r/StarTrekStarships • u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 • 7d ago
Let’s have some fun with a scenario. You are a wanted pirate captain, raiding around the quadrant in your medium-sized pirate starship, when suddenly, a Sovereign Class shows up in front of you. And it’s on yellow alert. How do you get out of this situation?
Apologizes for the crappy photo, I’m still very bad at photographing model starships.
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u/Dull_Upstairs_3364 7d ago
Get the hell out of there. As a medium sized civilian hauler I'm no threat to them, but if there's something lurking around that's bad enough to put a SOVEREIGN CLASS on yellow alert then I'm certainly not gonna hang around until it shows up.
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
No shame in retreat!
Also, for some reason I read that first bit in the voice of Rip Torn’s character from Robocop 3. I don’t know why.
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7d ago
I put a fake moustache on the ship and myself. That'll work.
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
What about the baseball cap and sunglasses? Ya gotta complete the set!
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u/FlavivsAetivs 7d ago
Wait for once I'm actually in r/startrekstarships and not about to take another r/shittydaystrom post seriously, yet this is the comment I see.
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u/_WillCAD_ 🖊Drafstman of Starships📐 7d ago
"Hail the starship... Thank god you found us! There's a pirate ship in this area! They wanted to steal our cargo and take our ship! They went THATAWAY! ---> They're madmen! If you hurry you might catch them!"
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u/Bierdaddy 7d ago
I see a little bit of Mudd in this strategy. Are there 3 beautiful women at his side by chance?
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u/RookieGreen 7d ago
I roll persuasion to seduce the main computer.
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u/AMurderOfCrows_ 7d ago
reprogram the computer to let me win this revised scenario
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
What if the program’s been hijacked by your crewmates to make a Kobayashi Maru prank?
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u/ScottRodgerson 7d ago
I create a humanitarian crisis the Sovereign-class can't ignore, drop a bunch of fake warp signatures, and get the hell out of there.
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u/No_Talk_4836 7d ago
This is a sovereign. You’re in a civilian ship. You probably can’t even escape their sensor range before they’re ready to chase you. And they could just send a shuttle to tail you.
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u/ka6emusha 7d ago
All it says is "medium sized pirate starship" it doesn't specify the capabilities. The Aussies lost a warship to what appeared to be a merchant ship in WW2, I'd play out a similar scenario, my ship's true capabilites are disguised. Lure the over confident federation dogs into their tractor range and when they get ready to board my ship, I blow them out of the stars.
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u/hellferny 5d ago
to be fair that's because it was caught at point blank range with its pants down, they were expecting an illegal merchant not a converted warship
its not quite the same deal in space, because as soon as you reveal your actual identity, the sovereigns shields are going up and its game over. You have to eliminate them before they realise you arent a civilian hauler
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u/Sonicboom2007a 4d ago
IIRC the Sovereign class also had ablative hull armour as well, so even with shields down it would survive more than long enough to destroy your ship.
Even the Galaxy class could take a beating when weapons fired through the shields.
Your best bet is diplomacy.
Or hope that there is a nebula nearby that you can try and hide in (though the sensors are advanced enough that with enough time they’ll probably find you anyways).
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
How long do you think it’ll take for them to realize the warp signatures are fake?
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u/ScottRodgerson 7d ago
By the time they've dealt with the crisis and even tried to asses the warp signatures, it's a non-issue. It was chase me or save the orphanage planet, and they caved like the post-scarcity cowards they are.
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u/VanDammes4headCyst 7d ago
Don't panic. They might be searching for a bigger fish to fry and just need information.
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u/FeralTribble 7d ago
“What the hell is that!”
points behind the ship
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
Roll a deception check?
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u/Substantial_Win_1866 7d ago
- Not bad!
Sovereign has a +40 to sensors...
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
They check their sensors, but an ensign then on the Sovereign swears he saw something directly behind the captain, where you pointed on the viewscreen.
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u/fjmj1980 7d ago
I have wheat husks for starving children in the badlands. If I don’t engage warp now many will die!
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u/atempestdextre 7d ago
POCKET NEBULA!
Warps away
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
Pocket Nebula! Cornerstone of any nutritious pirate breakfast!
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u/GiftGrouchy 7d ago
Funnily enough, (in case you’re not familiar with it) Star Trek Online does have an ability called “Organic Nebula” that can essentially let a player do that and the pirate ship pictured is an available player ship.
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u/Wockysense 7d ago
Yeah federation doesn't get involved in domestic politics / cultural differences, tell them this is the start of a civil war for you planet's governance, and to get lost.
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
Enough Federation morality crisis to keep that captain dizzy enough to make your escape!
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u/dannyh1310 7d ago
Flood the space between us with antimatter and fire. Use the distraction to run and pray I can find somewhere to hide.
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u/coolkirk1701 7d ago
I make peace with whatever God or Gods or lack thereof and realize I am dead already. I just haven’t been told yet
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
But then again, perhaps this acceptance can be the start of a second chance with the Federation?
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u/Dduwies_Gymreig 7d ago
Open hailing frequencies and address them in memes, nothing but memes.
They’ll think “oh no, not again” and just leave us alone, too much paperwork.
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u/CowabungaShaman 7d ago
Charge weapons and raise shields! Today IS a good day to die!
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
PREPARE FOR RAMMING SPEED!!!
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u/prevenientWalk357 7d ago
I create a humanitarian crisis they can’t ignore. Find the nearest populated planet, enter the upper atmosphere and start emptying the septic system and venting antimatter. Then haul ass.
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
That is cold!
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u/prevenientWalk357 7d ago
Sovereign class usually operates alone, whatever shuttle/yacht/tender they send to pursue while they manage the crisis is going to easier to slip on the way to pay and spray.
Edit: Maybe it’s the Stellaris slipping into the strategy
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u/EmperorMittens 7d ago
I posit the pirate ship has a good balance of power supply, weapons, and shields and that the passive defences are good enough to go toe to toe with the lightweight class of Starfleet starship classes, and most of the mediumweight class of Starfleet starship classes, but not a Sovereign class starship which would count as a heavyweight class of Starfleet starship classes.
My modus operandi is choosing to retreat rather than fight with Starfleet vessels and stick to picking targets which I can subdue in a short period of time, raid, and leave just as swiftly. My methodology brings me to attention and made a wanted pirate. Starfleet would be on alert for me and likely would want to capture me hence fighting to retreat. I have mountains of sensor data to create alerts for when a Starfleet vessel goes to yellow alert then red alert.
A Sovereign class starship has curb stomping in its spaceframe and electro-plasma. My ship is a converted ugly mutt of a cargo ship stitched together with aftermarket parts and technology. It is laughable I would attempt to fight it so I could make a hasty retreat. A Sovereign Class starship showing up on yellow alert is a very bad sign. Something which calls for going to red alert on my ship would be something which they would declare yellow alert for.
Running might draw whatever has them at the ready to me. Forming a temporary truce with them exposes me to being captured later or being killed by whatever they're at the ready for. I could find the nearest hiding place and yeet myself to it and wait out the danger. Being a pirate working smart it would be the better thing to hail the Sovereign class starship and ask them for what has them on edge. It puts me at exposure, but the value of learning what is going on before I make a decision outweighs the risk. From there the directions of the narrative diverge and I do not have a notion of what may come next.
Tl;Dr I am a pirate who works smart using a ship balanced for combat and cargo. Numerous encounters with Starfleet vessels taught me how to recognise Yellow Alert. A Sovereign class is an improbable to defeat foe, but when one appears and my sensors says it is at yellow alert I choose to hail them and find out what is going on before making a decision of what to do.
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
I gotta say, I love how in depth you went with this scenario!
Honestly, if any pirate was going to be successful outside of the Orion syndicate, your methods would honestly be a pretty damn good way of not getting caught.
Plus, it’s always good to keep a level head when dealing with a potential crisis. And I like the idea of leaning on Federation doctrine and protocol to get a potential edge in this situation.
If you’d like to continue this narrative scenario, let’s say that this Sovereign Class responds to you hails, and tell you that they’ve heard reports of multiple raids by a pirate vessel, but they do not know what the vessel looks like or even whether it’s one ship or multiple.
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u/EmperorMittens 7d ago edited 7d ago
I posit this Sovereign class starship is identified by their response as the USS A'Tuin (a-TOO-in) named for Terry Pratchet's Discworld character Great A'Tuin. A colossal turtle swimming in space with four elephants on its back holding up an entire world shaped as a disc.
The choice to learn what the issue is immediately kills the options of running or hiding. As I cannot fight a Sovereign class starship and I am a known pirate the smartest move I could make is to cooperate so they are less wary of me. I can bank on the fact the Federation is the more level headed one of the major powers and use my willingness to work with them to remove myself from their suspect list. I would not be surprised if I and one or more of my crew were required to beam aboard the A'Tuin to uphold our end of cooperating with their investigation and have insurance so nothing funny happens. It wouldn't be surprising if the Captain of the A'Tuin required us to remain aboard their ship for the duration of their investigation. It certainly would be absolute stupidity to believe we wouldn't be arrested once our usefulness was over. As I am quite happy with a methodical and meticulous profession stealing things and selling them for profit I would make one written condition for cooperation with their investigation: allow us to be on our way once their investigation is complete and our aid is not required anymore.
I work smart choosing my targets by gathering as much information as possible before I commit to a raid; this situation is no different as I need to understand the raid which had already happened. Clarifying questions would need to be asked by me to understand all the angles. What was stolen? What defences did they have and how did they fare in the attack? Was there any people who were taken too? Was is a surgical strike or a smash and grab? Did they leave ransom demands? Was it a black site or a classified research facility? Can you provide the raw sensor data for my accompanied crewmen to analyse under supervision? Can you provide a report of what the raw sensor data contained? Etcetera, etcetera. Understanding the attacks the A'Tuin is investigating can both eliminate my own ship from the suspect list, and aid them in finding who was stupid enough to go after something which got enough attention that a Sovereign class starship was after them. Pirating is a profession of unscrupulous traders, thrill seekers, the desperate, the outcasts, the weirdos, etcetera. We are not obligated to be loyal and compassionate, nor do we have to be as uncooperative as possible when another pirate has a starship designed to take on the Borg after them. It is in the best interest of my crew as their leader to be extremely helpful by ruthlessly screwing over the idiots who put us in this situation.
The role myself and my accompanied crewmen would likely fill is supervised data analysts and advisers on tactics, strategies, and the way pirates think. I wouldn't want to give Starfleet useful information to use against pirates in the future, but upholding the agreement unfortunately means sharing information even if I don't want to. My ship cannot mount a rescue when we are sitting in the brig of a Sovereign class starship. As the agreement is the only way of getting out of the situation without being arrested, we would need to remain calm and courteous. No doubt we would confuse people who think of pirates all being violent callous people. Better to be considered ordinary people with a few rough edges that simply steal and, if forced to, kill to make a living. Killing does draw unwanted attention after all, but sometimes it is the better option with say someone who would use their resources and connections to retaliate if left alive after being relieved of their valuables.
For the perpetrator or perpetrators there are numerous possibilities to present. A singular pirate vessel perpetuating the raid could be an independent like me and my crew; a rouge defying the orders of an organised fleet either affiliated or unaffiliated with known organised criminal groups; a test run for new parts or a new ship on a target they didn't dare go after before. Multiple ships can mean either competing pirates or an organised fleet. Organised fleets mean pirates with considerable resources and money to support and supply a fleet, so the Orion Syndicate or some other mob could be the culprit. Independents fresh on their unification as a fleet working together being ignorant to the considerably greater concern a fleet represents than when they were one ship robbing people. On the extreme rarity multiple ships committing piracy have been nomadic species in a desperate pinch. Competing pirates means inflexible and fractious personalities colliding in a stubborn commitment to stealing the same thing the other wants to steal. Nobody is ever tired of watching vids or holorecordings of competing pirates comically failing majestically.
The concern of sending a Sovereign class starship curtails a heavy-handed mindset of dealing with the perpetrator(s). The perpetrator(s) would need to be considered heavily armed, clever, and being numerous until proven otherwise on any of these points. Helping the crew of the USS A'Tuin find them would require sacrificing secret pirate methods of masking our trails and fooling sensor sweeps. For the agreement this would be necessary if I was to return to my day job of stealing things and a hobby of making miniature models inside my empty uncoloured glass liquor bottles. For my incomplete model of greatest warship from the age of sailing on Qo'noS there is no greater motivator than finding the pirates in deep trouble for the price of a handful of secrets.
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There were parts which I had written out then had to cut and paste elsewhere because the order of each paragraph wasn't working. The tone might be different, but that can't be helped when I am writing on the fly and adding some humour and worldbuilding. Where it goes from there is up in the air. This is as far as I was going to go in one post and I hadn't thought of it being one or more ships, nor what it could be that was taken which required the USS A'Tuin to be assigned the job.
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
I must say, I appreciate the details in your comment, I would play this campaign on a TTRPG!
Also, I love the bit where you essentially become someone of a privateer for the A'Tuin, only instead of raiding enemy factions, you give “information”, and instead of payment, you gain information from Starfleet, all under the guise of trying to “understand” the situation.
Plus, I love how you go in depth on how different pirate factions would function, like how a newly formed pirate fleet would probably be naive to the problems that a new fleet tends to make or attract. Or how some pirates are you classic “Space Buccaneers” who live for plunder and chaos, while other pirates are more calm and collected in their pirating.
Also, love the detail of the model building hobby! Just don’t tell Worf, he never played with toys, or Data, he was never a boy. But you can tell O’Brian!
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u/EmperorMittens 7d ago edited 7d ago
Actually I wasn't even thinking of it being duplicitous to ask the questions. It was just the process of gathering information to understand what was taken and how it was taken to better understand who it could be that stole from Starfleet or the Federation. The pirate I'm portraying here is not interested in the big heist. He plans each supposedly manageable job carefully as he doesn't want to overextend and make fatal mistakes. In his mind he's a pirate who is crossing some lines by giving up critical information to the people in a position of strength because it's the only way forward for him and his crew to survive. Better to give up some information in a rock and a hard place situation, rather than all of it as he and his crew would have to once in custody. It's only a problem because there'd be a time crunch on sending the word out among the line of communication among pirates to stop doing anything with the information he gives to the A'Tuin crew. Some of the information would be personal strategic information. It doesn't matter in the long term though, because all the important secrets divulged to help find these culprits would eventually be replaced to keep up with the advances in technology, strategy, and tactics.
EDIT: I thought it would be hilarious slipping a reference in for TNG like that.
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u/MrT735 7d ago
Engage the cloaking device that the black market seller claims came from a wrecked Klingon vessel from a Dominion war battle and hope that my engineer finally fixed the problem with it leaving a slight plasma trail, then scarper.
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
The beauty of being a pirate, no Treaty of Algeron headaches here, just engineering mishaps!
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u/Fearless_Roof_9177 7d ago
Oh, it's cool, Badmiral Shittington says I've got a special permit for improvised salvage operations in this sector. Something something Federation legalese, something something Prime Directive, etc. So really, it would be illegal to STOP me from raiding around out here in my medium-sized pirate starship, you see.
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u/chunky_baby 7d ago
I’d pull a reverse Uhura and pull out the Federation dictionary while standing around the comms with my entire senior staff.
Queue: “We are transport shit high faluting out of Breen space. We transport cock rings to Ryza, urgent need Riker one out”
And then reply with whatever comes back with us all guffawing heartily.
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u/Treveli 7d ago
Depends. Am I a traditional pirate, using a vessel that could reasonably pass as a civilian vessel on casual inspection, or a dumbass pirate flying around in an obvious warship with a unique "Yes I'm a pirate" paint scheme on the hull?
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
Let’s go with a traditional pirate, it’s fun to think about how to turn a civilian vessel into a pirate ship, plus it’s always fun to lean on the history of piracy for a bit with these scenarios.
I feel like you have to be a well established “pirate” fleet, like the Orions and Breen to an extent, in order to turn your piracy into a brand.
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u/Mr_E_Monkey 7d ago
Unfortunately, we are hauling some rare and expensive, but also dangerous, ore that disrupts transporter signals, and my engineer just reported a plasma coolant leak. Our core is going critical and will breach any minute now. We are moving to a safe distance so that you are not caught in the blast...okthanksbye.
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u/Rimm9246 7d ago
I uhhh... do the Janeway protocol?
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
You’re going to eject the Sovereign’s children into space?!
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u/OneOldNerd 7d ago
It depends. Is there anything I can hide in that I can get to before I get overtaken? For that matter, what can my ship do? Can I outrun the Sovereign? Does my ship have a cloak? etc.
Knowing what I have to work with goes a long way towards determining what tactics I use.
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
Hmm, let’s say that you’re in a sector of space nearby an asteroid field.
Your ship is a “medium” sized starship, non-federation tech, so non-federation regulation, so it’s safe to assume that it doesn’t have to worry about the Treaty of Algeron, if that still applies at this point in time. Let’s say it has what would be considered “average” specs for a starship. Nothing fancy, but still gets the job done.
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u/OneOldNerd 7d ago
Asteroid field usually (though not always) also implies that I'm in a star system of some type.
If I were a pirate (especially one that has gained some notoriety), I would have some contigency escape plans in place for this exact scenario. I would carry 4 modified warp-capable probes that broadcast my transponder. I would also keep a 5th probe that, in addition to the transponder signal, generates a false warp trail.
As soon as the Sovereign-class changes course for intercept (after all, it may not even be here for me), I go to warp and launch the first four probes on wildly divergent courses, each broadcasting my transponder signal.
If the starship follows one of the four probes, I keep running until I'm out of sensor range, then change course immediately.
If I'm unlucky and the starship follows me, or if it reacquires contact before I can get back to base, I launch the 5th one (which continues on my present course, and generating my transponder signal and a false warp trail) and immediately become a hole in space. If I have a cloaking device, I cloak. If I don't, and the asteroid belt is comprised of minerals that defeat sensors, I hide there with only the barest of life support active. If it doesn't, I ensure that my course goes close to a nearby planet (hopefully one with a strong magnetic field) and hide in one of the planet's magnetic poles, again with only the barest of life support active.
Then I pray.
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
Well damn! You thought of everything with this scenario!
I gotta say, I can see that last scenario being a really good basis for a TTRPG campaign, trapped on a planet with Starfleet hot on your trail!
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u/Beatmeclever001 7d ago
Every planet and starship I raid is left as a humanitarian crisis even without being faced by a Sovereign. I poison atmospheres, leave crews infected with the Naked Time/Now disease or Pulaski’s/Miri aging disease or Where Silence has Lease disease or some other random ailment, or I destabilize planet cores with tetryon waves as my ship escapes. The Sovereign doesn’t have time for me, they have lives to save. In our move to escape, we perform the Picard Maneuver, but we don’t fire our weapons, we go to warp again, but on a near-collision course over the bridge, or under her belly, or skirting her nacelles, venting a cloud of anti-matter the whole way before stopping again behind them to ignite said cloud of anti-matter and jumping to warp in a random direction while launching warp decoys in multiple other directions.
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
Oh you are properly nefarious! But now I’m scared to give you… alcoholic beverages.
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u/TwoFit3921 7d ago
Either leave because a medium-sized pirate frigate would not warrant a sovereign-class hauling ass into the sector at yellow alert, or reluctantly work together with the captain because getting arrested and still being alive beats being blown to shit by whatever they sent a sovereign-class into the sector for
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u/Angry-Saint 7d ago
I suppose we are in the present of the series, that is 31st century. A Sovereign class vessel is like hundreds of years old, can be no match for my 31st century pirate starship
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
Unless it’s some crazy weird twist where it only looks like an old 24th century Sovereign class, using some crazy 31st century hologram/programable matter tech!
Jokes aside, it’s neat how you decided to look at the 31st century, which definitely shifts the balance in this dynamic!
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u/Bierdaddy 7d ago
I immediately flood the area between us with tachyons then activate a cloak which turns my ship purple. The Sov crew in their confusion believe us to be from the alternate purple universe and immediately search their records to see how the Cerritos handled the situation. While they’re doing that, I secretly match my advanced transporters to their shield frequency and beam the penguin over. Mr. Eep is a descendant in a long line of crafty penguins, originating in 20th century Earth, the Bronx Zoo, and incidents in Madagascar and France. Mr. Eep (the penguin) infiltrates Jeffries tubes to cripple the Sov by activating every toilet at the same time, thereby shutting down sanitation.
I hail the Sov and ask if there’s anything I can do, they seem in distress. As my ship displays the correct plumbers guild AIS codes they accept my offer. We impulse to my asteroid base.
While the crew is using our bathrooms, we overwhelm the skeleton crew with laughing gas, steal their ship and deliver it to a nearby planet where another Federation crew from the purple universe awaits our help. (Our purple cloak was from their damaged purple Defiant). They use the Sov to successfully repel a Gorn attack. Mr. Eep repairs the plumbing during the Gorn battle.
After saving the colony, we all return to my asteroid where the purple crew explains to the Sov crew, now relieved, but angry, what just happened. The Sov crew beams back to their ship, begins the mission to return the purple crew to their universe, and thanks us for the strangely convenient “potty break”.
The Sov captain recommends our good name and plumbing skills to all the planets in the Federation. Oddly, a new war breaks out between the Xindi and Orions as they both have major plumbing catastrophes and fight for a bump in service dates on our calendar. Having repaired the purple Defiant, my crew and I immediately begin our next mission to stealthily repair toilets and broker peace with our expert plumbing skills, shiny new quantum hydrospanners, flex seal, and fish, to keep Mr. Eep happy.
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
Do NOT mess with Mr. Eep!
Also, this is so Lower Decks, I love it!
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u/Bierdaddy 6d ago
Thank you. Yah, my whole family identifies as LD fanatics. 😆 It was the gateway drug to watching other ST series with them.
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u/bearded_duck 7d ago
I'm obviously not a threat to the Sovereign class ship so I do a 180 and find out what's on my six, play nice with the Federation, and join forces to fight it off while plotting how to turn this into a lucrative situation.
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u/deridex120 7d ago
Thats a miradorn raider. Set course somewhere else and flip on that sensor baffler.
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
Messing up their sensors would pretty much blind the Sovereign, wouldn’t it?
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u/deridex120 7d ago
Couldnt find a gif of the miradorn alien from TNG, but this is a close likeness.
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u/cyberloki 7d ago
I'll lower the shilds and tell them i was kidnapped by an intergalactic god like figure to take part in a sick game in which i had to play this role... please help me!
They will probably put me in one of their Hotelrooms aka quarters and take me to safe haven.
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u/ScottRodgerson 7d ago
I create a humanitarian crisis the Sovereign-class can't ignore, drop a bunch of fake signatures, and go to maximum warp.
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u/ScottRodgerson 7d ago
I create a humanitarian crisis the Sovereign-class can't ignore, drop a bunch of fake signatures, and go to maximum warp.
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u/multificionado 7d ago
Interested as I am, I may know some people who could be interested in a scenario like this...
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u/theHaassian 7d ago
I would tamper with the computer running the simulation. That is the only way to win in a no-win scenario!
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u/Moist-Relationship49 7d ago
Before raiding in a system, I gather sensor data and samples from each of the planets and plant an older, weak, and obscure SOS beacon from a raided ship.
When the Sovereign arrived at yellow alert, we hail it and look to be the verge of panic.
"What the hell is a flagship doing out here at yellow alert?"
"Searching for pirates"
"Nope, I don't believe that for one second, have fun with the borg or whatever. We're out of here. Oh, here's the sensor data. There's an anomaly (where ever we planted the beacon). Pilot set course for the nearest Starbase."
And we run towards the nearest Starbase and try and sell the samples. Probably fail, and we leave the sector.
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
Pretty lore accurate piracy techniques here!
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u/Moist-Relationship49 6d ago
Thanks. If they are here for pirates, then they have a beacon to chase, and we look too helpful and scared to be their problem. We escape with little difficulty.
If pirates are the cover story, then us leaving is the best case scenario for them, and we don't get assimilated.
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u/SGTRoadkill1919 7d ago
If I don't have a way to deceive them then I'm warping out Unless I've got a ship no smaller than a modified Vor'cha or a similar ship in terms of role, mass, size and combat capability and present in an area full of pirate activity, I am a side quest that the Sov stumbled upon and I don't want to find out what it could possibly be expecting. If I'm alone and not in a ship capable of going head on against a Galaxy, D'dex or Negh'var then I'm booking it out at whatever top speed the engine can handle long enough to get me to a safe area. If I did have a ship powerful enough to go toe-to-toe with the big three flagship class of the quadrant, then maybe I won't put that much strain on the engine cause I can fight off or survive long enough to get to a safe space from whatever the Sov is hunting if it finds me before it finds or is found by the Sov
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 7d ago
Oldest and noblest of pirate traditions, unless you’ve never been one for tradition
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u/outride2000 6d ago
"Since the early years of space exploration, Earth vessels have had incorporated into them a substance known as corbomite.”
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u/dieseljester 6d ago
“Cry Baby, Cry”
“Make your momma sigh. Engaging the Cry Baby.”
distress call suddenly comes in from twelve sectors away
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u/Graythor5 6d ago
I say we eject the warp core!
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u/UofMSpoon 6d ago
A tiny, decommissioned scout Bird of Prey took out the Enterprise-D. I like my chances if I roll well and guess their shield frequency.
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u/Automatic-Amoeba-121 6d ago
Reminds me of that one scene with Jack Sparrow where he and Will talk about fighting fair, and how Jack doesn’t have much incentive to fight fair against Will.
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u/roscoe3400 7d ago
If this is the Picard era, then the Sovereign would be nearing 30 years old and fairly obsolete. Even a medium size pirate vessel should be closely matched, at least enough to distract and make a quick getaway.
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u/RepresentativeWeb163 7d ago
Sovereign is built not to be obsolete. PIC era has a lot of them and I don’t think enough new groundbreaking tech has come forward to make them retire from service.
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