03 Sue for Peace

[Lupe]

Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence. ~ Dorothy Thompson

Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done. ~ Mark Twain

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war. ~ Simone Weil

The Xoanon wish to sue the Federation for peace. They are sending a diplomatic delegation to Starbase Haven to work out the terms. Have they taken the first steps towards becoming socially mature and maybe joining the Federation?

This mission is coming soon!

[Lupe]

The way I see it we have a few different sects coming in this ambassadorial group.

• The Politician - They are here to listen to their own voice, and to waste our time giving the other groups time to do their own thing.
• Tech Thieves - hardware, any kind, big small anything they don't have, even a hand phaser will make them happy since it will tell them how a phaser works. They will beg, borrow, buy, or steal it.
• Info Thieves - same idea but higher goals, they want data, some of the planet's best hackers are in this group and they want to get what ever they can get, for example they would love to download schematics on the Indefatigable, phasers, transporters and many other devices we take for granted. Or Starcharts, galactic history, ship/station access codes, pretty much anything.
• Black OPS Tactical Group - These guys are out to destroy the station. Not petty terrorism, but hard core destroy the station. Both while their people are still on it and delayed action to blow at a later date.
• Sleepers - These guys are closer to chameleon then regular lizards, their skin can change color to blend in, their whole plan is to stay behind when the group leaves, they are trained to stand in a group and not be noticed, so when they no longer are in that group they are not missed.

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• The Command staff and Counselor will be involved with the Politicians and the peripherals of the rest.
• Security, Marines, Shock Troupes I will let you work out who takes whom.
• Engineers need to get Main OPS finished and also will have to deal with thieves that are willing to steal a part out of a live circuit, or repairing damage done stopping one of the other groups. Also you might start getting the SCE team to repair the Hesperus (I am not going to say we will need her in a future mission, but we will need her in a future mission lol)

[Lupe]

I am going to need a team to sneak onto a planet full of bears (their military is Kodiak and their police are grizzlies) hunt around in the dirt, while chasing web-footed aquatic wildfowl.

Please PM me if you are interested in being part of that team.

[Kevron]

*Has visions of a Coca-Cola Ad* Wait, what?

[Lupe]

*long slow sigh*

I need a team to sneak on to the Mordee home planet, Dig for an artifact in the catacombs of the capital city only to find out the object they are looking for has already been found and removed.

The Mordee are Ursidae or basically bears
catacombs are under buildings or cities and usually dirty
to go for something and find out that you have been wasting your time is a wild goose chase.



Update: I will need a ship commander also, the Texas, and Rainmaker are out since neither have a cloaking device, and the Hesperus is out since it is still smashed up.

I will take volunteers here in this thread.

[Kevron]

Interesting. The Mordee are like the Karbaran from Robotech II: The Sentinels, being an ursine bearlike race. That should put a new perspective on things,...no wonder the Mordee were unwilling to give into being "paid" off. You can count Aries in,...there isn't a fight he'd deign to stay out of even if it is a re-enactment from The Great Outdoors.

[Kaziarl]

So like Chewie? Or the Ewoks? Or is this going to be a trip to the land of misfit mascots?

[Lupe]

I was thinking more like him:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodiak_Bear

[Kevron]

Impressive. That should make for an interesting mission as long as there aren't any lamps around. Sorry, it was an odd reference from that movie.

[Lupe]

OK, we have the team set, the CUS Pareg will go with Gul Kevron leading the party, the group will have Commander Kate Mevynn, 1st Lieutenant Kenta Amadahy, and Civilian Scientist Richard Kennings.

Everything seen and observed of the Mordee culture and homeworld will be added to the wiki on them, so be sure to see everything you can.

This sub-plot excursion will not last the whole mission, but the rest of you don't worry I have plenty of work in mind for you too. lol