Officer
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Officers are usually used to command spaceships, or to act as a first officer for player captains in case they lose connection, log out, or leave the ship. Officers also allow you to order your ship to buy and sell goods through orders. Ships without an officer will not use ship weapon systems to attack or retaliate if a hostile enters range and attacks.
Officers may also be put in command of space stations, allowing you to do more with a station than you normally would in orbit (as normally they do not need officers).
Officers gain ranks through completing missions, or combat experience.
Spawning
Officers spawn on colonies in habitable orbit zones once you have a spacecraft factory, airport terminal and an university on the planet. You get one officer per habitable orbit zone (green orbit on the navigation console) in a solar system. A two or three star solar system, otherwise called binary and trinary systems, may yield one habitable world each, thus yielding three officers total. Ringworlds will yield 1 officer per arc.
If the officer dies, a new one will spawn on the planet it originated from.
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 onboard. Then he will just kill himself.
Quick List
- Planet or large moon in habitable orbit
- Spacecraft Factory
- Airport Terminal
- University
- Few homes
- some food
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Acquiring
Officers are allowed on ship and station designs with at least two Berthes in a Officer Cabin.
To have an officer board a ship, use the trade channel, and offer the open berth. If an officer is available, they will immediately board the ship.
Occasionally, officers will be on-board ships, but not in command of the vessel. On the Orders menu (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" command, the officer should then follow all normal commands for a ship with an officer.