Crew Question

[Ronin84]

I want to use a Nova Class ship in an upcoming adventure and I was wondering if anyone had a breakdown of officer to enlisted for that ship. WITH the possibility of what ranks those officers would be? Sorry, but I am at a loss I have seen the number of 80 for the crew and seem to remember a 65 to 15 breakdown.

Thanks in advance!

[JALU3]

Have you ever created your own crew break down of any of the other ship before? If not, maybe you need to start by thinking about what basic functions need to be taken care on the ship, and think about crewing that, with three shifts each. May I suggest you look at modern ship complements, of a similar sized ship for example, and work your way from there.

Command/Admin
Engineering
Operations (Navigation, Helm, Attached Smaller Vessels (Flight Ops/Shuttlebay), etc.)
Science
Medical (Dental, Psyc)
Security/Tactical

On Smaller Vessels, the same roles exist, but a single person may share the duty of multiple roles, that on a larger ship would have its own division aboard ship.

Maybe a better, more slim, ship orginzation you might want to look at is a merchant ship, which has even fewer personnel aboard.

[Ronin84]

Have you ever created your own crew break down of any of the other ship before? If not, maybe you need to start by thinking about what basic functions need to be taken care on the ship, and think about crewing that, with three shifts each. May I suggest you look at modern ship complements, of a similar sized ship for example, and work your way from there.

Command/Admin
Engineering
Operations (Navigation, Helm, Attached Smaller Vessels (Flight Ops/Shuttlebay), etc.)
Science
Medical (Dental, Psyc)
Security/Tactical

On Smaller Vessels, the same roles exist, but a single person may share the duty of multiple roles, that on a larger ship would have its own division aboard ship.

Maybe a better, more slim, ship orginzation you might want to look at is a merchant ship, which has even fewer personnel aboard.

Thanks I appreciate the input BUT I need this to be the ship class mentioned. I am aware of the departments that you mentioned...I for some reason thought there was something out there that broke crews down by division. An excel spreadsheet as a matter of fact...I can't seem to find mine and maybe I am mistaken.

[IceGiant]

I use the table that Steve Long put in spacedock. And seeing as I'm a little anal retentive I did up the crew complement for the Nova as I was going to use her in a game.

These are the numbers I use, but of course YMMV.

Nova - Class Crew List

Total Complement: 80
Officers: 30
Enlisted: 50

COMMAND (9)

Commanding Officer (1) Commander (Captain)
First Officer (1) Lt. Commander
Second Officer (1) Lieutenant
Command Staff (6) Enlisted

ENGINEERING (13)

Chief Engineer (1) Lieutenant
Engineering Officer (3) Lieutenant (j.g.) – Ensign
Engineer (9) Enlisted

OPERATIONS (24)

Chief of Operations (1) Lieutenant
Operations Officer (9) Lieutenant (j.g.) - Ensign
Operations Specialist (14) Enlisted

SECURITY (13)

Chief Security Officer (1) Lieutenant
Security Officer (3) Lieutenant (j.g.) - Ensign
Security specialist (9) Enlisted

MEDICAL (6)

Chief Medical Officer (1) Lieutenant
Medical Officer (2) Lieutenant (j.g)
Nurse (3) Enlisted

SCIENCE (15)

Chief Science Officer (1) Lieutenant
Science Officer (5) Lieutenant (j.g.) - Ensign
Science Specialist (9) Enlisted

[Ronin84]

I use the table that Steve Long put in spacedock. And seeing as I'm a little anal retentive I did up the crew complement for the Nova as I was going to use her in a game.

These are the numbers I use, but of course YMMV.

Nova - Class Crew List

Total Complement: 80
Officers: 30
Enlisted: 50

COMMAND (9)

Commanding Officer (1) Commander (Captain)
First Officer (1) Lt. Commander
Second Officer (1) Lieutenant
Command Staff (6) Enlisted

ENGINEERING (13)

Chief Engineer (1) Lieutenant
Engineering Officer (3) Lieutenant (j.g.) – Ensign
Engineer (9) Enlisted

OPERATIONS (24)

Chief of Operations (1) Lieutenant
Operations Officer (9) Lieutenant (j.g.) - Ensign
Operations Specialist (14) Enlisted

SECURITY (13)

Chief Security Officer (1) Lieutenant
Security Officer (3) Lieutenant (j.g.) - Ensign
Security specialist (9) Enlisted

MEDICAL (6)

Chief Medical Officer (1) Lieutenant
Medical Officer (2) Lieutenant (j.g)
Nurse (3) Enlisted

SCIENCE (15)

Chief Science Officer (1) Lieutenant
Science Officer (5) Lieutenant (j.g.) - Ensign
Science Specialist (9) Enlisted

Much appreciated! Will look at Spacedock and found Crew Tools on the old site as well!

[Sanmateo]

Nice! Thanks!

[JALU3]

If you haven't played with Spacedock before, I would highly recommend it. It is very detailed, and there is alot of user created content here as well.

[spyone]

The crew positions on a Nova Class will depend on a number of things, mainly what is it's intended mission. A science ship will have a very different crew from an explorer, obviously.

If this ship is being used as an explorer, it would have a crew somewhat similar to that of the Enterprise or Voyager, and I have some crude guesses to those that have served well in the past:

OPS: folded into Engineering
Security/Tactical: 1 Lt, 2 Ens, 12 enlisted
Councelor: added to duties of CMO
Medical: 2 Lt, 6 enlisted
Engineering: 1 Lt, 3 Ens, 24 enlisted
Command: 3 Ens
Science: 1 Lt, 2 Ens, 18 enlisted
Which gives a crew of 76, plus a LtCmdr as Skipper.
17 officers including CO, 60 enlisted.

The two medical Lieutenants might be two Doctors, but are more likely to be a Doctor and a Nurse, especially if EMH's exist yet.
The XO is going to probably be the Chief Engineer, just because the others of the same rank all have a duty shift in their departments (CSO and 2 Ensigns in Science, Chief and 2 Ensigns in Security/tactical, but 3 Ensigns in Engineering to supervise 3 shifts).
The officers in Security man Tactical in 3 shifts, while the Enlisted guys maintain the phasers and do Security stuff. The 3 Ensigns in Command are the Helmsmen for 3 shifts. The 3 Ensigns in Engineering each run a shift of 7 Crewmen, supervised by the Chief Engineer.

That feels good to me, but let's see if Steve Long agrees :
USS Equinox (Nova Class) is described in Star Trek: The Magazine as a "science vessel". They also says it started with a crew of 78. (My numbers above were tweaked to reach that goal.)
Spacedock says a Science Vessel with a crew of 78 is a 975 SEU ship.

If it is a Science Ship, it will be 21 officers and 57 enlisted.
There will be 8 Command, 12 Engineers, 7 Ops, 8 Security/Tactical, 10 Medical, and 33 Scientists.
But if it is an Explorer, it would have 25 officers and 53 enlisted.
There will be 13 Command, 10 Engineers, 20 Ops, 9 Security/Tactical, 9 Medical, and 17 Scientists.

So, according to Spacedock I went heavy on Ops/Engineering, and light on Command. Personally, I think a ship this small is going to be like that: not much for Command to do except steer the ship, but lots of maintenance to do.