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Winter of Discontent

pwlaughingtrendypwlaughingtrendy Member Posts: 2,966 Arc User
edited August 2016 in Galactic News Network [PC]
The lieutenant swallowed hard, then straightened.

“I’m a Starfleet officer. If I have to die to protect the timeline…”

~Morrigan "LaughingTrendy"
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    mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    Too bad the records showed that the Defiant crew went crazy, instead of that they just died or disappeared. Then Daniels could have recruited them as he did recruit me and my surviving crew.
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    captaind3captaind3 Member Posts: 2,449 Arc User
    I'm inclined to leave a note for the Vorgon behind that says..."SUCKERS!!!" But that would be...unprofessional.
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    dareaudareau Member Posts: 2,390 Arc User
    Wait a minute...

    Daniels was with me, on Earth, running around headquarters helping me find a Tox Uthat during this... incident. Temporal Instigations allows 20 "ages" of Daniels running around in the same spot?
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    firelordzx5firelordzx5 Member Posts: 79 Arc User
    dareau wrote: »
    Wait a minute...

    Daniels was with me, on Earth, running around headquarters helping me find a Tox Uthat during this... incident. Temporal Instigations allows 20 "ages" of Daniels running around in the same spot?

    Ahh... The Joy of Paradoxes and Time Travel
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    megawolf0megawolf0 Member Posts: 114 Arc User
    Was laughing when it was Daniels and laughed when she was recruited and they all escaped. Maybe this is a good way for the Vorgons to just stop.

    Guess these things are telling what happened.

    Leeta is still a threat
    The Na'Khul are going home and there are minor groups left.
    Vorgons seem to be taking a step back from all this.
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    tinyfistedtinyfisted Member Posts: 193 Arc User
    dareau wrote: »
    Daniels was with me, on Earth, running around headquarters helping me find a Tox Uthat during this... incident. Temporal Instigations allows 20 "ages" of Daniels running around in the same spot?

    _Almost_ the same spot. _Almost_. You can get pretty darn close without actually crossing your own timeline.

    Nice story. :)
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    keletteskelettes Member Posts: 488 Arc User
    Looks like scooping up people who are supposed to be dead is standard procedure in the Temporal Operations Bureau :smile: This makes me wonder if Tasha Yar really died on Romulus... :smile: Or if future-janeway really perished along with the Queen when the transwarp hub went up in flames :wink:
    dareau wrote: »
    Wait a minute...

    Daniels was with me, on Earth, running around headquarters helping me find a Tox Uthat during this... incident. Temporal Instigations allows 20 "ages" of Daniels running around in the same spot?

    If I understand it right, it's working like this:

    Let's say I just pop out of nowhere at 8:00am in a room :smile: Do something, and at 8:10 I return to my own time, which is 22:00 the same day.

    Then, at 22:30, I realize I forgot something, so I go back to say... 8:11, but a different room. Once I did what I forgot, I go back to my time again, 22:35.

    Lots of traffic in the morning :smile: In fact, the two things could even be done at the same time, as long as I don't meet the "other me".



    And this blog isn't the only time they used this "trick" :smile: Remember the Battle of Procyon V? While Daniels commanded the battle, he was also helping the player a few decks down, while ALSO speaking with Archer :smile:

    Same thing with the players. In the PVE queue we fly our own ship and... try not to get POKED by a SINGLE FAW beam while closing portals (... every time...) XD In the same time, we are also on the ENT-J trying to get the darn thing ready to do its thing when the fleet creates the opening needed to take out the Command Sphere.

    A handy little trick to get a lot of things done :smile: Personally, I wouldn't get tangled up in it though. Could get messy. ^^

    P.S.: "winter" and "discontent"? I hear the Snorg talking.

    Winter is coming! XD
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    anodynesanodynes Member Posts: 1,999 Arc User
    edited August 2016
    kelettes wrote: »

    P.S.: "winter" and "discontent"? I hear the Snorg talking.

    Winter is coming! XD

    It's another Shakespeare paraphrase, this time from Richard III. "Now is the Winter of our discontent."

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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 0 Arc User
    Would be interested in knowing how many people actually read this gibberish
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    antonine3258antonine3258 Member Posts: 2,391 Arc User
    I guess given that these are prisoners later - Daniels sent a team back in after sending 'the captain' back to the future with the Tox Uhat recovered?

    Guy's on a recruiting spree.
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    shevetshevet Member Posts: 1,667 Arc User
    Meanwhile, slightly earlier in the timestream, the sensible Vorgons are photocopying the Tox Uthat's design specs and schematics.

    The idea of recruiting people at the moment of death crops up quite a bit in these sorts of stories - it's a feature in Jack Williamson's The Legion of Time and Fritz Leiber's "Change War" stories; you get your agents at the point where they stop having any effect on conventional history....
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    iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    Plot Twist: We're ALL Agent Daniels.​​
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    nikeixnikeix Member Posts: 3,972 Arc User
    I think I still enjoyed it more in Freejack ;).
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    daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    Well...
    Now I know who the "Some People" are, whenever somebody say's "Some People Say".
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    mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    iconians wrote: »
    Plot Twist: We're ALL Agent Daniels.​​
    And one of us is accidentally stuck in the past and builds a whiskey destillery.
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    mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    reyan01 wrote: »
    Would be interested in knowing how many people actually read this gibberish

    I'd be interested to know how many people actually read your gibberish.
    Don't fall for it, reyan01. Remember, there is a second button next to "Quote".
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    thelunarboythelunarboy Member Posts: 412 Arc User
    Maybe this explains the Marie Celeste. :)
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    dalolorndalolorn Member Posts: 3,655 Arc User
    megawolf0 wrote: »
    Was laughing when it was Daniels and laughed when she was recruited and they all escaped. Maybe this is a good way for the Vorgons to just stop.

    Guess these things are telling what happened.

    Leeta is still a threat
    The Na'Khul are going home and there are minor groups left.
    Vorgons seem to be taking a step back from all this.

    You forgot the Sphere Builders - they don't seem to be giving up yet. Which leaves... pretty much just the Krenim, as far as these stories are concerned.

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    danielhunter1991danielhunter1991 Member Posts: 91 Arc User
    tinyfisted wrote: »
    dareau wrote: »
    Daniels was with me, on Earth, running around headquarters helping me find a Tox Uthat during this... incident. Temporal Instigations allows 20 "ages" of Daniels running around in the same spot?

    _Almost_ the same spot. _Almost_. You can get pretty darn close without actually crossing your own timeline.

    Nice story. :)

    You sound as if you speak from experience lol
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    danielhunter1991danielhunter1991 Member Posts: 91 Arc User
    I liked this story and loved how it related to my favourite mission from this expansion. My main characters back story is that he served in Starfleet as a junior Officer during the Dominion War, so that means there would of been two of him battling above Earth.
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    hawkyenarasumashawkyenarasumas Member Posts: 35 Arc User
    Good story, I feel like this should have been a mission though. My main character has been operating like Daniels for a very, very long time recruiting people out of the timeline who "should have" died. It'd be fun to do a mission based on that.
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    daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    So is this supposed to be a precautionary tale about Boratus possibly becoming more of a threat to the timeline through murder and treachery to his own gain as did Richard III did in Shakespeare's play , or is it about Daniels just about doing the same, but for a more righteous cause???
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    thelunarboythelunarboy Member Posts: 412 Arc User
    "Now is the winter of our discount Ent...erprise." ;)
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    toivatoiva Member Posts: 3,276 Arc User
    daveyny wrote: »
    So is this supposed to be a precautionary tale about Boratus possibly becoming more of a threat to the timeline through murder and treachery to his own gain as did Richard III did in Shakespeare's play , or is it about Daniels just about doing the same, but for a more righteous cause???

    I had the feeling Boratus is dealt with. Unless of course we get tangled in some new time escapade.
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    dalolorndalolorn Member Posts: 3,655 Arc User
    toiva wrote: »
    daveyny wrote: »
    So is this supposed to be a precautionary tale about Boratus possibly becoming more of a threat to the timeline through murder and treachery to his own gain as did Richard III did in Shakespeare's play , or is it about Daniels just about doing the same, but for a more righteous cause???

    I had the feeling Boratus is dealt with. Unless of course we get tangled in some new time escapade.

    Yeah, we did kinda kill(?) him and Krog last time we met. :tongue:

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    markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    kelettes wrote: »
    Looks like scooping up people who are supposed to be dead is standard procedure in the Temporal Operations Bureau :smile: This makes me wonder if Tasha Yar really died on Romulus... :smile: Or if future-janeway really perished along with the Queen when the transwarp hub went up in flames :wink:
    dareau wrote: »
    Wait a minute...

    Daniels was with me, on Earth, running around headquarters helping me find a Tox Uthat during this... incident. Temporal Instigations allows 20 "ages" of Daniels running around in the same spot?

    If I understand it right, it's working like this:

    Let's say I just pop out of nowhere at 8:00am in a room :smile: Do something, and at 8:10 I return to my own time, which is 22:00 the same day.

    Then, at 22:30, I realize I forgot something, so I go back to say... 8:11, but a different room. Once I did what I forgot, I go back to my time again, 22:35.

    Lots of traffic in the morning :smile: In fact, the two things could even be done at the same time, as long as I don't meet the "other me".



    And this blog isn't the only time they used this "trick" :smile: Remember the Battle of Procyon V? While Daniels commanded the battle, he was also helping the player a few decks down, while ALSO speaking with Archer :smile:

    Same thing with the players. In the PVE queue we fly our own ship and... try not to get POKED by a SINGLE FAW beam while closing portals (... every time...) XD In the same time, we are also on the ENT-J trying to get the darn thing ready to do its thing when the fleet creates the opening needed to take out the Command Sphere.

    A handy little trick to get a lot of things done :smile: Personally, I wouldn't get tangled up in it though. Could get messy. ^^

    P.S.: "winter" and "discontent"? I hear the Snorg talking.

    Winter is coming! XD
    Also this stuff only applies if you are physically present. If you send a hologram to talk to people....
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    chozoelder2ndchozoelder2nd Member Posts: 440 Arc User
    Another great story blog.

    dareau wrote: »
    Wait a minute...

    Daniels was with me, on Earth, running around headquarters helping me find a Tox Uthat during this... incident.
    Remember Back to the Future Part II?

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    themetalstickmanthemetalstickman Member Posts: 1,010 Arc User
    I liked this story and loved how it related to my favourite mission from this expansion. My main characters back story is that he served in Starfleet as a junior Officer during the Dominion War, so that means there would of been two of him battling above Earth.

    Similar with mine. Mine is a Vulcan-Betazoid hybrid that was nearly killed at the Battle of Cardassia, completely lost his memory, and pretty much had to piece his mind back together with help from his Vulcan half-sister. So he was in Starfleet at the same time as the Breen attack.
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    kianazerokianazero Member Posts: 247 Arc User
    Hmm, here's an oddity:
    Daniels said as gently as he could, “You died. Or you were supposed to, rather. The polaron bolt that grazed your arm there? It was supposed to hit you in the back. Kill shot, instantaneous. But you were distracted by the Vorgons and you turned at just the right time.”

    Breen use disruptor weapons during that era. They only switched to polaron for STO (and for an unknown reason).
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    thelunarboythelunarboy Member Posts: 412 Arc User
    kianazero wrote: »
    Hmm, here's an oddity:
    Daniels said as gently as he could, “You died. Or you were supposed to, rather. The polaron bolt that grazed your arm there? It was supposed to hit you in the back. Kill shot, instantaneous. But you were distracted by the Vorgons and you turned at just the right time.”

    Breen use disruptor weapons during that era. They only switched to polaron for STO (and for an unknown reason).

    Well, they were members of the Dominion; perhaps given the scale of the assault, they were equipped with Dominion weapons for the deployment... or perhaps some of them had elected to use the Dominion weaponry, finding them personally favourable.

    This in itself might provide the basis for why the Breen started incorporating polarons in the STO era - Breen military scientists taking on board feedback from soldiers who had used Dominion weaponry, and having seen potential advantages to their use, reverse engineering them into something usable by their home forces... eventually working out how to build emitters and systems big or advanced enough in the use of polaron energy, to equip on ships.


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