Generating Starship Crews

[CodeMonkey]

My players recently acquired a Ghalalk-class cruiser, and I was hoping if someone knew of a quicker quicker way of generating the crew than rolling each one up individually

 

[rancke]

Generate stats for 62 officers, 183 ratings, and 200 marines?

I suggest you don't. Generate the department heads, the primary bridge crew, and a handful of notable subordinates (the main ensemble), and then have half a dozen extras rolled up for use with the rest of the crew (the bit players). Also a list of a dozen names to draw on if a new character is needed. If any bit player gets a speaking part, pair one of the extras with a name and generate a new spare extra after the session.


Hans

 

[Dragoner]

My players recently acquired a Ghalalk-class cruiser, and I was hoping if someone knew of a quicker quicker way of generating the crew than rolling each one up individually

I would pull most from Supplement 7 1001 Characters, changing stats as per need, but mostly as per MOARN or Make Only As Really Necessary.

 

[aramis]

My players recently acquired a Ghalalk-class cruiser, and I was hoping if someone knew of a quicker quicker way of generating the crew than rolling each one up individually

Computerize it. That's what I did for generating a regiment for MegaTraveller use.

Their first skill should be assigned to their specialty, the rest random. Works great. Rather slow to do manually, but easily done with a bit of code....

Unfortunately, the MGT licensing prohibits sharing code product...

 

[agorski]

My players recently acquired a Ghalalk-class cruiser, and I was hoping if someone knew of a quicker quicker way of generating the crew than rolling each one up individually

Steal characters from Leviathan or Kinunir. I believe they both have extensive crew listings. Maybe IISS Ship Files also.

 

[MCutter]

Crew of 500 for you

You need a crew?

So I prepared a system that generates "plausible" NPCs.

http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/showthread.php?t=29234

Here you have 500 NPCs with different names and numbers.
(The list has have 200 anglic, 40 nordic, 100 german, 100 hispanic and 60 vilanie names.)

There are 60 Navy-Officers, 60 Navy-Flight, 60 Navy-Eng/Gun, and 60 Navy-Crew.
There are additional 50 Marines-Support, 50 Marines-Star Marine, 50 Marines-Officer, and 50 Marines-Ground Assault.
And there are additional 20 Citizen-Worker, 20 Citizen-Corporate, and 20 Citizen-Colonist for cooking and other civilian duties.

Mrs. Dagmar Albrecht (Nr.14) should be a good captain.
It is not perfect but you should be able to adjust it to your needs.

Have Fun
MCutter

 

[rancke]

Here are 500 NPCs with different names and numbers.

They are 200 anglic, 40 nordic, 100 german, 100 hispanic and 60 vilanie names.

I've been working on a set of tables for rolling up the names of random Imperial citizens. It's far from finished, but here's what I have so far:

Imperial ethnicities
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Table 1: (D100):

01-53:  Solomani
54-80:  Vilani
81-93:  Minor human
94-00:  Non-human

Solomani subtable (D100)
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01-12 Anglic
13-17 Arabic
18-25 Chinese
26-28 Ethiopian
29-33 French
 34   Gaelic
35-39 German
40-42 Greek
43-44 Hungarian
45-52 Indian
53-57 Japanese
58-60 Polish
61-65 Portuguese
66-67 Romanian
68-75 Russian
76-78 Scandinavian
79-80 Slavonic
81-88 Spanish
89-96 Turkish
97-00 Other

Feel free to use it if you like.


Hans