Fireside Stories/Faction Missions

Fireside Stories: Klingon Empire

Mission Name	1st Crew	2nd Crew	3rd Crew	4th Crew	5th Crew	Mission Text	Success	Failed
Distrust	AND	AND	AND			Your crew gets called to a nearby outpost after a Klingon roughs up a Tamarian, accusing the Tamarians of having a part in the disappearance of the missing vessel. Starfleet asks you and your crew to help ease tensions.	Your security team lends the outpost a few extra hands while you and your other bridge officers try and calm things down between the Klingon and the Tamarian, assuring both there is no evidence to suggest foul play by the Tamarians.	Your security team lends the outpost a hand, but tempers are already hot amid suspicion and misunderstanding and another fight breaks out before long.
Duras the Deceiver	AND	AND	AND			Many Klingon heroes were made in battle during the Dominion War, but outrage ripples through the Empire when it is learned that the Duras Sisters are attempting to situate themselves as modern folk heroes to the Tamarians. Worf asks you to intervene.	Your officers listen with amused expressions as the Duras Sisters relate such fictional hits as "B'Etor, Who Stood Guard at the Wormhole" and "Lursa, Slayer of Vorta" before intervening to share the truth with the Tamarians.	Your officers interrupt the Duras Sisters as they regale the Tamarians with more fictitious tales than a holodeck. But your attempts to set the record straight are less believable than their stories and the Tamarians send you away.
Into the Wild	AND	AND	AND			Worf asks your crew to lead a joint group of young Klingons and young Tamarians on a surface search for Picard and his crew, but the Klingons have little patience with the Tamarian youths and you'll need a lot of patience to keep the peace.	Over the days your crew spends guiding the youngsters, you help to bridge the gap between them, an outcome Worf reveals he had hoped for. The Klingons gain the Tamarians' respect and their own allegorical phrase - "Klingons at the cliffs of Paran."	Your crew tries to help bring the two groups together in spite of the language barrier, but both side only grow increasingly frustrated with one another.
Sparring Partners		AND				Ba'el contacts your crew after a Tamarian is critically injured during a “friendly” sparring match with a Klingon to see where each stood in battle. The Klingons have no information on Tamarian biology and ask for your help.	Your medical team rushes to the Tamarian's aid. Even though much of Starfleet's medical data is lacking on the subject of Tamarians, your chief medical officer is able to treat and stabilize the injured Tamarian.	Your medical team rushes to aid the Tamarian, but even Starfleet's medical data has little information on Tamarians. Try as your chief medical officer might, they strike a critical artery and the Tamarian dies.
That None Can Oppose	AND	AND	AND			A group of Klingons take a group of Tamarians to a holy site commemorating Kortar and his mate, But when an ancient vase is broken, the Klingons are outraged and you are asked to handle the dispute.	Your officers try to calm the outraged Klingons while trying to intercept for the startled Tamarians. It takes a great deal of time to convince the Klingons that it was an accident and they watch as the Tamarians try to repair the vase.	Your officers try to calm the Klingons' anger, but their anger is only exacerbated by the language barrier and the desperately shouting Tamarians who only want them to understand their regret.
The Wind and the Fool	AND	AND	AND			Tempers are heating up as the High Council argues over which myths starring Kahless to share with the Tamarians. Martok enlists your help in keeping things calm while choosing the best tales, though he warns your choices will reflect your honor.	Your crew does its own research, then hears out the passionate insistence of each House on why their tale should be used. You warn that all of these tales can't be used and suggest the ones that work best while managing to keep tensions at bay.	Your crew arrives and dives into helping the High Council sort through the matter, but when your first officer suggests the tale of Kahless's admonishment at Quin'lat, the Klingons are insulted, calling your first officer an ignorant petaQ.
Together They Are Lost	OR			OR		Your crew receives a distress signal from Alexander, who was leading a search for Picard along with a Tamarian crew. However, their ship crashed on a planet that had been undetected by their sensors and they need your help, if you can find them.	Your bridge officers scan the area Alexander's distress call came from and though their path of travel is erratic, you learn it is a planet with a highly unusual orbit. You are able to rescue them and administer aid.	Your bridge officers scan the area the distress call came from, but are unable to find the crashed vessels.
Truth in Beauty		AND	AND			To circumvent the language barrier, an artist creates paintings to illustrate beloved Klingon myths, and invites a Tamarian artist to do the same. But an image with a different cultural meaning prompts outrage and your crew is asked to calm tensions.	Your officers are able to gain an understanding of why the image caused such anger and to ease both the anger of the Tamarians and the agitated nerves of the Klingon painter who felt his art was insulted.	Your officers attempt to ease the raging tempers and try to encourage communication over what the problem with the image was, but the language barrier is only made worse by the intense responses.

Fireside Stories: Federation

Mission Name	1st Crew	2nd Crew	3rd Crew	4th Crew	5th Crew	Mission Text	Success	Failed
Headhunters	AND	AND	AND			Saru notes the Tamarian language's referential structure makes for a different way of thinking and problem solving. He believes such people may make a good addition to Starfleet. Pitch the idea of joining the Academy to the Tamarians and their young.	The Tamarians are resistant to the idea, but after speaking with their people, some of the young seem interested in giving the Academy a try. While Starfleet Command is displeased you didn't ask them first, they are happy with the outcome.	The Tamarians refuse your proposition, as the language barrier is still an issue and the Federation still somewhat foreign. But an angry communication from Starfleet over your not consulting them first ends the initiative for now.
Immersion		AND				Amid discussions of how to share myths across cultures, Barclay suggests somehow using the holodeck to let the Tamarians share the myths they reference, but due to the language barrier, the holodeck does not understand them. He asks for your help.	Your engineers design a hologram with a visual interface that allows users to create their own adventures without communicating verebally. The program is a hit and the Tamarians set to work on their first masterpiece. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.	Your engineers try to make the controls in the holoprogram design interface user friendly for those who speak an unknown language, like the Tamarians, but the computer misinterprets the cries of "Shaka, when the walls fell" as a crumbling brick wall.
Meeting of the Minds	AND	AND	AND			Sato suggests that the situation with the Tamarians and exploration of the Gamma and Delta Quadrants underscores the need for the galaxy's best linguists to come together to pitch solutions. She asks you to help enlist the more reluctant experts.	Your crew convinces the unwilling invitees, such as a Cardassian ascetic who learned 99 different tongues before taking a vow of silence. You even convince a Romulan linguist to attend, though it is doubted that he will stay long.	Your crew tries to convince the less interested linguistic geniuses of the galaxy, but the more your officers try, the more they resist. After being cursed out by a Tholian in an unfamiliar dialect, your crew calls it quits.
Neelix, His Cooking Lethal	AND	AND	AND			While entertaining a group of Tamarians as a gesture of goodwill, several of them fall ill after consuming a meal Neelix prepared for them. They accuse him of poisoning them. Find an antidote quickly!	Your medical officers quickly figure out that a root vegetable Neelix used is a known toxin to the Tamarian people. They are able to synthesize an antidote after a quick study of the vegetable's make-up and administer it to the grateful Tamarians.	Your officers try in vain to get Neelix to reveal where he got the ingredients he used, but he is too frazzled. By the time you've analyzed the components of the meal, one Tamarian is already in critical condition.
Pathways	OR			OR		Doctor Phlox has become very intrigued by all the discussion surrounding the Tamarians and their unique way of communicating. He would love to compare a Tamarian brainscan to that of a human, if you could convince one to participate, that is.	You pose Doctor Phlox's request to the Tamarian people, who are naturally hesitant. But your reasoning and beside manner are enough to convince a curious Tamarian to allow the scan, providing interesting new data.	The Tamarians are appalled by the request that they submit themselves as some sort of lab rat for Starfleet's curiosity and even many within Starfleet call you and your officers out for being tactless.
Phantom Blips	AND	AND	AND			When computer sensors detect Admiral Picard's vessel, only for it to quickly disappear, Geordi LaForge asks if your team would be willing to follow the trail and see if you can find his ship.	Your crew follows the trail of coordinates and finds an odd phenomena: due to ionic interference, the travel of the signals through space was delayed. The ship had been in that area, only it was several days before the signal was detected.	Your crew follows the trail of coordinates, but try as they might, they can find no trace of Picard's vessel or even where the signals came from.
Starfleet, Its Ships Departing		AND	AND			Starfleet has received an angry message from the Tamarians. From what can be understood, they feel not enough is being done to find their dignitaries who were aboard Picard's ship. Ease their concerns before Starfleet becomes a derogatory term.	You assign more of your own resources to the task and reach out to the Tamarians, gathering information on the dignitaries who are missing and assuring them you will keep them updated.	Your crew charges full-force into finding Picard, Detmer and the missing Tamarians without further communication. As there are no new leads, your lack of communication only serves to sour the Tamarians' feelings.
Turbulence	AND	AND	AND			The unique characteristics of the Tamarian star system are posing many challenges for Federation vessels searching for Picard. Your officers have been asked to help find a solution.	Your science team and bridge officers evaluate the makeup of gasses near Sigma Tama IV that are interfering with search and rescue and are able to finetune navigational equipment to better function in spite of them.	Your science team and bridge officers study the unique makeup of gasses in the Sigma Tama system, but an unexpected plasma storm disrupts their efforts.

Fireside Stories: Borg

Mission Name	1st Crew	2nd Crew	3rd Crew	4th Crew	5th Crew	Mission Text	Success	Failed
Adaptive Shift		AND				Hoshi Sato approaches the Borg about an interesting shift she notices when an assimilated being uses their native language among other drones and wishes to research the phenomenon. She asks for your crew's assistance.	Your engineering, medical, and science teams are able to help Hoshi evaluate and make some sense of the phenomenon, though much is still a mystery about the Borg-influenced neurology.	Your crew tries to help Hoshi evaluate several Borg subjects, but gains no further insight.
Downloaded Consciousness	AND	AND	AND			Admiral Cornwell suggests that the Borg might be able to allow connection to the Collective to download all data on assimilated languages, which elicits laughter from the Borg Queen, who encourages your crew to try.	Your engineers try to program a database that can access the hivemind and parse all information on languages, but the device cannot handle the amount of information. As a consolation prize, the Borg Queen gives you a device with some linguistic data.	Your engineers attempt to program a device, but it is poorly executed and overheats to the point of melting on your first attempt at interfacing with the hive mind.
Empty Words	AND	AND	AND			You observe an interaction between a group of Borg drones and a group of Tamarians, noting that even though the Borg have a database of Tamarian references, their flat delivery does not sit well with the Tamarians. Help bridge the gap.	While some officers try the Pinocchio approach of teaching expression, your engineers set to work on a neural implant that can stimulate the brain's emotional center (or simulate one in species that lack it). The Tamarians are much more receptive now.	Your officers attempt to teach expression to the drones, but their implants prevent the processing and expression of emotions.
Further Research	AND	AND	AND			The Borg Queen shares information on a species assimilated long ago that has a manner of speaking similar to the Tamarians, but the data on the language is out of date She provides you their last known coordinates so you can investigate.	Your crew finds the remnants of the long-forgotten species and they are reluctant, but eventually acknowledge you are not a threat. Comprehension is difficult, but when it does come, it clarifies some of the confusion over the Tamarian language.	Your crew finds the remnants of the long-forgotten species, but they are furious upon learning your association with the Borg, whom they blame for wiping out their once mighty species. They launch an attack and send you on your way.
Lethal Interference	OR			OR		A Borg cube that was trying to aid in the search for the missing vessel has severed contact and the Borg Queen sends your crew to find out what happened.	Upon arrival, your crew finds all Borg aboard the cube unconscious, but alive. You determine that a strange pule that hit the cube and echoed through the distribution nodes was the culprit and set to work aiding the drones.	Your crew finds the drones unconscious, but is unable to determine the cause or render appropriate aid.
Mixed Signals		AND	AND			Your ship is joined by a Borg cube in the search for Picard, but after both ships begin to experience interference, you are able to repair your navigational equipment just in time to see that the Borg cube is on a collision course with your ship!	Your bridge officers manage to head off collision with the Borg cube and you successfully beam aboard in time to halt the cube's unsteady advance. Your officers join you and help repair the cube's navigational equipment.	Your bridge officers manage to dodge an initial impact with the Borg cube, thought (sic) it is a close call. The drones are unable to regain control, however, before they slam into an errant moon.
Parsed	AND	AND	AND			Five of Twelve offers to introduce your crew to a Tamarian drone, but upon meeting him, it becomes evident that the drone is struggling to parse its Tamarian memories from its memories as part of the Collective. It's up to your crew to help him.	Your medical, science, and engineering crews make an adjustment to the drone's regeneration alcove that helps sharpen his organic, pre-assimilation memories and he is able to give you insight into the Tamarian language, history, and culture.	Your medical, science, and engineering teams try to make adjustments to the Tamarian's implants, but the adjustments cause damage to the drone's neural processes and he is rendered unconscious.
The Looming Hordes	AND	AND	AND			The Tamarians have plenty of tales about the Borg and none of them are positive. The Borg Queen hopes their cooperation will change the Tamarians' perception, but it may take the steady hand of a skilled intermediary.	You and your officers calm the Tamarians' worries and share with them how the Federation's relationship with their long-standing enemies has shifted of late.	Your and your officers try to sway the Tamarians' opinions, but prove less than convincing. The Tamarians insist that the Borg keep their distance.