News: General News

Incoming Hurricane

Hey Guys,

With the hurricane coming in on the south-east US everyone is battening down the hatches, even prompting the evacuation of recruits at Parris Island. If you are going to be affected by this hurricane and you have to go quiet for a little bit we will not remove…

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Thursday 6 October 2016 @ 03:00
Category: General News

New Job

Hey Guys,

I've gotten a new job that I've started training for. So, my replies to things are going to most likely just be at night (though I'll try in the afternoon too). This has been what I've been trying to do anyway, just reply in the evenings (early morning…

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Tuesday 4 October 2016 @ 23:01
Category: General News

FallFest 2016!!

In 2016 Obsidian Fleet will host the annual Ongoing Worlds online convention, FallFest!

Ongoing Worlds has teamed up with Obsidian Fleet to host this year’s festivities for the FallFest convention on Saturday 12 November 2016!

We believe that Obsidian Fleet will be a great host and we can provide the…

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Wednesday 28 September 2016 @ 19:01
Category: General News

Current Timeline

Hey All,

The timeline is getting kind of muddled :). So, here's the major events:

MD7-

Faced off with the Romulans and Vulcans
Sent Away Team to the asteroid and retrieved 3 sleepers
Crew returned to the ship

MD8-

1- Sleepers are in sickbay
2- Debrief has been called (interrupted…

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Wednesday 21 September 2016 @ 04:16
Category: General News

Promotions and a Milestone

Hey Guys,

So, as we've progressed we are now getting to where promotions are starting :D. I just want to make a note for promotions, until they happen in character [are logged with one of the command team] they are only official OOC unless we tell you otherwise, sometimes the…

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Wednesday 21 September 2016 @ 00:27
Category: General News

Obsidian Fleet Forums

Hey All,

Something I just want to put this out there. While we have entered a passive recruitment mode, we are still accepting applications but are not actively saturating the community with adverts, I do keep an advert on the Obsidian Fleet Forums to keep our name out there. Something…

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Sunday 18 September 2016 @ 19:34
Category: General News

New Uniforms

Hey Guys,

The command team discussed updating the current uniforms, it seemed to be about when the newer uniforms seem to enter service (2390's-2400's). So, we decided on the STO Odyessey uniform. Along with that, just to kind of give us our own "brand," I've added the Star Trek Renegades…

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Saturday 17 September 2016 @ 05:47
Category: General News

NPC's

Hey Guys,

So, as we grow I know we're going to be getting more NPC's, which is great :D. As you start thinking about NPC's, though, there a few things we need to keep in mind:

First, if you put up an NPC please, please do not leave their bio…

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Saturday 10 September 2016 @ 18:59
Category: General News

Mission Notes

Hey Guys,

One more thing, the mission notes have been updated. Give them a look and let us know if you have any questions :)


Andrew

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Saturday 10 September 2016 @ 01:15
Category: General News

Last Week

Hey Guys,

As I'm sure a couple of you guys noticed I was a bit inconsistent last week with my activity. I was down sick, though I tried to at least keep up with my tags, though a bit slow. I'm back now, though.

I want to take a minute,…

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Saturday 10 September 2016 @ 00:52
Category: General News

Growing Again :-)

Author: Captain Melody Jones
Posted on: Wednesday 7 September 2016 @ 01:17
Category: General News

Growing, Growing

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Tuesday 30 August 2016 @ 07:26
Category: General News

My Lagginess

Hey Guys,

I want to apologize for my slowness on the logs the last few days. Long story short I had a major disappointment that kind of threw me off my game for a minute, but I'm squared away again again :). I'll get caught up on everything I haven't…

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Monday 22 August 2016 @ 18:27
Category: General News

Excitement!

Hey All,

The command team and I have been discussing a few things to add to the sim both OOC and IC. OOC we have a promotions guidelines chart:

http://uss-merlin.com/index.php/wiki/view/page/15


This chart is meant to let you guys know what we look for when we do consider promotions as well…

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Sunday 14 August 2016 @ 23:33
Category: General News

New Pilot

Hey Guys,

Please join me in welcoming our newest fighter pilot Marine Warrant Officer Farida Alleen who will be in the Longwings squadron of Dragon Air Group! Welcome Aboard!


Andrew

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Wednesday 10 August 2016 @ 19:50
Category: General News

Captains Personal Merit

Well done everyone. My first award since joining, and from what I have read so far, a well deserved award, I'm happy to be part of such a noteworthy crew.

Author: Lieutenant Commander David Tan
Posted on: Tuesday 2 August 2016 @ 23:19
Category: General News

Continuity

Hey All,

You guys have been doing awesome :D. There is something I would like to address though, continuity. I have a number of posts coming in that are either late night or over night during the current mission day. That would be ok except that we're no farther than…

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Monday 1 August 2016 @ 20:02
Category: General News

Live Chat

Hey Guys,

I've been trying not to send as many news mails, lol, but I wanted to mention this. We have a live chat set up, like OF's, on discord. Some of you may have noticed the widget, but, if not just look directly under the Facebook plug in. All…

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Saturday 30 July 2016 @ 21:55
Category: General News

Obsidian Fleet Chat

Hey Al,

Just wanted to pass this along :D:

Have you heard of Discord? While it is one trait that has kept many a captain and ship’s counselor awake at night, this sort of Discord will do the same in all the best possible ways! Stop by at https://discord.gg/86ENTZ5…

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Monday 25 July 2016 @ 00:30
Category: General News

Challenge

Hey Guys,

In looking at the saved logs we are going to hit over 70 quality logs this month! So, I'd like to issue a challenge to you guys. My report is due on 31 July by 1159 pm UTC (659 pm US EST, 559 PM CST, 359 PM PST).…

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Sunday 24 July 2016 @ 21:32
Category: General News

We Grow Again!

Hey All,

As the subject says we have grown again :D. Please join me in welcoming Lieutenant Saveena (Sav) Tillatix, coming to us from Triton Seabase, who will be taking over as the CAG, or Commander Air Group. Welcome to Merlin, Lieutenant!



Andrew

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Friday 22 July 2016 @ 01:46
Category: General News

Saved Joint Posts

Hey Guys,

Over the last couple of weeks I've noticed that saved joint posts are getting resaved upwards of 5/6 times, but, there's either no additions or it's just a word or 2 changed. I just assume that it's everyone checking for additional posts. There's a little trick to do…

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Thursday 21 July 2016 @ 17:20
Category: General News

Chief Science Officer

Greets,

Please join me in welcoming Lieutenant jg Zitla who will be taking up Chief Science Officer! Welcome to the madness!


Andrew

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Wednesday 20 July 2016 @ 21:44
Category: General News

Second Officer

Hey All,

I know, lots of news items, but we have a lot going on ;D. We've been growing pretty steadily the last month or so, so, I talked with Cale and we decided the has gotten big enough to have a Second Officer position. We're happy to announce that…

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Sunday 17 July 2016 @ 23:41
Category: General News

New Position in the Task Group

Hey Guys,

This doesn't affect the sim itself very much, however, I wanted to share anyway :). I have been officially appointed as the Task Group Senior Ship Commanding Officer (pretty much the Task Group XO), which means a little more paperwork for me hehe. I'm excited about it and…

Author: Captain John "Apollo" Barstow, M.D.
Posted on: Sunday 17 July 2016 @ 02:56
Category: General News