Hello, I am currently gathering additional players in the Baltimore, MD area for a Star Trek Gamma Fleet role playing game. The game is, in my mind, a revolutionary mixture of old fashioned role playing with 3 parts multimedia and a dash of live action. My players are treated to interactive computer aides such as a laptop in the captains ready room. The sole function of this cheap ($40) laptop is to act as the captains computer. It contains a local website I created that IS the LCARS terminal complete with crew rosters, pschye reports, alien data bases, strategic maps, and hidden orders that are encrypted until the password is given during the game. The main computer is voice activated with functions such as OPS management, a basic program that allocates ships power as explained in the Spacedock book available on this website. A TV out card allows for a large screen television to act as the ships viewscreen with simulated warp travel and the occasional visual message run from an 8mm video camera in a seperate room for real time comminucations and prerecorded messages for one way comms. I also have several TI83 graphing calculaters that are programed to act as PADDS and tricorders (not touch screen...yet).
The game is set in the year 2378 a year and a half after the return of Voyager, and takes place in the Gamma Quadrant. The PC's are part of the Gamma Fleet. I currently have 3 games running, with 3 people as regular cast in each game (the same players, different characters) this allows a neat crossover potential which I have used a few times. The flagship of the Gamma Fleet is USS Valkyrie, a Valkyrie class starship (a symbiotic cruiser with a smaller attack craft USS Victory [which looks like a Saber Class varient] that attaches to the underside of the engineering hull] is captained by Azar Kel, a joined Trill. The other characters are Lt. Tsar a female Vulcan science officer, Commander William Austin a Texan engineer, and Ensign Arthur Doyle, the offspring of Commander Data created by Data and Maddox at the Daystrum insitute. All other positions are open.
The USS Wayfarer, a project created to seek out Voyager and bring her back, was abandonned when Voyager returned home a year and a half ago. Starfleet Command, rather than disassemble the mostly completed Wayfarer, decided to throw it into the Gamma Fleet as the Gamma Fleet has almost jokingly become the testing ground for prototypical ships. The Wayfarer is captained by Captain Tavek a Vulcan/Romulan hybrid, and its first officer Commander Taljia Chapman a human from the Slavic area of Earth, and Lt. Noah Carter, a flyboy from California are the characters on this ship, all other positions are open.
The final game is Deep Space Station 13, located the same distance from the wormhole as DS9 but on the other side, will be nearing completion by the end of the year. In its rush to have the station completed Starfleet has started stationing people on the station prior to its completion.(much like the Death Star in Return of the Jedi) It is commanded by joined Trill Admiral Jatal Khyron (the other half of the long time defense Commision f Trill Kel and Khyron never far from each other) and thats it for the station crew as of now.
If anyone is interested in playing the game, contact me. I am also accepting people from all over the world to play supporting roles, such as family members and Command officers via Email and Admiral's orders via Web cam if you have any interest contact me.