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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Shik: [QB] <center>[b]<U>QUESTION SEVEN (five parts)</U>[/b]</center><ul> [*]The Big Damn Battle doesn't go well. Althought the Starfleet forces give as good as they get, the Gorn hammer you hear. The situation does not look good. Until. The three Semman vessels move in & begin to harangue the Gorn forces, adding their firepower to yours. Eventually, 30% of the enemy is destroyed or disabled, & the remaining forces retreat out of the zone. In the aftermath the Semman commander contacts you. An odd image; he (it?) is one of the Sh'sh'l; others of the species can be seen in the background aloung with Zznjlii members. The commander opens by stating that his people(s) have considered themselves the watchdogs & mentors for the sector for hundreds of years. They have placed operatives, both plant & insect, on the local planets to observe & gather information, & in this aspect have passively nudged the Zemch towards warpflight. They observed the Federation's actions in the sector over the years & have been impressed by its actions, especially your willingness to protect from outside influences that which you do not know about. As a result, he has been empowered to request the formal opening of negotiations. It has made one request, however: that his people(s) participate in the Zemch first contact. How do you go about handling that? [*]The Trusteeship Zone has been successfully defended & the Gorn have been pushed back. However, the "lower right" star has been conceded by the Federation to the Gorn. Describe how (or even if) this redraw of the borders changes your future fleet disposition & plans for sector operations. [*]Speaking of the Zemch first contact, how is that to be handled? After all, it was only an in-system warp flight. (<a href="http://www.st-minutiae.com/academy/command419/sector_dorza_zemch_system.png">map of Zemch system here</A>) Will you send a ship? A message? (which may or may not be detected) Will you handle it personally or delegate it to a junior officer? What about the Sh'sh'll commander's request? [*]The Dorzan rebellion is put down, & brutally at that. The entire colony is leveled. In the initial negotiations, the Semmans have revealed that they had operatives on the colony & were able to smuggle away the Federation citizens before the Dorzan assault arrived. All remaining on the colony are lost, however. How does this affect your future relations with the Dorzans, if at all? [*]Starfleet has reviewed your reports & supported your decisions. They have asked to for future recommendations & requests for the continued Federation presence in the sector. What thoughts & reasons do you have behind what you tell them? They have also offered you the chance to move on to another posting if you desire. The choice is yours: stay? Or go? Why?</UL> [i]And so we come to the end of Sector Dorza. I hope you've enjoyed playing this as much as I've enjoyed putting it together for you. I do have one final request, something different than previous scenarios. It's been over a decade since I've run any kind of roleplaying game, so my skills are a little rusty. Any comments or critiques, both positive & negative, from you the players & observers would be appreciated. In this way, the format can evolve & grow, & become stronger through the following iterations. I have my own comments & critiques to make as the "gamemaster." I see these scenarios both as a symbol of our personal & professional natures. How we react in this fictional setting given the parameters laid out--overt in questions & implied in Trek history--gives insight into how we are ourselves, & how we may deal with real-life situations. We all know the nature & actions of the Federation, & we can easily opine how a Starfleet officer might or might not respond to a given situation. In that sense, I have tended to look upon these games as training sessions. I am rather dismayed by the overtly aggressive nature in the responses of some players. The flat-out militaristic bent appalls me & in some cases sickens me. Would some of these replies be "real," they would no doubt end in courts-martial. Remeber that Starfleet's mission is not to enforce the peace, but to create & protect it, & that the Federation's highest goal is the preservation of life in all forms & the advancement of knowledge. I am also rather shocked at the rather blatant disregarding in many cases of the Prime Directive. Intrusions into quarantined areas of space & star systems, harassment of species that have rejected contact with the Federation, & a general slant towards the influencing of an affiliate's internal policies--these are NOT the actions of a Starfleet officer in the 2380s. Perhaps some of these decisions would be more accepted in the cowboy days on the 2260s, but not today. The Prime Directive is there not to safeguard pre-warp & uncontacted species against everyone but the Federation, but rather against everyone INCLUDING the Federation. Perhaps a refresher course in the history of planetary-scale cultural contamination should be scheduled & made mandatory to attend. On a more positive note, I am extremely overjoyed to see the level of creativity in the actions of some here. Many times, I had to rethink my planned questions to take into account the novel approaches devised by the players. The fact that such original thinking forced me to do so is a sign of & a testament to the flexible nature of command training. So many different solutions to a single problem means we can all learn from each other & become stronger in ourselves. Again, thank you for participating, & for those of you who did not but merely watched, I hope you will join in the next installment.[/i] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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