USS Cerberus

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <table border="0" cellpadding="15" width="100%"> <tr> <td valign="TOP" bgcolor="#9900FF" width="15%"><b><a href="manifest.html">Manifest</a><p> <a href="join.html">Join</a><p> <a href="rules.html">Rules</a><p> <a href="CrewDuties.html">Crew Duties</a><p> <a href="marines.html">Marines</a> <p> <a href="links.html">Links<p></a> <p><br></b> </td> <td width="85%"> <font color="#9900FF"> <center><img border="0" src="pics/banner5.gif" width="491" height="89"></center><p> <hr> <a href="pics/cerberus2.jpg"> <img src="pics/cerberus2.jpg" border="0" width="250" hieght="250" align=right></a> <h2>Federation Times</h2><br> The Dawn Of A New Day on New Ship<br> By: Curtis B. Love<p> The twin suns rise over the Federation dry dock at Forsyth III and their rays gentely caress the proud ships of Starfleet. There are four ships here: two Defiant class cruisers, one Galaxy Class starship and one Excalibur class ship. The Albany, Wolf and Surak are in various states of construction and the Excalibur Class Cerberus has completed refit operations and has been awaiting crew.<p> But today is the Cerberus' day. Today, for the first time in its history, the Cerberus leaves space dock, taking with it a full crew of two hundred and seven people, including families.<p> <a href="/redrosebeetle/cerplanet.jpg"> <img src="redrosebeetle/cerplanet.jpg" border="0" width="250" hieght="250" align=right></a>The Cerberus is unique amongst Starfleets ships. She will be the first ship to in Starfleets history to have Marines integrated into its crew, with three hundred and nine of them working side by side with Starfleet personel. Marines will be serving with their Starfleet brethren in the Medical and Security departments and, in a revolutionary change of protocul, a Marine will serve as the Captain. After the Dominion war, with both Starfleet and the Marines manpower at record lows, the President has authorized this experiment in an attempt to temporarly supplement man power as well as provide the Marines with an oppourtunity to be trained in shipboard operations and tactics.<p> What lies in the Cerberus' immedant future? Well, in a few short hours, the ship will be enroute to Zoltar IV on a medical assistance mission. The nature of the medical problem has not been released, but the <i>Federation Times</i> will be covering the mission.<p> There is something in there air, though. Big things seem to be brewing here, and only time will tell what they are.<p> <hr> <p> The USS Cerberus is an interactive fiction Star Trek play by email game set in the year 2378, two years after the end of the Dominion War. We are a game with about a fifty-fifty mix of character development and action, and with the Cerberus’ crew having been set up for crimes they did not commit, we see a good deal of action. While we don’t see our Star Fleet counter parts very often, we do a lot of exploring, and help out where ever we can. With only our wits, what we left home with and no back up, things can get hairy. Come and join us as we try to prove our innocence and still uphold the original charter that Starfleet gave us: “To seek out new life and new civilization…To boldly go where no man has gone before!” <p> <hr> <p> <p align="right"> </p><font color="#9900FF"> <img border="0" src="pics/r.gif" width="50" height="50"> This page and PBeM are voluntarily rated "R" by its administrators. This sim is not rated ‘R’ because it is excessively violent or in bad taste, but because the administrators did not want to curb creativity and the eighteen years old and up age limit. For more information on what is acceptable and what is not, please see our <a href="rules.html">rules page.</a><p> <p align="center">Top, right Excalibur picture is brought to you by <a href="http://www.members.tripod.com/~devilsworld6"> Andrew Hodges.</a><br> <hr> <p> <h5>To the point: Paramount owns Star Trek. Characters and posts, logs, whatever you want to call them, are the intellectual property of the writers who created them. Pictures featured on this web site are the property of various people who are credited on various parts of this site. Don’t steal. Contact the webmaster at <mailto:"redrosebeetle@yahoo.com">redrosebeetle@yahoo.com</a> and she will be more than happy to either consider your request or point you in the right direction. Everything here is not for profit, just for the love of Trek. No copy right infringement is intended.</h5></center> </td> </tr> </table> </body>