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Submission Instructions
Write out your answers to the questions below.
E-mail them to the course grader: Symon Silvester
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1. Whose responsibility is it to find things for your department to do?
The GMs
The COs
The JOs
The DHs
2. What should you do for a newbie junior officer?
report them to the CO
set an in character and out of character example
leave them alone, they will just have to cope.
Set them a task on their own.
3. Which of the following is classed as a swing position?
Chief Science Officer
Counselor
Chief Tactical Officer
Chief Medical Officer
4. Which of the following should you NOT do?
Take control of another department's junior officers without permission
Ask to talk to the Captain in private
Put one of your junior officers in charge of the department while you are on an Away team.
Run a department drill.
1. Write an example of a welcoming email to a new arrival in your department.
2. Imagine you are a department head. Choose your own department from the main four, Science, Security, Engineering and Medical.
You have three Junior officers under you. Ensign Alpha is a very experienced role-player who was on the ship before you took over. Ensign Bravo is a role-player with excellent writing ability but little experience. Ensign Charlie is a new arrival with no experience at all and is struggling to fit in.
Your Captain has given the following briefing at meeting of all the department heads.
"There is a prison break on the penal colony we are in orbit around. The inmates have fought the guards and there have been reported casualties. Reports are sketchy, the comms system has been disrupted. The Prison has a shield around it to prevent beam outs. It can only be taken down from the Prison control room, but we can't make contact.
Engineering, I need you to work with the transporters. I need a way past the shield to beam people down to help. Bring that shield down. I also need comms back.
Medical. As I said we have reports of casualties. Early reports suggested at least three guards had been hurt seriously and we have had reports of a fire before the comms failed. I need you prepared to deal with the emergencies, in case the prison sickbay can't cope.
Security. Get your men together equip them for emergency rescue. I want teams ready for rapid deployment, but I also need you to work out an action plan for the rescue. I don't want more casualties, so all weapons are to be set to stun.
Science. I need the layouts of the prison. You'll have to dig the files out. Additionally, we have no sensor readings at all. We have to know where the inmates are and the trouble spots to deploy security correctly.
That's all, everyone dismissed and get your people working on it."
With that briefing in mind, pick a department and write an In Character post as DH to your team of three ensigns explaining the situation and assigning the tasks to them.
At the end of your post, please provide an explanation as to why you selected what person for what task and, if you assigned anyone to work together, why you did so.