The way I once described it (loads of fans and shippers aboard with their own private dramas) is how it USED to be. Now, alot of them are growing weary... one crewer is trying to blackmail me into letting him go home by trying to uncover my Old Shames (this is related to my pursuit of that Escaflowne sue-fic).

Another two joined as NCO's in order to escape their Mythos-verse Earth for a while as well as to raise enough money to... well, get married. But now Joseph Clayton and his Tcho-Tcho girlfriend, Lucy Trinh (coming from an extremely humanized, semi-animist, bronze-age but still sacrifice-happy version of the Vietnamese Tcho-Tcho) want back out. They want to finish University (Miskatonic, in fact) as well. She's the first of her people to attend a western university, and he's the first White man to receive the tooth-filing and tattoos of her people (that story is a hoot in the break-rooms, but that'll come later).

If the wedding happens before the PD is decommissioned, I'm afraid I'll have to requisition a water buffalo and a few dozen chickens... you know, religious stuff.

Then there's the Soyoto Martyrs Society, which is a whole other headache all to themselves. First we had to shanghai a Shinto priest to perform the funeral rites and now they visit the grave every morning. Half of them are fellow Harmoni (including Ms. McSweeney and Mr. Winesop) while the rest were her friends. 20 individual pains in the butt who never actually do anything wrong... except the yearly parading of the clan banner (allegedly rescued from the battlefield itself, mud and bloodstains included) and the marching of the Society, all dressed in ashigaru armor, metal conical hats and weapons (teppo, naginata, yari, etc).
They won't want to leave the grave if they can help it, but we might have to move the grave back to Kabocha province on the HP Fandom Homeworld, since the family said that it will be allowed back (argument over honor vs. dishonor to the family has been resolved in favor of the former).

I just want one chance to go after that monstrosity with my crew and then I'm retiring. I'll shed my uniform, I'll eat in the cafeteria, I'll sacrifice my rank, the whole bit. However, i reserve the right to pick my roommate, if any.

However, if you want some fire support for a particuarly bad fic, take what you like. Better the ship be picked apart for salvage than go to waste in some asteroid belt or get smashed in a hopeless battle.

I just wanted to introduce a new plot point, let some newbies adopt agents out of the crew (feel free to make up names and preferences), go after one or two badfic find as Ahab did the white whale ("When Escaflowne Rescued Trilladen"... this one is MINE!) and... well, decommission the old girl if it comes down to it. She's been far too abused over the years, both by me and by the authors of the fics I've read (and some I haven't). Plus, I wanted to character of the Captain to be mine (G the B or Malrun Krolek... I can't remember which one is the fake name). The rest of the crew will probably scatter back to their original ports of call.

Although, if the DOGA needs a few turbolasers, just ask.

Plus, eldritch chicken soup will probably feature at some point, but exactly how is one of the things I'm keeping to myself.

*stares at the F-22s owned by his Agents" Now they look very, very tiny.

However, I like the idea. But I hope the Hangar will be enough big for that thing...

yes.

The former mission of the Plot Device was to be my inner critic, shipper and heckler combined when reading fanfic, a task shared by several other casts.

I thought this up at 3AM after first reading this fic.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6873613/1/bFoodbbScandal_b

Then I imagined the main character as either Dreamwork's Roxanne Richie or Disney's Jane Porter.

And then I imagined Thrawn's reactions to the plot twists in a fic I was reading, along with those of the crew if they themselves were shippers.

Thus, the Plot Device found form... think of it as the place the Fanfic academies send their graduates for their first haul and/or their practicums.