestion that the Cardassians are using slave labour and if the Xepolites are assisting in the slave trade, then I believe one of my vessels may suffer a tragic systems malfunction in the vicinity of the Xepolite outpost and need to dock for long-term repairs. B) This is the perfect opportunity to figure out of the reports of slave labour on L860-III. This will also hopefully give us some indications of where the next Cardassian colonization convoy will be headed. Plan approved and given full backing. C) Knowing a little bit about Cardassian physiology and their preference for warm climates, I suspect that this convoy may be heading to the G38 system. I'm hoping this is the case and they're not making a grab for R047; it would be a shame to see them rape and pillage R047-III as Cardassian mining methods are not known to be particularly enfironmentally friendly. As an aside, if they are heading to R047 that spells trouble for Admiral Shik's colony of Baro Foro. The [i]Vittoria[/i] happens to be the nearest ship to this little wagon train and I order them to rendez vous with the [i]Pikes Peak[/i] and get as close to the convoy as they can to see if they can determine where the convoy is heading and what they are carrying. I'm hoping that our superior sensors can run fairly detailed scans of the Cardassian vessels without being detected by them. D) Again, given the need to feed their war machine, the Cardassians will most likely be interested in those systems that are heavy in easily extractable mineral resources. I highly doubt that they will be looking for their next vacation spot in the Valten Sector. With that in mind, likely targets in order of priorty are Iadara, E73-VII, and R047-III. Iadara is an established mining colony with abundant resources and is already in production. This would be a very tempting first target as the Cardassians would be able to receive almost immediate return from their investment in capturing the colony. System R047 also presents a likely target for attack, and is closer to existing Cardassian interests but is not presently developed and would leave any forces stationed there open for a return attack with reinforcements. System E73 is presently the closest to Cardassian interests and home to my sector base. At present, my forces would not be able to hold their own against a force of four [i]Galor[/i]-class vessels without leaving the rest of the sector unpatrolled and this only assuming that we had enough advance intelligence to know where they were targetting to be able to move adequate response to meet up with the invasion force. I submit that, in order to adequately defend UFP interests in this sector against the specified force, I will need reinforcements. Two [i]New Orleans[/i]-class frigates and an additional two [i]Freedom[/i]-class destroyers should be enough to hold them off. To that end, I would divert one of the [i]New Orleans[/i]-class ships to patrol the area between R047 and T482 along with two [i]Freedom[/i]-class ships and the [i]Soengdeok[/i]. The other [i]New Orleans[/i]-class will patrol the area around E73 accompanied by the remaining two destroyers. Being the sector base, the [i]Pikes Peak[/i] and [i]Vindrus[/i] will also be within reasonable response time. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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