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 Notes from the Captain:

 Pretty straightforward sim this week, so I'm going to keep my
 comments to a minimum.  Welcome back to those of you who have been a
 little scarce thanks to summer vacations!  :)  We're moving back
 into Coro's busiest season...

 Overall though, nice job, everyone!  The next several weeks are
 going to be Science/Engineering heavy, without as much of the
 Tactical/Marine focus that we've had for the last couple of months. 
 They also lay down the foundations for Coro's major story arc for
 the NEXT year or so...  ;-)

 See you all next week!


 Sim Title: "King's Gambit", Part 1

 Teaser and Pre-Sim:
 -------------------
 Four of Whitestone's Banshees, newly arrived from the Milky Way,
 explore the Reor system.  They find the remains of U.S.S. Stirling. 
 They also find the Pfhor, and take close scans of the occupying
 forces holding the systems.  The Whitestone pilots also speculate a
 bit about what might have happened to the long-vanished Task Group
 5.4 and what might have happened to them...

 During the Sim:
 ---------------
 Coronado reached the Gateway system to find it unoccupied by the
 Pfhor, fortunately.  What we did find were about a dozen damaged
 cargo transfer cases, consistent with those used by Starfleet to
 store bulk materials and parts.  Scans of the containers showed they
 contained torpedo casings, subspace relay coils, phaser coils, and
 other items of use in strike craft construction and repair. 
 However, there was initially no sign of any further presence in the
 system... not that we could detect, anyway.

 ...until the Admiral asked that a transmission containing his DNA
 sequence was transmitted to the cargo containers.  This transmission
 resulted in four of the containers changing appearance and form to
 four of an odd, ungainly strike craft design.  These strike craft
 were built in the Milky Way and are called Banshees.  The lead pilot
 in this group transmitted a code phrase expecting an answer to
 Admiral Lora Kor.  After a brief and embarrassing memory failure,
 Lora Kor managed to come up with the right codes and prove his
 identity.

 At that point, the lead pilot in the Whitestone group indicated that
 this group is one of six, plus two capital ships that entered M64
 through the Hayashi hypergate, still apparently operational.  Lora
 Kor reminded Captain Daren of the inherent danger of remaining in a
 Pfhor-controlled system, and advised that Coronado, the two new
 capital ships, and the Whitestone strike craft leave the system as
 quickly as possible.

 This departure was delayed by two events.  First, the Whitestone
 groups themselves had scattered, looking for evidence of the long-
 disappeared Task Group 5.4 and were not scheduled to rendezvous in
 the Gateway system for some time.  Second, it was further
 complicated by events far away.  Our captured Pfhor cruiser and the
 rest of the Defenders reached the first rendezvous point safely, but
 soon after, S'buuth chose to launch himself from the cruiser in an
 operational strike craft.

 Coronado gathered all of the Whitestone ships that she could, then
 left Gateway just as the Pfhor were arriving there.  S'buuth's
 situation was much more complex and was eventually solved in a
 rather unorthodox way: Vice Admiral Aldur ordered the Pfhor cruiser
 prepared for a new mission.  Based on the sensor data provided us by
 S'buuth, one of the Taeren reconnaissance ships has located a
 possible Jjaro outpost.  The Jjaro are an ancient race, both the
 source of Pfhor technology and god-like figures to the S'pht; the
 possibilty of contacting them was enough to get S'buuth to return to
 the captured Pfhor cruiser.


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 U.S.S. Coronado Complement Changes:
    Marine 1st Lieutenant Andrew Stylus, retired from Starfleet.

 Promotions:
    None this week.

 Recognitions:
    Legion of Merit (Repeat)
       Rear Admiral Tebrun Lora Kor
          For continued service to the whole of UCIP, at the order of
          the Acting Commander in Chief.

    Starfleet Service Medal (with Silver Cluster)
       Lt. Commander Sieven Drexler
          For service of, at a minimum, 100 weeks aboard a Starfleet
          vessel plus numerous other contributions to U.S.S. Coronado.

    Starfleet Service Medal
       Lieutenant (JG) Jason Vogel
          For service of 20 or more weeks aboard a Starfleet vessel.

    Preantares Ribbon
       Lt. Commander Sieven Drexler
       Lt. Commander Jack C. Farley
          For demonstrating an overall understanding of the systems
          and technologies that make up the whole of U.S.S. Coronado.

    Golden Heart
       Lieutenant (JG) Jason Vogel
          For well-done and engaging medical subplots over the last
          two weeks involving multiple Coronado crew members.

    Starfleet Commendation
       Commander Darek Smith
       Lt. Colonel Thomas Wayne
       Lieutenant Kathleen Hammond
       Lieutenant (JG) Jason Vogel
          For well-done character development plots and subplots.

 Academy Completions:
    Lt. Commander Kariasa Ma'Aru
       Starfleet Engineering Course (100%, on 26 July 2002)
          An excellent performance on what is possibly the hardest
          UCIP Academy class!  Well done, Kari!


 Exchange of the Week: What price freedom?
 <sbutth-pfhor-ship> +taps+ all I wanted was to be free.
 <[COMC_Ironside]> ::points at the comm:: And there's another
 problem.  He still doesn't understand freedom.
 <[COMC_Ironside]> Just because he can't do everything he wants
 doesn't mean he's not free...::mutters::
 <sbutth-pfhor-ship> +taps+ Tell Lora Ironsides to give me back
 control.
 <[Savant]> +taps+ ::she spoke gently:: I know S`buuth, but freedom
 is costly and requires constant effort.. sometimes you have to
 subjucate yourself for a time to get what you want.
 <[Savant]> ::she fishes out a small bottle of water, which she
 offers to Ironsides as well::
 <sbutth-pfhor-ship> I have subjugated myself all my life. How much
 longer would you have me do it? I ordered the death of my brothers,
 what more sacrifice do you want?
 <sbutth-pfhor-ship> I have earned the ship. It is all I have left.
 <[COMC_Ironside]> ::nods his thanks to Savant and begins draining
 the water::
 <[Savant]> +taps+ It's not my choice how much you give, S`buuth. You
 have to stop when you've reached your goal, or it's all for nothing.


 Attendance:             15 out of 20            1 late/left early (*)
 Defenders Task Group 85.3, "Whitestone" Staff:
    Commanding, TG 85.3:       RADM Tebrun Lora Kor      (Jester)
    S-1, Group Adjutant:       LCdr. Sieven Drexler      (Brad)
    S-2, Group Intelligence:   LCdr. Kariasa Ma'Aru      (Kari)
    S-3, Group Logistics:      Cmdr. Savant              (Savant)

 U.S.S. Coronado Crew Roster:
    Commanding Officer:        Capt. William Daren       (Daren)
    Marine Commandant:         Col. Jeremy Ironside      (Fraser)
    Raptors Squadron Leader:   Lt. Colonel Thomas Wayne  (Masters)
    Assistant Tactical:        Ens. Tamarith             (Tamarith)
    Flight Operations:         Lt. Caring-Thoughts       (Alffred)
    Science Officer:           Lt. Kathleen Hammond      (Kath)
    Science Officer:           LCdr. Isamu Dyson         (Isamu)
    Chief Engineer:            Cmdr. Zunite Oswald       (Sonya)
    Assistant Engineer:        LCdr. Jack C. Farley      (CCC)
    Chief Medical Officer:     Lt. (JG) Jason Vogel      (Thompson)
    Civilian Liaison:          S'buuth                   (rev)

 Guest Simmers:          0

 Observer Count:         6  (Kahlia, McC, Baralu, Farrell, Stefan, Teal)

 Announced Absences:     5 out of 20
    Executive Officer:         Cmdr. Darek Smith         (Aggie)
    Chief Tactical Officer:    Lt. Kyle Marcy            (Marcy)
    Company Commander:         MCpt. Jacob Prescot       (Shadow-FjP)
    Flight Leader:             2Lt. Mikhail Petkovic     (Archyyt)
    Assistant Medical:         Lt. Lauren Dyson          (Natty)

 Unannounced Absences:   0 out of 20

 On Extended Leave of Absence:
    Assistant Engineer:        Lt. Aramis Skylooker      (LewisSharp)

 Sim Duration:           125 minutes

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 Coronado's Orders:
    Evacuate the Defender staging area when the Pfhor launch a
    surprise attack on the area.  Following that, investigate a
    transmission from a friend of the Admiral's in Gateway...

 Coronado's Status:
    Just outside the Gateway system (J031) in Grid 001
    11 false matter, 0 cluster, 35 standard torpedoes stocked
    Crew complement of 214 Starfleet / 274 SFMC
    Condition Green, shields down, weapons unpowered
    U.S.S. Coronado moderately damaged, particularly to the saucer

 After-Action Status:
    Ship name:            U.S.S. Coronado
    Ship location:        Just "east" of Gateway in Grid 001
    PC sims involved:     U.S.S. Coronado
    NPC ships involved:   Six flights of Whitestone Banshees
    Enemy ships involved: Ten Pfhor Hegemony destroyers
    Combat losses:        None
    Enemy combat losses:  None
    Damage report:        U.S.S. Coronado moderately damaged:
                          Moderate damage to saucer segments 5 and 6
                          Heat stress damage to main phaser emitters


 Defenders Task Group 85.3, "Whitestone" Staff:
    Commanding, TG 85.3:       RADM Tebrun Lora Kor      (Jester)
    S-1, Group Adjutant:       LCdr. Sieven Drexler      (Brad)
    S-2, Group Intelligence:   LCdr. Kariasa Ma'Aru      (Kari)
    S-3, Group Logistics:      Cmdr. Savant              (Savant)

 U.S.S. Coronado Crew Roster:
    Commanding Officer:        Capt. William Daren       (Daren)
    Executive Officer:         Cmdr. Darek Smith         (Aggie)
    Marine Commandant:         Col. Jeremy Ironside      (Fraser)
    Raptors Squadron Leader:   Lt. Colonel Thomas Wayne  (Masters)
    Chief Tactical Officer:    Lt. Kyle Marcy            (Marcy)
    Assistant Tactical:        Ens. Tamarith             (Tamarith)
    Flight Operations:         Lt. Caring-Thoughts       (Alffred)
    Science Officer:           Lt. Kathleen Hammond      (Kath)
    Science Officer:           LCdr. Isamu Dyson         (Isamu)
    Company Commander:         MCpt. Jacob Prescot       (Shadow-FjP)
    Flight Leader:             1Lt. Andrew Stylus        (JadeFalcon)
    Flight Leader:             2Lt. Mikhail Petkovic     (Archyyt)
    Chief Engineer:            Cmdr. Zunite Oswald       (Sonya)
    Assistant Engineer:        LCdr. Jack C. Farley      (CCC)
    Chief Medical Officer:     Lt. (JG) Jason Vogel      (Thompson)
    Assistant Medical:         Lt. Lauren Dyson          (Natty)
    Civilian Liaison:          S'buuth                   (rev)

 On Extended Leave of Absence:
    Assistant Engineer:        Lt. Aramis Skylooker      (LewisSharp)

 Positions Available:
    None!


 Defenders Task Group 85.3, "Whitestone":
    U.S.S. Coronado (UFPS Katana frigate), flagship
    C.S. Rising Star (Camelynian Sword destroyer)
    S.S. Blackrazor (RSR Ra'Kalen destroyer)
    U.S.S. Swiftsure (UFPS Norway II destroyer)
    R.S. Vanquish (Reorsan Defiant II escort)
    U.S.S. Douglas MacArthur (UFPS Tobruk transport)
    C.W. Shining Bard (Camelynian Shadow transport)
    U.S.S. Thonus (UFPS Artemis destroyer escort)
    D.W. Songbird (Boratis Seeker destroyer escort)
    Kami Seya (Taeren Kami reconnaissance platform) 
    SO-2, the "Raptors" (4 UFPS Wraith corvettes)
    RSO-4, the "Ravens" (4 Reorsan Wraith corvettes)

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Jester

Rear Admiral Tebrun Lora Kor
Commanding, Defenders Task Group 85.3, "Whitestone"
embarked on U.S.S. Coronado, NCC-97901
http://www.jestertrek.com/coro2400/