08-26-2013, 10:19 PM | #151 |
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Re: [OOC] The Starship 'Fritjof Nansen'
Lara Eichberger's grandson and Tomitomo's heir.
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08-26-2013, 10:32 PM | #152 |
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Re: [OOC] The Starship 'Fritjof Nansen'
I think the PCs being just the Social Sciences team with the Life Sciences Team as NPCs works the best, since it's logical for the teams to be separated and lets you use the Life Sciences team for info dumps.
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The Imperial Marines were new in 507, when Bucky was 32, seven years after the Peace. Tau Ceti was rebuilding rapidly, unemployment low, wages high. Practical TL was increasing fast as orbital manufacturing was rebuilt, as wide export markets opened up for specialised products, and as wonderful imports from Simanta, Todos Santos, Seeonee etc. became available cheaply. By 507 Tau Ceti would be like the USA in the mid-Fifties, except without the Korean War: conscious of being in something of a golden age. The governments of Tau Ceti were still trying to destroy the Empire by fiscal strangulation, and Government spokesfolk were spinning things against the Empire. But the Empire was spinning itself as an sort of UN and not as an Eichberger hegemony, and it was actually pretty popular. Bucky would have been in training in 507 and 508; sixteen weeks on Earth's Moon, sixteen weeks each on each of three foreign worlds with different gravities, sixteen weeks in free fall, at least five interstellar trips, three-day passes and two-week furloughs on alien worlds. Infantry school in 509 and assigned to the Regiment in reserve: whole thing together in one place at base, likely a couple of interventions. Riot school in 512. Five years in garrison on some planet with embassy-guarding, riot-control, hostage rescue, and anti-terrorist duties. Drop school in 517. Five years in MarDets on shipboard. Section Leader's Course in 522. Back into reserve. SOMETHING in 527. Back to garrison on another planet. Sergeant's course in 532, but no promotion: assigned to Survey as a MarDet leader. Every meal a banquet, every formation a parade. Rugby every Sunday. And the boots polish themselves.
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08-27-2013, 04:11 PM | #155 |
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I think I'd prefer the proposals and discussion to take place in a series of fresh posts that will flag the thread with new content and not get overlooked, but that this post be edited to keep up to date when significant changes are settled upon.
Your other suggestions look good to me. Particularly casting Jewel Staite.
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My model for promotion and superannuation of Imperial Servants is designed for normal conditions of continual naval activity and fleet expansion, so it isn't really ideal for the period between 495 and about 531 in the Imperial Navy. But I've hacked it a bit to reconstruct Captain Lowell's career. Lowell is 98 now, which means that he was born in 434 PDT. Things were entirely irregular in the Foundation then. There were hardly any safe habitats. He probably grew up in a re-fitted archaeological site in Mayflower's system, and joined a ship as an apprentice officer as soon as he could solve a problem that required ordinary differential equations. Say, about 15. He has no formal higher education, though he has had more than half a century in which to educate himself by reading and with an NAI pedagogue. Supposing that he made captain at the age of 49 that would make him an 'A' officer (on a curve on which the Ds weren't fired and Cs were typical). But it would also make the date 483. He gets seven more years of normal progress, which I figure is not enough to start getting him postings as commodore ("battleship" command with escorts). At this stage I figure that Lowell was on track to make full admiral before he was 100. Then the Wars grind to a halt: the Foundation can't get the parts for new ships and it can't raise technically-trained recruits to complete new crews. On the other hand, it stops losing commodores and rear admirals as battle casualties. The rate of advancement drops to half, so that by 495 Lowell is 61 and has just got his first senior-captain command. Then the Treaty of Luna. The Navy has access to the markets on high-tech worlds again, it could build ships and recruit crews — if the Imperial Council gave it money. Instead it retrenches: mothballs and decommissions ships, builds only a bunch of, essentially, harbor monitor and patrol boats. The officer corps gets retrenched, too. Merely "above average" officers are transferred to merchant service. The best war-fighting leaders of crews get mothballed in patrol boats and behind admiralty desks, and promotions come about only through superannuation of super-numerous superiors. Lowell is senior enough to command squadrons, but he finds himself with three stripes, commanding a gunboat and inspecting orbital works for signs that pirate ships might be being built in secret, etc., with rotations to the Office of Naval Plans and the Office of Naval Procurement. Even in these parlous circumstances, my model suggests that Lowell will make rear admiral about 429. He might either have been resisting promotion for the last five years or so in the hope of getting one last capital-ship command. Or he might have been recently promoted rear admiral and appointed Director of Compressor Procurement, and have accepted a demotion in order to get a survey ship command.
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And for Luke; is the Dean part of our fearless foursome or do you want to add another researcher for mucking around planetside? For purposes of providing contrasts and mutual foils here's how I see Rabin so far.
We may be the Social Science team but I suspect most of us should have some practical physical/outdoor abilities. With just 288 survey billets available and thousands and thousands of scientists itching for the chance to do real fieldwork, just being good at one specialty isn't enough. |
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To repeat my earlier question for the senior staff: how are you going to contrast with your reserved, professorial, fanatical Captain? |
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08-28-2013, 01:06 AM | #159 |
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Aviation School, perhaps. Ties to another PC are slightly different from grommets. I think that the big iron ring will do as grommets for the navy, marines, and diplomatic characters. The place where I want grommets for my plot hooks is on the explorers.
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