The Federation Tribune - July 2002

[Clare Bradley]

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              TALES FROM DELTA ONE AND THE USS CALHOUN
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The gallant crew of the USS Calhoun is reunited once more! Only two
officers are still missing, and it is in an attempt to locate and
save those same two that the Calhoun has launched on a bold rescue
mission, entering space unknown. . .

Having slipped past an alien blockade, the crew had to think
creatively again to avoid a Kazon warship and reach an alien world
where the two officers are thought to be. When Qar kidnapped
Counsellor Yarel and ran off in a two-person rescue mission of his
own, however, the crew found themselves compelled to act immediately.

Commander Logix assembled a second Away Team and launched in a second
shuttle, following Qar and Yarel. Meanwhile, the Calhoun struggled to
keep the Kazon off the backs of the Away Team. . .

Simultaneously, time is running out for Lieutenant Summers, a
prisoner of the Kazon on the alien world. As her friends and
crewmates struggle to reach her. . . will the rescue mission end in
disaster?

Find out next month, by reading the next issue of The Federation
Tribune!
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            THE ACADEMY CORNER by Rear Admiral Val Karna
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RACE FOR ASTEROID TERMINATED

Admiral Karna, Commandant of the Academy, was informed that an
asteroid from the asteroid belt was slowly moving out of its place.
Starfleet Science calculated that it was on a course towards Jupiter
and would eventually hit Jupiter Station. Fortunately it was not
moving very fast. The predictions were that the impact would be in
two weeks. So Starfleet and Admiral Karna were not in a hurry.

Val gave Instructor Jaune the possibility to send a group of cadets
to destroy the asteroid. She assembled two teams of Security/Tactical
specialised Cadets and made it into a challenge. Two shuttles,
equipped with each two tricobalt torpedoes and modified shields and
phasers were going to race for the asteroid. Firing on their
opponents would not damage them, but only slow them down.

Cadets Karol Underhill, Darksage and King Cold were 'Team Tiberius'
and 'Team Augustus' was formed by Yarel, Fizban and Napolean Patton.
The Cadets Yarel and Underhill will be in Command. Instructor Rooms
and Jaune were present as observers.

Unfortunately the race had to be terminated when it was half-way. The
phaser-fire seemed not correctly reconfigured. After a lot of shots
from Cadet Darksage and Fizban, the shields were starting to weaken.
It would have been dangerous to continue.
However the Cadets maneuvered the Shuttles in a safe range of the
asteroid. Each Shuttle fired one tri-cobalt torpedo on it and with a
big firework the mission ended.

Cadet Yarel, Darksage, Cold and Patton are already promoted to Ensign
and are divided over several dutystations of our Fleet by now.

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                          USS VALKYRIE LOG
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Captain's Log, Stardate 2390.09.16.1330. Negotiations with the
Cantellans and the Miklessans remain at a standstill. In order to
speed up the process, I invited delegations from both vessels to the
Valk. This however, has only made them easier targets for the aliens
that have somehow boarded my vessel. The tiny Nivans, as Bjorn tells
me they are called, appear to have good intentions, but are a royal
pain in the... The somewhat larger J’Ohdah, however, seem to have
more nefarious designs. After capturing one called Dack Obagh, a
second appeared in the conference room and wounded Admiral Visiiage.
Just how many stowaways are onboard? Soon we’ll be finding waifs
living in the Jeffries tubes. Despite these setbacks, I believe
things are finally moving toward a resolution. Then I can get these
annoying Admirals off my ship. End Log.

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Space, the final frontier. Or is it? In a remote corner of the Alpha
Quadrant, a new and unique project has been started. Here, in the
distant Bel System we find a new type of star base, one unlike ever
seen before. This star base, wielding the codename 'Maelstrom',
utilizes the sun's power to create a rift in space, a vortex much
alike a wormhole, for a brief period of time, allowing whatever
passes through it to travel to any part of the galaxy, or even to
distant
galaxies. These stories follow the adventures of its crew as they
travel towards new destinations, meeting new friends and encountering
new foes. These are the adventurers of the Star Gate.

MAIN CHARACTERS:

David Rolans:
Commanding Officer of the Maelstrom. A young terran StarFleet
officer. Though still inexperienced at being in command, he is
anything but naieve.

Captain Black:
Originally asigned to guide Commander Rolans to the Maelstrom, Black
turns out to be more than just an escort, always around to lend a
helping hand.

Jagh Ramen:
A trill with an almost immposible tranquility; Jagh is asigned as
David's first officer and tries to perform that duty at his best
ability.

Argol Manck: 
A tall Cardassian with a grumpy attitude; Why exactly he got asigned
to the Maelstorm is still a mystery, but he seems to do his job well
so nobody's really complaining. Argol is in charge of station
security.

Anya Maras:
A bajoran woman who mans the science station; her knowledge seems
varied, and her social skills well developped, even though she can't
stand Manck, for obvious reasons...

Daniel Jackson:
A human in his thirties in charge of engineering. His skills are
average, but his ability to improvise more than makes up for it, and
he's one of the people who helped constructing the Central Reactor
and one of the few who understands it fully.

Doctor Ragg: 
A Ferengi as cowardly as they come, yet Ragg's medical skills and
techniques rank among the finest in medical circles.

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			PREVIOUSLY:
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David Rolans, a young StarFleet officer, has recently been promoted
to
command the star base that goes by the codename of "Maelstrom." The
young commanding  officer knows little more about it than the
station's name and is taken there by the enigmatic Captain Black.

After following the captain through a stable wormhole he discovers
what Maelstrom really is: A very large starbase, engineered specially
to generate a stable wormhole.

The freshly appointed commander docked aboard the Maelstrom and was 
introduced to his new staff. It was then when trouble stuck, as the
station's Central Core started overheating and was in danger of
exploding, taking the station with it...

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       PROJECT STAR GATE --- CHAPTER III -- CRITICAL MASS
                      (by Mark van der Laan)
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   'Warning, Central Reactor temperature exceeding maximum tolerance.
Estimated time to meltdown: three minutes.' the Maelstrom's female
computer voice announced, casting a deadly silence over the command
area that was only broken by the whining of the alarm.

   Finally it was Commander Rolans himself who acted, tapping his
comm-badge: "Mr. Jackson, this is Commander Rolans, can you hear me?"
The reply came in the form of fuzzy noise, with a few barely
understandable words audible behind it. "The central core's eminating
strange graviton pulses," Anya Maras explained after examining her
console, "I'm not sure what's causing it, but it could be a
defect..."

   "It'd better be a defect," captain Black growled over the whining
alarm, "I'd hate to see this happen every time the stargate's
opened!"

   "I'll try to boost the communication by rerouting and amplifying
it," Anyasuggested, and did so.
   "Mr. Jackson," David tried again, "Can you hear me? What's going
on down there?"

   Again, the reply was hazy and unclear: "Reactor... overheating... 
cause...radiation... external sensors..." - and then the signal
disappeared altogether.

   "Maras?"

   "I've lost the signal, sir. I think his comm-badge got damaged."

   At that moment the station shook violently, and David feared his
first dayin command would be the last day of his life, but thankfully
the shaking stopped as suddenly as it had begun. "Report!" Jagh
Ramen, David's first officer shouted.
   "The overheating of the central core is starting to affect the
station's hull integrity," the bajoran science officer replied,
"Also, the sensors are detecting an increase of graviton radiation
all around... if this goes on, this entire solar system will be torn
apart!"

   "We have to evacuate!" the Ferengi doctor suggested, already
halfway to the turbo lift.

   "We are not evacuating," Commander Rolans interrupted sternly,
"We're going to shut this thing down before it takes everything with
it, and we are going to safe Mr. Jackson."
   He'd be damned if he let this station go down on his first day,
and he was going to get to the bottom of this; the determination in
his eyes was unmistakable as his eyes surveyed the room to consider
his next actions. His eyes crossed Captain Black's for a moment, and
there was a moment of understanding between the two.

   "Mr Manck," he gesture the tall Cardassian in charge of security,
"I'm going to the Central Reactor to find Jackson and shut the thing
down, I'll need your strength."
   "I'll be lying when I say the pleasure is all mine, but I'll come
along," the Cardassian answered dryly.
   "Ragg, you'll come along too, in case Jackson's injured."
   "But...we need to evacuate," the Ferengi whined, "And I'm afraid
of 
explosive places..."
   "It wasn't a request," David replied, "The rest of you will stay
here and oversee the evacuation of the station crew."
   "No," Black interrupted, "I will come with you too."
   David wanted to protest at that, suggesting that they needed as
much pilots as possible right now, but he knew he could not change
the captain's mind; he'd read it in his eyes a moment earlier. "Very
well," he replied.


   During their rush towards the Central Reactor they were thwarted
several times as the station shook violently again, but they were
persistent and advancing quickly, thanks to Jagh's coordination from
the command center, opening each door they had to pass through just
before they reached it from a distance. Only one door however refused
to open: the door they simply had to pass, the specially reinforced
door to the Central Reactor Room.

   "And what now?" the Cardassian asked.

   "Now we evacuate!" Ragg squeaked, already turning around.

   "The door's sealed shut as a security measure," David said, "We'll
have to try and force it open..." - The Cardassian needed no further
encouragement than that, opening a cabinet in the wall and pulling
out a phaser riffle. Before anyone could act, he'd turned it to the
highest setting and fired at the large door. It didn't flinch. He
fired again. It bucked a little. He fired a barrage of phaser fire.
It erupted inward. 
   "...by accessing the Maelstrom's computer systems," David
completed his idea, glaring at the Cardassian.

   "Oh."

   Stepping inside, it didn't take them long to determine their
current 
situation: The reactor core itself was pulsating heavily, a sure sign
of an eminent explosion, and all of the main consoles had been
broken, sparks shooting out of them. And unconscious on the ground in
front of one of them was a human body: Daniel Jackson.
   While the Ferengi bent down next to the injured engineering
officer, David rushed towards the nearest console, hoping he could
get it working again; meanwhile, Argol Manck, the cardassian, was
surveying the large room nervously, realizing all too well that
consoles don't smash themselves and that an engineering officer
doesn't knock himself out.

   "Lieutenant Maras," David shouted, tapping his comm badge, "We've
reached the reactor room - now how do we shut this thing down?"
   As was to be expected, the radiation still blocked most
communications and the reply was blurry: "Find... central
console...press shutdown code... then ... red...blue...button..." -
at this point, David Rolans regretted not having asked for
instructions before they left, yet looked around for some help either
way.

   A possible solution presented itself in the form of the only
console that hadn't been shattered yet, being extra enforced; Through
sheer luck, it turned out to be the Emergency Shutdown console as
well, showing a small console that allowed someone to enter a
security code, and a red and blue button directly below it.
   "Maras, what's the access code?" he tried, hoping her signal would
get through.

   It did.

   "The access code is one..."

   David entered it.

   "...two..."

   David entered it.

   "...three..."

   David entered it.

   "...four..."

   David entered it.

   "...five."

   "The access code is '1-2-3-4-5?'" the Cardassian snorted, "That's
the code an idiot would use on his luggage!"

   David didn't listen to him, instead being confronted with the next
dilemma, namely which button to push to activate the Auto-Shutdown:
the messy blue one or the shiny red one. Completely uncertain and
without the use of any logic whatsoever the commander hoped it would
be the red button, and pressed it.
   For a few short moments, no change occured. Then the entire room
started shaking violently as alarm lights started flashing all over
the place. "I know what you're thinking!" Argol shouted over the
noise, "Why o why didn't I take the blue button?"

   And then the shaking stopped and all the lights went out as the
reactor succesfully de-activated itself.

   "What hit me..?" Daniel Jackson groaned, rubbing the back of his
head as he woke up just after the nick of time.
   "Something hard enough to get you unconscious," Ragg replied,
running a medical scan to make sure he'd treated all the wounds.
   It was then when Commander Rolans got paged again; he tapped his
comm badge and waited for the good news. "Commander, you should
return to the command area quickly," an excited Jagh Ramen shouted,
"There's something interesting that you should see for yourself."

   David agreed on this, wanting a full status report as quickly as
possible and the group of officers hastily returned to the Command
Center while the central reactor room remained empty, waiting for the
security and engineering crews that would be arriving any minute now.
   Without the trouble of the station shaking with almost every step
and no locked doors to hinder them, their journey back to the command
center was without trouble and soon they found themselves back in the
companion of the other senior officers. "What is it you wanted to
show me?" David asked almost immediately while they each returned to
their duty station.

   "We were keeping track of the situation outside," Anya started,
"When we discovered it. The Graviton pulses must have disrupted their
cloaking technology, and they most likely haven't realized this yet."

   For a moment, Commander Rolans was speechless; It was barely
visible, their cloaking device still active, but there was no doubt
about it: positioned a short distance away from the Maelstrom was a
Romulan Warbird.

 ...TO BE CONTINUED...


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                            MEMBER NEWS
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PROMOTIONS:

>From Crewman to Ensign:
BG Stanley Blanks, USS Valkyrie played by Elizabeth Klein

>From Cadet to Ensign:
ACMO Darluzian Ambria, USS Valkyrie, played by John Wenerowicz
ACONN Luke Gerard, USS Valkyrie, played by Lucas Rowles
AOPS Napolean Patton, USS Odyssey, played by Mark Morrison
ACEO King Cold, USS Odyssey, played by Rhys Williams
AOPS Darksage, Pandora Station, played by Kelvin Mawer
ACSO Naragona 104, Pandora Station, played by Jonas Ljungberg 
ACC Yarel, USS Calhoun, played by Tonette dela Luna



>From Ensign to Lieutanant junior grade:
ASTC Matuga Denebris, USS Odyssey, played by Dennis Church
Couns Athena Mishbano, Pandora Station, played by Katy Crockett

>From Lieutenant junior grade to Full Lieutenant:
2O/CMO Andrea Victory, USS Oddyssey, played by Elisabeth Klein
CSO John Candy, USS Odyssey, played by Marvin Sijbinga

>From Lieutenant to Lieutenant Commander:
FO T’afek Sarin, USS Odyssey, played by Merijn Donders
2O/Ops Charles Holmes, Pandora Station, played by Wes Buchanan

>From Commander to Captain:
CO Jennifer Su, USS Calhoun, played by Adrian Rodd

TRANSFERS:
CEO Lt.jg. Genesis Opak, from USS Valkyrie to USS Odyssey, played by
Vincent Raposa
FO Commander Jim Janssens, from USS Odyssey to Pandora Station,
played by Bram Peeters
Ensign Mike Ryaanax, from USS Odyssey to Pandora Station, played by
Michael Smith
2O/CEO Lt.Commander Holmes, from USS Calhoun to Pandora Station
played by Wes Buchanan


UPCOMING BIRTHDAYS:

August 10 – Katy Crockett, Couns Athena Mishbano, Pandora Station
August 19 – Merijn Donders, FO T'afek Sarin, Pandora Station
August 22 – Zeke Mowbry, CSO Fyndobar CuChulainn MacCumail, USS
Calhoun

Editor's note: If your birthday is not listed, send a note to
chiefeditor@frontierfleet.com and we will add it to our list.


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                       TOP TEN POSTERS FOR JUNE
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#10 Katy Crockett: 19 posts.
(Pandora Station: 19)

#9 Kelley Mackinnon: 20 posts.
(USS Calhoun: 20)

#8 Vincent Raposa: 21 posts. (tied with #7 & #6)
(USS Valkyrie: 21)

#7 Clare Bradley: 21 posts. 
(USS Valkyrie: 13, Pandora Station: 8)

#6 Ian Beacock: 21 
(USS Valkyrie: 18, USS Calhoun: 3)

#5 Merijn Donders: 24 posts.
 (USS Odyssey: 17, Pandora Station: 7)

#4 Bram Peeters: 26 posts.
(Pandora Station: 20 USS Valkyrie 1, USS Odyssey 5)

#3 Mark van der Laan: 29 posts.
(USS Valkyrie: 20, Pandora station: 9)

#2 Adrian Rodd: 63 posts!
(USS Calhoun: 32 Posts, USS Valkyrie: 5 Posts, USS Odyssey, 19 Posts,
Pandora Station: 7 Posts)

**** #1 Poster for June ****

WERNER KAY!! 
USS Odyssey: 14 Posts
Pandora Station: 19 Posts
USS Calhoun: 33 Posts
Total: 66 posts!

Top Three Posters of the USS Calhoun:
#3 Kelley Mackinnon: 20
#2 Adrian Rodd: 32
#1 Werner Kay: 33

Top Three Posters of the USS Odyssey:
#3 Guido Dorssers: 16
#2 Merijn Donders: 17
#1 Adrian Rodd: 19

Top Three Posters of the USS Valkyrie:
#3 Ian Beacock: 18
#2 Mark van der Laan: 20
#1 Vincent Raposa: 21

Top Three Posters of Pandora Station:
#3 Katy Crockett: 19 (tied with #2)
#2 Werner Kay: 19
#1 Bram Peeters: 20


Fleet Wide Rankings:

#1 Werner K Kay, 66: USS Odyssey: 14, Pandora Station: 19, USS
Calhoun: 33
#2 Adrian Rodd, 63: USS Valkyrie: 5, USS Odyssey 19, Pandora Station:
7, USS Calhoun:32
#3 Mark van der Laan, 29: USS Valkyrie: 20, Pandora Station: 9
#4 Bram Peeters, 26: USS Valkyrie 1, USS Odyssey: 5, Pandora Station:
20
#5 Merijn Donders, 24: USS Odyssey: 17, Pandora Station: 7
#6 Ian Beacock, 21: USS Valkyrie: 18, USS Calhoun: 3
#7 Clare Bradley, 21: USS Valkyrie: 13, Pandora Station: 8
#8 Vincent Raposa, 21: USS Valkyrie: 21
#9 Kelley Mackinnon, 20: USS Calhoun: 20
#10 Katy Crockett, 19: Pandora Station: 19
#11 Guido Dorssers, 16:USS Odyssey: 16
#12 Wes Buchanan, 15: Pandora Station: 3, USS Calhoun: 12
#13 Aaron DeLay, 14 (tie): USS Valkyrie: 6, USS Calhoun: 8
#14 Dreamer Jopnes, 14 (tie): USS Valkyrie: 9, USS Odyssey: 5
#15 Lucas Rowles, 13 (tie): USS Valkyrie: 13
#16 Rob Verlinden, 13 (tie): USS Odyssey: 1, USS Calhoun: 12
#17 Michael Smith, 12: USS Odyssey: 1, Pandora Station: 11
#18 John Wenerowicz, 11: USS Valkyrie: 11
#19 Kelvin Mawer, 10: Pandora Station: 10
#20 Dennis Church, 9: USS Odyssey: 9
#21 Tonette dela Luna, 9:USS Calhoun: 9
#22 Jonas Ljungberg, 8 (tie): Pandora Station: 8
#23 Frank Rogers, 8 (tie): Pandora Station: 8
#24 Elizabeth Klein, 7 (tie): USS Valkyrie: 2, USS Odyssey: 5
#25 Marvin Sijbinga, 7 (tie): USS Odyssey: 7
#26 Brandon Allard, 5: USS Valkyrie: 5
#27 Peter Gledhill, 2: USS Calhoun: 2
#28 Cassandra Jopnes, 1 (tie): USS Calhoun: 1
#29 Mark Morrison, 1 (tie): USS Odyssey: 1
#30 Zeke Mowbry, 1 (tie): USS Calhoun: 1
#31 Rhys Williams, 1 (tie): USS Odyssey: 1
#32 Clancy Duke 0
#33 Christopher Jay 0
#34 Loren Tivoli 0


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