It's a bit messy right now, but here's my "geek room" as my partner likes to call it. It's on the 3rd floor on the house, so I needed to buy a mobile A/C for those humid Baltimore summers.

Less than 24 hours to enter if you haven't already! GL to all!

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

OK I fixed the issue, now I just need an invite to the guild. My characters name is: Reibbiss

shoot me an invite if you think of it

I am on now :)

OK I have made a character on the proper server, however now I am getting an error trying to log in and I need help. Running windows 10 and getting "certificate authentication failed"

what can I do?

thanks ahead of time

:silly:

The Received Wisdom in the various forums is that the Rom Rep scorpion are tied for the best ship-non-specific pets, especially for unshielded targets like the Borg structures in the STFs and the Crystalline Entity, and that the Spire Obelisk Swarmers are the other option.

From there, everyone has a different favorite. Because the piloting AI for the pets is...not optimized, shall we say, beams will be more friendly than cannons. Yellowstones are really good, especially for crowd control. I've heard that Delta Flyers help if you're flying a torpedo boat. I've had good luck with the Nukara rep pets, too.

The laundry list (though it's missing the Krenim-specific and maybe Xindi-specific) is at http://sto.gamepedia.com/Carrier_Pets

And then now a commercial break:
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The following is an excerpt from yesterday's Terran Times:

The part-Trill Admiral Claire Lasserre, who became the center in a scandal of half-Humans who had surgically altered their appearance to disguise any non-Human physical traits last year, has announced a take over of well known vacation planet Risa. The Risain government however has denied any kind of change of this manner and is calling for talks to avoid any bloodshed. Tickets for Bridge-seats on the I.S.S. Sinful Pleasure during the battle will cost 5 million PC (Pizza Credits), other tickets to watch the battle from the ship wil cost 3 million PC and tickets to watch the battle from other ships will be 1 million PC.
Trusted inside source claims Iconian mercenaries are being "hired" to defend Risa to spice up the battle!


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Name: Niko Lunatra

Rank: Captain

Current Command: I.S.S. Cohen

Species: Tri’nel: A species with telepathic abilities and longer than human life spans. The Tri’nel are divided heavily into a cast system with their warrior cast currently controlling their society. Only contact with this species is from a handful of colony worlds they conquered in the former Caitian star territories.

Biography: Captain Lunatra began life in a manner that was by most definitions rough. Having been born an outcast to her people with a body that, was not strictly female or male. Given over to her colonies pleasure districts, forced into task of labor considered degrading even for slaves or prisoners. Lunatra became self-educated, stealing data pads that clients would forget in rooms or be careless enough to leave lying about. Over the formative years of her life she struggled with her identity at times till an incident pushed her along a path that would dominate her life.
A drunken scientist working on a design for radiological weapons found himself sub coming to the effects of heavy drink leaving his possessions and research unguarded. While rifling through his work Lunatra found samples of the radiological weapon and took them after fiddling with one to a point it opened, releasing its contents upon the drunkard. In the following days Lunatra watched as this man she was later forced to remove from the building withered away in a matter of days under the effect of his own work. Taking his research and other samples to the hole underground that was her hidden dwelling, she studied.
In time Lunatra would disappear completely from her people, stealing supplies as needed, ever working to push her knowledge forward. She eventually deemed that a practical test of her research was needed, leading to the release of a radiological weapon upon the area that had once been her tortured home. Her weapon worked far better than anticipated, the agonizing wails of thousands sung to her below ground as their bodies fell apart from her radiation. The effect of the weapon proved greater than what was first theorized spreading to the surrounding district. In a span of days half of her cities population had fallen to her weapon. Death was at her fingertips and its power lashed her into greater fits of research.
Lunatra focused her research in further weaponing her radiation, first to come from this string of research where hand held weapons that would deliver focused bolts or beams of ionized radiation. Testing them on the small vermin that scuttled about the underworking’s of her colony. From time to time over the next year a lone solder or stray from the upper world would become a target for her weapons helping to hone their effect. Supplies where dwindling fast for Lunatra forcing her to relocate to populated regions again, moving closer to areas where her skills of swiftly acquiring what she needed would prove more beneficial. Her master work soon completed, leaving herself the only shielding from her own weapon.
Ships of the Imperial Star Fleet would later pick up haunting distress calls from the colony world. When one finally investigated nothing was found other than a single woman sitting in a ruined café drinking with herself. Beside her cases of research and samples of her weapons, she hid nothing of what she had done from the humans. In the following years after her colony world was left lifeless in her wake, Lunatra would join the imperial fleet dedicating herself to them for the opportunities of research they provided her with. Ruthless and detached from the value of others’ lives Lunatra only cares about her research and the effect her weapons will have.

Combat on an Atari 2600

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can i just say in my defense it was the 80's it was wooden..no really the console was inlaid with wood... :blush: :whistle: :blush:

Wood inlaid with those metal post switches. :P

Yes, you would need to be on Harbinger Server in order to be invited to the guild.

First 3 games I had, no idea which was first. Sega master system; phantasy star, shinobi, r-type.

Full Name: Guillaume Gaspard Lasserre
Age: 36 Earth years
Race: Human, Trill, Joined w/a Symbiont
Rank: Vice Admiral
Ship: U.S.S. Chateau Bouclier (Odyssey Class)

His fathers side a long list of explorers & admirals, dating all the way back to the late medieval ages; his mothers side all diplomats and lawyers, with even an ancestor who basically made Trill's application to the Federation possible: Lasserre got the best of both.
This unique set of genes and skills and the intelligence to match both, Lasserre had decided to join the Starfleet at a very young age, much to the approval of his parents and helped him prepare for it (without forcing him to grow before his time).

At age 15 Lasserre came home from school to a surprise. Another Trill was visiting them and it was not a family member. It turned out this Trill was a member of the board that approves people for a Symbiont and Lasserre was asked to be tested. He was found fit and joined with a new Symbiont (meaning Lasserre was this Symbiont's first host). Upon joining however (from this moment onwards, "Lasserre" refers to the joined Lasserre-Symbiont), Lasserre decided to keep the name Lasserre, since he wasn't happy with the name the Symbiont was given at birth and the Symbiont had been feeling like this even before joining. Although the tests and training for the joining resulted in Lasserre join Starfleet Academy a few years later then planned, he valued this chance more than anything else.

About ten years after his graduation, Lasserre was commander on the U.S.S. Lyssa, a Sovereign class cruiser, when his ship was trapped and boarded by Klingon raiders. Whilst Lasserre was fighting an extremely brutal room-by-room battle with the raiders (one of the officers later said it reminded him of his holodeck adventures of the World War II), they managed to board the bridge and the captain was killed. Although Lasserre was rushing through the fighting, the captain could not be safed anymore. Lasserre ordered a ship wide evacuation by transporter and set the Lyssa on a ramming course to one Klingon ship and beamed the whole Federation crew to two of the other Klingon ships (their shield were disabled during the battle), effectively taking them over by superior numbers and able to continue the battle against the remaining three warbirds. During this boarding operation, Lasserre fought a Klingon captain with a Bath'let, almost resulting in him getting killed. Lasserre decided he wanted the scar to remain visible, and so it dominates the right side of his face to this day.

This whole ordeal earned him a promotion and a new ship, the Odyssey class U.S.S. Chateau Bouclier.

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Alex the Kid for the Sega Master system

I would like to rejoin the guild if I may for both republic and empire...i wish i had a better idea of when i would be on lol ugh

No idea about Netflix.

Does Oregon Trail count as a video game? I remember playing that, Number Munchers, and Lemonade Stand, in school. My first console game was the GOLD The Legend of Zelda for NES. I was like 10 or 11 and in my first foster home and I fell in love with Zelda and Nintendo. :-)

I planned today's evening carefully. Bought new headphones. Told bf to leave the computer. Thought about white wine. Read some articles on Memory Alpha to prepare for the quiz.
Noticed the event will take place in a week.
Daaamn.

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Atari 2600 Pacman/Outlaw

can i just say in my defense it was the 80's it was wooden..no really the console was inlaid with wood... :blush: :whistle: :blush:

yes! the 2600! with snoopy and his flying doghouse...take that you baron! pew pew pew pew! :woohoo:

this is one of those ( showing your age kinda questions) ..ok here goes ...
Atari 2600 Pacman/Outlaw

can i just say in my defense it was the 80's it was wooden..no really the console was inlaid with wood... :blush: :whistle: :blush:

Free accounts have to level to 60 before they are allowed to entire World vs World (I assume that also includes edge of the mists).

Metroid. God that pissed my mom off on school mornings.