Star Trek: Ascendant - OOC

[knightemplar]

Here is the representation of the Gorn ships I will use, I do not like the boxy types I found out on the web.

Here is a nice picture of a Gorn too that does not look like a man in a rubber suit like the early Godzillas films also.​

As for your question Rhun, for the total of your security forces, I would expect you to have the most especially as a dreadnaught. Since I can not find any type of breakdown by department of a crew listing. I think once the ship takes on all 250 personnnel, I would expect you to be pushing 80-90 between tactical and security. For every 10 - 20 people I would think you would have one officer in oversight, so about about 5-9 officers.​

But some of them would have very specialized skills like the one or two members of the rapid response team or the tactical weapons specialists to oversee the enlisted tactical and engineers working on weapons, or maybe an EOD specialist. This may lead to extra officers over what is considered enlisted personnel oversight.​

I have only put a few up so you can interact with them, I may introduce more as I go through more adventures then they get a small blurb about them on the Ascendant thread. But even with the larger ships, not every crewmember was detailed unless the story involved them some how.​

Specifically ranking departments on size I would say for the Ascendant it would be security/tactical, engineering, operations, science, flight ops/command, and medical/counsling (which they do report to the CMO).

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I do have a question for everybody though do you only want information about the current adventure available on the Ascendant thread or do you want to keep a running back log with old npcs also that appeared in previous adventures?​

 

[Rhun]

As for your question Rhun, for the total of your security forces, I would expect you to have the most especially as a dreadnaught. Since I can not find any type of breakdown by department of a crew listing. I think once the ship takes on all 250 personnnel, I would expect you to be pushing 80-90 between tactical and security. For every 10 - 20 people I would think you would have one officer in oversight, so about about 5-9 officers.​

Alright, based on that I updated Hale's request to have all security officers meet in his office. 5-9 people will probably fit; 80-90 certainly wouldn't.

I have only put a few up so you can interact with them, I may introduce more as I go through more adventures then they get a small blurb about them on the Ascendant thread. But even with the larger ships, not every crewmember was detailed unless the story involved them some how.​

Not a problem, there are often scenes with the main characters addressing subordinates, in which nobody ever receives names. I can work with that.

I do have a question for everybody though do you only want information about the current adventure available on the Ascendant thread or do you want to keep a running back log with old npcs also that appeared in previous adventures?​

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this?

 

[HolyMan]

I do have a question for everybody though do you only want information about the current adventure available on the Ascendant thread or do you want to keep a running back log with old npcs also that appeared in previous adventures?

A Star Log thread?? What would that be like you putting in entries like log entries so we could go read them and remember pervious people places and things?

HM

 

[knightemplar]

This is down the road for the future.

After two or three adventures are done. Do you still want an npc listing of the people you have meet in the Gorn adventure for reference or would you just want an npc listing of who is currently important in the adventure that is taking place. I looked at a couple of other people who have done the background threads.

There was one background thread that had information on the npcs who were important for the first adventure that was three or four adventures ago, but were not really relevant for the party's current adventure. There were also threads, were the DM erased all the old npcs and updated it with the npcs for the current adventure.

If our group would like me to keep all the old npcs maybe to refer back to in posts in later games, I need to think about how to do it and arrange it within the ascendant thread. I might have to move posts around and such. If the group would only like just the current npcs, then I can just use one post and clear it as necessary.

A starlog thread like HM suggested would not be a bad idea, but I would like to keep it in the Ascendant thread for easy reference. That is why I am taking suggestions from the group.

 

[Rhun]

After two or three adventures are done. Do you still want an npc listing of the people you have meet in the Gorn adventure for reference or would you just want an npc listing of who is currently important in the adventure that is taking place. I looked at a couple of other people who have done the background threads.

I would definitely like to keep a listing of past NPCs. Even if the situation is one of our PCs referring to something that had happened previously, this would help with the details of any given past acquaintance.

 

[knightemplar]

I have added costs by experience points for improvement of skills, attributes, edges and advantages to the bottom of the Ascendant thread.

http://www.enworld.org/forum/plots-places/264557-star-trek-ascendant.html

I had about a good portion of unarmed and melee combat manuevers, then a book fell on the back button of my mouse and I lost it all. I will post it, when I get it typed all back up into something like Wordpad.

 

[knightemplar]

Rhun, how about keeping them in the ascendant posts, but if they are not in the current game putting an like (NPC-Inactive) marker by their names, so one gets them confused with current npcs.

Also do you want the Federation/Starfleet NPCs kept seperate from other factions such as the Gorn of this episode?

The Federation NPCs that I currently have are assigned to the patrolling zone, and may make occasional appearances in future stories. Such as if the crew catches a Tal Shiar agent in a adventure, you can expect Commander Doleo to show up right after that.

I can also do a Starlog post like:

Stardate - Stardate Shakedown Cruise (Complete)
We met so and so and had to do this and that, there were some complications though because this guy wanted to be difficult. In the end this is what happened and Starfleet was not exactly estatic about the solution, but it did work.

I would probably put that into the first thread of the Ascendant post, where I have the quick links to the other threads. Down in the NPCs area, I would have a little description, personality and background info like I do for the current people on the ship.

I am reorganizing the Thread. I may do a directory of the current thread in the top thread too. But I may have to move posts and such, thats how all the pictures in the starship interiors thread got so big, and now I have to resize them back to what they were.

 

[knightemplar]

I have posted some unarmed and melee combat maneuvers on the Ascendant thread, with some examples of Martial Arts styles that I know characters have. There are more Martial Arts than that, but right now I am keeping it confined to what people know.

 

[knightemplar]

I found this on the break down of a tactical cruiser which is about the same as the Ascendant. It comes up to about 240 crew. This should be a good representation of which department has how many crew. I will probably shift a couple of the numbers later on.

Command Branch: 15% (36, 9 officers/27 enlisted)
Command: 5%(12, 3 officers/9 enlisted)
Strategic Operations: 5% (12, 3 officers/9 enlisted)
Flight Control: 5% (12, 3 officers/9 enlisted)

Operations Branch: 70% (168, 42 officers/126 enlisted)
Engineering: 20% (48, 12 officers/36 enlisted)
Operations: 10% (24, 6 officers/18 enlisted)
Security: 20% (48, 12 officers/36 enlisted)
Tactical: 20% (48, 12 officers/36 enlisted)


Science Branch: 15% (36, 9 officers/27 enlisted)
Medical: 10% (24, 6 officers/18 enlisted)
Science: 5% (12, 3 officers/9 enlisted)

 

[Rhun]

Nice find, KT. That is very useful!