Ah, Nyx is acting like a disruptive and annoying person... I think I can work with that.

post up today with luck, sorry for the wait, wook has been killing me for the last couple days

I made a few edits to the rules and the character sheet as notes regarding realism, following a re-read of a couple of things and the current situation IC, as I wanted to make sure that we're all on the same page regarding the 'feel' of the game. Namely, that DefCom is quite squarely close to a modern-day military and all that entails regarding training, discipline, rank, maintenance and general day-to-day life and organization/operations etc. as opposed to some of the more casual and laid-back militaries that are featured in fiction (like the rebel alliance, for example, where a farm kid who used to fly a space-cessna to kill small animals can be accepted as a fighter pilot on a vital mission).

I'm at work, so I can't respond quickly, but I'll also be sending PM's to a couple of people to address a few things.

EDIT: I also edited my IC post, as I realised from the way I'd written it, it makes seem as if Erien is giving the PA address, which is supposed to come from the ships' captain and not her.
I broke up the description of the tour around the ship as well, to make it easier to follow.

Oh thank you. I tend to freak out at huge paragraphs and I tried to read it, I swear, but I can't remember the color coding system. Also, disclaimer: the closest I came to being in the military was the Army tried to recruit me in Senior year of high school. If I do something stupid, I'll just keep doing it until someone tells me it's wrong.

I wouldn't worry about the colour coding system too much, it was mainly there for flavour rather than for anything that had to be remembered. Plus, I figured on a ship the size of the one our characters are on, something like would make a hell of a lot of sense. I mean, modern US aircraft carriers are already almost a 1/4 of a mile long, our starship is almost four times bigger than that. Some kind of help in knowing your way around would be vital. And I've seen similar things in hospitals, businesses and theme parks before too. It seemed like a clever, and low-tech thing to implement.

And if you want help with the military side of things, I'm always here to ask for advice. I've never been in the military myself, but I read a hell of a lot of reference material. I wanted to be in the Royal Air Force myself, but as I'm asthmatic and have poor eyesight, it was never going to happen. Roleplaying and writing is about as close as I can get. That and the occasional airshow or excursion to go airsofting.

I can always either add to the OP with some references to modern-day Naval Air Squadron/Air Force life, operations and lingo, or put a post up just with it in, if people feel it would help at all?

I hear about my father's excursions when he was in the us navy, so I can kind of grasp rank and how things work a little bit, but I've never been one for the military so that sort of guide would be kinda nice.

I'll put something together and get it up within the next couple of days :)

I'm mostly running on book smarts concerning army protocol, I'm too much fo a wet noodle to be of any use to the armed forces

on the topic of military realism can i point out that there is no lieutenant rank in the US marine rank system(which is what we were using right?)
there is 1st lieutenant and 2nd lieutenant ranks

and Major might be a more appropriate rank for Erien than Colonel...

1st lieutenant and 2nd lieutenant are still lieutenants, and would normally be addressed as such as far as I can tell. The mention of first or second wouldn't come up all that often, I don't think.
And you might be right regarding the command rank of major too, after a bit of looking into it.

@Silverwind Blade
Erien can be a colonel for all i care, she just been massively cheated if she's that close to being a general and is only commanding a 9 man squad. also Marine-Colonel is the rank equivalent of a Navy-Captain which means that Erien is basically the same rank as the commander of the Heart of Valor but that really doesn't matter actually.

A lieutenant Colonel would command a squadron of 12-24 aircraft
A colonel would command a group of 2-3 squadrons or a group/wing
A major would be in command of a smaller squadron, hence why i said Major might be more appropriate.
but again, i'm fine with whatever rank you want to be, i just wanted to make sure we had first and second Lt in the system.

I have somewhat of a,dilemma. I have an urge to chew nyx out, but I feel like Gurjan would't do that because it's not the job of a subordinate like him to keep the discipline. (In his own opinion at least)

Let the poor girl live. She said she'd been awake for 24 hours so naturally when you're laying down you're gonna fall asleep. But if you want to, she's probably just going to ignore the rant.

Let the poor girl live. She said she'd been awake for 24 hours so naturally when you're laying down you're gonna fall asleep. But if you want to, she's probably just going to ignore the rant.

Not to mention goodness knows how all the time zones must be matching up travelling from planet to planet. It's bad enough on an international flight. Trying to concentrate and work hard after all of that would give anyone trouble.

Alright then... I suppose I'll be a bit gentler.
*sharpens knife*
You know... gentle

sorry to just randomly pop up with a char without prior notice to everyone, but sometimes things just work out that way.

also, was not stalking the thread....

at all.

@urukhai Bro... I don't think the ship is in hyperspace yet, I mean, the GM post noted it wouldn't be until another tswo hours.

@urukhai Bro... I don't think the ship is in hyperspace yet, I mean, the GM post noted it wouldn't be until another tswo hours.

This is correct, the ship isn't due to make the jump until two hours. It has to transit to a safe spot to make the jump first.

sorry to just randomly pop up with a char without prior notice to everyone, but sometimes things just work out that way.

also, was not stalking the thread....

at all.

He was hiding in the bushes outside my flat, waiting to ask if I would let him into the RP ;)

Your character looks fine, though his picture is a lot more feline than Isorlai (which are Sergals, I just nicked the races' appearance for my own purposes :P)
No real need to change it especially though; I'd just imagine he has the same colouration and build, but is an Isorlai.

As for where to join in; you could have your character have boarded the ship on the same shuttle, but somehow become lost or otherwise not managed to meet up with the others until just now.

New IC will go up tomorrow, FYI!

fixed, hopefully, sorry.