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I should warn in advance -- I don't know the timeline that all these things happened in. I know the various trains of plot that occurred, but very little as to which ones happened before or after the others. Expect frequent "meanwhiles" that aren't particularly 'meanwhile'. | I should warn in advance -- I don't know the timeline that all these things happened in. I know the various trains of plot that occurred, but very little as to which ones happened before or after the others. Expect frequent "meanwhiles" that aren't particularly 'meanwhile'. | ||
I spent a couple months on SB118 (Now known as SB118-Ops). Jolon and I had agreed at the start that our characters would hate each other for no good reason, and they did. Hamlet was always on the verge of being a criminal without doing anything *technically* wrong, he and Wolf had the occasional game of cat and mouse, Jolon and he bumped heads, and Skyfire kept an eye on all of them. Other characters of note included Sandolphan Aquiss, who took over for Skyfire; and Magaera (once Admiral Tyve, I believe). | |||
I spent a couple months on SB118. Jolon and I had agreed at the start that our characters would hate each other for no good reason, and they did. Hamlet was always on the verge of being a criminal without doing anything *technically* wrong, he and Wolf had the occasional game of cat and mouse, Jolon and he bumped heads, and Skyfire kept an eye on all of them. Other characters of note included Sandolphan Aquiss, who took over for Skyfire; and Magaera (once Admiral Tyve, I believe). | |||
It was also there that Jolon initially created a throwaway NPC, Lt Tekra. I don't recall quite why, at the time, but I asked to 'borrow' him and, well, he became a secondary character and the name that became my identity in the fleet. I wasn't the only Tekra; when we all scattered off to go our individual ways, we each created a Tekra on any ship we went to, in some minor role. I multiplied NPCs, myself, and the only consistent thing about me was Tekra, and thus I became known as such. | It was also there that Jolon initially created a throwaway NPC, Lt Tekra. I don't recall quite why, at the time, but I asked to 'borrow' him and, well, he became a secondary character and the name that became my identity in the fleet. I wasn't the only Tekra; when we all scattered off to go our individual ways, we each created a Tekra on any ship we went to, in some minor role. I multiplied NPCs, myself, and the only consistent thing about me was Tekra, and thus I became known as such. | ||
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Shaun Marlin had, by this point, left the Freedom and become a Captain (and, of course, later an Admiral), and Skyfire from SB118 had become a Captain, and at some point Marlin and I decided to have some fun, and we showed up unannounced on SkyFire's ship with two insane ambassadors. I'm not sure exactly what he thought of our intrusion, but when we were done I added Lt Kren Tekra to the ship as ship's counselor, and the ship went on for a while as one of the best in the fleet. In the meantime, Hamlet had returned to SB118, alone and more bitter than ever. He never spoke a word to anyone about what happened to his previous wife. | Shaun Marlin had, by this point, left the Freedom and become a Captain (and, of course, later an Admiral), and Skyfire from SB118 had become a Captain, and at some point Marlin and I decided to have some fun, and we showed up unannounced on SkyFire's ship with two insane ambassadors. I'm not sure exactly what he thought of our intrusion, but when we were done I added Lt Kren Tekra to the ship as ship's counselor, and the ship went on for a while as one of the best in the fleet. In the meantime, Hamlet had returned to SB118, alone and more bitter than ever. He never spoke a word to anyone about what happened to his previous wife. | ||
Through most of this I didn't care about rank. My main character was a civilian and proud to be one, the Tekras began and ended their lives as Lieutenants (excepting Petty Officer Jubis Tekra, who didn't do as well as his siblings), and Lambda-Seven had only a brief span when he was allowed to be promoted. I made it to Commander, and held there, not particularly interested in Command (I had Faerin to run, after all), and neither particularly interested in rank. I'd seen many a time that an ensign could easily out-sim a Captain, and that the quality of a player had little to do with the rank they had. (In fact, SB118 had had a string of fairly unimpressive captains | Through most of this I didn't care about rank. My main character was a civilian and proud to be one, the Tekras began and ended their lives as Lieutenants (excepting Petty Officer Jubis Tekra, who didn't do as well as his siblings), and Lambda-Seven had only a brief span when he was allowed to be promoted. I made it to Commander, and held there, not particularly interested in Command (I had Faerin to run, after all), and neither particularly interested in rank. I'd seen many a time that an ensign could easily out-sim a Captain, and that the quality of a player had little to do with the rank they had. (In fact, SB118-ops had had a string of fairly unimpressive captains then; which was largely, I think, due to the presence of Wolf -- who wants to try to lead with the boss man watching over their shoulder? A captain was just redundant, and most of them didn't last all that long.) I was even already on the Captain's council, thanks to Faerin, and a number of crisises that I either butted into or helped advise with, depending on who you talk to. We may never know for sure. ;) | ||
Then one day on the Obertha, the captain sent my character along with another character and a Lt Cmdr of some sort -- maybe even a full Commander. At some point in the mission, the commander ordered us to attack a Federation outpost, render them all unconscious, all to -- I forget the purpose of it, but it wasn't all that big. When there proved to be lives at stake, Kren refused; preferring mutiny to treason. Naturally this did not go down well -- including the commander in question writing a post where he had me shooting at him, which escalated to an OOC shouting war in which he questioned my contradicting his post, when I was "just" a lieutenant, and he was a Lt Cmdr! Or maybe it was a full Cmdr! HOW DARE I?! | Then one day on the Obertha, the captain sent my character along with another character and a Lt Cmdr of some sort -- maybe even a full Commander. At some point in the mission, the commander ordered us to attack a Federation outpost, render them all unconscious, all to -- I forget the purpose of it, but it wasn't all that big. When there proved to be lives at stake, Kren refused; preferring mutiny to treason. Naturally this did not go down well -- including the commander in question writing a post where he had me shooting at him, which escalated to an OOC shouting war in which he questioned my contradicting his post, when I was "just" a lieutenant, and he was a Lt Cmdr! Or maybe it was a full Cmdr! HOW DARE I?! | ||