The Starfleet Academy Alumni Association has created this guide to help you as you enter the fleet as a new ensign.
Getting started as a wiki user
Be on the lookout for your wiki account login information, which may end up in your spam/junk folder. Your new Commanding Officer will create it after you've been welcomed to your ship. Once that account is set up, and you're logged in, you can read through these resources to ensure that you have a strong foundation for participation.
Perhaps one of the most fun things about graduating from the Academy is setting up your character profile. This detailed tutorial will explain how you can lay the groundwork for an amazing, detailed area that shows everyone who your character is.
You've just been promoted to ensign, so naturally it's time to start thinking about your first promotion to Lieutenant JG! We've put together a short list of requirements you should work on for each rank transition, so you know when you're headed in the right direction.
Follow our accounts to see our Community News and other updates in your feed. Then invite your friends to join us – we survive on referrals, and you may be surprised how many of your friends will be interested in our community. Pass on our website address (starbase118.net) via Facebook, Twitter, or even an email!
Become an expert in your duty post
Learning to play your duty post as an expert is not only a gratifying experience, but one that will also help you advance in rank faster and ensure that others around you will appreciate what you're contributing and want to sim with you. So spend some time getting to know more about your duty post, and how to hone you skills in this area to expert level.
Now that you've learned the basics, you can get on the fast track to promotion by being the best writer, and the best simmer you can. Learn more about how to improve your skills by reading any, or all, of the following tutorials from the Writing Improvement Team.
Here you'll find articles that help you understand different methods of plotting your mission sims, making sims more realistic, and general story considerations.
We often post tutorials on our website – you can see the whole archive of them at this link.
Join a discussion
The forums are always abuzz with lots of fun threads about our game, Star Trek, and anything else that strikes our fancy. If you haven't joined yet, be sure to register today.
Our Guilds are places where people writing for characters that share similar qualities (species, sexuality, etc.) come together to develop this special trait. We currently have the Readers Guild, for psionic characters; the Species Guild, where discussion about alien species happens; and the Lambda Alliance, for discussion about Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Trans characters.
The Duty Post forums are a great place to ask questions or meet others who play a similar role elsewhere in the fleet. You can get guidance on simming a character in your post, learn more about the In Character tools your character would use, and kvetch about how ungrateful everyone is for the people in your role!
It's the Star Trek renaissance! New movies, shows, comic books, novels, and more. Join us as we pick apart new trailers and speculate about what comes next.
Get involved
Our fleet runs entirely on volunteer energy. So join in and help out – you'll not only meet new people around the fleet, but it'll help your promotion progress.
We post every day on our blog, and it plays a vital part in not only showing prospective members how active our community is, but also helping our search engine rankings and, of course, informing our community about what’s happening!
Have you heard about our spin-off fan fiction site? The Federation News Service (FNS) is an exciting new venue for worldbuilding and telling stories set in the Star Trek universe.
