02-20-2011, 10:39 PM | #21 | |
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Re: Mustangs and General Burgoyne's revenge
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What are the odds a character will die during initial generation? Y'know, just askin'... :)
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02-21-2011, 02:21 AM | #22 |
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Re: Mustangs and General Burgoyne's revenge
Shh! Do ye want ta get us sued?!
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02-21-2011, 03:23 AM | #23 |
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Re: Mustangs and General Burgoyne's revenge
Instead of the current up or out I assume it is possible to spend your career at a given rank if you are not qualified for a higher rank?
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02-21-2011, 04:12 AM | #24 | |
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Re: Mustangs and General Burgoyne's revenge
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Slow promotion is pervasive through the Imperial Service: careers as aid workers, intelligence analysts, or criminal investigators are even longer than careers as marines, but the hierarchies are no taller. In fact a detective with the Commission for Justice might start in the field at 21, a Probationary Investigator, and get promoted seven times (Investigator, Lieutenant, Inspector, Chief Inspector, Superintendent, Chief Superintendent, Assistant Commissioner) in 89 years. In fact I expect that a lot of people burn out in each career after fifteen to twenty years and get re-treaded as something else. Other employments don't offer the programmed variety of work that being a marine (other ranks) does. For that matter, things can't be all that different in most occupations in the colonies, either. Anti-agathic treatments aren't exclusively Imperial. It isn't really all that weird, or shouldn't be. My father got one promotion during WWII, but in his actual career he had none from when he hung up his shingle to when he retired fifty years later. Steve Jackson has been stuck in his dead-end job as president of his own company for thirty years.
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02-21-2011, 01:25 PM | #25 | |
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Re: Mustangs and General Burgoyne's revenge
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As for the officer training academies, having one in each sector, instead of one academy in the entire empir, why not have intake only every 3 years? Then instead of 26 students per one year, you have 78 students per 3 years. Another possibility is to have intake once every year, but with no set progression of curriculum. You stil have to take (and pass) all of the curriculum to graduate, but it' okay if you do year 3 first, then year 1 then year 2. Obviously that would be very different from how Western world contemporary institutons do things, but there's no reason I know of for why it couldn't be made to work. |
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02-21-2011, 05:48 PM | #26 |
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Re: Mustangs and General Burgoyne's revenge
Well, you'd certainly have people taking a ship to an adjacent sector rather than wait two or three years for a recruitment window. And no reason to prevent them. At that point, why not just have academies at only six or seven of the SHQs?
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02-21-2011, 06:37 PM | #27 | |
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03-08-2011, 07:48 PM | #28 | |
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Re: Mustangs and General Burgoyne's revenge
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I'm 'ere in a ticky ulster an' a broken billycock 'at, — Rudyard Kipling, Back to the Army Again
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