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Next mission
Time to call our an end to our shoreleave period, hope everyone's characters had fun, any remaining posts in progress will have to be posted under our new mission A Marathon Not A Sprint.
We are going to be called to provide and escort and if necessary technical support to…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Wed Apr 17th, 2024 @ 11:16am
Category: General News
Birthday
Today marks the start of our 7th year together, I am unimaginably surprise we've made it so far.
The last few months have been a struggle for me writing wise, a strong bout of seasonal depression mixed with a genuine lack of enjoyment in writing on all the sims I…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Sun Feb 4th, 2024 @ 11:27am
Category: General News
A slightly late anniversary
Yesterday marked the start of our 6th year together, I'm still amazed the sim has lasted this long with me in charge, we've far surpassed my estimate of a few years.
The Wolff has done very well this year with Theta fleet awards (though I have completely forgotten to do…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Sun Feb 5th, 2023 @ 4:21pm
Category: General News
Updates Complete
Updates are now finished. If you encounter any issues, please bring them up in Discord and I will investigate.
Author: Ensign Min Zhao
Posted on: Mon Aug 1st, 2022 @ 9:02am
Category: Website Update
Scheduled Maintenance
Just a heads up that tomorrow morning (around 5am Pacific time) I will be taking the server down for 3-4 hours to do some planned maintenance.
Author: Ensign Min Zhao
Posted on: Sun Jul 31st, 2022 @ 6:35pm
Category: Website Update
Another year down
Today marks the start of our 5th year as a crew.
Every time this comes around I am amazed at how far beynd my own initial expectations we've come as a sim. I'd expected maybe a year or two at most befor things went south but here we are, 4…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Fri Feb 4th, 2022 @ 2:47pm
Category: General News
Goodbye 2021, Hello 2022!
=2021 Monthly Fleet Awards=
December
- USS Wolff earned the Silver Unit of Distinction for its performance in the month of December, another stellar showing for the USS Wolff in Area 51.
- For December, the USS was recognized for having an outstanding post of the…
Author: Lieutenant Commander Tyrus Acevedo
Posted on: Sat Jan 29th, 2022 @ 12:15pm
Category: General News
Happy new year
Somewhat late seeing as I've done nothing but work over the last 5 days but.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!
here's to many more years together as a crew.
Jamie.
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Sun Jan 2nd, 2022 @ 11:36am
Category: General News
Step Aside, Golden Goose, it's the Golden Wolff!
Attention Crew,
They may say that all that glitters is not gold, but the USS Wolff certainly glittered recently and you know what? It was GOLD! For the first time in the sim's history as part of Theta Fleet, you worked brilliantly together to not only produce quality…
Author: Lieutenant Commander Tyrus Acevedo
Posted on: Sun Dec 12th, 2021 @ 1:12pm
Category: General News
No Tricks, All Treats! - Awards from August & September
Attention Crew:
Happy Halloween & Wishing you all a beautiful Samhain, and right around the corner remembering those close to our hearts for día de los muertos to those who partake.
I try not to bombard you with too much good news to save up on the delight of reading…
Author: Lieutenant Commander Tyrus Acevedo
Posted on: Sun Oct 31st, 2021 @ 11:33am
Category: General News
Raining Merits and distintions
Well, congratulations everyone we have by the XO's email won either unit of merit Bronze units of distinction for at least three months of the first six this year.
Author: Lieutenant Anthony Edwards Ph. D
Posted on: Thu Aug 12th, 2021 @ 9:07pm
Category: General News
Awards Past and Present
Attention Crew:
This is a bit overdue, but I want to say thank you to everyone on this crew past and present this year. We have all been through a lot individually and collectively. Battling through hard times globally amid COVID-19 and with the tragic passing of Kim Finney who…
Author: Lieutenant Commander Tyrus Acevedo
Posted on: Thu Aug 12th, 2021 @ 12:36pm
Category: General News
A great loss
Some of you have already heard what I am about to say but for those who have yet to hear.
I bring the very sad news that one of our players Kim Finney has unfortunately passed away, she was involved in a serious car crash and was declared brain dead…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Fri Jun 4th, 2021 @ 11:33am
Category: Out of Character
Tournament of simulations
A very pleasant and surprising thing came to my attention very recently Ongoing Worlds posted the results of their annual 'tournament of simulations'
I'd never heard of this tournament until now so it was certainly a surprise to find out that we had been nominated in the first place and…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Mon Mar 22nd, 2021 @ 3:39pm
Category: General News
a little late
I've bit a little lax on doing these so i'll get caught up now, Awards the last few months.
We got a bronze unit of distinction for December
For a very good start to his first full month on the sim I nominated Lt Nilo Rodis for player…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Mon Mar 15th, 2021 @ 7:01am
Category: General News
A new year
Today is the start of our fourth year as a sim. When I first took over the Wolff I wasn't sure I'd make it this far, restarting a hiatus'd sim is never an easy thing to do but with the help of you my fellow writers we've done it, the…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Thu Feb 4th, 2021 @ 6:18am
Category: General News
Updates Complete
The website is back up! :-)
The core functionality is updated and running on the new server. I still have some tweaks and changes to the site which will be completed over the next while, but otherwise everything should be up and running for you all.
Author: Commodore M'Elise Emerson
Posted on: Thu Dec 31st, 2020 @ 6:36am
Category: Website Update
Website Server upgrades
Morning,
Quick heads up for everyone on the USS Wolff that the webhost (myself) is going to be taking the site down for several hours tomorrow morning. I'm moving several domains over to a new server, and for the USS Wolff, updating the NOVA platform to the last 2.6.1 release.…
Author: Commodore M'Elise Emerson
Posted on: Wed Dec 30th, 2020 @ 6:38am
Category: Website Update
Somewhat belated awards
It has been a while since I posted one of these, mostly because it was the last thing on my mind with all that's going on. But here we are, the theta fleet awards we got the for the last coulple of months.
in june we did well enough in…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Tue Sep 15th, 2020 @ 5:08am
Category: General News
End of mission
With 'starbase sweet starbase' now posted I've called the mission as completed.
As you all know we're going to be having shoreleave at starbase 54 for a little while. while it's not mandatory I'd like to see at least something from all of you, I think all of our characters…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Fri Jun 26th, 2020 @ 1:25am
Category: General News
Awards and updates
I hope everyone is doing ok given all this covid-19 stuff, I've been a little quiet the last few weeks. I work food retail so I'm listed as a key worker and with a few of the staff having to self isolate we've been working more hours to take up…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Mon Apr 13th, 2020 @ 12:30pm
Category: General News
The 3rd year cometh
Today marks the start of our third year as a sim. I thank everyone that has been with the sim these two years for their efforts and for sticking with me through the learning experience that is being a new CO.
I thought now we have been going for a…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Mon Feb 3rd, 2020 @ 6:36pm
Category: Simm Announcement
Last awards of the decade
The theta fleet monthly and quarterly awards are in along with the 2019 'of the year' awards and we've done pretty well again.
First off, Raymond (deepak El Azar) was nominated for and won writer of the month
For her actions on both the USS Musashi and on…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Mon Jan 20th, 2020 @ 5:36pm
Category: Simm Announcement
Post of the month and others.
I missed this one last month but we did were awarded a unit of merit from the task group Co of Area 51,
And in what I would call our best month for a little while we had four posts and finally got all three away teams down…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Thu Dec 12th, 2019 @ 4:42am
Category: General News
Should we call it an early christmas present?
While it has been a little slow the last couple of months (Something I'm hoping we can improve on) we still got a number of awards for the month and even for the quarter.
First off the sim was awarded the broze unit of merit for September
I…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Sun Oct 13th, 2019 @ 10:43am
Category: Simm Announcement
Another loss to the pack
As you might have noticed, recently Will's (Mikoto) activity has been very low due to his crazy work timetable leaving him with barely any time to write never mind do anything else in his social life.
Because of that he has chosen to resign his post on the Wolff.
Hopefully…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Sat Sep 28th, 2019 @ 1:17pm
Category: General News
Aron Eisenberg
Ladies and gentlemen today is a sad day, or maybe it was actually yesterday. Aron Eisenberg has passed away after many years of health problems. We share our thoughts with his family and friends and other fans of Deep Space Nine, especially those in Hawaii who had only recently heard…
Author: Lieutenant Anthony Edwards Ph. D
Posted on: Mon Sep 23rd, 2019 @ 4:30am
Category: Out of Character
A slight mixup but congrats nontheless
Well it looks like I got sent the wrong images for mays awards, with them saying june instead of may as I just got sent award pictures today that also say june, I'll go correct it shortly.
So here they are...
Congratulations to the ship as a whole for getting…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Sat Jul 13th, 2019 @ 9:34am
Category: General News
The universe got a whole lot weider
I love learning about how quantum mechanics work and the whole thing is a case of some really weird properties. Weird properties that seem to defy what we normally observe on a day to day basis and yet the universe actually works based off the quantum realm of physics. Anyway,…
Author: Lieutenant Helena Wells
Posted on: Tue Jul 9th, 2019 @ 9:52am
Category: General News
A few more awards are in order
Once again we did a good enough job last month to acquire another unit of distinction.
And our chief scientist has been awarded with player of the month.
Keep up the good work everyone. Lets try and get the big briefing and the individual team briefings…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Sun Jun 16th, 2019 @ 3:51am
Category: General News
Congratulations are in order once again
After a few off months it looks like we're finally getting back into the swing of things and winning awards again.
We've been given a unit of merit by our task group commanding officer.
And after being nominated by my Xo and 2Xo, I have been awarded writer…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Tue May 14th, 2019 @ 12:18pm
Category: General News
A good start to the year
We're kicking things off with some good posts, The post Dinner and politics by myself and Kim won Post of the month for January.
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Mon Feb 11th, 2019 @ 3:48am
Category: General News
1 year anniversary
Well, it is one year to the day that I took over and restarted the Wolff and I think we've had a cracking first year with 5 bronze units of distinction, a couple of post/player/writer of the month and of course our Xo winning writer of the last quarter and…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Mon Feb 4th, 2019 @ 7:01am
Category: Simm Announcement
Congratulations are in order once again
Some of you will have seen this on our discord channel but congratulations are in order once again especially for our amazing XO Kim.
She was awarded with the Writer of the Quarter.
AND Writer of the Year.
And while it wasn't for her actions on…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Sun Jan 13th, 2019 @ 3:43am
Category: Simm Announcement
A new engineer
Please welcome Ian who will be taking over conrol of the Wolffs engineering department with his character Lieutenant Jason Voss
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Thu Dec 27th, 2018 @ 12:27pm
Category: General News
Even more awards
I personally thought november was a slow month for us but we still won a bronze unit of distinction.
And congratulations to our Xo Kim on winning writer of the month!
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Tue Dec 11th, 2018 @ 7:38am
Category: Simm Announcement
A loss to the pack
Due to health reasons Darrell (LT Kallen Navore) has had to step down from the simm.
We hope things get better for him soon and hope he'll be able to come back to us one day.
Jamie
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Tue Nov 27th, 2018 @ 10:12am
Category: Out of Character
Another good month
October was a good month for the simm. A good number of posts, good bit of story progression and a very good new player added to the pack.
Our hard work gained us some another few awards so congratulations to us all for winning another bronze unit distinction.
…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Sat Nov 10th, 2018 @ 2:07pm
Category: Simm Announcement
Congratulations are in order once again
Congratulations to LT's Edwards and Polaris on their post 'dinner for three' winning post of the month for last month. Keep up the good work you two.
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Fri Oct 12th, 2018 @ 4:00am
Category: Simm Announcement
Another person joins the pack
Today we welcome another member to the group
Welcome to Mark who will be helping Kallen down in engineering with his character that is also called Mark.
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Mon Oct 8th, 2018 @ 2:47pm
Category: General News
Congratulations are in order
Congratulations everyone, we did well enough in July to get a Bronze unit distinction. I'll put that in pride of place along side the ones we got in April and February, my co of the quarter award and the TGCO unit of merit award we also got in February
Keep…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Thu Aug 23rd, 2018 @ 6:07am
Category: Simm Announcement
Jean-Luc Picard returns
As Capt Picard in a new Star Trek series:
https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/star-trek-patrick-stewart-picard-cbs-all-access-1202895410/
Author: Lieutenant Helena Wells
Posted on: Sat Aug 4th, 2018 @ 4:02pm
Category: General News
Six months
Well folks, the Wolff has been back up and running for six months now, it has been a slow start and a few people have come and gone in that short time but we're getting there. This next mission should be an interesting one with action, intrigue and just a…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Thu Aug 2nd, 2018 @ 3:51pm
Category: Simm Announcement
Dates
I've had a couple of people Pm me now about the dates and suchlike.
We're using actual dates not mission dates for the timeline, so right now we're at starbase 54 for the 11th and 12th of Feb 2395.
We will be leaving 54 on the 13th Feb 2395, our…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Thu Jul 26th, 2018 @ 2:59am
Category: General News
Mission complete
With us arriving back at Starbase 54 we've officially completed our first mission (yay!!)
While it was a little short it went as planned and was good for getting everyone to know eachother and how each other writes and how their characters are.
We will be at starbase 54 for…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Wed Jun 20th, 2018 @ 5:46am
Category: Simm Announcement
New Crew
With Azmaria's resignation from the XO position I'd now like to officially introduce Kim who will be playing Lieutenant Commander Radak our new XO who will be coming onboard a little while after we return to Starbase 54 and is already helping out with several jp's.
Welcome onboard and hopefully…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Wed May 23rd, 2018 @ 2:03pm
Category: General News
A Big Congratulations
To our Captain!!!!
CO of the quarter for Area 51.
WHOO HOO!!!!!
Author: Lieutenant Helena Wells
Posted on: Fri Apr 13th, 2018 @ 8:56pm
Category: General News
More new crew
Even more people join the pack
Welcome Marilyn playing Miss Helena Wells a civilian scientist, though god help you if you call her doctor.
And the just added Raymond who will be taking up the mantle of chief operations officer. Taliserra will certainly be keeping an eye on him as…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Wed Mar 7th, 2018 @ 5:03pm
Category: General News
New crew
It has been an interesting first couple of weeks.
We've two new crew to add to our 'old hands' resuming their posts.
Please welcome LT Kallen Navore, playing our chief enginer and the ships 2Xo
And the only just added Mari Solvbakken, assigned to help Taliserra who is hopeless at…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Fri Feb 9th, 2018 @ 4:00am
Category: General News
Change of command
As of today I officially take over command of the USS Wolff with the approval of the task force 51 commanding officer and the former commanding officer of the sim.
I will try my hardest to get this sim back up and running, hopefully back up to when the Wolff…
Author: Captain Taliserra Tigran
Posted on: Sat Feb 3rd, 2018 @ 5:12pm
Category: Simm Announcement