Klingon Defense Force: A RP Proposal

[Kheren]

Greetings RPers!

One of our fleetmates, Science Lieutenant Junior Grade Hera, came up to me with a bold and novel idea: play out a KDF character in our RP!

Those who had read or played our RP stories know full well how often we interact with the Empire; Starbase Lotus, being the command center for Starfleet in the Hromi sector, is both near the Romulan Neutral Zone and the Klingon Empire border. Interaction with the proud and aggressive warriors of Kahless is bound to happen. So far, it has always been through NPCs; but maybe there are some among you who do hear the call to battle!

Of course, it has always been possible, and is still is, to make a Klingon-type character to become an officer aboard our Starfleet crew. Lieutenant-Commander Sydona V'Krull, a half-klingon,had been chief engineer of the USS McKenzie in the first season of our LF RP, up to our first Fleet Action (Borg Invasion), to name but one. But what we are talking here is playing a Klingon character serving the Empire, as we do in our STO House of Lotus!

KDF characters could include Gorns (conquered), Orions and Fesarans (allies) and Nausicaans (mercenaries), not just Klingons.

This opens up several possibilities I submit to you all:


- One or a few players want to play a KDF character: although this is not enough to warrant full play from this perspective (1 or 2 players get quickly bored between themselves, especially if not becomes inactive), it can easily be incorporated in current gameplay as the antagonist/possible circumstantial ally of the Starfleet players.

The upcoming episode involving our two ships offers such an opportunity. So even if only one of you wants to do this, you can create a Lieutenant Junior Grade character who will be part of a Klingon ship crew (with an NPC Captain under the control of the RP Director) and still interact with all the other players... albeit from a rival perspective.


- Several players want to play KDF characters: several means at least five players; enough to minimally crew a vessel. Following our RP rules, only ranking RP Captains could play a KDF commanding officer (meaning currently  Redding, Jureth, Jeff T, Evshell and myself) although current RP ranking Commanders (meaning Sorripto, BLZBUB and now Snowfire) could apply for the position. All others would-be KDF characters would have to start at the usual starting rank and work their way up the RP ladder, but this time on the side of the Empire and for the glory and honor of their House!

Again, the upcoming episode could be modified to allow this. If one of our Starfleet ships finds itself too depleted of personnel because of this, we might consider double shift play for the command staff and/or having only one Starfleet ship active. Again, the Klingon crew would play as antagonist/possible ally or even a competitor's role within this story.

Later, if that crew remains whole, separate klingon episodes could certainly be viable.


- All players want to play KDF characters: this might seem unikely but I do not wish to exclude the possibility. The above statements would all apply; but the next episode then would be entirely from the Klingon perspective!

This might have the benefit of solving our current low level of participants as everyone would then be on the same Klingon ship (a big one) or perhaps part of a Bird Of Prey squadron (if we have several captains and small crews)


As you can all see, this idea opens quite a few yet untapped opportunites for our RP gaming. And some among you may have other ideas... 

All thoughts, ideas and comments are welcome here after on the subject. We can certainly discuss this for as long as we want... but those who wish to try this out in our next episode must at least propose a character following the official procedure and fill out an application form and/or PM me about it. And this must be done BEFORE OCTOBER 4TH as our next story will begin by that time.

Here is the link for the application form:


form.php?f=18


Indicate "Any ship" as your ship selection and use "Lt JG" as your rank (even if the rank designation will be more properly Klingon later in the story). Commanders an above applying to be a Klingon captain will do as if applying for that position on our current ships but again choose ""any ship". Filling up all fields and especially descriptive ones will count heavily for such a command position, but less than mandatory daily availability to read and post just as for any current ship captain.

So... let us all know here what you think! And thank you Hera for that proposal!



Admiral Kheren
LF RP Director

[Jureth]

That's a very interesting idea...if I didn't already have two characters I might consider it, though if there is interest I could jump on board with approval from our RP director of course.

[Kheren]

That option always remain open now and later if anyone wishes to try this radical departure from our usual storytelling. Here again, 3 players and an approved storyline would be enough to make it fly.

[BLZBUB]

I am up for a second RP character, and actually have one "rolled".  I will PM her specifics to you Admiral Kheren, as for now I want this 'Klingon faction character' kept under wraps for now until her debut in a Klingon RP story.

[Kheren]

Seems we might get ready to try this after the first episodes of the year