Editing Newsletter/January 2006 (section)

== Top 10 Questions ==

''Top Questions for a member to answer''
Top Ten
Ten things you never knew about...

=== Why did you join? ===
* I have dreamed for years of being able to play a Horta. Right now my character [[Maraht the Horta]] is assigned and aboard the USS Mystique and has now met the Commanding Officer. I really am enjoying the Forums and I'm learning how to work with Wikipedia to contribute some articles. What do I love the most about this game? No annoying stats and dice rolls, but you get to fill in the blanks as a PC as you contribute with your small part to the overall story. Too cool! -[[herbalsheila]]

* No idea, thought it would be fun.... guess I was right too :-D -- Anthony S.

* I was looking around for Star Trek RPG's after looking at Frontier Fleet, which rejected me, and I really liked the look of this one. -- Spencer O.

* I was writing some crappy Star Trek fan fiction and I needed deck plans. I googled "Star Trek Deck Plans" and STF's page about the deck layout of the USS Nimitz was at the top of the list (or near the top). I quickly liked the look of the game. I figured that writing stories/fiction would be more fun with other people, so I deleted my horrible story and joined up! -- [[User:KevinSchram|Kevin S.]]

* As someone who has always been into Star Trek, I just thought this would be a great way of exercising my imagination & meeting likeminded individuals with the hope of forging a few new friendships along the way. It seems to have worked well :-) -- Alan Reading.

* Well, to be really honest. It was by pure chance that I stumbled across such a great game! I think I also was searching for something to do with Star Trek on Google and this popped up! -- [[Jono Bradley]]

* I was looking around the internet for some place to make your own Star Trek character and Freedom came up. I joined and its been fun ever since. -- [[User:Peluche|Will Banowsky]]

=== How long have you been playing? ===

*Heh, I think for about a year, can't remember exactly... -- Anthony S.

*Has of Feb. 2006, I've been playing for 11 months. My sign up date is March 4th 2005, so a year is coming around soon. Its been an absolute blast. If you had told me that after playing this for a year, I would have, commanded a space station for about 2 week and a half, gotten a medal, had 4 different characters across 3 different stations (including the Academy) and taught at the Academy I would of never believed you. -- Kevin S.

* Since May 2004. -- Spencer O.

* The first time I joined was in April 2004. I remained in the game until December 2004 when I had to leave because of RL problems. I rejoined in July 2005 and have been playing ever since.  --Esther C.

* August 2004 onwards.... Alan Reading.

* I joined the Academy sometime in February of 2005, I've been playing since then. -- [[User:Peluche|Will Banowsky]]

* I joined the FGN (before Freedom started) in 1998, left due to RL issues, came back, came out of the FGN with Freedom, left for more RL issues and now I'm back again :-) -- [[User:Rivers|Liz Geuken]]

=== Where have you played? ===

* I have done role playing games around a table with dice and stats of various typed on and off for some years, but they didn't hold my interest for long. [[Naraht the Horta]] my character is the most fun I have ever had since I don't get bogged down with game mechanics, and is currently serving as ACSO aboard the USS Mystique. -[[herbalsheila]]

* At home...... but if you mean ships, then it has to be USS Nimitz, USS Mystique, and right now with the sodhopper along the USS Paladin. -- Anthony S.

* Ships: I started at Starbase Geneva, and now I'm on the USS Paladin. -- Spencer O.

*The first time I joined I started at Starbase Geneva, then was transferred to the USS Paladin. Second time I joined, I started at Starbase Geneva again and now I am currently on the USS Boudicca. --Esther C.

* My PC is currently on the [[USS Champlain]], i also have an SPC on the [[USS Nimitz]], [[USS Boudicca]], [[USS Mystique]]], [[USS Paladin]] and [[USS Dennison]] also... -- [[Jono Bradley]]

* My PC started on the Cochrane but found is way to the Mystique where the Spectre crew was at the time and then onto the Spectre.  Now though my PC has been posted on the Dennison.  I have had an SPC on Geneva and the Boudicca but I didn't use him much, sadly. -- [[User:Peluche|Will Banowsky]]

* My PC, [[Edward Wolfe]] is currently on the [[USS Nimitz]]. I have SPCs on the Nimitz, [[USS Boudicca]], and [[USS Dennison]]. I was FO of [[Starbase Geneva]] when it briefly relauched and have had a character on the [[USS Spectre]]. I also have an instructor in the Academy as well as play the Academy CO and FO. I started with [[Paul Casely]] as my PC on the Nimitz. -- [[User:JPB|JPB]] 15:59, 20 May 2006 (EDT)

* My PC, [[Susan Rivers]] is currently TAC/ASC on the [[USS Boudicca]]. I have SPCs on the [[USS Nimitz]] ([[Francesca dela Rosa]]), on the [[USS Mystique]] (ACOUNS Ens [[Regan Alessi]]) and on the [[USS Paladin]] (COUNS Lt(jg) [[Ayesha Kotal]]). Previously I have commanded both the Boudicca and the Nimitz, and was the FO of the [[USS Spectre]] and the [[USS Athene]]. I played [[Louise Palmer]], a Scientist on the USS Nimitz married to Captain [[Aragorn]]. I also had an SPC (civillian scientist [[T'len]]) on the former [[Cochrane Research Facility]]. -- [[User:Rivers|Liz Geuken]]

=== Favourite character ===

* Jason and Cassandra Dema -- Anthony S.

* My PC, Joran Matthew Brownlee. -- Spencer O.

*I kinda like my new SPC Yelena Vasilyovna cos she`s a cute Russian, but all my characters have a special place in my heart.. :-)

* My PC Will Banowsky, because he is just fun to write. -- [[User:Peluche|Will Banowsky]]

* That's tough... of the two PCs I've had, it would have to be Wolfe. He's similar to Casely, but has a harder edge which makes him appealing. Casely was always too much of a nice guy. Of my SPCs, I'd have to say Jewort Trewe. He's a miserable old codger, but its mostly an act. -- [[User:JPB|JPB]] 16:04, 20 May 2006 (EDT)

* My PC, [[Susan Rivers]]. We've been through a lot together over the years! -- [[User:Rivers|Liz Geuken]]

=== Most Memorable Moment ===

* The time I got to play 3 bad marines, I'm a good evil person *grins* -- Anthony S.

* When I played a first officer on the USS Raven sub-mission. It was fun since John Armstrong (the FO character) was very different than my PC. It was good fun.. Then, I had to play a NPC character who had been taken over by the little bug things from that TNG episode where those little aliens try to take over the Federation. Then there is the time where my PC got knocked out by a [[Samantha Chandler|female security officer]]. Getting beat up by girls is fun. -- [[User:KevinSchram|Kevin S.]]

* When I got to play a bunch of reptilian aliens stuck on a strange ship adrift near the Federation border. -- Spencer O.

*I think the very long episode when my PC character was stuck in a jerfferies tube with a modified torpedo warhead/bomb & a hair trigger threatening to trip at the slightest move. What fun... Alan Reading.

* When my PC was name  the first officer of a ship...that was memorable. But other than that, I dunno, there was the time him and some of the Spectre crew had our bodies switched with some evil folks from the USS Phantom.  That was cool because I got to play as my character who was in a new body trying to figure things out, and also as the evil dude in my PC's body. -- [[User:Peluche|Will Banowsky]]

=== If you could change one thing… what would it be? ===

* Seeing some action in the storyline for Ensign [[Maraht the Horta]]. But good things come to those who wait!  -[[herbalsheila]]

* Possibly have Earth secede and get massive help from its defense systems. Now that would make for an interesting game. -- Spencer O.

* The fact that I can`t change one thing...  Alan Reading.

* I wouldn't change a thing. -- [[User:Peluche|Will Banowsky]]

=== Which is better is Starship or Starbase and why? ===

*Starship, but I haven't played on a station yet, but I think starship is more fun, cause you get to go to different places, while a station is stationary, and you just sit there at the same spot..... -- Anthony S.

*Starship - You can actually go places rather than hoping interesting things happen to you. -- Spencer O.

* Starship, purley because they have more interesting missions... -- [[Jono Bradley]]

* You guys are all fuddy duddies. We had loads of fun on Geneva, however, I must also say '''Starship''', but a station isn't that bad. -- [[User:KevinSchram|Schrammie]] <sub> [[User talk:KevinSchram|Talk to me here </sub>]]

* Well you can have fun on a starbase, Deep Space 9 did last for 7 seasons. But in the end I have to go with Starship, because it overs you more liberty in what you can do. Well unless you take out that Stations smaller assigned ships out.  But definetly starship.  Though if my PC was on a starbase, I would definetly say Starbase. -- [[User:Peluche|Will Banowsky]]

* Both have their charms. You can really develop characters and concentrate on a more progressive storyline on a Starbase. The action and adventure quotient climbs higher on a starship though. I like them both, but for different reasons. -- [[User:JPB|JPB]] 16:06, 20 May 2006 (EDT)

=== If your character could have one superpower, what would it be? ===

* My character Ensign [[Maraht the Horta]] already has a super power or two. He he he! -[[herbalsheila]]

* Telekinesis. Then he could control everything around him on some level or another. -- Spencer O.

* I'd kinda like the powers of the green lantern, that would rock. -- [[User:Peluche|Will Banowsky]]

=== Name one person in the game who has inspired you ===
* I would have to say the new player Sal whose character is [[Ammon Ranae]] the Bajora/Cardassian on the Mystique wrote a truly inspired introductory post that has helped to fire my imagination. My hat is off to you Sal! -[[herbalsheila]]

* My first CO, [[Vladek Rofellian]]. He beat all odds of prejudice to rise through the ranks, and finally become a captain, against all odds. -- Spencer O.

* Its hard to name one person. First person to comes to mind is [[User: Jeff B|Jeff]] who really helpped me when I was rookie. He really taught me a lot of stuff about how the game worked and of course gave me the shot at command, both when my PC was made Acting Third Officer and later in the Raven sub-mission when I was Jeff's FO. Then there is my instructor and first CO, Katherine Mazurok. Not only did she instruct me in the ways of posting, but she was my first CO. She was an excellent poster, and it was too bad when she had to leave the game for RL reasons.Anyway, I could go on and name another 10 people, but I think I've over written this little section anyway. -- [[User:KevinSchram|Kevin S.]]

*Calvin Capps, at a moment when I was thinking of giving up the game, Calvin was the guy that convinced me that I actually had something good to contribute, and for that I thank him. -- Alan Reading.

* Well too bad cos im gonna name 3! Theres [[User: Jeff B|Jeff]], Dave and Al. - [[Jono Bradley]]

* I definitely would have to say Al first was a big inspiration in the game for me. Jer was too, its nice to find someone as sarcastic as you are out there, but he definitely had a lot of helpful hints to pass along. -- [[User:JPB|JPB]] 15:11, 20 May 2006 (EDT)

* Adrie Geuken, who played my first CO, [[Captain Aragorn]]. I think I learned more from him than from any other one person. I met Adrie in the game, so I don't feel unduly biased in saying he was the person who inspired me most. I also learned a lot from Tony Keen, my instructor in the Academy and second CO. And I'm still learning :-) -- [[User:Rivers|Liz Geuken]]

* Adrie Geuken, who played my first CO. Not copying you Liz, honest! He was more than just a Commanding Officer, he was also and still is a very good friend. There were times when he went out of his way to help me both in game and out, and he certainly inspired me to be the best I could be within game. --Wendy Gibson

=== What do you think of the future of Freedom? ===

* As long as the our players and storytellers in charge have and continue to use thier imaginations to evolve stories and characters, the game and site will continue to grow. -[[herbalsheila]] 

* I think that Freedom will continue to grow and evolve, and that one day, the 52nd Fleet will triumph over the Federation, but not before they enlist the help of many extraterrestrial allies that may one day join the New Federation. -- Spencer O.

* I don't think that the civil war over plot will last forever. Hopefully the game won't change too much if/when we move to a peace-time game. -- [[User:KevinSchram|Schrammie]] <sub> [[User talk:KevinSchram|Talk to me here </sub>]]

* I think as long as Freedom has players willing to put time into the game it will grow and it will expand and be even better.  And Lord knows, I'll be here. -- [[User:Peluche|Will Banowsky]]