Star Trek: Epsilon Sector

whhaaah? A new mission? Or series of missions? available when?

It's a series of linked missions taking place on the Federation border, post ST:VI/pre Next Gen. I'm quite a while away from a release date, but I'm having a lot of fun brainstorming it.

I love it. Can't wait.

SWEET! I look forward to it!

Huh... Turns out that there's an app for that... It's flash, so it won't work on Apple devices, but it looks pretty cool on PC's and Android devices--content and stuff to come-- try entering "Input Fctn 111 Commit" for a preview.

So what exactly is this? It's basically a tool for providing lore to the player for the missions? Looks really cool. I recognise that sector - that's Sol isn't it? Does Epsilon Sector use your multi-sector mission script as a base point?

HOW COOL!! Good work!! :-)

Well, the tricorder is just me goofing off and playing with interface designs, but it's hooked into a pretty decent online information database which will probably be the basis for the in-game science/library computer thingy I've been tinkering with. I've got a crazy notion that a centralized location running Apache and Perl can probably talk to the game in real time by parsing the log files on a regular basis, which could trigger events that could be read or enacted upon by something like the tricorder app.


And yes, that is Sol, but it's just a placeholder for stuff to come later-- Outside of a brief visit to the Utopia Planitia shipyards for the shakedown cruise and a trip to [REDACTED] during a flashback mission, the mod will mostly take place in Epsilon Sector, which is currently sporting about a dozen different locations, each of which should have their own map. So yes, it'll (probably) be a multi sector thing, but with warp mechanics rather than jump points.

Tre, you beautiful madman, you. This sounds too good to be true. Seems to me that if you can't get the fancy interfacing with the game thing to work then you could always use comms to provide the 'access codes' to the data relevant logs as and when they are relevant. (perhaps starfleet have encrypted the Meridian's computer info in the event that the ship falls into enemy hands)

I dunno about beautiful, but madman is definitely appropriate.

Anyway, currently, the database supports a session, event,and item ID, as well as a trigger code,so from a mission script or the GM's console, you could theoretically make things available to, say, the bridge's library computer application that could be sent to, say, a tricorder app running on a wi-fi connected tablet in one of Lee's LBE laser tag locations, which, come to think of it, could probably use some sort of Arduino type IR sensor to speak back to it-- but I'm probably getting ahead of myself and well out of my skill set.

But yes, it has some potential.

By the way, today's code is "INPUT FCTN 782 COMMIT".

Today's code is "INPUT FCTN 412 COMMIT". It'll give you a little bit of info about one of the sector's more pivotal locations.

Almost ready for launch ...

Squeee!

Today's code is "INPUT FCTN 718 COMMIT"

The first mission is working pretty okay, but it's still a little rough around the edges. Unfortunately, I'm in the process of moving out of state, so if I don't finish it by the end of the weekend, it won't be until after the first week of June before I can get back to it. The good news is that sitting in an empty apartment for a week with nothing but an inflatable bed and my laptop should give me lots of time to outline the other missions in the series.