Emirikol: Intermezzo

( Haggle? Don't be absurd. It's bad enough we have to handle our own coin! )

To be continued.

USS Carter Crew part 2

evynrude made a start on her PCs this weekend, and they should provide some interesting shifts to the episode dynamics.

Rather than take the role of the new Chief Engineering Officer she went with a lower ranked officer in Engineering - an expert on starship construction and sensors who has been in the background in Engineering since the refit before season 1. His name is not yet determined, but he was just promoted from Lt JG to LT, meaning that events in Engineering will maintain the feel of being their own little world of rivalries and interpersonal dynamics under a relatively weak chief engineer. While the rest of the ship focused on those in charge, for some reason the warp core is the downstairs to the bridges 'up' where we focus on the second tier people. This is meant to be her secondary character, but he has 5 advancements. We also know that he is short, slight, Japanese, learned ship design from his grandfather (who has a business making private shuttles) and is a skilled martial artist

Her primary character is Chief Petty Officer Coy Mahn, Commander Funk's right hand when it comes to handling security. We haven't fleshed her out much yet, other than knowing that she's in her 30's and of Vietnamese descent. This makes her the only non-commissioned PC on the ship, outranked even by Bernie. I foresee some lovely scenes with those two - Ensign Bernie being put in command of a 'milk run' away mission with the highly experienced CPO Coy Mahn at his side to 'suggest' courses of action.

The nice thing about this is it frees me up to do more engineering things on away missions since the very active First Officer won't have to come up with reasons to stay behind and send T'Prin. Or he can make use of the ready made excuse of sending Coy Mahn along to handle things while 

netcurmudgeontrots out his Vulcan. While we now have two players whose PCs are in parallel when it comes to skills, I'm seeing this as having more upside when it comes to getting a chance to do different things than a downside as a threat to Niche Protection. I'll be interested to see how it plays out.