Or just high-tail it out of the system, especially if you're sitting at the edge looking like some random rock and then suddenly you've jumped out to report back to the rest of the Task Force. Yeah, that's fine. Unless you're literally waiting around for them, you'll be long gone by the time they get close enough to do anything.

Yup. The whole idea for them is to not be noticed until it's too late for the enemy to do anything about it. And if they don't get detected at all, even better as they wouldn't even know a message had been sent in the first place.

It's the next best thing to having a tracking device hooked into one of their ships.
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Sorry for the dumb question but what exactly is a shivari?

I was under the impression that it was an academy for psychics but I'm not sure.

Some sort of black ops or special forces, IIRC.

The setting data lists them as the earthly agents of the god Kares Nekhen.  How exactly that is interpreted or used is probably open to whoever is using it but they seem to tend to be something of the special operative style.

At best, Spec Ops under the direct orders of the highest levels of the Hegemony.

Sometimes that kind of power goes to people's heads.

Sometimes executioners, assassins, James Bond, sometimes just another guy on a ship in space.

They're basically direct agents of the Hegemony, more specifically House Indaris. They're the equivalent of the KGB, essentially, if the KGB also had a priesthood. More charitably, they are considered Divine Agents of the Crown or more cynically, they are Politburo Officers and Assassins They're there, openly or covertly to advance the interests of the Prince and his House and the collective Hegemony by any means necessary. They're not necessarily psychics, although sometimes the most dangerous of their ranks were drawn from the Psychic Academy on Prometheus II.

KGB, NSA, CIA, FBI, so many acronyms... If you don't trust THE MAN then you don't trust Shivari. If you don't trust Psychics, then Chander doubly so.

He is otherwise TRYING to be personable and doesn't have any outstanding features other than he is fit, but that shouldn't stand out in a military organization. Once he is in the Ship uniforms he might be easily lost among the crews aboard, unless everyone else IS physically outstanding.

I am currently going through extreme emotional trauma and will be unavailable for the foreseeable future.

That... sounds pretty bad.

If it's anything you feel you want to talk about, we're here, okay? No pressure though.

Do what you need, we look forward to a return when you are ready.

Sorry to hear man, I'm pulling for you

Oscar, understood. We'll keep a place open for you.

Are remaining folks good to advance plot?

Yup!

Feel free to all start posting in King Squardron thread as you are now officially underway towards your destination in Sternguard Sector. Estimate it will take you approximately two weeks to complete the various jumps and refueling to arrive in the Estelle Segura system.

I wanted to let everyone know that I will be lurking but it will likely be a couple weeks before I am ready to post again.

While Chander won't give anyone readiness drills in the first 24 hours, he does put one at hour 27 of the trip. People can feel free to comment on that if they have little else.

I feel like there is little I can do for people on other ships as he's not fleet XO.

Yeah, the drills are for the Rospolis crew, basically trying to get combat readiness up.

That said, Void, i'm still missing my crew stats for the Rospolis, you never filled out that part of it in the Operational Status thread and we're nearing the point i'd have to actually use them to make rolls with :)

Updated the crew skills. Did I miss anything else?

Well, I'm good. My character doesn't have much responsibility though.

Apologies to all, holiday things are probably going to slow me down a lot. I will keep reading, but we'll do a full reply as the new year comes aboout.

I hope everyone is doing well. I should be back in the mental headspace to do posts again. I'll try to get something up by the weekend to that Oscar's presence isn't missed too much.

Everyone survive the full solar revolution festivities?

Sure did!

Politics kind of wanted a fireworks ban, but due to their own cutbacks there's not enough police to actually enforce it (except at the border to catch people trying to smuggle illegal heavy fireworks) so it ended up being as loud as it used to be ^^

Good times were had.