TACTICAL TRAINING

By

Joseph Valiant

Tactical is a very fun position, though there are a few things that need to be taught about it. One major thing is defining the positions. I know for a long time a lot of people asked "what exactly does this position do" well it's my goal that by the time your done reading this you will know.
 

Helm:

Helm:

 Helm is one of my favorite positions as it has a lot of liberties, but you must remember it still is bound by what the captains orders, and physics itself, but since its space physics isn't a MAJOR part. Helm controls the ship, basically flies it. In fact a lot of the concepts I personally used when I was a tactical officer for basic starship flying comes from my knowledge of flying airplanes. While flying the ship you must try to remember that your dealing with a 3D plane, and there is no upside down in space.

There is also a difference between a setting a course and setting heading to coordinates. A course means a ships heading from its current position to a direction, while a coordinate is where its destination will be. Below will explain the difference.

Course in detail:
What does you CO mean when he says "set course 158 mark 10" well, the best way to say it is think of each set of those being degrees on a compass with 0 mark 0 being, also can be read 360 mark 0, or straight ahead. The first set of numbers, in this case 158 will be your horizontal movement, what direction the ship will move or turn to horizontally, while your second set of numbers will determine what direction the ship will move vertically. So in the above course 158 mark 10 the ship has almost turned completely around to the right, and is now nose up a little. Another example 10 mark 350, the ship is now turned a bit to the right, and is now nose down 10 degrees.

Coordinates in detail:
Now a coordinate is exactly where your want to end up. These are based on galactic coordinates given on a star chart. Coordinates are much like Longitude an Latitude on a map today.

Please note that since there is no official galactic chart at this time for Federation Space the coordinates are usually given in technobabble.

Operations:

OPS:

 The stations that no one really know what its true job is.
Ops, or Operations Manager,  is a very active position during a battle, or really should be. Ops controls basic system operations, for example; tractor beam operations, ship saucer separation (if possible), decompression of shuttle bay in emergencies, power management, contacting departments to complete tasks, this is why it's called 'operations manager'. Ops is also to report damage, to manage and operate sensors (internal and external), and also to manage all internal and ship to ship comm systems.

Tactical:

Tactical:

 Tactical is basically your weapons station. At the tactical station it would be your job to set ship alert status, such as Red Alert/Yellow Alert, (according to orders). Report damage to shields, and weapon systems, that is if ops hasn't already. Tactical is also to activate ships defensive systems and target and fire the ships offensive systems, i.e. Phasers and torpedoes. This station is also responsible for launching scientific probes.

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