A Guide on Message Header Groups

Here is a list and explanation of message header groups that are available for writing communications. As a friendly reminder, a number of these are actually groups in Discourse, so if you mention them in your communication (@groupname), players in those groups will receive notifications about your message. Remember that you can always check which players are going to receive notifications by looking at the Discourse Groups.

Fleet Operations

38th/All - Every single person in the fleet receives this. Use of this is restricted to the people in the following group.

@38th.Command - The big one and perhaps the most ambiguous. The list of people this goes to is quite a bit larger than just the two admirals.

  • Fleet Commanding Officer
  • Fleet Executive Officer
  • Office of the Admiralty
  • Joint Squadron Commander
  • Starbase Commanding Officer
  • Starbase Executive Officer

38th/Commanding Officers(COs) - This includes every starship commander regardless of their actual rank.

38th/[task force] - This will go to all CO’s of a specific task force.

38th/[ship] - More likely to be used internally, this will go to every crew member on a specific ship.

38th/Annex - The director and professors of the Academy Annex. Note this is a fleet organization, not a starbase one.

38th/Cadets - This goes out to every cadet at the Annex.

Starbase Operations

@DS13.All - To everyone stationed on starbase.

@DS13.Command - This includes only the Starbase CO and XO.

@DS13.DepartmentHeads - This includes the Starbase CO, XO, and each Starbase department head (Operations, Security, Intelligence, Engineering, Science, Medical, Counseling).

DS13/[department] - To every member of a specific department.

DS13/[facility] - This goes to a specific facility on the starbase. Vanilla or Bust, for example.

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