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<center>''Created SD 2260.130</center>

 

 

 

The ships are legendary: ENTERPRISE...YORKTOWN...LEXINGTON...CONSTELLATION...FARRAGUT...

 

 

This is a proposal to begin a new ASR-offshoot PBeM group, called "ASR: Origins."  "Origins" will be a writing group specifically designed to explore the alternate timeline opened up in the latest Star Trek movie by J.J. Abrams.  That movie will serve as the main inspiration for "Origins."  As an alternate timeline, "Origins" will not have a direct impact on the stories, plotlines or technologies developed in and for ASR.

 

 

The setting of "Origins" will be around 2260, just after the events of Star Trek (that movie took place in 2258), around 160 years BEFORE the current ASR timeline.

 

 

The memories of the Federation-Romulan War are far closer to the surface, the scars far more recent.  However, despite Nero's timeline-altering appearance, the Romulans have closed their borders and have kept to themselves for many years.  Will they that way?  We USED to know...but not any more.  Is this a golden opportunity, or a precursor to war?  And if it is war they want, then with whom?  The Klingons are vulnerable as well...

 

These ships also carried powerful- for their time- weapons and defensive systems: phasers, photon torpedoes, shields, even a point defense system.  They were more than capable of defending themselves and others if need be.  But despite these impressive tactical systems, the CONSTITUTION-class starships were not built around their weapons; they were ships of peaceful exploration, its crews more scientists and diplomats than soldier.

Technologically, though at the cutting edge of technology in 2260, these ships are far inferior to those of 2421.  There are no pulse phasers, phaser cannons, quantum flux torpedoes, multiphasic shields, transwarp drive, d-warp drive systems, or holodecks.  Warp 8 was considered emergency speed only; impulse drive was a simple ion-thrust drive, not the modern gravity planing drives of the ASR Prime universe.  Combat of that era was usually more "up close and personal," given the reduced ranges and capabilities of the weapons as compared with today's.

 

 

 

 

Initially, it is unlikely that "Origins" will be anything but a glorified "free thread" to begin with, until numbers go up.  The initial goal is to aim for establishing and crewing two units (the efforts to find interested parties outside of ASR are taking place as of this writing), with expansion available if the

interest is there. Two units does not make for a fleet, however, and as such do not require additional senior administrative support than is already in place. Until such a time when and if 3-4 of these "Origins" units are active, the senior unit CO can act as the liaison ("The Commodore") with the Flag Council and the CSFO.  This CO would have no formal entry into the FC; only when sufficient "Origins" unit numbers are met would this position be on the fleet commander level.

 

Eventually, it is hoped that the administrative set-up of "Origins" would roughly mirror current ASR administrative practices in that there would be a "fleet commander" overseeing the individual starship "units".  There will be no level of administration between the "fleet commander" and the units themselves; not only is this not necessary at this early stage of Origin's development, it also helps reflect  

the "freedom" of the Starship Captain of this era: with no fleet bounaries to worry about or specific established villains to focus on or stay away from, storyline development is considerably more open and freer than in "Classic" ASR.

 

 

This will be a PBeM group, just as ASR is.  Posts will be submitted to a central post archive on Yahoo (we can use ASR's if it is desired for advertising reasons- we can always tag the posts [ORIGINS] to differentiate them from "normal" ASR posts) as well as a unit archive.  Unit archives will be open for public viewing, the posts capped at PG-13.  Again, all this mirrors typical PBeM practice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

* Can a player hold characters in both ASR Prime and ASR: ORIGINS?

** Yes, of course.  That is at each individual player's discretion.  While we suggest that a player not have more than three geenral characters in all of ASR, as long as a player shows he/she is able to handle the load, he/she is welcome to write in whichever unverse they prefer, or both at the same time.

 

* Thre are only really 2 things ORIGNIS requires of its players:

 

*: ''a willingness to be ACTIVE.''  We abide by a slightly different posting policy than ASR, as we prefer more frequent-but-shorter posts in order to maintain proper momentum and interest.  Therefore, before joining, we ask that all potential players make sure they can post somewhere in the weekly area.  Understand that these posts can be shorter- a page or so, even a couple of paragraphs is perfectly acceptable- than what is common in ASR Prime.

 

*: ''a willingness to remain in contact.''  In ASR Prime, it is considered "common courtesy" to inform one's CO of a impending absence of more than a couple of days; it is also considered proper to respond to any mails sent to you by a player or "superior officer" within 48-72 hours.  In ORIGINS, these "common courtesies" will be followed as well for everyone's benefit.

 

 

 

We also want to work hard to keep a higher level of activity than we've seen in ASR Prime in recent years.  Hopefully, our policy of "shorter-but-more-frequent posts" will pay off in this area.

 

-- [mailto:scottjlusby@hargray.com Scott Lusby] <br>

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