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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
The story in a car window
Sometimes when I drive behind mini vans I notice graphics in the window, cartoon pictures telling us who usually rides in that mini van: Father, Mother, child, child, dog, dog, cat. A Family. Some families don't fit the usual prescription. Some have no father, some no mother, some have two fathers, some two mothers, some have lots of children, and some have no children at all. If we had the little graphics that the mini van people always seem to have, it would show Father, Mother, dog, dog. When you see the mini vans, the cartoon figures don't tell you what is going on in the family, only who is a part of the family. If someone dies, I wonder, do they ever peel one of the graphics off the window?
One of our family is dying, our girl Sarah. Sarah is our five year old Silky Terrier. She is 'only a dog' some of you may be thinking, but to us she is a member of our family. Sarah has a little brother, a 'half' brother, named Ulee, same mother, different father, but if we had graphics on our car window they wouldn't tell you that.
Neither would the graphics tell you that Sarah came into our lives at a time when she was desperately needed, and we doted on her. She was given the best food, the best veterinary care, the longest walks, a pool, a wardrobe of leads, harnesses, and coats for the winter. At times the human members of our extended family would sigh and roll their eyes at us, because after all she was 'only a dog'.
Sarah was born on 27 April 2006 at 2:30 am. Her breeder called us early the next morning to tell us there were only two puppies in the litter, Sarah and her sister. We would be allowed to visit them in two weeks, and then again at six weeks. We could take one of them home when they were around ten weeks old, depending on how they were developing. Sarah is a purebred Australian Silky Terrier, born into the home of what was then one of only two fully accredited Silky Terrier breeders in Canada, a breeder who produced only two litters per year, and usually only every second year. Marg didn't make a lot of money in the breeding business, and she is now retired, but she was very serious about it. Sarah is a 'true' Australian Silky, and has a pedigree that goes all the way back to Australia. We have her family tree with her parents, grandparents, and great grandparents listed, with many champions among them.
Sarah's breeder thought we would raise her as a show dog, but we only wanted to bring her home, to be a 'regular' dog, to be part of our family. Sarah's registered name is a long one, that is how it works in the world of purebred dogs, but the first part of it is 'Sarah Jessica Barker'. We call her Sarah, and like so many of you who have pets, we also have a host of nicknames for our girl: 'Saree Boo', 'Bunna', 'Pretty Girl', 'Lovie'.
Sarah has been a wonderful traveller, right from the very beginning, and has been a big part of many road trips with us. She has walked the streets of New York City, and has stayed in hotels in which she was a staff favorite. Sarah has a smile, and a warmth, that just draws people to her, and she loves to kiss faces. Silky Terriers as a breed are known for their 'joie de vive', joy of life, and Sarah has that in spades. Sarah also has an amazing capacity for empathy, is drawn to people who seem sad, and does her best to draw them out of their sadness. Just like her brother, she is also a very funny little dog, and sometimes does things that make us howl with laughter. She is an amazing little dog.
A few days ago we noticed Sarah was not quite herself. She was not eating as she usually does, had an upset stomach at times, and was very low energy. On Monday morning we called our Vets and took her in to see them. Sarah's care has always been in the hands of a husband and wife team of Veterinary doctors, Dr. Stuart and Dr. Sarah, who dote on Sarah and Ulee almost as much as we do.
We expected Sarah had a bug of some kind, but during a thorough examination, Dr. Stuart found a lump in Sarah's abdomen that had never been there before. He took x-rays which did not make the mass immediately apparent, but said he wanted to send us to a large animal hospital in Oakville , a town just west of Toronto, so that Sarah could have an ultrasound. "It will be expensive", he said, "and it may just be a fluke; they may find nothing." Dr. Stuart seemed very troubled, and so we loaded our little family into our car and headed to Oakville. Along the way we reassured ourselves, convinced that they would find nothing which could not be easily solvable, with a little bit of medicine and some quiet time, after all Sarah is only five, going on six years old.
Truth be told we didn't like the first doctor at the hospital. His manner was very clinical. He skeptically viewed the x-rays, and said it was probably nothing, but they would run a battery of tests and go ahead with the ultrasound "if we wanted to". We trust Dr. Stuart's wisdom and expertise, and he had sent us there, so "yes, we do want all the tests and the ultrasound" was our reply. We had to sign papers, absolving them of practically all responsibility in the event of 'anything', and I wondered when did everyone become so litigious?
We played with Ulee while we waited for the tests to be done on Sarah, and decided that it was probably something minor and all would be well. When the internist came back into the room he seemed upbeat and happily announced, "well your vet was right, there is a large mass and not only that but all the lymph nodes are involved".
In that moment I felt as though I was falling backward in time, into another place, and another completely unexpected diagnosis of terminal cancer for a human member of my family. We were absolutely stunned. The next few hours brought more tests for further evaluation and confirmation, and eventually we were sent home without Sarah, but with an appointment in hand to see an oncologist the next day.
During the night I could not sleep, tormented by the idea that I must have done something wrong to make this happen, and I called the hospital a couple of times to check on our girl. They said she was resting comfortably, with an i.v. drip, and pain medication helping her.
I do not want to tell you any more about Monday night, or even the hours of Tuesday, and the oppressive darkness that has descended over our lives, just that when we came home the second day we had a confirmed diagnosis of intestinal lymphoma, an extremely aggressive and quickly developing cancer. The oncologist assured us that we had done nothing wrong. "It is just the luck of the draw", she said. "Luck?", I thought, luck had nothing to do with it.
Our little Sarah, our Silky Terrier, will have chemotherapy to make her feel better, and if it improves her state of being we will be allowed to bring her home on Friday. Her little brother Ulee knows something is wrong, and he sniffs her and kisses her face so gently, it is heartbreaking.
Sarah will die; that is an absolute certainty, but her quality of life will be good, no matter what the length of its duration. In a little while our family will be minus one, but when we drive around no one will know, because the little cartoon graphic which will be on our car window will never change.
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- Kim HowellFebruary 1, 2012 at 8:56 AM
My heart is breaking for you and your family. A silky also won our hearts over 6 years ago. Keeping you and your family in my thoughts and prayers. Isabella's mom.ReplyDelete
Hugs, fairy dust, prayers. My two yorks send puppy prayers as well. Lovely piece Jennifer. Carol who rarely is at a lack for over abundance of words, is coming up short this AM. I am so sorry, so very, very sorry.ReplyDelete
All of us who love dogs can so identify with you at this sad time. I am so sorry you are going through this.ReplyDelete
Such a sweet girl. I am so very sorry she is so sick, and I am so sorry your family is going through this.ReplyDelete
- Lori & Yoda DunstanFebruary 1, 2012 at 11:35 AM
As I sit here writing this I have the biggest tears running down my face. I only wish I had words of comfort for your family. Always remember that Sarah had the most beautiful life any baby could EVER ask for. She will take your love with her and hold onto it forever. Keep ahold of her tight everyday and every moment. kiss her all over and then kiss her more. Attach her to your hip if need be, give her the most love as humanly possible for the time you have left. That will make Sarah the happiest. My thoughts are with you and your family.ReplyDelete
We are not promised tomorrow so it is vitale that we enjoy and take full advantage of today. It sounds like you have. I am so sorry that your little Sarah is dying. It is very painful to lose a pet. My heart and prayers go out to you.ReplyDelete
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Thank you to each one of you for your thoughtfulness and prayers for our girl Sarah, and for us. I hope you don't mind me writing just one response. We are emotionally spent from our day at the hospital with Sarah, but I do want to thank you, and update you on our girl. We were able to have a slightly longer visit with her today. Sarah still has her I.V., but the chemotherapy seems to have helped a little. Sarah was able to ingest some water today. Unfortunately she still is not taking any food, but we are hopeful that will change as she gets a little stronger. I cannot adequately express my gratitude to you, and I wish many blessings will come to each of in you own lives. Thank you.
I have just finished reading your post and I know what you are going through. This post sent me back to the loss of our beloved little dog. I wish I could write just the right words of comfort but cannot except to say I know and understand what you are going through. "Just a dog" doesn't work for me. Our sweet dogs are family and when they hurt - we hurt. I send you my best wishes. LindaReplyDelete
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It's 4:30 am here, and I just called the hospital to see how Sarah did overnight. Thankfully she ate a little bit of food, and they said she has been barking at some of the other dogs she hears in the building. I am very glad to hear this. She is sounding a little more like herself. Later this morning we will be going to visit her, and hopefully the doctor will tell us Sarah can come home tomorrow.
I'm so sad for all of you. Our pets are part of our lives and give us so much love. Sarah is in no way just a graphic...she is a loved member of your family. Thinking of you and hoping that the vets can improve her quality of life for her sake and yours. Poor Ulee will be feeling the sadness so much too. We were devastated when our old girl (cat) died while we were overseas a few years ago so I know how you feel.ReplyDelete
As a dog lover who has been through this sad time more often than I want to remember, my heart breaks for you. As much as we hate going through it though, we always end up with another dog, knowing we will go through it again. Having pets just comes with that price. The joy they bring to our lives is worth it, no doubt.ReplyDelete
Hello Everyone,ReplyDelete
Thank you for your support; it is really appreciated. I apologize for not updating you when we returned home last night, but I could not because I was in a full blown rage over the unfairness of our little Sarah having terminal cancer. It makes me furious that a five year old sweet little dog, who weighs less than 10 pounds, and who exists only to bring joy into the lives of everyone she meets, is dying of such an awful disease.
Anger aside, I want to let you know that our sweet girl is scheduled to come home today, depending on the results of the second round of chemotherapy, and the final go ahead from the oncologist. I called the hospital this morning at 1 a.m., and was told that following the chemo treatment last night, Sarah ate a little food, and wanted to walk, even though she still has an i.v. in her right paw. This morning I called again at 7 a.m. and learned that Sarah went for two little walks, and ate some more food as well. She is an extraordinary girl.
Sarah is coming home to an extended family who adore her, and who will treat her like a queen for every moment she has left on this earth.
My husband and I want to thank each one of you from the bottom of our hearts for your positive energy. We wish for each one of you many many blessings.
How is Sarah doing? I think and pray for her every day....ReplyDelete
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By the time Edmund Wilson died in the early 70s, the increasing self-consciousness of academic criticism had rendered his critical style, impressionistic judgments rendered ex cathedra, obsolete. Wilson was a belletristic don, and like a don's, his tone at once conveyed and confirmed an uncontestable authority: "The period of the American Civil War was not one in which belles letters flourished," he announces in the opening paragraph of Patriotic Gore. Learned, stylish, and accessible, Wilson's criticism represented the high-water mark of literary criticism for a lay audience, though today it rings quaint, even a little campy; it smells like sweaty wool, pipe smoke, and scotch. Disturbed by the fact that no godfather has risen to take Wilson's place, contemporary critics like James Wood, predictably enough, blame academic criticism for the current state of affairs. "Theory" is the epithet they use to refer to a rot that they believe has beset a proud tradition of public literary criticism.
The rise of "theory," Wood has noted, turned criticism away from its original mission of assessing literary value. Thus diverted, criticism has become irrelevant to the reading public. "[L]iterary criticism as a discourse available for, and even attractive to, the common reader has all but disappeared," Wood wrote recently in the London Review of Books. Wood attributes the disappearance to the shift in academic criticism away from questions of value and intent; the more infected the academy became with French philosophy, the more criticism metastasized into something meta-aesthetic, deconstructed, self-conscious, psychoanalyzed, and historicized, the less capable it was of addressing the concerns of ordinary readers. Once, Wood seems to imagine, readers turned to critics for judgment and guidance. The critic loomed as a presence behind a reader's chair, nodding as the reader saw in the book in his lap the evidence of the critic's sound judgment. This was Eden. Sitting beneath the leaves of the little magazines in a state of innocence, critics read and judged, basking in the grace of God. Then one day, Satan wriggled in through the fence and tempted them with the deadly apple of theory.
No one will dispute the fact that public critics no longer form the vanguard of literary criticism. However, this situation does not, as Wood thinks, constitute a failing on the part of Anglo-American literary culture. It is a result both of changes in professional literary studies and of the institutionalization of literary production in the university. Academics today are more open to contemporary writing than they were in Wilson's time. Scholars in the first half of the 20th century were reluctant to expand the boundaries of their discipline beyond the received canon, which included no twentieth century writers and was only reluctantly beginning to admit American writers like Emerson. They ignored the contemporary avant-garde, directing their efforts instead toward explaining and evaluating, say, Milton. Scholarly stuffiness left an unmet need for competent readers of contemporary writers, and critics like Wilson achieved their stature by filling that need. In addition to becoming more sympathetic with the projects of working writers, universities have become instrumental in providing them with material support—always hard to come by but made especially scarce by the legacy of Cold War anti-intellectualism. The coziness of writers and academia, as well as the prominence of critical theory as an intellectual discourse, has helped writers become as critically sophisticated as their critics. Wood, who dismisses writing of a postmodern turn as "hysterical realism," believes that writers' engagement with critical theory has resulted in the production of books full of ideas but devoid of characters. But his dismissal of "hyperrealism"—as he terms the novels of Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace, Zadie Smith, et al — is mere anti-intellectualism. Ideas have always mattered to novels, and to hope writers have some privileged view of the world that is utterly uncontaminated by curiosity or by acquaintance with non-literary forms of writing is unrealistic: it is nostalgia for a mythic time when writers humbly channeled the Muse and left it to critics to interpret their work.
While Wood thinks recent intellectual history has meant disaster for public criticism, it has, in fact, left us with a more precise, less grandiose style of book reviewing. Mindful of Pope's advice to critics ("Launch not beyond your depth, but be discreet,/And mark that point where sense and dullness meet."), this style makes more claims about books and fewer about literature. Few practicing book reviewers today would claim that their task is to evaluate new books for admission to a canon, especially when hundreds of merely creditable books are reviewed in a given month, and when in a year maybe one really good book, one that people will be reading in ten years, is published. How ridiculous would it be if a reviewer who gets stuck with the latest Joyce Carol Oates compared it to Melville? Good reviews never mask the fact that they are mere registers of the reviewer's experience reading the book. The review is a matter of taste above all, and the reader will find those opinions that belong most conspicuously to a person to be the most helpful. I say this, of course, not to make any metaphysical claim about aesthetics, not to declare lamely that taste is subjective and that's it. Rather, I say this in order to leave the question conspicuously alone, not out of intellectual laziness but as a way to reserve a space for a mode of reviewing that celebrates the pleasure of reading. Such a mode is more properly called literary journalism than literary criticism, for journalism captures the immediacy and specificity of events as they happen. In a book review the event in question is the reviewer's reaction, all that he can praise and blame in a given book.
Wood, of course, imagines his mission as something grander than mere literary journalism. He wants to shape the direction of literature by consolidating and increasing whatever influence on literary production he wields as a critic. In his struggle to make criticism matter again, to reanimate the bones of T.S. Eliot and Edmund Wilson, Wood treats reviews as acts of self-assertion; a Wood review has an unmistakable scent. The results of Wood's superman criticism are mixed. Like an autocrat who bends his own rules for expediency's sake, Wood often neglects to follow his own critical formula, that value follows intention and instead uses reviews as pretexts for illustrating his critical principles. The result leaves the reader feeling ripped off, as if the piece, partly about whatever poor author happens to be under Wood's scalpel and half about Wood himself, has defaulted on its promise as a review. The work reviewed becomes a specimen dissected to illustrate a type.
Wood's tendency to stray from the text weakens his criticism. Despite the unforgiving anonymity of any lab, a specimen still possesses a stubborn specificity. So too with books. Wood panned Terry Eagleton's After Theory, largely, it seems, because of hostility to Eagleton's enterprise. Instead of asking what Eagleton intended to do and how well he did it, Wood dismisses the whole project as ill conceived from the start. Eagleton has no pretension to being a stylist, yet like a bully mashing a chunk of asphalt into a snowball, Wood's review sneaks a critical vocabulary meant for novels into criticism of a theoretical work: "[B]y any higher literary standard, he falls too often into a crowd pleasing intellectual vivacity of style, a laddish, overly journalistic surplus. It is a style in which the truth cannot be told." What? Driven by suspicion of critical theory, Wood moves with amazing quickness from trashing Eagleton's style to attacking his good faith. Does Wood mean that Eagleton's style is an unfortunate choice, a medium that garbles his meaning, or does he mean that Eagleton has chosen the style in order to obfuscate deliberately? Wood even psychologizes: "Eagleton dislikes [postmodernism], because, as a lapsed Catholic and an unlapsed Marxist, he believes in truth, foundations, and totalities."
Whatever my reservations about Wood's criticism, however rude my desire to call him pompous, precious, or fussy, he is famous. So what is the secret of his success? How is it that Wood is hailed as the savior of literary criticism and a redeemer of public intellectual life? Did Jesus intervene, a little embarrassed at being hero to creation scientists and mall-church pietists, relieved that he finally had a champion at the New Republic and one who writes thoughtful meditations on belief in the modern world at that? Or did Wood do it alone? His fame, admittedly well deserved, is very much self-cultivated. Part of the agenda he's promoting, to make novels matter again, involves restoring to critics the power to declare which books are important. Wood longs for the authority of an Edmund Wilson or a Clement Greenberg, who, like those Modernists with unmistakable styles whose careers they helped launch, developed signature personas. Wood's aesthetic isn't necessarily modernist—he most likes authors who promise "to return fiction to its nineteenth-century gravity"—but his critical ethos is. He wants to be remembered as a critic who shaped the direction of literature through asserting superior taste.
Wood's use of the word "gravity" to praise nineteenth-century fiction reveals that he suffers from the misfortune of being born at the wrong time. He should have lived in the 20s, when critics mattered and people still struggled with the question of belief. For at least the last 15 years, "decentered" has been the buzzword describing the contemporary situation. The concepts that it signifies have been central to the ideas—oh, that pernicious "theory"—used in interpreting much of postwar artistic production. Gravity, of course, implies a center, a force producing stability and coherence. I'm sure Wood's word choice was not intended to imply the contrast between his aesthetic and postmodern concerns, but in any case, his desire that today's fiction share nineteenth-century characteristics, like realism or a concern for questions of belief, is almost as absurd as hoping today's fiction show deep anxieties about the findings of Darwin. Wood has forgotten that the primary job of any literary journalist is simply to keep an open mind (the editor of any high school lit mag could tell you that), and that the purpose of public criticism is not to shape the course of art but to elucidate and interpret individual works. Public literary criticism should be an a posteriori exercise, that is, it should look at what writers are producing, ask what they intended to do, and then, with humility and good faith, judge how well they've done it. Wood preaches this critical formula, but he lets a priori aesthetic notions get in the way of his adhering to it.
If he'd lived at the right time, maybe Wood could have been a minister, doling out sermons directing a congregation's eyes and hearts heavenward. Much has already been written about Wood's religiosity, and if I had to guess, I'd say the causes of this inky torrent are first, the novelty of witnessing a modern intellectual's personal religious struggle, and second, the impression Wood's quest conveys of high seriousness and otherworldly purpose.
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Please note that for whatever reason, I'm having trouble typing Greek letters, over on the BBS at least; the omega symbol in the rules I'm referring to is replaced with an O as a stopgap.
*Throughout the document, there are references to 'races' as opposed to 'empires' or 'species'; this is most likely an inheritance from the SFB Omega document Richard drew from for the background profiles. In keeping with the current preferred terms, this might need to be revised for later use.
*Similarly, the calendar dates should probably be modified in a later revision to follow the Valkenburg Chronology, as opposed to using SFB Y-dates.
*The empire descriptions have a number of ship entries that are, for the time being at least, somewhat superfluous; the Mæsron DN, CL, DD and OB; Trobrin DSN (which is listed as the DN in the file), CC, FF and SS; and Probr DN, CL (which does not as yet have an SFB SSD, though I would most definitely welcome one), FF and LB can be removed.
*I would recommend this addition to the FRA section, to go alongside the CLA entry; if only to add an already-published ship to the list of ships player might consider for playtest purposes:
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When the Orion raider
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arrived in the Aurora system in 2530, its crew might have expected to profit from the impending wave of expansion by the Federation. When fate brought the ship, along with the rest of the system, to Omega, they instead found an opportunity which would secure their place in history.
started its service a year later, and with its stealth systems and cloaking device soon proved how uniquely placed it was to act as the eyes and ears of the Republic. As the Navy built itself up at home, the
reached out into the Omega Octant, delivering vital information and technology to Aurora III on many occasions.
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can be represented using the Middle Years Raider Cruiser from the printed
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is equipped with a cloaking device, as well as photon torpedoes in its Y and Z option mounts. Prior to 2575, option mount A is equipped with a Phaser-1; this is replaced with a disruptor from 2575 onwards.
To experiment with the ship as it served after 2577, replace the lone port battery with a tachyon missile launcher and increase the Point Value of the ship to 113.
*The following should be added to the rules for quantum phasers:
(4OA1e) Resistance to Adjustments:
As a useful side-effect of the way in which quantum beams carpet the target area, the ability of an opponent to mitigate the opportunities for quantum phaser users to land hits upon their targets is significantly reduced. Subtract 2 from any adjustments which would otherwise affect the target unit under (4A); +1 or +2 become +0, while +3 is reduced to +1. Note this means that no shift greater than +1 is possible against this weapon. (Other non-Phaser-Q direct-fire weapons in the same volley do not benefit from this rule.)
and the example with the following:
(4OA3d) Step 4:
Roll one six-sided die. Use the result of this die roll and the range to Cross-Index on the Quantum Phaser Table for the type of quantum phaser you fired and determine whether the weapon has hit the target. Note rule (4OA1e) when determining potential adjustments under (4A) by various considerations including Evasive Maneuvering (2D4) by the target or by (5L2) Orion Stealth coatings. If the weapon hits, apply the listed damage points to the target facing.
A Probr heavy cruiser wants to fire two phaser-Q1s at the Auroran raider cruiser
Throne of Ozymondas
, which is currently under evasive maneuvers. It determines that the chosen phaser-Q1s are within arc and are not damaged. Two energy points are paid and the phaser-Q1s are fired. Count the range (let us say five hexes for this example). Comparing the range to die rolls of "2" and "1" would usually mean a total of seven (3+4) damage points would be scored on the target facing. As the
is under evasive maneuvering and has its natural stealth coating bonus, its normal adjustment to incoming fire is +3; however, the Phaser-Q1s ignore the first two points of adjustment, only suffering a +1 penalty. Thus, the die rolls are adjusted to "3" and "2"; resulting in a total of five (2+3) damage points against the target facing.
*The following should be added to the rules for radiation phasers:
(4OB1e) Improved Accuracy:
One 'built-in' aspect of radiation phaser fire is its relatively high degree of accuracy. When faced with an adjustment under (4A4), such as Evasive Maneuvering (2D4) or Orion Stealth coatings (5L2), each point of modification reduces the damage scored by the radiation phaser by .5 damage points.
In other words, a +1 shift reduces the damage scored by .5, a +2 shift reduces it by 1, and a +3 shift reduces by 1.5 damage points.)
and the example with the following:
(4OB3d) Step 4:
Consult the range as listed on Cross-Index on the Table for the type of radiation phaser you fired and apply the number of Damage Points noted. There is no need for a die roll. Round down any fractions caused through radiation phaser fire in a single volley. Note (4OB1e) when evaluating any adjustments under (4A).
Note: Phaser-Rs can, under some circumstances, do a half-point of damage. This is resolved by adding all of the fire in a given volley and rounding down to the next whole number. Any remaining half-points are lost immediately.
A Trobrin deep space dreadnought wants to fire five radiation phaser-1s at an Auroran armored cruiser, which is currently under evasive maneuvers. It determines that the chosen phaser-R1s are within arc and are not damaged. Five energy points are paid, one for each weapon, and the phaser-R1s are fired. Count the range (let us say five hexes for this example). Comparing the range to the relevant entry on the weapon chart results in 3.5 damage points scored per radiation phaser. The two levels of adjustment caused by the target's evasive maneuvering equals a reduction of each radiation phaser's result by one damage point, to 2.5 damage points apiece. This times five totals 12.5 damage points. However, as the remaining half-point is lost, only twelve damage points are scored against the target unit.
*The background introduction states that "This type of phaser is employed almost exclusively by the Mæsron Alliance." The opposite is true; wide-angle phasers are the most common type in the Omega Octant (and beyond, if one includes the Iridani Cluster).
and the example with the following:
(4OC3d) Step 4:
Roll one six-sided die. Use the result of this die roll and the range to Cross-Index on the Wide-Angle Phaser Table for the type of wide angle phaser you fired and determine the damage. The result is the number of Damage Points scored. This might be adjusted (4A) by various considerations including Evasive Maneuvering (2D4) by the target or by (5L2) Orion Stealth coatings.
An Iridani clipper wants to fire two wide-angle phaser-1s at a Trobrin heavy cruiser. It determines that the chosen phaser-W1s are within arc and not damaged. Two energy points are paid, one for each weapon, and the phaser-W1s are fired. Count the range (let us say three hexes for this example). Comparing the range to die rolls of "5" and "3" mean that a total of seven (4+3) damage points were scored on the target vessel.
*The weapon chart at the bottom of the page covering the Altered-Scale Photon Torpedo rules is of the Implosion Bolt; this might be replaced in a future revision with charts for light and/or heavy photons instead.
with the following:
Most Iridani starships are designed with the application of one or more modules in mind. (Indeed, the relevant ships cannot operate without all of these module slots filled.) The modular system is at the very core of the operation of Iridani Quests, since the variety of modules available allow an Iridani vessel to perform a wide range of tasks, in order to fulfill the terms of the Quest the commanding officer may be placed under.
For the time being, each modular Iridani ship in
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is assumed to have a common set of modules already attached to each ship of a certain class type. These modules are considered part of the ship for all purposes.
Should the desire arise for more detailed rules concerning the application of specific modules to a given Iridani ship, these options may be presented in a future product.
As a point of clarification, the playtest Galleon-B is considered to be equipped with a VIP and Weapons module; these are noted on the Ship Card, but for now are only of note for those wishing to compare the ship to its
*The Trobrin CA Ship Cards (both standard and low toner versions) have an arming track for only one of their implosion bolts; a second track should be added to cover mount B.
*The following note should be added to the playtest Probr Ship Cards:
The lower turn mode in the right-hand column is used when all of the L Warp and R Warp engine boxes are disabled on the ship; the turn mode returns to the higher value once at least one L or R warp engine box (in either wing) is restored.
I've probably missed a host of other things, but that's what I've got for the time being.
For those unfamiliar with the octant, there are other pre-existing ships you could try out alongside (or against) the eight new ships, for playtest purposes. There were a handful of Klingon ships (a D7, D6, F5C and F5, as well as a frigate of unspecified class which was lost in battle against the Vulpa) brought over with the Kraknora colony in 2571; a Lyran CL which found itself in FRA territory in 2573; as well as the aforementioned
Also, the Andromedans are fair game...
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I didn't play much, but I like the FRA - CLA already...
torps, light torps + armour...
That feels like a good time to be had..
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Personally, I like the idea of using the new Fed OCA miniature as a stand-in for the CLA, but that's just me.
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What existing FC Fed ships would be in play for the FRA?
Middle Years CL?
Middle Years Police Cutter?
Anything else?
I assume the aforementioned Klingon ships and Lyran CL would be the main setting versions since they came over in 2571 and 2573.
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The Fed CL and POL (of either Alpha era) aren't quite close enough to their Auroran counterparts to match.
Similarly, the Aurorans don't have (and didn't build) any OCAs; the CLA and BC took things along a different path.
So far as the Klingon and Lyran ships go, it hasn't been specified yet what configurations they were in at the point of transference. For now, using the main era ships would be a start, though bear in mind that the Klingons would be pretty short of drones by this time.
Right now, there's not a lot of hard data on what other ships were brought over, be they civilian or military; though that could be an interesting topic for a background article one day...
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Gary, I would have space in CL42 for two FRA ship cards if you can get Richard to do them.
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Hi Steve, it's funny you mentioned this. Before I could do the FRA CLA ship card, I had to first do the art for the CL. So I actually have that on file and the turn around wouldn't be too intense.
So, the following questions remain:
1. What would you or Gary want to see for the second ship? Possibly a POL? Would you need both Squadron and Fleet scale?
2. How much time do I have to get the work done? When do you need the files by for CL#42?
3. How do you need the files? What file format?
4. Do you need counters to go along with the ships?
Sadly (and embarrassingly) I have yet to purchase a Captain's Log, as my funds - when I have them - go to your core games (and, of course, bills) and not the monthly mags. So my final question is: what do the ship cards look like when they go into the CL's? Is my previous format (along with accompanying text) suitable, or are the size requirements different? If you have a spec sheet, sending it would be very helpful.
Thanks, Steve. Feel free to either reply here or email me.
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If they were intended to match the other playtest ships, we might only need Squadron Scale for the time being... which would mean both ships could go side-by-side on the one page, if that helps leave space for something else.
I guess the CL and FF wouldn't be a bad start; they are both fairly straightforward in terms of rules, help flesh out the early Auroran fleet, and allow for the use of the CL and POL minis.
I just noticed something else;
*On the Mæsron Alliance CA and DD Ship Cards (both standard and low toner versions), the entries for standard tachyon missiles say they are explosion 12. This is incorrect; as stated in the rules on page 12, they should be explosion 8.
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*I made a mistake with the Probr turn mode note I posted earlier in the thread; to keep it in line with
, it should be more like this:
The lower turn mode in the right-hand column is used when all of the L Warp OR all of the R Warp engine boxes are disabled on the ship; the turn mode returns to the higher value once at least one L AND one R warp engine box (in both wings) is restored.
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A few other quick notes; I'll tidy them up by the time a revised file is on the cards.
*As Terry noted in the other thread, the TM rules say the standard missile is explosion-8, but the cards say exp-12; the cards are wrong, it should be 8.
*As Richard Eitzen pointed out by referring to the
originals, the detonation of implosion torpedoes at range 1 means that when attempting any defensive fire against an impacting torpedo, one must assume a range of 2, rather than 1.
*Barry Kirk came up with a few notes on missile composition; I tweaked his alternate missile proposals to come up with these:
Middle years missile.
Explosion: 12
Armor: 10
Speed: 24
BPV Adjustment: 1
Transition years missile.
Explosion: 16
Armor: 12
Speed: 32
BPV Adjustment: 3
Late years missile.
Explosion: 20
Armor: 14
Speed: 32
BPV Adjustment: 5
Do these look better than the ones we currently have? If so, they could go into the file revision. If not, what would you prefer instead?
, an enemy is able to launch hit-and-run raids against destroyed TM racks, in order to potentially get rid of any missiles which haven't either been launched or destroyed already.
Should a similar rule be included in
, to allow hit-and-run raids against surviving missiles in disabled racks?
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A little more errata:
*The rules for Target Illuminators (5OA) mistakenly note that the system has a 2-impulse delay; this was a hangup from the
rules that is not required in
(and was excised in later rule revisions). Similarly, the Ship Card for the Galleon-B includes Impulse Used tracks for the vessel's TIs, which are not necessary.
Therefore, delete "and may not be used within 2 Impulses of a previous activation" from the rule, and delete (or ignore) the Impulse Used tracks for that particular system.
(In contrast, the 4-impulse delay for focused energy beam operation is important to retain, as are the impulse used tracks for FEBs.)
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Did you try looking for the Cataclysm Holy Paladin Guide?
I'm coming back off of about a 5 - 6 month break. I was always a tank with OS heals and did alright but some things have changed and I may be needed to heal for the guilds second 10 man.
Basically, I just need a quick rundown on what stat importance order is, what spells are the new hotness and maybe some quick tips.
My group that I would be healing for isn't into FL content yet but that is the purpose of this group, to help gear and allow members who still need tokens to get them. All of the earlier Cata content has been cleared by the guild so we will have access to info and assistance if needed. I just hate trying to get all this info via chat and the pool of knowledge is much deeper lol.
Thanks in advance to anyone that can help!
Did you try looking for the Cataclysm Holy Paladin Guide?
Sorry no, I was deep into tanking research when I thought to post this..... such a noob lol. I'll check that out now thanks.
That was 100% what I was looking for, thanks again!
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The Holy Pally guide in the healing forums isn't up to date for 4.2. Not *that* much changed, I would still suggest reading through the guide as it's well written and informative, but here's some other stuff to consider:
- Holy Light now transfers 100% of its healing through Beacon. Meaning, there is little to no reason to ever cast Holy Light on your Beacon target, and it's a much more effective way to top off the raid in periods of lower damage.
- 200% healing crits and stacking Mastery shields are new to 4.2 as well, and as a result Crit and Mastery have jumped up in importance. There's a huge debate over whether to stack Haste or Mastery (and in my opinion, Haste is the way to go for the majority of raiding Holy Paladins), but it's clear that our secondary stats are much more similar in value than they were before. I usually just take whatever piece of gear grants me the highest Intellect and reforge it to Spirit or Haste, to be honest.
- Word of Glory is 30% stronger, and so you'll usually want to use it over Light of Dawn for 3 or fewer targets. Also note that the Last Word talent is absurdly good with big crits and a bigger WoG, so you'll want 2/2 in there now if you didn't previously.
- Our cast time heals (Divine Light, Holy Light, and Flash of Light) had their mana costs increased, and Holy Shock had its mana cost decreased, so Holy Shock is our most efficient heal by an even wider margin.
edit: Just looked at armory (forgot to earlier!). You're saved in tank gear, but your spec is kinda funky. One point in Enlightened Judgements will hitcap you for melee attacks (Judgement misses return no mana) on top of a little self-heal that trickles through Beacon, and Eternal Glory is typically a much better source of Holy Power than Blessed Life. I also prefer Glyph of Divinity over the Cleansing one, because there's so little to dispel in raids and it's nice to have what amounts to an extra mana pot.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/characte...talent/primary is what I use, not saying it's the only viable spec in the world but I think it works better.
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I have read the Holy Pally healing guide, but I am currently deployed so I am not able to keep up to date on the new patches. I wanted to be able to get a "warm and fuzzy" before I redeploy, so I was wondering if there are any other changes that I should be aware of? Thanks.
Fantastic! Thank you for the great feedback. I got pulled to tanking for the moment but that's alright since it's my main spec and it allows me the time to continue fixing my healing setup. I will have to make some changes right quick and in a hurry.


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Kylo eliminates typical browser clutter, and provides fairly simple navigation using any HID (Human Interface Devices) devices such as Hillcrest's own Loop Pointer or Gyration remote.
For all those users of Windows Media Center and other home theater PCs (HTPC), there's a browser for that.
Hillcrest Labs has developed a Web browser for the TV, optimized for couch-side use.
The new Kylo browser lets users navigate the Web through a virtual keyboard and pan-and-zoom controls, easily accessible via any USB Human Interface Device (HID) such as the Gyration Air Remote, GlideTV, Logitech diNovo Mini and Hillcrest's own Loop Pointer and mouse.
For all of the TV-browsing services such as Hulu and Boxee, it's surprising that a TV-friendly browser for plain-old-Websites (POW) has taken so long to come to market (although Crestron does have a worthy solution for its ADMS media server).
The application is free, and presumably Kylo will monetize the service through advertising. Its own ad appears on the home page of the application.
A quick stroll through Kylo proves it's as easy as the company's press release suggests.
The home page shows icons of some of the popular streaming sites such as YouTube, Netflix, Pandora and Facebook.
Clicking on any of these takes you to the respective POW, just as you would see on a PC. But click on a text box – for example, to Tweet on Twitter – and the text section magically expands. No more squinting.
You can easily add sites to a "Favorites" list. Unfortunately, those favorites don't appear on Kylo's home page.
The home page itself is not exactly HID-friendly. You would expect to be able to skip from tab to tab using the arrow buttons on virtually any HID device. No such luck with Kylo, so you definitely need a controller with a virtual mouse.
Also, it would be nice to be able to close any given screen using the "Esc" or "Back" button but again, you'll have to use your air mouse.
Even so, Kylo is a much-needed application for PC-connected TVs.
Hopefully, we'll see a Media Center plug-in soon, as well as an iPhone app—just pinch and flick an iPhone to pan and zoom on the big screen.
Pan and zoom using the on-screen buttons
Twitter ... as is
Twitter ... on Kylo. Click on the text box and the section expands.
Favorites are easy to add, but unfortunately they don't show up on the Kylo home page (below)
The home page takes you directly to the sites listed, not to any particularly TV-friendly sites.