Welcome, Cognito, to the Vast Empire. I'm sure Hades, or someone will be along soon. In the mean time, why don't you start planning your character? Think about his appearance, background and personality.

Welcome Crewman to the Vast Empire's Naval Academy.

Seeing how I am around at this time and whatnot I'll be your Training Officer, aka the fellow who'll help you jump through the hoops and provide assistance in becoming either a starfighter pilot in one of our two currently active squadrons or otherwise a crewman aboard a huge Star Destroyer. Take a moment to consider those options. Here's a link hopefully making your decision easier...

Okay, moment's up! Follow this link if you decided to be a pilot or this link if you've decided to instead serve aboard a capital ship. My suggestion is to read through all that as it'll undoubtedly help answer at least some of the questions you may already have. Once you're through you'll want to take a more in-depth look at the "Character Development" page.

Read and follow the instructions there and next post your character's bio in this thread. While you're at it also post your ID line as well Finish all the above and we'll next see about moving you to the next stage of your training.

If you have any questions thus far feel free to PM them to me - just click the first icon on top of this here post and you'll be sent to a new window with something containing a TO, SUBJECT and MESSAGE. Fill in the latter two and voila! you'll be able to send me private messages. Or you could just post your questions in this thread and avoid all that hassle. That would work too

Good luck and get crackin'!

Oh, here are some links you may find useful both now as well as in the future:
  •  A look at what we do here in the VEN
  •  The Vast Empire Naval Academy wiki page
  •  The wiki page for Basic Training
  •  Starfighter School: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3
  •  Fleet School: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3
  •  How-to-create-a-wiki-page Tutorial
  •  Java-based IRC chat

First you forgot this part:

Quote:    Homeworld:
    Age:
    Species:
    Native Language:
    Gender:
    Skin Color:
    Height:
    Weight:
    Hair Color:
    Facial Hair:
    Eye Color:
    Scars:
    Tattoos:

Edit your post and add that in.

Physical description could use a bit more detail. Though the background and future posts in general should indeed be written in 3rd person past tense, the Physical Description and Personality should on the contrary reflect the present - how the char looks and acts now... with possible comparison as to how he looked/acted in the past.

Quote:obeys orders to the letter, although he will use any loop holes he can

Just asking for a clarification here but is he the obeying type then or is he instead the sort to only do that which he is told to and nothing more?

One final question - you planning on joining the Fleet then? Cause TIEs aren't built with Ithorian physiology in mind...

Oh and you still need to post your ID line as well.

Reread first part of my previous post... Maybe also check out some of the other chars that have already been cleared for active duty in order to actually see what you're still missing.

I'll jump in here seeing as DeepSix is not online at the moment.

I'm Hades, Chief of Naval Training. Welcome to the Vast Empire!

Your ID line and character appearance looks good, but I'd like to see more details on your background; try covering some details of his upbringing. What was he like in school? Popular, intelligent, seclusive, etc. What were his parents like? Where did his interests lie?

These are just some questions you could answer to increase the detail in your background. Ideally, we'd like to see two to three paragraphs for your background - so just try and elaborate on a few sections and we'll be good to pass you on to the next part of training!