Sherman's Legacy by @Tekn0mancer

Title: Sherman's Legacy 1/5
Title: Sherman's Legacy 2/5
Author: @Tekn0mancer
Faction: Klingon
Level Requirement: 16+
Author Notes: Yes, not just one but the first two episodes are now published from this (planned) five-part series!

Part 1 was originally published under a different title, but since it's part of a single story arc I withdrew and renamed it. Since it has a different title now, I figured I should start a new, dedicated thread for the entire series, rather than making a separate thread for each new segment.

As I've mentioned in a few other threads, I'm basically a total n00b when it comes to the Foundry. These are my first Foundry projects, so mechanically they may seem a bit basic to some of you veterans. However, I am not new to writing an interesting story and dialogue. I'm also a trained computer tech with scripting and programming experience under my belt, so I'm picking up on how to use this buggy kludge of an authoring tool reasonably fast. As the storyline evolves, you'll see my mechanics usage evolve as well.

I'm not going to give anything away about the plot, other than to say its basic hook comes from a TOS episode, with some references to the official STO early-episode storylines as well. My story outline is essentially finished, so at this point it's just a matter of translating it into Foundry usage. There won't be any time-travel or other such complicated nonsense, but if you've watched classic TOS and played through the game's early story episodes you should pick up on the connections.

I'm using canon and non-canon sources to flesh out some of the details, but the story hasn't quite gotten to that stage yet. That should all come into view in Parts 3 and 4. Some of the dialogue and so forth employs ST universe language resources for flavor (as of this writing there is plenty of Klingon, with dashes of Ferengi and Romulan). You don't have to know what the words mean since most of what I don't outright translate can be deduced from the context. If not don't worry, because it's not crucial to the story...it's just there to add flavor. There are also several pop-culture "easter eggs" sprinkled around in the dialogue, so have fun discovering those.

I'd like for lots of StonewallFleet members to go review and rate my episodes! Then feel free to come back here and let me know what you think (remembering to save any spoilers for PM, please). Also! I hate bad grammar and typos with a passion, so if you find any, tell me exactly where they are so I can go fix them. I tried to eliminate them, but you know how it is when you look at the same text over & over...you're bound to miss something that someone else will notice.

Please review and rate, and let me know what you think so far! :)

Title: Sherman's Legacy 3/5
Author: @Tekn0mancer
Faction: Klingon
Level Requirement: 31+
Author Notes: The third segment of the story is now available, where you start seeing the various threads of this mission starting to come together. With a little bit of historical background thrown in, it will start to become clear just what's going on. This segment is intended for a small ship like a fighter or shuttle, and because of that there's a relatively challenging space combat sequence.

Make sure the loadout on your shuttle/fighter is set up the way you want before going in! :evil:

Quick Mission Briefing..

The most important initial thing about a foundry mission is Location, location, location. Where does it start? I am very happy to say. This mission is very clearly identified. So off the bat, I was happy.

As far as general play, I did enjoy the plot, and the dialogue options, The fact that some of the combat was optional was a good feature.. I will have to play it a few times for any actual editing suggestions, but I liked it.

From a writer/plot perspective, I would suggest that you inform the player to start in a "neutral" ship, if possible. but that is a super minor suggestion.

I will play the other two missions this weekend also, and I would suggest to others to play, as well.

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From a writer/plot perspective, I would suggest that you inform the player to start in a "neutral" ship, if possible. but that is a super minor suggestion.

Argh, don't remind me of that. :P Originally I had the (foolish) idea that whatever was available in-game was available in the Foundry too, so my thought was to provide a "mission-only" ship for things here & there. You know, when you're in an episode and you end up flying something that's not one of your own ships and you only fly it for that one mission, like when you pilot the Enterprise-C or that Elachi Carrier. BUT NO. That mechanic isn't available, and there are a lot of others you can't use either. Finding out what I couldn't do made me reconsider my whole approach and reconfigure the story to match the mechanics.

Glad you liked it though, and let me know what you think of the other segments. I'm especially interested to know what people think of the shuttle/fighter mission in episode 3. I tried to balance that properly for a long time, and I'm still not sure the combat isn't actually too tough.

After publish I played it through on my low 50's KDF guys and managed (barely) with both a Klingon To'Duj fighter and a Romulan Kestrel runabout. It's semi-easy when you're playing on a test dummy in the Foundry, but when the game engine scales it up for actual characters, that combat is no joke.

Will do, but you have to play Graveyard... I am still working on some bits of that, but have a look..

Played through to 3/5, and everything was good. We definitely need to get more plays.

A decently equipped fighter able to summon reinforcements or aid should be fine.

Good job so far.

OK folks, I'm begging. Part 1 only has 3 reviews, the other 2 only have 1 review each! :(

Please go review at least part 1 so it goes public!