The flu is the worst.

He's a Lt.Cmdr. :)

Apologies for my lack o posting. I’m just kicking a nasty bout of bronchitis and finally not feeling like death warmed over. I should have a post up after work.

Welcome to the game Sebastian :)

I'll just split the threads. The first encounter won't be impacted by the map whether you buy it or not...

Of the options presented in the OOC thread, I vote to follow Warp trails, maybe get some allies in the region. Exploring pre-warp planets is a different set of headaches. But I'm open to that if you guys would rather.

Thoughts?

Just because they're prewarp doesn't neccesarily mean that they haven't had contact with the Abaddon.

seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before, now how do we make the Andorian not have that antenna so we can go on the surface....so difficult.

Hat?

Parka?

Oh heck, I'll vote for the warp trails too

for clarification i'm voting the prewarps :D

As an archaeologist at heart, I vote pre- warp.

By my count I think its a tie between warp trails and pre-warp.

Ahhhhh, I'll choose warp trails.

Warp trails.

Now I'm worried that we've made the wrong choice. 0_0

This is just like picking the checkout line at the supermarket.  Regarless your choice it will always be the slowest.

And there'll be lasers.

Phasers. The good news is you have a Romulan on board who doesn't mind arresting and torturing the people ahead of us in line.

I'd say that we should check out the warp trails near the Abaddons path.

As an FYI part of the twist of this game is that while you are provided with lots of options time keeps on moving. If you investigate something in one sector that means that the situation in another sector can change. Fleets will continue to roam around, battle lines will shift, the enemy will grow a bit stronger etc.

I have to admit, when I read the comment that the warp trails were days, possibly a week or more away, those M-class planets nearby sounded like low-hanging fruit.   Now add indications of disaster and familiar energy signals and I have to change my vote to investigate them instead.

so things get more dangerous :) got it

well....I'd say we go try to save that planet, but thats the hero in me and I'm not in charge :D what are my orders Captain Garrity?

Oh yeah, I'm up for some planet saving.

To peel back the curtain a bit if you had gone immediately there the situation would be different. If you would have left immediately you would never have gotten a signal and would have found a very different set of sensor images when you finally returned X amount of time later. That you stayed in system gathering data meant you were around to discover new bits of information.

Just being clear that I'm not trying to railroad you to a particular encounter but as an example of "time keeps moving..."

Also as a reminder as a pre-warp civilization the planet is subject to the Prime Directive protocols...