All right, I have a character ready, more or less - an Andorian security officer with a controversial reputation. How about you, guys? You still here, I hope?

I still need your character sheet.

Also, I've uploaded the NPCs, pick one to leave on the ship, so there isn't too many of you on the surface.

I'll be posting the character sheet soonishly. Just need to work out the final details.

As for what NPC to leave on the ship - I'd say it should be the one that's most redundant, considering our two PCs. Speaking of which - who is Bianca's character? A science or a medical officer, I guess?

In reply to Var (msg # 26):

Bianca is above all an engineer. She can be a pilot as well...
I'm ready to play anytime, if the GM is OK with the character sheet.

Okay, my character sheet is ready - aside from the values. I may be adding them a bit later or - if I run out of time - tomorrow. Everything else is ready for your perusal, GM.

BTW. If you require me to include a write-up of the Talents, I'll gladly do so (I may be doing that anyway, in fact).

Oh, and my character's name is Shremi Ansari. She's an Andorian who was adopted by a human family. Hmmm, are we going to share our character's biographies before play? :)

And regarding which NPC to drop, I suggest we drop Cuellas, because she overlaps with Shremi in an awful way.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:11, Mon 22 Nov 2021.

I found this on line character generator: https://sta.modiphiusapps.hostinguk.org
Maybe it can help you.

I'm actually finished with my character - still, thanks. This could be useful some other day :)

Anyway - yes, I'm ready now. I filled in the values and I made some final small corrections to the rest of the stats. I'm happy with the character and I can play now :)

Ok, so Cuellas will be dropped if nothing else happens. You two will be also in command, so you can give orders to the NPCs.

And also the trainwreck problem of the quickstart, the whole first scene is insanely railroaded, not giving any chance for the players to do anything, so I modified the adventure to be more user friendly.

Sounds good.

Before I post, a thought regarding the away team: I know it's mostly a descriptive, but shouldn't we decrease Lenaris Los' rank and role? Right now, he's a Commander and the ship's XO. Shremi is the Chief of Security and she definitely wouldn't be giving commands to the XO...

I say we keep him, but we downgrade him to a Lieutenant. Then, me and Bianca could order him around, while he (being "eager and ambitious") tries to undercut our command. The Bajoran jerk ;)

Oh, and let's drop Hanor Del, because Bianca took his spot.

Yes, NPCs will be Lt. or Lt. JG, while you will be LCs. Altough, I'm not sure Operations can take LC rank, we will just ignore that for now.

Bianca already took Lian Zhang's spot.

EDIT: Tuvok was LC, but he was Chief of Security, also a senior bridge officier, which is weird.
This message was last edited by the GM at 19:35, Mon 22 Nov 2021.

Hmmm. I thought Bianca was an engineer - so Operations, not Command?

I guess we could use some longer introductions :)

Anyway, I'll be taking a shower and some supper, but I'll try to post later on.

Bianca, re: the away team. As I understand, the team is:

- Bianca
- Shremi (Chief of Security)
- Hanor Del (Lieutenant Junior Grade, Engineering)
- Lenaris Los (Lieutenant, Command)
- Natala (Lieutenant, Science)
- T'Prel (Lieutenant, Medical)

Basically, the characters from the Quickstart minus the ones our two PCs replace.

What's your specialization? So far, there seems to be this assumption you took over the spot of Lian Zhang, who was the Conn Officer. Is that correct?

She was actually a helmsmen, but I think yes, a conn officer in game terms.
This message was last edited by the GM at 20:10, Tue 23 Nov 2021.

I just checked and it's correct.

Sorry, but this is my very first STA game and for sure I will be clumsy.
This message was last edited by the player at 21:26, Wed 24 Nov 2021.

Bianca, no worries, we're all learning the system :) As I mentioned in my post in the IC thread, you did everything right.

One story-related information, though: a runabout is not a person, it's a type of a small Federation ship :)

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Danube_class

No worries - I needed to check for this info, too :)

GM, a question: how are we going to keep track of the Momentum and Threat pools?

We are having the year end card championship this time of year, so we spent last night playing and checking rules, I forgot about this game. :( We will do the same, and there is a tournament on the weekend, so don't expect me to write this time.

I will post a meta-resources topic, and keep it up to date, as good as I can with the QS.

As I understand both Threat and Momentum are group resources, while Determination is individual.

Right, the Runabout is indeed a shuttle, with warp capabilities.
This message was last edited by the GM at 17:32, Thu 25 Nov 2021.

In reply to Shremi Ansari (msg # 39):

Thank you!

In reply to GM (msg # 40):

Enjoy that!

I hope it's appropriate for Shremi to issue commands like that, even to Bianca, who is of the same rank? I assume that, being in charge of security on this mission, she is allowed to take control like that when it's needed...

Attacks work something like this: You roll for a ranged attack control+security to a TN of 2. If you hit, you roll the amount of d6 of the Starfleet sign in your weapon description, and read the result from page 5 of the quickstart.

Just to make you know: I'll be posting tomorrow. Please bear with me... I know I can be a slow poster :\

Okay, I posted my five cents as promised :)

One clarification regarding what was said above:



Technically, it's true, especially in regards to the QS, where no separate stats for weapons are given. It's worth noting, though, that the number of Challenge Dice ("special" d6 the game uses) is actually a sum of base weapon damage and a character's Damage Bonus (which equals the Security value). So, when shooting her phaser, Bianca rolls 4d6, as she uses Phaser Type 1 (2d6) and has Security 2. Shremi rolls 7d6, as she uses Phaser Type 2 (3d6) and has Security 4.

GM, a note about the meta resources: both Shremi and Bianca started with 1 Determination point. :)

Also, we already scored 3 Momentum points due to Shremi's actions. Bianca, remember you can use these points if needed :)

Ok, I updated the resorces topic. I forgot to use threat, but I deny and say I did not want to use it anyway.