The entire area you start from on Makeb is a "rest area". I was looking for the same thing and noticed when I crossed the bridge to return to the ship I came in on, it said "leaving rest area" and when I retraced my steps back over the bridge, it said "entering rest area". That's really nice not having to actually find a cantina to log out in or having to return to your ship.

The other thing I noticed is that transportation fees have been ramped up big time. Where it used to cost less than 200 credits to fly to and from planets, most of the fees have been raised considerably above that. It costs 2300 credits to fly from the fleet to Makeb! :( I saw several other similar fees to other planets but that was the highest. :S

Just a quick little bump with some new info about the convention. The autograph and autograph with photo-op schedules have been released. They are of course subject to change but in my experience most of the celebrities times and dates remain the same leading up to the convention. Photo-ops are great and you actually get a picture with your favorite Star Trek celebrity and then you get an autographed copy of that same photo.

Follow this link and scroll down to where it says "Autographs" for a more detailed run-down:

http://www.creationent.com/cal/st_lasvegas.html#tix

Here's a pic of Garrett Wang (pronounced "Wong") who is one of the funniest regulars at the conventions. His Captain Janeway impression will have you rolling in the aisles.
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Here's a pic from last year with Marina Sirtis up on the main stage. She was actually kinda drunk and it was utterly hilarious.
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Thanks for sharing, Ras!! Looking forward to reading them ;)

Hello, All!

So I've been reading all the RP works done by our talented writers here, and I became encouraged to take another stab at writing again, myself. With that, I thought I would share my LiveJournal page that I’ve written on/off over several years for Captain Rasilek, my “main” character in the STO/Trek universe. Other characters featured include those I’ve RP’d with in-game in the past, while others include my alt. characters such as my Caitian, Arlo.

Anyway, all stories can be found at rasilek.livejournal.com. The first entry I posted (~3 years ago) that includes Rasilek’s bio can be found here. As under a typical blog format, the most recent entries are on the front page and are preceded by those on the previous pages.

While I cannot share the blog and Ras's story here in entirety, below are the latest segments I've just posted, with Common Imperative being the start of another multi-part arc I am working on currently. As always, I hope you enjoy reading as much as I’ve come to enjoy writing. More to come...

New 2013 Posts (In order of events):

"Center of the Sun", The commissioning of Rasilek's 'current' ship - Link

Common Imperative, Part I - Link
Common Imperative Part I, (Continued) - Link

Some Past Segments:
Rasilek's Bio - Link

Seared Part I - Link
Seared II - Link
Seared III - Link

Unfinished Business - Link

on my Jemmy Dreadnought when my attack ships decide to do ramming speed and ram an enemy ship, I see a text over them that says, setting auto pilot, preparing for emergency beamout. (or something of the sort)

I am a little iffy about the past two episodes. I love Doctor Who but feel a little let down.

Rings of Ahkaten was a very mixed bag for me. I agree that it was over-the-top and rather non-sensical in the parts you mentioned (though, I interpreted the "never run away unless we have something precious" differently).

However, that said, I totally got teary-eyed when the Doctor started yelling at the space parasite. For some reason, the Doctor crying gets me going, and I don't usually cry during TV and movies.

I kind of feel like the whole episode may have been a flimsy premise to have the Doctor and Clara put their "I'm so lonely!" cards on the table for each other. I'm still looking forward to the rest of the season, but Akhaten confirmed that Moffat has run out of steam has a showrunner. Really looking forward to someone else taking the helm (and, if reports are to be believed, a new Doctor come year's end).

As per the current zeitgeist (and Cryptic's profit strategy), it appears that the Federation is transferring towards incorporating carrier doctrines at some level, what with the Atrox, Armitage, and Vesta crunchies.

On the KDF side, I figure it makes sense, being it would be an honorable death in battle.

But on the Fed side, having living pilots seems...unlikely. I've been mentally figuring that the Fed uses low-AI retrofits to fly the carrier wings - nothing as advanced as an Emergency Hologram, let alone Soong-level androids but capable enough to have minimal command response and adaptation. (It would also explain why the Peregrines occasionally do their own damn thing.)

Thoughts? How do you write around the issue?

Thank you Morale Department and other hosts for another great event weekend for the fleet!

Bells of Stain John wasn't too bad, but I was not crazy about Rings of Akhaten. It was too over the top, even for Doctor Who. The whole "We never run away bit" was all nice and cool until he was like "But now we have something precious, so we run away very fast!" while completely ignoring the fact that an entire system of intelligent beings would be destroyed by this 'god' which would include, I imagine, several million "precious" children. Also, after he basically killed the sun, how did the planets in the system have enough heat to not became completely frozen and killing everyone?

U.S.S. Mother Monster and the Little Monster ready to take down that overgrown snowflake!

DEATH TO THE SNOWFLAKE!

I should be home by 7pm PST tonight and can do it on the weekends as well. This'll be fun! :laugh:

Makeb is fun. My only real complaint at the moment is I have yet to find a Cantina/Rest Zone there which is kind of bugging me since I don't want to go back to my ship every time I log out. Apart from that I've been loving the new stuff.

They also say that guilds will be getting more love as time goes on. I am still finishing my 8th chapter 3 character so i havent really done any makeb yet. Im also working getting characters crew skills up to the new 450 limit, and neither of my crafter have any money for any schematics.

I am game for this weekend. I can come on 1 of 7 or Parker (sci, eng)

So is Update 2.0. I've been trying to play it a little bit, but I haven't played my level 50s in so long, I've almost forgotten how to play those classes. Such is the curse of being an altaholic.

So far Makeb seems promising. I'm still getting used to the new missions. And apparently we now get a 5% XP boost if our characters are in a guild -- guess it's time to get all my alts on board finally!

ill be in tonight when I get in from work. I want a shard every night on at least 2 characters :)

I am in and will happily help out taking people once i know how the damm encounter works :D

I got you Patrick. Just browsing the forums before I hit the sack. I hope to see you in-game soon so we can all group up. :) If you're interested, guild bounty is... tonight, Thursday 7PM EST. Perhaps we'll see you there if you're available.

Welcome to Stonewall ;)

I play League pretty regularly and would love to join up with any of you.

Kupapo NA servers