[PBEM News] U.S.S. Horizon!!! (pre-TOS) SPACE PIONEERS NEEDED!!!

From: cflamey@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (cflamey)

Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 03:55:50 +0000

The year is 2168.  The U.S.S. Horizon has left the Sigma Iotia system
and is beginning the second year of its six-year mission to explore
and chart this part of the galaxy.  As they enter into orbit around a
planet, long-range sensors find an anomaly on the very edge of the
scanning range.  The anomaly being rather unremarkable, it's merely
catalogued and the exploration of the planet continue.

Mere hours later, the anomaly has shifted course and destroyed the two
outer planets in the solar system.  It was bearing down on the
Horizon.  The away team was brought back up to the ship just moments
before the anomaly would envelope the planet.  The crew works to
break orbit, but they are snagged by the gravitational pull of the
anomaly.  After a valiant struggle, the idea comes from the Chief
Engineer to try to run through it.  As the Horizon enters the
anomaly, everything breaks loose.

That was ten days ago.  The ship found itself within a great web of
pink mist.  Not knowing when or where they were, the Engineering and
Science departments agreed to reset the chronometers on the ship to
midnight on January 1, 2169 when they had emerged from the anomaly.

For the next week, the Horizon crawled very slowly until they found
themselves clear of the mist.  Once free, they found that they had
just emerged from the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud
(LMC).  Finding themselves 170,000 light-years away from home, the
command crew decide to find an M-class planet to make as a new home
planet.  Upon entering the nearest solar system, the ship was
grappled by a tractor beam.

During the crawling through the nebula, the CMO and many Martian
miners, who he had brought into StarFleet as engineers, staged a
mutiny that almost took over the ship.  As the physical coup failed
and the command crew kept the bridge, the CMO held the entire ship
hostage with the threat of a nuclear bomb.

The ship was forced to land on an M-class planet alongside another
ship.  The stalemate over the nuclear bomb ended with the forty
mutineers deciding to leave Horizon to attempt a takeover of the
neighboring starship.  Hours later, the mutineers secured the alien
ship and left in shuttles to an undisclosed location.  The mutineers
have just returned--out of the blue--seeking a chance to return to
the Horizon.

The other sixty-five members of the remaining crew had to pick up the
pieces.  The CO is already planning how to propogate the next human
race.  The XO had sided with the mutineers until the final moment.
The Chief Engineer is the CO's ex-wife and highly unstable.  (She's
just returned from being elsewhere as a captive.  No one really knows
where she's been or what she's been doing.)  The Chief Science Officer
is trying to mirror the Captain's prowess with women.  His assistant
is the object of both their attentions.  The ornery Security Chief is
simply pissed off at everyone.

Also, the crew has found evidence that there might be another society
nearby (who kidnapped and just released the Chief Engineer).  This
society has been watching the ship ever since it landed.  (E-mail me
for more information about this society.)

Here are the available slots:
Security Officer
Crew Engineer
Mutineer Engineer
Alien Watcher

If you're looking for a game that will challenge your abilities in
ways you never thought possible, check out Horizon by emailing me
(cflamey@gmail.com) or visiting our Yahoo group
(http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/uss_horizon).
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