Because I'm bored

[Sionnach Glic]

As the title implies, I'm bored. So let's play with the UFP for a while. Q comes along and places some members of the board into high-ranking positions in the UFP.

Graham is President.
Ian is Vice-President.
Rochey is head of Starfleet.
Seafort is head of UFP R&D.
Teaos is head of the Ministry of Information.
Deepcrush is head of S31.
Dusk is the Federation's head ambassador.
Various other members are appointed positions throughout the UFP.

What happens?

[Mikey]

For me, I guess I go looking for a job.

[Sionnach Glic]

Whoops, sorry, Mikey, forgot about you.

[Blackstar the Chakat]

You forgot me too.

[Tsukiyumi]

I guess we're off running cargo missions, or something.

[Sionnach Glic]

Guys, you all seemed to have missed this bit:

Various other members are appointed positions throughout the UFP.

You're included in some way.

[Duskofdead]

As the title implies, I'm bored. So let's play with the UFP for a while. Q comes along and places some members of the board into high-ranking positions in the UFP.

Graham is President.
Ian is Vice-President.
Rochey is head of Starfleet.
Seafort is head of UFP R&D.
Teaos is head of the Ministry of Information.
Deepcrush is head of S31.
Dusk is the Federation's head ambassador.
Various other members are appointed positions throughout the UFP.

What happens?

Alien government becomes embittered with us because our leadership is never present.

Rochey begins the invasion of the Delta Quadrant with transphasic torpedoes and ablative armor generators used in violation of the Temporal Prime Directive.

Seafort writes the memo approving the use of these technologies and designs warships to carry 9,599 torpedoes apiece which are then put into mass production while all other starships are halted.

Teaos resigns in protest after being forced to read press releases assuring people that the Federation has absolutely no intention whatsoever of launching any sort of aggressive action against anyone.

Deepcrush invents a genetically engineered virus to kill all non-humans as well as targetting anyone with the "pacifist gene." He has an accident while polishing his shotgun one night, hitting a plasma relay and his lab is incinerated before delivery of the virus can commence.

Dusk is desperately trying to elicit secret aid from the Klingons, Cardassians and Romulans to help him overthrow the Federation government before it can launch a galactic war.

[Graham Kennedy]

As the title implies, I'm bored. So let's play with the UFP for a while. Q comes along and places some members of the board into high-ranking positions in the UFP.

Graham is President.

I am forced to resign after a series of scandals involving Angelina Jolie, Megan Fox, Jessica Alba, Halle Berry, Kelly Brook, Keira Knightley, and several gallons of whipped cream.

[Tsukiyumi]

I am forced to resign after a series of scandals involving Angelina Jolie, Megan Fox, Jessica Alba, Halle Berry, Kelly Brook, Keira Knightley, and several gallons of whipped cream.

Sounds like a good way to end your term.

[Reliant121]

hmmm...I'll take command of a colony!! Vulcan! That way i can be terrible and kill all the logic-suckers off!

[Sionnach Glic]

Rochey begins the invasion of the Delta Quadrant with transphasic torpedoes and ablative armor generators used in violation of the Temporal Prime Directive.

Screw the DQ, I'm bringing down the Alpha Quadrant first.

First we need to take down our largest threat: the Klingons.
We begin secret talks with the Romulans, informing them that we're about to attack the KE. We offer them technological aid and large chunks of Klingon territory if they join us in the war. It's quite likely that they'd jump on the bandwagon and try and get on the good side of what's going to be the most powerful nation in the quadrant. Two-pronged attack against the Klingon Empire with out new fleet of souped-up battleships on one side, and the Romulan cannon fodder on the other, leads to the toppling of the KE.

While the Romulans are still licking their wounds, we quickly invade them as well, crushing their already damaged fleet.

After this, take a few years to repair and replenish our fleet, using the captured resources of the KE and RE to produce an even large fleet of warships.

With the two largest empires in the quadrant gone, we're left with a bickering group of smaller powers that are little more than speedbumps. Still, the resources needed to take those empires can be better used elsewhere. So another approach is needed.

Begin the development of the trilithium torpedoes (you know, the ones that can blow up stars) and start mass producing them. All alien governments in the quadrant are given a choice: hand over all military assets to Starfleet control, and become a member state of the UFP, or their stars go nova. After we demonstrate to the galaxy that we do have this power by wiping out some weak race (regardless of whether or not they surrendered), any resistance to our demands would become almost non-existant. Anyone who's foolish enough to resist gets the Suncrusher treatment.

So, we now have control over the entire quadrant.

After this, we look towards our next rival, the Dominion, and the Gamma Quadrant. Given that by now our tech and fleet numbers should far exceed the Dominion's, combined with the trilithium torps, we should be able to take them in a war, though likely with heavy losses.

After this, slow and careful expansion through the Gamma Quadrant. We inform any new species we meet that we're really a peacefull people and mean them no harm. If they're no threat, they get steamrolled by Starfleet. If they're a threat, then we build up our strength in the region before attacking.

After this, who knows? If we have transwarp tech by then, then I plan on saying hello to the Borg with mass-produced transphasic torps. After they're gone, it's only a matter of taking the galaxy over bit by bit.

And that there is Rochey's ten step plan to galactic domination. 8)

[Captain Seafort]

Seafort writes the memo approving the use of these technologies and designs warships to carry 9,599 torpedoes apiece which are then put into mass production while all other starships are halted.

Priorities, priorities. First order of businesses is to get a decent warp core deisgn into service - something that will blow up well away from the ship, if at all.

Second is to get some decent infantry, which means designing a GPMG-equivalent. It's the basis of small-scale action, and it's absence is the single most important gap in the Feds ground arsenal.

Third, projectile weapons to deal with Borg drones. If possible design an assault rifle and GPMG from the ground up, if not write replicator programmes for the AK-47 and MG42.

Fourth, starships. Five basic types of ship are needed - a battleship for heavy combat, a cruiser for scouting, an assault transport to support the army, a fleet escort to be built in numbers for general duties, and a cheap, mass produced convoy escort/system defence ship. I think I've expressed my design goals for these ships often enough.

Fifth, the army needs some decent kit. This includes tanks, APCs, organic artillery, engineer vehicles, repair and recovery vehicles, and assault landing craft to carry them all. You cannot win a war with infantry alone.

[Mikey]

As the title implies, I'm bored. So let's play with the UFP for a while. Q comes along and places some members of the board into high-ranking positions in the UFP.

Graham is President.

I am forced to resign after a series of scandals involving Angelina Jolie, Megan Fox, Jessica Alba, Halle Berry, Kelly Brook, Keira Knightley, and several gallons of whipped cream.

If I heard about that particular scandal, I'd personally vote you in for life.

[stitch626]

:: grabs popcorn ::
And I just sit back and watch.

This does seem like something Q would do.

[Monroe]

What happened to me?!