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[NoctisVampire]

First a bit of stuff you should know before joining...
This is my first RTD and I'm not exactly sure about the rule(No direct source available), So I filled out the empty space with rules devised and balanced by myself, I'm open to suggestions.
English is my secondary language, although I am quite capable in understanding it(through reading), I am not very proficient in writing it, feel free to point out mistakes and odditys. this is also going to be quite a bit of exercise to me
Also there's a bit trouble with time zone: I'm at +8, roll time will be adjusted accordingly.
I will try to maintain at least 2 days per turn, better be 1 day per turn if I can make it.
Warning: Huge block of text

Spoiler: Settings and general directives (click to show/hide)

Generally a space sci-fi in a universe(without a proper name yet) cobbled together in my mind for quite some time. (A few years maybe? So no know-the-source-material adventage for anyone ), although bears a strong resemblence to the pre-XI Star Trek universe, also have some minor elements from other sci-fi multiverse.

Since I'm a SS13 player too, you can expect some elements from it, but mostly none of the treachery/gibbing/mini-wormholes spawning everywhere

Also this universe is strictly near the technical end of the technical-magical scale. You can advance your skill through learning and everyday usage, and use them to make advanced contraption(with a lot of technobabble and inside the reasonable range of capablity of course) to enhance your(mostly your ship's) ability, but there will be mostly no outlandish magical things happening, with(at most times) a upper limit of telepathy. Telekinesis is reserved for particularly strong adversaries only.

This game will have a emphasis on teamwork. But this doesn't forbid you from PvPing, but at most situations, doing such thing will end you up in the brig, and/or court-martialed thereafter.

Also please try to enforce a good IC-OOC separation, your in game charactor shouldn't know anything except what he/she is supposed to know, especially when a communication failure have happened. Please role-play accordingly.

Spoiler: Background (click to show/hide)

You and your crewmates are serving in the Confederation Navy Force, the military arm of The Confederation of Star. The navy itself is very similiar to Starfleet in Star Trek universe, while still having a key difference that should be kept in mind:

The CNF is a military organization, and have seen much more actions(3 major defensive war, similar in scale to Dominion war in ST, against a neighboring empire in the last 150 earth-years, will be mentioned later.) than the Starfleet in Star Trek universe, thus much more military oriented.

The CS is a tight conglomerate of more than 150 civilizations and countless colonies with similar technical levels and ethical standards in a radius of about 5000 light years. It works in a way very similiar to Star Trek's UFP, but much more intergrated, while not as intergrated as today's United States.

It's ethical standard is quite high for the setting, but not nearly as high as the UFP in ST(while still somewhat higher than today), for some small examples: Alcohol is legal at most place(depending on civilization and government), and there are no synthehol in this setting, but getting drunk in public is an offence almost everywhere. And, there is a non-intervension directive in the navy similiar to Prime Directive in ST, though not as strict, will be described when necessary.

While some worlds in the CS does uphold a UFP-ish quasi-utopian society, most of the worlds is democratic or republic, while some of them is still in feudalism. the CS doesn't enforce civics on its member world, as long as something outright like slavery of intelligent beings or overtly-strict caste system is not there(mostly thanks to the war with Zerkalians).

The largest presence outside CS(and the largest threat) is the Zerkalian Empire with its overall power roughly matches, or slightly stronger than, CS. Much like Klingon in their aggressiveness, but without even a bit of honor(to an averege human's taste).While having fought 3 wars trying to invade and take over CS in the last 150 earth years and getting beaten back valiantly, they are still not giving up easily in forseeable future.

As a result of war between these 2 major powers, the long border between them is quite erratic and unclear, with incursions and skirmishes breaking out every earth-hour, the tension is high, and the Navy command and CS itself fears that a fourth war is going to break out in near future(the third war breaks out 21 earth-years ago and lasted 5 years).

There are also quite some minor powers along the border of(and some surrounded by) CS which is not ethical enough and/or not inclined to join CS(No minor power exist between the border of CS and ZE, they are either conquered by ZE or joined CS for protection), there are no third major power in the setting, and that is a major destablizing factor in this setting's known universe.

The universe is quite free from odditys otherwise, No Q equlevant has been observed (Although concepted by the theorist in CS that they must exist as the last stage of civilization), and there are usually no spatial anomality except occational ion storm (others reserved for special occations...hehe )

You and your crew, either fresh graduates or reassigned after a duty cycle, have been assigned to the ship, which information will be provided when all positions are filled. If everything goes all right, you will spend at least 5 years with her, So take good care of her, and she will bring you home alive at the end of each assignment cycle(which is 5 years)...

Other background will be provided as needed or asked.

Spoiler: Rules (click to show/hide)

Adapted RTD rule, with modification.

You will serve aboard a Confederation Navy Starship, and fulfill your duty here, with occasional planetary adventure, battles in space and other stuff happening, you will know it when it happenes

There are concepts of travel turns, which is the time between this incident and the next(or completion of your current normal assignment, which comes first), you can place your action for whatever you want to do besides normal duty in this time. with time passed decided by rolls:
[1] epic fail: Immediately thereafter - 2 days, No rolls for whatever you decided to do in the travel turn, except for emergency repairs or emergency crashcourses.
[2] 3 days - 3 weeks, 1 roll for your action, but result will be fairly limited due to the short time available
[3] 3 weeks - 6 weeks, 2 rolls average for your action, time is still somewhat limited.
[4] 6 weeks - 12 weeks, 2 rolls average for action, longer time allows for generally better results(Statistically at GM's discretion), lesser epic success, lesser epic overrun and epic fail.
[5] epic success: 9 weeks - 16 weeks, 3 rolls average for action, which is a good time to finish most trainings and repairs.
[6] overshoot: longer than 16 weeks, up to a whole year. 3 to 4 rolls average for your action on GM's discretion, Too uneventful is a bad thing for your service record...which can effect what you get at the end of each assignment cycles, Also lowers the chance for very good epic success further)

The incident that happens can directly relate to the particularly good rolls(or epic overshoot, or epic fail for that matter) in your travel turn.

Won't overrun the time you needed to complete your current normal order.For ex.: You are going to arrive in your next destination in 3 weeks, but you rolled a [6] in travel turn, then you still will arrive at your destination 3 weeks later, with 2 rolls for the action you decided to do during the time.

Game starts at 7:00AM 2421.6.28 game time(which is Earth standard time) at Earth Spacedock, you have three days to prepare your journey for your assignment and order(Turn 1, may extend to turn 2 depending on your action). You are scheduled for departure at 7:00AM, Earth standard,2421.7.1.

This includes ordering additional supply from base, or recruiting/replacing crew, or some time socializing and getting to know each other ,your crew and your ship.

The captain would be expected to assemble the crew aboard the ship and do a pep talk at 6:00AM at the day of departure.(Write it in the post on the departure turn, If you want to take the captain assignment you will have to do more RPing to balance off the adventages , while all crew are expected to return to the ship befor 9:00pm the night before the departure.

Vital details and your assignment will be given when all the position have been filled.

The NPC crew of the ship will also be an important factor, your crew will have to roll for actions that are off your hand at the time(Like NPC crew on bridge when emergency occur and you're not on station). Crew is also catalogueized according to profession.Large crew casualty will incur negative modifier on actions that need manpower to be done(Like damage control, science project and reloading of some weapons)For ex.:

Chief Engineer NoctisVampire is directing a team of 16 average engineer(no modifier) on the emergency repair of a medium-sized 1-deck hull breach. Chief Noc have no skill regarding damage control, so he rolls departmental command to direct them through commanding instead.
Results:[3]+1You lead your engineers into action, rallying them to do the job to the best of their capability and reminding them of the result of an uncontained hull breach. The engineers jumps to the action.[6]Maybe they have been scared by the prospect of dying in vacuum, in a frenzy, They managed to seal off the breach almost immediately with their metal-foam dispensers. These foams have gotten sprayed everywhere though, including a variety of delicate system nearby, complicating further repairs(-1 to repair rolls made to this section)
Also, lack of crew in some key point of the ship that needs constant maintainance(like bridge and engineering) can be dangerous.

On training during travel: you can improve your current skill, or learn new skill, skill penalty rules at the character creation section apply, and you can have 7 profession skills and 4 social skills at most.

Also a note: you can make you roll with related skill(Like using Hyper-light Engineering for Hyper-light technology roll), but that would cause -1 to -2 penalty at GM's discretion.

Then...General rules stolen and edited from Jackrabbit's RTD, which is stolen from penguin of honor, the original document is not exactly for this setting but easily adapted after a bit of editing and marking:
Some things won't work on a five, and some things will only work on a five. It's up to me. You can gain new gadgets that allow you(and your ship) to do more things(or do old things better).

If you don't post, then your character will go on basic AI, meaning that they'll perform actions to save themselves if they're in mortal danger. Healers will heal and people with resurrection powers will use them. If you don't post for two turns, someone can take your character, Or your character will be reassigned to elsewhere(off-board) to allow new people join[Seriously. But if you announce your temporary leave before that, this rule can be bent].

If you don't think you can make every single round, then you can put multiple actions in a single round. These must be clearly numbered, and you can change actions later if you are able to make it to the forum when you thought you couldn't.

You cannot use Your gadgets on multiple targets or on distant targets unless they are designed to do so. There are some exceptions, but it's my call.

Every player gets a "free action" every turn. One. Free actions are auto-successful actions, limited to picking items up, talking to other people for RP purposes, getting information from NPCs (not items or skill training), giving or taking items, or walking to adjacent rooms/areas nearby. There will be no rolls for these except charisma rolls to see how responsive NPCs are for you and, if necessary, rolls to see who gets an item if multiple people want it. Stealing items is not a free action, and neither is searching for items. Some other actions may be free actions, but this is on a case-by-case basis and I will tell you. Skills might let you get free actions in occasionally.

You can hold two items without anything to carry them. You can only wear one of each type of metal/solid armor[combat armor in this setting], but cloth armor can be stacked. You will get penalties if you put on too much, though. Having a wounded hand means that you can't carry heavy objects in that hand, and having a heavily wounded hand means that the hand can't hold anything. These rules change depending on the number of hands you have.

There will be separate dodge and damage rolls. This allows me to make more unique abilities and weapons. All attack overshots (or 5's) that result in a powerful attack (they can make other things happen sometimes)[Mostly would be critical hit in this setting for ranged combat] will give the attacked person -1 dodge, and all dodges that roll 1 will give the person -1 to their damage avoidance roll. Note from Jackrabbit: I've changed it a bit. Damage avoidance roll is now the damage count roll. If you hit someone and I roll a 5 on what used to be the damage avoidance roll, it now means that you really hurt whoever you hit. So, dodges that roll a 1 will give the enemy +1 on there damage roll[Adapted]

Swarm rules are in effect. Every attack on a person after the first gives them an additional -1 to dodge.[Adapted]

Permadeath is in. If you die, then you have 1 turn to be revived by someone else.[Medical method in this setting] After that, someone else can replace you. Every time you die, you get a -1 to being revived.

You can dual wield weapons, allowing you to attack twice in one turn (it must be on the same enemy, and it's possible that you won't get your second hit in if you fail bad enough). The effectiveness of this depends on the size of the weapons. Even with the smallest weapons, your second attack will have penalty of -1. The penalty grows with the size of your weapons. A long sword and a dagger will get you -1 to both attacks. Two short swords will as well. It's my judgment, but you're free to ask me what various combinations would do.[You can dual wield two Class 2 HEPPC pistol with -1, but trying them with 2 Class 3 rifles...will likely to have some heavy penaltys.]

Your allies can be given orders, but not controlled directly. Team allies can be given orders by anyone, but if you have a reputation for screwing up then they probably won't be listened to. You can get your own personal allies through necromancy and taming and stuff, which can only be ordered by you. The more intelligent they are, the more easily they'll abandon you if you screw up.[Your NPC crew will listen to your orders, especially if they are supposed to do so and/or you have a higher rank than them. Try to make sure that your order makes sense though]

Diminishing bonuses decrease by 1 every time they're used, stopping at 0. Some might continue degrading after 0, but I'll tell you, so don't worry unless I say you should.[This might become the property for some gadgets you make]

Skills and Powers are similar. Skills are anything that a normal human could do, like swordfighting or weaponsmithing, and leveling them allows you to perform them with greater efficiency. Powers are like magic, and gaining and leveling them allows you to perform them in the first place.[In this setting some skills are mostly cannot be performed without learning: You can't fire a starship's weapon without knowing how, a very hefty penalty(up to -4) would incur.]

They level up through use and training. Training levels them up more quickly than simply using them. By using them, you get 1 exp for a 4 and 2 exp for a 5 or 6[Adapted], and by training them you get 1-2 exp for a 3, 3-7 exp for a 4, 8-12 exp for a 5 and 12-20 exp for a 6.[Training can mostly only happen during travel turn(except emergency crashcourse) in this setting, the length of time involved will have a statistical influence on this.] It takes 10 exp to get to level one of a skill or power, 20 exp to get to level 2, and so on. The only exception is legendary for skills, which requires 200 exp and an epic success on training/using roll.

When your skills and powers get capped, they'll be marked in your status and I'll tell you about it. Skills are all capped at legendary but the cap for powers is variable.

Supplemental rules will be provided when situation demands.

Spoiler: Character creation (click to show/hide)

You may use Human as your race, but also feel free to create your own alien race(There are more than 150 different civilizations in CS), with or without special ability(read the general directives for what you can and can't), also for balancing, each special ability(or adventage) comes at the price of an disadventage, if you don't provide a reasonable one, the GM will roll for one.

Also feel free to fill-in character background and apperance, these will give a statistical adventage in correspoding skill rolls in character creation, or also related to special abilitys.

For simplicity, the character name will be your forum name, But you can use a different name, if you want.(For simplicity's sake...Just use your forum name ok? I have no objection if you do otherwise though.)

The characters will be ranked by roll in their reasonable range for their professions and command skill.

If you wish to be the captain, state in your post, then it will be decided by roll if there's are multipal applicants, this stands true for other professions too, be sure to give alternative profession if you do this though.

There will be 7 main characters, one each profession, one each player.

The professions will be: Command, Science, Operations, Medical. Comes with the appropriate colored collar and arm-badge on the Sea-blue burgundic uniform(Red, Teal, orange, Blue)

Command's duty is leading the crew and is exclusively reserved for the pure leader, like the captain, without them the ship is all but a bucket of nuts and bolts.(the Commander's commanding skill have a large influence on the outcome of collaborating actions like firing on enemy ships, which would need Command for ordering, Operations/Engineering for power, Operations/Navigation for maneuver and Operations/Tactical for final adjustment and actual firing, If the commander's roll is good enough, he may end up giving everyone up to +2 in the roll.)

Science's duty is to perform research on various subjects, which will be invaluable in dealing with various anomalitys, or provide vital information in various scenarios.

Operation is a pretty inclusive profession, Security, Navigation, Tactical and Engineering are all in this, these positions is very important without the need to explain.

Medical's duty is to keep crew alive and kicking both in normal and tactical situations.

Working in conjunction with each other can be much more productive, explore the possiblities yourself within reasonable range.

You can decide 5 skills to have that are related your profession and is reasonable, for unrelated profession there will be a -1 penalty on bordering profession(like Science and Operations: Engineering), or -2 and statistical penalty on relatively unrelated one(like Science and Operations: Security)
You have failguard on this: only statistically worse result if you rolled lower than[3], otherwise you will never have been graduated from Navy Academy!

You also can decide 2 social skills, these only have epic-failguards, better select something that would help your profession!(Like Conversation and Fast Talk for Diplomacy)

All players are encouraged to select at least 1 command skill(1 is free of penalty even if the character is other profession) if they want to be department head(Better not leave these position to NPC, it's already complicated enough for me, And you don't want to have to report to NPC right?) and command his/her department to work.

You can also apply for first officer, but you must select starship command skill for that, and statistical adventage will be given in the roll. Who will be first officer is decided by their command skill roll.

Captain have +1 on all command skill roll, and penalty reduced to statistical on all other skills to reflect much more experience.

The final professions which you will be able take is: Command, Science, Operations/Security, Operations/Navigation, Operations/Tactical, Operations/Engineering, Medical.

Skills for example(Yes you can create your own, as long as it's plausible and reasonable):
Command: Starship Command, Departmental Command, Planetary Management(No reason to take this as a starship captain...), Diplomacy, Morale Management(Pep-talking uses this , Fleet Operations, Bureaucracy Handling(Sometimes this skill is used to push those red tapes through).
Science: Biology, Computer, Scanner(Science), Hyper-light tech., Chemistry, Physics, Alien Psychology, Medical Technology, Weapon Technology.
Operations/Security: Small arms, Melee combat, Rifles, Heavy weapons, Demolition, Security System.
Operations/Navigation: Starship Maneuvering,Small Craft Maneuvering, Hyper-light flight, Emergency Maneuver, Stellar Cartography.
Operations/Tactical: Targeting, Point defense, Electrical Warfare, Spotting Weakness, Tactical Planning, Sensor.
Operations/Engineering: System Maintainance, Structral Repairing, Hyper-light Engineering, Shielding, Damage control, Emergency repairing, Reactor Technology, Sub-light tech engineering
Medical: First Aid, Surgery, Medical Treatment, Pathology, Alien Medicine(This skill is pretty necessary as you can expect a good number of aliens both in your crew and among yourselves), Fitness Program.
Social: Conversation, Counseling, Fast Talk, Streetwise, Charming, Debating, Empathy(essentially passive telepathy without the telepathy power).

Skill level list:
Level 0:<Empty>/Not             -2 to -4 depending on skill at GM's discretion.
Level 1:Hobbyist/Makeshift      -1 and statistical disadv
Level 2:Novice/Poor             -1 to roll
Level 3:Below-Average           Statistical Disadv.
Level 4:Average/<No adjective>  No modifier
Level 5:Above-Average           Statistical Adv.
Level 6:Good                    +1 to roll
Level 7:Very Good               +1 to roll and Statistical Adv.
Level 8:Great                   +1 to roll, stat adv. and epic-fail can have statistically lessened result
Level 9:Master                  +2 to roll, epic-fail can have statistically lessened result
Level 10:High Master            +2 to roll, epic-fail and epic-overshoot can have statistically lessened result
Level 11:Grand Master           +2 to roll, epic-fail guard and lessened epic-overshoot at player's will
Level 12:Legendary              +2 to roll, epic-fail guard and epic-overshoot guard at player's will

Example for what you should provide:
Name: NoctisVampire
Race: Human
Sex: Male
Age: 39
Appearance: Average-looking human male with short orange hair and a goatee, with a short but bad-looking scar on the forehead as a result of past injury
Special Ability/Adventage:Engineering Aptitute(statistical adv. to engineering roll)
Disadventage: Hatred(Zerkalian)(-1 to +1 when dealing with Zerkalians, decided by rolls)
Profession: Operations/Engineering,First Officer
Skills: Departmental Command, Structral repair, Hyper-light Engineering, Hyper-light Tech(A Science skill, -1 penalty), Small arms(A Operation/Security skill, -2 penality and statistical disadventage), Conversation, Debating
Background: A competent veteran that have began his service right before the Third CS-ZE war, Specialized in Hyper-light technology. Have seen a lot of actions in his part, His hatred comes from losing his father to Zerkalians in the Third war.

What you would receive:
Character Sheet:
Name: NoctisVampire
Race: Human
Sex: Male
Age: 39
Rank:[3]Lieutenant
Appearance: Average-looking human male with short orange hair and a goatee, with a short but bad-looking scar on the forehead as a result of past injury
Professions: Operation/Engineering
Assignment: Chief Engineer
Special Ability/Adventage:Engineering Aptitute(statistical adv. to engineering roll)
Disadventage: Hatred(Zerkalian)(-1 to +1 when dealing with Zerkalians, decided by rolls)
Skills: [5]Good Departmental Commander
[2]Below-average Structral Repairman
[6]Great Hyper-light Engineer
[1-1] Hyper-light technology hobbyist
[4-2] Small-arm trained
[2]Poor conversationist
[3]Average debater
Background: A competent veteran that have began his service right before the Third CS-ZE war, Specialized in Hyper-light technology. Have seen a lot of actions in his part, His hatred comes from losing his father to Zerkalians in the Third war.
Inventory:Standard operations uniform(Operation/Engineering, worn), Hand scanner(Engineering), Combadge(worn)

Spoiler: Rule Addendum 1.1.3 (click to show/hide)

Rule Addendum:Skill choice for non-Command character has been changed to 5 Profession, 2 Social and 1 Command....I didn't make it clear on this
Addendum on weapon classes and their rough size and output(Outputs are mostly statistical on GM's discretion, but will make sense):
All energy weapon have a stun setting unless otherwise stated.
Class 1: Small hand weapons(Think about Star Trek's Type 1 "Cricket" phaser), can mostly be used with no training with minimal penality.
Class 2: Pistols , SMGs (Small arms and Firearms skill).
Class 3: Assault Rifles, Carbines, Sniper rifles, Light machine guns(Firearms skill).
Class 4: Heavy maching gun, Energy grenade launcher, Shoulder cannon(Heavy weapons skill), Primary weapon found aboard most lightly armed ground vehicles(also Heavy weapon skill), shuttles and light fighters(Small craft weaponary skill), Light point defense(Point defence skill).
Class 5: Found mainly aboard medium and heavy fighters, heavily-armed ground vehicle, and serves as medium point-defence.
Class 6: Found mainly aboard light to medium gunships, secondary weapons on older light cruisers, and serves as heavy point-defence.
Class 7: Found aboard heavy gunships, frigates, secondary weapon on most light cruisers nowadays, heaviest weapon class useful for point defense/use against most small crafts, most lightly-defended space installations.
Class 8: Heavy frigates, light to medium destroyers, older light cruisers, secondary weapon of heavy cruisers, light defence platforms(both on planet and in space).
Class 9: Heavy and assault destroyers, light cruiser nowadays, secondary weapon of Battlecruisers, light battleships, medium battleships, most moderately-defended space installations.
Class 10: Heaviest of assault destroyers, Heavy cruisers, secondary weapon of heavy battleships, most medium defence platforms.
Class 11: Battlecruisers, Light and medium Battleship.
Class 12: Heavy battleships, heavily defended space installations, most heavy defence platforms.
Class 15: Heaviest weaponary in Confederation Navy's arsenal, comes as a kind of "Core Cannon" aboard a certain class of heavy cruisers, further detail classified.

Hand weapon takes 1 charge firing on stun level, 2 on kill level unless stated otherwise.

On firing mode of energy weapons:
Beam: No modifier
Three-round pulse burst: stat.adv to-hit, stat.disadv to damage.
Full-automatic pulse:  +1 to-hit, -1 to damage.
Wide-beam sweep: +1 to +2 to-hit, -2 to damage.

Line officer rank guide:
1.Ensign
2.Lieutenant Junior Grade
3.Lieutenant
4.Lieutenant Commander
5.Commander
6.Captain
7.Commodore

Rule modification: Captain may pick his first officer, but is suggested to take the one with best command skill, as he/she will do your work when you are not available.

Skill Synergy is now in, which means you can have another closely-related skill to do another roll, which, when succeeds, may give the main roll a statistical adventage, or up to +1 depending on actual roll and situation. BUT may also give a disadventage on fail, up to -1.

All personal must be sober and competent while on duty, Alcohol is allowed, Drunkening up and making trouble is not. Also Navy command will take a dim view on any of it's ship if there's drug abuse aboard.

Duty station:
Captain: Ready room or Captain's chair, Bridge
Science Officer: Science Console, Bridge or Science Lab or Botanic Garden
Chief Engineer: Engineering Console, Bridge or Main Engineering
Head of Security: Security Console, Bridge or Security
First Helmsman: Navigation/Helm Console, Bridge or Astromatic
First Tactical Officer: Tactical Console, Bridge
Chief Medical Officer: Medibay

Limit on skill count is now lifted.

Spoiler: Rules Addendum 2.1.0: d10 and Combat addition (click to show/hide)

From Turn 10 onward, this game will use d10 instead of d6 on resolving turns.
Exact rule change and addition as follows:

General guideline of outcomes from rolls(From the old Interstellar RTD by Lear):

1- Critical Failure (You fire a plasma bolt at an enemy but your gun explodes burning you.)
2- Total Failure (While rewiring a security panel, you cross the wrong wires, suffering electrocution.)
3,4- Minor Failure (You try to plot a hyperspace jump but you lose your calculations sheet.)
5- Partial success (You get a better offer on some frag grenades, but not quite at the price you wanted.)
6,7- Minor Success (You strike a barrier door with your plasma sword, causing some damage to it.)
8- Success (You successfully weave through a cluster of asteroids.)
9- Perfect (You land a direct hit on an enemy ship causing massive damage.)
10- Overshot (You quickly discover the cure for a horrible plague. In your excitement, you infect yourself.)

Experience effect of skill levels(Subjected to change for balancing):

Level 0:<Empty>/Not             -4 to -7 depending on skill and situation at GM's discretion.
Level 1:Hobbyist/Makeshift      -3 to -2
Level 2:Novice/Poor             -2 to -1
Level 3:Below-Average           -1 to stat.penalty
Level 4:Average/<No adjective>  No modifier
Level 5:Above-Average           stat.bonus to +1
Level 6:Good                    +1 to +2
Level 7:Very Good               +2 with possible stat.bonus
Level 8:Great                   +2 to +3, reduced severity of 1s
Level 9:Master                  +3, reduced severity of 1s
Level 10:High Master            +3 to +4, reduced severity of 1s and 10s
Level 11:Grand Master           +4, reduced severity of 1s and 10s
Level 12:Legendary              +4, reduced severity of 1s and guard against 10s

Related skill penalty: Depending on the skill, stat.penalty to -4 on roll.

Firing mode of energy weapons:
Beam: No modifier
Three-round pulse burst: stat.bonus to +1 to-hit, stat.penalty to -1 to-damage, incresed energy consumption
Full-automatic pulse:  +1 to +2 to-hit, -1 to -2 to-damage, incresed energy consumption
Wide-beam sweep: +2 to +4 to-hit, -2 to -4 to-damage, incresed energy consumption

Firing mode of ballistic weapons(Gunpowder-based weapons, mass-drivers like railgun and coilgun.):
Single round: No modifier
Three-round burst: +1 to-hit
Full-auto: +1 to +3 to-hit

Skill synergy rule bonus and penalty changed to up to +3/-3,

Rules on Travel turns:

[1] epic fail: Immediately thereafter - 2 days, No rolls for whatever you decided to do in the travel turn, except for emergency repairs or emergency crashcourses.
[2-3] 3 days - 3 weeks, 1 roll for your action, but result will be fairly limited due to the short time available
[4-5] 3 weeks - 6 weeks, 1 rolls average for your action, time is still somewhat limited.
[6-7] 6 weeks - 12 weeks, 2 rolls average for action, longer time allows for generally better results(Statistically at GM's discretion), lesser epic success, lesser epic overrun and epic fail.
[8-9] epic success: 9 weeks - 16 weeks, 2 rolls average for action, which is a good time to finish most trainings and repairs.
[10] overshoot: longer than 16 weeks, up to a whole year. 3 rolls average for your action on GM's discretion, Too uneventful is a bad thing for your service record...which can effect what you get at the end of each assignment cycles, Also lowers the chance for very good epic success further)

Initiative roll with d10 before each turn of combat, action taken in the order of roll result, in order from highest to lowest. Reroll on same result.

Hit location(Typical Humanoid) rolled with a d20, table and to-hit penalty on called shot:
1---Head, 1d4=1-3 on head, 4 on neck, -4
2---Shoulder, 1d2=1 on left, 2 on right, -3
3-4---Left arm, 3 upper, 4 lower, -2
5-6---Right arm, 5 upper, 6 lower, -2
7---Hand, 1d2=1 on left, 2 on right, -4
8-12---Upper and Lower body, 1d5=1-3 upper, 4-5 lower, -1
13-15---Left leg, 1d5=1-2 upper, 3 hip, 4-5 lower, -2
16-18---Right leg, 1d5=1-2 upper, 3 hip, 4-5 lower, -2
19---Foot, 1d2=1 on left, 2 on right, -3
20---Reroll/ Other small or thin appatus(If exists, like Tail.) -2 to -3
Reroll if the rolled part is covered by object or terrain/not exist/otherwisely unhittable

Body part wound level:
Nothing: Healthy
Wounded: Some cut, bruise and scratch, -1 to all relevant roll
Injured: Deep cut, major burn/freezing, minor bleeding, -1 to -2 to all relevant roll
Incapacitated/Broken: Broken bone, cutted tendon, major bleeding, severe burn/freezing, festered. -2 to -5 to all relevant roll.
Life threatening/mangled: Crushed, disrupted, heavily singed/frozen over, severy bleeding, badly festered, renders the part unusable
Blown off: Pretty self-explainary...

Overall wound level:
Normal: Healthy, with at most 2 Wounded level wound.
Stunned: Caused by taser gun/shock baton/energy weapons on stun/blunt hit on head, temporary effect up to unconsciousness.
Wounded: At least 3 Wounded level wound.
Injured: At least 3 Injured level wound, or 6 Wounded level wound.
Incapacitated: At least 2 Incapacitated level wound, or 5 Injured level wound, may need roll to remain conscious.
Near Death: At least 2 life threatening and higher level wound, or 5 incapacitated level wound, or severe bloodloss or hyper/hypo-thermia/oxia, may need roll to survive with/without medical assistance.
Killed: He's dead, Jim...Clinically, may still be revivable.

Additional Backgrounds

Positions:
Command/Captain:Batista
Science:smjjames
Operations/Security, Command/First Officer:Flintus10
Operations/Navigation:Nimitz
Operations/Tactical:Paranatural
Operations/Engineering:Nirur Torir
Medical:Faden

Waiting list:
nuker w
Acanthus117

[Batista]

IN as capitain, posting details



Name: Batista (for simplicity's sake)
Race: Hundgaar (Humanoid, slightly stronger)
Sex: Male
Age: 42
Appearance: Average Height, Fit, Red hair and eyes
Special Ability/Adventage: Natural leader ( +1 when interacting with his crew)
Disadventage: Mourner (I will get a penalty for some turns when one of my teamates dies, I will let you decide the penalty and the number of turns)
Profession: Capitain
Skills:
Crew Commanding (Making them work together for better results)
Firearms user (Will I get a penalty here? I think this has to be a requirement for a commander)
Fast learner (bonus when training)
Fast thinker (+1 when under pressure)
Strategist (Bonus in fighting if it has been planed beforehand)
Diplomacy (Social)
Intimidation (Social)
Background: Classified. Clearance level X7 required. Some people say that he was promoted to capitain after playing a key role in winning the last war.


Can I get a list of everyone on board and their jobs?
Also a description of the ship?

[Faden]

In as Medical

Name: Faden
Race: Denedani, a bipedal avian race, taller than a human when standing as tall as possible. For the body configuration/proportions, think of a heron. They can grasp with both their wing-arms and their feet, but their wing-arms have more precision. They are brightly colored.
Gender: Female
Age: 28
Profession: Medical
Appearance: Faden's feathers are primarily gold and deep blue, but most colors are represented in small quantities. Faden trims her wing feathers so that she can work without them getting in the way, but as a result cannot fly.
Advantage: Bookworm (Statistical advantage when learning from books)
Disadvantage: Highly visible (+1 or -1 to stealthy actions)
Skills:
First Aid
Pathology
Alien Medicine
Medical Treatment
Fitness Program
Counseling (Social skill.)
Fast Talk (Social skill.)
Departmental Command (Command skill.)
Background: After leaving the university, Faden spent several years volunteering at free clinics on various underdeveloped worlds before she signed up for the CNF. The most relevant reason to her decision to join CNF was a lack of funds, until now she had been living off of funds from her parents.

[Paranatural]

In as Tactical, details to come.

[Nirur Torir]

Name: Nirur Torir
Race: Human
Sex: Male
Age: 23
Appearance: He is short and "stoutly built." He hates being called fat. He wears his brown hair in a ponytail.
Special Ability/Advantage: Engineering Aptitude
Disadvantage: Terrible accuracy with hand weapons.
Profession: Head of Operations/Engineering department
Skills: Power Management (Knowing how far a reactor can be pushed to generate more power), Power Systems Repairs, Damage Control, Emergency Repairs, Morale Management, Counseling, and Persuasion.

Background: Nirur is a fairly recent graduate from fleet school. When he was a child, his role model was Frederick, a teenager who lived next door. Ever since Frederick became a fleet officer, Nirur had dreamed of his own command.
In fleet school, he scored excellent marks on his engineering tests, but barely passed his personal combat training. After graduating, he was dismayed that his girth prevented him from passing the physical tests. He spent the next several months working at a fleet dock, where he gained experience building and repairing ships, rapidly being promoted to a team leader due to his skills, and eventually becoming the leader of an entire shift. He continued exercising, and passed the fleet's physical aptitude tests on his second try.
With the skills he learned in the dock, and with recommendation of Frederick, an experienced captain by this point, he was granted the position as head of the engineering on this starship. He now eagerly awaits his chance to prove himself.

[smjjames]

Might be interesting, I'll be in as science

Details to come though.

Also, NoctisVampire, your english is very good, so I wouldn't worry too much about it, but good to know that it isn't your first langiage. I don't really get the travel rolls thing, but I guess I'll just go along with it.

Name: smjjames (for simplicitys sake, and as an insectoid species, the name wouldn't write well into english)

Species: Ki'scri'caa. An arthropod species which has eight limbs (lower two pairs are walking limbs, the upper two are manipulatory), vaguely resembles a cross between a mantis and a scorpion and an antman, and is about the height of a typical human. Also, their respiratory system evolved in a similar way as mammals, that is, they have the equivalent of lungs and are able to hold their breath.

Gender: Male

Age: 30

Appearance: (see above for general physical appearance) A light metallic blue carapace with dark green mottling on the back, has distinctive lighter green striping and spots on the face which are used for individual identification, every pattern is unique. The upper pair of limbs roughly resemble a humans in function, except they have four claws total, two are the equivalent of fingers and two (one on either side of the hand) function as thumbs)

Special Ability: Natural multitasker (has four arms and hands, and so could do two things at once or do something quickly)

Disadvantages: Being a cold blooded species, he has problems in cold environments without special clothing, as such, he prefers ambient temperatures of at least 90 degrees fahrenheight (don't know the number in celcius, sorry), but can handle standard temperatures (75 degrees probably) quite well with a simpler heating garment under the crew outfit. Its when the temperature drops below 60 that he begins to slow down without protection, eventually going into torpor around 40 degrees. So, some sort of penalty in cold climates?

Skills:
Xenobiology (encompasses both alien and terran biology)
Scanner (science) (kind of neccesary for this)
Chemistry (goes in hand with biology)
melee combat (maybe a bonus because of natural multitasking?)
departmental command
instrument repair in the field (hailing from a rugged frontier colony world, he had to repair stuff right there in the feild, sometimes with limited or unavailble supplies)
Conversation
logical and analytical thinking (social, I guess?)

Background: Hailing from a Ki'scri'caa frontier colony world, he started his career in science quite early as was his interest, so he has gotten used to working in rugged terrain. However, despite the opportunities right there on his birthworld, he was well aware of the outside universe and when he came of age, signed up for the CNF. Its been a couple of years since he graduated from the academy, so this is probably his second or third assignment.

[Paranatural]

What exactly does Tactical mean, then? Like, space combat?

[smjjames]

What exactly does Tactical mean, then? Like, space combat?

Yea, also sensor stuff I guess.

[Flintus10]

In as security.

Name:Flintus

Race: Human

Gender: Male

Age: 24

Appearance: Tall and well built from heavy training. Has dark clean cut hair and green eyes.

Special ability: Athletic, Good with lower crew members.

Disadvantage: Inexperienced, Mistrusted by higher ranking officers.

Skills:
Rifles
Melee Combat
Small arms
Security System
Martial Arts
Departmental command
Streetwise
Conversation

Background: Having grown up in a lower-middle class family star ship command was not a likely option for Flint when he was growing up but like many other children he was raised on stories of the exploits of CNF heroes and he quickly set his sights. Flint doesn't often talk about how he managed to get into the academy or the inquiry that was ordered relating to it but regardless there was not enough evidence to press charges unfortunately Flint still carries this blemish on his report. Life in the academy was easy enough Flint had trained his body to peak athleticism and was a naturally talented shooter. The academic side provided more of a challenge but Flint worked hard and passed with an impressive record showing excellent talent in his martial skills and was placed on security.
Flint has served on one ship and his relatively lower class upbringing saw him get along very well with the other crew members. Of course the questionable way he was able to get into the academy in the first place saw tensions between him and his officers however nothing too drastic ever came to pass. And excellent repour with crew members as well as a heroic performance in one of only two instances of space combat saw Flint promoted and he was sent back to Earth ready for his new posting.   

 

[Nimitz]

Looks like all the other positions are taken, so I'm in as navigation. Will post a sheet soon.

[nuker w]

If you guys ever get a free position up, give me a PM and i'd be keen to join

[Nimitz]

Here you go.

Name: Nimitz

Race: Human

Gender: Male

Age: 24

Profession: Helmsman

Appearance: He is of average height for a human, and has a slim build. He is bald, his skin tone is light and his eyes are of a serious brown color.

Advantage(s): Expert pilot, Social (prefers to know his crew personally and keep relations warm. On a side note, he is fascinated with aliens)

Disadvantage(s): Emotional (In the sense that if crew members are injured/KIA, or if they fail a critical objective, it will affect his performance and mood negatively. If stressed enough, counseling is recommended to ensure that he remains fit for duty)

Skills: Starship Maneuvering
Hyper-light Flight
Stellar Cartography
Emergency Maneuvers
Concentration (Once he has his mind set on a goal, his attention will not be easily diverted. This can allow him to accomplish tasks requiring precision and focus with less difficulty, but this may also prevent him from noticing negative factors in the situation, like system malfunctions and such)
Small Arms (Hey, you never know)
Conversation
Charming

Background: Nimitz was born on humanity's homeworld, Earth, in the nation known as United America. After attending college for a few years, he decided to enlist in the Confederate Navy. At first, the harsh, no-nonsense lifestyle of the military was a bit difficult for Nimitz to get used to, but as time went on, he began showing potential to be a fine helmsman. At the end of training, he was among the top graduates, and got his officer's commission. Nimitz's first tour of duty will be spent on-board Captain Batista's ship, and he can't wait to get started.

(Does the ship have a name?)

[NoctisVampire]

This is what I got now...more coming later.
Just got back from a picnic with my parents and relatives, and processed 3 character sheet and made some rule addendum:
Some of you are quite lucky it seems
More character sheets and ship detail coming later.

Spoiler: Rule Addendum (click to show/hide)

Rule Addendum:Skill choice for non-Command character has been changed to 5 Profession, 2 Social and 1 Command....I didn't make it clear on this
Addendum on weapon classes and their rough size and output(Outputs are mostly statistical on GM's discretion, but will make sense):
All energy weapon have a stun setting unless otherwise stated.
Class 1: Small hand weapons(Think about Star Trek's Type 1 "Cricket" phaser), can mostly be used with no training with minimal penality.
Class 2: Pistols , SMGs (Small arms and Firearms skill).
Class 3: Assault Rifles, Carbines, Sniper rifles, Light machine guns(Firearms skill).
Class 4: Heavy maching gun, Energy grenade launcher, Shoulder cannon(Heavy weapons skill), Primary weapon found aboard most lightly armed ground vehicles(also Heavy weapon skill), shuttles and light fighters(Small craft weaponary skill), Light point defense(Point defence skill).
Class 5: Found mainly aboard medium and heavy fighters, heavily-armed ground vehicle, and serves as medium point-defence.
Class 6: Found mainly aboard light to medium gunships, secondary weapons on older light cruisers, and serves as heavy point-defence.
Class 7: Found aboard heavy gunships, frigates, secondary weapon on most light cruisers nowadays, heaviest weapon class useful for point defense/use against most small crafts, most lightly-defended space installations.
Class 8: Heavy frigates, light to medium destroyers, older light cruisers, secondary weapon of heavy cruisers, light defence platforms(both on planet and in space).
Class 9: Heavy and assault destroyers, light cruiser nowadays, secondary weapon of Battlecruisers, light battleships, heavy battleships, most moderately-defended space installations.
Class 10: Heaviest of assault destroyers, Heavy cruisers, secondary weapon of heavy battleships, most medium defence platforms.
Class 11: Battlecruisers, Light and medium Battleship.
Class 12: Heavy battleships, heavily defended space installations, most heavy defence platforms.
Class 15: Heaviest weaponary in Confederation Navy's arsenal, comes as a kind of "Core Cannon" aboard a certain class of heavy cruisers, further detail classified.

Hand weapon takes 1 charge firing on stun level, 2 on kill level unless stated otherwise.

On firing mode of energy weapons:
Beam: No modifier
Three-round pulse burst: stat.adv to-hit, stat.disadv to damage.
Full-automatic pulse:  +1 to-hit, -1 to damage.
Wide-beam sweep: +1 to +2 to-hit, -2 to damage.

Batista: Yes, Captains don't have penalty on skill roll at character creation...actually they have a +1 roll on command skills, prepare your pep talk! Ship and crew detail coming later.
Also you may have to revise some of your skills.
Command:Batista

Spoiler: Batista (click to show/hide)

Name: Batista
Race: Hundgaar (Humanoid, slightly stronger)
Sex: Male
Age: 42
Rank:[3]Commander[You don't have to hold captain's rank to be captain, depending your action you may get promoted soon.]
Appearance: Average Height, Fit, Red hair and eyes
Profession: Command
Assignment: Commanding Officer, CNS-15322 Swiftwing
Special Ability/Adventage: Natural leader ( +1 when interacting with his crew)
Disadventage: Mourner (Penalty for some turns when teamates perish, length and severity depending on situation)
Skills:
[5]+1 Great Crew Commander
[5]Good Firearms user (Normal(+1) for small arm, no bonus when using Class-3 HEPPC rifle)
Fast learner (bonus when training)[I believe these two are considered as adventages? Choose again.]
Fast thinker (+1 when under pressure)[I can change this to Pressure Management that will decrease or negate effect of pressure]
[6]Very good Strategist (Pre-planning gives bonus depending on situation)
[3]Average Diplomat[No +1 on roll if you decide to take this as social skill]
[4]Above-Average Intimidator
Background: Classified. Clearance level X7 required. Some people say that he was given his first command after playing a key role in winning the last war.
Inventory:
Standard Command Uniform(worn, with a commander's rank insignia on the shoulder)
Access E-Pad(May work as all normal consoles aboard as long as you got the security clearance, statistical disadventage to -1 on usage beyond information access)
Combadge(worn on uniform)
Confederated Technology RX3 HEPPC pistol(Class 2)(worn, on belt in a holster)
--Energy cell(60 charges)
Space Ink pen(in lower right pocket, uniform)
Position: Deck 2 aft, Captain's Quarter, CNS-15322 Swiftwing

Medical:Faden
Good creativity on your race

Spoiler: Faden (click to show/hide)

Name: Faden
Race: Denedani(a bipedal avian race, taller than a human when standing as tall as possible. For the body configuration/proportions, think of a heron. They can grasp with both their wing-arms and their feet, but their wing-arms have more precision. They are brightly colored.)
Gender: Female
Age: 28
Rank:[1]Lieutenant Junior Grade
Profession: Medical
Assignment: Chief Medical Officer, CNS-15322 Swiftwing
Appearance: Faden's feathers are primarily gold and deep blue, but most colors are represented in small quantities. Faden trims her wing feathers so that she can work without them getting in the way, but as a result cannot fly.
Advantage: Bookworm (Statistical advantage when learning from books)
Disadvantage: Highly visible (+1 or -1 to stealthy actions)
Skills:
[5]Good First aid doctor
[4]Above-average in Pathology
[3]+1Above-average in Alien Medicine[+1 Given for your good Background description]
[4]Medical Treatment(Above-average Pharmacist)
[6]Fitness Program (Very good fitness trainer)
[2]Below-Average Counselor
[5]Fast Talk (Good Player)[A bit of clarification: This skill is used to play games like Poker, chess and their alien equlevant, Also used on persuation attempt]
[5]Good departmental commander
Background: After leaving the university, Faden spent several years volunteering at free clinics on various underdeveloped worlds before she signed up for the CNF. The most relevant reason to her decision to join CNF was a lack of funds, until now she had been living off of funds from her parents.
Inventory:
Denedani-sized Medical Uniform(worn, with a Lieutenant J.g.'s insignia on the shoulder)
Standard Issue Medical Kit(Worn with a belt)
--Mini medication synthesizer(10/10 raw material, 10/10 power unit)
--2 empty hypospray
--5 doses of broad-spectrum antitoxin/antivenom in 1 hypospray vial
--5 doses of stimulant in 1 hypospray vial
--2 White one-use medical gloves
--Denedani-sized one-use medical cloak
--Breath mask and hand pump(Adaptable to most humanoids and avians)
--Medical Scanner(100 use left before recharge, 5/5 power unit)
Combadge(Worn, on uniform)
Position: Confederation Navy Medical Command temporary quarter, Geneva, Earth

Operations/Engineering:Nirur Torir
[Very good luck...other than social skills...And I assure you all that profession skills will have good use aboard this ship, and good luck with that(hint hint).]
[You can add one more profession skills...sorry for unclear rules.]

Spoiler: Nirur Torir (click to show/hide)

Name: Nirur Torir
Race: Human
Sex: Male
Age: 23
Rank: [5]:Lieutenant Junior Grade
Assignment: Chief Engineer, CNS-15322 Swiftwing
Appearance: He is short and "stoutly built." He hates being called fat. He wears his brown hair in a ponytail.
Special Ability/Advantage: Engineering Aptitude(Stat. adv. to all engineering roll)
Disadvantage: Terrible accuracy with hand weapons.(-1 to-hit roll to Small arm, Fire arm)
Profession: Operations/Engineering
Skills: [6]Power Management (Very Good Energy Engineer) (Knowing how far a reactor can be pushed to generate more power, And rerouting power effectively)
[6]Very Good Power Systems Repairman,
[5]Good Damage Control Director
[4]Emergency Repairs(Above-average)
[6]Morale Management(Very good Pep-talker),
[1]Novice Counselor
[2]Novice Persuader.
Background: Nirur is a fairly recent graduate from fleet school. When he was a child, his role model was Frederick, a teenager who lived next door. Ever since Frederick became a fleet officer, Nirur had dreamed of his own command.
In fleet school, he scored excellent marks on his engineering tests, but barely passed his personal combat training. After graduating, he was dismayed that his girth prevented him from passing the physical tests. He spent the next several months working at a fleet dock, where he gained experience building and repairing ships, rapidly being promoted to a team leader due to his skills, and eventually becoming the leader of an entire shift. He continued exercising, and passed the fleet's physical aptitude tests on his second try.
With the skills he learned in the dock, and with recommendation of Frederick, an experienced captain by this point, he was granted the position as head of the engineering on this starship. He now eagerly awaits his chance to prove himself.
Inventory:
Standard operations uniform(worn, with a Lieutenant J.g.'s rank insignia on the shoulder)
Standard issue Engineering toolkit(worn on back)
--Hyperspanner(Used to open access panels, works as wretch)
--Engineering Scanner(100 use before need to recharge, 5/5 power unit)
  --Engineering probe
--Small microfusion reactor(capable of providing 1 power unit per second at most, 1800/1800 power unit)
--Small replacement part synthesizer(15/15 raw material, 15/15 power unit)
--Welding Torch (1-20 power per use depending on situation, 40/40 power unit)
Combadge(Worn on uniform)
Location: Earth Spacedock, temporary quarter.

[Flintus10]

I'll warn you now that I plan on sleeping soon so sorry if that slows the beginning down.

[smjjames]

I say we need more aliens! But ah well, at least the captain is alien.

Oh yea, since the species that I made for my character has humanoid-like hands, he would be able to handle most equipment designed for humanoids.