Engineering has been spending many man-hours up to their elbows in the inner workings of Artemis, which is the tactical program the USS Loma Prieta uses for combat scenarios. First, using a PC emulator called Wine, I created an Artemis app that runs on the Mac, no Windows needed. Runs pretty well except for a quirk or two. Also, our Captain discovered an awesome mod that replaces the stock ships and the previous TOS mod we used, with Movie-era ships from the Federation, Klingon, etc. At the Captain’s request, I tweaked the setting to use the Excelsior class (pictured above) instead of the default Miranda class. I’m also trying my hand at building an Ambassador class model to more accurately simulate the Loma Prieta in action.

Finally, there is a shared Dropbox folder for everyone to use for Starfleet manuals, images, etc.  Just ask me (Tom) or the Captain to add you. You’ll need a Dropbox account, which you can get for free here.  Engineering out.

 ~Lt(jg). Tom Hesser
Engineering Officer
USS Loma Prieta
Starfleet, Region 4