HD01 - Security Cadet Michael Johnson

[Carrs Jasal]

== Welcome to your holodeck Cadet Johnson, 

Read the following information carefully, because it has a fair amount of important information for you.  If you have any questions or difficulties at any time, please contact one of the following people for assistance.  We’d be glad to help you out.

Commander Jasal 
Commander Shanth  
Captain Allen  

Remember during your time at Academy people have responsibilities such as school, jobs, and family, as well as maintaining our site. There are times when we may have to wait longer than we’d like for a reply to a post or a question. Patience and treating each other with respect and dignity are two things that are absolutely required of all members.

On the flip side, the Constitution states that players need to post at least twice a week.  If you find you are unable to keep up due to something coming up in real life responsibilities or you’re just going to be on holiday, please let one of the Admins know.  You can be granted a leave of absence for the length of time you think you’ll be away.  If you don’t let us know and you suddenly disappear, this could end up with you being considered AWOL and eventually removed from the active cadet roster.

Now… with all of that said, let’s get to your character’s bio!

Please begin by posting your bio using the template below. Once posted, your bio will be reviewed by an Evaluations representative. They will post comments for you and suggest any adjustments your bio might require.  Once they approve your bio, you will be assigned an instructor and your adventure will begin!

Federation Space is a written RPG. With that said, we ask that you try to pay attention to spelling and grammar in your posts.  Posts properly formatted are easier and more enjoyable for everyone to read. I strongly recommend you run your bio and any posts you make through a spell check before posting them.

Next are a few resources that can help you as you write your bio:

Be sure to check out playable races.

Our character development page is a great resource to help you fill out your bio form.

One last thing, please take time to read and understand our site’s canon page.  This will help you understand what 'Trek' related information is included on our site.

Again, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask!  And as always - have fun!

== Physical Description ==
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Voice:
Off-Duty Clothing Taste:
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== Personal History ==
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Marital Status:
Siblings Name & Ages:
Mother's Name:
Father's Name:
Parent's Status:
Pets:
Best Friend:
Personal History:

== Personality ==
Academy Majors:
Academy Minors:
Hobbies & Past-Times:
Short-Term Goals:
Long-Term Goals:
Personality:
Sense of Humor:
Phobias:
Likes:
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Pet Peeves/Gripes:
Bad Habits / Vices:
Achievements:
Disappointments:
Illnesses:
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Fears:
Prejudices:

== Questions ==
Most Painful Experience:
Best Time:
Most Crucial Experience:
Role Model:
Referrer / How you found Fed Space (If 'Google' or 'Search Engine' please specify the search engine and the term searched for):

==

[Michael Johnson]

Sorry haven’t gotten bio up yet been under the weather will get post up in the next couple of days.

[Michael Johnson]

== Physical Description ==
Name: Michael Jason Johnson
Species: Hunan
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 195
Build/Body Type: athletic
Complexion: Pale
Hair Color: Brown
Hair Style: long straight
Eye Color: Blue
Voice: Deep Confident
Off-Duty Clothing Taste: jeans and a T-Shirt
Distinguishing Features: tattoo on his left arm of a cross and a phoenix with SBJ

== Personal History ==
Date of Birth: October 2
Place of Birth: Chicago IL
Marital Status: Single
Siblings Name & Ages: Steven Blair Johnson 31 (KIA)
Mother's Name: Barbara
Father's Name: Jason
Parent's Status: Alive separated
Pets: None
Best Friend: Shawn Devin
Personal History:
Childhood:
Michael is the youngest of two sons born to Jason and Barbara Johnson, his brother Steven was 10 years older than him. Michael and his brother were raised in a suburb of Chicago his father was an engineer and his mother a doctor, both working for Starfleet.
While growing up his father would take him and Steven camping, he thought them how to survive on their own in the wilderness, how to fish, and hunt. Their father always fought them to only take what they would eat and to respect the planet and the forest where they camped.  When Steven went to the academy he would still come home when he could and go camping and hunting with Michael.
Michael and Steven were inseparable growing up. When Steven graduated from the academy, he left on a mission right after and it was the last time Michael seen his brother. Starfleet informed him and his parents that his ship was attacked by a rogue Romulan Warship. When their father tried to go after the warbird he was forced to resign. 
Jason and Barbara cut ties from Starfleet and forbade Michael from going to the academy. Michael wanting to follow his brother who he always admired joined the academy at 18, against his fathers wishes. He believed that his father cutting ties with Starfleet disgraced his brother's memory
Academy years.
Michael chose to join security over engineering like his father. At the academy he became friends with Shawn Devin. Shawn reminded him a lot of his brother. The two of them had the same classes and worked together to make sure the other passed.
In their second year Michael and Shawn returned to Chicago to see Michael’s mother she had asked him to return home. She told him that her and his father had separated, his father had become a drunk and was spending every night at the local bar.
Michael went to the bar to confront his father about his drinking. They got into an argument over Michael choosing Starfleet after what they allowed to happen to his brother. When Michael attempted to help his father out of the bar Jason took a swing at Michael and gave him a black eye the punch caught Michael unaware and Michael through his father against the wall and started beating him yelling about how he chose to be a drunk then supporting his family when they needed him.
Shawn arrived as the father and son were rolling around the floor and was able to Michael off his father. Reminding him that his father was drunk and his way of mourning. They left the bar. Michael helped his mother pack, and she moved to San Francisco away from his father. He left his father a note that when he sobers up, he would be welcome back in their lives.
During his final years at the academy though his father did not approve of him going to the academy it still bothered him how his father was still crawling inside the bottle to relieve the pain of the loss of his brother.
When Michael was visiting his mother before graduation his father was with her. He had apologized for his drinking and had told them that he was getting help. He told Michael that even though he still disapproved of him joining Starfleet he was proud of the man he grew into and knew that Steven would be proud too.

== Personality ==
Academy Majors: Security Tactics
Academy Minors: Advanced hand to hand combat, Advanced personal weapon design
Hobbies & Past-Times: reading, and relaxing
Short-Term Goals: To become chief of Security for a Starship
Long-Term Goals: To start a family and find out who was involved in his brothers death.
Personality: Sort of a short fuse.
Sense of Humor: Jokes around with those he knows
Phobias: becoming a drunk like his father
Likes: Reading, camping, hunting, and fishing.
Dislikes: Drunks
Pet Peeves/Gripes: People not completing what they start.
Bad Habits / Vices: Quick tempered and loses control
Achievements: Making it to the academy and helping his mother get away from his father
Disappointments: the loss of his brother.
Illnesses: nothing major
Strengths: Outdoor survival, hunting, and tracking
Weaknesses: quick temper can be a loose canon when he gets angry
Fears: Becoming like his father
Prejudices: Romulans blames the whole race for destroying his family

== Questions ==
Most Painful Experience: The loss of his brother, and his family after the fact.
Best Time: Camping with his father and brother
Most Crucial Experience: Beating his father and telling him to stay out of their lives.
Role Model: Steven Watters. Just wants to honor him
Referrer / How you found Fed Space (If 'Google' or 'Search Engine' please specify the search engine and the term searched for): Federation map

==

[Carrs Jasal]

==Good evening, Cadet! I am Commander Carrs and I will be assisting you with your bio!

Overall this is an excellent piece of work! I have a few comments to make that I'd like you to address before we move forward, however:

1) I'd like to see something in the Personal History section about Michael's time at the Academy; did he do well? Did he have friends? That kind of thing.
2) I'd like you to carefully go through the Personal History again and correct the spelling and grammatical errors. (I'm not going to point them out on a public thread, if you need help identifying them, please DM me.)

Once those two changes have been made, I can get an Instructor assigned to you and we can get you posting!==

[Michael Johnson]

== Physical Description ==
Name: Michael Jason Johnson
Species: Hunan
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 195
Build/Body Type: athletic
Complexion: Pale
Hair Color: Brown
Hair Style: long straight
Eye Color: Blue
Voice: Deep Confident
Off-Duty Clothing Taste: jeans and a T-Shirt
Distinguishing Features: tattoo on his left arm of a cross and a phoenix with SBJ

== Personal History ==
Date of Birth: October 2
Place of Birth: Chicago IL
Marital Status: Single
Siblings Name & Ages: Steven Blair Johnson 31 (KIA)
Mother's Name: Barbara
Father's Name: Jason
Parent's Status: Alive separated
Pets: None
Best Friend: Shawn Devin
Personal History:
Childhood:

Michael is the youngest of two sons born to Jason and Barbara Johnson, his brother Steven was 10 years older than him. Michael and his brother were raised in a suburb of Chicago his father was an engineer and his mother a doctor, both working for Starfleet.
While growing up his father would take him and Steven camping, he taught them how to survive on their own in the wilderness, how to fish, and hunt. Their father always taught them to only take what they would eat and to respect the planet and the forest where they camped. When Steven went to the academy he would still come home when he could and go camping and hunting with Michael.

Michael and Steven were inseparable growing up. When Steven graduated from the academy, he left on a mission right after and it was the last time Michael seen his brother. Starfleet informed him and his parents that his ship was attacked by a rogue Romulan Warship. When their father tried to go after the warbird he was forced to resign.
Jason and Barbara cut ties from Starfleet and forbade Michael from going to the academy. Michael wanting to follow in his brother’s footsteps, also joined the academy at 18, against his father’s wishes. He believed that his father cutting ties with Starfleet disgraced his brother's memory.

Academy years.

Michael chose to join security over engineering like his father. At the academy he became friends with Shawn Devin and K’Tor. Shawn reminded him a lot of his brother. K’Tor was a Klingon who lost his family to a Romulan attack. Michael and K’Tor where both training to become security officers, while Shawn went into engineering.
Michael had very little friends during his time at the academy besides Shawn and K’Tor, Michael and Shawn would spend time training in hand-to-hand combat with K’Tor during their off time. During the first three years at the academy Michael did well in his classes working with his friends to make sure they were able to pass their classes
In his third year Michael and Shawn returned to Chicago to see Michael’s mother she had asked him to return home. She told him that her and his father had separated, his father had become a drunk and was spending every night at the local bar.

Michael went to the bar to confront his father about his drinking. They got into an argument over Michael choosing Starfleet after what they allowed to happen to his brother. When Michael attempted to help his father out of the bar Jason took a swing at Michael and gave him a black eye the punch caught Michael unaware, and Michael threw his father against the wall and started beating him yelling about how he chose to be a drunk then supporting his family when they needed him.

Shawn arrived as the father and son were rolling around the floor and was able to Michael off his father. Reminding him that his father was drunk and his way of mourning. They left the bar. Michael helped his mother pack, and she moved to San Francisco away from his father. He left his father a note that when he sobers up, he would be welcome back in their lives.
During his final years at the academy Michael started to fail his classes he was angry about his father, and his brother, Shawn started to help him work and study for classes while K’Tor trained with Michael to teach him to channel his anger.

With his friends help he was able to just pass his finals and graduate. When Michael was visiting his mother before graduation his father was with her. He had apologized for his drinking and had told them that he was getting help. He told Michael that even though he still disapproved of him joining Starfleet he was proud of the man he grew into and knew that Steven would be proud too.

== Personality ==
Academy Majors: Security Tactics
Academy Minors: Advanced hand to hand combat, Advanced personal weapon design
Hobbies & Past-Times: reading, and relaxing
Short-Term Goals: To become chief of Security for a Starship
Long-Term Goals: To start a family and find out who was involved in his brothers death.
Personality: Sort of a short fuse.
Sense of Humor: Jokes around with those he knows
Phobias: becoming a drunk like his father
Likes: Reading, camping, hunting, and fishing.
Dislikes: Drunks
Pet Peeves/Gripes: People not completing what they start.
Bad Habits / Vices: Quick tempered and loses control
Achievements: Making it to the academy and helping his mother get away from his father
Disappointments: the loss of his brother.
Illnesses: nothing major
Strengths: Outdoor survival, hunting, and tracking
Weaknesses: quick temper can be a loose canon when he gets angry
Fears: Becoming like his father
Prejudices: Romulans blames the whole race for destroying his family

== Questions ==
Most Painful Experience: The loss of his brother, and his family after the fact.
Best Time: Camping with his father and brother
Most Crucial Experience: Beating his father and telling him to stay out of their lives.
Role Model: Steven Watters. Just wants to honor him
Referrer / How you found Fed Space (If 'Google' or 'Search Engine' please specify the search engine and the term searched for): Federation map

==

[Carrs Jasal]

==Congratulations Cadet, your bio is approved! An instructor will be with you shortly!==

[Amelina Whittaker]

== Hello Cadet Johnson, and welcome to Federation Space RPG, otherwise known as Fed Space. Fed Space is a great game and community.  I’ll be your Academy Instructor, helping you get ready for your time on ship. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask me here or dm me.

Before we move on to the first lesson, I want to make sure you know about the great resource our wiki provides. It has a lot of information, including what your department duties will be. Take some time to review:

https://wiki.fed-space.com/index.php?tit...ty_Officer

The wiki also includes an Academy section with many resources for you. Be sure to take some time to review them, especially the New Cadet FAQ, while you’re there. We’ll use the wiki later in our lessons, so it’s helpful for you to start navigating it now.

With that out of the way, let’s get started: Lesson one: Formatting basics.

Third Person, Past Tense:
Fed Space has players all over the world, so we use a standardised set of formatting rules. Using one style, makes it easier for everyone to follow and understand each other’s posts.
The first thing to know is that we post in the third person, past tense.  An example of this style of writing would be: Amelina was so excited to be finally taking her final examination, she fell off her seat.  NOT: I fell off my seat because I was so excited to take my final examination.

We also use double spacing between paragraphs and character’s spoken lines. This means when you write a spoken line with quotation marks “ ”, leave a space after. This makes it easier for players to follow.  A good rule to follow is ‘When in doubt, double space!’

Your Character’s Internal Thoughts
To show your character’s own thoughts, we use italics.  When writing your character’s thoughts, it’s acceptable to write in first person.  An example of showing my character’s thoughts would look like: I can’t wait to visit my hometown again and see my Father.

Showing Emphasis
To make something really stand out in your post, such as if your character was shouting, we use bold text. An example of showing emphasis for my character would look like: Amelina loved a good cup of coffee, especially with a bit of cinnamon.

Telepathic Communication
In general, it is rare for a character to have the ability to communicate telepathically, and because of this, it is closely monitored by our Senior and Commanding Officers to make sure it isn’t abused.  With that said, there are a few telepathic races on Fed Space, and on occasion, telepaths will speak to each other through this unique skill. Telepathic communication is shown like this:

~ Hello, I am speaking directly into your mind. ~

If your character is not telepathic, then, in general, you won’t need to worry about this technique, but I want you to be aware it exists in case you see crewmembers on your ship or others using it.

Using Communication Badges or Comm Badges
Characters can often receive verbal communications through a communication device, such as a comm badge, from another crew member or the computer.  When receiving a message, you should drop the quotations “ ” and instead use brackets [ ].

For example, if I received a message from another officer, it would look something like this:
[Captain Allen to Lieutenant Whittaker, please report to Holodeck 4]

If you are the one speaking to somebody through a comm device, you would still use the quotations “ ”.

Out Of Character posting or OOC:
OOC posting is what I’m doing now. OOC text is surrounded by == ==.  Use OOC when you want to talk to another player and not write it as part of the storyline.  You won’t need to do this in general discussion areas, such as your ship’s OOC sections like Crew Announcements, as well as in Hailing Frequencies.

Proofing Posts:
When writing a post, it’s important to take time to run your posts through the spell check that many writing software offer. Spell check won’t find all grammar and spelling errors, but it will find many and help correct errors found. Rereading your post can help catch errors. We don’t need anyone to be a speller or grammar whiz, but taking the time to do this extra step will make it easier for everyone to understand what’s written.

A good way to get the feel of these formatting rules and to get a feel of the site in general is to browse the different ship forums. Take some time to look at the different ships. Take time to notice how our players use the elements listed above. 

With all that said, let’s get to some posting!  Your first assignment is to respond to my post using the above formatting elements. If you have any questions, ask.  Good luck and have fun! ==

== Holodeck One - 10:00 hours ==

After spending a week in her hometown of York, due to her Father being hospitalised, Amelina was ready to get back to work, and that meant putting Cadet Johnson through his final examination.  As such, the brunette Instructor had familiarised herself with his file before heading toward Holodeck One, in order to finalise the details prior to the Cadet's arrival. Walking along Amelina couldn't help but hum along to one of her favourite songs, having been stuck with that particular earworm following her workout in the Academy gym, then again it wasn't difficult to end up this way, even more so if she was in a good mood, and she didn't see that changing anytime soon.

Arriving at the designated holodeck, Amelina checked over the programme details, satisfied that everything was in order, the Instructor entered the holodeck holding her trusty PADD and waited for Cadet Johnson to arrive. 

== Tag Johnson ==

[Michael Johnson]

Michael was sitting in the lounge drinking a cup of coffee staring out the windows at the San Fransico Bay. His thoughts fell on his brother,

Steven, I hope I make you proud of me brother, it has been hard without you here. I really miss you.

[Cadet Johnson report, to Holodeck 1 for final examination.]

He stood up straightened his uniform and finished his coffee. He took one last look out the window, then turned around to leave.

As he walked down the hall to the holodecks, he thought about the times he trained in them with K’Tor and Shawn, they were also taking their exams today, if it wasn’t for them, he might not have passed. He approached holodeck one took one last breath before he stepped in.

As Michael entered the holodeck there was an instructor that he had seen around the campus, he walked up to her and took a deep breath. He tried to hide how nervous he was.

How am I going to do this without my friends.

“Lieutenant, Cadet Michael Johnson reporting as ordered for final examination.”

==Tag Lieutenant==

[Amelina Whittaker]

== Not a bad first attempt Cadet, however there's one thing missing from your post, and that is showing emphasis. I also noticed a spelling mistake which is easily enough done :-) 

I'd like you to redo the post to include an example of showing emphasis & to double check spelling etc before submitting your post and then we'll continue :-) ==

[Michael Johnson]

==Sorry about the delay we had a lot of call ins at work and I put in a lot of OT these last couple of weeks I will get a new updated post up tonight or tomorrow. ==

[Michael Johnson]

Michael walked up to the replicator his eyes on the PADD he was holding with a letter from his mom.

“Coffee, Black.”

While he waited for the coffee to appear he reread the part of the letter that said how proud she was of him, but his father would not come to the graduation, and how she was afraid if she came his father would go back to drinking.

Damn you dad, just get off your high horse this isn’t what he would have wanted.

Without thinking Michael took a drink of his coffee.

“Son of...” The hot coffee had burned his lips and he had spilled it over the front of his uniform. “What else could go wrong. I should have time to get back to my room and change.”

He threw the rest of the coffee into the trash and headed for the exit of the lounge when his badge went off.

[Cadet Johnson, please report to Holodeck one immediately for final examination.]

Michael’s head sunk, things were going from bad to worse. He grabbed some paper towels cleaned himself off the best he could and headed for the holodeck.

How am I going to pass without my friends to help me.

He was so lost in thought that he almost missed the door to the holodeck. He took a deep breath and entered the room, when the doors open he saw his instructor standing there.

“Um... Cadet Johnson. Sorry Cadet Michael Johnson. Reporting as ordered ma’am.”

==Sorry for the delay==

[Amelina Whittaker]

== It's all good, we understand when it comes to real life, and well done on resubmitting your first lesson as requested :-) == 

== Lesson two: Plots, GM Input, Character Hijacking, and New Content:

We have two types of plots here on Federation Space: the main plot and subplots. Main plots affect the entire ship and are directed by a Game Moderator (GM). Subplots are an underlying story being told within the main plot. A subplot can be run by any player with prior approval of the ship’s CO (or FO).

An example of the difference between the two:  The main plot is about the ship falling under attack. A subplot would be a character dealing with an on-ship pregnancy or maybe trying to write the next great holonovel.

GMs:
Game Moderators (GMs) guide the ships’ missions along. Every ship has a mission, of which only the GMs of a ship know the mission details. 

Your job is to write what your character sees and what their reaction is. The GM will provide any unknowns about the plot.  This input will have significance to the direction of the mission. This is why characters should keep posts open-ended on anything that might affect the mission’s direction or outcome.  As your character acts, such as performing a diagnostic scan, leave the result of the scan unknown.  The GM will explain what the outcome of the action is.

When you need GM input on something, for example results of a diagnostic scan, one only has to request it at the end of the post.  The request can look like:

== GM Input, please. == 

Or it can also be a more specific request, such as:

== GM Input:  Result of the diagnostic, please? ==

Take a look around at the active ships on Federation Space to see characters ask for GM input.

Character Hijacking:
The next element we’re going to cover is character usage. Unless you have permission from the player, you cannot post any speech, thoughts, or movements for another character (PRC or NRC) that isn’t yours, unless the character has already done so in-game. This is called character hijacking and is not permitted on Fed Space. Some players might not mind, but even minor things such as a nod of the head or a shrug of the shoulders can be considered hijacking.

For example, if you write in your next post that Captain Maddie Allen suddenly appeared and started dancing the Hokey Pokey, you would have hijacked another character.

Character Movement on Ships:
I’m sure you have noticed a ship has multiple threads on it for various locations that a player can post, such as the bridge, sickbay, and security offices.  While on a mission, players often travel throughout the ship to accomplish their orders. To help follow the plot when a player transitions from one thread to another, they should make a notation at the end of their post like this:  >> Sickbay >>  The arrows and location found at the bottom of a post tell readers where this character will post next. 

When the player makes their next post, the player should make a notation at the beginning of their post like this:  << Bridge <<. The arrows and location found at the top of a post indicate that it is where a player has just come from.

Time for more writing!  In your next post, continue showing your use of our formatting techniques you learned in lesson one and ask for GM input. I will be acting as your GM.

If you need any help or would like more clarification on something, ask me! ==

== Holodeck One ==

The sound of the doors opening alerted Amelina at once to the arrival of Cadet Johnson, and as the Cadet approached, the Instructor offered him a kind smile, hoping to put him at ease. " At ease, Cadet, and welcome to your final examination," Amelina replied in a warm tone. It was something she always did whenever she greeted Cadets, just like she had back when she was a serving officer. However as much as she enjoyed wandering down memory lane, she had a holodeck programme to start. 

" In a moment the programme will begin, and you'll be on your own until it's complete" she added, wanting to stress the importance of what Johnson was about to undertake, while she monitored him from afar. Once he was ready, Amelina activated the programme and Johnson would soon find himself on the surface of Astar VI, a small colony world as part of an away team sent by the USS Archangel to assist the colonists who have been the victims of strange disappearances, and so far have been unable to determine who or what is responsible. 

== Tag Johnson ==