I, too, am new

[picard62385 0]

I am new and was wondering about creating a character.  Can I just create one on this board, or is there some sort of list of characters to choose from?

 

Help would be appreciated.  My e-mail is [email protected]

 

 

Thanks

 

                                          Picard62385

 

Picard out.

[LoAmi 0]

First, welcome to STSF!

 

There are no stock characters to choose from.  You are only limited by your imagination and the constraints of the Star Trek universe.  Some people choose to create biographies for the academy and post them in the "STSF Academy" board, but most people don't.  When you graduate the academy, you're given the opportunity to sign on to an advanced ship.  When you get assigned, then you create a permanent character, check it over with the GM's of the sim (the captain and first officer of the ship), and if they ok it, you post it on the specific sim's bio's board.  You can see what other people have done by going through the STSF web boards.

 

One way to approach the academy is to try out different characters you're considering using as your permanent one.  Another is to just forget about what planet you might come from during an academy (and default off to being human) because one hour really isn't enough time for serious character development.

 

Now, on to some limitations: characters should be reasonable in the Trek universe - you will be stationed on a Federation (or Klingon, in the case of the Qob) starship or installation, so you should choose a character who would reasonably be there.  For example, a Klingon or Romulan would probably not fit in too well on the USS Hood (TOS sim).  The age you choose for your character should be reasonable - there probably won't be any 12 year old (human) ensigns on a starship.  And so on...

 

And, webmaster, if you're reading... it seems this question of when to create a character as well as some others have come up quite a bit -- a FAQ?

[Zarr 0]

Welcome to STSF,

Follow the tips from ltjg_loami.  And here are some character(alien) races that may help, Betazoid, Trill, Vulcan, Bajoran, and Andorian(that's the race I'm going to be usen for my character(Zarr) That and you can check out more alien races at startrek.com Just click Library, then stellar cartography, plus alien cultuers. They may help out on what type of alien race to choose.