New Year, New Missions

Posted on Mon Jan 9th, 2017 @ 2:42am by Captain Tim Williams

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 was eventually split into two posts), which meant that we pushed above the 2 posts per player minimum target the fleet has set for sims. A great thing to achieve on a traditionally slow month, but more important for me is that we've pushed through past the main plot points of this mission. I'll be starting up a few more posts skimming over what happens next - checking in with Captain Chandrakala on how her crew are adjusting, finishing up repairs on the DeSalle and setting course for Cestus III, etc - but the Making the Attempt posts were the last main posts that most of you will need to be involved in for this mission (though obviously I encourage you do write some extra posts around what happens next if you have some ideas).

As I've said in the OOC planning discussion, our next 'mission' I'm aiming to have as a collection of very brief mini missions - I only plan for them to last a month or so in RL so they only need to be basic, but they're going to bridge the gap between where we finish this mission (at the end of October in 2391) and where we'll be in our next mission (at some point mid-way through 2392). Ideally I'd like these mini missions to be character development opportunities driven by you; so I'd like you all to think about the sort of mini mission you'd like to write. It can be a solo adventure or something with another character. For example, Tim and the Counselor will be heading on a shuttle to a conference somewhere, where the intention is that we'll each attend lectures or give talks on our respective fields - but we'll end up having a bit of an issue with the parasites from the TNG episode Conspiracy during the course of our trip, which we'll need to deal with. I'll get in touch with each of you after a few days to see what ideas you have for your characters, and I'll try to bring a few ideas of my own for each of you if you're struggling to think of something.

I'll have another couple of announcements to make once we've properly wrapped up our current mission (or once we've started the mini missions), so keep an eye out. I'm hoping that last month is a good sign that we'll be able to hit the ground in the new year running.

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