Welcome to the newest attempt at a small(ish) group Trek game. The setting is Roddenberry's canon universe, not the newer Abrams-verse. Soon after the Dominion War, before the homecoming of Voyager. The game will be centered on one ship and it's crew, at least at first. Interested but not sure if you know enough about Trek? Worry not; as our game's living Trek databank, I can either answer any question you'd have, or be able to point you to a wiki article that'll have the answer.

As a way to interject unpredictability into the game, I (as the GM) hope to avoid taking a major role with the Starfleet crew. That way I can write as Admirals giving orders, Orion pirates, Klingon warriors, Romulan Tal-Shiar, etc, etc.

Questions/comments? Always feel free to ask me here in the OOC, or shoot me a PM.

IC Details

• Ship is the USS Artemis, Sovereign class.
• The story begins soon after the Dominion War; Starfleet finds itself torn between it's mission of exploration and the recent call for greater militarization--it's become the greatest internal political debate of Federation history.
• The Dominon War has cost Starfleet most it's experienced Captains and crew, as well as it's best ships; the only known flagships to have survived are the USS Defiant, and the USS Enterprise.
• The Klingon Empire was hit hardest by the Dominion War out of all Alpha Quadrant powers; many within the Empire point to the "destructive nature" of an alliance with the Federation as the cause. Though they are licking their wounds and rebuilding their Empire, many believe the Klingon Empire has never been this dangerously unpredictable since the days of Kirk and Spock.
• While the Romulan Empire came out of the Dominion War in the best shape of all Alpha Quadrant powers (given it's late entry into the conflict), the Empire was soon brought to it's knees by (as most believe) a group of Reman terrorists. In reality it was the classified Shinzon incident that extinguished the Romulan Senate and it's leadership. That it was a Starfleet Captain and crew that saved the Romulan Empire from utter destruction has been covered up by Starfleet, and mostly forgotten by the Romulans.
• Starfleet Academy has yet to return to a normalized graduation pace; Cadets are still being trained and pushed out of the Academy at War-time speeds. What used to take four years, now takes one and a half.
• The current year is 2382.

OOC Details

• Currently I am the lone GM for the game. I may be looking for a Co-GM later on, so if you've got any interest, feel free to let me know.
• Disagree with the GM/another player on something? Send me a PM, don't air out dirty laundry in the OOC.
• Be respectful to your fellow players. It's incredibly important we all feel free to give input in the OOC, that everyone feels safe to share any idea/concept they have. (So it's as collaborative as possible.) Jerks and control freaks make that difficult. So be cool, like the Fonz. 'aaayy.
• The game standards are somewhere between Casual and Advanced.
• Post unapproved Character Sheets in the OOC. Once approved, post them in the Characters section.
• Have an odd character request? Want to work in something from your character's past into the game story? The more I can say 'Yes' to players, the more fun the players tend to have, in my experience. I'll always try to make something work, just send me a PM about it.

Roster (Don't see the spot you want below? Let me know!)

Captain: Available
Executive Officer: Available
Chief Engineer: Available
Operations Chief: Available
Security/Tactical Chief: Lieutenant Edith Achterberg
Chief Science Officer: Available
Chief Helmsman: Available
Chief Medical Officer: Available

Character Sheet Template

Appearance (Picture, description, etc--up to you.)

Name:
Rank:
Position: (Security, CO, CMO, CHENG, etc)
Species:
Age:

Special Skills: Do you Fence? Are you a human baseball enthusiast? Maybe you play the Sax? Maybe you're the best pilot around? Great with a sniper rifle? A planetside survivalist? Contacts from Intell or Starfleet Command that you can ask for info? Contacts from criminal underworlds? If you've got a little extra something that sets you apart, put it here. Don't? Then don't worry about it.

Service Record



Background: (Tell me about your character here. At lease two paragraphs.)

*Materializes with TNG transporter effect specifically*

I saw the words "Star" and "Trek". I'll be making an app soon.

Going to be busy tonight, but I'll get to work on my Tactical Chief at some point!

If we're talking ship classes, that really depends on what sort of things you want to get up to; There's no point going for a Defiant-class ship if we're doing deep-space exploration, and no point in using a Nova if we're going to be blowing things up on a regular basis.

I guess something in-between those two extremes is what we want, then? Unfortunately I don't know the individual ships types so um... ^^;

EDIT: Intrepid class? ^^; Mostly because Voyager is the only Trek series I've seen in full (I know, I know...) but yeah.

Well I'm interested. I was thinking executive officer or Chief science officer. Will work it on it later.

If we're talking ship classes, that really depends on what sort of things you want to get up to; There's no point going for a Defiant-class ship if we're doing deep-space exploration, and no point in using a Nova if we're going to be blowing things up on a regular basis.

I guess something in-between those two extremes is what we want, then? Unfortunately I don't know the individual ships types so um... ^^;

EDIT: Intrepid class? ^^; Mostly because Voyager is the only Trek series I've seen in full (I know, I know...) but yeah.

I liked Voyager; and loved early Voyager.

Still Nova and Voyager would get caught in the political crossfire of Exploration vs. Militarization; right now talented officers are Starfleet's most precious resource--and the precious resource is has the least of.

Also, since so many ships were destroyed during the war, don't rule out an updated Galaxy, or New Orleans class, or something similar.

The ship will be assigned to a Mobile Task Force, unlike most Starfleet ships which are assigned to Wings that operate within a set section of Federation territory.

Also, JS, not opposed to a Star Trek Online class. Some of them look quite nifty.

Prometheus might be cool, too.

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WIPPING

Appearance Boom.

Name: Sarisa Lo’dan
Rank: Lieutenant Commander
Position: Chief Medical Officer
Species: Tyrodian
Age: 59 cycles (Approximately 28 Terran years)

Special Skills:
Service Record



Background: (Tell me about your character here. At lease two paragraphs.)

I vote for the Prometheus class.

Prometheus might be cool, too.

Eh, I think I remember the episode that was in and... I don't think it would be a good idea, really. For one thing, it seems to veer far too much towards "warship" for my liking. I mean I know conflict is something that comes up a lot in Trek, but I'd prefer if that wasn't the main emphasis, which going with a Prometheus would probably lead to. ^^;

...Do like the idea of some refitted old ships, though. Might take a dive into the wiki to see if I get any ideas.

Soon after the Dominion War, before the homecoming of Voyager.

The current year is 2382.

Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant in 2378. The year 2382 is four years after Voyager returned home.

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Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant in 2378. The year 2382 is four years after Voyager returned home.

Yep. I'm GMing it as though it hasn't happened yet in our setting.

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Yep. I'm GMing it as though it hasn't happened yet in our setting.

Then I won't participate.

Eh, the way Voyager ended was always one of my least favourite parts of it (I did enjoy the series even if it was pretty inconsistent, although that might be because I was a kid whilst it was airing), so I am fine with them not being back just yet.

Anyways, been looking at different ships and if not an Intrepid then maybe an Excelsior, a Miranda or even a Galaxy might be fun. Hmmm.

I kinda like the Sovereign. Nice balance.

...Oh hey, that was the Enterprise from First Contact. I love that movie.

So yeah, Sovereign sounds good to me!

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Then I won't participate.

Okay, good luck!