VOS

VOS System

The VOS system is perhaps the most ingenious method of giving your crew orders that I've evern seen. It involves simple commands (2-4-4, for example) that will in turn be translated to an in-game verbal command (Quarter Impulse!). Through this system the crew of not only your ship but other ships will interact with you on your missions. Listed here is a breakdown of each VOS section, subsection, and a brief description / tips of what each does. VOS Quick Reference Card.

1. Engineer  

1-1. Activate/Deactivate Damage Control: use this to turn on and off Damage Control.

1-2- Boost Power to Damage Control: use this with the following variables to set the damage control power.

1-2-1 to Off - Turn it off

1-2-2 to Minimum - range from 1% to 5% of ship's power

1-2-3 to 5% Total Ship Power

1-2-4 to 10% Total Ship Power

1-2-5 to 20% Total Ship Power

1-2-6 to 30% Total Ship Power

1-2-7 to 40% Total Ship Power

1-2-8 to 50% Total Ship Power

1-3- Engage Power Allocation: use this to use a preset set of power allocation; i.e. each system (engineering, phasers, etc. etc.) have already been assigned their respective power.

1-3-1 Battle - Standard

1-3-2 Battle - Offensive

1-3-3 Battle - Defensive

1-3-4 Stealth

1-3-5 Hunt for Cloaked Ships

1-3-6 Withdraw & Repair

1-3-7 Repel Enemy Marines

1-3-8 Warp Out

1-4- Repair Priority: This tells your engineering crew what to fix first. The default is "Combat Systems".

1-4-1 Combat Systems

1-4-2 Hull & Power

1-4-3 Internal Systems

1-4-4 Equalize

1-5- Damage Report: receive an on-screen detailed report of where the ship has taken damage and how much.

1-6- Power Report: receive an on-screen detailed report of what is using up the ship's power; handy for when you notice that the photons/phasers shut off when you go to full Impulse.

2- Helm  

2-1- Warp Out-System: Select where the ship will go; pick from the selection given to you from the game. (#= where you want to go)

2-1-#-1- Warp Factor 1

2-1-#-2- Warp Factor 2

2-1-#-3- Warp Factor 3

2-1-#-4- Warp Factor 4

2-1-#-5- Warp Factor 5

2-1-#-6- Warp Factor 6

2-1-#-7- Warp Factor 7

2-1-#-8- Warp Factor 8

2-1-#-9- Warp Factor 9

2-2- Warp In-System: same as in out-system but only within your system and at warp 1.

2-3 Warp To Target: Warp to whatever target is within your sights.

2-4- Impulse Speed: This is basically your ship's speed within a solar system while it's not in warp speed. This is best for navigating through small distances (less than 100mk)

2-4-1 Full Impulse

2-4-2 3/4 Impulse

2-4-3 1/2 Impulse

2-4-4 1/4 Impulse

2-4-5 All Stop

2-4-6 Reverse 1/4 Impulse

2-4-7 Match Speed with Target

2-5- Emergency Maneuver: These come in handy, especially when you have to do an immediate stop or reverse to avod a collision. Turn is a 180 degree turn.

2-5-1 Full Turn

2-5-2 Full Stop

2-5-3 Full Reverse

2-6- Standing Orders: Use this to assign your helmsmen what to do; useful while you're in the gunnery chair.

2-6-1 Evasive Maneuvers

2-6-2 Pursue Target

2-6-3 Maintain Course

2-6-4 Orbit Target

3- Comm  

3-1 Hail Targeted Vessel: Use this to communicate with other shps.

3-2- Order Escort (plus whichever escort): Use this to command each individual escort.

3-2-#-1 Break And Attack

3-2-#-2 Attack My Target

3-2-#-3 Capture My Target

3-2-#-4 Form Up

3-2-#-5 Defend My Target

3-2-#-6 Cease Fire

3-2-#-7 Return To Base (fighters only)

3-3- Order All Escorts: This one is to order all escorts at once. The only thing that the escorts actually do correctly is attack...LOL

3-3-1 Break And Attack

3-3-2 Attack My Target

3-3-3 Capture My Target

3-3-4 Form Up

3-3-5 Defend My Target

3-3-6 Cease Fire

3-4 Hail for Assistance: This option is only available on certain missions when you have to contact the fleet for either backup or to let them know where an enemy is.

3-5 Mission Objectives: This is to see the mission objectives on-screen.

4- Security  

4-1 Activate/Deactivate Security Systems: Turn on and off the power to the ship's Security System. Feel free to turn this off when you don't think you are going to get captured.

4-2- Boost Power to Security: Make your marienes work faster! Yah mule! Yah!

4-2-1 to Off 4-2-2 to Minimum

4-2-3 to 5% Total Ship Power

4-2-4 to 10% Total Ship Power

4-2-5 to 20% Total Ship Power

4-2-6 to 30% Total Ship Power

4-2-7 to 40% Total Ship Power

4-2-8 to 50% Total Ship Power

4-3 Activate/Deactivate Transporters: Turn on and off transporters. By default they're off but if you have'em off you can turn them off for that little extra boost of power.

4-4- Boost Power to Transporters: Any more boosting and you're going to be a slave driver.

4-4-1 to Off 4-4-2 to Minimum

4-4-3 to 5% Total Ship Power

4-4-4 to 10% Total Ship Power

4-4-5 to 20% Total Ship Power

4-4-6 to 30% Total Ship Power

4-4-7 to 40% Total Ship Power

4-4-8 to 50% Total Ship Power

4-5 Beam Away Team to Target: Send an away team to whatever ship you have targeted. Once you pick where you wanna send your team, make sure you turn on your transporters and boost your power to transporters to about 30% to make sure your crew gets there. Once you've got the transporters running, send in ~3 times the amount of crew on the enemy ship. However, if you are lacking in marines send in your escorts. Also, if you have to capture more than 1 ship, send/resend marines to your target to conserve troops; once you have it down to about 5% send in about five to ten marines. Remember you can't transport if you're cloaked or the enemy has all their shield sections up (even if most are full and one is at 0%!)

Once you determine how many marines, pick what you want to do. If you capture a ship, you won't get your marines back.

4-5-1 5 Marines

4-5-2 10 Marines

4-5-3 20 Marines

4-5-4 30 Marines

4-5-5 40 Marines

4-5-6 50 Marines

4-5-7 60 Marines

4-5-8 70 Marines

4-5-9 All Marines

4-5-#-1 Capture Ship: Capture the ship; won't happen until counter hits 0.

4-5-#-2 Engineering: Disable Engineering. Knocks out their ability to repair.

4-5-#-2-1 Warp: Disables Warp speed.

4-5-#-2-2 Impulse: Take out their impulse; helpful against faster ships.

4-5-#-2-3 Auxiliary: Take out their auxulary power

4-5-#-3 Security: No protection for the enemy ship!

4-5-#-4 Transporters: Prevents any enemy marines jumping onto your ship.

4-5-#-5 Medical: A crew that doesn't function hurts the ship internally.

4-5-#-6 Life Support: Same as medical

4-5-#-7 Tractor: Your enemy won't be able to use the tractor beam

4-5-#-8 Shields: No defenses! Usually a good target.

4-5-#-9 Cloak: Worthless unless you're fighting a Klingon ship that just won't stop.

4-6 Retrieve Marines from Target: Get your marines back from the ship.

4-7 Security Report: Detailed report on the ship's security and on the status of any enemy away teams versus your ship defenses.

5- Medical  

5-1- Prep Sick Bay: Boost/reduce power to sick bay.

5-1-1 Off: Turn off power to Sick Bay

5-1-2 Standby: Minimum power (range from 1% to 5%)

5-1-3 Medical Alert: Boost power to Sick Bay by ~30%

5-1-4 Medical Emergency: Boost power to Sick Bay by ~ 50%

5-2 Casualty Report: Detailed report of injuries, casualties, and critical injuries.

6- Science  

6-1 Activate/Deactivate Sensors: Turn on/off power to sensors

6-2- Boost Power to Sensors: More slave driving! Yehaww!

6-2-1 to Off

6-2-2 to Minimum

6-2-3 to 5% Total Ship Power

6-2-4 to 10% Total Ship Power

6-2-5 to 20% Total Ship Power

6-2-6 to 30% Total Ship Power

6-2-7 to 40% Total Ship Power

6-2-8 to 50% Total Ship Power

6-3 Activate/Deactivate ECM: Your ECM is an electronic sensor jamming system. Use it to disrupt the readout your enemy's sensor gets. Useful to trick enemies into thinking you're weak and relaxing their attack.

6-4- Boost Power to ECM: You know, if you don't know what this is by now you need to learn to read....

6-4-1 to Off

6-4-2 to Minimum

6-4-3 to 5% Total Ship Power

6-4-4 to 10% Total Ship Power

6-4-5 to 20% Total Ship Power

6-4-6 to 30% Total Ship Power

6-4-7 to 40% Total Ship Power

6-4-8 to 50% Total Ship Power

6-5- Sensor Range: Determine how far your ship's sensors can scan. Minimum works best the majority of time.

6-5-1 Point Blank

6-5-2 Short

6-5-3 Medium

6-5-4 Long

6-6 Scan Target: Scan a target for more information; also will allow your crewmen to get more information and sometimes even hack a ship's system.

6-7 Launch Probe at Target: Launch a probe to a target; look at it as an attached sensor device.

6-8- Visual: What you're looking at. Wide Angle sucks (In my opinion...)

6-8-1 Wide Angle

6-8-2 Normal

6-8-3 Magnify 200%

6-8-4 Magnify 400%

6-8-5 Magnify 600%

6-9- Switch Sensor Mode: These boil down to personal preference. Try them both out.

6-9-1 to Elite (1984 game style)

6-9-2 to Bore-Sight (X-wing game style)

7- Weapons  

7-1 Raise/Lower Shields: Raise and lower your shields. Don't lower unless you are having a hard time with power or are cloaked/repairing.

7-2- Shields Control: Overload raises shield strength and power.

7-2-1- All

7-2-2- Fore (Front)

7-2-3- Aft (Rear)

7-2-4- Port (Left)

7-2-5- Starboard (Right)

7-2-6- Dorsal (Top)

7-2-7- Ventral (Bottom)

7-2-#-1 Lower

7-2-#-2 Raise

7-2-#-3 Overload 125%

7-2-#-4 Overload 150%

7-2-#-5 Overload 175%

7-2-#-6 Overload 200%

7-3 Arm/Disarm Weapons: Turn on/off weapons; useful to turn them off when going through a nebula or a gas giant where you can't really fire or need to divert more power to shields / damage control.

7-4- Weapons Control: Control the power (strength) of each weapons bay. Be warned that overloading a weapon can cause residual damage to that weapons port!

7-4-1- All Weapons Systems

7-4-2- Primary

7-4-3- Secondary

7-4-4- Heavy

7-4-5- Advanced

7-4-#-1 All Banks

7-4-#-2 Forward

7-4-#-3 Aft 

7-4-#-4 Port

7-4-#-5 Starboard

7-4-#-6 Port & Starboard

7-4-#-#-1 Offline

7-4-#-#-2 Charge

7-4-#-#-3 Overload 125%

7-4-#-#-4 Overload 150%

7-4-#-#-5 Overload 175%

7-4-#-#-6 Overload 200%

7-5 Activate/Deactivate Cloaking Device: Turn on / off damage control

7-6 Tractor Targeted Vessel / Activate Repulsor Beam: Lock on your tractor beam to a target when you're not under a tractor field OR activate a repulsor beam to break out of an enemy's tractor lock.

7-7- Tractor Control:

7-7-1 to Off

7-7-2 to Minimum

7-7-3 to 5% Total Ship Power

7-7-4 to 10% Total Ship Power

7-7-5 to 20% Total Ship Power

7-7-6 to 30% Total Ship Power

7-7-7 to 40% Total Ship Power

7-7-8 to 50% Total Ship Power

7-8 Targeting Mode: Experiment with both and pick which one suits you more.

7-8-1 Auto

7-8-2 Bore-Sight

7-9 Switch to Gunnery Chair / Tactical HUD: Gunnery Chair puts you in full control of your ship's weapons but doesn't leave you flying. Use it in conjunction with your ship's helm and Bore-Sight. The Tactical HUD gives you the default control; more piloting control but less view of where your weapons are going. I personally use Tactical HUD with Auto Firing.

8- Target  

8-1 Object in Reticle: Whatever is under your crosshairs

8-2- Subsystem: This is a bit vague...basically, once you have targeted your target <redundant, isn't it?> you can target specific points within the target. Usually it's the ones listed here but this can change when you are targeting a planetary system.

8-2-1 None (Hull): default target

8-2-2 Warp Engines: take out their warp drive

8-2-3 Impulse Engines: take out their impulse engines

8-2-4 Sensors: take out their sensor system

8-2-5 Primary Weapons: take out their primary system

8-2-6 Secondary Weapons: take out their secondary system

8-2-7 Heavy Weapons: take out their heavy weapons

8-2-8 Advanced Weapons: take out their advanced weapons

8-3 Lock Target: Lock onto a target!

8-4 Nearest Enemy: Target the closest enemy

8-6- Change Targeting List: Change what shows up everytime you hit "S" on the keyboard to change the target on your recticle (sight).

8-6-1 Enemy Ships

8-6-2 Friendly Ships

8-6-3 Neutral Ships

8-6-4 Celestial Objects: display planets, nebulas, etc. etc.

8-6-5 All Ships and Objects

8-7 Next

8-8 Previous

8-9 None

9- Station

9-1 Go to Engineering: Go to the main engineering screen and have a visual display of the VOS.

9-2 Go to Helm: Go to the main helm screen and have a visual display of the VOS.

9-3 Go to Communications: Go to the main comm screen and have a visual display of the VOS.

9-4 Go to Security: Go to the main security screen and have a visual display of the VOS.

9-5 Go to Medical: Go to the main medical screen and have a visual display of the VOS.

9-6 Go to Science: Go to the main science screen and have a visual display of the VOS.

9-7 Go to Weapons: Go to the main weapons screen and have a visual display of the VOS.

9-8 Go to Library: Go to the main library screen and have a visual display of any information available.

9-9 Go to Damage Control: Go to the main Damage Control screen and have a visual display of the damage control screen.