USS Oakland

Impulse Drives and Jolly Rogers

A search for a missing starship puts to rest Oakland's notions that piracy died in the Age of Sail.

Mission Description

While operating on the outskirts of the Rolor Nebula, civilian research vessel RV Rain Runner goes missing under mysterious circumstances. With no closer ships available, Oakland takes the lead on searching for her… and is bound to uncover a plot involving ransom, a giant heap of latinum, and a ship full of greedy, bloodthirsty pirates.

About the Mission

Status
In Progress
Total Stories
3
Start Date
06/08/2024

6 October 2024

Should've Knocked On Wood

USS Oakland: Impulse Drives and Jolly Rogers

The silence continued unabated. It seemed like even their footsteps couldn’t break the oppressive nothingness, swallowed up within it like a single lightbulb in a pitch-black pit. Charlie MacColgan had been, before she was a first officer,  a security officer for plenty long enough to know [...]

23 August 2024

A Ghost in the Fog

USS Oakland: Impulse Drives and Jolly Rogers

Oakland lacked many things, but sensors were not one of them. Her part as a technical member of the Galaxy lineage definitely showed in how quickly those big sensor pallets picked up the odd little contact about sixty AU deep into the Rolor Nebula- not very far at all, considering its size. It [...]

8 August 2024

Rain Runner

USS Oakland: Impulse Drives and Jolly Rogers

She had to give Oakland this much credit- the XO’s quarters were fairly nice. The old utility cruiser might not be much to look at, less akin to a starship and more so a six-year-old’s arts and crafts project made out of a paper plate and a bunch of popsicle sticks, but at least she was [...]