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Alt Ship Charter Proposal

Posted April 4, 2020, 2:45 p.m. by Robert Archer

Posted by Robert Archer in Alt Ship Charter Proposal

Posted by Commodore Steven Sigle (FComm, Infinite Fleet) in Alt Ship Charter Proposal

Posted by Commodore Calé Reilly (STF Surgeon General / FComm, Foremost Fleet) in Alt Ship Charter Proposal
Posted by… suppressed (2) by the Post Ghost! 👻
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I humbly present the Charter for USS Sentinel:

The Governor-class USS Sentinel, NCC-1794, is hereby commissioned in the (#) Fleet as a TOS Show-era Alternate RPG Area.

The USS Sentinel will be structured the same as a Standard Ship and shall be commanded by a CO and XO who are appointed the same way as on a Standard Ship and a GM who is appointed the same way as a Standard Ship. However, as an Original Series Era ship the Sentinel’s missions are expected to be predominantly (but not limited to) TOS in nature and biased toward Era specific issues and plotlines, and its crew staffing is expected to be realistic to the series timeline crew requirements. The Sentinel’s time frame (The TOS Era is specified as 2250 - 2270) must be honored with respect to technology, species, and species present in Starfleet at the time, etc. As is appropriate to the Era, the XO shall concurrently hold a Department Head position.

CO and XO positions on the Sentinel will count fully towards any limits in place. The Sentinel will not accept new members to STF; it is a Second Character Only ship.

The Sentinel will be reviewed in 90 days by the President, Fleet Commander, and CO to determine if the Sentinel has been successful in its mission. The President shall have a final ruling in this matter. The Sentinel will be reviewed based on the following criteria:

-The Sentinel must maintain an active and healthy role-playing environment.

-The Sentinel must continue to function as a TOS Show Era ship.

If the Sentinel is found to be successful in maintaining its environment, it will be considered permanent. It may be decommissioned at a later date should it be found to be irreparably in violation of any points of this charter.

(though I can’t take all the credit for writing it, I had a lot of help.)

-Dave Eads

So I was asked in DM to put my “legalese” hat on and see if I can post a revised version, just to clean up some language (it’s substantially the same as before). I also added some flexibility to the DH titles for the CO.

Here I go:

The Governor-class USS Sentinel, NCC-1794, is hereby commissioned in the (#) Fleet as a “Star Trek: The Original Series” (“TOS”)-era Alternate-RPG Area.

The USS Sentinel will be structured the same as a Standard Ship and shall be commanded by a CO and XO who are appointed the same way as on a Standard Ship and a GM who is appointed the same way as a Standard Ship. The Sentinel shall be set in the time period of year 2250 to 2270, with the exact game year set by the ship’s CO in consultation with the ship’s GM.

Missions and characters should adhere as closely as possible to the canon of the time period with respect to concepts including, but not limited to:
Technology
Known Races
*Relationships between the United Federation of Planets and other known powers

Canon for the TOS-era shall be defined by both Star Trek: The Original Series as well as any other live-action Star Trek movies and television series depicting the same time period.

The crew of the USS Sentinel shall be structured in a manner consistent with the TOS-era. The CO may rename a Department Head position, and may add additional swing positions so as to maintain a TOS-era RPG environment, but there shall be a security department, a science department, a medical department and an engineering department. The USS Sentinel’s XO shall concurrently hold a Department Head position.

CO and XO positions on the Sentinel will count fully towards any limits in place. The Sentinel will not accept new members to STF; it is a Second Character Only ship.

The Sentinel will be reviewed in 90 days by the President, Fleet Commander, and CO to determine if the Sentinel has been successful in its mission. The President shall have a final ruling in this matter. The Sentinel will be reviewed based on the following criteria:

-The Sentinel must maintain an active and healthy role-playing environment.

-The Sentinel must continue to function as a TOS-Era ship.

If the Sentinel is found to be successful in maintaining its environment, it will be considered permanent. It may be decommissioned at a later date should it be found to be irreparably in violation of any points of this charter.

-Daniel

Daniel this is wonderful! Thank you!

-Dave Eads

Slight tweak maybe ? “ The time period in which the Sentinel is based will be between 2250 and 2270. The exact game year will be decided by the ship’s CO in consultation with the GM.”

Calé

I have to ask, why do we need this and the USS Merrimack? I know Merrimack is supposed to be slightly further in the future, but it is meant to be established as a TOS Movie ERA ship. The Merrimack was meant to fill this void, yes as time has gone it has moved from 23rd to early 24th due to the nature of things but the ship class is still the Mariner class which we set up as a 23rd-century design. Would we want to change the mandate of the Merrimack seeing as it would no longer be filling the void it was once meant to as our TOS era ship?

~Steven Sigle

As someone who ADORES and LOVES the Merrimack I wanna chime in on this. The Merrimack is a MOVIE ERA aka TMP (or tos-movie whiehver you wanna call it) which covers star trek 1-6 time period of 2273ish-2293-ish. Since it is set post star trek 6 since taking over as GM with the CO and crew agreement we’ve more or less set the in game year when asked as 2301 but do our best to not reference it much just so we avoid the problem of on going time passage and so sometimes we ‘fudge’ the in game year to be a little earlier (but still post st6 movie time)

So rant aside I think the Merrimack is sufficiently different both in technology, setting of poltics etc, that it DOES NOT nor never DID cover a TOS era timeline period like is being proposed. The Mariner class fyi is basically stf’s version of the Excelsior fyi, a ship in canon which didnt appear till AFTER the tos timeline proposed. This is something I think sometimes get lost in translation when talks like this come up. Or least thats how I feel.

Robert Archer

Small edit fix to the year fixing a typo!

Robert Archer


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