News: General News
Happy New Year!
Evening all.
I wanted to say Happy New Year to you all, and for staying with me through my first full year in charge. I hope I've put a bit more life back into the sim and things are going in ways you are happy with. If there is anything…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Mon Dec 31, 2018 @ 9:03pm
Category: General News
Merry Christma
Evening All
I hope everyone is gearing up to enjoy too much of everything tomorrow. Remember, tagging is a great way to avoid the relatives you don't like :D
Wishing everybody a very happy Christmas, and a merry new year.
Regards
Notty
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Mon Dec 24, 2018 @ 10:56pm
Category: General News
New Players!
Hello everyone
We have two new players joining us! First up is Day, playing Avis Larant, a new cub reporter looking for her first scoop, and Rich, playing our new chief of intelligence, Jason Haines.
Please join me in giving them a warm welcome and starting lots of JPs with…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Mon Dec 17, 2018 @ 9:06pm
Category: General News
Fall Fest 2018
Hi Everyone
FallFest 2018 is starting now on Discord if anyone uses that and is interested in joining in Simming related chats.
https://discord.gg/PntChX
Live long and Prosper
Notty
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Sat Dec 15, 2018 @ 6:21pm
Category: General News
Award Season
Hi Everyone
I hope everyone has survived Black Friday, and has got all their Xmas shopping done - only 2 weeks to go till Santa arrives!
This morning the November Fleet awards went up and we've got an early Christmas present - another Gold unit of Merit!! You guys are…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Wed Dec 12, 2018 @ 8:43am
Category: General News
FallFest 2018
Hi everyone
A bit of an annoucement that you may be interested in: Fallfest, an online roleplaying convention, held online, is running weekend after next.
FallFest 2018 will be taking place at https://discord.gg/EGBwV54. It is hosted by The New Universes Project in conjunction with Ongoing Worlds. It will be taking…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Wed Dec 5, 2018 @ 10:46pm
Category: General News
New Engineer
Hi Everyone
Please join me in welcoming Jon to the sim, who will be playing our new Chief Engineer, Jonas Pavan.
Please greet him in the traditional way with an avalanche of JP requests!
Regards
Notty
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Mon Nov 26, 2018 @ 9:08pm
Category: General News
Happy Thanksgiving
To all our American players. I hope everyone's turkey (or turkey substitute) is delicious, and that you all have some lovely time off.
Regards
N
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Thu Nov 22, 2018 @ 5:11pm
Category: General News
More Awards!
Hi all
Here's an indication of how awesome you all are: I've now typed "more awards" so many times, that my browser is auto suggesting it for titles of my news posts.
And I'm doing it again , because all our hard work last month meant that DS5 received Gold…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Mon Nov 12, 2018 @ 4:45am
Category: General News
10 year Simmiversary
Evening All
I'd like everyone to join me in congratulating Thom (aka as Dorian Gabriel, Melvyn & Raymond Raddon, Lt Si'Lar Trellis, Lt (JG) Kiva Ta'Gas, & Ambassador Turvan, as well as many many more over the years) for having been with DS5 for 10 years, and then some -…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Sat Nov 3, 2018 @ 4:39am
Category: General News
New Mission Begins
Hi Everyone
The first JP of the new mission, Doors of Perception has gone out, so please start tagging in. If anyone needs more information, please ping me.
I'm going to leave Victory Conditions open until the end of the month, and then any posts not up will be moved…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Fri Oct 19, 2018 @ 2:44am
Category: General News
A gentle reminder
Hi all
Now we've got a shiny new player, now is a good time for me to give you all a gentle reminder on some things.
1) The sim year is 2393. I don't have the exact date to hand as I'm unexpectedly away from home tonight, but the new…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Tue Oct 16, 2018 @ 2:45am
Category: General News
New Player! - Welcome Brendan
Hi Everyone
Please welcome aboard Brendan, who will be playing a new civilian, Arlen Grey, a retired Starfleet Officer looking to start a new life after the death of his wife.
Please say hello and give him a warm and typical DS5 welcome with a flurry of JPs!
Live Long…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Sun Oct 14, 2018 @ 3:23am
Category: General News
Awards!
Evening All
Yet again you lovely lovely people have scooped us some more awards (I feel like I did this email not too long ago as well :D)
We have got the Gold Unit of distinction award, thanks to a storming post count.
And we have won two of the…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Sat Oct 13, 2018 @ 3:05am
Category: General News
Upcoming Mission
Hello everyone
I am finally back in the UK and the jetlag is mostly gone. As such I have some announcements!
Firstly, Brian, who plays Annora is stepping up as our Chief of Security. This will be done IC when the new mission starts.
The new mission will start next…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Thu Oct 11, 2018 @ 2:47am
Category: General News
New mission count down.
Hi everyone
i just want to remind you all that the new mission will be starting in 2 weeks time, once I'm back in the uk and running on BST rather than EST. Details will follow in a day or so, but please start winding up anyJPs set in the…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Tue Oct 2, 2018 @ 9:50am
Category: General News
Shiny!
Hello all
We have yet more fleet level shinies.
You all sparkle like a sunken pirate wreck, for in August, your hard work and creativity raked in the Silver unit of merit, the Task Groups CO Award of Merit, and Thom was made Writer of the Month!
The full list…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Mon Sep 17, 2018 @ 2:39am
Category: General News
So many awards!
Hi everyone
Some happy news!
I got a bit snowed under in early July trying to get stuff finished before I took 3 weeks off work with the kids and forgot to mention this, but in June we won a bunch of awards. And then in July, we did it…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Sat Aug 18, 2018 @ 2:29am
Category: General News
New URL
Hi All
I hoping to resolve the email notification issues, please note we've changed our URL, and the new URL is now:
https://ds5.sim-metry.net/
Please use this link going forward as the old one no longer works.
Hopefully this will be the last change for the foreseeable future.
Live Long and…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Sat Aug 4, 2018 @ 3:19am
Category: General News
May awards
Hello everyone
I want to say a big well done to everyone as DS5 won the Gold Unit of Merit again, and the Task Group commanders award for May.
Extra Kudos goes to Charlie/Alanna, who won player of the month for her clever ideas in character during the action with…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Tue Jun 12, 2018 @ 9:14pm
Category: General News
Server Moves
Hi all
Please be advised that the people who host the website are upgrading their service provider over the upcoming weekend, and changes made to posts won't be saved.
I'm backing up the site now, but any changes made between now and Monday won't be saved. Please do not log…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Fri Jun 8, 2018 @ 1:35am
Category: General News
Monthly Update
Hey Everyone
Hope you all had a good Whitsun/Memorial Day long weekend. Some quick updates for everyone
Mostly its all big well dones. The April Theta Fleet awards went up and We've won the Gold unit of distiction, the task group award of Merit, and an extra big thumbs up…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Sat Jun 2, 2018 @ 4:27pm
Category: General News
GDPR & Privacy
Hi all
You probably all know by now that there is new EU data protection/privacy regulation coming into effect that covers people handling the personal data of EU citizens (and the British both before and after Brexit) regardless of where the data handler actually is.
Utopia Host (who host the…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Thu May 24, 2018 @ 12:40am
Category: General News
February Fleet Awards
Hi all
Some really good news. The February fleet awards for Theta Fleet are up, and we won the Gold unit of merit award!
We had a storming February. We averaged over six posts per person across the four weeks, so I want to say a big massive well done…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Sun Mar 18, 2018 @ 3:07am
Category: General News
New Player, Welcome Darrell
Evening all!
Please welcome Darrell to DS5 - He'll be playing the new Marine CO, Gordon Blue. He will be charged with the protection of the key sites on Pangaea, and with backing up security on board DS5.
Please give him a warm welcome and shower him with JPs
Live…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Sat Feb 10, 2018 @ 4:52am
Category: General News