With a reduced, ominous shudder your Type XII shuttle pitches down and begins to descend through the planet’s atmosphere at an alarming rate. Your passengers — security staff, physicians, even hardened security officers panic and flail around — but you happen to be not worried a little. It really is just a malfunction in the flight laptop or computer… with a flick you disengage the errant machine and grasp the control column.
“Hang on,” you phone over your shoulder, “I’m taking her in manually!”
Starfleet pilots aren’t just the top… they’re the top from the most effective, and at UFOP: StarBase 118 you are able to soar with the quite most effective of those guys. In the tiniest shuttle for the largest Prometheus and Galaxy class starships, the helmsmen of Starfleet do the unattainable every single day. Some may well deride them as simply glorified bus drivers, but those persons speedily shut their mouths if you make a Defiant class ship fly like a Peregrine class Marquee raider.
A exclusive component of Star Trek‘s UFOP: StarBase 118 is often a position known as “Helm/Conn/Ops”, or HCO for brief. It really is specifically what’s written on the tin; you happen to be communications, you happen to be helm, you happen to be operations. You are the living, beating heart of the ship and also you effort would be the backbone of the ship.
But be they HCOs or pure helmsmen, pilots are the dashing heroes from the Starfleet world and their glory is won through bravery, courage, valour and talent against unattainable odds. Some say they treat their craft as an extension of their own self, like a tiny bird with huge metal wings carrying them to greatness.
And they usually get the girls (or the guys)*.
If you are this type of hero, and you happen to be on the lookout for a Star Trek RPG like no other, then enlist these days!
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