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An Open Letter to Starfleet Command and the Federation Council

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To: Starfleet Command and the esteemed member of the Federation Council
From: Vice Admiral Jonathon Stipe

Sirs,

This communique is being after our latest defeat on the Klingon front. While my ship and crew survived this latest encounter we suffered heavy damages and numerous casulties. We were lucky. Several ships in my battle group were destroyed. This senseless waste of life must end. We fight over worlds so barren that lichen would fail to thrive there. Worlds so barren of resources a garbage scow would seem a treasure trove.

I can no longer sit idly by. I implore you to make peace with the Klingon empire. We outnumber them 10 to 1 but they destroy us at a rate of 5 to 1. We may win the war but at what cost? Even that is doubtfull at times. In this war, if it continues, even the victor will be a loser. The Borg still threaten us. I assure you the Undine are still lurking out there. The Breen are becoming restless and the Dominion is not far off either. If we do not find a way to make peace it will mean all out deaths. Both Klingon and Federation.

I implre you and the Klingon empire (since I know this communique will be intercepted) to make peace. I am no coward and neither is my crew but senseless death is still senseless. I will fight until I am destroyed or peace comes. I would prefer the later but will do the former until ordered not to. Hatred runs deep on both sides of this war but someon must be the first to say I will hate no more I wish peace. Therefore, I will say it first. I will hate no more. I wish for peace.

Vice Admiral Jonathon Stipe




This is my way of saying I would like cryptic to write a story line to end the Klingon war.
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    To: Vice Admiral Jonathon Stipe
    From: Undine Commander

    "Nothing to see, move along"

    Sheeba
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Lieutenant General Torsha reporting in:-

    To:-
    Emperor Kahless,
    Qo'noS

    From:-
    Lieutenant General Torsha
    Elite Guard of the Klingon High Council
    Commanding I.K.S. QAPLA

    Current Position, Federation Neutral Zone Boarder

    Stardate 88460.23

    On my Patrol of the Federation Neutral Zone, I have Destroyed a Federation Starship of the Excelsior Class Retrofit Design...

    Emperor Kahless, I bring you great news of the War... The U.S.S. RED HORSE, NCC-50336-B, The Federation starship had been lured into the Klingon side of the Neutral Zone in hopes of Rescuing Survivors from the Freighter S.S. IRON BAY, Registry unknown... I had previously Crippled this Vessel in hopes to lure a Federation Starship... the plan worked well... the U.S.S. RED HORSE had crossed the boarder and then I unleashed the Dogs of War !

    The Starship died well and with Honour in Glorious Battle !

    My crew Heavily Armed boarded the remains of this once powerful Starship, and raided the Logs on her main data Banks, aswell as encrypted Top Secret material we hope to decrypt soon...

    so far we have decrypted her Captains logs to find this Message of Great Importance to the Klingon Empire !

    Message Reads as follows:-
    To: Starfleet Command and the esteemed member of the Federation Council
    From: Vice Admiral Jonathon Stipe

    Sirs,

    This communique is being after our latest defeat on the Klingon front. While my ship and crew survived this latest encounter we suffered heavy damages and numerous casulties. We were lucky. Several ships in my battle group were destroyed. This senseless waste of life must end. We fight over worlds so barren that lichen would fail to thrive there. Worlds so barren of resources a garbage scow would seem a treasure trove.

    I can no longer sit idly by. I implore you to make peace with the Klingon empire. We outnumber them 10 to 1 but they destroy us at a rate of 5 to 1. We may win the war but at what cost? Even that is doubtfull at times. In this war, if it continues, even the victor will be a loser. The Borg still threaten us. I assure you the Undine are still lurking out there. The Breen are becoming restless and the Dominion is not far off either. If we do not find a way to make peace it will mean all out deaths. Both Klingon and Federation.

    I implre you and the Klingon empire (since I know this communique will be intercepted) to make peace. I am no coward and neither is my crew but senseless death is still senseless. I will fight until I am destroyed or peace comes. I would prefer the later but will do the former until ordered not to. Hatred runs deep on both sides of this war but someon must be the first to say I will hate no more I wish peace. Therefore, I will say it first. I will hate no more. I wish for peace.

    Vice Admiral Jonathon Stipe




    This is my way of saying I would like cryptic to write a story line to end the Klingon war.

    The Federation wish to seek peace My Lord ! we have Destroyed a Great many Starships and the Federation is feeling this Loss of man power, Equipment and Starships ! we have the Federation Trembling under our Feet !

    After I have sent this message off to Qo'noS, I will return to the Neutral Zone to Stalk my Prey and will inflict as much Damage as possible in a Blaze of Glory for the Mighty Klingon Empire !


    LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE !

    Computer, End Message and send to Qo'noS....
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Pacifica- wrote:
    Lieutenant General Torsha reporting in:-
    ...
    Computer, End Message and send to Qo'noS....

    Sorry Stipe, but that's game, set & match for Pacifica!
    WIN :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Ithaqua wrote:
    Sorry Stipe, but that's game, set & match for Pacifica!
    WIN :D

    I will not go down without a fight.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Now that's the spirit. Remember, WWJTKD?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    To: Starfleet Command
    From: Vice Admiral Jonathon Stipe

    Sirs.

    I have to report the destruction of the USS Red Horse. I intercepted this message being sent along secure channels to the Klingon High command. Fortunately my communications officer is more talented than that of her Klingon counterparts. This destruction was the direct result of a cowardly trap set by the Klingons. They claim honor and yet they fight with dishonor.

    While I continue to be a proponet of peace since this war is a complete waste on both sides I will make it my personal mission to track down and apprehend this Klingon.

    Intercepted message as follows.


    Pacifica- wrote:
    Lieutenant General Torsha reporting in:-

    To:-
    Emperor Kahless,
    Qo'noS

    From:-
    Lieutenant General Torsha
    Elite Guard of the Klingon High Council
    Commanding I.K.S. QAPLA

    Current Position, Federation Neutral Zone Boarder

    Stardate 88460.23

    On my Patrol of the Federation Neutral Zone, I have Destroyed a Federation Starship of the Excelsior Class Retrofit Design...

    Emperor Kahless, I bring you great news of the War... The U.S.S. RED HORSE, NCC-50336-B, The Federation starship had been lured into the Klingon side of the Neutral Zone in hopes of Rescuing Survivors from the Freighter S.S. IRON BAY, Registry unknown... I had previously Crippled this Vessel in hopes to lure a Federation Starship... the plan worked well... the U.S.S. RED HORSE had crossed the boarder and then I unleashed the Dogs of War !

    The Starship died well and with Honour in Glorious Battle !

    My crew Heavily Armed boarded the remains of this once powerful Starship, and raided the Logs on her main data Banks, aswell as encrypted Top Secret material we hope to decrypt soon...

    so far we have decrypted her Captains logs to find this Message of Great Importance to the Klingon Empire !

    Message Reads as follows:-



    The Federation wish to seek peace My Lord ! we have Destroyed a Great many Starships and the Federation is feeling this Loss of man power, Equipment and Starships ! we have the Federation Trembling under our Feet !

    After I have sent this message off to Qo'noS, I will return to the Neutral Zone to Stalk my Prey and will inflict as much Damage as possible in a Blaze of Glory for the Mighty Klingon Empire !


    LONG LIVE THE EMPIRE !

    Computer, End Message and send to Qo'noS....

    Vice Admiral Jonathon Stipe
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    To: Lieutenant General Torsha
    From: Vice Admiral Jonathon Stipe
    Broadcast over Secure Klingon Channels

    I intercepted your message. Your act was one of cowardice. If it is the last thing I do I will see the Red Horse avenged. I will see the burning hulk of your ship drifting through space. I wanted peace so that you and I didn't meet as Borg drones. We shall meet I promise. Only one of us will leave the battlefield.

    Jonathon Stipe
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    <Lieutenant General Serpieri aboard the I.K.S Maralith> - B’Rel Retrofit

    Medusae: My Lady we have located the Federation Ship escaped the battle.

    Serpieri: Distance

    Medusae: 20 Killicams my lady

    Serpieri: Tactical Assesment?

    Nisme: Minimal, they have suffered heavy damage to their primary and secondary hull, power couplings severed on their port phaser arrays, minimal deflectors, and they are leaking warp plasma from the starboard nacelle my lady.

    Serpieri: Load all Torpedo Bays and target the Bridge.

    Nisme: Target is Locked my lady

    Serpieri: Open a Channel

    Rarial: Channel Open my lady

    Serpieri: I can see you Stripe... Can you see me?


    :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Serpieri wrote: »
    <Lieutenant General Serpieri aboard the I.K.S Maralith> - B’Rel Retrofit

    Medusae: My Lady we have located the Federation Ship escaped the battle.

    Serpieri: Distance

    Medusae: 20 Killicams my lady

    Serpieri: Tactical Assesment?

    Nisme: Minimal, they have suffered heavy damage to their primary and secondary hull, power couplings severed on their port phaser arrays, minimal deflectors, and they are leaking warp plasma from the starboard nacelle my lady.

    Serpieri: Load all Torpedo Bays and target the Bridge.

    Nisme: Target is Locked my lady

    Serpieri: Open a Channel

    Rarial: Channel Open my lady

    Serpieri: I can see you Stripe... Can you see me?


    :D

    Stipe: Does it matter? Fire if you dare but remember looks can be deceiving!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    To: Lieutenant General Torsha
    From: Vice Admiral Jonathon Stipe
    Broadcast over Secure Klingon Channels

    I intercepted your message. Your act was one of cowardice. If it is the last thing I do I will see the Red Horse avenged. I will see the burning hulk of your ship drifting through space. I wanted peace so that you and I didn't meet as Borg drones. We shall meet I promise. Only one of us will leave the battlefield.

    Jonathon Stipe



    To:- Vice Admiral Jonathon Stipe

    From:-
    Lieutenant General Torsha
    Elite Guard of the Klingon High Council
    Commanding I.K.S. QAPLA

    The U.S.S. RED HORSE will not be the Last to fall under the Might of the Klingon Empire !

    The Klingon empire will not Live under a Federation Flag of Peace! we have the Right to preserve our race, our Culture... The Klingon Way of Life, the Way of the Warrior !

    The Fire in out veins Boils our Blood, seeking Honour and Glory!... we will take what ever means to preserve The Klingon Way of Life and our Culture!

    We will meet the Borg in battle with the Fire raging though our veins, and if the Federation steps in our way we will not hesitate to take the Federation down with us in a Glorious Battle to the End! If the Borg defeats us both then so be it ! We refuse to Live under the Federation Flag of Truce Fluttering in the Breeze! We will bathe in the Blood of our Enemies!




    Today is a good day to Die ! Qapla !


    Computer... End and Send message...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    Silence! I Kill You!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    To: Lieutenant General Torsha
    From: Vice Admiral Jonathon Stipe

    Have your science officer scan you you speak as an undine agent would. You confuse weakness with peace. They are not one and the same but so be it. if death it what you wish I shall be happy to oblige. To fight a petty squabble in the face of a far greater and common enemy is an insultl to your ancestors and their honor. They will have died in glorious battle for nothing. Like it or not the Klingon Empire and the Federation must coexist for if Quo'nos falls Earth will be next and if Earth falls Quo'nos will soon follow. This is not a threat this is a fact pure and simple.

    I shall hunt you Torsha because it is what you wish. I shall hunt you to avenvge the Red Horse but it is a fools game we play.

    Vice Admiral Jonathon Stipe
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    To: Torsha, LtGen.
    Commanding IKS Qapla
    From: Wake Roberts, VAdm
    Commanding USS Revolution

    General,

    I address you as a fellow warrior and an honorable man. You must realize that fighting between us can only continue at our detriment. Even Kahless said, "Destroying and Empire to win a war is no victory." Much blood has been shed on both sides. But, rather than shedding each other's blood, we should be shedding the blood of the Borg, the Undine, and any others that would see both our worlds in flames. Together we have always been stronger than we are apart. I encourage you to entertain such possibilities.

    Regards,

    Vice Admiral Allen Wakefield Roberts
    Commanding, USS Revolution
    Special Assignments and Response
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    This is my way of saying I would like cryptic to write a story line to end the Klingon war.

    And for those that dont want it? Do you think Cryptic should run two different versions of the game?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    And for those that dont want it? Do you think Cryptic should run two different versions of the game?

    No, they should write an ending to the war. In the face of much greater dangers from the Borg, Undine, Breen and Devidians peace is the only viable option. It makes no sense to fight a war that will leave common enemies to pick over our remains. Especially a war that gives neither side a tactical advantage.

    No by the time we have reached Vice Admiral levlel this war would have raged on for years. It must end. I will defend that point until the bitter end.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    No by the time we have reached Vice Admiral levlel this war would have raged on for years.

    But it hasnt. Whether it want to call it poor game design or simply Starfleet promoting people faster, the story of the game doesnt talk about the years changing. So you are completely entitled to your wish that the Fed/KDF war would end, but so are the people who DONT want it to.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    But it hasnt. Whether it want to call it poor game design or simply Starfleet promoting people faster, the story of the game doesnt talk about the years changing. So you are completely entitled to your wish that the Fed/KDF war would end, but so are the people who DONT want it to.

    Agreed. One can assume time has passed as we were promoted else lower levels would be able to do the Gamma Orinis etc earleir in the game. The progression of time is assumed. Thus you can write an ending to the war that involves end-game level play while leaving the lower levels alone.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    The Fed/Klingon war *should* end. But there should be a Klingon Civil war between factions allied with the Federation, and factions that are not.

    That way, you get all the various flavors of PvP that could be wished for, but the PvE stories can reflect the exploration that made Star Trek great. Everyone wins.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited November 2010
    latimer wrote: »
    The Fed/Klingon war *should* end. But there should be a Klingon Civil war between factions allied with the Federation, and factions that are not.

    That way, you get all the various flavors of PvP that could be wished for, but the PvE stories can reflect the exploration that made Star Trek great. Everyone wins.

    everyone already wins when it comes to this war.
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