Cretok Nor

[Owen E Oulton]

Well, as part of my ongoing campaign, which has just been moved to the Cardassian station Cretok Nor, I've rolled up a new batch of characters. Three of them are Lieutenant Seth Bern's siblings; Vedek Seth Zurich, his eldest brother, Maquis Terrorist Seth Cern, his middle brother; and Lieutenant (jg) Seth Jaya, his younger sister, who is a Science Officer (Botany) on the Challenger. One is his cousin, Seth Jann, a bartender at Queeg's Bar, and the last is Commander M'Rel's twin brother, Federation Envoy M'Rek. Should be fun dangling from all those plot hooks. BWAH-hah-hah-HAH!

As well, while the characters were doing some hacking to see if their new friend LCdr. N'rrmall (cutest catian in all the Federation) was actually bad at darts or just hustling them), I had them look at his on-line skill list, and they found out that he's their new XO on their next assignmant (which Starfleet had not yet announced). My mills grind slowly...

[Nuclear Fridge]

I must dig out my CODA rulebooks... This makes me think of 'Task Force 20' out of the Starships book.
I do like the 'Checkpoint Charlie' sectors of Cretok Nor. Friday nights at the bar must be really rowdy with a Klingon contingent on board...

[Owen E Oulton]

Yeah, Cretok Nor is definitely set up to be a Berlin 1960's type campaign. It's going to be amusing with the Rommies in a post-Nemesis fooforaw. I'm currently developing the crew of the USS Rising Sun - the Defiant class only has 40 crew, so I'm able to come up with the entire crew. I found an on-line game set on a Defiant that had an entire list of positions and tinkered with to get my crew, complete with HoloDoc and Wesson, the Engineering droid... So many of these on-line games are not too well thought-out, complete with "Emergency Command Holograms" and Acquisition Officers (Ferengi). Some of them are downright silly, including one that had a whole bunch of Animal characters. Caitians I can handle, but Mousians? Give me a break!

Anyway, I have a bunch of characters to roll up and develop to the point that when one gets killed the PCs feel like they knew them.

[Nuclear Fridge]

Hmm, I've been trying to draw up crew listings for the Defiant (and the Nova) myself. The only sensible break-down of a ship's crew I have is from the old Khai Tam book. Any chance you could point me to that Defiant listing?

[Oh, and yeah, there are some 'jump the shark' sites out there. A Nebula with a permanently-moored Defiant-class in place of its upper module...]

[Owen E Oulton]

Here's my version of the Defiant class crew manifest, based on a crew of 40 with a Commander as CO.

Commanding Officer: Commander
Executive Officer: Lieutenant Commander
Chief Flight Control Officer: Lieutenant
Asst. Chief Flight Control Officer: Lieutenant
Flight Control Officer: Lieutenant junior grade
Flight Control Officer: Ensign
Chief Science Officer: Lieutenant
Asst. Chief Science Officer: Lieutenant junior grade
Science Officer (Geology): Lieutenant junior grade
Science Officer: Lieutenant junior grade
Science Officer: Lieutenant junior grade
Science Specialist: Petty Officer 3
Chief Medical Officer: Lieutenant Commander, MD
Medical Officer: Lieutenant, MD
Head Nurse: Lieutenant junior grade, RN
Nurse: Ensign, RN
Counsellor: Lieutenant
Chief Operations Officer: Lieutenant
Asst. Chief Operations Officer: Lieutenant junior grade
Operations Officer: Lieutenant junior grade
Operations Officer: Lieutenant junior grade
Chief Engineer: Lieutenant
Asst. Chief Engineer: Lieutenant junior grade
Engineer: Lieutenant junior grade
Engineer: Ensign
Engineer: Ensign
Communications Officer: Ensign
Transporter Chief: Chief Petty Officer
Transporter Tech: Crewman 1C.
Repair Tech: Crewman 1C.
Chief Of Security/Chief Tactical Officer: Lieutenant junior grade
Security Officer/Shuttle Pilot: Petty Officer 3C.
Security Officer/Shuttle Pilot: Crewman 1C.
Security Officer/Shuttle Pilot: Crewman 1C.
Tactical Officer: Lieutenant junior grade
Tactical Officer: Ensign
Tactical Officer: Ensign
Weapons Tech: Ensign

I hope this is useful.

[PGoodman13]

Here's my version of the Defiant class crew manifest, based on a crew of 40 with a Commander as CO.

I hope this is useful.

More than you might know...thanks!

[Owen E Oulton]

More than you might know...thanks!

Oh? Do tell... Enquiring minds want to know!

[PGoodman13]

Oh? Do tell... Enquiring minds want to know!

Oh, I've got a 23rd century escort vessel that has a slightly larger crew manifest (43 crew total) that I was looking to do something like this for. This actually saved me a great deal of time.

[Owen E Oulton]

As the GPP doors on the Heart of Gold say, "Pleased to be of Service."

[Nuclear Fridge]

Thank you! This will be handy for my own post-Dominion war series set around 2376; the Starfleet-led "peacekeeping" force has the USS Hoplite, a former convoy-raiding Defiant-class on its rolls.

As much trouble as Sisko's ship, but worse, in a way -- no cloaking device, so Hoplite's CO compensates with low cunning...

[Owen E Oulton]

Whew. One of my favourite parts of any game is generating characters, but I'm getting a bit worn out generating the Rising Sun's Crew. Only 19 left to go...

I've also got Rebecca Sullivan-Eddington and Admiral James Leyton done up... Once I'm finished, I've got a huge UL to do!

[Anomaly]

Wow, you're doing them all by hand, Owen?

I tend to rely on tools for this type of job, like TableSmith or (for Trek) the Trek Character Generator program.

[The Tatterdemalion King]

Maybe you should crowdsource it : P I'm sure we can come up with 19 crewmembers between us.

[Owen E Oulton]

No need - got another week and a half to do it. At 2-3 characters a day, no problem. Thanks for the offer, anyway. Many of them are based on my friends or ideas I already have.

[Owen E Oulton]

Major update tonight. Info on the Maquis, Romulans and Empok Nor, as well as the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition (found a site that filled in the "missing" ones with fan-created ones that fit in with the style).

...A-a-a-and I only have 10 more NPC's to go. Should get that done today or tomorrow.