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New Crew!
Everyone,
I'd like to take a minute to welcome the first new crewmember on the Highlander in 2018 - Chris, playing Rosaleen O'Donnell, our new assistant chief operations officer!
The character of Rosaleen is an interesting one (aside from the unusual species and related abilities), so I do encourage you to set…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Tue Feb 13th, 2018 @ 7:31pm
Category: Sim Announcement
New Year, Fresh Push
Hi everyone
I hope you all had a good festive/new year season!
I know that things have been very slow around here for the last couple of months of 2017, and I apologise for that - those months were quite busy for me, so I wasn't left with much time…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Tue Jan 2nd, 2018 @ 7:41pm
Category: Out of Character
Awards!
Hey everyone
So, it's been quite a while since we've done regular awards here, and I want to try and revive that a bit. They're a good way to reward players for the work you do on the sim and get your achievements recognised, and so towards the end of…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Wed Nov 1st, 2017 @ 2:46am
Category: General News
USS Highlander Discord Server
Hey everyone
It's been great seeing everyone get back into the groove of things and progressing joint posts and solo posts lately, and so in an effort to help keep that momentum going (and to increase general OOC communication between us), I've created a Discord server for the sim. For…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Sat Oct 28th, 2017 @ 6:34pm
Category: Out of Character
New Skin!
Hi everyone
tl;dr: we have a new skin; it's awesome, and works on mobile. Read on for the full details.
It's been over two years since the Highlander's site had a make-over, and so over the past month or so I've been working on a completely new skin exclusively for the…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Fri Oct 6th, 2017 @ 7:12pm
Category: Website Update
New Crew!
Everyone, I'd like to take a moment to welcome the newest member of our crew; Josh, who will be playing Lt. Commander Esmé Dumont, our new diplomatic officer!
Esmé biography is good read, so I'd recommend you all do so when you get the chance, and please give Josh a…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Tue Oct 3rd, 2017 @ 8:23pm
Category: Sim Announcement
New Chief of Security!
Everyone, I'd like to introduce you to our new chief of security on the Highlander, Lieutenant Kevin Barnaby, who is played by Josh! Josh has been running the USS Victory in the fleet for almost two years now, and I'm looking forward to having him aboard the Highlander with us.…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Tue Feb 14th, 2017 @ 5:20pm
Category: Sim Announcement
WYSIWYG Editor Update
Hey everyone
Just a quick one; there have been a few little issues with the TinyMCE editor I added to the site a couple of weeks back - the primary one being that it wouldn't let you manually input your HTML tags without going into the source code view, so…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Sun Jan 29th, 2017 @ 9:19pm
Category: Website Update
Introducing our new XO
Everyone, I'd like to introduce you to our new (kind of) XO - Kyle, who will be playing Lieutenant Commander Vincent Holt.
As I mentioned in a previous news item, I'd selected Kyle for XO a little while ago, but we were waiting on making the details public as…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Tue Jan 24th, 2017 @ 4:31pm
Category: General News
Thanks
I wanted to thank the good Captain for accepting my application. Jonathan has become my favorite character, which is saying a lot because over the years I've come up with a bunch. And he's my newest. I created him for a sim, where they have an Academy Annex as part…
Author: Ensign Jonathan Forrest
Posted on: Tue Jan 24th, 2017 @ 5:07am
Category: General News
New Helmsman!
Everyone, I'd like to welcome aboard Chris, who will be playing our new helmsman Ensign Jonathan Forrest! I was really impressed with the bio that Chris has written for his character, and I'm looking forward to seeing what he writes with us as part of our crew, so please give…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Mon Jan 23rd, 2017 @ 12:26am
Category: General News
New Missions!
Hey everyone
I'm very pleased to say that with my last post, we can now consider "Lost Property" to be a wrap! I've left the mission open for another few days for any additional posts to go into it, but for the most part we'll now be moving onto…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Tue Jan 17th, 2017 @ 10:43am
Category: Sim Announcement
Minor site update
Hi everyone
Just a quick note that I've added a new feature to the site - a WYSIWYG editor (What You See Is What You Get). You should see it on the pages for writing a mission post, personal log and news item, as well as when composing a…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Sun Jan 15th, 2017 @ 5:51am
Category: Website Update
New Year, New Missions
Hi there everyone!
I hope you all had a good Christmas and New Year period! I know I did, even if it was a rather busy one. I'm very pleased that despite the usual slowdown sims have in December we were able to get our main mission post out (which…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Mon Jan 9th, 2017 @ 2:42am
Category: General News
Minor Website Update
Everyone,
Just a quick note to let you know that I've modified the site slightly to use pretty URLs (that's a technical term!). Essentially, highlander.pegasusfleet.net/nova/index.php/main/index now becomes highlander.pegasusfleet.net/nova/main/index. You may need to update your bookmarks depending on how you have them set.
I think I've updated most of the links…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Sun Dec 11th, 2016 @ 9:35am
Category: Website Update
Some News
Hey everyone
First off, I apologise for being quiet this month. There's been a fair bit going on in RL, which hasn't left me much room for writing. With the exception of Christmas coming up, that should all be done with by now, and as some of you may already…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Thu Dec 1st, 2016 @ 12:58am
Category: General News
North's New Book
Ryan North AKA Matt won't pimp his own material but as the husband of his cousin, I totally will. Head on over to Amazon or Smashwords to pick up the latest in his fantasy trilogy, Legends of Aldara. It's a pretty good read for two independent authors that reminds of…
Author: Ensign Vex Krylore
Posted on: Wed Aug 24th, 2016 @ 11:30pm
Category: General News
Fleet Discussion - New Task Forces and Areas of Operation
Hey everyone. I've encouraged the other COs in the fleet to send this message out to their crews as well, so I'd obviously be remiss if I didn't do the same here. tl;dr: we're discussing where to open up two new Task Forces (which may well effect us as a…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Mon Aug 15th, 2016 @ 5:14pm
Category: Out of Character
Mission Discussion Threads
Hey everyone
So as we're getting towards the meat of our current mission, I've resurrected our mission discussion thread over on our community forums so that we can all discuss how we're going to actually phase shift the De Salle crew back into normal reality. I've also started up a…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Mon Jul 4th, 2016 @ 9:12pm
Category: Out of Character
Captain's LOA
Hey everyone
I'm going to be on LOA for the next week, starting from tomorrow. I won't have access to the internet while I'm away, so MC (Hawke) is in charge, and has permission to NPC Tim if need be to move JPs along.
I'll be back next Tuesday, but…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Mon Jun 13th, 2016 @ 9:08pm
Category: Out of Character
Change around in Engineering
Hey everyone
Just a quick note about some changes in the Engineering department.
I haven't heard from Kessel in quite a while, and he's not responded to my PMs, so I've removed him now from our manifest. It's a shame, since he came over with us from the Endeavour and…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Sun Apr 24th, 2016 @ 2:05pm
Category: Sim Announcement
Departure
All,
Our security chief, Mike (playing LCdr McIntyre) has due to the bane that is real life taken the decision to retire from all sims he is currently on so that he can focus on other things. We all know that RL can get in the way sometimes, so I…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Thu Mar 10th, 2016 @ 4:15pm
Category: Sim Announcement
RPG Rating increase
Hey everyone
Just a quick FYI - I've increased our RPG Rating score from L1, S1, V1 (L=Language, S=Sex, V=Violence) to L2, S2, V2.
The main difference between the numbers is best explained by RPG Ratings' website:
1 = A little bit here and there is allowed.
2 = Generally…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Wed Jan 13th, 2016 @ 1:41pm
Category: General News
Another new Security Officer!
Hey everyone
I'm pleased to announce we have yet another newbie joining us in the security department! Please welcome Zac, who will be playing Ensign Vex Krylore, from the Gamma Quadrant. The character is the first of his race to join Starfleet, so I'm sure that we'll get to see…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Thu Nov 26th, 2015 @ 7:17pm
Category: Sim Announcement
New Assistant Chief Engineer!
Everyone, I'd like you to welcome our new assistant chief engineer aboard; Lieutenant Griffen Tanol! Lt Tanol comes aboard with a great looking bio, and I look forward to seeing how they add to our posting here on the Highlander :)
Welcome aboard!
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Mon Nov 23rd, 2015 @ 4:39pm
Category: Sim Announcement
New Security Officer!
Everyone,
I'd like to welcome aboard Jody, who will be playing a new security officer under the name of Warrant Officer Steline Chineylo!
I look forward to seeing how Jody meshes in with the rest of the crew, but for now please make sure to give her a warm welcome!
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Sat Nov 14th, 2015 @ 5:41am
Category: Sim Announcement
Legends of Aldara: Omens
So, I went and wrote a novel with a friend of mine! You can find it here on Amazon. If you do check it out please leave a review (hopefully a positive one.) Thanks!
http://www.amazon.com/Legends-Aldara-Omens-Matthew-Burkey/dp/1518710441/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1447004501&sr=8-1&keywords=Legends+of+Aldara:+Omens
Author: Lieutenant Ryan North
Posted on: Sun Nov 8th, 2015 @ 6:44pm
Category: General News
I'm Back!
Hey everyone
Just a quick note to say that we're nicely moved into the new place now and we have a working internet connection again, so I'm looking to getting caught up and getting back into the swing of the sim. If you give me a few days just to…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Wed Oct 28th, 2015 @ 8:08pm
Category: Out of Character
LOA
Hey everyone
I'm going to be moving house on Monday, which means my PC is getting boxed up shortly. I had been hoping to get more progress going on Highlander stuff in the past couple of weeks, but since the move came up on us rather quickly, I've not had…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Sat Oct 17th, 2015 @ 12:40pm
Category: Out of Character
New Crew!
Not only do I have a new crew announcement to make today, but I actually have three!
Firstly we have Will, coming aboard as our new Chief Medical Officer, Doctor (Lieutenant) Rikka Takanashi MD
Second we have Matthew, joining us as Lieutenant JG Ryan North, our new Chief Science Officer…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Thu Aug 27th, 2015 @ 7:39pm
Category: Sim Announcement
New Mission
OK everyone, as you all can see with my latest log post, I've kicked off our next mission now. I'll be getting some posts started shortly, but everyone else please start up your own posts for our new mission as and when you can
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Sun Jul 26th, 2015 @ 6:50pm
Category: Sim Announcement
Another Website Update
Hi Folks; me again
I've added another new thing to the site; this time, if you go to the 'The Game & Ship' page, you'll see a new link on the right for saved posts. This will list all posts that are in the system in a 'saved' status -…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Mon Jul 20th, 2015 @ 3:35pm
Category: Website Update
More website updates
So I've made a few more changes to the website.
The first (hopefully) you won't see. The default way Nova skins are set up is that you have a different set of skin files for each section of the site - one for main, wiki, admin and login (and in…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Sun Jul 19th, 2015 @ 11:35pm
Category: Website Update
Splash page changes
Hi everyone
I've made some minor changes to our splash page (the bit of the site you hit if you go to http://highlander.pegasusfleet.net).
Mostly it's just swapping out the hard-coded styling in the HTML to make use of a CSS style sheet instead. I have however been playing around with…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Fri Jul 17th, 2015 @ 11:29pm
Category: Website Update
Another New Crewman!
Everyone,
I'd like to welcome aboard another new crewmember (and Vulcan for that matter); Phoebe, who will be playing Karil, a civilian security investigations advisor from the Federation Protective Service.
Welcome aboard!
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Wed Jun 24th, 2015 @ 6:46pm
Category: Sim Announcement
A New Helmsman!
Everyone,
I'd like to welcome Brad to the Highlander, who will be playing our new Helmsman, Lieutenant Surak! Surak's an interesting character being a full-blooded Vulcan (something we don't tend to see around sims very often as it can be quite challenging to write for). I look forward to seeing…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Sat Jun 20th, 2015 @ 2:39pm
Category: Sim Announcement
Story Arc and Plot Discussions
Hi all
I just wanted to remind everyone of our community forum we have here for the Highlander - accessed via the Community link at the top, or by going to http://highlander.pegasusfleet.net/forums
I know we haven't used the forum properly for a while now, but I want to return to…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Sat Jun 13th, 2015 @ 1:20pm
Category: Out of Character
Special Announcement - Fleet Website Updates
Hello everyone,
Over the last few weeks, the PFA has been hard at work on making some changes Pegasus Fleet’s brand image. As I’ve already announced, Admiral Maddox has already created a number of profiles for us to improve our web presence in the social media spheres. Today I am…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Fri Mar 27th, 2015 @ 9:02pm
Category: Website Update
Pegasus Fleet Monthly Report, March 2015
Greetings,
For this month's monthly report I have a few announcements. First of all, I am delighted to present the new Chief of Fleet Operations, Rear Admiral Richard Gates. Admiral Gates is returning to the PFA after previously serving as Pegasus Fleet's first PFCO. With his return to the PFA,…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Sun Mar 8th, 2015 @ 11:22pm
Category: Out of Character
Wow, that one got by me
Hey guys
So, I only noticed recently whilst reading a similar news item on Starbase 332's home page, but the Highlander as a sim is actually 5 years old! (5 years 5 months and 2 weeks, to be precise)
We were founded as the USS Endeavour, and began right at…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Wed Feb 25th, 2015 @ 6:14pm
Category: Out of Character
The Highlander is now on Social Media!
It's something I've been thinking about doing for a while, but the Highlander is now on Social Media!
I've created both a Twitter account and a Facebook page for the sim, both in an effort to increase our overall online presence, but also as a way to try and help…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Fri Feb 13th, 2015 @ 9:14pm
Category: Website Update
Achievements - At Last
Hey everyone
So, I finally got around to finishing the images for our Sim Achievements, and have gone through our existing posts to make sure that those that have already been achieved have been dished out. I've tried to make sure that any achievements that would have been awarded for…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Wed Jan 21st, 2015 @ 6:20pm
Category: Website Update
Happy New Year!
Hello everyone, and welcome to a new year! I hope you all had some good festive celebrations over the past couple of weeks, and that you're all ready and rearing to go for January.
Now, I know that for the past few months we have been faltering slightly, and I…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Wed Jan 7th, 2015 @ 9:19pm
Category: Out of Character
Monthly Awards!
OK everyone, it's that time of the month for me to start giving out the awards that I believe are due from July! Without any further ado, here they are:
Crew's Choice Award: Ciaran McIntyre, with a 100% (2-0) vote!
Friendship Ribbon: Horatio Hawke and & Ciaran McIntyre; for continually…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Fri Aug 1st, 2014 @ 4:57pm
Category: Out of Character
Our XO at Last!
Hey everyone!
As I'm sure you've already seen, the final post in Hawke's command training has just gone out - Tough Call. With this post, Hawke has now been officially appointed as the ship's first officer and promoted to Lt. Commander.
He'll still remain in command of the Flight department…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Sun Jul 27th, 2014 @ 9:25pm
Category: Sim Announcement
Mission Update
Hi everyone!
I've posted an update to our mission thread on the sim forum - make sure to go and check it out, as I need answers from you guys as to whether you want involved in the next post I've mentioned in there, and I also want your comments…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Fri Jul 25th, 2014 @ 8:15pm
Category: Out of Character
Crew Awards!
Hi everyone!
So, it's the first of a new month, which means that it's time for the monthly awards! (Yes, I remembered them this time :D)
Firstly, the Crew's Choice award. There were only three votes that came in, and all went to a different crew member, so all three…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Sun Jun 1st, 2014 @ 6:24pm
Category: Sim Announcement
Forum Again!
All,
I've been posting more to the forums again of late, in order to try and get us using them more again. There are new threads or posts in most of the categories, and of course I'm always encouraging of you starting up your own threads and thinking up new…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Thu May 15th, 2014 @ 8:05pm
Category: Website Update
Forum Update
Hi everyone
Just a quick note - I've posted an update on the forums under the mission 1 discussion thread, just with some notes on where we are, and where we're going, since we've had a fairly sedate last couple of months (which is in large part due to me,…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Sun May 11th, 2014 @ 4:42pm
Category: Website Update
Our XO
Hi all
Just to keep you all in the know, but Kyle - who plays our current first officer, Commander Ra-Xialii - has let me know of his intention to step down, due to real life taking up too much of his time. I've worked with Kyle for quite some…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Wed Apr 23rd, 2014 @ 9:50pm
Category: Out of Character
Physical Time!!!!
The dreaded physicals. Everyone hates them but they have to be done. Keep a look out for Jp's in regards to physicals. I'm slowly getting back into the swing of things now.
Also I'm up for some other Jp's as well, interaction, a getting to know you, those sorts of…
Author: Doctor Devoni Jala
Posted on: Tue Apr 22nd, 2014 @ 5:04am
Category: Out of Character
Resignation
Friends, please accept my sincere apology for the hit & run participation, but I find myself needing to withdraw from all simming for an indefinite time.
Please inactivate my character Eldria.
Most of my reasons are RL, including massive increases in required insurance payments. I simply no longer have the…
Author: Petty Officer 3rd Class Eldria
Posted on: Wed Mar 26th, 2014 @ 11:07pm
Category: Out of Character
Feb Awards
Ok all here are the awards for the month:
The postmaster award once again goes to Lt Hawke, who came second only to me in this months posting with 6 posts. Since I exclude myself from this particular award, the Lieutenant gets it for the second month in a row.…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Sat Mar 1st, 2014 @ 7:50pm
Category: Sim Announcement
New Crew
Hi all
Just a quick note; we've got two new members joining the sim for March - Petty Officer Eldria is joining us in the science department, and Lieutenant JG Cody Fredericks is joining use as our assistant chief of security. Please give them your warmest welcomes!
In other news,…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Sat Mar 1st, 2014 @ 12:34pm
Category: Sim Announcement
Crew's Choice Award
All,
I've put the poll for crew's choice (as well as a description of what the award is) up on our forum. The poll ends on the 1st of March, so make sure to get over and make your choices known by then.
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Mon Feb 24th, 2014 @ 9:12pm
Category: Website Update
Full House!
Hi everyone
I'm pleased to announce today the newest member of our crew, Ensign Gregory Mason, our new Chief Science Officer!
I've worked with the writer behind Ensign Mason before, and I'm eager to work with him again as we get ready to set off on our new ship. Please…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Thu Feb 13th, 2014 @ 10:19pm
Category: Sim Announcement
Greetings and salutations!!!
Hello everyone. My name is Matthew (No not the CO) but to differentiate from the CO you can call me Terris. I play the Chief Medical Officer who has an interesting background which I am still working on. Anyway, I look forward to posting with all of you especially the…
Author: Doctor Devoni Jala
Posted on: Mon Feb 3rd, 2014 @ 4:54am
Category: Out of Character
Monthly Awards!
So, as we all know, I've not exactly been great at making sure to hand out these awards on a monthly basis, but now that we've made the move to the Highlander, I'm going to be doing my best to get into the habit of it.
So, first of all…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Sat Feb 1st, 2014 @ 4:40pm
Category: Out of Character
New Ops Officer!
Everyone, I'd like you to welcome (or rather, welcome back) the newest member of the Highlander, playing our new Chief Operations Officer Ensign Leon Kingston! The player behind the ensign has been a member of our crew before, and played our old Doctor Jerome back on the Endeavour, so we're…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Thu Jan 30th, 2014 @ 5:01pm
Category: General News
New Sub-Mission: Trauma
Everyone,
I've been really pleased with some of the character building posts coming out recently, focussing on the time crew members spent on Cestus during their three month assessment by Starfleet Counsellors. As such, and in order to encourage such similar posting, I've opened up a new sub-mission called Trauma.…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Thu Jan 30th, 2014 @ 12:01am
Category: Out of Character
Fleshing out the Forum
OK guys, I've been fleshing out the entries in our forum a little bit to help start making it feel a bit more lived in.
I've started up a discussion thread for this mission, where you can post any questions/ideas/etc about it in there
I've also started up a number…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Sun Jan 19th, 2014 @ 1:39pm
Category: Website Update
Personnel Changes
OK everyone, one of the first things you'll notice on this new site is that our crew manifest has changed ever-so-slightly. First of all, a couple of our guys have an extra position to their name
Hawke is now our second officer, a role which fits in with his character's…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Sat Jan 18th, 2014 @ 3:21pm
Category: Out of Character
New Ship, New Site!
OK everybody, as we have now finished up the posts for the last mission on the USS Endeavour, we have now moved over to this site, of our new home the USS Highlander!
Please log in to the new site, look around, and let me know of any technical kinks…
Author: Captain Tim Williams
Posted on: Sat Jan 18th, 2014 @ 2:32pm
Category: General News