[edgeofhearing]

Welcome to Will of the Collective VII: Bottom's Up! This time around we're designing a non-unique character from the bottom up, starting with faction and ending with the story.

Welcome to faction voting, round 2. This is the biggest cut down of nominees we'll do in the faction voting process; we started with 41 different factions, and have whittled it down to 14. 8 of those haven't been voted on yet - those are factions that were nominated by more than one person in the nomination step. Those factions are joined by the top 2 factions from each of three heats of voting from the last round.

Our remaining factions are:

Cadet
Dissident

Hologram

Infiltrators
Andorians
Generals
Remans
Borg

Klingons
Dissidents

This round will be a little different. It's going to be one heat, but at 14 entries, it is a bit larger than the 11 entry heats from last time. Each person can pick their top three (MidnightLich: 3). We're going to automatically have at least one more runoff heat; the top options that garner 50% of the votes will move on to the next round.

You've got two days again for this vote, and for re-voting. I'm curious to see if setting the goal posts at 50% of the vote (rather than a hard limit of X number of factions advancing) affects how people vote. With a hard limit, there's a strong incentive to band behind the popular choice that you find most appealing - I wonder if the incentive will be as strong with a softer limit? Let's find out! Pick your favorites, convince other people to do the same, and have fun!

[jadziadax8]

Come on folks! Vote Assimilator. You know you want to.


Sent through Subspace from the Starship Enterprise

[Ocelo01]

My votes are in.

Thanks for organising this edgeofhearing

[Fritzinger]

Watsamatter with you people? Don't you want to see the Federation crumble under the influence of the changelings? Vote infiltrator to rewrite history for the glory of the Dominion!

[Johannes Mette]

Watsamatter with you people? Don't you want to see the Federation crumble under the influence of the changelings? Vote infiltrator to rewrite history for the glory of the Dominion!

when we get a 2E maco/cadet planet next year.

[LORE]

Red Squad! Red Squad! Red Squad! Red Squad! Red Squad! Red Squad! Red Squad! Red Squad!

[Naetor]

Dissidents
Infiltrators

[WeyounsLastClone]

Disappointed that none of the nor the Holograms made it in

But anyway, still enough to choose from

[monty42]

Red Squad! Red Squad! Red Squad! Red Squad! Red Squad! Red Squad! Red Squad! Red Squad!

[LORE]

Red Squad! Red Squad! Red Squad! Red Squad! Red Squad! Red Squad! Red Squad! Red Squad!

LOL!

[The Prefect]

Cadets
Dissidents

[Old Kor]

Oh my oh my, you FED-junkies. There is only one possible answer:

Generals mixed with some kind of power

cheers

[nobthehobbit]

I'm just happy both of my nominees made the final round.

And to plug Klingons a little... keep in mind that the character wouldn't necessarily have to be from "Birthright" the way the team was. We've got versions of B'Etor and Lursa, after all; it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to have a non-unique lackey of theirs as a affiliation personnel.

[GooeyChewie]

And to plug Klingons a little... keep in mind that the character wouldn't necessarily have to be from "Birthright" the way the team was. We've got versions of B'Etor and Lursa, after all; it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to have a non-unique lackey of theirs as a affiliation personnel.

On a totally "unrelated" note, what would everybody think of having multiple version of a non-unique personnel? We have it with prime-universe Marlena and mirror-universe Marlena, but it hadn't been done before and hasn't been done since.

You know, just in case, hypothetically, we found a non-unique Klingon whose claim to fame was smuggling information to the Romulans.

[Naetor]

And to plug Klingons a little... keep in mind that the character wouldn't necessarily have to be from "Birthright" the way the team was. We've got versions of B'Etor and Lursa, after all; it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to have a non-unique lackey of theirs as a affiliation personnel.

B'Etor and Lursa are like making a Martok. Remain Klingon.