Dear all,

We’re having some troubles keeping our activity up. I understand it can sometimes feel like a chore, and we don’t want this hobby of ours to feel like a demand, because then we’ll be even less willing to participate. And I’d hate that, for us, our community, and our ship.

Since August, we’ve lost many members – some of which having been with us for a very long time, years even. And we’ve had troubles with inactivity and AWOLs.

The situation is becoming acute. Allow me to explain.

I’ve been trying to get hold of Hjortur (playing our second officer Grey) for over a month or so. It looks like I’ll have to deroster him. And at the same time, he’s not made an IC post for over six weeks. If he’s derostered, there’ll be a vacancy for 20.

Under our charter, we have several positions that we need to have filled in order for us to remain a commissioned ship.

Allow me to quote:

The USS Chernov shall have a crew structure in line with its “Abramsverse” nature. Both the positions of Commanding Officer and Executive Officer shall exist as they do in Standard RPG areas, and count toward established limits. The ship shall have the following Department Head positions as they exist in Standard RPG areas:

Chief Engineer
Chief Medical Officer
Chief Science Officer

The Chernov shall also have the following period-specific positions as Department Heads:

Navigation Officer
Weapons Officer
The Executive Officer shall concurrently hold one of the Department Head positions with a main duty station on the Bridge. Examples of this include, per established canon as >of the time of this Edict:
Chief Science Officer
Navigation Officer
Weapons Officer

The Chernov shall have positions for Junior Officers in Engineering, Medical and Science as they exist in Standard RPG areas. It shall also have Junior Officers in Security, reporting to the Weapons Officer.

So let’s look at what we have now:

• Chief Engineer (Pawl Batario)
• Chief Medical Officer (Mykl Najjar)

• Chief Science Officer (vacant, has been held concurrently with Second Officer)

• Navigations Officer (William Archer, held concurrently as XO)

• Weapons officer (John Forster)

We also have JOs in medical (Sutalo, Sovan, both as second characters) and security (T’Kul Valharra, who’ll go into comms) while vacant ones in Engineering and Science.

So it’s not looking good, people. While we don’t need a second officer technically, we’ll need a chief science officer. No character who is not already a department head is eligible for that role with their current IC experience. We also need to ensure our activity remains afloat if we’re gonna stay a ship.

I’d like to ask you what you think we can do. How would you like things to change? Do we need some other kind of leadership on the Chernov? What can I do to help you feel more happy here? How can we ensure this ship doesn’t go under?

Do you have any nominees for the CSO (and if an already DH, a nominee to replace that DH?)?

– Ric

aka
Kastarak, Cpt
Commanding Officer