[@KahleenCuthald] I have a rough, generalized list of roles that can be filled. Some can be combined or expanded as needed, I can be flexible about it.

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First Officer
Engineer
Navigator
Quartermaster 
Merchant
Helmsman/Pilot
Master-at-Arms
Ordnance Master
Ship's Surgeon/Doctor
Master of Communications
Spymaster
Boarding Party
Ship's Steward
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And the setting will be wholly fictional. Sort of like Star Wars, humans exist but there is no Earth. Very little about the setting is really nailed down beyond a general primer I have prepared, so there's a lot of flexibility available for characters.

[@AdvancedJ3lly] That actually works quite well, as the crew needs someone to help research and decode the Nova Dawn's aetherial lexicon. Just ensure that your character has some business being aboard a pirate ship rather than on a research vessel somewhere, if you get what I mean.