Glad you picked up on it!

The fun-loving, ****-kicking cowboy's going to be quite a party to play!

-Dragonblood

Please PM character concepts to me. Before you will be granted any place in this game, I will need to approve at least a basic concept (name, species, gender, role applying for, a brief personality blurb). For final approval, we'll need a full character sheet - but don't worry, I will be happy to help you fill out service records and similar "complicated" items.

If I have not received a character from you via PM (and approved said concept), you do not yet have a place in this game!

I see a couple of people assuming that simply because they posted that they would like to play, they are in. This is not necessarily the case. If you don't have a PM from me confirming that your character concept has been accepted, then your character concept has not been accepted.

What a fantastic response! Everyone please welcome Night Monkey, whose concept has been approved as our new Chief Medical Officer. Also, our own emybear450 will be helping out the doc in his department.

I would like to play but do not know what is still open. so I can be stashed anywere. just let me know what you want. (char. wise that is )

What posittions are available still?

I haven't yet noticed a slip in Olan's updates of the first post and available positions. Of course, people have probably applied for some of the open ones but the sense I get is that you should apply for the one you are most drawn to/have the best character concept for, whether others are applying for it as well or not, because that will be the most interesting for you and everyone else. I think that if someone else ends up going for the position you could always apply for a different one.

Anyways, if Olan says different, trust him... obviously. Just two cents from a player

-Dragonblood

Listen to Dragonblood. I keep the front page very well updated.

Or, in techspeak, RTFM.

You make me sound special up there in the 'Our own emybear450'
And you can just call me Emi
Or Squirrel Girl
I'm jealous of how many people applied for a part tho! =) But it sounds like we're going to have an AWESOME game!

We have our ops officer.. the post goes to another newbie, Randel.

The only department head position still open in ship's counselor. If you are still interested in playing, let me know... we can look at a suporting role for you in pretty much any department.

I am beginning to populate the roster insode of our trek tools (see the link in the Q&A thread for the game). I plan to have an intro post of two done today, and hope to have the game open for general posting very soon.

Please note that several of you still have some tweaks to do in order to finsih up your character sheets. If I have not let you know that your final sheet is accepted, please touch base with me so that we can work out what still needs to be done.

...come up with a concept, and shoot it to Olan via PM, Loki.

Once he approves your concept and you get to the point where you wanna put more "meat on the bones" of your concept character, he (or one of us other Trek-geeks) can help in fleshing out the details.

There's room for characters in all departments, by the way... By way of giving your concept a starting push, the departments are:

Command/Conn - Command includes the commanding officer, XO, and their administrative-assistant types (Captain's Yeoman, for example)... CONN is the pilot's contingent, including Helmsmen, Flight Control Officers, Shuttle Pilots, etc. Command and Conn personnel wear the Red uniforms.

Sciences and Medical - pretty much self explanatory. You're a scientist, medic, lab tech, ships councellor, etc. Science is a fairly large dept aboard the Discovery, of course. All kinds of "sub-fields" you can explore with characters here... xeno-botanist, biologist, etc... Science personnel (including medical and councellors) get the groovy blue uniforms (and are often referred to as "egg-haids" by Mac... even though he married one)

Operations - these gold-suiters are the folks what handle day to day operations on board the ship. If it needs to be planned, made room for, coordinated, issued, etc, Ops are the folks to see.

Tactical/Security - May favorite departments (an' don' ye be bandyin' aboot doon here tryin' ta blow smoke up me kilt, either, haggis... if ye wairk fer me, ye bloody well wairk, aye?!). Again, self explanatory... Security officers, tactical personnel (the folks that fire the phasers), etc... Also wear the golds.

Engineering - To be super blunt: you fix stuff and make sure the ship goes... wide variety of specialties available here, as well. Another buncha gold-suiters.

Wha'd I miss? Anything? ((aside from the fact that Loki deleted his post to which this was to be a response. ))

On olans advice I'm not going to play, no need for me to delay the game with my soon to arrive time constrictions.

Loki makes me out to be a monster...

Ion Kired will be filling the role of an ensign in engineering. Go easy on him, Merideth.

TAC and Security are different depts. Never shall the two meet......

Minion! *rubs hands together with evil glee*

I mean... Ion... welcome to Engineering! *grin*

M.

Okay, lieutenant [Junior Grade] Silvia Landor reporting for duty.

Human clone from the Mariposan colony (from the episode The Long Ladder... you know, the one where Riker and Polaski kill a pair of partially-formed clones of themselves because they didn't like the idea of someone out there sharing their DNA without their permission) joined Starfleet to see the galaxy and help her home colony better understand how the Federation works (understandably, quite a few people in the colony have an unflattering impression of Starfleet but have to work to advance their status in the galaxy).