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[SOLDIER First]

Transport pilot dibs GO

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

(Though I would really go for something even if slightly above "grunt," more in skill than rank for sure in a security role). More for wilderness and urban navigation, if nothing else please. There doesn't seem to be Warf's position on Star Trek as Chief Security Officer or anything or even someone to lead the soldiers in combat while the captain is busy running the ship.

Added a ground force commander with a skill point total of 25.  Also added in how the skill point totals affect the roll modifiers.  Also, also, could people please add in 'sensors' as a skill below communications?  Kinda forgot that fairly important skill.

[Robot Parade Leader]

Awesome and thank you. I will happily take Ground Force Commander. I moved a couple skills around after the modifier thing was posted, but it's basically the same deal.

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Had another dumbass moment.  Forgot to put up how combat works, the ship's basic cargo, and a few other minor things.  I don't think I am missing anything now.

...and it looks like I messed up a bold somewhere as well.  Whelp...

[SOLDIER First]

Spoiler: I like trains (click to show/hide)

Rank/Occupation: Transport Pilot
Name: Lionel Modalis
Age: 30
"Planet" of Origin: Asteroid Belt
Appearance: A well-built (but by no means musclebound) man, Lionel's skin is tinted a shade of dusty olive like he's covered in a layer of dirt that never washes off. To many protests, requests, and pleadings of his friends and family, he keeps his sandy - almost ashen - hair down to his shoulder blades. At least he has it in a ponytail or bun most of the time... His eyes are a bright, unnatural blue, contrasting with his dark and serious face. He compliments the interstellar travel uniform with an ancient hat his great-great grandfather once owned. Nobody really knows what it came from. The hat might have said something on an ovular piece of metal on the front, but it's long faded.
Background: Since e was a young boy, Lionel's mother told him stories passed down through generations of the Modalis family; stories of hulking, disorganized behemoths, made of an archaic material from human past. It was said people had the beasts set on strips of metal thousands of miles long, and they connected groups of them together on top of the strips. People would fill the beasts with all sorts of different things - goods, construction materials, foods, you name it - and, the best part of all, the beasts could move. Burning their fuel instead of producing it, the beasts ran by evaporating liquid water and forcing it in and out of a device on the front; in and out, in and out. A shaft connected to the device turned the force of the water into turning force that caused its wheels to move. Imagine something so primitive and strange - yet it could move hundreds of tons much faster than anything else during its time.
Lionel found the entire idea absolutely amazing. From his childhood to his adulthood, Lionel dreamed of living up to something so wonderful as that, so he decided to enlist in a pilot's school once he was of age. A natural pilot, Lionel was almost the top in his class, and soon found a position - a low one ag that, but a great position all the same - on the Judgement.

Shipboard Skills [Please note I will only include groups with stats included.]
Piloting:
l-Small Ship: 5
l-Large Ship: 0
l-Atmospheric Flight: 5
l-Combat
[0]
l-Navigation:
l--Normal Space: 5
l--Subspace: 3
Ship/Fighter Weapons:
l-Missiles: 0
l-Bombs/Mines: 0
l-Ballistic Weapons: 2
l-Beam Weapons: 1
l-Tractor Beams: 0
Engineering
l-Shield Operation: 0
l-Reactor Operation: 0
l-Life Support Operation: 0
l-Engine Maintenance: 0
l-Subspace Drive Maintenance: 0
l-Fighter/Transport Repair: 3
l-Hull Repair: 0
Other
l-Communications: 0
l-Sensors: 1

"Ground" Skills
Driving
[0]
Navigation
[0]
Held/Mounted Weapons
[0]
Engineering
[0]
Medical
[0]
Other
[0]

[Transcendant]

Torvin Vanush Engineer (Shield and Reactor Technician Specialist)

Seems cool. My health has sucked lately, but I can post and focus on being useful to everyone. I was thinking about being the engineer who specializes as a shield and reactor technician. Basically I hang out in the back of the ship on the lower deck between those two areas and make them work great.

Nobody hates having very skilled shield and reactor use and repair, so this specialty should be nice. Also, sending a ship out there into the unknown without specialized job people like hull repair and stuff sounds rough. Fusion Reactor without somebody dedicated to be right next to it? Na, I'd rather sit near that reactor, the shield gen and the engine. You'd be crazy not to have somebody there dedicated to it. Besides, nobody hates having very skilled shield and reactor use and repair, so this specialty should be nice. So why not have a specialist engineer on board for that stuff?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Rank/Occupation: Engineer (Shield and Reactor Technician Specialist)
Name: Torvin Vanush
Age: 25
"Planet" of Origin: Venus
Appearance: Torvin is a little sickly and always has been. He is thin and wears glasses over his blue eyes. His blue skin, and the rest of him in general, has always loved electricity and power. The idea of capturing the power of a star and then projecting it over something always fascinated Torvin, and it's the thing that makes him smile. He is somewhat shy and never wants to leave the ship, devoting himself entirely to its systems, and you'll often see him among them. His short hair stands on end, undoubtedly due to electrical exposure.

Background: Torvin was always sick. He sat on a couch for months as a child, not unable to move, but only able to move with pain. The only thing he had within reach to entertain himself was a book on resonance harmonics and electrical theoretical application. At first he just looked at the pictures, but then that got boring, so he tried to sound out the words. Before long he had taught himself how to make a weak rudimentary shield generator out of common household items, although it couldn't block more than a spitball (which is what Torvin found himself needing to block sadly enough). He won several science fairs and attended the Venusian Poly-technical University, where he aced shield harmonics, electrical triangulation applications and similar classes. Torvin can make a rudimentary power source out of nearly anything, but even if it would only light up a tiny area.

Despite being shy, Torvin can be social. He does seem to love board games and will talk with anyone who will play one of his favorites with him.

Shipboard Skills
Piloting:
l-Small Ship: 0
l-Large Ship: 0
l-Atmospheric Flight 0
l-Combat
l--Starfighter Combat: 0
l--Ship-to-Ship Combat: 0
l-Navigation:
l--Normal Space: 0
l--Subspace: 0
Ship/Fighter Weapons:
l-Missiles: 0
l-Bombs/Mines: 0
l-Ballistic Weapons: 0
l-Beam Weapons: 0
l-Tractor Beams:0
Engineering
l-Shield Operation: 9
l-Reactor Operation: 9
l-Life Support Operation: 1
l-Engine Maintenance: 1
l-Subspace Drive Maintenance:
l-Fighter/Transport Repair:0
l-Hull Repair: 0
Other
l-Communications: 0
l-Sensors: 0

"Ground" Skills
Driving
l-Ground Vehicles: 0
Navigation
l-Wilderness Navigation: 0
l-Urban Navigation: 0
Held/Mounted Weapons:
l-Type
l--Ballistic Weapons:0
l--Energy Weapons: 0
l--Plasma Weapons: 0
l-Range
l--Melee: 0
l--Close Quarters: 0
l--Mid-Range: 0
l--Long Range: 0
Engineering
l-Ground Vehicle Maintenance: 0
l-Armor Maintenance: 0
l-Weapons Maintenance: 0
Medical
l-Diagnostics: 0
l-Field Dressing: 0
l-Surgical: 0
l-Genetic Engineering: 0
l-Xenobiology: 0
Other
l-Stealth: 0
l-Hacking: 0
l-Mobility: 0

[McDonald]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Rank/Occupation: Engineer (Repairs & Maintenance Tech)
Name: Gary Langley
Age: 28
"Planet" of Origin: Mars
Appearance: Martian-orange man, with medium-short black hair kept in a faux hawk, and dark brown eyes. He is fairly well-built, but not overly muscular, slightly underweight. Gary almost always wears dark cargo pants and shirt, and his trusty toolbelt passed onto him from his father.

Background: Gary, since he was a teenager, has always helped his father at a ship factory where he worked. As a born engineer, he enjoyed it, and picked up many useful skills during this time. Upon finishing college with a major in aerospace engineering, he began to work for a large ship construction company, building various atmospheric and space ships. After hearing about the expedition, he immediately volunteered to test his engineering prowess.
Gary keeps to himself most of the time, but he loves talking about space and space vehicles. He is emotional, but doesn't like showing it.

Shipboard Skills
Piloting:
l-Small Ship: 0
l-Large Ship: 0
l-Atmospheric Flight 0
l-Combat
l--Starfighter Combat: 0
l--Ship-to-Ship Combat: 0
l-Navigation:
l--Normal Space: 0
l--Subspace: 0
Ship/Fighter Weapons:
l-Missiles: 0
l-Bombs/Mines: 0
l-Ballistic Weapons: 0
l-Beam Weapons: 0
l-Tractor Beams:0
Engineering
l-Shield Operation: 1
l-Reactor Operation: 1
l-Life Support Operation: 1
l-Engine Maintenance: 4
l-Subspace Drive Maintenance: 2
l-Fighter/Transport Repair:4
l-Hull Repair: 5
|-Weapons Repair: 1
|-Array Repair: 1
Other
l-Communications: 0
l-Sensors: 0

"Ground" Skills
Driving
l-Ground Vehicles: 0
Navigation
l-Wilderness Navigation: 0
l-Urban Navigation: 0
Held/Mounted Weapons:
l-Type
l--Ballistic Weapons:0
l--Energy Weapons: 0
l--Plasma Weapons: 0
l-Range
l--Melee: 0
l--Close Quarters: 0
l--Mid-Range: 0
l--Long Range: 0
Engineering
l-Ground Vehicle Maintenance: 0
l-Armor Maintenance: 0
l-Weapons Maintenance: 0
Medical
l-Diagnostics: 0
l-Field Dressing: 0
l-Surgical: 0
l-Genetic Engineering: 0
l-Xenobiology: 0
Other
l-Stealth: 0
l-Hacking: 0
l-Mobility: 0

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Well, I was about to create a modification to the first post to include a research mechanic after seeing Truean's post modification to include some projects for her character, when I had a minor thought.  At what point does this reach the scale that this stops being just a game and starts effectively being a test run for a new RPG system?

[McDonald]

Whenever you want!

[The Fool]

I'm going to try joining as a General Ground Forces driver. Likely going for Ground Vehicles - 10, Urban/Wilderness Navigation - 5. Just need to write up a sheet when I'm back.

EDIT: Going with a sniper for slightly more freedom of choice and utility.

[Truean]

Well, it's your game, so it can be whatever you want it to be, or a new RPG or whatever. My take was that with all that skill in genetic engineering and surgery with years of med school etc, was that she could do a couple things with that extreme level of knowledge. Have a little area of the medical bay as set aside as a medical lab, built right in, standard stuff.

Nothing too terribly game breaking but like, basically make some stuff to help wounds heal faster and deal with radiation poisoning. Pretty much as long as I have a lab and the right equipment, I can make some medicines. I'd think that as a lead doctor on a space ship, that'd be cool. No research needed, because it's just a skill with a roll or not, whatever. As long as you're ok with it, neato.

Basically, I just figured lead doctor could make medicines, medical devices, perform complex surgeries etc, and especially with the high level of skill she has. I'm pretty sure you all want your chief medical officer to have a 10 in surgery for when stuff goes wrong. Besides, with a 10 in genetic engineering, I dunno but, the idea of altering some virus to cure radiation sickness doesn't seem out of sorts (otherwise why bother having genetic engineering skill, because when are you going to use it?). Same deal with surgery. I don't know, but if somebody gets sick, then I might do the flavor text of genetic engineering a bacteria to deliver the medicine? I don't see too much genetic engineering on people coming from me, except maybe I might, I dunno, grow somebody a new arm or something if it gets lopped off? Not sure, but it's either that or a prosthetic. Possibly even grow some plants to provide food? I don't know. It sounds more space shipy than just sticking them with a needle, and honestly it would be the same effect, wouldn't it?

I was pretty much just trying to figure out my role in this and thought that might be helpful to everybody, kinda like that one guy who hangs around the shield gen and reactor, except I'm in the med bay I guess. I don't think the other two medics are going to have a 10 skill in surgery and almost certainly not in a 10 genetic engineering. I could be wrong, but maybe a lot of skill in Diagnostics and Field Dressing for when they're out there away from the ship or first aid? Then wounded get brought back to me and I take care of it (or at worst I get brought to them?).

It's really just a departmental specialization if you think about, and it probably goes for all the other things too I guess? You want a starship pilot who's really good at starship piloting, and transport pilot who's good at that, I guess. Same deal with your troops, because somebody's gonna be a gunner of one type, and somebody else is gonna be another gunner type (assault riffle? sniper? melee? scout?). I dunno I'm a doctor not a troop commander Jim!

I hope that's ok.

Anyhow, putting on my HR hat for a second, what else do we need: We have 8 or 9 and need 11 or 12. About 6 of those spots are obvious~

Captain: (I'm not even sure what skills that person should have. What are this person's duties/roles anyhow).
First Officer: (Same deal, though RPL's story about capturing Dr Forge sounded nice for it. He or somebody like him should be First Mate?).
Pilot: (Very important, because somebody's gotta steer this thing.)
Co-Pilot: (Same deal, because god forbid anything happen to the pilot)
Medical Assistant/Ground Medic: (Because I can't be everywhere, we need one, or maybe two)

So there's 5 or 6 people we need right there.

Other than that, it comes down to who plays what role and provides what services:
We don't have grunts, heavily skilled combat specialists, like somebody who is really good with a (3) Martian Assault Rifles ballistics ground weapons.
We don't have a sniper, so. Our sniper riffle is a (1) Lunar Sniper Rifle and it's a beam weapon, so I don't know if anybody wants that, but ....
We don't have an engineer with extremely high skill in engine repair and subspace drive maintenance, but that's ok, because we have generalists who are good.


Basically I guess it's just a matter of who/what we need and what they'll be doing, and it's always like that for every organization.

[spfifle]

Medical Assistant/Ground Medic: (Because I can't be everywhere, we need one, or maybe two)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Rank/Occupation: Medical Assistant/Ground Medic
Name: Altem Corvose
Age: 28
"Planet" of Origin: Venus (Venus)
Appearance: Altem is extremely lanky and a little ill-shaven, with longer brown hair kept in check by a green bandana. He may not always appear to be aware of his surrounding, but he's quite eager and excitable, and has a ready smile once he realizes you're there. His orange tint is darker than most, and you can barely distinguish his pupils in his dark brown eyes. He wears little armor overtop his rather dishevled uniform, and carries a ballistic carbine, plasma pistol, knife, medkit, and satchel.

Background: Altem was more or less a nobody before enlisting as a field medic in the Venusian forces quickly after reaching the age of majority, due to his slim prospects in the academic or business worlds. While a more than capable medic, his potential really began to show when he was assigned to a series of remote monitoring stations on the Venusian surface. There he accumulated a stack of journals detailing the unusual adaptations and mututations of Venusian biology. After finally getting published he was quickly recognized as a rising star in the field of practical xenobiology. Years of balancing a new-found appetite for study, military obligations, and his continuing xenobiology work paid off when he was tapped for this mission and the possibility of meeting a genuine alien lifeform in person.

Shipboard Skills

"Ground" Skills
Driving
l-Ground Vehicles: 0
Navigation
l-Wilderness Navigation: 1
l-Urban Navigation: 0
Held/Mounted Weapons:
l-Type
l--Ballistic Weapons: 1
l--Energy Weapons: 0
l--Plasma Weapons: 0
l-Range
l--Melee: 0
l--Close Quarters: 0
l--Mid-Range: 1
l--Long Range: 0
Engineering
l-Ground Vehicle Maintenance: 0
l-Armor Maintenance: 0
l-Weapons Maintenance: 1
Medical
l-Diagnostics: 3
l-Field Dressing: 8
l-Surgical: 1
l-Genetic Engineering: 0
l-Xenobiology: 9
Other
l-Stealth: 0
l-Hacking: 0
l-Mobility: 0

Also if we're really having trouble finding someone who wants the captaincy, we can go down to just a first/executive officer and have them+chiefs decide as a group on non-emergency matters. Less pressure and maybe a little more interesting for RP. On the other hand that will definitely slow down decision making in irl time.

[TopHat]

Very much WIP but anyway:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Rank/Occupation: Co-Pilot / Navigator
Name: Klaas Busch
Age: 28
"Planet" of Origin: Titan (Venus)
Appearance: Slightly taller and thinner than average, with a Venusian tint and a military haircut.
Background: Coming out of education with excellent results and the world ahead of him, Klaas, much to the surprise of most who knew him, decided to join the Venusian military. Having been shortlisted as a suitable candidate to become a pilot, he and his instructors soon found out that his real skill lay not so much in the actual piloting as in the navigational side of things, so following the completion of his training he was soon assigned as a co-pilot on a Venusian cruiser. Following several such assignments, Klaas was suddenly transferred away, with no explanation given to his former crew, to be assigned on this most important of missions.

Shipboard Skills:
Piloting:
l-Small Ship: 1
l-Large Ship: 3
l-Atmospheric Flight 1
l-Combat
l--Starfighter Combat: 0
l--Ship-to-Ship Combat: 3
l-Navigation:
l--Normal Space: 6
l--Subspace: 6
Ship/Fighter Weapons:
l-Missiles:0
l-Bombs/Mines:0
l-Ballistic Weapons:0
l-Beam Weapons:0
l-Tractor Beams:0
Engineering
l-Shield Operation:0
l-Reactor Operation:0
l-Life Support Operation:0
l-Engine Maintenance:0
l-Subspace Drive Maintenance:0
l-Fighter/Transport Repair:0
l-Hull Repair:0
l-Weapons Repair:0
l-Array Repair:1
Other
l-Communications: 1
l-Sensors:1
"Ground" Skills
Driving
l-Ground Vehicles:0
Navigation
l-Wilderness Navigation:0
l-Urban Navigation: 0
Held/Mounted Weapons:0
l-Type
l--Ballistic Weapons:0
l--Energy Weapons:0
l--Plasma Weapons:0
l-Range
l--Melee:0
l--Close Quarters: 0
l--Mid-Range: 1
l--Long Range:0
Engineering
l-Ground Vehicle Maintenance:0
l-Armor Maintenance:0
l-Weapons Maintenance:0
Medical
l-Diagnostics:0
l-Field Dressing: 1
l-Surgical:0
l-Genetic Engineering:0
l-Xenobiology:0
Other
l-Stealth:0
l-Hacking:0
l-Mobility:0

EDIT - Completed!

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Hammered out a basic research mechanic.

As for the comment about it being a regular game or test bed, I don't really care either way, I'm just curious as to at what point would it be considered having been changed over.

Also if we're really having trouble finding someone who wants the captaincy, we can go down to just a first/executive officer and have them+chiefs decide as a group on non-emergency matters. Less pressure and maybe a little more interesting for RP. On the other hand that will definitely slow down decision making in irl time.

I have an idea of how to handle the situation if it comes down it holding up the game.  For now, it will be a case of waiting and seeing if anyone decides to show up.

I'm going to be having genetic engineering be at the level of being able to do some things on the level of what was done in the recent X-Com game, so you can really do a fair amount with it.  Admittedly, stuff of the level you have detailed would be a case of having less side effects when hit with a roll that is less than a complete success.

Should note that the parenthesis holding numbers in front of something (ex. Martian Assault Rifles) means that there are that many of them, rather than being an indicator of something else.

[The Fool]

I changed my mind about being a driver. Having only one thing that you're decent at isn't my kind of character. It limits character utility.

Spoiler: Kimby "Whisky" Rice (The Fool) (click to show/hide)

Rank/Occupation: General Ground Forces (Sniper)
Name: Kimby "Whisky" Rice
Age: 27
"Planet" of Origin: Mercury (Venus)
Appearance: Kimby stands at 6'5" with a long lean body from growing up in low gravity. Her hair is dark brown, shoulder length, kept asymmetric with pins and clips when out of field. When on a mission, her hair is kept in a ponytail to avoid it drifting in the way of her scope in a heated firefight. Her eyes are a dull brown, liker her hair. Her uniform is always kept tidy, but her living space is usually at least slightly chaotic. She means others well, but maintains a serious attitude most of the time. Like most other Venusians, her skin is tinted light blue.

Background: Kimby  lived a life of ease on Mercury til her late teens coasting through school, good grades, decent life, but never truly content. After a few years of university education she dropped out, joined the Venusian military to clear her university debt and find who she was. The training was rougher than anything she'd ever experienced in her cushy life. It was a wake up call to her, and she liked it. The tension in the air, the smell of sweat, gunpowder, laser-heated barrels, and even the sounds. It was refreshing, and she loved it all. After two tours accompanying Venusian ground forces as a long range wilderness scout, she found herself at peace, and at the boarding doors of the LSS Judgement.

Shipboard Skills
Piloting:
l-Small Ship: 0
l-Large Ship: 0
l-Atmospheric Flight 0
l-Combat
l--Starfighter Combat: 0
l--Ship-to-Ship Combat: 0
l-Navigation:
l--Normal Space: 0
l--Subspace: 0
Ship/Fighter Weapons:
l-Missiles: 0
l-Bombs/Mines: 0
l-Ballistic Weapons: 0
l-Beam Weapons: 0
l-Tractor Beams: 0
Engineering
l-Shield Operation: 0
l-Reactor Operation: 0
l-Life Support Operation: 0
l-Engine Maintenance: 0
l-Subspace Drive Maintenance: 0
l-Fighter/Transport Repair: 0
l-Hull Repair: 0
Other
l-Communications: 0
l-Sensors: 0

"Ground" Skills
Driving
l-Ground Vehicles: 0
Navigation
l-Wilderness Navigation: 3
l-Urban Navigation: 0
Held/Mounted Weapons:
l-Type
l--Ballistic Weapons: 0
l--Energy Weapons: 4
l--Plasma Weapons: 0
l-Range
l--Melee: 0
l--Close Quarters: 0
l--Mid-Range: 0
l--Long Range: 7
Engineering
l-Ground Vehicle Maintenance: 0
l-Armor Maintenance: 0
l-Weapons Maintenance: 0
Medical
l-Diagnostics: 0
l-Field Dressing: 0
l-Surgical: 0
l-Genetic Engineering: 0
l-Xenobiology: 0
Other
l-Stealth: 5
l-Hacking: 0
l-Mobility: 1