Astraeus Officer's Manual/Promotions

			Astraeus Officer's Manual

Astraeus Officer's Manual Introduction I: Basics 1: Expectations 2: The Lists 3: Formatting Your Sims II: Astraeus 101 4: The Setting 5: The Ship 6: The Crew III: Operating Procedures 7: Missions 8: Shoreleave 9: Mission Proposals IV: Beyond the Basics 10: Promotions 11: Secondary Characters 12: Department Heads 13: OOC Activities 14: Mentoring » USS Astraeus Wiki Page NCC-70652 Edit this nav Promotions Standard policy on the Astraeus is that you must write full-time for at least one full mission before your character receives her or his next promotion, regardless of what rank you begin at. If you arrive mid-mission, then you want to try and begin simming full-time immediately. Note that being a writer-in-residence aboard the Astraeus for a "full mission" means that you arrived no more than one week after the beginning of the mission. At the end of missions, the CO will present service ribbons to PCs and specific PNPCs as necessary. However, further PNPC and NPC awards can be given, as appropriate, by those characters' writers. As always, any large-scale changes should be discussed with the command team. Use your best judgment! Promotion of Player Characters Promotions occur after the end of missions. However, the timing of promotions within shore leave may vary: Sometimes promotions occur directly after the mission has ended, and sometimes they occur just before the next mission is set to begin. Your best resource for working toward your next promotion is the fleetwide Promotions Guide. Aboard the Astraeus, the Player Achievements system is used as part of the promotion process. Before you are eligible for promotion to the next rank, all "Tour of Duty" achievements at your current rank must be completed. Keep an open dialogue with your mentor and the command team if you unsure what to do in order to achieve your next promotion! Promotions of NPCs Technically, only the captain can authorize promotions IC. However, you may want to promote one of your NPCs or PNPCs at some point if you started them at a rank below your own. You are free to create and promote NPCs up to your current rank. For IC "realism," you can tell your NPC/PNPC that your PC is recommending them for promotion (for instance, if your PC is the chief medical officer and your NPC is a nurse in his or her department), but you are free to then show them in a later sim having been promoted "off screen." If you wish to have the actual promotion of your NPC/PNPC simmed, talk with your captain, who will be happy to sim with you to make that happen!

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