<div dir="ltr">The Territorial Marking Fleet returned to Kif Naval Depot after a three month deployment to the Hegemony's border regions. <div><br></div><div>While the ships were mooring to the maintenance bays for upkeep and resupply of their drone and hunting-animal stocks, Cheeth-Sub-Admiral was summoned to the ducal estate of House Kif. The topic of the briefing that was given there was classified, but analysts working with chatter surrounding the meeting concluded that it was related to the the recent engagement with the whole of the available Federation fleet at the Organian Treaty world of Oruus-IV. </div><div><br></div><div>Contacts in the Hegemony report that some members of the ducal court were displeased at the loss of the system to the humans and their leaf-eating allies. Representatives of the Admirality were said to counter that the Oruus system was officially Organian, not Kzinti territory because no member of the nobility had yet set hindpaws on its soil, therefore no honor was lost in failing to secure it from a larger enemy force. </div><div><br></div><div>Mirr-Speaker-to-Strangers of the Diplomatic Ministry submitted a subspace brief from Kzin to argue that since both the ducal Admirality and Starfleet Command independently described the engagement as a draw, no loss of face was suffered. Cheeth-Sub-Admiral's emergence from the estate after the meeting via the family gate rather than a side entrance was interpreted as meaning that the briefing satisfied the most influential members of House Kif's nobility for now.</div><div><br></div><div>The Territorial Marking Fleet is ready to advance.</div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 11:52 PM Matthew via SFBdrama <<a href="mailto:sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org" target="_blank">sfbdrama@lists.mattnet.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Happy new Year! Welcome to Y2018!<br>
<br>
<br>
So the holiday season is officially over, now that national hangover-day<br>
is over. So there's some good news for ya!<br>
<br>
<br>
Also, Bram has gotten ahold of me. Yay!! He told me the Kzinti diplomat<br>
thought that the ships attacking the Kzinti convoy were some extinct dog<br>
species. After seeing the psychologist for the last four weeks, the<br>
Kzinti in question is willing to believe that extinct means extinct. So<br>
that's all settled, until he starts hallucinating again: I bet next time<br>
it'll be about talking racoons.<br>
<br>
So Bram says we can advance the turn. Please perform a last check on<br>
your orders and put your seat-trays in their full and upright positions.<br>
I'll hit the button tomorrow.<br>
<br>
<br>
Also, we have three (!!) new players from this holiday season. One you<br>
might recognize as an old friend of ours, Frank "the five-front-war<br>
Romulan" Lemay. Paul Graves has been on the tournament circuit for the<br>
last 25 years and is finally making a plunge into the campaign scene.<br>
And Charles Carroll has got the same story that most of us have: Used to<br>
play alot but is coming back after a long haitus.<br>
<br>
<br>
Because of the new players, many of us have suddenly got some borders we<br>
didn't have last turn. I've tried to add borders mostly to those people<br>
who didn't have much before; be ready to cover a much larger space than<br>
you used to. Please don't panic. You've got time to beef up your fleets<br>
and close down unwanted borders before our newest players are up to<br>
speed on the situation enough to start handing us our hats.<br>
<br>
<br>
--Matt<br>
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