Officer
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An officer is a special type of NPC, when in command of a spaceship the officer will mark spacecraft orders as complete when they are completed and receive new orders via the Comm.
The most critical use of an officer is to protect spaceships from Dark Matter while there is no avatar on board.
Officers are also able to do buy and sell orders, unlike ships without an officer. This means that it is possible to create a repeating spacecraft mission in order to set up trade routes. Buy goods in one system, fly to another, sell goods, fly back, repeat.
Officers may also be put in command of space stations, allowing it to operate away from a world to conduct harvest missions or aid in defense.
Officers gain rank as a result of accumulating experience points. As rank increases, their skill increases.
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Ensign | ENS |
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Lieutenant Junior Grade | LTJG |
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Lieutenant | LT |
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Commander | CDR |
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Captain | CAPT |
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Admiral | ADM |
Officers are also essential for solo Berth-a-Ports.
Cadet
Officers are trained on habitable worlds with a university or a star fleet academy, depending on if the ship is company or fleet.
Only one officer per habitable world in a solar system. Solar systems with multiple stars may yield multiple habitable worlds, thus yielding more officers total. Ringworlds however will yield 1 officer per arc.
If the officer dies, a new one will become available on the world it originated from.
Recruiting
Officers are allowed on ship or space station with at least one officer berth.
To have an officer board a ship, use the Comm (F2) window's Trade channel, and offer the open berth. If an officer is available, they will immediately board the ship.
The Con
Occasionally, officers will be on-board ships, but not in command of the vessel. On the Unit Orders (Shift+F3) while you have a berth to the ship, you can see a listing of berthed crew, officers, troops and passengers. If the only officer on board your ship, for a length of time(minutes) is not listed as "in command of/commanding shipname", select the officer and press the "take the con" order, the officer should then follow all normal commands for a ship with an officer.
Homesickness
If the planet that the officer was spawned from no longer has a city that is part of your empire on it, the officer will become homesick. He will notify you of this in the reports the ship sends by mail. After 7 days of being home sick, he will commit suicide by way of self destructing the ship that he is on unless another officer is on board. Then he will just kill himself.