Hera v Hera battle plan
Posted on Fri Oct 26th, 2018 @ 3:33am by Rear Admiral Farenia Meowlith & Captain Enalia Telvan & Lieutenant Mona Gonadie & Petty Officer 2nd Class Ila Dedjoy & Emergency Medical Hologram (Adam Power) Mk X & Ahreva Malana & Baroness 2nd Class Schwein von Alcott & Commander Rita Paris & Lieutenant Commander Thex sh'Zoarhi & Lieutenant Delilah Dauntless & Lieutenant Seregon French & Lieutenant Commander Sonak & Lieutenant Samuel Clemens XV & Lieutenant Commander Mnhei'sahe Dox & Lieutenant Asa Dael & Ensign Avendar Jurot & Chief Petty Officer Jonas Kader & Lieutenant Alex Sexton
Edited on on Thu Nov 1st, 2018 @ 1:15pm
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Hera v Hera
The crew of the Hera heads to Meroset 347 where Hera herself has issued a challenge to the vessel that has inherited her namesake. There they must overcome Minotaurs, Harpies, Amazons, and marble soldiers in order to sooth the irate woman's anger before she destroys the ship. While they do this, they learn of the plight of the natives to this planet and the hardships they've faced during Hera's reign. The Prime Directive comes into question as they must decide the Goddess's ultimate fate.
It turns out Hera returned because she's pissed at Zeus again because he really couldn't keep it in his pants and she's sending her minions out across the galaxy, harassing civilizations and trying to kill off all his other progeny, including about 40 sentient races, several other gods, etc... Included are Humans, Romulans, Trill, Vulcans, Cervan, Pomtol, and many others.
The initial plan is to go to the planet she's set up operations on currently, a primitive planet of Zeus's offspring that she's torturing, and assess the situation. Use the Selune and Thor to land a covert ops party while the Hera takes a more direct path in. The away teams are to find Hera's power generator and disable it and disable her army's base infrastructure while the ship uses wipe beam phasers to disable her armies and disable her outer defenses using the stealth plating in harrying tactics.
After that, the crew need to reassess the status of the Goddess and determine her future in Federation space. Will diplomacy win out or will Hera's wrath force the crew's hand in the end?
Mission Post Outlines/Goals
Staff Meeting
- Assume everyone already arrives, give a chance for pre-arrival of Enalia writing
- Captain is fashionably late, having just been briefed by Intel Command
- Enalia gives a brief overview of the situation with some holovid feed
- Hera is harassing over 40 races that she sees as the progeny of Zeus' loins with space chariots, minotaurs, amazon warriors, harpies, marble statues, etc...
- From the wreckage, it's surmised that the space chariots were designed by the forgemaster Vulcan but there's no sign of them at his forges
- Hermes has gone dark so there's no help expected from him
USS Hera bridge mission
- Enalia, Dauntless, Jurot, Dedjoy, Dox
- Hera arrives in outer system, launches runabouts Selune and Thor
- Distract Hera's forces using harrying techniques and the stealth plating
Selune mission
- Clemens, Baroness, French, Sexton, Kader, Redshirt team 1
- Seek out Hera's main and backup power sources and take them out at all costs
- Meet up with the Thor crew afterwards
- Discover the slave labor the locals are put to to create the arms and armaments of Hera's army
OOC Clemens: We need to acquire some of those arms and armaments, both for our own use, and for research. We also need to get in contact with whatever resistance exists.
Thor mission
- Paris, Duran-Yeager, Malana, Dael, Sonak, Thex, Redshirt team 2
- Cripple Hera's army's infrastructure
- Meet up with the Selune crew afterwards
- Discover the slave labor the locals are put to to create the arms and armaments of Hera's army
Selune/Thor mission meetup
- Enter Hera's hanging garden and confront her
- Cue one last epic fight scene
- Either convince her to give up her crusade or go fuck herself, preferably without her turning someone into an animal
OOC: French here. Well ill give you this. You don't mess around when you decide on a mission. Hera is a bad ass. Very Clever and going to be hard to beat.
McBain OOC: Do you want any help with running a redshirt? Be glad to run one or two. Also any thoughts on Seluune mission making a space jump from the runabout for a stealthier entry?
Sonak OOC: so that no one will freak out with my RP; Sonak is a Vulcan, a scientist, a pacifist and a Starfleet officer; he will follow orders, but will object to violence or anything based on irrationality, fear or anger. He sees as his duty to seek and offer rational, peaceful alternatives. He sure can fire a phaser and go hand to hand if this is called for (he is a master of Vulcan martial arts and taught to MACOS) and will not disobey orders short of committing actual crimes. But he sees violence against sentient beings as failure, even if unavoidable and justified. Firing on marble statues and non living constructs is less a problem; but he still beleives in Starfleet's rules of engagement: learn, communicate, disengage, disable and kill/destroy as a last resort.That's why there is a stun setting on phasers after all... and why Vulcans prefer the Nerve Pinch.
I refer to you the behavior of Spock in TOS Arena, Balance of Terror, The Doomsday Machine and Devil In The Dark. Sonak will go to war if war is upon us; but he will do so to end it, not put notches on his belt.
I say all this because, in other sims, some players were surprised, even annoyed, by my character openly or inwardly objecting to their decisions and actions. Be assured I do not play a disruptive character; I try to play the old school Vulcan and Starfleet officer and so maybe help inject the Star Trek conscience in the story as McCoy and Spock did in TOS and Data in TNG. It can certainly create character conflict (always interesting in stories), but it is to contribute to the story, not derail it, I assure you all. Just so you know :)
McBain reply to Sonak: That all sounds perfectly reasonable and will be a stark contrast to McBain. Should prove interesting LOL. One of the first things the Cappy told McBain was he was being issued a TR-116c battle rifle as his standard equipment! So the exchanges should be fun. Live and let live after all!
Sonak to McBain: that is the idea. And since we are not assigned to the same team at the start, but will meet later on in the mission, seems like our captain saw it coming LOL!
Paris: There is an entire sequence in one of the posts where Paris indicates that she comes from the era of the open hand of diplomacy, not the closed fist around the phaser, and that will always be her first choice. She'll fight and go to war when she must, but diplomacy is always her preference. So again, should be interesting how this mission plays. I am very much looking forward to it!
McBain: easy question will we know about the Minotaurs, harpies, and marble statues before we deploy or only after we are in the soup?
Paris: It will be covered in the briefing meeting, but yes, we will have some intel in advance, and we will definitely be doing some serious scanning recon before we send our people in.
Avender: *checks duty roster* Guess I'm sitting this one out?
Paris: Bridge duty for the Counselor- adjusted, sorry for the oversight! :)
Clemens: Not sure what off-ship resources we may be able to call upon once we engage the mission, but I think Intel has most of the dirty tricks that Section 31 gathered over the years. I'm sure the boss can advise on that, though. But we're Intel- dirty tricks are our gig. The Federation has run across lots of god-level stuff over the centuries.
French: I probably should have read this before making my response public in the staff meeting. I guess I should slow down!
***OOC Clemens: These cultures are aware of the outer universe, even if coached in mythical/magical terms. Just because her warp capable ships are called chariots doesn't mean that they don't know that other worlds and ftl don't exist. If anything, they've been routinely exposed to MORE advanced tech than WE have, what with polymorphing and stoning and teleportaton on a whim and all the Greek myths that we're just now starting to be able to replicate. Something to consider when looking at this through the lens of the Prime Directive. We're actually the primitives, here.***
OOC Jurot: I was hoping someone would note that. We are the primitives here. That said, their arrogance could be a weakness. As Avender is Betazoid, her knowledge of earth mythology is currently limited, so, to her, these are just another advanced alien race
OOC Sonak: Quite right Clemens. They are the one who interfered in human history (and now this alien world) and thus committed a violation of the Prime Directive. Of course they do not follow that directive, but acting to correct their violation, we are obeying it as we should.
OOC: Avender It's safe to assume they live by their own code, and maybe regard us as pets or lower.
OOC: Clemens It's a certainty on Hera's part- her actions speak volumes. She's fond of turning us into inanimate objects and animals. I think this frees us up to interact as we need to with the locals, to achieve our objectives.
OOC: Jurot We're assuming that no one is controlling her actions
OOC: Paris: Given the power level involved, that would be a very safe assumption I'm thinking.
OOC: French / Alex here. This is what I propose. I'm sending red shirts with each mission group. These of course will be unnamed npc' of course. To kill as you wish. The second half of my security obligation is to safeguard the ship. The Captain and attack our objective. Meaning Alex will lead a suicide squad that has the sole purpose of taking out Hear, once they get ahold of do decent weapons which they will try to find amongst Heras guards. Or to get close enough to use conventional explosives.
Part two provide security for the main group and work on our mission objective. Trust me, I will come up with something.
No need to announce OOC, I just realized- this is an OOC document in the OOC section. :)
Clemens: Below is the so-far-gathered intelligence on the Hera's previous encounters with Tyrant!Hera. I will try to clean them up as an IC document, but they're coming in here mostly-unedited.
Duran-Yeager: Okay, I might as well toss in my two cents. as I am not used to writing with a group of this level and skill.
given that Hera clearly can't be reasoned with and we have no help and none is coming. Its a shame we can't remotley hack these chariots and use them to cause a little mayhem, in the chaos we can slip in behind enemy lines.... aww well.
Paris: Okay folks, I truncated old conversations out of here to keep it to just OOC communication. Okay, everyone has a mission and everyone is tagging in, right? Home team and away teams and the solo mission all underway. Let's go save a world, people!
Az: Ok, I'm publishing this to the OOC Mission for posterity's sake!
