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Federal ddl destroyer leader ship name the free entirely crewed byy former Klingon subject races from kraknora planet that was transported to the omega sector
For what it's worth, I have had some ideas as to what might have happened during the arrival of Kraknora in Y171, as well as the appearance of that Lyran light cruiser in Y173, plus the emergence of the PX 123 colony system from ISC space in Y178. Whether or not any of those ideas find traction, or if something better were to emerge in their stead, remains to be seen. But I might hope that such material, should it be made to officially exist at some stage, could perhaps further help those looking to provide more character to their would-be Auroran task forces.
Name for trobrin heavy cruiser flesh’s end
Trobrin ca strong will
Trobrin ship name pebble
Vari ca ship name blood death
Fra DN name dominates
Name of ship is DOMINATES
I set up an Omega ship names topic. Please use it.
I hope I don't sound too dumb for suggesting this, but one thing I've often thought about is what scenarios involving Omegan ships/races working with (or against) Alphan might look like.
Perhaps I should put down a couple specifics...
The first Alpha/Omega crossover had a Chlorophon DDE replacing one of the regular escorts assigned a Federation CVA. The `Phon ship may lack the Aegis, but its Canon systems (particularly how she can use her T-bombs and armor combination even better than the Federation CLA) make, in my opinion, a delightfully colorful change.
Given that, if the `Phon homeworld was a part of the Federation, they still wouldn't be able to serve on a standard Federation starship, perhaps the idea of them flying their own ships under the Federation flag might be not-too-unreasonable?
The next thought was a MUCH less pleasant one. The thought that the Federal Republic of Aurora, which uses hulls based on pre-Federation Earth designs for their ships, was actually founded by Earthlings who, in a fit of racism and xenophobia, broke away to become an independent, and aggressively hostile, power.
Non-humans (such as the Klingon squadron and the few Lyrans who provided them with ESG technology) suffer greatly at their hands.
A more recent idea was if the Seltorians were to have first encountered Sigvirion. The fast breeding Seltorians make a deadly environment for Sigs to proliferate.
Naturally, I know this idea won't ever become Canon and, in my opinion, it SHOULDN'T; too much work has been done to make F&E a great game, and this screwball idea would totally ruin it.
Still, I think that this MIGHT have some fun potential, so I wanted to share it with you.
I know Canon makes good cameras, but I don't think the Chlorophon work with them.
Oh, that thought was just the first snapshot of Alpha/Omega integration...
(I'll finish this post from The Booth)
Picture this...
A Gorn ship stumbles across one of the last of the Ymatrian ships. The latter is being hunted down by the Drex. In an effort to try to avoid a repeat of what happened to the Paravians, the Captain presents his assembly's offers of humanitarian assistance to the Ymatrians, only to face attacks from those he's trying to help AND the vengeful Drex...
An ISC Echelon detects weapons fire and moves to intervene. They find Koligahr and Loriyill forces pounding on each other near a small, badly battered Singer group. Do the ISC try to "Protect" the Singers from the Loriyill as well?
Actually, as I'm thinking about all of this, I'm starting to wonder about whether it would work better as The Masters playing their "Games." I can imagine either the Kzinti or Lyrans meeting up with Vulpa crewed ships and, on opening communications with them, mistaking them for Carnivrons.
After a few first encounters between one of the Feline races and the Vari, the former discover the fate of captured crew, which leads to a vendetta (and quite the "Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, limb for a limb" type of feud).
Jeffrey George Anderson (Jeff);
You might want to read some Omegan history, the Singers are a Loriyill Ally.
Sorry, I wasn't too clear.
YOU know the Singers and Loriyill are friendly.
I know the Singers and Loriyill are friendly.
Do the ISC know the Singers and Loriyill are friendly?
The situation the ISC barged in on was the Loriyill had just rescued a Singer group that, due to the attacks by the Koligahr, was in bad shape. Because the Singers aren't able to communicate very well with anyone besides the Loriyill and the Loriyill tend to NOT be the most open of peoples, I thought that the knee-jerk reaction from the ISC on first seeing this would be pretty arrogant.
(As often as I mess things up with these posts, though, you were right to pin my ears back, Adm. 
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Quick question--does anyone know if Omega 5, PF's is planned to ever be put up as a PDF for sale? I'd like to get it, but I'm sort of getting to the age where I'm really trying to avoid the amount of stuff taking up physical space.
Bump. Also, is there a Table of Contents preview for it? I'd like to know what species get PFs and whta, if any, don't.
Module Omega #5 includes, among many other things, historical PF flotillas for the Mæsrons, Koligahr, Trobrin, Vari, Probr, Drex, Loriyill, Iridani, Worb, and Qixa, plus a set of conjectural PFs for the Federal Republic of Aurora.
If it helps, the rules for "volatile warp" PF engines and the OR-section entries for the gunboats themselves are listed in the 2011 edition of the Omega Master Rulebook.
We are working on getting PDFs of the Omega SSD books posted, but it's not easy and won't happen soon. They have to be updated before they can be uploaded or certain picky reviewers trash the entire company's ratings for uploading the non-updated books.
We have a lot of books to update and haven't done them all yet, but we will.
The Omega books are hard to update because they were done by Bruce Graw in a software package we don't use (and cannot get because it's out of support and doesn't run on our machines). Translating them into a format we can update and use is tricky and very very time consuming. It literally takes five or six times as much work per SSD to update Omega. It's actually easier to start over from blank paper but we don't have time to do that. So a given number of "Steve Petrick Days" will either update five alpha books or one omega book, so alpha (which sells much better anyway) gets done first.
And it gets worse. We never had the files for Omega One and they were destroyed when Bruce had a hard disk crash, so those will eventually have to be done over from blank paper.
As a point of business philosophy, we could in theory take an hour each day to do one lost Omega SSD and in three months they'd be done. But the problem is there are about 20 of these "take one hour a day" projects begging for that hour (wall of honor, proposals board, converting the Shapeways pics into clip art, doing FC ship card packs, and many more) and we can, at best, divert one or two hours a day from new products into such older projects. And there isn't much point in doing one page of one of the 20 per day in rotation as that would mean progress at the rate of one page a month and it would take decades to finish anything.
We're doing the best we can but the number of hours in a day isn't infinite. Right now if anything gets done on a hour-per-day project it's usually during unpaid overtime. I'm cleaning out proposal board at home on my iPad (and not being paid for it).
As it happens, Omega 5 is the easiest of the Omega SSD books to update. I'll see if I can talk to SPP about where it is in the que. (I think Jean wanted us to do the books in numerical order.)
Ouch. I'm really sorry about the unsupported software thing. That happened at my first job and it was the platonic definition of not fun.
But understand completely. I might just pick up the hard copy when my writers advance comes in.
Thanks much!
Not sure if this is the best place to post this screwball idea, but it seems close enough...
I had the image pass through my (alleged) mind where a Seltorian Hive Ship, searching out possible Tholian refugees, passed through Sigvirion space. During that passage, the Sigs opened up a "Diplomatic Dialogue," appearing to be more than willing to help the Seltorians.
Long story short (too late), the Sigvirion infected and took over the Hive Ship, giving them a source for fast breeding hosts and thus the ability to spread their infection at a terrifying rate.
{Edited per the author's request. -- Jean}
WAY WAY to scary
This is a Fantastic Idea. Worthy of a Great Story! The only issue I see is that the Hive Ships were limited, and whether one Historically, would have been roaming through Sig Space is questionable.
Perhaps Gary or SPP would know the likelihood of such an event?
We know from the rule books that, historically, the Hive Ship from C3 went pretty straight at the Tholians. The idea I tossed out was more a hypothetical.
Basic premise is that the only thing Seltorians could be relatively sure of was that there were SOME Tholian warp signatures heading towards the Milky Way; enough to, in their minds, warrant a Tribunal Hive Ship. HOWEVER, exactly WHERE their quarry may have ended up in this galaxy, they could only guess.
It be great if there was an Omega sector juggernaut