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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
Awards!
I've processed the monthly report, and I have some awards to announce.
First up, are the long service gongs. These go to:
Matt (Caleb) for 3 years
Myself for 8 years
And finally to Jools (Amia) for an incredible 9 years.
So congratulations to Matt for sticking with us during…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Tue Feb 6, 2018 @ 2:50am
Category: General News
Return of a prodigal
Hi everyone.
I'm pleased to announce the return of an old DS5 player Dayne, who returns to us after several years away, along with his PC, the part cardassian Ryan Milarno.
But Milarno has given up on his hyppocratic oath and turned a great deal more martial, and comes back…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Wed Jan 24, 2018 @ 4:03am
Category: General News
New XO!
Evening all.
We have a new XO!
I'm very pleased to announce we have a new XO.
Matt (Caleb Ryan) has stepped up to task, and is XO OOC effective immediately. He will become the new XO IC shortly (posts pending).
And the new hangout is up and running. If…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Mon Jan 15, 2018 @ 1:49am
Category: Sim Announcement
More Awards!
Hello all!
The monthly, quarterly and yearly awards are up and DS5 has made a couple of notable categories.
First up, we got Bronze unit of Merit again! That was for some super posting over Christmas, so well done at this traditionally slow period.
The quarterly awards saw awarded Matt…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Fri Jan 12, 2018 @ 5:45am
Category: General News
Happy New Year!
..and welcome to 2018!
First off, I want to say well done to everyone. Christmas is traditionally slow, but we logged 66 posts this month, an average of 6.6 per player! That's phenomenal. We haven't had a month like that in several years. The last mission, Rumours, is now closed,…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Tue Jan 2, 2018 @ 6:09am
Category: General News
Welcome to USS Pheonix
Hi all!
An old player of DS5, Chris (who played former Klingon Ambassador, Toran of the House of Moqrhat) has returned!
This time he's leading his own sim, USS Phoenix and its docked at DS5 whilst he's recruiting crew for its maiden voyage.
Chris and his PC, Captain Ricardo…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Thu Dec 28, 2017 @ 5:13am
Category: General News
Merry Christmss!
Hi all,
I hope you were all on Santa's good list last night and that everyone is having a good day and has plans to eat and drink entirely too much of everything.
Have a very merry Christmas
Notty
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Mon Dec 25, 2017 @ 7:34pm
Category: General News
Awards!
Hi everyone
Theta fleet has posted its monthly awards for November and there's some great news.
Matt, aka Caleb Ryan, has been awarded Player of the Month for our Task Force, TF 23.
Matt has been brilliant all month, pushing things ahead, and spreading the plot-love to everyone. I know…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Wed Dec 13, 2017 @ 3:16am
Category: General News
For the Americans
May today be pleasant, and stress-free and contain entirely too much turkey.
Happy thanksgiving to those of you in the States!
Warm regards
Notty
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Fri Nov 24, 2017 @ 4:45am
Category: General News
New Mission Coming Soon
Hey everyone
November got off to a steaming start, with loads of posts,
including the progress of the tribunal on MD7, seeing Commander Soran take command on MD 8, and the arrival of the new Science Officer on MD9. You're all doing great so keep it up!
So what comes…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Wed Nov 22, 2017 @ 6:33am
Category: General News
New Science Officer
Dear All
The site is back up to the point you can start tagging again, and saved posts should have survived. Please let me know if this isn't so.
And please join me in welcoming our first new player, Charlie, who will playing our new Chief Science Officer, Lt JG…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Tue Nov 7, 2017 @ 4:37am
Category: General News
Website offline
Hi all
Please be aware that the site is now offline for maintenance
Many thanks
notty
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Mon Nov 6, 2017 @ 12:38am
Category: General News
Website offline reminder
Just to remind everyone, Im taking the site offline tomorrow night to do updates and will be rolling bck to last months back ups. Everyone needs to make sure they've backed up any work not yet posted.
Many thanks
Notty
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Sun Nov 5, 2017 @ 3:37am
Category: General News
Website update
Hi Everyone
There's an issue with the website that I've been unable to fix, and am having to go back to the back up I took at the beginning of October. This means I'm going to have to reproduce any post posted in October.
Any post not yet posted is…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Sat Nov 4, 2017 @ 12:27am
Category: General News
Rules reminder
Hi everyone
Work on the Manifest is now complete and going forwards I'm going to start recruiting for the open positions in the next week or so.
I've noticed that tagging in some posts is a little slow. I want to take this time to give everyone a reminder of…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Sun Oct 29, 2017 @ 6:34pm
Category: General News
Manifest Spring Clean
Hi Everyone
I'm going to prune the manifest this weekend, and try and reassemble it in a single page that makes it easy for people to see what positions are open so we can start recruiting. I've identified some NPCs that I think can be deleted.
If there is anyone…
Author: Captain Maritza Soran
Posted on: Sat Oct 7, 2017 @ 1:20am
Category: Sim Announcement
Boldly Going where DS5 has not gone before
Hi All
I've heard from everyone now and I'd like to say thank you for your vote of confidence. Everyone has expressed support for a move to Theta Fleet, and the application there has gone through.
We are now in Task Force 23 there , with many other ships who…
Author: Civilian 'Key Holder' Yolanthe Ibalin
Posted on: Wed Oct 4, 2017 @ 2:16am
Category: General News
All Good Things
When I applied to DS5 on 3rd March 2008 it seemed like the perfect home for my Romulan who had been stagnating for two years on a defunct Starbase elsewhere.
After a few months Mark offered my the post of XO - I declined then as I had no interest…
Author: Captain Isha t'Vaurek
Posted on: Wed Sep 27, 2017 @ 10:54pm
Category: Sim Announcement
Roll Call
Its that tiresome time when I have to do an audit on activity. My own hasn't been great recently, but I'm committed to activity going forward. I need you to do the same.
Please PM me by the end of Friday 16 June if you're planning to stick around. After…
Author: Captain Isha t'Vaurek
Posted on: Fri Jun 9, 2017 @ 1:14am
Category: Sim Announcement
Catch up
Good Afternoon Deep Space Fivers,
Its been a long time.
I can only apoligise for my absence but I hope i can start to be back. I've given it all a lot of thought.
There are going to be some changes - if you have anyone on the surface of…
Author: Captain Isha t'Vaurek
Posted on: Wed Jun 7, 2017 @ 7:16pm
Category: General News
Timeline - New Posting Days open
Apologies for the delay. I've spent the last few days in a field with no signal and haven't been able to update the site.
New Mission Days are now available for posting, everything up to and including MD10. Efforts will be made on behalf of the arrested Away team. By…
Author: Civilian 'Key Holder' Yolanthe Ibalin
Posted on: Mon Apr 24, 2017 @ 5:21pm
Category: General News