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THAT virus - what it means for us
Hello all.
As you are aware there is a current health pandemic spreading across the globe (unless you live under a rock). As much as we are an online space, it does mean it will have some effect on what we do here.
Firstly we anticipate illness among us, and…
Author: Commander Ronald Hawk
Posted on: Wed Mar 18, 2020 @ 11:53am
Category: General News
Valentines 2020
Ladies and gentleman of Langley Station.
As of January 1st 2020 I have been appointed the Community-hero position here on Langley, this means that I together with the command team of this station will be in charge of creating non-mission critical events to bolster our post counts and more importantly…
Author: John Sheppard
Posted on: Sun Feb 2, 2020 @ 12:31pm
Category: General News
January 2020
Langley Station – January 2020
Sim Updates:
Nothing much changed. Working on a new writing contest for next month and working on reaching our posting requirement of one post a month per player. As I am writing this, we have 9 out of 14, which is a good start.…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Fri Jan 31, 2020 @ 9:17am
Category: Monthly Report
Langley Station is leaving Obsidian Fleet
After much consideration I have decided to remove Langley Station from Obsidian Fleet. Without going into to many details, all I will say that it is time for us to move on to another Fleet.
Over the last several months I’ve had a couple of differences of opinion with the…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Fri Jan 31, 2020 @ 8:53am
Category: General News
Post count
Hello lady’s and gentlefolk.
As you are hopefully all aware, we have a Rule that states everyone needs to have a completed post at least once a month.
We understand that life can get busy, and that sometimes you have to put Langley on the back burner. However, without your…
Author: Commander Ronald Hawk
Posted on: Thu Jan 16, 2020 @ 12:28pm
Category: General News
Community Hero and other small thing
Good afternoon everyone,
Another edition of Langley Times with some information about new things and/or changes to our simulation.
For this edition I'd like to start with some great news. We've found a community Hero. Our victim I mean Hero will be Zangetsu, writer of John Sheppard.
He'll be assisting…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Wed Jan 15, 2020 @ 2:05pm
Category: Langley Times
New Guide: Newbie Checklist
Good Afternoon everyone on this cold and wet Sunday afternoon.
I've written something new for our sim, something I had thought of a while back.
After writing our newbie guide I knew there was something missing. I have a hard time remembering all the information that a new member of…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Sun Jan 5, 2020 @ 4:51pm
Category: Langley Times
December 2019
Sim Name + Date: Langley Station – December 2019
Sim Link: http://langleystation.nl/
Sim Name: Langley Station
Task Force: 72
Task Group: 72C
Sim Updates: Even with the busy holiday season we made some minor changes/updates to the website. After we started using a new skin a few months ago I…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Sun Dec 29, 2019 @ 4:54pm
Category: Monthly Report
Christmas Awards
Happy Christmas Eve everyone,
I've got a little Christmas present for some of you. As I've mentioned before we want to do awards more often and what better moment to plan a new round of awards with Christmas. So, here we go.
The first two awards that I'll be handing…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Tue Dec 24, 2019 @ 9:15pm
Category: Awards
Awards, Community Hero and Christmas
Hey everyone, here’s another edition of the Langley Times.
The last few weeks were busy weeks for the command team as we’re dealing with RL stuff. I’ve personally been suffering from a cold for a few weeks. It looks like I’m getting better finally. Because of our lesser activity the…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Thu Dec 12, 2019 @ 9:48pm
Category: Langley Times
Discord guide
Hello ladies and gents.
Just a short one to let you know that a new discord guide has been added to the site. It’s pretty standard, but worth taking a look anyway.
please fine it here
Ron Hawk
Executive Officer
Author: Commander Ronald Hawk
Posted on: Tue Dec 10, 2019 @ 12:42am
Category: Langley Times
Oktober/November 2019
Double report this time. With the report function on IFS being broken, I took the liberty of not doing the October report. I was so busy and not feeling well so it was a great excuse of not having to write it. That however means I got now twice the…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Wed Nov 27, 2019 @ 3:09pm
Category: Monthly Report
New Mission Plan Guide!
Good evening everyone,
We've got another new guide online. I've been working on this for a while now, but just was to busy to finished it sooner.
I hope this guide will help you with a new mission idea you have. So you know what steps are needed to get…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Mon Nov 4, 2019 @ 10:36pm
Category: Langley Times
Get your awards!
With thanksgiving just around the corner for you Americans, we wanted to celebrate, and what better way than to offer you all awards.
The name of the award is yet to be confirmed but to achieve it all you have to do is submit a thanksgiving themed post. It can…
Author: Commander Ronald Hawk
Posted on: Mon Nov 4, 2019 @ 12:42am
Category: General News
Discord
Hello Ladies and Gents.
Really quick note regarding a slight rule change. It is now a requirement to be a part of our discord server if you are a member of Langley. I believe everyone is already on our discord anyway but just to be sure here’s a link: https://discord.gg/33UW32H…
Author: Commander Ronald Hawk
Posted on: Thu Oct 24, 2019 @ 1:04am
Category: General News
Oktober 2019 - 2
Another update from the Command Team about what is going on behind the scenes. A bit shorter this time.
We have changed the name of the Langley Update to Langley Times. This is because we have decided to call the news agency of Langley will be called the Langley Times,…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Sat Oct 19, 2019 @ 9:15pm
Category: Langley Times
New Mission - Probing the Alien Dutchman
Hey everyone,
Another news item. I promise this will be the last for tonight.
We got a new idea submitted for a great story that I want to bring to your attention. This mission is going to start soon. You might already have heard of it on our Discord. Lance…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Sun Oct 13, 2019 @ 9:49pm
Category: General News
Oktober 2019 - 1
Good evening everyone,
Here is another Langley Update. It's goal, to give you all a look of what we are working on behind the scenes and/or things we like to bring to your attention. I hope to do them a bit more regular then I have so far.
To start…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Sun Oct 13, 2019 @ 8:31pm
Category: Langley Times
Getting started
Hi all.
Those of you that are on discord (which I think is all of you) will know I have taken the responsibilty of XO (OOC and IC). First off I want to say I love this group, and care a great deal about it’s success. I wouldn’t have excepted…
Author: Commander Ronald Hawk
Posted on: Fri Sep 27, 2019 @ 4:22pm
Category: General News
September 2019
The report for the month of September. I think we've had a great month and I hope we can continue the vibe that is currently on the station. ~Kate
Sim Updates
I’ve been working a lot on the website. I want to get a new skin with some handy…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Wed Sep 25, 2019 @ 12:11pm
Category: Monthly Report
August 2019
Another month has passed, so here's the report for August. And this time the month has really passed. I couldn't find the time to do it earlier.
Sim Updates
I’ve did some tinkering on the website. Some improvements. Haven’t done much on recruitment beside post something on FB.
Crew…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Mon Sep 2, 2019 @ 9:35am
Category: Monthly Report
August '19
It has been quite a number of months since I did some awards, so I thought this would be a great moment to do another round.
First, I want to give the Captain’s Personal Merit out Megan and Anahera. As an appreciation for your activity during my absence. Both in…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Mon Aug 12, 2019 @ 7:50pm
Category: Awards
August ’19 Part I – Roll Call and other stuff
Good evening everyone,
As you might have noticed the last few days, but I’m back from my holiday and very eager to get back to writing and developing Langley Station to make it even more awesome then it already is. In order to start we need to get activity back…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Mon Aug 12, 2019 @ 7:38pm
Category: Langley Times
July 2019
Unfortunately a short report. Due to my LOA I didn't really have time to write much more. Hopefully better next month. ~Kate
Langley Station – Jul-19
Langley Station – July 31, 2019
http://langleystation.nl
Task Force 72, Task Group 72C
Sim Updates
July has been a very slow month due to…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Wed Jul 31, 2019 @ 9:32pm
Category: Monthly Report
June 2019
And another month is nearing its end. (less then 2 hours as I post this) Below the report as I submitted it to the fleet. ~Kate
Sim Updates
We moved to Taskgroup 72C since I am now the TGCO of 72C. Made some changes to show that change and added…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Sun Jun 30, 2019 @ 9:10pm
Category: Monthly Report
May 2019
Another month has passed and I think it was a fabulous month. Not only have we won a great award, but we've also got some great writing done. I can't wait to see what next month brings. ~Kate
Sim Updates
Not much new with the website, just the usual fiddling…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Tue May 28, 2019 @ 9:33am
Category: Monthly Report
April 2019
This months is almost over, meaning it's report time again. I think we had a rather good month, even with my activity due to RL stuff. ~ Kate
Sim Updates
This last month has been crazy for me personally, so it was hard finding the time to give to…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Sun Apr 28, 2019 @ 8:14pm
Category: Monthly Report
The USS Sedna
Goodmorning all,
I’ve promised to write this news item for a few weeks now, but real-life stuff came up causing me not to have the time needed to write this. You’ve all heard of our new garrison ship the USS Sedna, heard some bits of its background and even created…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Mon Apr 8, 2019 @ 8:58am
Category: General News
Manifest changes
For the last few weeks we’ve been really busy behind the scenes in improving our simulation. One of the things we did was an overhaul on the manifest. We took a good look at each department to see how we could make it more fitting for our situation. That resulted…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Mon Apr 1, 2019 @ 9:57pm
Category: General News
Spotlight Award
One of the new things we want to introduce to our simulation are the spotlight awards. Two awards who highlight a great post or a great character on the Langley Station.
Character in the Spotlight
Character in the Spotlight is a award handed out every three months. A character that…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Sat Mar 30, 2019 @ 11:07pm
Category: Awards
March 2019
It's that time of the month again. Report time. I'm so proud of this report. As by its content you can see how Langley is changing. Not only is our post number up but a lot of things we've been working on for the last few weeks are coming into…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Sat Mar 30, 2019 @ 9:51pm
Category: Monthly Report
February 2019
Another month has passed, so here is the report for February. We’ve had a very good month, with lots of activity. Let’s keep this up!
Sim Updates
Working on some changed to the website. Added a new banner (a temporary one) to the site and redid the main page. Corrected…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Thu Feb 28, 2019 @ 10:11am
Category: Monthly Report
January 2019
New report is out! Thank you all for your hard work this months! ~ Kate
Sim Updates
Still working on recruitment, not any other changes to the sim or website last month.
Crew Updates
We have a new (OOC) Executive Officer who will be helping me with running the show.…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Wed Jan 30, 2019 @ 11:54am
Category: Monthly Report
We have a new XO!
Good evening, night, or even morning for our backward Australians! ;)
I’m very excited to make this announcement; the first of hopefully many positives yet to come.
After a very long search for feet big enough to fill the boots left behind by Caoimhe; I’m excited to announce the appointment…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Fri Jan 18, 2019 @ 11:50pm
Category: General News
December 2018
Langley Station – December 31, 2018
Sim Updates
Trying to add a Captcha mod, but haven’t got it working jet. Trying to get more active on FB, but that’s a work in progress.
Crew Updates
No new crew, but we do have a big change in the team. My XO…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Mon Dec 31, 2018 @ 4:20pm
Category: Monthly Report
Merry Christmas and a Happy 2019
Good afternoon everyone,
With the end of 2018 approaching, I would like to thank you all for this amazing year. It was Langley’s first full year and it was amazing. We gained new crew and lost some. We went through hell and got back up again. We learned who we…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Mon Dec 24, 2018 @ 4:29pm
Category: General News
November 2018
Another month has passed. Below the report for November. It's a bit short, but I was just too tired to make more of it. Hopefully better next month.
Sim Updates
Did some updating on the website, no major stuff.
Crew Updates
No new crew was added to our RPG,…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Sat Dec 1, 2018 @ 1:50am
Category: Monthly Report
Year Awards 2018
Starting last week Nominations for the 2018 awards are open! I really encourage everyone to vote for Commanding Officer of the Year, Executive Officer of the Year and for Character of the Year. Look at the link below for instructions on how to vote and please do so quickly. Votes…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Fri Nov 23, 2018 @ 6:34pm
Category: General News
Oktober 2018
Another month, another report. Post count might still be low, but you've all done great. I'm proud to be leading such a great team of writers.
Langley Station – November 1, 2018
http://langleystation.nl
Task Force 72, Task Group 72C
Sim Updates
I’ve changed some small things to the website, this…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Thu Nov 1, 2018 @ 9:07am
Category: Monthly Report
The Golden Pumpkin Competition
Hey everyone,
Below a message from the fleet that I encourage everyone to participate in. It's fun and has great prizes. Below the message, as copied from the fleet website.
_________________________
Information On The Golden Pumpkin Competition
This year for Halloween Obsidian Fleet is calling on all members to come…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Mon Oct 22, 2018 @ 6:42pm
Category: General News
Our future with the fleet
Hi All,
Over the last number of days, the crew was made aware of a decision that I needed to make but that I didn’t wish to make without first taking into consideration the opinions and feelings of you all also.
Over the last number of months, within the Obsidian…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Wed Oct 17, 2018 @ 8:14am
Category: General News
Stand down
As a member of Command staff I have always seen it as a place of serventhood. The Command team acts as a serving body to bring you all the best role playing experience we can. My personal responsibility within the team has been to ensure that our stories continue to…
Author: Commander Ronald Hawk
Posted on: Mon Oct 8, 2018 @ 12:15am
Category: General News
September 2018
Another month has passed, even though our posting number is very low this month I am still proud of all of you. I know a lot of posts are being worked on. You're all great writers!
Sim Updates
We are working on a few improvements to the website. Like…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Wed Oct 3, 2018 @ 12:17pm
Category: Monthly Report
Augustus 2018
It's that time of the month again! Wait, not that. I meant report time. :) See below the report I just submitted to the fleet.
Sim Updates
Changed some small things to the website. Removed manifest images, added a Cardassian rank set for our NPC from the Cardassian Government, added…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Tue Aug 28, 2018 @ 2:34pm
Category: Monthly Report
My LOA
Hey all,
In about two hours I'm going on holiday. I let you know on Discord, but just wanted to send out an official message.
I'll be back around the 25th and will be able to tag some. But I don't know how much. Neither will I know how active…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Fri Aug 3, 2018 @ 8:04am
Category: General News
Monthly Report August 1st
Sim Updates
This month has been quiet in terms of the site. However our story writing is taken a really positive turn, which should see some nice new story arch’s coming in the following months.
Crew Updates
We have two new members of our crew this month;
A civilian affairs…
Author: Commander Ronald Hawk
Posted on: Wed Aug 1, 2018 @ 7:06pm
Category: Monthly Report
Episode 1 - First Dawn
Hello everyone,
After 8 months we have finally closed of our first mission. It was a great first mission, that absolutely didn't go as I envisioned it at first. We had some amazing stories, got a lot of new friends, and lost a few. Together we've been through some hard…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Mon Jul 9, 2018 @ 10:07am
Category: Awards
June 2018
Sim Updates
Nothing major. Just some slight changes to images. We did become one of the guiny pigs for the OF website, I’ve edited our ship page but haven’t gotten much time later on because of my illness. I’ll try to get my crew added to that page this month.…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Thu Jul 5, 2018 @ 9:17am
Category: Monthly Report
Saying goodbye to Episode 1
Hey everyone.
As those of you on discord already know, there is now a deadline on posting for Episode 1. The episode will now be closing next Friday 6th July, in the interest of moving forward.
Please have all your EP1 posts finished by then or find a way of…
Author: Commander Ronald Hawk
Posted on: Fri Jun 29, 2018 @ 8:55am
Category: General News
May 2018
Hey everyone, below the report as I submitted it with the fleet. Thank you all for another great month.
Sim Updates
Made changes to the website to comply with the new privacy laws. Made a wiki page for the privacy policy and created links to it from the footer and…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Tue May 29, 2018 @ 9:40am
Category: Monthly Report
Excitment Comes In Twos!
Howdy All,
Your friendly neighborhood XO is in the house ;)
On behalf of the command crew, I have two very important announcements to make. Bare with me...they are crackers!(....or not)
First and foremost. As you may have all noticed we have a new Station Executive Officer in the house.…
Author: Commander Caoimhe O'Connor M.D.
Posted on: Thu May 24, 2018 @ 10:26pm
Category: General News
April 2018
Below the report for April I just submitted.
Sim Updates
Nothing much this month. I’ve wrote a new recruitment app which I posted on the Discord recruitment channel and on our Facebook page. I’ve also send a new invite to my team to join the OF discord channel, which…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Sat Apr 28, 2018 @ 8:07pm
Category: Monthly Report
March 2018
And another month has almost passed. Here is the report I just submitted to the fleet. Everything we have accomplished this month I couldn't have done without you. Thank you all for that!!
Sim Updates
Changed the Sister Ship from a separate wiki page to the subnavigation panel. Started our…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Wed Mar 28, 2018 @ 9:08am
Category: Monthly Report
February 2018
Langley Station
Task Force 72, Task Group 72C
Sim Updates
Langley Station has underwent a lot of changes. Last week we changed to our own domain. This was something I’ve been thinking about for a while, but after experiencing some downtime I decided now was a good time to move.…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Thu Mar 1, 2018 @ 9:52am
Category: Monthly Report
Silver Unit of Merit Januari 2018
Hey everyone,
It's with great pleasure that I can announce that we won Silver Unit of Merit for January 2018. It's a great accomplishment and one that is totally thanks to all the great writer you are!
Here's the text that came with the nomination.
"One of our more unconventional…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Mon Feb 12, 2018 @ 8:52pm
Category: General News
January 2018
Langley Station
Task Force 72, Task Group 72C
Sim Updates
Last month the website has seen a number of changes. I’ve did some beautification to the manifest as well as create a roomnumber system and add that together with the duty shift and security level to the bio page of…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Tue Jan 30, 2018 @ 1:47am
Category: Monthly Report
December 2017
The month, and year, is almost up. Meaning it's time for another co report. Below you'll find the report as I submitted it to the fleet.
Everyone a Happy New Year. I wish you all lots of happiness and creativity in 2018.
Langley Station
Task Force 72, Task Group 72C…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Sun Dec 31, 2017 @ 4:02pm
Category: Monthly Report
November 2017
Another month has passed already. Below the CO report I submitted to the fleet.
Langley Station
Task Force 72, Task Group 72C
Sim Updates
I created a new wiki page about the duty shifts on the station and wrote a message explaining the state of the station. The station has…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Thu Nov 30, 2017 @ 9:06pm
Category: Monthly Report
Oktober 2017
Below a copy of the Monthly CO Report I just submitted
Langley Station
http://langleystation.utopia-host.com
Task Force 72, Task Group 72C
Sim Updates
Langley station is open for almost two weeks now. In that time we have created a website and set up everything needed to create a good writing environment.…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Thu Oct 26, 2017 @ 2:00pm
Category: Monthly Report
New sim, new adventure
With the website of Langley station online our new adventure can begin. Located on the border of the Cardassian DMZ we'll sure have enough stories to tell.
The website and the entire RPG are still under construction right now, but feel free to contact if you're interested and want to…
Author: Captain Kate Banninga
Posted on: Thu Oct 12, 2017 @ 3:36pm
Category: General News