Independence Fleet Newsletter
July 2003
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=/\=INDEPENDENCE FLEET NEWSLETTER - JULY 2003=/\= -- Opening -- Newbits -- Ancient Sunfire Documents Discovered -- Independence Fleet Symbol -- Mission Summaries -- Awards -- Interview -- Thanks * * * * * * * * * * =/\=OPENING=/\= Welcome to the July 2003 Regular Newsletter! The special editions a few weeks ago pretty much covered everything that needed to be covered so this one will be pretty short. It's still very cool though. Read on to find out about an ancient document discovered that contains posts from original sunfire characters from three years ago. You may even recognize some of them! * * * * * * * * * * =/\=NEWSBITS=/\= - USS Washington hits 2500 posts on July 8, written by Lt. Chameleon Circuit. Second IDF sim to reach that incredible number. - Correction to the Announcement of the DD of DRF Division: James Miroth, not James Britanicus, is now the DD. Britanicus remains a Captain. Miroth is promoted Rear-Admiral. - The Excalibur hit it's 2700th post in June. - Ancient Sunfire documents, once thought lost forever, surface recently. [See article below for details.] * * * * * * * * * * =/\=ANCIENT SUNFIRE DOCUMENTS DISCOVERED=/\= Just recently our own Admiral West stumbled upon ancient scrolls from three years ago containing the first 25 posts from the USS Sunfire NCC-3935, the ship that started it all! The original sunfire archives were destroyed and no one from the original crew would have ever dreamed of seeing the posts again. But now we know that a little bit of persistence pays off! We sat down briefly with the Admiral to ask him about how he came upon this miraculous find. INTERVIEWER: Admiral, our time here is short. Tell us about the long search for these old documents and how you discovered them. ADMIRAL WEST: Well, ever since the original archives were destroyed, I have been searching around the net trying to find old members of the crew to see if they had saved anything from the time. For months and months and months I had no luck. But one day last week I e-mailed an old crewman Lieutenant Junior Grade(ret) Sean Lynch, the Assistant Science Officer under the Lieutenant Robert Seldon. He said he had the first twenty something posts saved and sent them right over to me. INTERVIEWER: Your search has finally payed off I see. I'm delighted. ADMIRAL WEST: I will also keep looking for more. Someone out there must have saved other stuff. INTERVIEWER: I hope you find the jackpot one day. I understand that you have brought a few posts from the ancient scrolls that you would like to share with us all. ADMIRAL WEST: Yes, I want to share with everyone Post #1, written by Commodore Robbie (this post started it all, without this post the Sunfire would have never blasted off and IDF would not exist today), and I also want to share my first post ever, as well as the first ever posts of Admiral Star and Vice Admiral(ret) Seldon. *** <<Post #1 - Commodore Jay "Robbie" Robertson>> Subj: [usssunfire] And the Mission Begins (Post 1) Date: 2/16/00 1:12:11 PM Central Standard Time From: Busnbear@a... OFF: I may stray form the form I sent you all, but it won't be much. If you have questions after we get started just ask me. I am available through the email list, Private email Busnbear@a... or on AOL instant messenger as Busnbear. On: The USS Sunfire is docked at space Station Deep Space Nine preparing to travel through the wormhole. Once on the other side the ship and her crew will begin surveying the Gamma Quadrant. ::Walking the halls of the newly commissioned USS Sunfire. Taking a site seeing tour before the ship departs from DS9 and enters the wormhole to begin long term survey missions in the Gamma Quadrant now that the Dominion War is over. I enter a turbo lift:: "Computer Bridge" ::Lift begins its journey up to the bridge. I exit the lift and walk on to the bridge. I survey the bridge and am pleased to see everyone at there post. The bridge id full of new faces and I look forward to getting to know them:: "This is the USS Sunfire to DS9 OPS request permission to disembark?" Kira "Commodore Roberts, This Is Colonel Kira you are cleared for departure. Good luck on your journey." "Thank you Colonel" "Helm Set course for the wormhole and the Gamma Quadrant. Once we are through set course for system alpha tang 243. Warp 5. Engage!" OFF: This may seem a little long but it is the first. Now it is up to one of you to continue the story. You have free range of ideas as long as the story stays with in the boundaries already set by Star Trek. For your Signature, I would like you to at least have your rank and name along with your position. And feel free to add anything else. Commodore Jay Robertson Commanding USS Sunfire NCC-3935 Head of Utopia Fleet Recruiting *** <<Post #2 - Lt. Commander Charles Star, M.D.>> Subj: [usssunfire] And the Mission Continues (Post 2) Date: 2/16/00 3:03:58 PM Central Standard Time From: LodeStar82@a... ON: ::In sickbay:: "Marla, I'm heading up to the bridge. Stick around incase someone happens to discover a hangnail or something." ::exits sickbay and enters turbo lift:: "bridge" ::door opens, I survey the bridge. Captain Robertson is sitting in the captain's chair. I walk over and stand next to the captain, while watching the view screen:: "Hello captain, I'm Lt. Cmdr. Star, I was just assigned as your chief medical officer." pause "You seem to run a very efficient ship." Robertson: "thank you. I hope you run an efficient sick bay" "I do, sir." ::looks around again:: "Well, where are off to?" *** <<Post #5 - Commander James West>> Subj: [usssunfire] post # 5 Date: 2/16/00 5:35:06 PM Central Standard Time From: Agent524@a... ON: (bridge) it is 14 hrs later. The surveying is almost complete. After an almost uneventful day, suddenly.... :: a small alarm goes off in the Tactical station of the bridge:: Lt. Mivancher: Commodore, there are three vessels on long range sensors.....they’re on an intercept course. Commodore: What are the configurations of the ships, Lt? Mivancher: unknown sir....... at their present rate of speed they should be here in 5 hrs.....<silence>.... sir, what should we do? Commodore: Maintain course and speed and continue surveying, we are almost through, watch those ships for me Mr. Mivancher. When they are in visual range contact me.....I will be in my ready room ::The Commodore exits and proceeds to his ready room:: (still on the bridge) Commander West: Mr. Hawke, you have the bridge. I’m going down to engineering for a while. Mr. Hawke: Aye sir Commander: :: Gets up and goes to the turbo lift, gets in:: Engineering. (Engineering)::Commander is talking to chief engineer:: Commander: There are 3 unidentified ships on an intercept course, if it all comes down to a conflict we will need full warp power to get out of here. Lt. Commander Dwarf: The plasma manifolds are still giving us trouble, right now I can give you warp 6, give me 2 or 3 more hours and I can probably give you warp 9. Commander: Very good. I’m counting on you. ::turns and exits:: (Bridge..... a little while later) ::Commander walks on to the bridge:: Mivancher: Commander the ships just entered visual range. Commander: Thank you, Lt. =/\= Captain to the bridge=/\= Commodore:=/\=On my way.=/\= ::The Commodore comes onto the bridge:: " what is it Commander?" Commander: sir, the ships are in visual range ::a brief pause follows:: Commodore: On screen. ::Everyone on the bridge looks toward the view screen. No one knows what will appear. Everyone holds their breath ...:: OFF: What a place to leave off. The suspense of what will be on the view screen is killing me. Whoever replies to this better have a good follow up. Start off at the point I just left off on. Commander James West 1st officer, USS Sunfire *** <<Post #7 - Lieutenant Robert Seldon>> Subj: [usssunfire] Part #7 Date: 2/16/00 9:45:01 PM Central Standard Time From: Rigel@w... (Jacob Holloway) OFF: Well, here goes... Oh, I believe thoughts are expressed (in parenthesis) ON: Lt. Seldon: ::walks over to primary science station and quickly begins going through all the scanning data:: Yes, they do appear to be made entirely of biomatter. I can't imagine how a vessel like that though can be warp capable. Lt. Mivanchar: But they obviously are. And right now they are heading for us at warp 7.1 Capt. Robertson: =/\=Lt. Cmdr. Dwarf, what’s our present best speed?=/\= Lt. Cmdr. Dwarf: =/\=You have all speeds available through Warp 6.3. I'll have up to warp 9 available in ninety minutes =/\= Lt. Seldon: At present speed they will intercept us in... one hour. Capt. Robertson: What are their intentions though? Cmdr. West: We have no indication that they are hostile. However, we have no guarantees they are benevolent either. And there is nothing we can do to prevent an encounter. Lt. Mivanchar: Captain, if this comes to blows Star Fleet weapons have not historically faired well against the few bioships we've encountered. We'll be at a serious disadvantage. Capt. Robertson: Agreed. We'll need to take precautions just in case. Lt. Seldon, work with Lt. Cmdr. Star in Medical and your science team to try and come up with some countermeasures against them, We don't have much time. Lt. Seldon: Aye Sir. ::head to turbo lift:: =/\=Seldon to Lt. Cmdr. Star. Charlie, we have work. Meet me in Science Lab 1=/\= (to turbo lift) Science Lab 1. OFF: I can't think of anything interesting to write here. I hope that you either liked my addition or can do something to improve upon it. *** INTERVIEWER: Wow, those posts really are stunning to read. They marked the first mission of a legendary vessel. It's cool to see how much you guys' posting style has changed as well. ADMIRAL WEST: Yes, it is really cool. ::looks at watch:: Well, it's time for me to get back to work. INTERVIEWER: Thank you, Admiral, for sitting down with us and sharing these ancient relics of simming! * * * * * * * * * * =/\=INDEPENDENCE FLEET SYMBOL=/\= <<This is a reminder about the IDF symbol contest which is being run by Vice Admiral Dragonetti. Several sumbmissions have already been sent in. Get us your symbol soon!>> Announcement of an IDF Contest! IDF is looking to have its own custom logo and we want one made by you. This is a contest that is open to all of the fleet including civilians and admirals and you can submit as many designs as you want! Any and all submissions need to be sent to me (Vice Admiral Dragonetti) at poisonwake@y.... Winning symbol will be used on the website and you will get website credits. This symbol will also be used for any webrings or groups IDF wants to join! When does it have to be in by? Just get all submissions to me by July 31, 2003 and the winner will be announced in the August 15, 2003 newsletter. The only requirements are that it be between 100x160 pixels or 160x100 pixels. Smaller is just fine (not too small!), but please try not to go too much larger. Have fun making a logo for us. Good luck! And don't forget you can submit as many as you want just get any and all to me by midnight on July 31. Please feel free to contact me with any additional questions/comments. Happy graphics! Vice Admiral Felicity Dragonetti poisonwake@y... AIM: Mystakae * * * * * * * * * * =/\=MISSION SUMMARIES=/\= USS George W. Bush The George W. Bush headed out to the far distant system of Dinlo. Soon afterward the existence of a Romulan Warbird was made known to the Bush. Later, The away team on the planet was captured, along with the team from the Warbird. They were forced to fight each other in an arena, for their lives, under the amusing eyes of a Q. After sometime, it was discovered that Q was protecting something on the 6th planet, but left before any more details could be uncovered. Before the crew of the Bush could go and investigate, the Warbird opened fire on the Federation Starship. With the help of a traitor on the Bush, the Romulans were able to fight against the Bush's defenses and cripple the ship. They soon boarded, and began taking prisoners. It was at this time that the Bush's CEO was taken by the Romulans to be tortured until he would give the information about a metaphysic cloaking technology, which would allow vessels to pass through other objects, including starships by changing the state of matter. The Romulan forces were headed by Sela Yar, acting for her own intensions not her governments. Her second in command changed loyalties, and helped the crew of the Bush fight off Sela's forces. A distress call was sent and both Romulan and Federation aide responded. The Bush is now en route to the nearest Starbase, via a towing ship, to undergo repairs and crew replacements. Captain Julie Absecon Commanding Officer USS George W. Bush *** USS Excaliber The Excalibur heads to Xenex for the Wedding of Lt. (jg) Calhoun and Lt. Wright. Well, things aren't as easy as that. Conspiracy and murder are the norm of this mission. With twists of humor. We meet a new race called the Cardboardians, who were created by Q. The problem with that is that the Cardboardians are more powerful then Q had planned and are running amok. Lt. Cmdr. Dusty Redroi gets new friend in the Cardboardians a dog like being called BOO also Mr. Redroi seems to aquire the powers of the Cardboardians. Things twist and turn back to the wedding were an assassin kills Lt. Wright. So the crew of the Excalibur have to help Q with the Cardboardians and find who killed Lt. Wright.... Captain Alayne Tolbin USS Excalibur, NCC-2997 *** The Minerva has been docked at Earth Station McKinley for a while undergoing a scheduled refit. While she's there, the crew has been on shore leave. Captain Krol, Lieutenant D'erak, and Ensign Hudson all go back up to the ship independently and are stunned from behind. A few minutes later, a Romulan Valdore-class Warbird, a Klingon Vorcha-class Attack Cruiser, and a Ferengi D'Kora-class Marauder decloak and attack Earth Station McKinley, destroying it and, presumably, the Minerva before anyone has time to react. The remaining crew of the Minerva are given the U.S.S. Leviathan to track down the ships, which have been linked with an Anarchist Terrorist Syndicate that attacked the Minerva a few missions ago, nearly destroying her and killing a lot of the crew. Unbenknownst to the crew, the Minerva is intact, having been put into warp at the last possible instant before the station exploded, and Krol, D'erak, and Hudson are in the custody of the terrorists, who call themselves the Governmental Abolition Society, as they have stolen the Minerva... Captain Krol, son of K'Targ Commanding Officer U.S.S. Minerva, NCC-36181 *** Starbase 10 The Romulan Mining Conference on SB10 has been moved to Delegation HQ on Earth. Meanwhile, in the atmosphere of a little known planet near SB10 called Valdera II, there has been leakage of Gamma and Theta radiation, which will soon effect the whole planet. Starfleet is sending several ships from other areas of space, but as SB10 is closest, and will be likely to send people out first, we will be heading the rescue mission. There is no known cause of the sudden appearance of radiation at this time, but Starfleet suspects a wormhole. SB10 and the other vessels sent are to evacuate the planet and find a place for them all, as obviously a whole planet's worth of people won't fit on one Starbase, find a way to rid the atmosphere of radiation, and get the Valdarans safely back home once the radiation has been cleared. Captain Nara Jade Treniek Commanding Officer Starbase 10 *** USS Horatio Nelson The USS Horatio Nelson was tasked with escorting 5 colonization ships to the planet Halicon V. They were to RV at Star Base 31 and go from there. While waiting it was discovered that one of the ships had an outbreak of a Bio-terrorism agent that at first effected only the colonists but soon spread to the human contingent. This virus made it's way to the HN but thanks to some hard reasearch by our medical staff and an investigative team from Section 31 we were able to stop and reverse the effects. No crew were lost but about 100 of the colonists died from thier exposeur. we finaly made it to Halicon V and began the excercise of delivering the colonists when they and we aere attacked by a previously unknown underground creature. During this confrontation Lt. Commander J'Dem died. It was learned that the "owner" of the planet knew about the creatures and had hoped that once a Star Fleet officer was killed we would help him kill or dispalce the creatures. It didn't work out that way and the HN manged to have a successful first contact. Anyway, we survived the ordeal and returned to Star base 13 where the DRF has it's head quaters and Brit got engaged to his long time girlfriend, an NPC. Captain James Britanicus Commanding Officer USS Horatio Nelson NCC 19958 *** USS Conqueror Trouble can come in small packages After leaving starbase 12 we pass a un-inhibitive planet. Our chief Science officer (Yat’thra), runs a routine scans on it and finds some unusual rock compounds and asked if she came beam some up to study and possibly eat since she is a Horta. Our Captain K’lar teases her about it being only a afternoon snack for her but agrees that it would fine to beam some of the rocks up for study. Only thing is after some of the rocks are beamed up the transporter tech notices a small spark in the rocks on the padd but it is quickly gone. After scanning the areas and finding nothing he shrugs it off and goes about his duty. But now we have a brake out of crewman reporting in that they where originally in one part of the ship and suddenly with out any reason ended up some place else on the ship with having no idea how they got there! Then the ship starts acting up. Systems’ going haywire and it is driving us up the wall until we realize what had happened. Story idea by ~Lt. Commander Kiara Rodale~ ~Chief Communications Office/ AXO~ ~USS Conqueror ~ Respectfully, Captain K'lar zantai-Rasmehlier USS Conqueror, NCC-63303..... *** Thank you COs for sharing your excellent missions with everyone! The missions are sounding original and awesome. Cardboardians? Who would have ever thought! Great work. * * * * * * * * * * =/\=AWARD WINNERS=/\= And now we announce the award winners for this month. As always there is tons of excellent work in the fleet but the Admiralty had to pick just one for each award. The winners did an outstanding job! *** Best Story Post: USS Excaliber, Lt. Cmdr. Paula Fredericks - 4 consecutive posts which count as one: #2677, A, B, & C Starts with: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/uss-excalibur/message/3297 - Cmdr. Ingoldo puts the good Dr. threw a series of Command tests in these posts to see if she is of Command material. *** Best Character Post: USS Horatio Nelson, Ensign Kao Nor'Deth - #1146 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/horationelson/message/2035 *** Funniest Post: USS Patriot, Lt. Hadrial - #1275 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/USS-Patriot/message/1793 - brings a little levity to a dim situation with some well placed one-liners. *** Genesis Award: USS Conqueror, Commander Andre DaSilvor - #1577 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/USSConquerorIDF/message/2136 *** Most Valuable Player: USS Excaliber, Cmdr. Ingoldo I will not be able to express how valuable this man is to our ship. He has come up with new ideas that make you think can they really do that? He posts when things get slow. He is an open and easy going officer on the Excalibur and without him I don't think we would have as many posts as we do. Not that he posts the most he keeps the story moving. I am honored to have him as my First Officer. He is an MVP to the Excalibur. *** Most Improved Poster: USS Horatio Nelson, Lt(jg) Dane Christoff This (post #1110, nominated for best story post) is a very well written post about the 2 crews reaction to the apparent loss of Lt. Commander J'Dem. The person behind Dane Christoff joined the HN just a couple of months ago and as you can see buy this post he has developed into a class one simmer. I will include the post in question as well as a couple of other posts so that you can see how well he has developed. The first one is the one I am nominating. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/horationelson/message/1982 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/horationelson/message/1996 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/horationelson/message/2089 *** Outstanding Simmer: USS Conqueror, Commander Kiara Rodale For the 6 months of USS Conqueror's existance, she has kept thing rolling, with great posts, and when things get slow, she has given others things to post about, and done joint posts with them. Also, she has readily literally taken over for me, on more than one occasion, when mundane problems have put me on quick LOA. Were it not for her, The Conqueror probably wouldn't have lasted past the first two months. She's a great asset to any crew. And, most of our missions, thus far, have been her ideas. What else does one need to do, to earn the award for outstanding simmer? *** Rookie of the Month: Starbase 10, Lt.(jg) Tom Kent Though he only posted once in the month of June, Lt. Kent made his presence known with a grand entrance in which he told off the CO for lack of proper Security (Post#1610) *** Recruitment Award: USS Conqueror, Commander Kiara Rodale With two new recruits, one of which is in for Rookie of the month. *** Most Posts: USS Conqueror, Commander Kiara Rodale - 54.5 *** Congratulations to all the award winners this month! * * * * * * * * * * =/\=INTERVIEW=/\= This month’s guest is Lieutenant Fiona Starling, Chief of Security of the USS Horatio Nelson. Lt. Starling one the coveted MVP in April 2003. First, we’ll start off with a brief mention of some of Lt. Starling’s favorite Star Trek episodes: Oooohh…so many great ones. I love so many! Well, "Author, Author" from Voyager (because I want to be a novelist), every single one of the Q episodes on any and every series, "The Squire of Gothos" from TOS. Ummm... I didn't get to watch much DS9 but if I had, I'm sure there'd be a favorite there as well. Interviewer: Good evening everyone. Tonight we have the privilege of speaking to Lt. Fiona Starling of the USS Horatio Nelson. Lt. Starling, we're glad to have you with us. Starling: It is a pleasure to be speaking with you. :-) Interviewer: So you have only been a part of the IDF for a few months now, and have made a very memorable impact on the Horatio Nelson already. How did you get involved with simming? Starling: Well, I have been doing online play-by-post roleplaying for two years now. I usually play Dungeons and Dragons style games, but when I was contacted by Captain James Britanicus of the Horatio Nelson about Star Trek PBEM, I was intrigued. I have been raised on Star Trek and was overjoyed for the opportunity to play it online with likeminded people. Simming is quite possibly the most fun I've ever had on the Internet. Beats MMORPGs by a mile. Interviewer: That's great. We're fortunate to have you with us. So what did you think of the Simm when you first started? Starling: I was struck at first by the great characters. So many people have invested so much in these characters. They all feel so real. That really captured my attention. It's rare in the world of fantasy roleplaying to find sane people who are able to get into their characters minds without becoming trapped there. I was thrilled to see that Trek gamers for the most part are able to disconnect from the role after suspending reality. I was also struck by the immense friendliness of the other players. I was greeted warmly, and in these few months have gone on to become as good of friends with some of them as it is possible to be online. Interviewer: I am certain that many of them feel the same way. So do you feel like you fit in well with the crew now, after only a short time? Starling: Definitely. I jumped in with both feet and have never regretted it a moment. I feel that Fiona is a valuable contribution to the crew, and that she (and I) are well liked. There is certainly a liberating sense of acceptance. I know that if I have any problems with a post or with any thing any other character does, or in the way Fiona is portrayed, that I will be listened to. I also know that if I accidentally miswrite another character, I will be treated kindly. I couldn't have been more blessed than to get introduced to ST simming by Britanicus and the HN. Interviewer: Yes, Brit is a very good Captain. So do you have any favorite missions? Starling: I haven't been aboard for many missions yet, but I definitely enjoyed my first, a joint mission with the GWB. We got sucked into a cosmic battle with Q-like creatures and the end result was that some very out-of-the-loop Bajorans became convinced that Brit was their Savior. That was insanely fun. I also really enjoyed a recent mission where martial law was declared briefly and I got to go on the power trip of being the Chief of Security on a martially controlled vessel. That was very entertaining. I love all our missions though. There is no mission that you can't add a small subplot to to make a place for yourself. Interviewer: That's a lesson all of us could stand to remember. Other than making friends, what have you gotten personally out of simming? Starling: I get a great sense of vicarious purpose. I love the feeling of being a fascinating, realistic person doing fascinating, unreal things. Simming is one of the bright spots of my day. I look forward to checking my inbox for messages. It's wonderful to really look forward to something. Interviewer: I think a lot of us fell that way. Thanks for putting it into words. So you recently won the coveted MVP award for the fleet. What do you think it takes to make a great player? Starling: Wow. I don't know if I deserve to answer that. But.... *smiling toothily* Since you asked... I think it takes a good character first off, and the right attitude to approaching that character. Just coming up with the most powerful character you can get away with really detracts from your fun and from everyone else's. Stick to what you know. IF you can convincingly convey the wisdom of years and struggle of personality within, THEN play a joined Trill. If you can't don't. Same goes for empaths, telepaths, Klingons, and vanilla humans. A great player demonstrates the backbone of Star Trek: that humanity is frail and weak compared with what's "out there" but there is no one so willing to overcome, or so passionate about life, as the human race. If you're not playing a human, make sure it isn't because "humans are boring" but because you have been there and have learned those basics. The best players are playing real people who just happen to be in space in the future. Beyond your great character, a great player needs to know how to use the Golden Rule of gaming: Make the other players look as you would wish to look. If there is another character that could conceivably do what you're about to play superhero and jump in and do, write in their character as the hero and yours as support. Your crewmates will love you for it and return the favor. (Maybe even give you an MVP award!) Interviewer: That was a very well thought out answer. We can all learn a lot from your words of wisdom. Where do you see the fleet 6 months from now? Starling: Well, I see ID Fleet overcoming these struggles we're going through. There are alot of passionate simmers here who aren't going to give up on their ships. I know that just since I've been aboard the HN has grown drastically, and there is no reason every other ship can't do the same. Strong, committed players are the backbone of any sim. Weeding out glory-seekers can only make us stronger, and I see that strength increasing as time passes. New ships are not signs of success, nor is a huge Admiralty. The surest signs of success are ships loyal to their Captains and posting well-wrought posts with gusto, That is my wish for IDF. Interviewer: That's a worthy vision for this dedicated Fleet. Well, Lieutenant Starling, we're about out of time. Is there anything you'd like to add? Starling: I would only add... Remember that this all about the experiences. There are no winners and no losers. Never let a temporary issue mar your pleasure in the game. Interviewer: Sound advice for all of us. Well, thanks so much for your time. I think it's good for all of us to reflect on why we like Simming, and why we like the IDF. You've just given us a few more reasons to consider. Thank you for joining us, Lt Starling. Starling: You are so welcome, Interviewer. "We love you dark continent, GOOD NIGHT!" * * * * * * * * * * =/\=THANKS=/\= Thank you to Fiona Starling, James Mirtoh, Steve McCloud, Rachael Rager, and a special thanks to Mr. Sean Lynch! * * * * * * * * * * =/\=END TRANSMISSION=/\= ************************* Admiral James West Director of Operations Independence Fleet ************************* |
