<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=339042.msg16079379#msg16079379">Quote from: Outcast on 08-01-2022, 14:16:48</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">How experienced and capable should we be thinking of our characters as being?<br/><br/>Are the ship's command crew a bunch of grizzled veterans, whose long service makes them the best candidates to be entrusted with an immensely-valuable exploration ship and such an important mission?  Or are the majority of them more likely to be bright young things, talented but expendable enough to be sent out on what could easily be a one-way trip?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Honestly, probably somewhere in the middle.<br/><br/>The people-who-arranged-the-mission consider it VERY important, potentially "humanity might depend on this mission succeeding," but at the same time... it's also a careful secret thing.. It's important that it succeeds, but, they can't put all their eggs in one basket and ideally they shouldn't be too obvious about it.<br/><br/>The Captain, as I have envisioned her, is an incredibly high-ranking and important member of her Order. On the level of "one step below the Proxy". Most of the people on this mission, though, are going to be proven and talented individuals who their superiors think very highly of. The officers are going to be, you know, good... solid.. experienced. There are without a doubt some grizzled veterans. There are also some people that have been around enough to know a thing or two. There's even room for a "bright young thing with the skills that the mission NEEDS" in the officer pool.<br/><br/>...and, of course, if you've had a run in with one of the Doyen..? Or even some other kind of engimatic or alien encounter? That goes a LONG way here.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=339042.msg16079371#msg16079371">Quote from: TheBlackThrone on 08-01-2022, 13:36:33</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Oh, you also mentioned engineer. Will engineers exist? Because I would find that role interesting.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>If you DID want to play with Hardtech, rather than being more flexible or focused on Biotech, you could be a Nihonjin Superior assigned to the Odyssey. Nippon is the capital of "really advanced hardtech". n', well, Superiors are basically humans but smarter. Which... could be interesting.. since Nippon hosts quite a lot of secrets that it used to get itself a good position on the Odyssey team.<br/><br/>THAT SAID, yeah,--<br/>--"Biotech" is huge in Trinity and the Leviathan Jump Ships are living ships.<br/><br/>...I had a really awesome picture I was gonna use for the Odyssey, but I can't FIND the stupid thing just yet, but, to be announced.<br/><br/>So if you wanted to be "the ship's engineer," you'd ideally wanna be good at both hardtech and biotech. Probably with more of a focus on bio. It's worth noting that Trinity biotech is still, you know, "tech". The Qin design organisms that happen to fulfill useful roles while also being, you know, living entities. Human biotech is much more discrete and "tech"-y, even if it's ultimately of biological origin. Meaning, like, a human biotech computer is a computer that you have on your waist that works like any other computer. Orgotek's leading brand has a turtle shell type thing going on.<br/><br/>A qin biotech computer is an octopus like thing.<br/><br/>*chuckles*<br/><br/>XD