Welcome to the TF93 HQ

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edited January 2021 in TF93 Headquarters

This section is the Headquarters for TFX, and is an open playground for fiction that is:

  • Set in and around the old Romulan Neutral Zone

  • Written by or in consultation with TF staff to advance the Task Force plotline

  • Written by members who are junior officers (those holding the ranks of Ensign, Lieutenant Junior Grade, or Lieutenant) about their primary characters’ adventures

Or some combination of the above!

Any member of the Task Force is welcome to start a thread if it falls into one of the above categories. This can be for their personal and exclusive use, or the open or invited participation of other members - if it’s the latter, please make that clear!

The main purpose of this section is to house and support the writing of junior officers about their primary character. This usually takes two broad forms:

  • Stories about the history of your primary character, before they have become a ship commander

  • Stories about these primary characters assigned to the Task Force HQ in 2399, as officers expected to soon become starship commanders and in the meantime given missions in the region

Once you reach the rank of Lieutenant Commander, you can request your own ship and write those stories in your ship’s thread.

Please make sure your thread follows the forum rules, and bear in mind the following for writing in this section:

  • The old Neutral Zone has no plot you are required to adhere to. You are encouraged to come up with your own missions and storylines.

  • These stories should be fairly self-contained, episodic adventures that do not massively change the canon of the region.

  • You are free to write on your own, or collaborate with others. Reach out to members of your TF on Discord if you want a writing buddy!

  • Junior officers’ stories can be set on [the station], or about a lone officer deployed somewhere in the region, or with a team dispatched on a specific mission from [the station] by runabout

  • You don’t need to worry about length; posts and stories can be as long or short as you want. We encourage good spelling and grammar so your writing can be easily enjoyed, but nobody will be enforcing this!

  • If possible, keep your own writing in one thread. But if a story is completely separate, don’t be afraid to start another.

  • Make sure to keep a tally of your wordcount and record it in BFMS!

If you have any questions, including how to get started, please ask your Task Force senior staff and they will be happy to help out.

Devron Fleet Yards

Devron Fleet Yards is the headquarters for Task Force 93. The Devron system fell into Federation hands only ten years ago with the collapse of the old Romulan Neutral Zone, a region plunged into chaos with the explosion of the Romulan star. The station is a small shipyard providing refits and repair to vessels in the area and is one of the main hubs of Starfleet support operations into the old Neutral Zone.

Starships of Task Force 93 berth here by default for refit and resupply, or training and administrative duties within the Task Force. The fleet yards also dispatch numerous operations throughout the region to be conducted by its runabout fleet.

If you’re a junior officer wanting to write in the Task Force 93 Headquarters, this is the place to start. Your primary character is likely assigned to Devron Fleet Yards as an officer trusted to lead whole missions and operations away from the station as befits their status and skill set. They will easily be granted a team, a runabout, an assignment, and be sent forth into the old Romulan Neutral Zone or along the Federation border to maintain TF93’s remit of humanitarian aid.

These missions might be:

  • Providing a relief operation to a Federation border world devastated by an environmental threat

  • Building infrastructure and defence protocols on a neutral planet in the old Neutral Zone to keep them safe from opportunistic raiders or the reach of the Romulan Free State

  • Guarding a supply convoy as it passes near the known operating area of a renegade Romulan warlord

  • Surveying a system beyond the Federation border that Starfleet can only explore now they can move freely through the old Neutral Zone

  • Responding to a medical emergency by picking up Romulan refugees and transporting them to the hospital on Devron Fleet Yards

  • Maintaining a piece of Starfleet infrastructure like a communications relay or a sensor platform in deep space

  • Patrolling an area of space where recent pirate raids have been taking place alongside minor skirmishes with the Fenris Rangers

Or any other adventures you think might be appropriate near the old Neutral Zone!

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