In addition to the monthly awards which will be announced within the next couple of days, there comes a need to reward crew members who have moved beyond the scope of such awards in their dedication to the simulation both in and out of character.

Two members have served the required ... [ Read More » ]

We have completed our first full mission and now we begin the full transition over to the forum. I will wait before starting the next mission for sorting out things like avatars and so on and to help to get the new crew members, whom have transfered from the Warrior ... [ Read More » ]

The forums are steadily nearing completion. I would ask that all crew now sign up to them as soon as is convenient. The forum can be accessed via one of the seven white links at the top of this website.

Thank you. ... [ Read More » ]

Crew of the Lakota,

Bare with me as I go through the Forums and edit them so that you may all be able to post properly. I know for a fact that some or maybe all of us couldn't access certain areas of the forum and or post. This ... [ Read More » ]

Activity right now is not what it should be. Soon we will be taking a break as we transfer over to a forum based play system, which recieved a great deal of positive feedback from the crew as a whole.

That break is not now.

Strikes are coming back on Friday. ... [ Read More » ]

Firstly, it's less necessary due to having a forum now.

More disturbingly, it seems someone tried to execute some PHP code in the shoutbox or something like that. To what end, I don't know, but I'm removing it because anyone can access it including non-members and, at the risk of sounding ... [ Read More » ]

And the Lakota needs your votes! We've slipped behind this round because the e-mail undoubtedly arrived while I was asleep here in the UK. Thanks for your support.

Mission advancement coming late today. ... [ Read More » ]

After receiving positive feedback from most crew members on the idea of changing to play by forum, I have spent the last two days toiling away on a phpBB3 skin which complements the SMS portion of the website.

We will move to this forum next mission. To be absolutely clear: the ... [ Read More » ]

I would like everybody on board to PM me with a response on their opinion of swapping to a forum as the main posting method on the Lakota.

Thank you. ... [ Read More » ]

Some people have been expressing concern over what to do. These are the suggestions included in my last post. There is quite a bit of content here to work with, and these are just the suggestions I came up with in a few minutes. I'm getting rid of the JP ... [ Read More » ]

Are in order!! Our dear Commander Blakeney has been promoted now to Captain by our Task Force, due to his ability as a leader, his activiness within the TF and his ability to help others. So, lets all give him a warm applause and a crisp salute, this man ... [ Read More » ]

Tomorrow, on the 14th, the voting system will be reset so all ships/simms will start off with 0 votes. This means that we have to get ahead as soon as possible, so when I next make an announcement, everybody vote for the ship using the link contained in the text ... [ Read More » ]

The mission has advanced. There will be alot going on in this next sequence of the mission, so make sure to read the mission notes, appended to this news announcement, to keep on track of what is going on.

Remember that what I specify is an outline. If you fancy introducing ... [ Read More » ]

As part of the continuing effort to be improving the Lakota at all times, two new awards have been added to those that can be earned. You can check out these awards by navigating to: http://www.lakota.scifiasylum.com/index.php?page=database&entry=16

The first of the two new awards is the purple heart, for returning to ... [ Read More » ]

As I said within my last few news announcements, one of the things that struck me was the overall high quality of the writers on board, which has kept me consistently impressed this month as Commanding Officer of the Lakota.

I've also been impressed by the general level of dedication ... [ Read More » ]

Sorry people, but i'm afraid i'm going to have to submit my resignation from the Lakota.

Don't get me wrong, she's a great ship: i think this simm has real potential, but as you can see from my obvious lack of activity i on far too many simms and really do ... [ Read More » ]

Awards will follow once I have consulted with our XO.

I am proud to announce that, with the Lakota active, a months service under his belt of activity and enthusiasm, with quality posting thrown into the mix, it is only right that Lieutenant Edward Davion be promoted to Lieutenant Commander effective ... [ Read More » ]

I've added the alert status feature, which no doubt some of you will love and others pehaps hate, but I think it adds something to have the image reflect the ship's current status.

Additionally, I'm going to start using the missions notes feature more during the mission. You can access this ... [ Read More » ]

Distasteful as it is to mention this, from Friday (GMT) a lenient, but, as a result, strictly enforced strike policy, will be in effect.

This policy can be viewed here.

It all comes down to keeping the ship active and hence fun for all the players on board. I am more ... [ Read More » ]

Click this link below and make our simm number one!!

http://www.s47.org/topo/in.php?ID=1187931299.2126 ... [ Read More » ]

Welcome, once more, to Ensign Marah Lane who will be writing with us as assistant chief of medicine aboard the Lakota.

With two medical staff, now is the ideal opportunity to start thinking about medical checkups and such.

I apologize for the fact that I have been very busy in the last ... [ Read More » ]

There are a number of new members to welcome to the ship in the last several days.

Lieutenant J.G. James Walker
Lieutenant Commander Mutara Romaine
1st Lieutenant John Clark

To all of you, a warm welcome, once again, to the Lakota.

With the arrival of these new members, the Lakota has a crew count of ... [ Read More » ]

The crew and myself extend a warm welcome to Ensign Fhergus who will be joining us as Chief Security and Tactical Officer. Please add his contact details to your contact lists and welcome him to the ship.

It's been a month since the start of the pre-mission and the Lakota is ... [ Read More » ]

I'm back from my LOA to France which gave me a much needed opportunity to unwind. There weren't any posts to the pre-mission while I was away, but this is perfectly acceptable and should not be taken as a sign of any shortcomings of the ship or crew as this ... [ Read More » ]

The site has now been updated to the latest version of SMS which includes fixes to the crew milestones page and fixes the problem with private messages and much more.

Two of the banner exchanges at the bottom of the site have been removed as they failed to approve the ship ... [ Read More » ]

Everyone please join me in welcoming two new crew members: Our Chief Engineer Ensign Toivo Saari and a former Lakota crew member who is returning to play the assigned team-leader of Red Squad - Cadet, 3rd Year James Deveraux.

I'm sure that we are now building up a list of quality ... [ Read More » ]

The Lakota pre mission - "Transporter" - started yesterday. It is essentially a very simple mission which will allow players to get to know their characters and each other as the crew assembles. New members to the Lakota, please feel free to post in the pre mission when you ... [ Read More » ]

After a problem with timestamps which does not seem to have been resolved, the website was completely reinstalled from scratch. Despite the fact that this has not fixed the problem, all information and work done to the site has been restored. ... [ Read More » ]