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» Nova System Reload

Posted on 120305.0003 by Colonel Jonathan Wilson in Shipwide Communication Channel

Greetings my fellow members of the USS McAuliffe,
I wanted to take a few moments to write this news post to tell you all of some changes the Command staff has made to our Nova sim. The Command staff has restructured the Ship's Departments, as well as restarting the Ship's story line with a new Mission description and focus.
It has also occurred to the Command Staff that some may not understand what we are hoping to do with the Nova system, so I wanted to take some time to explain the options and abilities that nova allows the chapter to do.
1. Personal Logs - These are just like you saw on the TV shows and movies, this is where you can post in character ideas and story seeds. This allows you to post not only main story line postings, but also your character's personal thoughts and feelings. Personal Away Missions your character takes and anything your character would have recorded personally.
2. Mission Posts - These are the in character posts that help develop the main story line of the Chapter's role play. These are your character's actions and conversations that follow the general plot direction given in the mission notes. It is also acceptable for other crew members to post comments on each others mission posts to further develop and build the posts into fully interactive stories. (Note: For those that had made posts on the previous version of the main mission, those posts have been saved and not deleted.))
3. News Items - News items, like this posting, are those things that are meant to be notices to the entire crew of the USS McAuliffe. They can either be in character/story line related (again, like this is) or Real World information (Science advances, Trek Related News, STARFLEET Related Information, etc.).

As with all Role Play, the more we each put into the Nova system, the more we all get out of it. Department Heads are required to make Mission Posts, and Active Crew Members are requested to post as much as their character would be involved. Anyone that has any Questions, concerns, comments, or needs please feel free to contact myself or any member of the command staff.

» GURPS Star Trek

Posted on 120229.0002 by Colonel Jonathan Wilson in Shipwide Communication Channel

Attention Fellow Crew of the USS McAuliffe;

The Command Staff and I have been developing a system to give the crew the ability to "realistically" interact with each other and Aliens and combat and all things that let us create a good story.
In an effort to make this uniform we have decided to create GURPS "versions" of our Characters. We have added a Game Mechanics tab for us to publicly publish that character on. If anyone needs help understanding or building their GURPS version please contact Colonel Wilson.
The number of points available to build your character is based on your Rank and/or Years of service. Colonel Wilson is also working on templates for the following:
Starfleet Officer
Starfleet Marine
Each Department

We look forward to getting our chapter stories started and building a great roleplay in out Sim.