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Lieutenant Amelia Chen is a science officer, coordinating the teams that scan and analyse vessels, objects and phenomena that Endeavour encounters in space.
The Warrant Officer program allows technical specialists to operate and contribute within a military chain of command while having their experience and seniority recognised appropriately.
Mustering a crew ready to undertake deep space missions is as high a priority as building Endeavour itself.
The ISDC supports professional development with a variety of career options underpinned by the Academy, providing training in the technology, systems, procedures and protocols unique to Endeavour's mission.
Career Tracks
The complex systems aboard Endeavour require a well trained crew with a wide range of skills and aptitude. To achieve this The ISDC offers a number of career tracks.
Career development is a combination of training and experience.
Training
The first step in any ISDC career is completing a training course on a ship system, which awards a qualification known as a rating - so called because it means the successful trainee is now ‘rated’ to operate that system during missions.
Training will be an ongoing feature of an ISDC career, opening up the range of missions that can be joined and contributing to promotion.
Experience
Active duty on missions is logged as experience, in the form of points (XP). The number of XP awarded depends on the length and complexity of the mission. XP count towards promotion.
Officers
Officers are the coordinators of the ISDC, ensuring the successful completion of missions and projects.
This career track is focused on developing a broad range of skills and experience as well as the leadership skills necessary to ensure effectiveness in dangerous and tactically complex environments.
Crew
Crew are the ISDC’s technical specialists, whose highly-focused training and experience allows them to amass considerable expertise in their chosen field. As crew careers progress their training and skills become more targeted, allowing them to contribute to system development in their field.
The most critical operational positions aboard a vessel will be held by senior crew.
Warrant Officers
Warrant Officers join the ISDC from advanced careers in specialist technical or scientific fields. Unlike the military careers of their commissioned colleagues, warrant officers have undertaken exclusively civilian career development prior to their entry to the ISDC.
Warrant Officers are most commonly found in engineering, scientific or medical roles.