Magistrate Office Report – BFM-005 Members of Bravo Fleet,   On 1/20/21, the Bravo Fleet Magistrate began proceedings against BolianCO. Said proceedings were initiated due to my direct involvement in an attempt to mediate a heated exchange in a public area of the Discord. Unfortunately, due to the extenuating circumstances, no successful mediation was possible (the Defendant had left the server, and due to Discord policy I was unable to continue the conversation with him). The opinion of the Magistrate, and a full link to the details of the case are below. Magistrate Opinion: A spirited exchange of ideas is expected and celebrated within Bravo Fleet, and as with all groups of people collectively drawn...

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Magistrate Office Report – 01/17/2021 Happy New Year from the Office of the Bravo Fleet Magistrate!   Typically no news is good news, from the Magistrate's desk. Today's announcement however is a bit of good news both from a personal perspective, and for the continuity of the "sausage making" of the organization.   As I said in my recent announcement asking for applications for Bravo Fleet Defender, it is a mostly thankless and behind the scenes job that requires very little of a person unless something bad happens. There were many great applicants with great qualifications. Despite that, dizzyg has done an exemplary job in the role over the last year, engaging when necessary and stepping back when...

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Magistrate Office – Appeals Panel Appointees Hello Bravo Fleet!   Our current Appeals Committee term expires on 11/26, which inconveniently is a holiday here in the States. So, it became clear that we needed to put the new Committee in place before this occurs, so there is no lapse.   It is therefore my privilege to announce that the following 3 members will take over as the new Appeals Committee, effective 11/26/20:   Tia Tia is our former Loremaster, and has previously served as the Bravo Fleet Judge Advocate General in other iterations of the position. She brings a wealth of knowledge to the position. Woozamagoo In addition to having a very fun to say screen name, Woozamagoo is a teacher currently...

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Magistrate Update and Applications – 11/10/2020 Greetings, members of Bravo Fleet!   It is my great pleasure to provide you 3 updates today, after a quiet period from this office.   1 - Change to Operational Policy for the Offices of the Magistrate Our very own Chief of Staff, Slagar, was first to point out upon his promotion to the Bravo Fleet Admiralty, his position on the Appeals Panel with the Magistrate Office could be seen as inappropriate. There was no operational policy in place for this kind of situation, as it was simply not something we'd thought of. Ensuring a fair separation of the Office of the Magistrate from the rest of the BFA is critical to providing a fair, impartial judicial system for the...

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Fleet Magistrate Code Updates – 06/17/2020 Greetings members of Bravo Fleet,   As discussed in the recently amended Magistrate Opinion for Bravo Fleet v. Jack Pike (BFM-001), a lot of changes to the Bravo Fleet Magistrate Code and its evolution came from that case. The entire Magistrate Code was looked at from top to bottom, and a fundamental rewrite was completed thanks to the team of myself, our BFCO, BFXO, and Slagar. This amended Code was presented to the BFA, and unanimously passed.   I will preface by saying that many of these changes were to shift the Magistrate Code more firmly towards its intended rehabilitative approach than the perceived punitive approach. One example, for instance, was building in...

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Ammendment: BFM-001 Members of Bravo Fleet, Owing to an appeal, as well as ongoing discussion as to the nature of the spirit of the Magistrate Code versus the Written Code itself, the opinion on this case has been amended. Additionally, owing to the lessons learned on this case, the Bravo Fleet Admiralty is currently in the process of updating the Code to more accurately reflect the spirit of the Magistrate Code, and shore up some of the weaknesses. More on this to come. You can find the full text of the case here: https://bravofleet.com/trials/23332/ Amended Opinion: Note: This is an amended opinion, dated June 14, 2020.   This was the first case convened under the “new” system of...

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Magistrate Decision: BFM-01 Members of Bravo Fleet, On 06/06/2020 at 0628 AM Pacific Time, the Bravo Fleet Magistrate received a complaint against user Jack Pike formerly the Commanding Officer of the USS New Hampshire, in the Holodeck Group (formerly Task Force 99). In said complaint, the user was accused of mutiny and sedition, as well as disreputable behavior. The defendant was found guilty of all charges after a Trial by Magistrate. The opinion of the Magistrate, and a full link to the details of the case are below. Magistrate Opinion: Bravo Fleet, as well as many other organizations of the same type, have long had to deal with individuals who enter the organization, recruit from within its members, and...

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Task Force 25 April 2020 Updates Greetings Task Force 25 and Bravo Fleet! This is one of the first announcements I've had the pleasure of pushing out since opening Task Force 25, and I couldn't be happier for the occasion. This announcement will serve as a somewhat different type than normal, I'll be giving you a brief rundown of how your activity is tracked across the fleet, and a brief explanation of the current and ongoing canon in the Task Force. Activity Monitoring: On April 25th, having a BFMS account with at least one character in the system is a requirement of membership in Bravo Fleet. Game managers, please make sure that every player on your game has a BFMS account, and that their characters are...

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Operational Report – TF25 – December 2019 Hello Bravo Fleet! It's the first full month of operation for Task Force 25, and it has thus far been a stellar one! The USS Turing has been established as the flagship and HQ of the Task Force. This will be run as a fiction, to help really immerse the Task Force in the type of stories we expect it to tell. The introductory story is already live, and you can read it here: Black Holes and Revelations. Meanwhile, the rest of the Task Force has begun the process of introducing either teasers of or full-on references to The Reliquary into their plots, to be able to use it as a bouncing point to go explore the rest of the galaxy. It can't be overstated that the options here are...

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Operational Report – Task Force 38 – November 2019 News from the Task Force First and foremost, if you missed it the first time around, we have refreshed the TF38 canon! With the impending changes due to the Picard series, and how little it is expected to impact the Delta Quadrant as a whole, we made the decision to do the 10 year time jump. The details of the rest of the canon announcement can be found here: https://bravofleet.com/group_news/tf38-canon-announcement/. There's a lot there, so if you haven't, please take a look! November being the start of what is traditionally the “Holiday Season,” things are moving but not at a super-fast pace (except for the crew of the USS Apollo, who apparently want to write joint posts until...

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TF38 Canon Announcement   Hello Bravo Fleet!   While most of our COs already know about this, we (the TF38 staff) wanted to make an official announcement about the changes in our Task Force canon that are underway. This will be a little long, and there will be more in the link at the bottom, but the core point of these changes is to make TF38 more accessible to people who aren’t familiar with the “fanon” lore that has long been associated with TF38, such as the Round Table, the Epatha Gateway, etc. We want folks who just love Star Trek to be able to jump right into the action without a lot of background reading, especially since our Area of Operations is the only quadrant that has seven...

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TF9 – Change in Leadership Greetings!   It is my great pleasure to announce the promotion of Nate, CO of the USS Proxima, to the role of Task Force Executive Officer. Nate has shown great interest in helping develop the task force canon, and has shown steady progression and leadership skills since taking over the center seat on the Proxima. Also, he has the Good Hair. Please join me in congratulating him, and wishing him well here in the lonely Gamma Quadrant!  

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Task Force 9 – Operational Report – August 2019 News from Task Force 9! USS Ride: The crew of the USS Ride has joined with a small Dominion Task Force to glean what information they can about their quarry, by investigating the wreckage of a Borg installation along the Gamma/Delta border.  USS Constitution: The USS Constitution begins its story arriving at its first destination after receiving their first assignment from The Reliquary. The ship is assigned to investigate what the Reliquary explains as a highly efficient power generating device.  USS Triton: The USS Triton continues to make inroads into the Gamma Quadrant following their most recent refit.  USS Proxima: The crew of the Proxima is finishing their final...

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TF9 – Executive Officer Announcement Hello Bravo Fleet!  It is my great pleasure to announce the promotion of Commodore Caymen Greener (better known as Chris on Discord) to the role of Executive Officer of Task Force 9. Caymen brings with him a wealth of experience in varied roles around the Fleet, but I'll let him speak for himself! "My name is Chris and I've been around the simming universe for almost 20 years. I have been in Bravo Fleet since around 2014 as a CO several times, TFXO once before in TF93, and as BFIO for a stint. You may remember Caymen Greener, my main character and pseudonym. Hopefully they are good memories! I've been around in similar roles in other fleets as well. I am glad to be back in BF as a...

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Task Force 9 – Operational Report – July 2019 The Slow Drums Bridge: USS Opaka 1126 HRS “Leaving Deep Space 9 local authority. ETA to wormhole three minutes,” the steely voice of the helm officer announced.  A flagship she was not, but Admiral Erszebet Virkov couldn’t help but admire the efficiency of the crew of the USS Opaka. The ship had been a relatively new build, despite being a somewhat older Steamrunner class starship. After the fallout caused by the Consortium in the Gamma Quadrant, Starfleet Admiralty had finally decided that New Bajor needed a ship assigned to the planet for defensive purposes.  Why they won’t just build the damned orbital platforms is an argument for another day, Virkov thought to...

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