Greetings, Shadowfox
I am honored that you have chosen join our ranks. You are hereby accepted into the Delta team of the Engineering Division, and given a rank of Ensign.
Welcome aboard!
Just some housekeeping items:
1) You can download your avatar under 'profile' and then 'avatar'. Look in the gallery. Your avatar is the yellow one with the single gold pip (the last row, third from left). You can copy this into your STO forum avatar too.
2) Because STO has not launched yet, promotions in rank will be based on activity on the STO forums, activity in recruting, and activity here on our forums. We like to keep our STO forum thread bumped to the first page to maintain visibility, so posting there will be helpful. Here's the link.
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=256383) We have an RP (role-playing) forum, but this is strictly optional.
4) There is an "introductions" thread in the "Fleet Tactics" forum (which you now should have access to). You can read some of the other bios of the fleet members.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Once again, welcome!