Command Department
The Command Department represents crewmembers who administrate and supervise the starbase. These officers deal with various aspects of starbase operations. Positions include Commanding Officer, Executive Officer, Diplomatic Officer, Academy Commandant and Command Specialists such as Yeomans, among many others.
Flight Control Department
The Flight Control Department aboard Starbase T'Plana-Hath represents the officers and crew who stand ready to act as pilots on the various vessels on and around T'Plana-Hath. The Chief Flight Control Officer is responsible for overseeing the operations and training of all flight control personel. The Chief Flight Control officer is most often selected to pilot craft used in priority away missions, such as the Defiant class USS Vichy. Positions include Chief Flight Control Officer, Conn Officer, and specialists such as Senior Shuttle Pilot, or Astrogation Specialist, among others.
Operations Department
The Operations Department oversees the allocation of station resources and system operations. These officers run most of the day to day operations of the station. Positions include Chief Operations Manager, Operations Officers, and Operations specialists such as Transporter Operators, Computer Technicians, Flight Deck Managers, and Sensor Technicians, among many others.
Security Department
The Security Department oversees internal station security. These officers are required to see that vital systems and personnel are protected from any and all dangers at all times. Positions include Chief Security Officer, Security Officers, and Security Specialists such as Security Guards, Weapons Specialists, and Computer Security Specialists, among many others.
Tactical Department
The Tactical Department oversees the external defenses of the station. These officers assess and defend aginst threats occurring outside the station, and protect it and any nearby vessels against attack at all times. Positions include Chief Tactical Officer, Tactical Officers, and Tactical Specialists such as Starship Tactics Specialist, Subspace Cryptography Specialist and Weaponry Specialist, among many others. The Tactical Department also oversees deployment and coordination of the stations Fighter Wing. The Fighter Wing Commander and Fighter Squadron Commanders report to the Chief Tactical Officer. The Chief Tactical Officer may double as Fighter Wing Commander, if the station commander so desires.
Engineering Department
The Engineering Department is responsible to see that the station and all it's equipment continues to function at optimal levels. These officers may also be called upon to complete special projects assigned to the engineering department, such as starship refits or equipment design. Positions include Chief Engineer, Engineering Officer, and Engineering Specialists such as Senior Environmental Systems Engineer, Senior Structural Engineer, Chief of Computer Core Maintenance, and Chief of Small Vessel Maintenance.
Medical Department
The Medical Department looks after the health and well being of all beings aboard the station. These officers do their best to see that the crew is functioning at optimum levels. Positions include Chief Medical Officer, Medical Officer, and Medical Specialists, such as Chief Surgeon, Head Xenobiologist, Head Nurse and can even include Medical interns from Starfleet Academy or non-starfleet doctors from other worlds as members of the Interspecies Medical Exchange.
Science Department
The Science Department oversees and carries out research projects aboard the station. These officers run various sub-departments, and coordinate the efforts of their research team members to assure each project is given adequate resources to attain completion. Science branch personel may be called upon in high priority situations to assist in investigating anomalies, repairing or analyzing equipment, or otherwise lending a knowledgable, scientific hand in things. Positions include Chief Science Officer, who oversees all sub-departments and coordinates their activities, and Head of Sub-Departments, such as Chief of Astrophysics, Chief of Stellar Cartography, Chief Ecologist, and Chief Anthropologist, among many, many others. The station has science personel assigned based on ongoing projects, or specific laboratory equipment available. Science labs on T'Plana-Hath are among some of the most advanced in the quadrant.
Counseling Department
While the Medical Department handles the physical well-being of the crew, the Counsellors manage the mental well being of the crew. Cross trained in a variety of psychological models from throughout the federation, counseling personel are equipped to handle a variety of beings and situations. Positions include Head Counselor, Counselor, and Counseling Specialst positions such as Marriage and Family Counseling, and Inter-species Relations Specialist, among many others.
Intelligence Department
Starfleet Intelligence has assigned personnel to Starbase T'Plana-Hath to coordinate and compile incoming reports from field agents within the areas patrolled by Thunder Fleet. Intel reports are collected, analyzed, and reported to the Fleet Commanding Officer, who then can consult with Starfleet Command and the Joint Chiefs, and take any action his fleet is required to in order to address any threats to Starfleet or the Federation. There is a popular notion among many that Intel personnel are somehow 'above the law', and have better technology than any other starfleet department. While Starfleet Intelligence does, out of necessity, keep information very closely guarded, and have some access to the latest in cutting edge technology, they have their own rules they too must follow, and must answer to the same authority as any other department. Positions include Chief Intelligence Officer, who oversees the Intel Department and is responsible for assigning field ops to assess any suspected threats, Intelligence Officers, who assist in the compilation and assessment of reports from the field, and specialist positions such as Field Officers, who go out and do the so-called 'dirty work' of gathering information, surveillance, infiltration, and even occasionally sabotage or otherwise provide 'threat neutralization'.
Starfleet Marines
In working to secure the sector against all manner of threats. Starfleet has assigned a Battalion of Marines to Starbase T'Plana-Hath. The Battalion is broken up in to three Companies. Each company is rotated out to serve aboard the Thunder Fleet Flagship, the USS Vigilance evey three months at minimum, or after any longer duration mission. The Marines are relied upon as a rapid-mobilization force who assist Starfleet naval personnel in various mission profiles. These missions can include Search and Rescue, Reconnaisance, Threat Neutralization, Target Retrieval, and Security Detail, among others. Starfleet Marines train to handle extreme situations, most often areas of hostility where combat is to be expected. It is the hope of every Commanding Officer to not have to utilize the Starfleet Marines in combat situations, but when no alternative is available, you send in the Marines. Positions include Marine Battalion Commander, Marine Battalion Executive Officer, Company Commander and Company XO, among others. Marine personnel who display particular aptitudes may be selected for special missions, or be selected for use as part of a special missions unit.
Judge Advocate General's Office
The Starfleet JAG Corps has a ranking JAG officer who acts as judge in cases involving violations of Starfleet law by Starfleet Personel. Junior JAG Officers may act as Defense and Prosecution counsel in such cases, and there are several junior officers aboard the station who can serve in either capacity. On some occasions, JAG officers may be assigned to away missions when such away missions deal with investigating alleged violations or improprieties by Starfleet crewmembers.
Ambassadorial Delgates
As part of an attempt to bolster diplomatic relations with the Klingons and the Romulans both, Starfleet has been at the forefront of a project involving, by necessity, both parties. After the incident involving Praetor Shinzon's regime, the Federation found they had the opportunity to create a greater dialogue with the Romulan Empire. During concurrent ongoing talks with the Klingon Empire, the Klingons began to make an issue of these increased ties to the Romulan Empire. The talks became unstable on both fronts for a brief period, until a compromise was reached that was seen as mutually acceptable...at least as mutually acceptable as possible. Each government would select a starbase to host one ambassador from each other's governments. So, in point of fact, the project is actually three projects; one in Federation territory, one in Klingon territory, and one in Romulan territory. Each base hosts one ambassador from all three governments, and a small security force as well. The Security Forces were ultimately a concession that all sides had to accept in order to see the project go forward, due to the lack of trust between the three. T'Plana-Hath hosts a Klingon Ambassador, and small strike force of 12 Klingon Marines and a cloak-equipped Bird of Prey; A Romulan Ambassador and 12 Romulan troops who are the equivalent of marines as well, who also insisted upon the inclusion of a cloak capable vessel; and a Federation ambassador and his honor guard, a group of 12 Starfleet Security Officers assigned to keep watch on the other two groups. Each group eyes each other with suspiscion, and "misunderstandings" are quite common.
