Season Seven OOC

[Bryancd]

What were the color options and look of the indigenous again?

[Jen]

Here's the post that detailed the planet and the peeps:

Sevryll looked over Nathan's shoulder as he skimmed the files that were forwarded to his in Ready Room from the Starbase. "Well, we already know the planet is geologically unique, but what exactly does that mean? Let's see what we're up against, shall we?" asked the captain as he keyed a command and the computer. Instantly the monitor began to rotate charts and topographical maps relating to the planet Ter'Oss.  The world was vast and diverse, consisting of both temperate and frigid regions. A picture of an ice mountain dotted with cold hearty flora soon replaced an image of petrified forests, emerging from wind swept volcanic sand dunes.  The next revolution of images revealed emerald oceans, bays and harbors beset with an armada of sailing ships. These too were soon supplanted as more images moved into view on the monitor; pictures of people astride great beasts, crossing plains blanketed in red grasses rotated on the screen.

Each image that followed presented the natives of Ter'Oss in greater detail. The people of this world were called Ter'Osicks and they were as diverse as the environments they hailed from.  They were a graceful, beautiful people with long pointed ears that tipped back slightly. The Ter-Osicks resembled humans in every way, aside from this feature and their skin and hair color. The completions of the natives varied, depending on the region from which they came. Some were a turquoise hue,  some jade, some sapphire blue, and others were as dark as the blackest Onex. Their hair and eyes varied as well. A number of people had eyes of green, blue, lavender, gold and brown. Hair color often corresponded with that of the eyes, yet there were a small number whose hair and eyes did not match. These people were of the upper and royal classes, commonly referred to as the "Blate" and the "Brock".

Not unlike the Medieval monarchy of Europe; the Brock ruled their provinces, marrying only other Brock. The Blate were the lords of these regions carrying out the law, overseeing the armies and governing the cities.
Their culture was saturated with mysticism and magic.  Until a few months ago, their physicians had been the equivalent to witch doctors. Now they were budding medical doctors who had recently cured a blight that threatened the planet's population. Engineers, scientists, generals and philosophers had made similar advancements casting fuel on the suspicions of dubious Brocks who constantly sought any advantage against their enemies. These advancements fanned the flames of war and sparked inquisitions that would serve to eliminate potential threats to the security of sovereignties. The tensions seemed to accent the volatile nature of the planet—going hand in hand with the quakes that often shook the ground and brought castles down in heaps of smoking rubble.

"...Quaint," said Sevryll dryly, after Quinn turned from his computer to gain his first officer's assessment.

"Sarcasm is not a Vulcan strong suite," he replied with a grin.

She arched an eyebrow in response before adding, "there is much to prepare for. I will see to it that the department heads each have time to review this information. Perhaps we should meet after they've had a chance to study the files."

"Excellent," said Nathan as he walked Sevryll to the door. "Keep me apprised."

"Of course," replied the Vulcan as she proceeded to the turbolift. She turned before entering and asked in a quited tone, "any further word on Captain Bell's condition?"

[Omra]

Peeps?  The aliens are made of brightly colored sugary meringue?

[moyer777]

Yes and if you microwave them, they get really, really big and then blow up.  :)

[Omra]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!!!!!! :roflmao

[institches]

They also explode if you hit them with a cricket bat.

[Meds]

You're obsessed with my cricket bat ha ha ha.

[Jen]

I'm going to be out of town this weekend... but I'm coming back on Monday morning. If you guys need direction here are some ideas. Try to collaborate as often as possible as there are a lot of people involved:

-Continue to write about the surgical alterations
-Work with superior officers on mission preparations (collaborate with other writers)
-Collaborate to describe the shuttle trip to the surface and the base camp. Just X had a good idea with regards to this, consult with him... I liked the solution he had.
-Split up, decide who's in which landing party. Remember, each party has a group of engineers, medical officers, scientists and security officers. You can use NPCs from the NPC Section to round these out if necessary. Remember, Sevryll is heading up one group and Quinn is heading up the other.

[X]

Okay for those of you still around, we're going to continue doing what Jen suggested. Here are the key pieces of the plan that I should let you write about.

- There are going to be three transport vessels to the surface. Two Volga runabouts that have the holocloaks and the Aurora. Most teams will descent in one of the two runabouts and when it lands, they find their landing sites, the two runabouts will use the tech to blend into the surroundings like the holoship and the duckblind in Insurrection.

- We should work on who's going to be on each ship and the Aurora will be able to ferry major supplies to each site once setup since she has a better system and can move better while holo cloaked.

- We need to establish the teams but I would recommend that we have a medic, science, security, command, engineer and communications person on each team. Once we figure out who's on what team we can decide where they set down.

- Anyone that might be on the surface including the pilots of each ship will need modifications.


So three ships and a back up ship that will play the taxi once the other base sites are operational.

I am up to do some joint posts with Aeric or Aria and anyone that feels that their stories will intersect.

So that's about it, but I think that we can at the very least hit the planet by the time that the long weekend is over.

[Bryancd]

Hey X, why don't you put the teams together here in the OCC and then we can all collaborate.

[X]

Ummm sure, but I need to know who's all going Here is a partial idea:

Team 1:
Quinn, Peterson, D'Callan, Margon, Korridan (Pilot of runabout 1)

team one needs another scientist and engineer

Team 2:
Sevryll, K'arath, Aria, K'tan, Spring, Rina (Pilot of 2nd runabout)

Team two could use another security person and general scientist

[wraith1701]

Ummm sure, but I need to know who's all going Here is a partial idea:

Team 1:
Quinn, Peterson, D'Callan, Margon, Korridan (Pilot of runabout 1)

team one needs another scientist and engineer

Team 2:
Sevryll, K'arath, Aria, K'tan, Spring, Rina (Pilot of 2nd runabout)

Team two could use another security person and general scientist

This is close to what I was thinking.  In addition to providing teams that are balanced crew-member wise, I think we should also look at how prolific the posters playing those characters are.  Due to real-life constraints, some members aren't able to post as frequently as others.  We might want to consider splitting the teams in a manner that will allow both teams' stories to progress at a steady rate.  It would be awkward to have one team posting several times a day, and another posting once every couple of days. 

As far as security goes, there  are a bunch of characters to choose from.   There's Bryan's NPC Dunn, as well as Shyn and Drah'Vehn. 

[X]

Works for me. So how should we alter the breakdowns? Dunn can go with team one and shyn can be on team two. That gives each writer a person on both teams.

[Meds]

I'd like to keep shyn and Drah'Vehn together if possible as they are coming on great in the past posts. I'll try and write as much as i can but I'm getting married soon so am starting to run out of spare time. Plus we've just had another bereavement today so am a bit tied up. Happy to do joint posts but I'm afraid i may have to be a jumper (someone start off and I'll add my stuff in) which i know is not fair but i hope you understand.

[Bryancd]

Put Dunn with D'Callan on Team 1, then I can bounce between the two teams writing.