Re: Officer Overlays (Revised)

[Eric R.]

Chug, Chug, Chug, . . . .

Slight different, but still relatively the smae advantage lays in the fact all charcters will share basic skills.

Basic Core Professional Requirements (27 DP’s)
All Starfleet Cadets learn a core set of skills which will be of use throughout their careers with the service. Many of these skills harken back to basic military skills such as energy weapon and unarmed combat of the various military schools from many member worlds while yet still teaching them the needs of the modern service such as Personal Equipment and planetside survival.

Athletics (Choose specializations) 1(2)
Dodge 1
Energy Weapon (Laser or Phaser) 1(2)
First Aid (Combat/Wound Trauma) 1(2)
Law (Starfleet Regulations) 1(2)
Planetside Survival (Choose Specialization) 1(2)
Personal Equipment (Choose Specialization) 1(2)
Unarmed Combat (Starfleet Martial Arts) 1(2)
Vehicle Operations (shuttlecraft) 1(2)

Advance Core Requirements (24 DP’s)
Next to the Basic Core Requirements come the various Advance Core Requirements where the cadet learns the skills of his chosen branch with in Starfleet. It is with these courses that they truly begin to be shaped into the future officer they will become.

Command Branch School
Administration (Logistics or Starfleet) 2(3)
Command (Choose Specialization) 1(2)
Computer (Research) 1(2)
Law (Starfleet Regulations) 2(3)*
Planetary or Starship Tactics (Choose Specialization) 1(2)
Shipboard Systems (Library Computer) 1(2)
Strategic Operations (Choose Specialization) 1(2)

Engineering Branch School
Computer (Modeling) 1(2)
Engineering, Any (Choose two Specialization) 2(3)
Engineering, Any other (Choose Specialization) 1(2)
Physical Sciences (Choose Specialization) 1(2)
Systems Engineering (Diagnostics) 1(2)
Shipboard Systems (Choose two Specializations) 2(3)


Medical Branch School (Pre-med or nursing)
First Aid (Combat/wound Trauma) 2(3)*
Computer (Choose specialization) 1(2)
Life Science (Choose Specialization) 1(2)
Medical Science (Choose Specialization) 2(3)
Personal Equipment (Medical Tricorder) 2(3)*
Shipboard Systems (Medical Systems) 2(3)

Science Branch School
Computer (Choose Specialization) 2(3)
Personal Equipment (Tricorder) 2(3)*
Science, Any (Choose specializations) 2(3)
Science, Any other (Choose Specialization) 1(2)
Shipboard Systems (Sensors) 1(2)

Ship Services Branch School
Administration (Choose Specialization) 1(2)
Any Science (Choose Specialization) 2(3)
Computer (Research) 1(2)
Shipboard Systems (Choose Specialization) 2(3)
Systems Engineering (Choose Specialization) 2(3)

Security Branch School
Computer (Choose Specialization) 1(2)
Energy Weapon (Laser or Phaser) 2(3)*
Planetary Tactics (Shipboard) 1(2)
Security (Security Systems) 2(3)
Shipboard Systems (Any Specialization) 1(2)
Systems Engineering (Security) 1(2)

* The listed skill replaces that found in the Basic Core requirements

Now, spend 3 development points anyway you want in skills, Specializations, attributes, edges, Advantages/Disadvantages or Renown. The basic officer Character has now been created.

[qerlin]

Once again , Eric...great work! They should hire your butt at decipher.

[Captain Zymmer]

Very nice, very reminicisent of the old FASA system.

I always felt the two Character Creation Systems should be merged together

[Eric R.]

You know I am still not happy with these.

For one I don't like how your branch training is assumed to be apart of your academy training. Seems that the Academy should be about producing well rounded officers within a normal higher education environment.

Secondly the Academy is one of those few institutions which can produce inadvertantly true Federation Citizens, in other words people who will think more of themselves as Federation citizens first rather than Citizens of another world/culture before being Federation citizens. In this way it kinda reflects the way the US Military Academies functioned in the 19th century, in that it was the one place that brought together people from all over the country and from taht they gained a sense of US citizenship over their State citizenship. (Note this statement is prolomatic if one takes in account the 150+ officer active Alumni who went south in 1861 but even then I can argue they felt more Confederate than Southern in some ways.)

[Thierry]

I think they are great, keep up the outstanding work.