Star Trek: Eye of the Needle Official Recruitment Topic

[Cathexis]

Attention:

USS CATHEXIS NEEDS A FULL SENIOR STAFF IN ORDER TO LEAVE UTOPIA PLANITIA! PLEASE JOIN TODAY SO WE CAN GET UNDER WAY!

Join at:

http://www.eyeoftheneedle.cjb.net

PLENTY OF SENIOR POSITIONS STILL AVAILABLE!

WE NEED:

Chief Con Officer
Chief Ops Officer
CMO (Chief Medical Officer)

[Joey]

(plus more spots!)

[Tuvok8917]

It's E-mail based.. I can't roleplay e-mail based, otherwise i would have joined.. sorry..

[Cathexis]

It's not really e-mail based. Just join and you'll see what I mean..you can post and everything right there on the site.

[Founder]

The RPG looks cool. I may join, but I need more information. I'm not getting any from the site.

[Republican_Man]

Same here.

[Founder]

Also is it canon to the storyline of Star Trek? Or are characters like Sisko serving onboard the ship? Etc.

[Cathexis]

No.....it's pretty damn canon.

We have some distant relatives....the XO is the son of Bob DeSoto of the Hood....that's about it so far...

Here's the full premise:

The year is 2418.

Starfleet Command and the Federation wish to continue a mission that failed thirty years ago.

This mission, formerly called Project Phoenix, was originally set in place in an effort to expand the Federation presence across three of the four quadrants in our galaxy. Captain Branson Argo commanded the USS Phoenix II, an Insignia Class starship assigned to the project, but when the crew was never heard from after the first two months, the mission came to an abrupt halt. Starfleet called for a rescue attempt, but after eight weeks of searching for the Phoenix II, or any hint of her crew, the rescue ships returned to Utopia Planitia heavy-hearted.

Now, after thirty years of uncertainty, Starfleet wishes to continue the work that the Phoenix II was assigned to complete. The new mission, christened Project Odyssey, involves two ships and two enhanced genesis torpedoes. These ships are of a new class, called Sovereign Dreamweavers. They are designed and equipped with new advanced technologies (to be explained further later).

The first vessel, USS Odyssey, has been assigned to the Megota System of the Beta Quadrant via a wormhole near Starbase 9, where a Federation ally, the Megotans, plan to allow the ship to launch its torpedo on one of the �dead� Class K planets in the system. Terra forming will be the next step.

The second ship, USS Cathexis, has been designated to the Isulrai System in the Gamma Quadrant. Since the Cathexis won�t be deployed through a wormhole that leads to this quadrant, she has been equipped with a Slipstream Matrix/Drive. It will take both ships three years to simultaneously reach their destinations. The Odyssey, though she is being launched through a wormhole, still requires time to arrive at the Megota System. Once the ships have arrived, their assignment is to deploy the Genesis Torpedo onto the surface of each designated planet. This will make terra forming much easier and speed up time necessary for colonization. Then, another two years is required so that the ships can safely secure the planets and run the necessary diagnostics on their atmospheres. When the planets are inhabitable, both ships are to return to Utopia Planitia to begin colony transference.

Unfortunately, the torpedoes have been tampered with�within the warheads of each, a virus called K-Sachs (named for the man who discovered the narcotic Khetroline, a relative of Khetrocel White), which causes a disease known as TLS (Thin Line Syndrome), lies dormant. When the torpedoes are launched and are impacted upon the planets� surfaces, a gaseous form of the K-Sachs virus infects the crews on both ships, resulting in TLS. Cathexis and Odyssey have an inter-quadrant trans-communication link with one another, however this same link could not be established between the ships and Starfleet Command, so no one is able to contact the council(s) back on Earth of the situation.

Cathexis successfully makes it back to Utopia Planitia and her crew undergoes medical testing (which is how Starfleet Medical learns of the K-Sachs virus etc), but not without sustaining heavy casualties. TLS itself has driven the crew to the brink of insanity. When asked about the Odyssey, Cathexis� commanding officer, Captain Genevi�ve Eden, replies that he lost contact with the Odyssey shortly before his ship was exposed to the K-Sachs virus. Doctor Sachs discovers an antigen and inoculates the crew of the Cathexis, and it is successful. It seems that, like the Phoenix II, Odyssey has disappeared, never to be heard from again.

Cathexis and her original crew are sent back into deep space to complete Project Odyssey, search for USS Odyssey, and inoculate her crew with the antigen to the K-Sachs virus. A trans-communication link between Cathexis and Starfleet Command is now established. What Cathexis� crew finds nearly a year later is evidence that the Odyssey was swept away with the Nexus ribbon.

Eden returns to Federation space with this information and uncovers a hidden conspiracy within the Federation�s heart itself, Starfleet.

It turns out that certain members of Starfleet Command and the Isulrai Imperial Order are responsible for exposing Cathexis and Odyssey to the K-Sachs virus, as well as for the disappearance of the Phoenix II. Their plot was to prevent expansion of the Federation into the Gamma and Beta Quadrants. They believed that such progression would lead to war between the quadrants since many races in the Federation did not approve of Project Odyssey in the first place.

Similar to the Maquis, these traitors called themselves the Kyoxes. The Odyssey subsequently had been advertently destroyed by a cloaked Isulraian starship that led it into the Nexus phenomenon, and the Phoenix II had been lured into a similar trap set by the same group of people years earlier. It appears that the Kyoxes developed a device that could manipulate the path of the ribbon.


THE FEEL OF THE SERIES:

Star Trek: Eye of the Needle is inspired by the plotlines of Star Trek, Stargate, The X-Files, and Star Wars (kind of). By taking the best elements from each series, we hope to create a text based sci-fi series that is fresh in its approach. The problem is with most contemporary sci-fi is that it doesn�t tend to get an equilibrium between broadcasting a message and telling a good story. We want a mix of action packed adventures, but also with a lot of political and social subtexts.

Hence, you can expect all types of stories ranging from war-arcs, exploring the unknown, relationships amongst crewmembers and interstellar conflict.

***The crewmembers onboard Cathexis have served together already for several years. Everyone should behave as such. Character names have been pre-set for this reason. If you wish a name change, please PM me directly.***

Uniforms/Equipment/Weapons:

Uniforms:
Top half: Tight, black t-shirt for under layer, over the top, tight gray (star trek voyager type) outer jacket single gray stripe horizontally across shoulder-to-shoulder with a strip of either red, blue, or yellow colour to identify department just below the gray stripe.

Lower half: black trousers, ankle high non-lace boots (for female, trousers are tucked into boots; for male, trousers reach the heel), stripe of either red, blue, or yellow to distinguish department.

Equipment:

E.M.T.U. (Emergency Micro Trans-Unit): The M.T.U. is a microchip device that can be implanted under the skin; used in case the comm. Badge malfunctions or is confiscated. A sleek, black device used for communications and transport purposes. Works as an audio comm. Device. Is used mostly for emergency transport ONLY. The E.M.T.U. (a.k.a. EM2) can be activated and the officer will be automatically beamed back to his/her previous coordinates.

Tricorder: A sleek, black device used for scanning purposes only. It�s all one unit, which can be used for scanning life forms, objects and other things of that nature. A new style of the tricorder is available which works as an audio/visual communication device. Most officers use it when the comm. Badge fails, then the E.M.T.U. can be activated and the officer will be automatically beamed back to the ship OR his/her previous coordinates. It�s a cross between the size of a mobile phone and PDA. The Tricorder slips into the crew�s uniform belts.

Weapons: I-Mod Phaser and Phaser Rifle pack, Compression Phaser Rifle, Type VIII Handheld Phaser (normal modulation), SCG (stealth compression grenade), etc.

[Founder]

Looks good. I'm going to join. I was going to join as Chief Engineer, but apparently that is taken. What are the official open positions?

[Cathexis]

We don't have a Chief Engineer to my knowledge...
Oh, there are some pre-set names, but that can be edited.

[Tuvok8917]

[Cathexis]

Well, I posted all the details I could muster about the RPG.

Look 'em over if you feel you need more info. Oh, and if ya go to the site and check the Mission Logs, there are premises for the Current Mission as well as the Upcoming Missions/Episodes aka Spoilers for Season One of the series.

[Joey]

sorry the info was my fault, i cant get to my FTP just yet...

www.usscathexis.cjb.net

www.eyeoftheneedle.cjb.net

NEW shorter URLs!

[Cathexis]

[Republican_Man]

I'll take Ops, if that's still available.

[John Connor]

im already onboard and im an admiral.

[Joey]

[Republican_Man]

I'll take it. But could I adjust my character, though, if there's already a template?

[Joey]

adjust how?

looks like con is also ops

looks liike we need ppl anyone want con?

[Republican_Man]

A male Vulcan named Volch. It may not sound incredibly Vulcan to you, but I've always used it as a Vulcan name of mine, whether it be at STV or elsewhere. To me it seems pretty Vulcan.

[Joey]

do you mind being con?

[Republican_Man]

If Ops can combine with it, sure. But I don't like simply being helm. It doesn't have enough to do.

[Joey]

((Cathexis already did...)

ok brb

back and done

[Republican_Man]

Alright, then. I'll be a male Vulcan Ops/Conn officer named Volch (preferably Volch du Sema, if that's acceptable, because he would have a human father, if that's acceptable, even though he's much more Vulcan than human, like Spock).

[Joey]

its fine, now all is needed is you!