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Star Fleet Universe Discussion Board: Captain's Log: CL55 Double Nickel Edition: Archive through March 02, 2022
By Steven Zamboni (Szamboni) on Tuesday, February 22, 2022 - 04:00 pm: Edit

Castles don't have 'phons!

By wayne douglas power (Wayne) on Tuesday, February 22, 2022 - 04:00 pm: Edit

Drinking those moments when.. The blackness would hit me...
..And the void would be calling...

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Tuesday, February 22, 2022 - 06:48 pm: Edit

Could a Frankenstein be in this he would be an android

By Alan Trevor (Thyrm) on Tuesday, February 22, 2022 - 08:50 pm: Edit

At the risk of sounding like a geek, "Frankenstein" was the creator of the monster, not the monster itself.
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At the risk of sounding like an even bigger geek, Victor Frankenstein was never "Dr. Frankenstein". He left Ingolstadt Universtity prior to completing his degree.

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Tuesday, February 22, 2022 - 09:53 pm: Edit

Android knights that gaurd the interior of the starship castle

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Tuesday, February 22, 2022 - 11:39 pm: Edit

Robot dragons that fire plasma F-s out of their eyes

By Daniel Eastland (Democratus) on Wednesday, February 23, 2022 - 08:59 am: Edit

Difference between knowledge and wisdom.

Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein was not the monster.

Wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein *was* the monster.

By Alan Trevor (Thyrm) on Wednesday, February 23, 2022 - 11:16 am: Edit

Daniel,

Well, I don't think Frankenstein (the human) really is a monster. There's a disconnect, in my opinion, between his description in Captain Walton's "framing story" and his actions as described in the internal story. Captain Walton, in his letters to his sister, makes much of Frankenstein's "nobility". But I can't see it, myself. I certainly think he acted... dishonorably... in Geneva, during the trial of Justine Moritz. But it also seems to me that this was more a combination of vanity and weakness, and perhaps a certain naive foolishness. Character flaws, certainly, but hardly enough to brand him a "monster".

Just my .02 quatloos worth...

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Thursday, February 24, 2022 - 07:33 pm: Edit

Wonder what a Klingon vampire is like

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Thursday, February 24, 2022 - 08:15 pm: Edit

Well, for starters, the blood wine would actually be *blood*.

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Thursday, February 24, 2022 - 09:51 pm: Edit

Vampier Orion pirate would steal everything

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Friday, February 25, 2022 - 05:23 pm: Edit

Romulan vampire always invisible

By Jeff Anderson (Jga) on Friday, February 25, 2022 - 05:49 pm: Edit

ISC Vampire is a Lawyer... :)

By A David Merritt (Adm) on Friday, February 25, 2022 - 06:22 pm: Edit

Kzinti do not have vampires, they have were-tigers.

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Friday, February 25, 2022 - 09:00 pm: Edit

Dracula could be an organian

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Sunday, February 27, 2022 - 10:47 pm: Edit

Under the bothers of the brothers of the anarchistic what would a federation ship be under gorn hands and gorn ship in fed hands

By Stewart Frazier (Frazikar3) on Sunday, February 27, 2022 - 11:06 pm: Edit

Captain's Log #37 has that answer ...

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Monday, February 28, 2022 - 12:16 am: Edit

Thanks didn’t know that

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Monday, February 28, 2022 - 05:33 am: Edit

Dracula’s ship has cobwebs hanging on the interior dark and spooky

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Tuesday, March 01, 2022 - 12:25 am: Edit

Organian vampires could have been fooled centuries by the people of earth

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Tuesday, March 01, 2022 - 12:26 am: Edit

Wonder what tholian vampires are like

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Tuesday, March 01, 2022 - 06:30 am: Edit

I would like to see the rules for omega x tech

By Jack Bohn (Jackbohn) on Wednesday, March 02, 2022 - 10:45 am: Edit

Is it too early to ask for an Anarchist article on Dracula's ship converted for Frankenstein's fleet? (The movie "House of Dracula" was the count converting Frankenstein's castle for his service.)

Are there safeguards in place to prevent empires from converting anarchist ships of other empires? I seem to remember a note that Romulan Kestral ships are converted as if Klingon, there's probably a generalization somewhere that all Anarchists are converted as if from the original fleet. I would guess the Tholians would find it too hard to convert a Kestral to a TKF5R, as the boom is not detachable.

By Mike West (Mjwest) on Wednesday, March 02, 2022 - 01:38 pm: Edit

Not sure what you mean by "safeguards".

But, yes, if you want to convert a converted ship to something else, you would have to treat the new conversion as being based on the original ship.

So, if the Romulans captured a Kzinti ship sold to the Gorns and converted to Gorn technology, the Romulan version of the ship would be based on the original Kzinti ship, not whatever the Gorn version looked like.

In the case of the Tholians capturing a KF5R and converting it to their use, any such conversion would be based on the Klingon F5, not the Romulan version of the F5. Also, since the Romulan version would likely be captured with the boom on the ship, they wouldn't make it a TKF5; it would just be a "Tholianized" F5.

However, they wouldn't be prevented from making a TKF5 if they wanted. Whether the boom is "detachable" (like on a Klingon F5) or "hard welded" (like on a Romulan KF5R), nothing prevents them from just cutting the boom off and replacing it with a truncated PC hull. Though, again, I doubt they would since they only did that because they didn't have the boom. With a Romulan version, they get the boom.

By Jay Gustason (Jay20) on Wednesday, March 02, 2022 - 01:51 pm: Edit

Tholian Gorn

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