Joining the Crew

At this juncture Star Trek: Theurgy is open for new applicants and the creation of new characters, but only for officers with positions listed on the Wanted Positions page.

That being said, characters available for inheritance are also fair game to apply for. This, at the discretion of the Game Moderator (GM) regarding which ones may be thawed.

Please make sure you read this page carefully when applying to join the sim, and we look forward to you registering on the site!

Joining Information

"What kind of writers are we looking for at Star Trek: Theurgy?"

We're looking for good, descriptive and creative writers that can handle English well. You should also know enough about the Star Trek Universe to be able to partake in creating intense, interesting storylines together with the other writers. We are a very literate group, with a minimum posting requirement of 200 words per post, and with a deadline of 7 days maximum to reply in all the threads you are involved in, and the commitment to the story is long-term. We have been running the story actively for six years, and we will continue for many years to come. Therefore, we are not interested in casual, brief commitments, but something that will last for many years.

"What's the nature of the story?"

Star Trek: Theurgy is a detailed, quite dark, story-driven and long-term roleplay and while it has a 18+ rating, it is not some shoe-horned excuse to write Star Trek smut scenes. If that's what you are looking for, you can look elsewhere since you'll be really disappointed.

It is not expected of any of our writers to detail the intimate relations of their characters with others, even if it's allowed. Several writers among us have an aversion to writing graphic sexual scenes, so if that's not what you care for, then that's no problem at all. The story revolves around a ship and a crew in dire straits, against impossible odds, and with a lot of intrigue and mystery to it. We just don't enforce limits on what you care to write, like explicit scenes of violence or intimacy, as long you adhere to our General Rules and all writers consent to the specific scene their characters are in.

In short, this is a serious Star Trek sim, not a dating sim.

"How do I join the story?"

This page should serve quite well for an answer, but it's recommended you contact the GM if you have any questions.

1. Register on the Forum

First, in order to join Star Trek: Theurgy, you need to register on the Forum. To register, you must be 18 years or older. If we find anyone who is younger than that, it will result in an immediate ban in the interests of protecting minors. Upon registration, you verify that you are of age, and at the discretion of the GM, an age verification process will be conducted if there is cause for doubt to your claim. For more information on age restriction, read our General Rules.

When you have read the rules and registered, you should check the Star Trek: Theurgy Canon page and read through the Story Archive.

Feel free to have a look around, and get acquainted with the place.

2. Contact the Game Moderator

When you feel ready, send a PM (personal message) via the forum to the Game Moderator, Auctor Lucan.

Send the GM your questions first and we take it from there; perhaps you just want to verify if you have the right profile to write with us. You will be asked to pitch your character concept; what kind of character you would like to write in the sim. You will learn what kind of story opportunities there might be for your character concept, but if you want to submit a new race not listed on the site, please be prepared to be denied this because creation of new species is not only quite restricted. Should your new race be accepted, you would also have to write a full length species description in addition to your character application, and just like the latter, the species needs to be approved by the GM.

Here are your options:

A) Inherit an Available Character (Variable Difficulty)

We have been running the Star Trek: Theurgy story for over five years now, and over time, we have built the story with key characters that are essential to the plot, not to mention developing different kinds of relationships between characters that have become important for character development. Sadly, writers have left the group now and then, leaving the writers that remain with us bereft of the development that they were looking forward to with their own characters. However, over time, we have successfully let writer-less characters be inherited by present writers, examples being Selena Ravenholm, Wenn Cinn, Edena Rez, Nathaniel Isley and Cameron Henshaw, whom are all being actively played today even if the original writers left us. So, this is your chance to step right into present events in the Star Trek: Theurgy story.

We also have available characters that have been put into stasis on the Theurgy. If you are a returning member, you may find your character there. You have to contact the GM if you want to use your character again, and should any writer or new applicant wish to inherit them, the GM may allow it depending on what rank and position the character held before being put into stasis. In order for these to be made available, the Chief Medical Officer on the Theurgy must have found a way to treat the lethal injury that the character sustained at some point in the story, but this can easily be arranged for In-Character since the Theurgy came across additional medical supplies quite recently.

Here are our Available Characters.

If you would like to inherit an available character, the GM will provide all information about what the characters have been up to so far in the story, as well as potential development for them. Please consider how you, as the new writer of the character, have a creative license to change the way s/he is played.

B) Create a New Character

If you would like to have complete freedom of choice in a Star Trek character, and not apply for one of the wanted positions, what would you like to write? While you may be denied this opportunity (be prepared for that), perhaps there is a way to accommodate it too, but it's generally a good idea to run your character concept by the GM first before you devote hours on filling out a character application. This is an organic process; to create a character and to find the best way to enter the story.

At the current point in the story, your character would either have the backstory of serving on:

• Stasis Awakening on the USS Theurgy NX-79854
  Recently in your character's career, at the end of the biography you are to write, your character has entered Starfleet and was commissioned to the USS Theurgy. This might be a bit restrictive for you in terms of positions available to have served in before being put into stasis, but at the same time, it also allows for your character to be completely clueless about what the ship has been through since before Episode 01. Your character was, in short, lethally injured and put into stasis until the ship could acquire the artificial organs and medical supplies needed to attempt surgery.
  
  
• Currently serve on the USS Cayuga, ship adrift after being attacked by a Borg Cube
  Recently in your character's career, at the end of the biography you are to write, your character entered Starfleet and was commissioned to the USS Cayuga. In February of 2381, the ship was attacked by a Borg Cube inside the Azure nebula. The ship was left adrift after the attack, having escaped the cube on the merits of the crew's collective efforts. For one month, the Cayuga has been sending out distress calls inside the Azure Nebula, but because of the nature of the nebula, their calls have gone unanswered. This option involves some waiting on the applicant's part, since Episode 05 is not at the point where the Cayuga's distress call would be picked up yet. Until then, the applicant can write scenes from the character's past on the Director's Cut board.
  
  
• Survived the destruction of the USS Endeavour, now aboard the Runabout USS Niger
  Your character served on the Endeavour until late February 2381, where it was attacked by a Borg cube, and the character managed to get made it aboard the Runabout USS Niger. The attack on the Endeavour was not in the Azure Nebula, but in a sector adjacent to it. Together with the present offices that made it to the shuttle alive, the consensus was that they would follow the dissipating ion trail of the Borg cube in order to learn where it came from. This might seem foolhardy, but since the shuttle's comm system was damaged in the attack on the Endeavour, their only hope would be if their shuttle was found by another ship, and they could get the warning out about the Borg activity in the sector. Eventually, the trail they tracked had led them into the deepest parts of the Azure Nebula. Like with with previous options, there is some slight waiting on the applicant's part, since Episode 05 is not at the point where the story aboard the USS Niger has started up yet. Until then, you can write scenes from the character's past on the Endeavour on the Director's Cut board.
  
  

3. Character Application Process

When your character concept has been approved by the GM, use the Character Template to write up your character. Eventually, you will have been given a link to a Character Submission Form by the GM, which you will use to submit your character template to the site for review.

The GM will leave feedback on your first draft and request changes to fit the story better. Then you submit a second draft, a third etc. until the GM approves the character. The GM must approve the application before you are allowed to post in the story, and you will remain an Applicant on the site until then, with restricted access to the forum and the site features, like the R&D board and our Discord Server.

4. Application Accepted!

When the character is approved, the GM will notify you of this and an announcement will be made on our OOC board (Out-of-Character). You will also be given full access to the site. Next, you will be writing your inaugural post in the story, and begin the adventure.

Welcome aboard the Theurgy!