While SFC’s rank system is one of the most obvious form of rewards within Quadrant 2, with members informally given the rank and title for each grade, rank is just one level of recognition within the fleet for out Captains and Fleet Support to highlight a members contributions.
While SFC’s rank system is one of the most obvious form of rewards within Quadrant 2, with members informally given the rank and title for each grade, rank is just one level of recognition within the fleet for out Captains and Fleet Support to highlight a members contributions.
A more common form of recognition are our Commendations and Citations. Having taken various forms over the years, our commendations are the more open of all with four categories – Service, Departmental, Leadership or Special Commendations.
Commendations and Special Commendations are the most common and popular ways to reward or thank a member for their time and dedication. Awards can either be submitted as a fleet-wide recognition, through proposal via your CO or Fleet Admin, however units may offer their own unit-focused awards and commendations concurrent with Q2.
Alongside Commendations our Citation Medal’s are the highest achievement a member can be presented with and remain a rare commodity. Over the years SFC has had many medals presented to members with varying reason and history. From 2402 (2025) onwards a slight refresh offers new medals and honours for members that align with real world awards as well as those seen within Starfleet on screen.
The 2402 medal set breaks itself down into six separate levels of award. Each of the medals are ‘fleet wide’ awards issued and authorised by the Admiralty Board. While each has differing criteria for award and how to be nominated for the honours list, there’s no limit to how many times a member can be nominated or how many times they can receive the award.
While we can’t offer physical medals (for now), each award comes with it’s own digital certificate for your records to be stored or printed at the awarded members leisure. Print copies may also be requested or issued direct from the board or unit command team. It’s all personal preference how you prefer to keep stock of your recognition achievements within Q2 but all options are available!
Initially based (loosely) around the Medal of Honor seen in Star Trek Discovery’s first season, each medal comes with it’s own unique colour scheme and ribbon to delineate between each one with ease. A ‘Ribbon’ system is also in place with a triangular companion to represent the medal on uniform which is, again, based very loosely on the updated idealised medals worn in Discovery’s first season.
In addition you might also see a higher frequency of award come through with the introduction of Event and Attainment certificates including our Away Team and Alert certificates all to help highlight the stellar efforts of our members across the fleet!
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