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/><br/>----<br/><br/>For Discord... I can go with the opinion of others.  I've seen some good use from channels in the past, but can quite understand why some might prefer to keep things to the forum.<br/><br/>----<br/><br/>Engineers: (if my memory's not letting me down) the jump ships are vast biotech devices, jointly created by multiple psi orders to 'stand in' for the inter-stellar transport services formerly provided by the Upeo wa Macho.  Orgotek (the electrokinetic psi order; run as a very 'fluffy' corporation / research group with heavy interests in free education charities and the like, but also rumoured to have a serious political and espionage side) are the pre-eminent experts in creating biotech, and took a lead in the (secret, until its successful completion was announced) effort to develop the Leviathan ships.  Orgotek would almost certainly expect to have its people take the lead in the engineering division aboard the vessel.