alex: hey, do you think we can hack the dominion's sensor network to help us? *still over open comms as both ships deploy FTL-capable probes and start sending them out to every system within their fuel range*
alex: okay, han *he closes the channel with exeter* helm, all stop! *the conundrum drops out of warp in the middle of nowhere, followed by the lycaon*
alex: they were really badly damaged when they jumped out...their hyperdrives may have blown, so they can't have gotten far - i think we better call an all stop and try and scan for them
*fifteen minutes or so later, alex reopens comms with the task force* hey...whatever happened to the mandalorian ship? they aren't with us, and their hyperspace beacon isn't anywhere near us either
from what i remember from early WoW days, a twink is a new character that constantly gets fed the best possible gear for their level they can equip up until they hit max level from an established character - or something to that effect of course, there's also the sexual meaning of the word which is far more well-known, and…
the gorn are still the 23rd century type, compound eyes and all - makes me wonder if slar was an actual gorn or a subspecies well, at least they didn't use those horrid tusked orc things from the kelvin timeline also...jesus christ, the romulans are REALLY bloody paranoid
*alex is not listening in favor of ordering his science officer to compile a list of ketracel components and transmit it back to imperium space so their defense forces can be concentrated in likely areas of hur'q attack*
alex *dead silence, then...* I KNEW IT, I TRIBBLE KNEW IT! the hur'q haven't been attacking dominion space randomly - they've been attacking sites containing components used in the manufacture of ketracel white except the places they were forcibly drawn to, obviously
*as soon as they're away, alex sighs and re-opens the channel to krystal's commbadge* what the hell happened down there? in between my dispatching rex to the station and everything going to utter TRIBBLE, a dominion ship showed up, beamed several jem'hadar and a vorta down, then a hur'q fleet shows up followed by a…
*and then the missiles all detonate in one single massive blinding flash, vaporizing anyone unlucky enough to have gotten too close and scrambling the sensors of ships further away via a massive pulse of ionizing radiation, the conundrum and lycaon slipping into FTL in the chaos* (not all injuries leave physical marks)
*the conundrum and lycaon pivot around, the latter far quicker than one would expect for such a massive vessel and also opening several missile bays in the process and dropping their magfields allowing the contained missiles to be blown out of the bays via explosive decompression, the 'deployed' missiles then using…
well, the NX kind of not-so-subtly pushes you into beams thanks to its trait, which the average player is going to be using as soon as they unlock it
*the lycaon fires another lance at an emerging drek'hi dreadnought, cracking it like an egg the same way the dominion dreadnought did just as krystal appears on the bridge, whenever that actually happens, and with the viewscreen conveniently pointing directly at the dreadnought as it goes up*
of course you would need a thick hull when using a fairytale substance only a few dozen times stronger than steel - discovery is probably using whatever is going to come after graphene, which is already over 200 times stronger than steel and apparently they just came out with something 2x stronger than THAT
*the conundrum fires a missile from its aft torpedo tube at the tail-riding hur'q swarmers and immediately shunts all power to aft shields just before space erupts with a blinding blue-white flash and the hur'q are consumed by an intense burst of gamma radiation among many other types of ionizing radiation and the…
if i end up getting a california, i'll just name mine after one of california's defining features...so, faultline, wildfire or silicone there's also street defecation, but i don't think the name filter will let me get away with that
as far as i could find from this incredibly pixelated and blurry image of what is presumably the qo'nos system primary, it's a class G - aka a yellow dwarf; though, it could be an orange dwarf too...it's really hard to tell what was more interesting to me is, in the process of trying to find if there was a canon source of…
(transporters have literally NOTHING to do with communicators, so instead of constantly making excuses just to make TRIBBLE harder on everyone, why don't you JUST TRIBBLE TRY IT!)
(communicators can go all the way from deep under a planet's crust to a ship in orbit with absolutely no interference or signal lag - an asteroid is nowhere NEAR as big as a planet, or it wouldn't be an asteroid anymore)
*alex jogs onto the bridge of the conundrum a minute later and takes his seat, starting to bark our orders as the timeship surges into battle, spitting torpedoes against larger hur'q ships while the lycaon deals with the smaller ones*