[KaiserKirk]

Rightio!

[Saelanna]

I’ll post my response to the current situation later on this evening. I’m waiting for rybrarian to respond to a pm so I know where we’re going with this.

[Scarlett]

Back to the current Captain: let's say we send him planetside for advanced treatment, then what?

Ares is heading into deep space IIRC. So, once that starts he's either on board or not. Right?

[Saelanna]

Back to the current Captain: let's say we send him planetside for advanced treatment, then what?

Ares is heading into deep space IIRC. So, once that starts he's either on board or not. Right?

Do we need to send him away at all? Surely the medical facilities on board a Sovereign class starship are equal to the task, just think what a holographic Doctor managed to achieve on Voyager. Unless we’re writing Eaglesg out altogether...

[WelshAvenger]

Do we need to send him away at all? Surely the medical facilities on board a Sovereign class starship are equal to the task, just think what a holographic Doctor managed to achieve on Voyager. Unless we’re writing Eaglesg out altogether...

Two ways to look at that. Can we keep him in a medically induced coma or stasis? Sure. Ethically, we should send him to a better facility for treatment. Sovereign class or not, there are things sick bay wasn't designed for or Olympic class ships wouldn't exist.

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[Silynn]

Someone, the new ARES CO or a ARES staff, could just 'take over' the Captain character. We really haven't seen much development of him, so keeping his name, you can modify his persona any way you see fit to enjoy the role. No need to space him, which would be kind of drastic after the attack and on a long-5-year-mission-that-just-started... kind of a bad omen.

For continuity and same sake of normalcy, keeping Captain Wilson (albeit played by another ARES staffer), shouldn't be a big stretch.

Otherwise, if a Captain was 'lost' or permanently incapacitated, why wouldn't Starfleet just order the USS ARES to return to a Starbase, pending a Captain's replacement. I mean sending a Captainless ship onward when it hasn't even truly started doesn't make a lot of sense. Recalling the ship and delaying the re-start of the mission once a Captain has been assigned (and said Captain given some time to get accustomed to his crew, unlike the previous time where it got into serious trouble...).

Or if the new Captain, wants their own uniquely created character, just replace Wilson when them via retconn. It was Captain X and not Wilson who was hurt and is now waking up in Sickbay?

TL;DR... a more seamless Captain (personnel) change is my preference. i.e. the "Captain" waking up (whomever the new one is) in sickbay and the first words out of their mouth, "Report..."

[Scarlett]

My apologies, I had the impression the discussion was leaning to removing Wilson off the ship

[Allan Hood]

I’ll post my response to the current situation later on this evening. I’m waiting for rybrarian to respond to a pm so I know where we’re going with this.

I liked how you spotted the transmission, that's cool.

Try not to corner yourself, either. In case Rybrarian doesn't get back to you after a week or two, prepare to move on and interact with others or tell your own story til it overlaps with others. Some people respond on time, other people don't. Either way, most people will respond, eventually.

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Back to the current Captain: let's say we send him planetside for advanced treatment, then what?

Ares is heading into deep space IIRC. So, once that starts he's either on board or not. Right?

Right, we're heading into deep space, as compared to Earth. Deep Space Nine will be nearby. TOS, TNG and ENT have both been called back from their five year missions for various reasons, that way we might be able to get him back on somehow, just not as Captain. I want to leave the door open for his character to come back, just not in the same position as before. I'm not comfortable with killing him off if we don't have to.

[Saelanna]

I liked how you spotted the transmission, that's cool.

Try not to corner yourself, either. In case Rybrarian doesn't get back to you after a week or two, prepare to move on and interact with others or tell your own story til it overlaps with others. Some people respond on time, other people don't. Either way, most people will respond, eventually.

I was thinking about tasking a junior member of Operations to investigate the communication logs; a subordinate of Oma’s who can work in the background while she carries on with the mission at hand. It’ll be a character I’ll write for.

[Allan Hood]

Do we need to send him away at all? Surely the medical facilities on board a Sovereign class starship are equal to the task, just think what a holographic Doctor managed to achieve on Voyager. Unless we’re writing Eaglesg out altogether...

We're mostly sending him away because he's going to be the Elephant in the Room...the Elephant in Sickbay? During any medical emergency or whatever, we'll always have to consider, "oh yeah, the captain, too..."

Being near the DMZ, we can easily give him to people who can medically treat him better.

Our doctors and the holographic doctor could take care of him, too, BUT, the holographic doctor is only suppose to be used for emergencies and if we could give him to a hospital ship that specializes in the care he needs, in a safer environment, I think that'd be the most likely course of action; Voyager got screwed in the Delta Quadrant haha

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Someone, the new ARES CO or a ARES staff, could just 'take over' the Captain character. We really haven't seen much development of him, so keeping his name, you can modify his persona any way you see fit to enjoy the role. No need to space him, which would be kind of drastic after the attack and on a long-5-year-mission-that-just-started... kind of a bad omen.

For continuity and same sake of normalcy, keeping Captain Wilson (albeit played by another ARES staffer), shouldn't be a big stretch.

Otherwise, if a Captain was 'lost' or permanently incapacitated, why wouldn't Starfleet just order the USS ARES to return to a Starbase, pending a Captain's replacement. I mean sending a Captainless ship onward when it hasn't even truly started doesn't make a lot of sense. Recalling the ship and delaying the re-start of the mission once a Captain has been assigned (and said Captain given some time to get accustomed to his crew, unlike the previous time where it got into serious trouble...).

Or if the new Captain, wants their own uniquely created character, just replace Wilson when them via retconn. It was Captain X and not Wilson who was hurt and is now waking up in Sickbay?

TL;DR... a more seamless Captain (personnel) change is my preference. i.e. the "Captain" waking up (whomever the new one is) in sickbay and the first words out of their mouth, "Report..."

Wow, those are really good points. I thought about that, too, just start writing for his position or something, but I thought against it cause I want someone in admin to take on the role of captain to make the story writing easier, the easiest way is promoting our first officer to captain, but we'll see. Might be weird to write with Eaglesg's name and feels weirder to change his name altogether. Then, we might end up with one person running two characters or someone having to write a bio for a character they aren't attached to personally. I rather space him haha seems easier if we give him to a hospital ship. That would be awesome with him waking up saying, "Report!" We got to work that into the new captain somehow haha

Bad omen, if people believe in that in the 24th century, but it happens, I bet there are other times in Starfleet history where the captain gets unseated at the get-go and everyone just promoted within the ship. Starfleet uses the chain-of-command for that very reason, to promote within during an a mission such as this.

Retconning the character leaves a bad taste in my mouth; I don't want to discredit the work Eaglesg did in getting us going with graphics and the original storyline. If it wasn't for him, Ares was going to die with the previous version of it from when I first joined. Without Eaglesg, we wouldn't have a RP at all. I don't want us to retconn the characters everytime something comes up, though we could make it a one time thing. We need to learn to deal with characters disappearing or being killed off, just like in ST. This isn't the last time this situation is going to come up.

Those are really good points and I still might change my mind, nothing's in stone, yet. We don't have to cross this bridge until we get our new CO and they'll make the call. Then, we can rendezvous with the hospital ship.

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My apologies, I had the impression the discussion was leaning to removing Wilson off the ship

I think we are leaning toward that, we're just considering all options.

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I was thinking about tasking a junior member of Operations to investigate the communication logs; a subordinate of Oma’s who can work in the background while she carries on with the mission at hand. It’ll be a character I’ll write for.

Right, that's a good idea. I want us to have our general story arc and you guys free to weave other stories, or mini-arcs, throughout it. It should make some complicating stories criss-crossing, I'm looking forward to it.

Kind of reminds me of Black Sails, if you guys ever watched it. There's the main story arc, then tons of other ones weaved throughout it, I loved that series. I just started the third season, so no spoilers haha

[Scarlett]

So ... is a suggestion that the Captain of the ship also be the CO of the forum?

[Allan Hood]

So ... is a suggestion that the Captain of the ship also be the CO of the forum?

That's how it was originally and traditionally. It'll be the easiest way. We'll see, we might have the CO be the XO in real life, so I don't know. All depends. As long as admin is up there, we're cool.

[Scarlett]

I think my concern is if the plan is to have the forum CO be the same as RP Captain, then advertising the position as open to applications is actually moot.

[WelshAvenger]

I think my concern is if the plan is to have the forum CO be the same as RP Captain, then advertising the position as open to applications is actually moot.

Well, there goes Christopher's chance of field promotion to Captain [emoji16]

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[Silynn]

The ARES CO doesn't have to be the Captain of the USS ARES. I'd prefer the Captain of the USS ARES to be the most passionate about telling the story and keeping the story moving.

Well, there goes Christopher's chance of field promotion to Captain [emoji16]

Unless Christopher is holding a laser scalpel to someone's... well, you know...