[Other] Star Trek Adventures: To Boldly Go

[Valentha]

Greetings all,

I was referred here from the Modiphius Discord looking for PbP games for STA. I'm unsure if you are full but I have a basic application below and am looking at the Chief Engineer position (Well....more for RP for my character would be more Assistant Chief as it would fit better if the GM is agreeable)

I don't have the bio part yet but can provide later.

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NAME: Lynette Ryan
SPECIES: Human Female
AGE: 24
RANK: Lieutenant JG
ENVIRONMENT: Homeworld (Earth, Australia, Melbourne)
UPBRINGING: Science & Technology
PREFERRED ROLE: Chief Engineer (RP wise: Assistant Chief Engineer more preferable) BACKUP: Helm
ASSIGNMENT: USS Tomoe Gozen NCC 62643

PRIMARY DISCIPLINES:
Engineering
Conn

FOCUSES:

- Computers
- EPS Systems
- Transporters & Replicators
- Flight Control Systems
- Small Craft
- Survival

VALUES:

- Ready for Adventure
- Always ready for Alternatives
- Problem with Authority
- No tolerance for Stupidity

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Lynette grew up with a distruptive childhood (An only child) with her mother passing when she was very young and her father in Starfleet (Unwilling to place his daughter at risk on his tour of duty) so she was left in care to her uncle. She became very independent, headstrong with a passion for taking things apart and putting them back together and tinkering. Lynette had a rebellious streak about her and many times defied her uncles wishes to the point she would go joyriding in his shuttle which lead to her butting heads with authority. Her uncle (In discussions with her father) attempted to convince her to get into Starfleet (Feeling boredom was a major part of her rebellion) but Lynette at that time refused. It wasn't until the Borg incursion and the battle of Wolf 359 (where her father had died aboard the Bellerophon) that she eventually came around to accepting...just to get away.

She quickly developed a talent for the engineering programs and still continued to fly as one of her electives (Scaring the wits out of her colleagues and instructors with her daredevil approach) but she became a bane for her instructors because her stubbornness and considered her a loose cannon with no sense of boundary or discipline. Though it was by her skill and unique ideas that she wasn't simply mustered out of the academy.

Lynette barely graduated and she bounced between one or two assignments (due to disagreements with her CO) but it was her assignment aboard the USS Frederickson that she eventually mellowed as her CO took a different approach in handling her rebellious Ensign and her change lead to an eventual promotion. Unfortunately during an away team her CO ended up dying unexpectedly and with that loss Lynette asked for a transfer.

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SITUATIONAL RESPONSE
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[daveron]

[Saratek]

 

@Acathala: While our opinions may differ, it is clear that it creates no hurdles in our ability to play in and enjoy games together. I'm pleased to see you seem to intend to apply to this game, knowing personally your abilities as a player.

 

@Valentha: Firstly, Welcome to Lovingly referred to as RPGX by many community membersRPGCrossing! It's always lovely to meet new members to the site, regardless of what path lead them to the Crossing.

Given how the Site System works, you may find you can't do certain things until you reach a Post Count of 4 or Higher. (It's in place to weed out bots) I would suggest you follow This Link to the New Member Introductions Forum and take a look around. Perhaps create a thread to introduce yourself to the community. Helpful Tips for New Members is a thread in that forum that can provide you with a lot of information you may find useful as a new member of the community.

As for This STA Game, we are currently in the "Player Application Phase" of the game, meaning that Drachenspirit (the GM) has decided to run this STA game and is taking applications to find the Group of Players that will take part in the game. Once they get enough applicants or more than likely hit the tentative deadline they set of midnight CST on Saturday July 9th, they will Close the Application Window and go about choosing from the posted and complete applications who they will be inviting to Play in the game. This choice is often made via "I totally just made this term upStrength of Application": the Role-Play prowess you show in not only following application guidelines but also being able to tell a good story about your character's history prior to and up to the starting circumstances of the game. In this case, it would be your character being assigned to the USS Tomoe Gozen.

As for your concern about the Position in which your character might fit: Be Creative. As outlined in the Original Advertisement (The First Post of this Thread), the Chosen Players will comprise the Senior Staff a.k.a. the 'Stars of the Series'. While you may not believe your character is ready to handle the mantle of Chief Engineer, certain circumstances in your character's history may have warranted such a posting on such a ship. The USS Tomoe Gozen is to be a newly launched General Term for the nature of its outlined mission, and not meant to specify anything Mechanically or FactuallyExploration Vessel setting out during what many would say was a heightened time of danger and hostilities only a short 4 years since one of the largest losses of ships and personnel in Starfleet history; the Battle of Wolf 359. Perhaps a 'lack of available qualified personnel' mixed with your character's unique history led to the posting? Like I said: Be Creative. It will benefit you in this process.

As with any new PbP site, I would advise you to take a look around. Familiarize yourself with the site and the community. If you stick around and get chosen for this game, it will benefit you to know the general layout and where you can find the numerous resources and forums.

Once again, Welcome to RPGCrossing. We're happy to have you.

[daveron]

@saratek & drachenspirit


Secreted lore info, so drakenspirit can choose to use it or not, and it doesn't distract others.

[Valentha]

I've edited my application to include my bio. (Hope its okay). I thought I would give you a little about myself. I'm from Australia (Why PbP is mostly necessary as most online games tend to be outside my timezone). I have played a few RPGs in the past (D&D 5e, Starfinder) being the most prominent. Currently unemployed so have time to devote to writing for this until RL crops up. I have most of the books in .PDF that I purchased from a Humble Bundle last year and started playing shortly after but that game ended up dying due to RL circumstances from the GM. I'm really keen to play and learn as I like the system.

Also thanks for the welcome Saratek Much appreciated.

[Drachenspirit]

Note To All Applicants:

I apologize in advance if this impacts anyone's application, but it is highly likely that the "Class" of ship the crew will be assigned to/using will change before the start of the game. I chose the Akira class because it was right for the time, and different from others crewed in movies and shows, though I didn't look into its design. I haven't decided what class to go with, but the Norway class seems close to the right fit for the mission and the crew size I was going for.
This all said, I do understand how the ship becomes home to a crew, and do love that aspect of the genre, so I'll try to make a decision on a ship for the crew this week so everyone can start envisioning their character on board it.
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[daveron]

Mitsy. That sounds awesome. I consent. I was hoping we might know each other from the academy. The controversy from my background would possibly involve sentience research, and medical ethics involved with the ship ai \ emergancy medical (and others) holographic development programs. This seems right up your alley. Perhaps you helped me in arguing aginst my professor and husband and acting as mentor and providing me support when i was getting legal involved when things got out of hand. My husband (chan) would have been doing very similar work to you before his execution at my own hands for for goinging rouge and disregarding emerging sentient species rights. No matter how strongly the federation requires new weapons systems we aren't in the business of creating and subjugating new life forms to be our slaves.

[Saratek]

 

If anyone would like to utilize Revan as someone their character may have encountered or served with during his lengthy career, I'm giving you full permission to do so.

Regardless of who ultimately gets selected, every Starfleet Officer is usually acquainted with or even worked with a number of other Officers. Given that chosen characters are all ultimately going to be "Senior Staff", I believe Career Events covers thisthey all 'shined' at some point in their career, and thus became known for something. As anyone familiar with Star Trek knows: If you do something special, usually everyone hears about it either through gossip or an entry in a Log. Ships, and Starfleet itself for that matter, are 'tight' communities that share in their Knowledge and Experiences for the betterment of the Whole.

Revan is no exception. Based solely on his Career Events, he probably has both a "Maneuver" named after him as well as being embroiled in what would have been a very public Court Martial of a Senior Officer for 'War Crimes', which I'm sure many monitored at the time.

I'm always up for collaboration, so please, if my character can help in your creativity, have at it.

[daveron]

Saratek info

 

Originally Posted by Saratek

Note to All: If anyone would like to utilize Revan as someone their character may have encountered or served with during his lengthy career, I'm giving you full permission to do so.

Regardless of who ultimately gets selected, every Starfleet Officer is usually acquainted with or even worked with a number of other Officers. Given that chosen characters are all ultimately going to be "Senior Staff", I believe Career Events covers thisthey all 'shined' at some point in their career, and thus became known for something. As anyone familiar with Star Trek knows: If you do something special, usually everyone hears about it either through gossip or an entry in a Log. Ships, and Starfleet itself for that matter, are 'tight' communities that share in their Knowledge and Experiences for the betterment of the Whole.

Revan is no exception. Based solely on his Career Events, he probably has both a "Maneuver" named after him as well as being embroiled in what would have been a very public Court Martial of a Senior Officer for 'War Crimes', which I'm sure many monitored at the time.

I'm always up for collaboration, so please, if my character can help in your creativity, have at it.

Is the warcrime you were embroidered with the same one that I was involved with, which got my husband & a senior professor at the academy court-martialed?

[Saratek]

 

Originally Posted by daveron

Is the warcrime you were embroidered with the same one that I was involved with, which got my husband & a senior professor at the academy court-martialed?

No. It's spoken of in Revan's history. A former Captain (Borja) of his had covertly been working with the Obsidian Order and ordered strikes on a colony planet that assumingly killed many innocent people. Revan was responsible for discovering the connection that ultimately led to the Captain's conviction.

[Saratek]

 

Originally Posted by Mitsubachi

@saratek is Revan old enough to be a combat instructor at some point, do you think? He could be training the cadet group out in the wilderness (and hence leads the surprise counter-attack). This event could be the catalyst for him wanting to get "back in the saddle" as a Chief Sec Officer on a ship.

I don't see why not. He's been in including the AcademyStarfleet for at least 15 years. His It is probably at the minimum I could have him at that would make sense, but could be easily increasedage is assuming he was promoted to LtCmdr for this assignment. I could see him serving as a Training Officer at the Academy for no longer than a yearshort stints between Ship Assignments. I've purposely left large holes in his history to have room for expansion if selected.

I would caution you against focusing too much on making "character connections" in your character's history. The History should show off Your character. Including too many others could dull the shine of the intended 'Star' of your application.

[Acathala]

Well I just used the character creation tool, and that was fun!

[Drachenspirit]

Everyone, please put your posts that are longer than one small paragraph pertaining to things other than the app process into Spoiler Tags. I love the interaction, but let's try to keep them from making long posts to peruse through.

[Acathala]

Name
Vren Azonan

Species
Andorian

Age
35

Rank
Captain

Environment
Star base

Upbringing
Starfleet

Preferred role
Captain

Assignment
USS Tomoe Gozen

Disciplines
1. Command
2. Engineering

 

Melee
Composure
Starfleet protocols
Team dynamics
Negotiation(treaty)
Sneaky(Starfleet intelligence)

 

Start with words, but carry an Ushaan-tor just in case.
Follow the prime directive
Risk is our business.
Marriage is important.

 

Vren Azonan was born on a star base, to Andorian parents. Given they were both Starfleet captains, it was perhaps inevitable he too, would join Starfleet. The young Andorian didn't see his father much physically, as he was the captain of a nebula class starship, but they were still close. His dad often gave him good advice, and taught him much, including how to wield the Ushaan-tor, the Andorian melee weapon.
His mother, the captain of a star base, by contrast, was not close to Vren, despite the child living with her. She worked him hard on his education. Picked out a career path for him. Later Vren would describe her as marginally more frosty than Andor.
When it came time to go to Starfleet academy, once Vren arrived in San Francisco, he found out his mother had already arranged his classes and electives. For the first month he was deeply unhappy. Then a female Vulcan fellow student, named T'rem, noticed his distress. She asked him what was wrong. The bold question caught him off guard, and Vren told her the truth. Whilst he wanted to be at Starfleet academy, he wanted to be on a different track. T'rem told him he would only be happy he lived the life he wanted to lead. It was only logical. Realising she was right, Vren spoke to a friendly professor, and rearranged his schedule so that he was doing the things he wanted to do.
Unfortunately that meant a lot of catch up. However T'rem gave up a lot of her free time to help him. It wasn't a one way street, and he helped her out with her engineering casework.
Vren turned out to be a natural commander, and often led group assignments. He remained undefeated in mock battles against rival teams.
Upon graduation, Vren had gained more than an education, he had gained a fiancee. The time he had spent with her studying, had grown their relationship into something more. How could he not fall in love with the beautiful, kind Vulcan woman?
Announcing the engagement went differently. Whilst it was hard to tell, her Vulcan parents seemed to approve. Vren's dad broke out the booze and toasted the happy couple. His mother on the other hand disapproved hard. She ordered Vren to break the engagement. He did not. Vren was not the same person. Starfleet and T'rem had given him the confidence to stand up to her. He told her bluntly T'rem was the best thing that ever happened to him, and he was marrying her. This left his mother aghast and speechless for the first time. Vren and T'rem were married shortly after. His mother did not attend.
Married life wasn't always easy. Their assignments would often take them far apart, but they would make the most of the time they had together. Vren gained the reputation of solid officer. Eventually his work caught the eye of Admiral Nechayev, and he was appointed as one of her aides, to help her negotiate several treaties with Cardassia, culminating in the Federation/Cardassia treaty of 2370.
However the treaty was not popular with the colonists in the demilitarized zone, who felt abandoned by Federation to the mercy of Cardassia. Whilst Vren was sympathetic, he understood the prospect of war was a far worse reality.
The colonists formed a resistance called the "Maquis", aided and abetted covertly by some in command. Vren was tapped into Starfleet intelligence to track down the rot within.
At first the work was frustrating. Every move they made, the other side was ahead by several. Suspecting a mole, Vren acted on his own initiative. Marked supplies he suspected the Maquis were after so he could track them. Sure enough the Maquis took the bait. When Vren arrived with a security team to arrest them, he was unprepared for the leader. It was T'rem, who shot him with a phaser. Whilst the rest of her cell was caught, she was in the wind.
The subsequent inquiry cleared Vren of any wrongdoing, whilst he had been the first to make a significant capture of the Maquis, the fact his own wife had been a member, and he hadn't suspect, kinda killed his intelligence career.
His mother contacted him soon afterwards. In an unpleasant call, she gloated over the fact she knew T'rem was all wrong for him, and that he should have listened to him. In the second time of standing up to her, Vren finally, epically lost his temper with her, cutting all contact with her.
Vren is assigned to the USS Tomoe Gozen, partly as a reward, partly to get him out of the public gaze of his wife being Maquis scandal.

[daveron]

 

ship stuff.
As cool as akiras are they are kinda overkill for most adventures like this. It would have been REALLY FUN to have some of that stuff at our disposal to play with, but actually enjoy the smaller voyager sized and science/diplomacy focus more. It will be nice to have to use our heads and not have a massive metric boat load of torpedo's to spam at every threat we come across. I'm just as excited for this direction as the other. I would love to have some concrete ship stats and info to flesh out and get approved. My character is a nerd for that stuff (and so am I). I apologize for any over eagerness I may have. Lots less is 'cannon' about this class, but the potential seems great as well as more focus on science and discovery over raw firepower. It still is a 'protector' ship though and people speculate it had a very similar design history as akira as well as equivalent shields and even more improved sensors and the same phasor systems as akira, but without all the overboard 'other stuff' that is the deadly 'open secret' of the heavy cruisers. I'll feel more comfortable without having so many security marines, and fighters around just because I know if we have all that stuff we will be put in situations to have to use it constantly. (that is how militaries are, you get put to use doing what you do)