[OOC] The Starship 'Fritjof Nansen'

[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

The long lifespans (and long careers) in this setting take some getting used to.

Yes. Progress (for officers) is pretty normal until you get your first stripe, and then it grinds, sometimes to a halt. (For ORs it can halt at Private (proficient) or Leading Astronaut. If you're good at your job but not foreman material you get pay raises but not promotions. Bucky is going to be leading some NPC marines specialists who get paid more than he does.)

[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

True, and both creepy and sensible.

It's not incest because she happened not to inherit any of those genes.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Agemegos

It's not incest because she happened not to inherit any of those genes.

Nah, but the genetic necromancy is still a bit creepy. At any rate Nyoman Eichberger is twelve and currently attending Regulus.

Originally Posted by Agemegos

Bucky is going to be leading some NPC marines specialists who get paid more than he does.

Brent McAdams is a simple man, as long as he can afford the mass market interactive true-crime detective stories he likes he doesn't really care how much he gets paid.

[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

genetic necromancy is still a bit creepy.

It would be possible to reconstruct his entire genome if anyone were that way inclined.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Agemegos

It would be possible to reconstruct his entire genome if anyone were that way inclined.

In this case, they just needed a Y chromosome. I suppose they could have gotten one from either paternal grandfather just as easily.

[jmurrell]

Originally Posted by Agemegos

You're older than I am!

Yes. You were born on the same day as my younger sister.

[sir_pudding]

Hey, if we really want to hook-and-grommet, Alistair could have donated the chromosome!

EDIT:
Also I am terribly amused that I accidentally made a character who technically owns the Empire and doesn't know it.

[jmurrell]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

There's no reason she can't both be married to his niece and him be family friend since she was a girl. Her parents died from enemy action when she was six, though.

Sure, that could be how she met Caroline. And the death of her parents could be one of the horrors that turned him from a dashing young man to a reserved fanatic.

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

I didn't want to make the relationship too close, since if it was it would be less likely that we'd be on the same ship, right?

Or it could be why she's on this ship.

Originally Posted by Agemegos

Depends what sort of "looking after" Auntie Akiko thinks she needs. Or is it Uncle Harmon now?

Indeed.

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Fair enough, and it neatly hooks-and-grommets our Captain to his Chief Engineer.

It does that. Makes it a bit personal when she goes missing planetside.

So, hows Bucky going to handle a four-striper breathing over his shoulder?

[jmurrell]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Also I am terribly amused that I accidentally made a character who technically owns the Empire and doesn't know it.

Stars above, I've the owner aboard.

[martinl]

Originally Posted by Agemegos

By the way, I think my viking hat is probably a venerable and somewhat battered khaki fur-felt Akubra with a broad brim and a puggaree of mammoth-fur. But I'm not sure about the horns. Teeth from some huge extinct land-crocodile? No, horns should be horns. Water-buffalo?

French.

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