Fleet Captain Promotion: SaintPlazma (@Akinori)
Wow! That's awesome! Welcome to the team, SaintPlazma! *big hugs* Gratz on making Fleet Captain! Qapla'! :D o7
Eurrsk
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Fleet Captain Promotion: SaintPlazma (@Akinori)
One of the great honors and privileges of being an Admiral of Stonewall Fleet is to share in the positive experience it affords others and to our community.
A founding principal of Stonewall Fleet is to seek out new forms of diversity, to spread the Federation ideals of unity and acceptance, and boldly go where no person has gone before. As a long time Star Trek fan myself, I am reminded of that very simple ideal every time I watch the introduction to an episode of Classic Star Trek or The Next Generation. Yet for so simple a statement, it carries such significant weight; not only to our past and the present, but also to our collective future.
In any fleet or membership based group, there must come a vision - one which is guided by the decisions of senior leaders to help influence the actions of others toward a common goal. They are tasked with the welfare of the membership, including delegating such authority to those who embrace and best represent the principles of the group as a whole.
By the powers vested in me by the Admiralty of Stonewall Fleet, I would like to announce the following promotions to Fleet Captain effective immediately:
@Akinori: Department of Klingon Affairs
As a Fleet Captain, SaintPlazma (@Akinori) will be responsible for general Fleet Captain duties such as assisting members in game, hosting events, fleet invites, and general forum/chat moderation just to name a few. Fleet Captains are a more senior member of the fleet due to their expanded abilities and knowledge of the game. They participate and assist with the day to day operations of this vast community we all appreciate and care about. He's been a long time member of Stonewall and has served before in a Fleet Captain capacity so it's my great honor to welcome him back to our team.
If you are in game and need assistance, feel free to reach out to any of the Fleet Captains, or to any Admiral that may be online at that time.
Please join me in congratulating and welcoming SaintPlazma (@Akinori) to his new role as Fleet Captain of the Glorious House of Nagh'reD! Qa'pla!
A founding principal of Stonewall Fleet is to seek out new forms of diversity, to spread the Federation ideals of unity and acceptance, and boldly go where no person has gone before. As a long time Star Trek fan myself, I am reminded of that very simple ideal every time I watch the introduction to an episode of Classic Star Trek or The Next Generation. Yet for so simple a statement, it carries such significant weight; not only to our past and the present, but also to our collective future.
In any fleet or membership based group, there must come a vision - one which is guided by the decisions of senior leaders to help influence the actions of others toward a common goal. They are tasked with the welfare of the membership, including delegating such authority to those who embrace and best represent the principles of the group as a whole.
By the powers vested in me by the Admiralty of Stonewall Fleet, I would like to announce the following promotions to Fleet Captain effective immediately:
@Akinori: Department of Klingon Affairs
As a Fleet Captain, SaintPlazma (@Akinori) will be responsible for general Fleet Captain duties such as assisting members in game, hosting events, fleet invites, and general forum/chat moderation just to name a few. Fleet Captains are a more senior member of the fleet due to their expanded abilities and knowledge of the game. They participate and assist with the day to day operations of this vast community we all appreciate and care about. He's been a long time member of Stonewall and has served before in a Fleet Captain capacity so it's my great honor to welcome him back to our team.
If you are in game and need assistance, feel free to reach out to any of the Fleet Captains, or to any Admiral that may be online at that time.
Please join me in congratulating and welcoming SaintPlazma (@Akinori) to his new role as Fleet Captain of the Glorious House of Nagh'reD! Qa'pla!
No Mans Sky: the most ambitious game in the universe
Saw that after the E3, it looks pretty awesome. Though, I've never been a big fan of flight simms. I wonder how expansive the ground portion of the game would be. I'd love it on the PC but XBox One would be good too. Here's the Planet Stonewall!
[Announcement] Fifth Annual Pride Weekend
I'm happy and pleased to announce the Fifth Annual Pride Weekend will be on July 12th and 13th!
The Admirals and I have a wonderful weekend of events, parties and celebrations to entertain your for the new year. We have some great new fun events this year that are sure to please.
Please check out the full schedule and event info on the Fifth Annual Pride Weekend page. If you plan to attend, register for the event!
Be sure to join the STOPride channel in-game to participate in the festivities!
AmbientSilence
QiqJoe
Do you like Star Wars? Do you like HGTV? Well this is for YOU!
http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/07/01/swtor-announces-new-galactic-living-stream-series/
I love the promotional idea here. Starting at 430 pm EDT today, we'll all get to look at the new housing, the tools to build it with, and tips for all the do-it-yourself suggestions with the new housing. Can I get John Gidding to do my yard?
I love the promotional idea here. Starting at 430 pm EDT today, we'll all get to look at the new housing, the tools to build it with, and tips for all the do-it-yourself suggestions with the new housing. Can I get John Gidding to do my yard?
Keioel
Dragon Age: Inquisition
Dorian is definitely a lock for my team....for now ;)
Edit: Also thank God for the upcoming Dragon Age Keep
Edit: Also thank God for the upcoming Dragon Age Keep
Eurrsk
No Mans Sky: the most ambitious game in the universe
*drools* :L. . . . This looks amazing.... EEEE!!! Hope it does come for the PC!! B)
Rasilek
No Mans Sky: the most ambitious game in the universe
I just saw this the other day and was left very intrigued. All procedural generation of systems, worlds, life forms, etc....just wow. Sort of what STO did with the star cluster missions, but far, far more developed. Hint-iddy hint hint, Cryptic!
If NMS comes to the PC, I'll be all over it! Amazeballs. B)
If NMS comes to the PC, I'll be all over it! Amazeballs. B)
GXV3
No Mans Sky: the most ambitious game in the universe
'No Man's Sky' swaps fetch quests and missions for a living, breathing universe of infinite possibility'
This looks great.. it sounds a bit like EVE but more bigger and planets are involved.
The game Will be available on the PS4 however Hello Games have left the option of bringing the game to other platforms open.. which I hope will come to PC.
Still in development however, so probably going to take forever.. but the response they got at the E3 2014 conference will hopefully move the development on faster :P
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No Mans sky, Preview article which excited me
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This looks great.. it sounds a bit like EVE but more bigger and planets are involved.
The game Will be available on the PS4 however Hello Games have left the option of bringing the game to other platforms open.. which I hope will come to PC.
Still in development however, so probably going to take forever.. but the response they got at the E3 2014 conference will hopefully move the development on faster :P
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GXV3
Dragon Age: Inquisition
I cannot wait! a massive fan of Mass effect trilogy and Dragon ages.. Ive been missing exploring and jumping into these sort of games.
and glad they are still making for ps3 gen
and glad they are still making for ps3 gen
AmbientSilence
Dragon Age: Inquisition
This link to the Inquisition website is to an interview/profile regarding their first fully-gay male romance interest! Dorian, a Tevinter Mage.
http://www.dragonage.com/#!/en_US/news/character-profile-dorian
Nicely done Bioware!
Been looking forward to Inquisition for a while, even though I have not actually finished either of the first two (despite many many hours playing both).
Jason
@AmbientSilence
http://www.dragonage.com/#!/en_US/news/character-profile-dorian
Nicely done Bioware!
Been looking forward to Inquisition for a while, even though I have not actually finished either of the first two (despite many many hours playing both).
Jason
@AmbientSilence
Angelsilhouette
Angelsilhouette
Ereiid
Re: Semil: Agent of the Empire
Chapter XXXI: Sudden Gentleness
The transparent shield covering the cloning vat retracted. The warm jelly of the growth medium drained partly, exposing the clone's head to the air for the first time.
Semil hovered over the controls at the side of the tub, keyiing in commands slowly and deliberately, watching the clone intently between each keystroke sequence. Beneath him, in the tub, the Renvar clone had grown to his adult size, naked and motionless in the translucent glow of the lavender growth medium.
Semil looked across the tub at K'vot, who nodded his assent. Semil reached in and pulled the respiratory regulation probe from the nose of the clone, a long thin tube training behind it.
He keyed in a short sequence of commands - stimulation of only a few nuclei in the midbrain should be enough...
The clone loudly sputtered and wheezed, clearing his lungs involuntarily of the thick jelly bath. Its eyes fluttered uselessly, his limbs thrashing slightly out of reflex and disorientation. The coughs took several minutes to quiet, sounding less liquid, replaced by heavy, rapid breaths.
Semil looked up at the biomonitor displays. He had witnessed this process before in previous lifetimes. He had welcomed his Vorta bretheren back to the world of the living before - but he had never been the one to guide them through the process, from cryonically preserved embryo to full activation. Vorta didn't have parents. But this not being his area of expertise, Semil wondered to himiself whether this vague 'pride' feeling he was experience would be described as 'parental' by other species which relied on less precise methods of procreation.
Biology could be so distasteful sometimes, especially when it wasn't tightly controlled and regulated.
The clone settled, tired from his exertion.
Semil looked over at K'vot, seeking reassurance, and spoke slowly and deliberately, in Dominionese. "Renvar. Your name is Renvar."
The clone lay in the vat, unblinking. It was not clear if he could hear or understand.
"Do you know where you are?"
The clone opened its mouth silently, concentrating very hard on creating speech, but not entirely sure how to proceed. The words spilled out, wet and slurred. "Cloooone. Clooooooning. Vaaaaat."
"Good. That's good. You're right." Semil paused, unclear how to proceed. "You should rest. Let your eyes finish maturing. We will have much to discuss later. But for now, build your strength."
K'vot assessed Semil, unclear where this sudden gentleness had sprung from.
The clone opened its eyes, unfocused and unseeing. In some manner of instinct, he turned to gaze at Semil - at least where his voice was coming from.
"Wwwhhoo..? Who aaaare yoooou...?"
Semil paused, the answer not yet formed in his own mind.
The transparent shield covering the cloning vat retracted. The warm jelly of the growth medium drained partly, exposing the clone's head to the air for the first time.
Semil hovered over the controls at the side of the tub, keyiing in commands slowly and deliberately, watching the clone intently between each keystroke sequence. Beneath him, in the tub, the Renvar clone had grown to his adult size, naked and motionless in the translucent glow of the lavender growth medium.
Semil looked across the tub at K'vot, who nodded his assent. Semil reached in and pulled the respiratory regulation probe from the nose of the clone, a long thin tube training behind it.
He keyed in a short sequence of commands - stimulation of only a few nuclei in the midbrain should be enough...
The clone loudly sputtered and wheezed, clearing his lungs involuntarily of the thick jelly bath. Its eyes fluttered uselessly, his limbs thrashing slightly out of reflex and disorientation. The coughs took several minutes to quiet, sounding less liquid, replaced by heavy, rapid breaths.
Semil looked up at the biomonitor displays. He had witnessed this process before in previous lifetimes. He had welcomed his Vorta bretheren back to the world of the living before - but he had never been the one to guide them through the process, from cryonically preserved embryo to full activation. Vorta didn't have parents. But this not being his area of expertise, Semil wondered to himiself whether this vague 'pride' feeling he was experience would be described as 'parental' by other species which relied on less precise methods of procreation.
Biology could be so distasteful sometimes, especially when it wasn't tightly controlled and regulated.
The clone settled, tired from his exertion.
Semil looked over at K'vot, seeking reassurance, and spoke slowly and deliberately, in Dominionese. "Renvar. Your name is Renvar."
The clone lay in the vat, unblinking. It was not clear if he could hear or understand.
"Do you know where you are?"
The clone opened its mouth silently, concentrating very hard on creating speech, but not entirely sure how to proceed. The words spilled out, wet and slurred. "Cloooone. Clooooooning. Vaaaaat."
"Good. That's good. You're right." Semil paused, unclear how to proceed. "You should rest. Let your eyes finish maturing. We will have much to discuss later. But for now, build your strength."
K'vot assessed Semil, unclear where this sudden gentleness had sprung from.
The clone opened its eyes, unfocused and unseeing. In some manner of instinct, he turned to gaze at Semil - at least where his voice was coming from.
"Wwwhhoo..? Who aaaare yoooou...?"
Semil paused, the answer not yet formed in his own mind.
- END PART III -
Dralthcaan
Dralthcaan
Ereiid
Re: Semil: Agent of the Empire
Chapter XXX: Functional Knowledge
Semil sat up with the startled immediacy of someone surprised by their own dozing off. A brief moment of disorientation passed over him before he remembered he was at the analysis station in the converted cargo bay.
He looked about. Neither K'vot nor Ak'pak were about - he was essentially alone in the darkened room.
Semil lazily stretched his arms overhead, twisting his spine one way then the other, a couple of vertebrae cracking and popping from the exertion.
He turned his attention back to the computer monitor. The cognitive engraftment simulation had returned another failure result. Semil sighed deeply in frustration, resting his hands with locked fingers atop the crown of his head.
He stared at this most most recent in a string of failures. Twenty-three consecutive simulation programs, all ending the same - leaving a pile of useless digital neurons.
He turned his gaze over to the cloning vat at the other end of the smallish room, indicators and displays glowing and blinking. He stood, and stepped over to the largish instrument - another, more decadent species might have labelled the resemblance to a highly modified bathtub.
Inside, beneath the transparent cover, the lavender growth medium bubbled viscously. A lone humanoid figure occupied the space - a naked humanoid, its eyes shut, approximately a young adolescent in growth.
The vented ears denoted it as a Vorta. They had transferred the growing fetus from the jar into the cloning vat only eight days ago. Vorta did not need to mature anywhere near as fast as Jem'Hadar - much greater care was taken in the neurosynaptic templating.
The initial base installationof simple skillsets - language, motor reflexes - had gone off effortlessly. The prepackaged backups were designed to be as easy as possible to operate. But those skills would be useless without higher cognitive functions to integate them, and that window was rapidly narrowing.
The Klingons had salvaged what equipment they could, and jury rigged what was missing. Enough of an obstacle to make sure this process would not be as seamless as Semil had hoped.
What are we missing?
Niether K'vot nor Ak'pak were any help in this matter, other than to offer brusque grunts of acknowledgment, and deny knowledge of any further technology or data that could be helpful.
A dedicated Vorta cloning technician would have been a help - but then that's why they chose to start with the Renvar clone. His skillsets would prove useful in refining the process. An experienced enough cloning tech could remember more functional knowledge of these techniques than even K'vot could...
The train of drifting thoughts had inadvertently led Semil to his intended destination.
Of course they're hiding something. And it's obvious - the Augment vectors.
Semil remembered something. He had hidden -- he hadn't even bothered to check if it was still there. He looked around to double-check he was alone, and reached down into his boot. There, in the seam, he found the isolinear storage chip he had pilfered from the detention facility he had awoken in all those months ago. The boots were reinforced - in some ways, he was almost as surprised that K'vot hadn't found it, as he was that he had managed to forget its existence.
He loaded the chip into a port, and began browsing the file directory, opening a folder labelled 'Augment'.
Semil sat up with the startled immediacy of someone surprised by their own dozing off. A brief moment of disorientation passed over him before he remembered he was at the analysis station in the converted cargo bay.
He looked about. Neither K'vot nor Ak'pak were about - he was essentially alone in the darkened room.
Semil lazily stretched his arms overhead, twisting his spine one way then the other, a couple of vertebrae cracking and popping from the exertion.
He turned his attention back to the computer monitor. The cognitive engraftment simulation had returned another failure result. Semil sighed deeply in frustration, resting his hands with locked fingers atop the crown of his head.
He stared at this most most recent in a string of failures. Twenty-three consecutive simulation programs, all ending the same - leaving a pile of useless digital neurons.
He turned his gaze over to the cloning vat at the other end of the smallish room, indicators and displays glowing and blinking. He stood, and stepped over to the largish instrument - another, more decadent species might have labelled the resemblance to a highly modified bathtub.
Inside, beneath the transparent cover, the lavender growth medium bubbled viscously. A lone humanoid figure occupied the space - a naked humanoid, its eyes shut, approximately a young adolescent in growth.
The vented ears denoted it as a Vorta. They had transferred the growing fetus from the jar into the cloning vat only eight days ago. Vorta did not need to mature anywhere near as fast as Jem'Hadar - much greater care was taken in the neurosynaptic templating.
The initial base installationof simple skillsets - language, motor reflexes - had gone off effortlessly. The prepackaged backups were designed to be as easy as possible to operate. But those skills would be useless without higher cognitive functions to integate them, and that window was rapidly narrowing.
The Klingons had salvaged what equipment they could, and jury rigged what was missing. Enough of an obstacle to make sure this process would not be as seamless as Semil had hoped.
What are we missing?
Niether K'vot nor Ak'pak were any help in this matter, other than to offer brusque grunts of acknowledgment, and deny knowledge of any further technology or data that could be helpful.
A dedicated Vorta cloning technician would have been a help - but then that's why they chose to start with the Renvar clone. His skillsets would prove useful in refining the process. An experienced enough cloning tech could remember more functional knowledge of these techniques than even K'vot could...
The train of drifting thoughts had inadvertently led Semil to his intended destination.
Of course they're hiding something. And it's obvious - the Augment vectors.
Semil remembered something. He had hidden -- he hadn't even bothered to check if it was still there. He looked around to double-check he was alone, and reached down into his boot. There, in the seam, he found the isolinear storage chip he had pilfered from the detention facility he had awoken in all those months ago. The boots were reinforced - in some ways, he was almost as surprised that K'vot hadn't found it, as he was that he had managed to forget its existence.
He loaded the chip into a port, and began browsing the file directory, opening a folder labelled 'Augment'.
Parker
PVP LIVESTREAM TUTORIAL #5 - CRUISERS: THE ICONS - 6/28
I am sorry I missed the livestream however started on the video replay! Subscribed!
I'd like to see just how well I can do in PvP with the USS Phantom now :)
Not using the Dreadnaught (as in the sig). Using a Fleet Assault Cruiser.
I'd like to see just how well I can do in PvP with the USS Phantom now :)
Not using the Dreadnaught (as in the sig). Using a Fleet Assault Cruiser.
WhiteOnmyoji
PVP LIVESTREAM TUTORIAL #5 - CRUISERS: THE ICONS - 6/28
The Livestream is now on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZlWofQdaKaHWaAX78IIUJokS5ANhZvNw
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZlWofQdaKaHWaAX78IIUJokS5ANhZvNw