Post! Post! Post!

Here we go, more combat!

I just got ahead of myself typing it!

Damn that Tochi! Always thinking a step ahead of the Captain or something... interrupting the chain of command, professing to be older than he is, purple spots, rapiers, and chicken fingers!!!!


Post(s) forthcoming!

What the hell is a 'Monkey Flipper'?

Anyway, I was typing up a short post when the Captain moved us forward a little more. My post from Ensign Blackmon should still be alright. She's just standing by awaiting instructions since she is off duty shift currently.

Some information about the current tactical situation that may be useful in your posts:

1. The Stormspike is, for all intents and purposes, invisible right now to our scanners. We are prior to the development of the tachyon detection grid (circa 2368 ); as such, we do not possess the capability to track a cloaked vessel.

2. Cloaked ships cannot fire and remain cloaked; their shields are also offline while cloaked.

3. The explosion aboard the Coronado appears to be internal in source - they were not attacked from outside.

4. The data seems to suggest that D'lar's claim could be valid - the Stormspike is clearly heavily modified. Seeing as how it is a much older frame, it does not make a lot of sense that your "secret weapon" would start from a position of inferiority - especially knowing what we know about Kuldar culture.

I'm taking my mother to lunch today but hope to have a post ready by later this afternoon.

I actually have yet to read all of the latest posts. I vow to remedy that situation immediately.

... OK, I read them. Awesome posts by everyone.

Eol, are you wanting to continue the back posts?

Olan, is the Tachyon Beam still a viable option? I've researched and cannot find anything within the canon that sets a date when such uses of tachyons was registered.

I think you are a little ahead of your time on the tachyon thing, but it's worth a shot. As stated above, we won't be able to reliably detect due to the tachyon detection grid not yet being developed - but that doesn't mean there is nothing to be done.

I'm back from lunch... getting posts started now.

Brom - we can continue with the backposts if you like, or we can chalk the remainder of lunch up to "behind the scenes" moments. Completely up to you, my brother! I imagine that Tochi filled Asovil in on his misgivings about the ambassadors with as much detail as he'd given when he spoke with Drake, of course, but where the conversation might have gone from there... *shrugs* ... Anyhoo, like I said, we can continue or conspire as you see fit.



Also, re: the tachyon detection grid. Per Memory Alpha:

"A tachyon detection grid was a technique developed by Starfleet as a means of detecting cloaked Romulan warships. The grid used active tachyon beams transmitted between different starships or sentry posts to create a tachyon field; any cloaked ship entering this field would be exposed. The technique was developed by USS Enterprise-D chief engineer Geordi La Forge in early 2368, although it resembled and was probably derived from crude sensor grid techniques used to detect cloaked ships that had been used as far back as 2154 in the buildup to the Earth-Romulan War. (ENT: "United") "

The way I'm reading this is that, while it didn't become a common technique until Geordi rigged it up in 2368, similar things had been accomplished much earlier... So, as Olan said, Lt Sh'iraolnas might very well figure something out where that's concerned.

It might not be as effective but it might be something we can set off as a pulse and use like sonar. Or we could blind fire our phrasers in rotating arcs and torpedo the shield impacts but that seems a little reckless.

I love it when people start thinking out loud.

>Or we could blind fire our phasers in rotating arcs and torpedo the shield impacts but that seems a little reckless.

Yeah, a little.

I seem to remember from some episode of Star Trek that a Klingon ship was detected when someone noticed an odd flicker on the main screen of background stars. It turned out to be the location of the cloaked ship.

So who has really good eyes?

Maybe a shuttle could get an actual visual being that cloaking only fools sensors.

Maybe one the fleets have fighter type ships that can be used in close combat and use visual instead of sensor.

Just some out of box ideas.

I'm pretty sure cloaks straight up make ships invisible across the EM spectrum by bending light and other forms of radiation, they leak tachyons at high warp though. As for my idea, what's wrong? Firing blindly into crowd is a bad idea?

...Targets of opportunity at your discretion. Pants are optional!

Sorry I didn't get that post done yesterday. Work happened.

Been a slow morning on the RL front, today, though, so I'm back at it and look to have something ready to go very soon!

Historically, it has been very difficult to detect cloaked vessels. You do sometimes get a "shimmering" effect if at point blank range - i.e. some distortion around the moving edges of the effect - but that's visual only, and we're not that close.

I believe there was a DS9 episode where a cloaked fleet was detected due to what basically amounted to a wave of subspace disturbance, but that was attributed to the large number all going in the same direction, in formation.

In this environment? Heavy metal asteroids super close by, multiple energy signatures due to so many vessels being scattered around? It would be like finding a needle in a stack of needles, even if you know where to look. A clever captain would move at very low impulse and still be able to gain massive tactical advantages. Decloak, attack, cloak, move, repeat.

Also... how dare you WORK?