SFSI Chain of Command

The Head of Star Fleet Science is responsible for updating all Science information on the site, as well as answering Science related questions and creating content for the site that is both helpful to the players and informative to the Federation Space Science community.

Science Command

Head of Science: Admiral Alex Lovell
Assistant Head of Science: Vice-Admiral Veronica Smithson

Consisting of the Head of Science and the Board of Directors, this is the top tier of the Star Fleet Science Institute. All science related decisions come through the SFSI office. The Head of Science reports directly to the Commander in Chief of Star Fleet.

The Star Fleet Science Institute Headquarters is in Seattle, North American Continent, Earth.

Administrative Services

Director: Commodore Randolph Barnsfield
Deputy Director: Captain Glynis O’Donoghue

All science issues are channeled through Administrative Services on their way to Science Command. Responsibilities of this division include determining which department of Science is best for handling a given situation, and channeling important information directly to the Head of Science.

Department of Life Sciences

Director: Rear Admiral Salon
Deputy Director: Commodore Alex Maure

This division is for the study of living things, both terrestrial and alien plants and animals, bacteria, fungi and other organisms.

Branches: Agronomy, Bioengineering, Biology, Bionics, Biotechnology, Botany, Ecology, Endocrinology, Entomology, Epistemology, Ethnobotany, Eugenics, Exobiology, Genetic engineering, Genetics, Marine biology, Microbiology, Molecular biology, Ornithology, Paleontology, Xenology, Zoology

Department of Medical Sciences

Director: Vice Admiral Rejji Putanna
Deputy Director: Rear Admiral Jonathan Galt

This branch deals with everything from First Aid up to Surgery and Psychology. This department also works with Starfleet Medical, though its more on the research side, than actual healing procedures.

Branches: Etymology, Exoanatomy, Exochemistry, Exopsychology, Forensics, Medicine, Organic Chemistry, Pathology, Psychology, Physiology, Toxicology

Department of Physical Sciences

Director: Commodore Tier Arooth
Deputy Director: Captain Paul Rice

This branch concerns the theoretical sciences that govern the behaviour of non-living material solids, liquids, gases and plasmas. This also includes mathematics and computer sciences.

Branches: Biochemistry, Chemistry, Computer Science, Cybernetics, Genitronics, Mathematics, Nanotechnology, Physics, Robotics, Quantum Chemistry, Quantum Mechanics

Department of Planetary Sciences

Director: Rear Admiral Harvey Wellington
Deputy Director: Commodore Armstrong Talbot-Maxwell

Deals with the structure and function of planetary materials and a planet’s lithosphere (including its geography and its rocks, minerals, ores and fuel deposits), its hydrosphere (including its oceans, lakes and rivers), and its atmosphere (including its weather and climate).

Branches: Climatology, Geology, Gravimetrics, Hydrology, Mineralology, Oceanography, Planetary science, Planetology, Seismology, Terraforming, Vulcanology

Department of Social Sciences

Director: Commodore Valentina Ilianov
Deputy Director: Captain Rosa Maria Tijeras

Deals with the institutions and functions of societies and with the interpersonal relationships between individuals in those societies. Social science personal have training in the areas of their own race, planet, laws and culture as well as those laws and history of the Federation.

Branches: Anthropology, Archaeology, Economics, Geography, Law, Logic, Paleoanthropology, Political Science, Sociology, Thanatology.

Department of Space Sciences

Director: Admiral Katherine Kation
Deputy Director: Vice Admiral Julia Flint

This area deals with the study of space, the stars, planetary motions, navigation, and the application of other sciences to space travel or to deep space.

Branches: Astrogation, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Stellar cartography, Temporal mechanics, Warp field theory.