Writer ID/How to

To construct a writer ID number, you need the following information for the player:

First letter of first ship/base name
- StarBase 118 Ops uses "O" as the prefix character.
- Duronis II Embassy uses "E" as the prefix character.
Year of start (in format of stardate)
Month of start (two digits)
First initial of character first name
First initial of last name (or 1, if character only has one name)
Academy list number (one digit)
- If there are two players with the same initials in an Academy class, replace this number with the digit 9 for the player whose application was accepted later.
- Prior to 2021, all players had a 0 in this last position unless their writer ID conflicted with another player, in which case the number was incremented to 1.

Example

Combine the elements as follows: