List of Ship Positions of the Galactic Federation

## Highest Commands

### Captain

The captain of the ship holds the overall power of the ship. They have the leading powers of the ship and are in control of the ship's Chiefs, which are the: science chief, medical chief, engineering chief, and bridge chief.

### Depute Captain/Second In Command

The depute captain or second in command has no powers on its own and is only in use when the captain dies, is absent, or temporarly willingly gives the depute their powers. When the depute is active, they hold the exact same powers as the captain but the captain can also retract those powers temporarily if they are abusing them.

## Chiefs, Chief Officers, and Officers

### Science Chief

The science officer is considered the third highest position on the ship. They must have a expert understanding in the basic sciences: physics, chemistry, and (various) animal biology. They are responsible for making decisions on whether a planet is safe to embark on, whether a certain species if civil or not, or even safe or not, and tend to have a good understanding of what certain planets are made up of. They control theses main areas and can even refuse to proceed on the captain's scientific orders. The Science chief is also almost always the depute captain but it used to prevalent for the science chief to be a standalone position.

#### Science Officers

The science officers are directly controlled by the science chief. There tends to be at least two science officers, usually around three, and can be as high as four or even five science officers on large ships. They are responsible for alerting the science chief of mistakes that they made and tend to have an intermediate or advanced level of understanding of physics, chemistry, and biology.

### Medical Chief

The medical chief is the chief of the medical department. They are in control of the medical department, usually not engaging with the bridge, and they tend to work in an office. They usually do not engage in actually medical tasks even though the hold the best understanding of medicine but they may engage in more complicated medical tasks or even give advice to the medical officers.

#### Medical Officers

The medical officers are much more engaged in day-to-day medical tasks, performing surgeries, checking in on patients, aiding patients, prescribing patients drugs, etc. There tends to be anywhere between three to eight medical officers onboard a state vessel but larger vessels may hold up to 12 and smaller vessels may have only two. They report directly to the medical chief and may ask them to step in on more complicated tasks or ask for advice on a medical matter.

### Engineering Chief

The engineering chief holds the main responsibility of the engineering department of the ship/vessel. They have an expert understanding of engineering and more specifically electrical engineering, computer engineering, and aerospace engineering. They tend to spend half of their time on the bridge and the other half of their time in the engineering department. They usually take command of the engineering officers and staff and do various jobs around the engineering department.

#### Engineering Officers

The engineering officers tend to involve themselves in the control of the ship, diversion of power, and control of energy distribution. This tends to be the largest officer staff on the ship and tend to have the largest working area of all ship officers.

### Bridge Chief

The bridge chief is a relatively new position in the Galactic Federation that has many roles that the captain has. Those roles include: controlling and managing the bridge, sending the final approval of a plotted course (after its been given to the Chief Flight Officer and approved by them), and other roles. Some roles on the bridge that the captain remains in control of is the communications officer and activating the red, yellow, and green threat warnings.

#### Communications Officers

The communications officers are in control communications to nearby planetary communications, vessel communications, the Galactic Space Centre communications, and cutting communications. Unlike most officers on the bridge, the communications officer is directly controlled by the captain and depute and only responds to the bridge chief if both the captain or depute is absent. There tends to be only one or two communications officers per vessel.

#### Chief Flight Officer

The chief flight officer in control of approving a plotted course by the navigation officer and when in need of manual controls, they are responsible of manually flying the ship, meaning that they must have a flying license and flying training. The chief flight officer is one of the few chief officers and answers to the bridge officer but if absent, the captain or depute.

##### Navigation Officer

The navigation officer is responsible for plotting courses on the bridge. They have to have an intermediate or advanced understanding of vessel routes, neighboring planets, political galactic boundaries, and trade blockades. The navigation officer is the only officer on the bridge that doesn't answer to the captain, depute, or bridge officer, instead answering to the chief flight officer.