Independence Fleet Newsletter
November 2003
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=/\=INDEPENDENCE FLEET NEWSLETTER -
NOVEMBER 2003=/\=
-- Opening
-- Newbits
-- Mission Summaries
-- Awards
-- Interview
-- Thanks
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=/\=OPENING=/\=
Hello my fellow IDF members. This month didn't see
many changes at all so this newsletter is going to be
short once again. Hopefully soon we'll start seeing
some expansions and things like that so we can put
them in the newsletter!
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=/\=NEWSBITS=/\=
- Ensign Maganda Bentahr, Chief Communications
Officer of the USS George W. Bush was promoted to
Lieutenant Junior Grade. Congratulations!
- Ensign Toran Omega, Chief Science Officer of the
USS George W. Bush was promoted to Lieutenant Junior
Grade as well. Congratulations!
- James Britanicus has taken back over command of the
USS Horatio Nelson and assumes the rank of captain.
He still directs the Defense Responce Force as well
under the character Rear Admiral Mirtoh.
- Lieutenant Rhian Chal, Chief Engineer of the USS
Minerva was promoted to Lieutenant Commander. Great
job!
- Lieutenant Junior Grade Arrtessin Mrrara, Chief
Security/Tactical Officer of the USS Minerva was
promoted to full Lieutenant. Excellent!
- The USS George W. Bush reached 1600 posts on August
19th. The post was sent in by Captain Absecon. Keep
up the good work.
- The main IDF banner has been updated on the IDF
homepage. The new banner contains a picture of the
USS George W. Bush and American Flag which was put
together by Lieutenant Ryan Dunmore/Lieutenant Rob
Dragonmire.
- To express general interest in any future Division
Director, Commanding Officer, or Executive Officer
openings please visit the IDF homepage at
www.angelfire.com/trek/independencefleet and click on
the proper join link.
- If anyone has any personal announcements relating
to the fleet or personnel within the fleet to submit
for future editions of the newsletter, please send
them to Admiral West at
Insidr524@a.... We try to
gather all important announcements as the month goes
by but would hate to miss anything that could be
important to someone. Thanks.
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=/\=MISSION SUMMARIES=/\=
Here are a few of the many current missions in which
our ships/bases are involved in...
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USS Goliad
Firstly the Goliad was investigating a Y-class planet
and unusual ruins underneath the surface, Commander
Voronov leads a team to investigate. Then a replica
Goliad appears in orbit, Admiral West leads an away
team, but all contact is lost with both teams. The
Goliad then comes under attack by three Jem'Hadar
cruisers. But suddenly the planet, replica Goliad and
Jem'Hadar ships merge into a single space station with
the power to destroy everything within 200 lightyears,
and the away teams are lost on board. The station
charges its weapons but before it can fire the
Civilian Armed Transport Vessel Scarlet Benson drops
out of warp disables the stations weapons. Lt.
Honorad leads a rescue team, comprising of both Goliad
and Scarlet Benson crew members.
Captain Larakizhaan sh'Harena
Commanding Officer
USS Goliad NCC-18907-A
***
USS Excalibur
The Excalibur is ordered to Starbase 219 for repairs
to her Sickbay and Admiral Nakamura, an old friend of
McCloud's, has a new mission for Mac and his crew. The
new mission is to bring Admiral Nakamura and several
Ambassadors, to be picked up along the way to Babel
for a conference. The last such conference was to
deteremine if the Coridan syatem should be admitted to
the Federation. Along with this mission, the CMO of
the Excalibur, Dr. Fredricks, is getting married,
Cmdr. Ingoldo, the CSO, is recalled to Starbase 123
and an Ingoldo from alternate universe is taking his
place on the Excalibur, Ingoldo, before he left for
the Starbase was conducting a first contact with
another alternate universe in Science Lab one on the
Excalibur and the CEO, Lt. Cmdr. Blaine has a double
that just might cause a problem along the way as well.
How will McCloud and his crew deal with ALL this? Only
by reading the mission posts, "Return to Babel" will
you be able to find out.
Respectfully submitted by,
Captain Steven McCloud
CO USS Excalibur NCC-2997
***
USS Patriot
"The Blair Sitch"
The USS Blair sent a general distress signal. The
Patriot was the closest
ship available and went in to invetsigate the signal.
The Patriot arrives
upon the scene to find the Blair drifting in space
with no signs of life.
The only other ship in the area is the vessel beonging
to Amos Ammassie,
interstellar collector and trader. Capt Logan sent an
Away team to
investigate the mysterious condition of the Blair when
a squadron of ships
using Tholian technology attacked out of nowhere, led
by the warlord Cryrose
from the Borandi Empire. As the battle rages on, the
away team on the Blair
get caught in a spatial interphase in which they find
the crew of the Blair. Now they have to get out of
the interphase and save both the Patriot and
the Blair.
Have a good day and Drive safely
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=/\=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!
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Best Character Post
Lt. Commander Dane Christof, USS Washington Post #2760
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Washington11988/message/589
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Best Story Post
Lt.(jg) Alain Legard, USS Washington Post #2747
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Washington11988/message/725
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Funniest Post
Lt.(jg) Darkcould, USS Patriot Post #1544
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/USS-Patriot/message/2118
***
Genesis Award
Capt. Starling, USS Washington #2693
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Washington11988/message/633
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Most Valuable Poster: Lt.(jg) Alain Legard, USS
Washington
Legard has added enormously to our missions and our
plot, keeping things going even when I was not around
to do so, unfailingly supporting me in my role as
captain and the XO as well. His posts are excellent in
quality, never failing to give posting opportunities
to others and always moving something along or opening
a new avenue of action and interaction. More
importantly, when a good post will make or break the
plotline, he always is the one to step in with that
great post. He's a phenomenal officer and I'm thrilled
he's on my sim.
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Most Improved Poster: Ensign Toran Omega, USS George
W. Bush
For a new simmer he's done a great job with staying up
to date with posts. Ever since he joined back in July
he hasn't posted a great deal, but the posts that he
does submit have been getting better and better. And
because of that increasing quality in his writing, and
his dedication, I nominate him for MIP.
***
Outstanding Simmer: Commander N'Var, USS Washington
N'Var watches my back and is always available and
approachable with problems and complaints,
unflinchingly diving through all the paperwork and all
the public relations aspects of XO. As an executive
officer par excellence, N'Var is fully deserving of
the Outstanding Simmer award, if only for the long
hours put in when I've been too busy to handle
things. The W broke 100 posts this month for the first
time in a long time, and most of the credit there goes
directly to Cdr. N'Var.
***
Rookie of the Month: Ensign Oliver Richardson, USS
Excalibur
Ens. Richardson joined the Excalibur on the 13th of
the month and was able to post 22 times in his first
two + weeks aboard. He took to the game very well and
has intregrated his character into the crew smoothly.
He was able add some interesting character
developement into our mission. Welcome aboard Ensign,
nice job!
***
Recruitment Award: Ensign Shin'Kon, GWB, 1 recruit
***
Most Posts: Commander Ingoldo, USS Excalibur, 26
posts
***
Congratulations to all the award winners this month!
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=/\=INTERVIEW=/\=
Interviewer: We are here today with Commander Voronov
of the USS Goliad. How are you doing today Commander?
Cmdr. Voronov: Good, thank you.
Interviewer: What is your position on the USS Goliad?
Cmdr. Voronov: I am currently the Executive officer.
Interviewer: How is that working out for you?
Cmdr. Voronov: It's been trying. I was not sure if I
was ready for it, but with the loss of our previous
XO, and a new captain, I was willing to try my hand at
it and lend the crew and Captain Zhaan some semblance
of stability in command.
Interviewer: That is very good to hear. How long have
you been onboard the Goliad?
Cmdr. Voronov: About ten months now.
Interviewer: Wow. How has Captain Zhaan been doing
since she has taken command of the Goliad? Do you feel
all is going well on the ship?
Cmdr. Voronov: Yes, she has done a good job of
reviving the ship. It had been waning before she took
control. The XO at that time, Victor Davidson, and
myself were doing much of the command work. Then
Zhaan came in and got the ship running smoothly again.
The crew now gets to be the crew instead of the
command. I hope that makes sense, heh.
Interviewer: That is very good to hear. So since you
have been on for so long, I take it you are aware of
the recent traumatic events in IDF?
Cmdr. Voronov: Yes. In fact I'm starting to feel old
as I have worked with some of the players involved and
knew reasons for the conflict that occurred long
before many others even joined the fleet.
Interviewer: What is your opinion on it all?
Cmdr. Voronov: We're all here to have fun. If the fun
has gone elsewhere, you should too. I try to stay
nuetral in the politics of it all. To be honest, I
haven't noticed much of a difference since it simmered
down.
Interviewer: Well, onto a different topic, how did you
get started in IDF?
Cmdr. Voronov: Ooh! Ancient history! A long time ago,
in an email far, far away, I recieved a letter from
(at that time) Captian Seldon of the Washington. He
had seen my yahoo profile and something urged him to
message me. That was in late
2001 if my message archive is correct.
Cmdr. Voronov: Sorry, a second look says he was a
Rear-Admiral then.
Interviewer: Wow, so you are one of the oldies like us
( :
Cmdr. Voronov: Yup. Now, where did I leave my cane?
:-)
Interviewer: What is your favorite Star Trek episode?
Cmdr. Voronov: That's a tough one. It's not like I
remember the episode names anyway. It would
definately be a TNG episode, perhaps the one with the
Binars. Although most of the episodes with Q were
pretty entertaining as well.
Interviewer: Very entertaining, well our alotted time
is almost up, any words of advice for any and all
simmers?
Cmdr. Voronov: Have fun, sim hard, and when a Klingon
asks you if you'd like one slice or two as he hands
you your gagh reach for the nearest batleth.
Interviewer: Thank you for your time tonight. ( :
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=/\=THANKS=/\=
Thank you to Vice Admiral Dragonetti, Rear Admiral
Krol son of K'targ, Commander Voronov, and Lieutenant
Dunmore/Dragonmire.
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=/\=END TRANSMISSION=/\=
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Admiral James West
Director of Operations
Independence Fleet
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