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Hiatus time!

The last posts are out and the final reports are written! We are officially on hiatus! Enjoy the rest and we hope to see you all back in 2-6 months! Safe travels and fair journeys!

Captain Enalia Telvan
USS Hera NCC-79010
-Azzie

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Mon Aug 31st, 2020 @ 9:18am
Category: Sim Announcement

Upcoming Sim Hiatus

I feel that this has been a long time coming, but unfortunately the USS Hera is going to have to close its doors for a while. Now before anyone freaks out, this is only temporary to refresh and recover from burnout. We've been going full steam for well over a…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Fri Jul 31st, 2020 @ 2:51pm
Category: Sim Announcement

New Year, New Plots!

Happy New Year Everyone!

So as we enter the new year in both real life and the sim (2397), we find ourselves wrapping up a long mission of diplomacy, combat, intrigue, and general mayhem. Unlike most missions, this one has taken a bit longer than most, likely due to the…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Sat Jan 4th, 2020 @ 2:09pm
Category: General News

Wallpapers Location!

We have a new location for our wallpapers!

https://swa.split-world.com/Hera/Artivity/

And we have a new wallpaper for the upcoming season five! A collaboration between myself and the Most Honorable and Skilled Artisan Dee Fish!

Hera v Iurret

We've also done so much amazing writing, that we've been…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Sat Jun 22nd, 2019 @ 10:35am
Category: Website Update

New Wallpaper

To commemorate the impending wrap up of both Season 4 and the Tribunal, Dee and I have created a collaborative piece of art. A new wallpaper in 8k resolution! It has all of the current crew as well as several of the more memorable NPCs along with the USS Hera…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Mon Jun 17th, 2019 @ 8:20pm
Category: Sim Announcement

Theta Fleet Awards

So it's been a while since we've done sim level awards, but there are some Fleet level awards I'd like to address.

First off, in April Lieutenant Sonak won Writer of the month for Area 51! Congrats! You've worked hard in both your personal life and on the sim writing…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Sat May 18th, 2019 @ 12:23pm
Category: Sim Announcement

Major Milestone

Tonight we hit a milestone that I never dreamed of and few sims hit. 1000 total posting entries. This wouldn't have been possible without the dedication of every writer here, past and present. Thank you.

https://swa.split-world.com/Hera/Annotation_2019-05-18_001943.png

-Az

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Sat May 18th, 2019 @ 1:26am
Category: Sim Announcement

April Post of the Month

Last night our very own Lt Mnhei'sahe Dox and I put together our submission to the fleet for post of the month in a very special way. We present to you the first USS Hera Audio Story - The Mother in Law.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j13e0tRCrs

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Mon May 6th, 2019 @ 11:10am
Category: General News

Too funny not to share

TOS: Life in a bad ass car
TNG: Life with a bad ass dad
DS9: You live at the airport now
VOY: You're stuck on a long car ride with some cousins that you don't like very much.
ENT: Your forgetful grandpa tells you all about the good old days.…

Author: Commander Rita Paris
Posted on: Mon Apr 22nd, 2019 @ 10:37pm
Category: General News

Welcome!

Please welcome aboard Petty Officer 1st Class Cicero Delacroix. You'll find him in the officer's mess on Deck 9, I believe, serving actual cooking if you're in the mood for something non-replicated and a good conversation with someone who feels you.

Author: Commander Rita Paris
Posted on: Sun Mar 3rd, 2019 @ 2:13am
Category: General News

January Awards

January was another amazing month with some exciting adventures and interesting stories. We explored the Section 31 base overrun by zombies in zero G vacuum conditions. Which is always just so much fun, unless you have a tricorder built into the visuals of your EVA suit, and a big gun.…

Author: Commander Rita Paris
Posted on: Sun Feb 24th, 2019 @ 11:58pm
Category: General News

Mission Completed!

Ok, I guess we're a bit of the curve, what with having a queue of posts to post every month... But we've just about caught up with our queue and we've now posted everything that happened over the shore leave mission Earthly Visitations! Huzzah! Everyone did extremely well and I'm…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Wed Feb 13th, 2019 @ 12:02pm
Category: General News

December and Escaped Pantheon Awards

It was another banner month for the Hera in December. With the holidays and the stress and travel, most sims go on hiatus. But we rolled on through like a boss, due to all of the cool stories we had to tell this month. The spatial anomaly containing the Worldship…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Fri Jan 11th, 2019 @ 2:24am
Category: General News

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! As we start 2019, we start off with hope and a freshness for writing together that can last the whole year. That being said, the sim is also transitioning into the year 2396 to follow the progression of the years. On top of that, we have…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Tue Jan 1st, 2019 @ 12:30pm
Category: General News

Amazing Crew Gets More Awards!

Everyone, you are all so amazing that the fleet has awarded us, for the third month in a row, Unit of Distinction: Gold for Area 51. On top of that, we've also gotten the Task Group CO Unit of Distinction Award for the third month in a row. I can't…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Thu Dec 13th, 2018 @ 5:59pm
Category: General News

End of the month clearance

Crew,

We're trying to get caught up to the actual mission so it can officially launch, so we would like to catch up to what is already written. Thus we are asking that if you have a post that occurs before the New Texas post, please wrap it up and…

Author: Commander Rita Paris
Posted on: Fri Nov 30th, 2018 @ 1:25pm
Category: General News

LCAR character gallery images

A new item of business to touch upon is that LTJG Dox has graciously donated her time to produce LCARs entries for all of the senior staff. We are excited for there to be uniformity to our ship’s appearance, so we would like to make these the primary character images…

Author: Commander Rita Paris
Posted on: Sun Nov 18th, 2018 @ 3:47pm
Category: General News

Hera v Hera and October Awards

Hello again everyone! It’s that time again when awards are complete for both Fleet and Ship level and boy howdy to we have a lot of them for you as a way to show our appreciation for all your efforts! Overall we have been incredibly pleased to see that everyone…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Sun Nov 18th, 2018 @ 3:15pm
Category: General News

Group photo!

There was a moment there at the end of the 'Luncheon Briefing' post where Maica snapped a holo-image of the attending senior staff officers. Our resident artis Dee (LTJG Melanie Dox to those of you who just know character names) is a talented artist, and produced a black and white…

Author: Commander Rita Paris
Posted on: Sun Nov 18th, 2018 @ 1:59pm
Category: General News

Escaped Pantheons and More!

Happy November!

We had a wonderful October, we broke both our goals, and a lot of good writing has been done! We even got through an amazing mission and are in final wrap up posts now.

That being said, over the course of the next couple weeks, a couple things…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Thu Nov 1st, 2018 @ 1:43pm
Category: Sim Announcement

September and Recent Awards

Hello again everyone! I've realized that I didn't tell you all about all of our recent awards! Let's start with the Theta Fleet September awards that we won first, shall we?

--Unit of Distinction Gold Area 51 - We literally blew the competition out of the water with 207 posts…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Tue Oct 23rd, 2018 @ 11:26am
Category: General News

Official Relaunch

First of all, I want to thank everyone for all their support over the past month or so. Everything you've done has been greatly appreciated and I look forward to exploring the future of the Hera with all of you.

Second offf, today is our official relaunch day. It's been…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Sat Sep 1st, 2018 @ 12:07pm
Category: Sim Announcement

Major Update

The SWA custom version of nova, and thus the Hera, has been updated from 2.3.2.AZ1 to 2.5.1.AZ1. There are still some php issues because of so many incompatibilities with nova and php 7.2 but 2.3.2 just doesn't work on it. On the bright side, at least now the error logs…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Thu Aug 16th, 2018 @ 11:31am
Category: Website Update

Final Awards

So it's come to my attention that even though the sim is closed now and though the chances of it being reopened are slim, some of you may care about the awards that were being awarded right before the closure. There are a few awards missing as the award selection…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Wed Jul 25th, 2018 @ 11:43am
Category: General News

USS Hera Closure

Effective immediately, the USS Hera is now closed. It has been a wonderful journey with each of you, but it has come time to say goodbye. Stresses have been building for far too long and today is the day we just have to say enough and close the book on…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Tue Jul 24th, 2018 @ 2:43am
Category: Sim Announcement

Milestone

Over the course of the years the USS Hera and her crew have earned a lot of Fleet level awards. I mean just look at them all!

http://hera.split-world.com/index.php/main/awards

On top of all this, we have stacks of pages of Ship level award and another page to go through once this…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Mon Jul 23rd, 2018 @ 7:42am
Category: Sim Announcement

Small Update and Reminder

As a small reminder, if you aren't using the HTTPS version of the USS Hera, please remember to do so to ensure all data sent between you and the server is encrypted by SSL security. I haven't added a forced switch to the server yet because this code can be…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Mon Jun 18th, 2018 @ 8:29pm
Category: General News

Job Well Done!

Hello, All:

We're within about two posts of finishing the current mission, but Az and I wanted to take some time to recognize those who have gone above and beyond in this mission. Several players/writers have shown brightly during this mission. These player/writers took the initiative and participated in JPs…

Author: Commander Mal Xustos
Posted on: Thu Jun 14th, 2018 @ 4:18pm
Category: Sim Announcement

Big JP

We know not everyone got a chance to tag in the Dance of Death JP. Not to worry. There will be plenty of opportunities to tag coming up, as well as a little down time between missions while we're at Mckinley Station for repairs. That'll be time for sub-plots. There…

Author: Commander Mal Xustos
Posted on: Sun Feb 25th, 2018 @ 9:57pm
Category: Out of Character

End of Year

As the last of the 2017 awards roll in, I'm reminded that while we have all received local awards and many have received fleet level awards, It takes all of us to receive the multitude of golds, silvers, and bronzes that we did. On top of that, the quarterly awards…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Fri Jan 12th, 2018 @ 3:20am
Category: Sim Announcement

Is there a doctor in the house? Why, yes there is!

Everyone please welcome Heather who will be playing our new Chief Medical Officer, Doctor Cassiopeia Yale! Even though it's still shore leave, we still have plenty going on, including a medical mystery for Doctor Yale to jump in and get to work on. Everyone who's not on the current side…

Author: Commander Mal Xustos
Posted on: Sun Sep 17th, 2017 @ 7:56pm
Category: General News

New Chief Science Officer!

Please make our new Chief Science Officer, Lieutenant Nathan Summers, played by Scott, feel welcome here on the Hera!

David
Commander Mal Xustos
Executive Officer

CWO Daytona Ral
Intelligence Officer

Author: Commander Mal Xustos
Posted on: Tue Sep 12th, 2017 @ 10:09pm
Category: General News

New Character Description Item

Hello everyone! So we all know what oddball equipment everyone has and there are no future surprises, I've added a space in the character bios so we're all on the same page. Please add in any unusual items your character has or uses regularly in this space. I've added the…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Mon Feb 20th, 2017 @ 9:08pm
Category: General News

New Mission Start

As you may have noticed, the new mission "Cardassian Mayhem" has been activated. Please wrap up any posts from "Refit Rondo" at your earliest convenience and begin any new posts after launch in the new mission.

On a more personal note, thank you for letting me guide you through a…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Sat Feb 11th, 2017 @ 9:15pm
Category: General News

New Font Setup

Some of you may see a new font setup on the Hera. (If you don't, hold down Ctrl and press F5.) This was done due to possible visibility issues for people with poor eyes or other visual difficulties. If there are comments, complaints, or spam about it, please PM me.…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Mon Jan 30th, 2017 @ 3:13am
Category: Website Update

Mission Update

The Hera is coming back!

Due to the lack of writing because of my failing health, we're ending 'Romulan Brainwashing' and beginning our next mission 'Refit Rondo'. Please see below for the updated timeline and please feel free to write backposts in relation to this timeline.

'Romulan Brainwashing'

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Sat Jan 28th, 2017 @ 11:56am
Category: Sim Announcement

Future of the Hera

As many of you may know, my health isn't the best and hasn't been very cooperative lately. Due to this and other issues, I've decided to place the Hera in Narrative status for now so I can focus on real life and dedicate what little time I have to my…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Mon Oct 10th, 2016 @ 11:16pm
Category: Sim Announcement

Harassment and Discrimination Policy

The Split World Alliance is a sisterhood of peace and friendship between role playing simulations and the writers who make these simulations possible. We are committed to maintaining a safe environment for all writers involved in all of our simulations, and that unfortunately means we must make and revise rules…

Author: Commander Angelica Fairchild
Posted on: Fri Jun 17th, 2016 @ 10:00am
Category: General News

Orlando

First, I want to apologize for taking up space on the news section, but I felt some words would be good to be said. The USS Hera like many sims in fleets and elsewhere is a global community with writers from across the globe. Some of us come from far…

Author: Chief Petty Officer Ginifred Klem
Posted on: Mon Jun 13th, 2016 @ 1:46am
Category: General News

IRC Chat Migration

Due to continued technical issues with Ace IRC, we've taken steps to move chat functionality to a new server that promises better reliability and is used for charities. The info is listed below if you use your own IRC client. Otherwise, please just click on the 'Chat' tab at the…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Mon Oct 26th, 2015 @ 12:25pm
Category: Website Update

This is a test message

This is a test since my last news entry was blocked by outbound spam filters.

-Az

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Sat Sep 26th, 2015 @ 8:38pm
Category: General News

Server Migration

Unfortunately, during today's server migration, most of today's data has been lost. I wish I could tell you where it went, but in the end, half a wiki, several posts, and replies from potentially since midnight eastern time are now gone. The only residue of this data is in your…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Sat Sep 26th, 2015 @ 8:13pm
Category: Website Update

Big Announcements

Hello everyone! First off, congrats on everyone that's stuck with us the past year. This ship wouldn't be what it is without the dedicated writers and crew of the USS Hera. With this anniversary, I have some very important news for everyone.

First off, I'm deactivating our old mission group,…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Tue Jul 21st, 2015 @ 4:28pm
Category: Sim Announcement

We got another award!

We took the Theta Fleet Unit of distinction Gold Award for last month! 132 posts. Congrats everyone. On top of that, the post 'Fallen 29' also won for post of the month. Thanks go to everyone that put work into that post.

In other news, it's already the 13th and…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Sat Jun 13th, 2015 @ 10:12am
Category: General News

Monthly Awards Addendum

To add to the good news, I just found out that Commander Sinek won for Player of the Month for Theta Fleet. Congrats on a well deserved award!

Also, the Hera got the Theta Fleet Unit of Distinction Silver Award. Good job everyone!

-Az

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Sun May 17th, 2015 @ 8:56pm
Category: Sim Announcement

Starbase 400 Web Design Award

I nominated the Hera for the Starbase 400 Web Design Award this morning and within 43 minutes, I received this reply.

Congratulations!

After reviewing your site, we have decided to award you with the Starbase
400 Web Design Award! We found your site easy to use and navigate with a…

Author: Captain Enalia Telvan
Posted on: Sun May 17th, 2015 @ 1:11pm
Category: Sim Announcement