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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corsair" data-source="post: 3295922" data-attributes="member: 23477">Using your previous chart, I suspect he would've made level 5 or 6 while still in Starfleet.  Taking into account the other people's comments about low ranked people at helm, I somewhat agree.  I see this guy as having been in Starfleet for a while though, and constantly moving between ships.  He eventually got promoted to Lt, but it took much longer than normal, primarily due to concerns of "character issues".  He was never really "leadership material" and his superiors knew it, but he was very good at his job, so they overlooked his minor issues for quite some time (possibly for even longer due to galactic issues, such as maybe it was occuring during the Dominion War or something, and they needed every man they could get).  Eventually something bad happened that was his fault.  For any other officer, it would have been called an accident after a board of inquiry looked into it, but in his case, with a record full of minor disiplinary actions and reprimands, years of screw ups came down on him all at once.  Though the "bad thing" (maybe a collision between two ships in combat, maybe a shuttle accident, who knows) wasn't technically his fault, the board was able to use this opportunity to remove this "less than Starfleet material" officer from their midst.  (At this point, he was level 5)After that, he worked indepently for a few years on various freighters, salvage, and mercenary ships of a dozen different races.  Though a "recreational" user while in Starfleet (the source of a portion of his disciplinary record) he slipped deeper into depression and drug addiction just to get through the days.  He holds a massive grudge against Starfleet, and superior officers and Starfleet command specifically (he gets along fine with the junior officers who are just 'doing their job').  Part of him wants to prove that they made a mistake though, and every time he takes the helm of a ship, he flies with not just precision, but passion.  He feels every time he sits in that chair, he has to prove himself again.His eventual level for game play would be based on how much time he has been out of Starfleet and how much action he's seen since then.  I'll probably peg him at 7th.How does that sound for a start?  Not sure what to use for classes, probably some combination of Fast and Tough.</blockquote>

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