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Does this sound like a good agent idea? by ratbrainbasher on 2015-05-21 00:46:00 UTC Reply

I have a captain in Star Trek Online that I play more than any other captain. Over the years, I've written a few short fics featuring the bridge crew of this captain. Given how... interesting some of them are, I figured maybe the crew and captain could become agents. They have basically no personality in game, for obvious reasons, so it wouldn't really count as having a canon character joining the PPC.

The crew are amusingly dysfunctional, I've always thought of them as having a really crappy ship, and I've had quite a while to develop them, so it could be fun. I'm just not sure how to write the captain. I do have some options, I'm just really bad at deciding which one to pick. I was thinking maybe a Vulcan raised in Ireland might be funny. We've never seen one in canon, but that doesn't mean they don't exist, right?

I've got hundreds of characters that I'm not really planning on doing anything with, but very few of them are suitable for the PPC, so I'm hoping I can make this bridge crew idea work.

I actually thought about that same question by [EvilAI]UBEROverlord on 2015-05-21 01:05:00 UTC Reply

I have a Joined Trill Captain that I thought about using, but the way I envision him would not work well with my other agent ideas.

As far as the Captain alone, I do not see a problem, but the whole bridge crew? Most agent pairings are a bit smaller than that, but I do not see anything inherently wrong them. It just might be hard to micromanage that many.

I was thinking about introducing them two at a time. by ratbrainbasher on 2015-05-21 01:22:00 UTC Reply

I could just send a few of them on missions, which opens up the possibility of some stories taking place at HQ. And I actually made the Irish Vulcan, but she ended up the unfortunate victim of a tutorial glitch. My real captain was from an original work, and I was just planning on using the character creator to help me pin down their appearance, and it just... took off. I ended up playing them more than all my other captains combined, but she would NOT work well with the PPC. So, I figured an Irish Vulcan was a better choice.

I am curious, though, as to why you don't think your captain would work. A joined Trill could be a nice straight man to the insanity of badfic. Unless, of course, they are not a straight man.

It was more of what agents I had envisioned by [EvilAI]UBEROverlord on 2015-05-21 01:39:00 UTC Reply

At the time I had planned on using an Imperial Intelligence Agent from Star Wars as one of my agents. She was already designed as a no nonsense, career officer type. The way I envisioned my Joined Trill Captain is still the same no nonsense career officer. It just did not feel like there would be enough dynamic between the agents to get the feel right for the PPC. But I think I am shelving that agent and working on another pair now, that would be very entertaining to write.

To that end I have my current prospects I am working on right now, a Pureblood Sith Warrior and a Soul Reaper (from Bleach). I am working of fleshing those out now. But they would have a very entertaining relationship, when they aren't actively trying to kill each other.

Actually a similar sort of thing happened to me - in reverse by Cyba Zero on 2015-05-21 11:11:00 UTC Reply

Namely, I have a STO character called Cyba Zero who came after Agent!Cyba - although it was more that both of them came from an initial base idea that came before. Agent!Cyba and Captain!Cyba have since evolved away from one another. Visually their only common ground is a few Borg implants, now, and character-wise there is a certain disparity too. In fact, it would probably be a bad idea for Agent!Cyba to find out about or worse MEET Captain!Cyba - no IO I am NOT giving you ideas, even if it would be hilarious...

There is also a big non-character reason why... by [EvilAI]UBEROverlord on 2015-05-21 19:50:00 UTC Reply

That is mostly my familiarity with the canon. I am familiar with a lot of Star Trek, but I am by no mean an expert. I think I have only watched one or two episodes from TOS, non of the animated series, most of TNG, probably about 1/2 of Voyager, only a handful of episodes of DS9, and none of Enterprise. I also have not watched most of the films. So I am not comfortable enough writing a character from a Star Trek canon.