Hello all,

I'd just like to let you all know about some changes that will be ongoing with the way Fleet Projects are handled.

Going forward, we will be maintaining an average minimum provisioning level of 200 across all fleet holdings, given to certain ongoing demands, for example, Fleet Ships, if this level gets down to below 50, it is unlikely that these provisions will be used as fast as those used for Fleet Consoles.

So, what will this mean for you?

Basically, not much, this is being done for two main reasons. One, this will allow us to complete our starbase faster. And two, if you are in the need of Fleet Credits, you can instead donate to our Armada fleets. This will allow us to progress farther, our Armada to progress farther, and hopefully all with minimum impact to anyone.

If you have any questions or suggestions relating to this, please let us know at the UST forums.

http://ust.storp.org

Thanks!
Brex

Hi all,

If you were one of the people who used to access the fleet chat externally, this has now been disabled. I am unsure if this is intentional or not, the XMPP chat interface was only ever really intended for use by the developers and a few beta testers during the Foundry beta, while it was expanded to more general use, I still don't think it's fully supported.

However, we have a bit of a workaround.

A separate in-game channel has been set up, simply named "UST".

To join in-game, type /channel_join "UST" into the chatbox, or if you want to set it up externally, or have never used the external chat. Please use this video tutorial here:

http://ust.storp.org/index.php?topic=779

TO:
United Sector Taskforce; All Officers

REGARDING UNITED SECTOR TASKFORCE ADMIRALTY ASSIGNMENTS

As of Stardate 92286, the following officers are being promoted to Flag Officer status after reconciliation of past efforts prior to the Jenolan Accord;

Shaani
Matri
Pexil
Matthew Jerrickson
Johnathan A. MacReynolds
Etris Aerienne Audral
Charles Butler
Freya
Seymour

While the Jenolan Accord specifically implies the current cessation of hostilities between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon High Council, this consideration does not simply take into account actions during the hostilities nor combative actions within.

All officers will receive the responsibilities and privileges of their rank with immediate effect of receipt of this communique. A formal promotion ceremony shall be held aboard Deep Space Seven, on 13/09/2014, at 1700 Station time. Formal uniform is recommended as per the uniform code.

Vice Admiral Solian Jarso Brex
Starfleet Command, Deep Space Seven

Starfleet is now entering a period beyond one where we were at war. As in all times of war, rapid advancement happens in all things; science and innovation, starship construction and design, and of course, rank progression.

As we all know, during the conflict, we had lost a lot of lives, while starships remained mostly serviceable, all the while our standard production was accelerated. This had caused a shortage of experienced crew, with a drastic increase of active, serviceable starships.

Because of this officers would have been promoted through the 'battle-promotion' route, and placed in commands of smaller groups, effectively given the authorization, and rank, of an Admiral. This has left us with a situation where officers are unsure who they report to, and where the command line resides.

Effective immediately, all flag officers progressed through this means will be demoted to the rank, and position that they have demonstrated competence and excellence in, the greatest duty of all; Captain.

Following this, Starfleet Command will undergo an extensive process to choose Captains who have shown their ability to command fleets, and promote them in full, to the rank of Admiral.

Solian Jarso Brex
Starfleet Command
United Sector Taskforce

OOC:
This will be two fold, first off, we want to establish an IC fleet leadership, and these new roles will use the "Admiralty" rank, which before now was largely unused. This rank does have a number of admin positions attached to it, and as such will also form some of our new OOC Leadership.

Members of high ranks from our subsidiary fleets such as Beta Ursae Sector Taskforce, U.S.S. North Sun, Borderlands Defence Initiative and Taskforce 47 will be given preference over newer members, however all will be subject to applications will be processed by a number of criteria; time-zones, experience, RP impact (if you've ever run an RP event with the fleet, you will be given higher preference) and simple availability.

As this will be forming an additional OOC leadership as well, we're looking for people who can devote some significant time to the fleet, and can provide some time-zone coverage.

Our goal here isn't to create a "buddies" administration, everyone will be subject to the criteria established before and we will need people who can provide a constant service to the fleet. Further details regarding the application process will be posted soon.

Hello!

As your constnatly fearless leader who has always run away bravely, I hereby present Star Citizen, in pure magical technicolour!

Because of this being something seperate from Star Trek Online, I have created a new Steam group, just for it.

http://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/groups/BORDEFINI

If you are interested in Star Citizen, please feel free to join.

As mentioned above, this is going to be totally seperate from Star Trek Online, so we will not be using the STORP forums, or indeed the UST forums for this. Instead, we will be using the forums provided by the Steam group.

The name is still subject to change, as we move closer to release of Star Citizen and are provided with further details, I will hold disucssions and polls regarding the name and direction we want to take this.

I will endeavour to keep our Star Citizen wing as open as our Star Trek Online wing has been, involving the members in as many processes and discussions as possible, while sometimes it may be necessary to just give instructions and say "Get on with it" (or "Make it so", if you are so inclined :) ) hopefully this can be kept at a minimum.

Our Star Citizen page is here, https://robertsspaceindustries.com/orgs/BORDEFINI

and if you decide to join us, I hope to see you in the 'verse ;)

P.S. Of course, if you are already in a Organization of your own, feel free to add this as an affiliated Organization, your ranking status will be primarily IC, as with Star Trek Online, however you will be unable to fill any OOC roles if you chose affiliated.

P.P.S. And don't worry, we're not abandoning STO, certaintly, I'm not. This is just a way to keep us together, as I'm sure a lot of us will have an interest with Star Citizen.