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That way if the bridge crew gets toasted no one bats an eye when the Petty Officer takes command of the ship, while the medical officers continue to work in sick-bay, the engineers continue to work in engineering, and the pilots continue to control their charges. Quote:
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Anyway: it isn't that I haven't thought about organising things the American way. I've thought about it and decided not to. The RN and RAN show me that things can actually work the way everyone does them except the Americans; that's good enough for me. I understand and accept that you like the arrangements that you are used to. Nevertheless, I will not adopt them for FLAT BLACK. Quote:
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09-15-2013, 04:46 AM | #83 | |
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That's the way things mostly work now anyway. |
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09-15-2013, 07:29 AM | #84 |
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Why is an E5 running the ship? Shouldn't an O6 or the ship's mind be running the ship? Why does the petty officer have to be out-ranked by warrant officers to do it? If the E5 knows enough orbital mechanics and so forth to run the ship, how come we don't have to pay him like a highly-skilled warrant officer?
Given that automation and robots in the ship leave no tasks to do other than ones that require highly-skilled technicians, then if all the highly-skilled technicians are warrant officers, we seem to have the lowest-ranked person in the spaceship running it. I think that is odd.
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09-15-2013, 07:54 AM | #85 | ||
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Commissioned officers are basically backroom managers, NCOs are hands on floor managers. Quote:
Mind this is a matter of taste, and I'm not trying to push you to change your setting, just offering another point of view. In the RCN series, as an example, Warrant Adele Mundy is an information expert, one of the best in her field and a scion of a leading family, but she's no line officer. Granted the tech in the RCN series is truly weird and they have a ton of uneducated men to lead, but leading men and being a field expert are very different things. |
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09-15-2013, 12:07 PM | #87 |
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09-15-2013, 01:13 PM | #89 |
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There's nobody currently being born, living, and running a comic book store in space. I submit that that the person who is born, lives, and runs a comic book store in space would consider himself a comic book store owner rather than an astronaut.
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09-15-2013, 02:50 PM | #90 | |
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Besides, if they're born and live in space they aren't human, since atmospheres are a necessary thing. Not to mention that no one runs a comic book store at sea either. |
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