All News
Welcome!
Everyone,
Please join me in welcoming Kael "Vex" Tharien as our newest crew member. He's joining as a Starfleet officer for now and will transition into a more permanent position.
Have a look at the bio to get to know the character and help him feel welcome!
Charlie
T'mpest Michaels
Author: Lieutenant Alanna Wells
Posted on: Wed Jan 8, 2025 @ 11:23am
Category: General News
Switching URLs
Hi, everyone!
DS5 is now at ds5.sim-station.net. Notty will put her site on maintenance mode on Sunday.
Please adjust your bookmarks accordingly.
Thanks!
Charlie
Author: Lieutenant Alanna Wells
Posted on: Sat Aug 31, 2024 @ 1:55pm
Category: Website Update
New(ish) player
Everyone please welcome back an old player!
Archangel, who used to play Natalie Cross, our old head of Intel, is back with a new PC, Liam Blackwood, who will be Assistant Chief Scientific Officer, when we get a station back. In the mean time, he's going to get roped into…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Mon Mar 4, 2024 @ 9:42pm
Category: General News
New Player
Everyone please welcome Terrie to DS5
They're playing Anson Lee, who will, eventually, become Assistant Chief of Security https://ds5.org.uk/index.php/personnel/character/212
Please welcome them with the traditional flurry of JPs
Live Long & Prosper
Notty
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Mon Jul 10, 2023 @ 9:57pm
Category: General News
Getting moving again
HI all
I hope you're well, and that those of you who observe Thanksgiving have recovered from your turkey hangovers.
I'm looking to start getting the sim more active and as such, Rich has offered to take over as XO now that Matt is sadly not coming back. I am…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Sun Nov 27, 2022 @ 7:52pm
Category: General News
New player annoucement - New CIO
Hi Everyone
Please welcome Steve to our happy family"
Steve is going to play the new CIO, who is as we speak, smuggling his way onto the station to be our man on DS5.
Please give him the traditional welcome gift of a flurry of JPs as he seeks to…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Fri Apr 16, 2021 @ 9:43pm
Category: General News
Awards!
Hey Everyone
Lots of shinies this month
From Theta fleet we picked up Gold Unit of Merit, Thom was awarded Player of the Month, and We all picked up post of the Month for Home Front
We also picked up Sim of the Quarter, and Thom also got Player of…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Tue Apr 13, 2021 @ 9:48pm
Category: General News
What a month!
Hi everone
I'm just looking at the numbers from March. Between us we got our post count to 127 which is the equivalent of twelve each! Thats amazing!
In April, we're going to carry on with the evacuation, and eventually the DS5 personell should all be evacuated and waiting. The…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Thu Apr 1, 2021 @ 8:51am
Category: Sim Announcement
New CAG
Evening everyone
Please welcome back an old player. Back in 2015, when we first moved to Nova, and Isha t'Vaurek was the captain (or about a year in game time) Bill played a fighter pilot, Tam "Demon" Haican.
He's coming back, as Tam, and will be joining the defense of…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Thu Feb 11, 2021 @ 8:21pm
Category: General News
New Website
HI Everyone
The new website is now live!
From now on, please log onto https://ds5.org.uk/index.php/
Everyone's logins should be the same, and everyone's pictures and profiles should be intact. Please take a few minutes to make sure. The old website is locked down for now, and one I'm sure everything…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Wed Feb 10, 2021 @ 11:58pm
Category: Website Update
Website updates
Hi guys
Some news on the website
I've decided to get us a proper domain name, https://ds5.org.uk which will go live shortly. It will allow me to have a bit more freedom to play around and experiment, and more importantly, I can now put the old SMS site back up,…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Wed Feb 10, 2021 @ 5:00am
Category: Website Update
New Player - Endri Dahl
Hello everyone
I hope all is well with you all, and I have some good news - we have a new chief engineer!
Please welcome Stargeek who will be playing Endri Dahl
Please give them a big welcome with the traditional flurry of JPs
Live Long & Prosper
Notty
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Thu Jan 21, 2021 @ 12:43am
Category: General News
Theta Fleet End of Year Awards
Evening all
I've got some news! Theta Fleet has finalised the end of month, quarter and year awards, and some of you have got some nods!
December 2020:
Silver Unit of Merit
Post of the Month: DS5: “Path to Glory (part I)” (https://ds5.sim-metry.net/index.php/sim/viewpost/1587)
“Path to Glory (part II)” (https://ds5.sim-metry.net/index.php/sim/viewpost/1615)
Q4…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Tue Jan 19, 2021 @ 2:28am
Category: General News
Leave of Abscence
Hi Guys
I need to take a leave of absence and I don't know when its going to finish. I'm sorry to do it so early in the mission. Please keep writing, and I'll be back as soon as I can.
Apologies
Notty
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Fri Nov 6, 2020 @ 5:38pm
Category: General News
Long Service Awards
Hey everyone
Big Congratulations to Charlie who has been with us for three years now.
And a huge round of applause, with fireworks, for Thom, who has now been here for at least twelve (yes, twelve) years.
Thank you both for staying so long and making DS5 such a great…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Tue Nov 3, 2020 @ 5:12pm
Category: General News
New Player, New Mission
Evening everyone
Please welcome our newest player, Xalanth, who is playing our new fighter pilot, Vrizao Sh'zharohr.
Please give him a warm welcome with the traditional flurry of JPs.
Our new mission, Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum, is now live. MR1 -3 are open to posting. Take this time to…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Mon Nov 2, 2020 @ 2:19am
Category: General News
New Mission Starts Sunday
Hi everyone
The new mission, Si vis pacem, para bellum, starts on Sunday! Please tie up any posts from this mission, and get ready to go to war!
The first few days of the mission will be setting up, and the inital attacks take place at 0430 MD4, so you…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Sat Oct 31, 2020 @ 4:29am
Category: General News
New mission and a new player
Hi everyone
First of all, welcom Andrew! He will be playing the marine XO, Major Travis Stone. Please give him the traditional DS5 welcome by sending him a flurry of JPs
New Mission Planning is progressing, so I'm going to announce the start. I've looked at all the suggestions and…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Thu Oct 15, 2020 @ 1:12am
Category: General News
September/ Q3 Awards
Hi Guys
I hope you all had a great weekend.
Awards from last month/Quarter.
In house awards were as follows.
De Forest Kelley Humour Award - Rich (for "Breaking News")
Six Months service - Marilyn/Yukiko
Plot development Citation - Thom and Darrell - for using their characters to stir the…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Tue Oct 13, 2020 @ 5:17pm
Category: General News
Welcome to our new Chief Engineer!
Evening everyone, I hope you're all having a good weekend.
Please give a warm DS5 welcome to Toni, who is playing the new Chief Engineer, Rodan Serav. He'll be coming aboard on MD9, just in time to clear up the mess :D
I trust everyone will welcome him with the…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Sun Sep 20, 2020 @ 4:53am
Category: General News
Awards and More!
Hey guys
Several things to get through tonight so this is a little on the long side
1) We managed a great 4.45 posts per player in the month of August, so well done everyone. Lets see if we can smash that in September
2) I'm about to set up…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Sun Sep 13, 2020 @ 4:30am
Category: General News
End of Month Award Nominations
Hi Everyone
I'm prepping the end of month report and looking to make award nominations.
If anyone has any awards they'd like to nominate fellow players for, then please submit them and spread the love.
Live Long & Prosper
Notty
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Tue Sep 1, 2020 @ 4:59pm
Category: General News
Welcome Back!
Hi Everyone
An old player has returned! Darrell is going to be playing Roger Templar, a new Private Investigator on the Promenade. Please say hello and start a JP with him.
Live long and prosper
Notty
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Tue Aug 25, 2020 @ 11:49pm
Category: General News
I'm back!
Hi everyone
I'm back from LOA, having got the worst of the work thing in the rear-view mirror. I've missed you all and I'm looking forward to be posting with you all again.
There's been a bunch of things whilst I'm gone. Firstly, sadly, Alen who plays the CIO Natalie…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Mon Jul 20, 2020 @ 2:53am
Category: General News
Lots of News
Hi all
Apologies for being fairly non-existant for the past few weeks. The COVID situation has made my life rather busy, and not in a fun way.
I'm going to start moving the plot on shortly, but before I do, some awards news
At the fleet level we were granted…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Thu May 21, 2020 @ 4:44am
Category: General News