Wow, missed quite a bit here. If I may go back a few posts:
Blackstar wrote:Rank: Commander
Well, this is the only problem I have with your bio. We already have two commanders on board, which is unusual enough. Throwing a third one in, despite the restrictions you placed on yourself, would cause chaos.
There are already ways of keeping certain characters (such as myself) in check. Firstly; there's Teaos who holds equal rank to me. We established early on in the RPG that I couldn't do anything to him, and he could counter my orders. As Teaos is a civilian officer, and rather laid back in his duties, he is pretty much a natural opposite to my character. Although he hasn't posted in a while, his character can still be written into situations that could use him.
Secondly; there's the Captain himself. He holds rank above all on board, and can counter any order I may give (he already did that a couple of times, IIRC). The fact that he's an NPC means that anyone can use him, as long as he stays in character.
Lastly; there's the rules of Starfleet themselves. These prevent me or others from doing anything obviously out of line on board the ship.
A better rank more fitting of your position would be either a lieutenant or lieutenant commander.
Mikey wrote:(Although Rochey should be in a frame of mind to act favorably to Mikey... he knows what I did for him!)
Don't worry, he knows you're an ally to him now, and that he can trust you to follow orders.
Blackstar wrote:that every time someone does something slightly out of line they get nailed to the wall.
Well, that's part of my charcter's mental mindset. He comes down on people who aren't following the rules (or his orders) like a tonne of bricks.
Having my character forced out was not fun.
Your character was hardly forced out. You had stated quite a while before the whole incident that you were planning on starting a spin-off RPG, and during the start of the incident you said you might use it to start the spin-off. There were plenty of ways that situation could have been resolved without leading to what happened. I think I even suggested one possible course that would get you off with little more than a slap on the wrist.
Still, most Starfleet officers wouldn't order someone to give up a child they've taken responsibility for.
No, they wouldn't. But remember that Rochey is just as alien to Starfleet as your own character was. He was only here as part of an exchange program with the Tholian Assembly. He expected Starfleet to be a lot different than it was, and when he found out
how different it was, he resolved to bring the ship's crew up to his own expectations.
I didn't expect him to do that so I never planned on disobaying him. I figured it would be a heated arguement at worst.
Well, there
was a heated argument. However, it could have been resolved a lot differently.
For example; you could have just given Talora the child and told her to bring it back to the
Daystrom while telling Rochey you'd gotten rid of it as ordered. We all get back to the ship, and I find that the kid is there. Rochey'd be rather pissed at that, but the Captain wouldn't let him try to remove it from the ship.
I thought he was still a Starfleet officer.
He
was still a Starfleet officer. And still is. What he
isn't is a nice guy. You can be one without being the other.
