Star trek Era and A call to Arms

[Keeper Nilbog]

Alot of the alliances were along the lines of 'enemies of my enemy are my friends', so didn't really mean that fleets/squadrons fought together. When you look at the star map and position of the klingon empire (using a clock face to get the basic idea of positions), -

Kzinti are at 12 to 1,
Federation are at 1 to 4,
Tholian are at 4 (or 4-5 when Neo-Tholian arrive),
Romulan are at 4 to 5 (with Tholian on the 4, them on the 5 when Neo-tholian's :!: ),
Klingon space is 5-7,
Hydran's are at 7 to 9,
Lyran's are at 9 to 11 (with the Wyn cluster at around 11)
Kzinti are at 11 to 12

(the above from memory, as i only really play FC now :shock: )

As you can see, they are almost completely surrounded, with only the Lyran and Romulan/Tholian areas/borders not warzones. The Klingon's generally got support from Romulans and Lyrans, but not always in addition's to there fleets (the Romulan/Gorn levels of power is fairly well balanced, the the Lyran's were fighting Kzinti's (cats in a barrel). That said, the Klingon Star Empire was the Biggest of the 3 (thing of it somewhere along the lines of the Axis powers in WII, though more balanced force wise).

 

[Sgt_G]

Keeper, maybe a visual will help. Here's the SFU map:

http://www.federationcommander.com/west_map.shtml
http://www.federationcommander.com/east_map.shtml

Klingons are in the west, along with Lyran, Hydran, Kzinti, and half of the Federation.
Romulains, Gorn, ISC, and the other half of the Federation are in the east.

The Klingon Empire does not border the Romulan Empire, but it used to before the Tholians moved in and set up their Holdfast.

EDIT: Or you can look at the pretty map at the link Jean posted above.

 

[Greg Smith]

The Gorn captain was a history expert and had built a replica of an early Gorn ship driven by a solar sail. The Federation captain was actually invited to join in this vessel's first voyage.

Unfortunately the Terran media got hold of the story and dramatised it as Gorn With The Wind. That was what started the Federation-Gorn war. :twisted:

I haven't seen Lenny Lizard in any other flicks. Did that movie ruin his career? :lol:

Frankly, my dear reptile. I don't give a damn.

 

[Myrm]

I haven't seen Lenny Lizard in any other flicks. Did that movie ruin his career? :lol:

Reduced to cameo roles in the Big Bang Theory, Im afraid.

He did try a couple of career revivals - one by by trying out for the role of Aragorn but was overlooked as he played the character far too cold-blooded. The other was a Pibgorn recital music CD, but theinstrument is considered, even in Wales, a bit of a dinosaur so that too went turtle. Since then I haven't really monitored his career.

*grabs coat*

 

[Jean]

I just finished the first pass through the new short story for the forthcoming Captain's Log #44 and right now I am so not happy with the Klingons. "A Call to Arms" covers the start of the Klingon invasion of the Federation. I so want the Federation ships to blow up every single Klingon ship. Waiting patiently so I can read your reports ...

Jean

 

[Nerroth]

In case you are wondering about how the colour map and the hex maps square up, and where the Alpha-Beta-Gamma titles over each segment come from, this map of the Milky Way Galaxy might help.

As you can see, the galaxy as a whole is divided into twenty-four segments, each named after a letter of the Greek alphabet. The five "Void" segments include regions which, for various reasons, are pretty much no-go areas for (almost) everyone in the galaxy; this keeps the five sectors the Voids divide apart in terms of travel. (Basically, the only way for most ships to get from one sector to another is to do an "up-and-under"; to cross the Galactic Energy Barrier, fly "over" or "beneath" the plane of the galaxy, and then cross back into the Milky Way.)

In the case of the Alpha Octant, the coloured-in areas of the Alpha, Beta and Gamma segments equate to the hex maps linked to above (which also doubles as the strategic map used in Federation and Empire). The blank areas between this coloured area and the Voids on either side (or the outer edge of the Storm Zone to coreward) represent the "off-map" regions in which some of the Alpha Octant empires can expand into (areas which are shown in abstracted form on the sides of the F&E map).

In F&E, the purpose of these off-map areas is to provide a place where an empire which is defeated on the hexmap can retreat to, in order to try and re-build their forces. (This usually happens to the Hydrans in the General War campaign; historically, they were driven back to the Old Colonies in the Delta segment, from where they gradually built up the logistical assets needed to eventually liberate the Kingdom.)


Oh, and in case you are wondering, the Sargasso Storm sector is said to have several pockets of "clear" space, which are regularly cut off from their neighbours by strong ion storms; it's said the empires there (none of which have been published yet) use the short windows of opportunity when the storms subside in order to try and grab the resources their home enclaves need to survive the next bout of isolation. The Xorkaelian Empire on the far side of the galaxy is reported to send ships to attack the Alpha Octant in the years following the Andromedan invasion, but they haven't been published yet either. The Sigma sector is known to be inhabited, but apparently hasn't been explored yet. And as for the Omega Octant... well, that one is a story for another time.

 

[Da Boss]

Thanks - all useful information - appreciated