Ruby

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I kinda like the Sovereign. Nice balance.

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Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant in 2378. The year 2382 is four years after Voyager returned home.

@Revans Exile

Yep. I'm GMing it as though it hasn't happened yet in our setting.

Gotham City Tales (OOC and IC)

Nice post!

You can respond, Konica, considering we're only playing to each other right now.

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Trekkie with the time and inclination for a lengthy read? Try the (totally free) amazing Dominion War Sourcebook. Find it here. It's worth it, and you'll have an absolute understanding of our setting. From all sides.

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Prometheus might be cool, too.

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Also, JS, not opposed to a Star Trek Online class. Some of them look quite nifty.

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If we're talking ship classes, that really depends on what sort of things you want to get up to; There's no point going for a Defiant-class ship if we're doing deep-space exploration, and no point in using a Nova if we're going to be blowing things up on a regular basis.

@Lost Cause

I guess something in-between those two extremes is what we want, then? Unfortunately I don't know the individual ships types so um... ^^;

EDIT: Intrepid class? ^^; Mostly because Voyager is the only Trek series I've seen in full (I know, I know...) but yeah.

@Rin

I liked Voyager; and loved early Voyager.

Still Nova and Voyager would get caught in the political crossfire of Exploration vs. Militarization; right now talented officers are Starfleet's most precious resource--and the precious resource is has the least of.

Also, since so many ships were destroyed during the war, don't rule out an updated Galaxy, or New Orleans class, or something similar.

The ship will be assigned to a Mobile Task Force, unlike most Starfleet ships which are assigned to Wings that operate within a set section of Federation territory.

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The OOC is now up and active.

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"...a dream that became a reality and spread throughout the stars" — Captain James Kirk

Welcome to the newest attempt at a small(ish) group Trek game. The setting is Roddenberry's canon universe, not the newer Abrams-verse. Soon after the Dominion War, before the homecoming of Voyager. The game will be centered on one ship and it's crew, at least at first. Interested but not sure if you know enough about Trek? Worry not; as our game's living Trek databank, I can either answer any question you'd have, or be able to point you to a wiki article that'll have the answer.

As a way to interject unpredictability into the game, I (as the GM) hope to avoid taking a major role with the Starfleet crew. That way I can write as Admirals giving orders, Orion pirates, Klingon warriors, Romulan Tal-Shiar, etc, etc.

Questions/comments? Always feel free to ask me here in the OOC, or shoot me a PM.

IC Details

• Ship is the USS Artemis, Sovereign class.
• The story begins soon after the Dominion War; Starfleet finds itself torn between it's mission of exploration and the recent call for greater militarization--it's become the greatest internal political debate of Federation history.
• The Dominon War has cost Starfleet most it's experienced Captains and crew, as well as it's best ships; the only known flagships to have survived are the USS Defiant, and the USS Enterprise.
• The Klingon Empire was hit hardest by the Dominion War out of all Alpha Quadrant powers; many within the Empire point to the "destructive nature" of an alliance with the Federation as the cause. Though they are licking their wounds and rebuilding their Empire, many believe the Klingon Empire has never been this dangerously unpredictable since the days of Kirk and Spock.
• While the Romulan Empire came out of the Dominion War in the best shape of all Alpha Quadrant powers (given it's late entry into the conflict), the Empire was soon brought to it's knees by (as most believe) a group of Reman terrorists. In reality it was the classified Shinzon incident that extinguished the Romulan Senate and it's leadership. That it was a Starfleet Captain and crew that saved the Romulan Empire from utter destruction has been covered up by Starfleet, and mostly forgotten by the Romulans.
• Starfleet Academy has yet to return to a normalized graduation pace; Cadets are still being trained and pushed out of the Academy at War-time speeds. What used to take four years, now takes one and a half.
• The current year is 2382.

OOC Details

• Currently I am the lone GM for the game. I may be looking for a Co-GM later on, so if you've got any interest, feel free to let me know.
• Disagree with the GM/another player on something? Send me a PM, don't air out dirty laundry in the OOC.
• Be respectful to your fellow players. It's incredibly important we all feel free to give input in the OOC, that everyone feels safe to share any idea/concept they have. (So it's as collaborative as possible.) Jerks and control freaks make that difficult. So be cool, like the Fonz. 'aaayy.
• The game standards are somewhere between Casual and Advanced.
• Post unapproved Character Sheets in the OOC. Once approved, post them in the Characters section.
• Have an odd character request? Want to work in something from your character's past into the game story? The more I can say 'Yes' to players, the more fun the players tend to have, in my experience. I'll always try to make something work, just send me a PM about it.

Roster (Don't see the spot you want below? Let me know!)

Captain: Available
Executive Officer: Available
Chief Engineer: Available
Operations Chief: Available
Security/Tactical Chief: Lieutenant Edith Achterberg
Chief Science Officer: Available
Chief Helmsman: Available
Chief Medical Officer: Available

Character Sheet Template

Appearance (Picture, description, etc--up to you.)

Name:
Rank:
Position: (Security, CO, CMO, CHENG, etc)
Species:
Age:

Special Skills: Do you Fence? Are you a human baseball enthusiast? Maybe you play the Sax? Maybe you're the best pilot around? Great with a sniper rifle? A planetside survivalist? Contacts from Intell or Starfleet Command that you can ask for info? Contacts from criminal underworlds? If you've got a little extra something that sets you apart, put it here. Don't? Then don't worry about it.

Service Record

Example Service Record

2379: Accepted to Starfleet Academy. Major in Operations, Minors in Computer Engineering and Warp Drive Theory.
2380: Assigned to USS Crazy Horse as Operations staff; patrols Cardassian and Breen borders.
2380: Promoted to Lieutenant JG.
2381: Promoted to Lieutenant.
2383: Assigned to USS Vanguard as Operations Chief; promoted to Lieutenant Commander.

(As most characters should be young and not too far out of the Academy, I don't expect many lengthy Service Records.)

Background: (Tell me about your character here. At lease two paragraphs.)

Gotham City Tales (OOC and IC)

Stephanie Brown smiled sleepily at Kate Kane.

And then she lost her mind. She didn't rise from the chair. She didn't hop up, or stand; no, Stephanie Brown was out of the chair so fast and with such force that she'd all but leapt out of it. Stephanie had never really considered herself a violent person, at least, not before seeing just a few of the injustices that occured within Gotham City on a nightly basis. There's only so many times a brand new vigilante like the Spoiler could sneak in darkness, and listen to a woman get raped by mean men, before said new vigilante wanted only to learn how to hurt those mean men without getting herself killed.

Bruce had begun her training, but quickly sent Stephanie over seas for the sort of training Batman simply could not provide. It was O-Sensei who trained her mentally, even metaphysically. Then it was Richard Dragon, then Lady Shiva. By the time Stephanie Brown had returned to Gotham City, her combat capabilities had warped so far ahead of where they'd been that no one seemed to know just how capable a fighter the new Batgirl really was.

Of quickness and speed, Damian Wayne had met his match; before the boy could blink another sulky blink, Stephanie Brown's right hand had taken the injured boy by the throat--and squeezed. The voice that came was dark and heavy and hot, her tone little more than fire and blood, getting quiet instead of louder. The sign of true rage in the Brown family.

"You almost got both of us killed." When Damian tried to break the hold, he'd discover the iron lock of the grip. His legs kicked, but his injured little body was just no match for her. That he was unable to breath, she seemed not to even notice. "If you ever come close to doing it again, I'll put you down and strip your mantle from you myself. For now just shut your mouth...I'm tired of hearing you talk."

The grip broke, and Stephanie Brown turned away from Damian, looking at Kate as if she'd just seen her for the first time. It was only when Steph saw Kate's face...that she seemed to realize just what she'd done. "Yeah," she began, her tone as lifeless and tired as it was when she'd just woken up--before Damian enacted her rage. "It was a bad night."

What had Stephanie silently thanking God was when she walked out of the room, Kate followed. It was an armory room Steph had gone to, from the looks of it; a single white bulb hanging from the dirty concrete roof, all walls and even the floor the same type and shade of old concrete. The walls were lined with metallic lockers. The moment Steph arrived at the first locker she began unlocking the Batsuit she'd slept in, and taking it off.

Only when she was in a teeshirt and shorts did Stephanie accept the cup of coffee originally meant for her, and sip on it as she took a seat on the lone wooden bench in the room. When her big, bright, eyes looked up to Kate...they were filled with only angst. Pain. "I'm sorry. I've never snapped at him before. Him talking to me like that...fine, whatever. Talk is cheap. But talk to you that way? In addition to last night?...I guess I lost it."

Again, her voice seemed a shell of it's normal self, her eyes breaking from Kate's and descending to the ground before her head shook, and Steph sipped at the coffee once more. "Thank you, Kate. There are times I don't feel like I deserve your friendship, like I've dragged you deeper into this Bat-hole....." As sad as she may have sounded, nothing would keep Batgirl from the following joke: "You know, but don't ever let that stop you from bringing me coffee...girl could get used to this."

Despite every emotion in her body, Stephanie's pink lips slipped into the tiniest of smirks.