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human
[Star Trek] What are some common strategies for the Kobayashi Maru simulation?
gpt
Common strategies?

You might as well ask me to give you the scientific numerical breakdown of the Lourve?

The KM hasn't been a standard test for ages.

No its about adapting, improvising, innovating, exploiting and creating.

We don't mark you for completing it, we mark you for how far you will go. For how much you can push the confines of your situation to come out on top? Hacking the program isn't even an offence, but a good hack shows us that you know what its like to be forewarned, and the level of ICE we've got on the network alone requires some serious genius to break. If you hack it to win, thats fine because you chose your path to completion based on your ability to game the defining controls yourself.

Winning and losing are pointless when you are destined to fail, in these circumstances something changes. Old veterans have seen it, anyone who's come out of the rough end of an almost last stand have lived it. That moment where you can line up all of the variables and not be restricted by false barriers like chain of command or rules of engagement.

So what if you jettison several drive cores to wipe out the whole fleet and the KM? Or maybe trying to actively break the computer security on the Klingon FFI beacons so they fire on each other? Heard about the cadet who used an oddball theory on warp drives to destabilize localised warp space cause the incoming warping ships to split at the molecular level when they tried to enter the radius of the effect? He's now in top secret R&D. One plucky cadet convinced the bogies to defect to the Federation.

Hack the system, play out some kind of cultural blackmail, push the limits of our engineering and science, feint and decieve them, fight to the bitter end by adapting and making up tactics on the fly to cope with the oncoming doom. These are all how you pass the KM.

Do you know how you fail the test? 

You try to save the KM by the book. 

Anyone can follow SOP, thats the bloody point of it, but the KM exists because SOP will fail. When we setup the KM for a new batch we don't want to see textbooks answers we want to see what fresh new minds do when given the impossible to achieve and thrashed and thrashed until they damn well succeed.