DST - Displaced Security Team

[tasha_yar]

A bit ago, the mods and I came up with a plan to help expand story opportunities below decks. To that end - and to keep Worf at his station - Tasha will be assembling, training and leading a team of below decks security personnel.

PLEASE READ EVERYTHING BEFORE ANSWERING. There will be a thread for questions.

There will be two tiers to this. You are not committed for life to one tier or another, but Tier II is going be more - I guess the word is "involved" - than standard jam-jar fair.

Tier I - Deputies:

You have a talent for investigation, enforcement, infantry, or you'd like to get some, and you're willing to obey what a Starfleet officer tells you to do for a mission now and again? Welcome to Tier I. Picard and Yar will happily deputize you and put you to work for the good of the ship. This is light commitment stuff while still being useful and getting more RP opportunities. You agree to follow Starfleet rules and regulations. You have more access to things around the ship and are generally treated much in the way civilian workers in the military are treated.

These will be recruited in earnest once I know who's up for Tier II.

Tier II - Acting Officers

This is for people who want a story arc for their characters which will give Starfleet responsibilities, commitments, and - let's be real here - headaches. This is a path for characters who are already displaced Starfleet officers OR have at least mixed feelings about going home and want longer-term RP opportunities within the setting by becoming committed officers. Ideally, these will be characters who have or can evolve into a Trek-setting mentality (explorers, Prime Directive, aggressive only if someone truly earned a torpedo in an uncomfortable place, can take orders, etc.) and have some useful security skills. Tasha can train the later. The former is something you will have to ask yourself if you character can really commit to this. Security is command line stuff and Tasha does not want some gun nut to be anywhere near that possibility.

This is going to be a squad of people with their own specialized story bits which will have some at least limited, and probably growing, emphasis on character growth and exposure to Star Trek-like unknown, and Starfleet bureaucracy. The galaxy rewards and punishes people hard and volunteering for this level exposes your character to that. For a clue as to what Acting Officers are expected to do I'm reviewing Wesley's character arc in minute detail and will answer individual questions below. A possibility I've discussed with Gabby is that this kind of path may eventually lead to being a fully ranked commission officer IF the player wants to pursue that - but that's not going to be an easy thing to earn.

Acting officers will outrank the deputies and, should we need a hand, help run security stuff. Just for sanity sake, I'd like a minimum of 2 others and aim for a maximum of 12 at this time, with the understand that thing happen and these numbers could go up or down and players can change their minds.

Minimum age for Acting officers I figure would be 15-ish, again, based on Wesley. Attitude counts for more than skill, but skill is a bonus. You'd report to Tasha, but Picard ultimately is responsible for you. Starfleet officers or cadets are already effectively officers and their help would be readily accepted.

If you volunteer for either Tier I or two, please post below. Also, just so I have a better sense of what you personally are looking for RP-wise and would like to plot for it, can you please explain why you chose the tier you have?

Thank you

Comments

Questions, Concerns, Clarification

[tasha_yar]

Tier I - Why do you want to be a deputy and how can we help?

[tasha_yar]

Tier II - I might want to actually join Starfleet eventually and here's why:

[tasha_yar]

Tier II

[just_dewitt]

Booker DeWitt. He was career military. He was broken in his canon, way back at the beginning and spent most of it broken, but the events of his canon, and of the games since, have mended some of his broken-ness, and I think the rest really is that he needs to belong. He needs to be needed.

He's been sitting around, using the holodeck to run every simulation he can, fighting, putting himself in the best condition he can. Yes, he is older for this, but he is also experienced in fighting, taking orders, and in leading others. He was the first to ever be accorded the rank of Staff Sergeant in history, and he held it because of his record as a man who could lead others in time of crisis without losing his nerve and without letting his men out of control.

He's got a few rough edges yet, but he is a person who is now a family man, and who wants, more than anything, to make the world or worlds, safe for that family, and as an extension, for everyone else as well.

I, personally,have been looking forward to this since the beginning. the hinting at something vaguely like this was one of the things that drew me to app him here, I think.

Tier II

[1st_starfighter]

Alex Rogan.

Alex is my bouncy, geeky, and utterly dedicated guy who wants to serve and protect. More a policeman-type than a soldier like Booker, he nonetheless can follow orders, and can use his head in moments of crisis. He has matured a lot since the kid who freaked out at being on his first alien planet.

Alex has been chomping at the bit to do this since the moment he arrived, and he is one I fully think will fit in without a lot of issue. With the way we worked things, he has no past to go back to, and he was found drifting by the Enterprise, so he is not a fellow kidnapee by Q, as most are. He is stuck, and he wants to be useful, be helpful, and really, well, he is a lot like Wesley, except in the whole he is not a genius thing. He is very smart, but not a genius.

Tier I - Natasha Romanoff

[fallaces_sunt]

Background: Intelligence Officer and Operations Specialist (NKVD/KGB, SHIELD), mercenary and information thief (freelance) - while she won't admit to the seventy-odd years experience, her cover is that she's been doing this since she was a teenager. She's a trained professional and her partner (Steve Rogers) is around to confirm.

Why - IC: Combination of boredom and wanting to be useful. She is also on a very long journey of redemption, and so this would help with that. But at the same time, she's not sure how long she's staying this time around, and call it a twinge of her mostly MIA conscience but she believes that binding herself to Starfleet's ethics that seriously won't work. She has no issue in following orders, though, and she already prioritizes minimal collateral causalities and protecting civilians.

Why - OOC: I have school which I can't predict how busy I'll be over long periods of time, and that's obviously priority. But at the same time, I'd love to have more IC RP and CR opportunities with Nat and give her some responsibility, and have an excuse to jump into plots as they arise.

Tier I

[dresdensluck]

Harry Dresden

Harry likes helping people. Heck, it would be a better truth to say he needs to help people, because he is driven that much. Helping out when there is need is right up his alley, and while he might not exactly be Starfleet material all the time, he can follow orders, and he handle himself in a crisis. It has even been said that this is the only time he really handles himself well.

He's a very good investigator and he has a paramount talent in finding that which has been lost or misplaced, or stolen. By magic and skill, he finds them. That and offense are his specialties, as well as pulling last minute wins out of thin air.

Re: Questions, Concerns, Clarification

[dresdensluck]

Almost all of mine would probably easily fit into one or the other of these, save Merlin, who is usually too much wild spirit to be in... rank and file, so to speak. But these are the ones who I think most fit these specs. And I am bouncy now about this!

Re: Tier II

[tasha_yar]

Can I ask what happened to Maggie then?

Also, how 4th wall is that played-by? My default setting is set to "not notice," but I'd like to ask.

Re: Tier II

[1st_starfighter]

Absolutely. My belief, based on how they acted, was that their was very much a young relationship, and when they both were exposed to a very much larger and wider world, aka the Starfighters and the process of defending a galaxy, they fell apart rather quickly. It wasn't bitter, more like a mutual understanding that while they had shared something special, it was not what either had thought, and that it had ended, really without either realizing it had.

She went on to do her thing, and in time, they simply didn't follow the same routes. He rose higher in his job, and eventually switched jobs, and by the time he was lost in space, it had been a long time since he had last seen her.

Re: Questions, Concerns, Clarification

[tasha_yar]

Does Dresden blow up tech here? (Still getting the lay of the land.)

Re: Tier II

[1st_starfighter]

I picked the play by years ago, actually, and when I apped him to Ten Fwd almost changed it for that reason, but I have gone by, he doesn't really look like Wesley, but has that kind of face. So people can think eh looks like the same kind of face, or resembles Wesley, if they wanna, but not really anything more, since that would be kind of... I dunno, jerkish of me to do. Or so I felt.

Tier II

[queenofmay]

Lady Marian (of Ravenskeep Knighton Nottingham Sherwood Nottingham ...Milliways?.....Arch/The London Underground?....Ambergeldar?.....and now The Enterprise?)

Original Nightwatchman of the people of Nottinghamshire and the surrounding areas of Sherwood. She took to the protecting her people in disguise long before Robin Hood returned from the war and began doing so for them himself. With the training as knight that her father bestowed on her as his only daughter (both hand to hand and with a very large assortments of weapons), She defended them, helped them, got them money and food and medicine.

Cue Marian's introduction to Milliways a few years into that. Marian became a Security Officer (*totally polishes off the icon that never gets removed*) for Milliways Bar and stayed one for somewhere between 7 and 8 years in the jam-jar time-wibbly-wobbly fashion. With the help of other ladies in amazing positions, both in Milliways and in their own worlds, Marian came into her own as a protector and a woman chafing at wanting to be more.

Marian has seen it all where it comes to displaced/world/time/universe-torn/back-from-dead/here-from-the-future/taken/held-hostage Bound people and the havoc they can cause clashing into each other from gods, demons, mythological creatures, mutants, anthropomorphic objects, magic, world effecting, time ending events, au creation/dissolution/universe rule-bending, to simple person-to-person interactions. She's incredibly good at being a diplomat, a leader, and a fighter. Her loyalty is beyond reproach and has never once faltered over something she loved and was sworn to. Her last six months or so have been rough personally, but this would give her something she knows very well that she could put her all back into. Especially if she is stuck here.

Re: Questions, Concerns, Clarification

[dresdensluck]

He would, but it was hand waved that Q decided that Harry doing so would ruin Q's fun, so he surrounded Harry with a kind of magic bubble so Harry's hexing, or interference with tech doesn't happen here, not after the initial posts he had.

Re: Tier I - Trever Daly (McCallum)

[reincarnshaman]

Trev's a professional hero and from a family that goes around hunting monsters, taking care of invasions, rescuing people in need of help and things like that. He's been trained in weapons, tactics and military things since he was wee. It's literally in his blood to do these things. He's cursed to do these things by the gods. He's also got a teleporting cat and is a tolerable ritual mage. (Oh and can talk to animals and have them understand him)

So, he'd jump on this bandwagon so fast that it'd seem like he was always on there. If he didn't do it officially he'd do it unofficially. They might as well have him doing it under their watch as opposed to on his own.

Timing Question

[queenofmay]

Is this the only time positions will be open to apply for?


I have another character who I would really love to involve with something that would drag them into more stuff ship-wise and game-wise, who has the characteristics needed for a position, but presently in their character arc they aren't at a position when the character themselves could or would really make that choice and mean it.

Will there be options later to join, or is it a one time only thing?

Re: Questions, Concerns, Clarification

[tasha_yar]

This is for the best. Shorting out the Boss' designated "It's Complicated" might be a problem.

Re: Questions, Concerns, Clarification

[thepowerofthor]

Harry feels so, too. He will be working in a lab to try to create his own shield, just in case Q should decide it would be funny to take the one he erected down.

Re: Timing Question

[tasha_yar]

Not even close

The 12 number in Tier II is for my own sanity for now, and, if demand is high enough I'll talk to players and the mods and see what can be done. I want to give each of initial recruits some personalized attention and then set them loose to be more independent while more people who come later or change their minds can then get caught up to speed. (What kinds of scenes and attention will depend on the characters themselves. Sorry it's vague.)

Tier I is very story-by-story or situation driven and is therefore not subject to even a temporary cap. I expect both groups to be fluid.

Re: Tier II

[tasha_yar]

Fair. TY for answering.

[ltcolonel]

John Sheppard. He's the ranking military officer on the Stargate Atlantis expedition. He's a soldier first and foremost but he doesn't shoot and ask questions later. When the team go to new planets johns job is a mixture of security and negotiation skills - negotiating trade and allies.

He's already worked with the Enterprises away team and personally alerted Picard to a security threat onborad, he doesn't do well sitting still and wants a job to do that's at least a little similar to what he does at home.

He does want to go home there is a crisis there, but in terms of rp I am not giving him the chance.

[bob_fraser_rcmp]

Would the fact that Bob's a ghost have any effect on his chances?

[tasha_yar]

Well, Tasha would be sympathetic and open-minded.

OOC-wise, I can work with just about anything. A ghost would likely be fantastic as an investigator or eyes in dangerous places, to be honest. Starfleet would likely catalog him as a "non-corporal lifeform."

[bob_fraser_rcmp]

Bob has been a Mountie for forty years. In this time, he's been tasked to finding criminals (and has, without fail, brought them in alive) across the harshest environments in Canada, he's served as a spokesperson between the RCMP and the native peoples of the area, mediated disputes between all kinds of people and is considered an expert on the wildlife and nature.

His relationships with his superiors is... polite. He may not always do what they tell him, but only in times of conscience and generally will apologise and probably will have a full report ready for the situation.

Tier I

[decideformyself]

Philip is essentially a superhero at heart. He wants to protect people and keep things nice and safe. The added bonus of potentially learning more about Starfleet doesn't hurt, either.