News and Updates

Aug/Sept 2023

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Axel Activity:  

An explosion aboard the Brindley has caused the loss of a number of temporal refactors, which were designed to redirect energy from critical areas of Crossroads Station.  Finger pointing has begun in earnest as some of the Axel crew believe the explosion was caused by the Gatrubbian workers aboard the Brindley and the Gatrubbian's seem to want to blame it on Axel being a badly run ship.  It seems that someone wants to make sure that the Axel crew get the blame because someone has entered false information into the ship's log.  Meanwhile, Quidano once again begins to suspect that the saboteur may be one of their own.  He begins to investigate after a discussion with Captain Voci.

As the Axel returns to rendevous with the Brindley, a fight breaks out between 2 of the rescued Gatrubbians.  One of them has had a little too much Gorn meridor to drink and he simply can't handle it.  Toraith manages to end the fight by slamming the man against the bulkhead, but not before being stabbed in the back.  The man is taken to the med bay and treated by the ship's medbot.

Behind the Scenes:

We've been discussing how far we want to take the rescue plot before going off in another direction.  It's been fun so far, especially with the fight sub-plot which has given Toraith some much needed action.  

Sept/Oct 2022

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Axel Activity:  

The Brindley has safely completed its mission of delivering the grain shipment to Desra and now its crew of 3;  Michael Lewis, Tirza Webb, and Persephone are slowly making their way to a rendezvous with the Axel at Oka.  Meanwhile the Axel has received a thorough once over by both its own engineers and specialists from Oka to determine if its still safe to operate.  

In the mirror universe Dictator Lakim Saras has assembled a small team to try to get their Axel back after it was switched with the one from our universe.  They transported over while much of Axel's crew was asleep or away and stormed the Axel.  They breached the cargo bay when Xin went to take an evening walk.  She was shot just inside the door and the group of Gatrubbians and the mirror counterpart of Toraith were in.  

Quidano woke unexpectedly with thoughts of Xin and their badly resolved relationship.  He didn't know why but things felt off.  He soon rallied the remaining crew aboard and they went down to the cargo bay at the first sound of weapons fire.  The group descended using the lifts on both sides of the bay.  Toraith teamed with Malot as she was about to put her new weapons training to the test.  

Kivul was returning to the Axel for the first time since they left for Retetna at the same time as the attack and was surprised by the waiting rear guard of the mirror universe strike team.  Shoot outs occurred both inside and outside the ship.  Kivul had escaped the hangar but only long enough to gather herself and come back again to aid the Axel team.  During a second exchange between herself and one of the Gatrubbian fighters, Bresa returned from his day in Oka and encountered a human who was responding to the scene of the attack.  The trio (mostly Kivul) took out the enemy then proceeded into the hangar together.  

in the Axel's cargo bay, Quidano, Targa, Malot, and Toraith faced the boarding team including Dayla Silva, Mirror Toraith, the Cardassian Radek, and a small 3 others.  The sight of a second Toraith surprised everyone.  The two Toraiths exchanged words and went after one another.  May the best Gorn win!

Behind the Scenes:

The Axel group is lucky to have David back to write with us again.  The timing couldn't have been better and it has been great for the plot.  I had discussions with both Michelle and Richard and they have both expressed that they don't have the time to write with us.  We came to the conclusion that we would have to write their characters out...at least for now.  I would gladly welcome either player back just as soon as they are able.  

Feb 2022

In-game Highlights

Axel Activity:

The SS Axel and its crew overcame the Skullship and its raiders after a surprise attack from the Brindley tore into the Skullship wiping out its engines and a large portion of its tactical assets.  The team aboard the Klimpton made it safely back to the Axel with some injuries, but these were easily treated by Bert, the ship's Gorn designed Medbot. The Brindley managed to recover an escape pod that had launched from the Skullship.  It's occupant, Aloeva, a Barzan woman, had been a prisoner aboard the enemy vessel. Captain Voci made a deal with the Skullship's captain.  He allowed them to go free with the captured Klimpton as long as they turned over the stolen shipment of Rimpali.  This was semi-satisfactory to Administrator Efellel, as he still maintained massive concerns regarding the safety of future shipments.  Captain Voci assured him that the Gatrubbians would make security passes through the sector and pass on concerns to Starfleet.

With the Rimpali safely stored inside the Brindley's massive containers, the crew sat down to reorganize and plan for the remainder of the trip to Desra.  Unfortunately just as they did so, the Axel encountered an unknown Ionic anomaly.  It wrapped around the Axel and the ship's crew suddenly found themselves on a very altered version of their ship.  Separated and confused the crew made attempts to reconnect and wrap their minds around their new circumstances.  Individual consoles, whole rooms, the ship's medbot, and even the holographic AI member were different.  Only the flesh and blood PEOPLE seemed unaffected.   It was the beginning of a mystery.

Behind the Scenes:

Axel's writers overcame their writer's block and closed a long running plot.  Or...almost closed it anyway.  Let's just say we took a hard left turn and headed in a new direction.  This allowed us to achieve 60+ posts this month.  We welcome long-time Borderlands member Mickie Fowler to our group.  With this new talented writer and new ideas we are poised to blow our post count out of the water in the month of March!  

Additionally, the Axel Website was given a minor facelift with some new background banners, new ship schematics, and a couple new character bios.  All in all February 2022 was reenergizing!  Thanks Axellers for your efforts this month!