We’ve done things like this in this past, and they’ve been a lot of fun—and while I was considering a revival, it struck me to do a twist…hire your EVIL Starship crew!
For this thread, you’re the chief of staffing/potentate for your basic Interstellar Empire™, and the Starship in question is, let’s say, along the lines of your Dreadnought class—I’m a fan of the classics—with reasonable modifications or additions to your personal taste.
Your task is to pick the officers and crew to man this pride of your grand fleet, to explore and exploit strange new worlds, enforce Imperial Will, crush it’s enemies, drive them before it, take from them all they possess and hear the lamentation of all who loved them, etc. etc.
Now, I’ll leave it up to your discretion whether you want a crew of cool professionals, doing their work for a paradise in which they know they will never have any place; or a collection of vicious, unstable, psychopaths, only miraculously able to function as a crew in their constant jockeying and backstabbing in personal quests for domination and personal power; or, a motley, boisterous band of glorified space vikings, doing your work for adventure, plunder, and supplies and munitions that they don’t have to pay for.
Heck, pick more than one crew—'plenty of ships in the fleet. But no Death Stars.
And, of course, this being an “Evil™” Imperial Star Ship, there’s room for openings beyond the regular bog-standard Starship officer positions—Chief Engineer, Helmsman, Science Officer, etc.—so by all means, feel free to add appropriate positions to your needs. Such as Commissar, Information Removal Officer, or Captain’s Leman (this is a modern, equal-opportunity fleet, after all).
Your applicant pool is any character from a space opera (TV, movie, etc).
So…who would YOU want? Let us know—and let slip the Dogs of War!
