2025 THETA FLEET AWARDS

UNIT OF DISTINCTION

Task Force 23

            Gold: Deep Space 5

            Silver: USS Ark Royal & USS Meridian & USS Thunderbird & USS Eclipse & USS Artemis

            Bronze: USS Calypso & USS Unicorn

Area 51

            Gold: USS Tokyo & USS Missouri & USS Myogi

            Silver: USS Astrea & USS Valiant & USS Crazy Horse

            Bronze: USS Valkyrie & SS Ontario & USS Pioneer

WRITER OF THE MONTH

            Task Force 23: Deep Space 5: David

Deep Space 5: David, who plays our ACMO, a flight doctor, and a tailor. He's jumped into posts with his PC and NPCs, getting involved in various aspects of the current missions. He's finding ways to meet most of the crew and, with the current mission, making us all laugh with his characters' encounters with our animal escapees. 

            Area 51: Ontario: Kat & Valiant: Amy

Ontario: Kat, who plays both Xavier and Tox. The two characters have been pen pals for fifteen years, and now they're falling for each other on the ship. Both feel conflicted and keep going to others for advice. Watching the relationship develop has been a lot of fun, and the characters are well-written and engaging. Kat is an excellent writer who has brought most of the crew into this budding relationship, which has all of us cheering for them in and out of character.

Valiant: Lieutenant Amy Gordon. Posts that stand out, give a giggle and create a reference the writers will likely use in the future are fun. Even more so than mission posts, the small interactions with crew mates over something as silly as a suspect box of Twinkies sticks in your mind and bring that important humor to a SIM. I appreciate Gordon's writer's efforts in this regard.

PLAYER OF THE MONTH

            Task Force 23: Unicorn: Ieu

Unicorn: Ieu as Commander Saul Whitford for continuing to be one of the finest first officers in the fleet. I can’t do it alone, and I’m grateful every day to have him as my XO and resource to lean on. 

            Area 51: SB109: Chantal/Commander Paul Graves & Astrea: Shep

SB109: Chantal/Commander Paul Graves

Reason: Chantal has been an asset to the sim for thirteen years and has always been a very effective player, even while juggling sim life with real life and school life. She recently jumped a big hurdle with her studies by passing a very difficult test and we are all very proud of her! She is a hard-working and dedicated person, and that deserves to be celebrated!

Astrea: Shep/Jean-Baptiste Dorsainvil, He’s a consistent force in the sim, continuing to come up with new ideas for stories and is always willing to write with others who are looking to expand their own character. In addition to being a driving force behind keeping our sim active, he’s also been doing some behind the scenes work: keeping our mission timeline with relevant posts linked, and developing an archive for Astrea’s mission posts on our Wiki. 

POST OF THE MONTH

            Task Force 23: Ark Royal

Ark Royal: “A Message of Peace and Friendship” (https://arkroyal.harperhold.com/index.php/sim/viewpost/73)

            Area 51: Crazy Horse & Herodotus & Pioneer

Crazy Horse: "The Weight of Survival" by Ensign Kaelun Merak and Lieutenant Richard Pierce, M.D. (https://crazyhorse.harperhold.com/index.php/sim/viewpost/98

Herodotus: "Embers We Carry" - As I have said numerous times over the years the most interesting posts are the ones that show us the people behind the heroics. This is truer on a sim where the crew is constantly together with no contact with anyone as their mission is classified at the highest levels. This post shows us two people who simply are getting to know each other in what is their new normal. (https://herodotus.uss-pioneer.com/index.php/sim/viewpost/137)

Pioneer: "Silent No More Part I" This post had every writer on the sim. Some people writing multiple characters. It is a multi-faceted assault on an enemy. Usually, large posts like this can get confusing. However, this one flows so well it was hard to find a spot to split it. (https://uss-pioneer.com/index.php/sim/viewpost/1845)

TASK FORCE CO AWARD

            Task Force 23: USS Meridian

            Area 51: USS Valiant

 AWARD OF MERIT

Task Force 23

            23-A: Deep Space 5

            23-B: USS Thunderbird

            23-C: USS Resolution

Area 51

            51-A: USS Crazy Horse

            51-B: USS Valkyrie

            51-C: USS Astrea

            51-D: USS Tokyo

=∆= Third Quarter Fleet Awards =∆=

Task Force 23

Sim of the Quarter: USS Ark Royal

CO of the Quarter: T'mpest Michaels - Deep Space 5 

XO of the Quarter: Scarlet Blake - USS Fenrir

Writer of the Quarter: Chris - Deep Space 5

Player of the Quarter: CastofDozens & CalypsoSkyie - Ark Royal

Area 51

Sim of the Quarter: USS Pioneer

CO of the Quarter: Daegan Baas - USS Valkyrie

XO of the Quarter: Thomas Johnson - USS Tokyo

Writer of the Quarter: Amy Gordon - USS Valiant

Player of the Quarter: Cornelius Tremble - USS Pioneer