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The Imperial marines are doing work that can easily be portrayed as essential, noble, and heroic. The need is dire for someone to do something about the propensity of colonials to bomb and shoot one another and chop people up with machetes. I like to think that I would join if I could, though perhaps I'm flattering myself. And with only 9,000 new recruits per year out of a population of 815 billion not very many people do volunteer. Finally, in a universe where a lot of people can't afford anagathic treatments 87.5% of marines live to eighty: and they are still middle-aged and vigorous when they get there. In a universe where most people can't afford interstellar travel, a marine will visit about sixty foreign worlds in the course of his career. Quote:
That's part of the reason why my working model has colonies with development equivalent to TL5 to TL7 producing twice as many marines recruits per head of population as colonies in the TL10 (advanced) Suite.
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On the third, _Oliver Twist II: Please Sir, Can I Have Some More Combat Drones?_ would probably be worth watching ... from a distance. |
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Right, I've done a bit of thinking about some of the questions that people asked earlier in the thread. I'm ready to do some Fermi estimates.
There are about 1,000 inhabited planets. 375 of those are new worlds settled in the last fifty years, and seldom need interventions. About 25–50 are either bizarre utopias that don't have serious conflict or too strong for the Empire to intervene on, or both. That leaves us looking at about 600 planets about as well-run as post-colonial Africa. The 22 countries of sub-Saharan African have had among them about forty wars in fifty years, which comes to about 3.5% starting a war in any given year. That means the Empire doing about 21 interventions per year, or roughly one per sector per year. A given regiment spends 5 years in sector reserve at a time, during which there are about five interventions to perform. Divided among the three regiments that is 1.6 interventions per regiment per rotation. Figure interventions for an average of 45 dies (Earth days) of offensive operations followed by an average of two years of occupation Units supposedly in the Sector reserve in fact spend 2/3 of their time in occupation/peacekeeping duties. At any time, Imperial marines are conducting offensive operations in an intervention on 2.6 worlds, at the direction of the Senate. At any time, Imperial marines are conducting peace-keeping duties on 42 planets. And that is besides Fleet Protection duties, Residence Guard duties, an ad hoc work in hostage rescue, counter-terrorism, and disaster relief. More marines are needed urgently. The Imperial Council requests an on-going authorisation from the Senate to commission five new regiments per year for the next ten years.
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I have revised the details of marines training, and I am posting notes on the new scheme here for reference. The main change is that initial training is now two years. A typical marine's career now begins like this:
That's Imperial Marines initial training. 96 weeks of training spread over at least two years, and composed of
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What happens to trainees who are accidentally injured and can't proceed with training? Ditto for ones who become psychological casualties?
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Where possible they are repaired, rehabilitated, and returned to training at the beginning of the school not completed owing to injury, with a later echelon.
Where that is not possible even to TL10 surgery and psychiatry (as, for example, when a psychological casualty for understandable philosophical reasons declines neuronal psychosurgery) the casualty may be suitable for some other work with the Imperial Service, in which case re-assignment and re-training are offered. The Marines training drop-out might become a police officer or emergency repair worker in an Imperial habitat, or customs & security at a spaceport, corporal-at-arms on a passenger liner, a construction foreman in one of the assistance services, engineer, architect, doctor…. If he or she isn't suitable for any other work in the Service, or declines it, he or she may be offered re-training in some profession or trade and his or her choice of either a return to his or her homeworld or free migration to one of the Empire's new worlds. In case of permanent loss or diminution of the capability to earn a living a cash compensation payment or a disability pension might be provided. And if the worst came to the worst I suppose that some sort of life in care in a nursing home in an Imperial habitat would be the only possibility. They don't scoop your brain out and replace it with a bioroid one except in colonial movies.
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That was pretty much what I expected, but with such a comprehensive description, it seemed worth including.
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A certain proportion of the fellows recruited for Marines training don't end up becoming marines. In the above I gave the figure as about 15%. I don't think it would actually need to be that many, but this figure is an effective tranquiliser for those players who balk at my suggestion that psychology, or at least neuropsychology, might one day be highly accurate in measuring dispositions and predicting broad developments. Anyway, there are certainly some. What happens to them?
A few doubtless do not develop as required under training, perhaps because of inaccuracies in assessment, perhaps because or uncontrolled influences in the training, perhaps because of chance coincidence of elements of both nature and nurture, perhaps because their prediction included a significant chance of washing out counterbalanced by a chance of making an outstanding marine, perhaps because recruits' awareness of a chance of washing out of training is an important component of the necessary environment and some poor suckers are recruited just so that a few can be seen to flunk it. These guys are either going to be offered training for other work or sent home. Some are no doubt killed in training accidents. On one hand TL10 and medics on hand means it takes a lot to be actually lethal. On the other hand, training in vacuum. Fatalities in training in SASR have been 40 in 55 years out of an establishment of about 400, or 0.2% per year. Let's say 0.5% of intake are killed in training accidents. About three intakes out of four lose a member to a training accident. A Sector training establishment with six intakes in various schools at any time gets 4.5 fatalities per year in training accidents. And initial training is about just as dangerous as active service. That seems about right. Perhaps three are wounded and do not return for each one killed. 1.5%. We're still only up to 2%. Perhaps 5% develop the feeling that the pit yawns too wide and their halos fit to tightly, and resign. Perhaps as many do not satisfy the assessors and get scrubbed. Such people may be found in jobs such as spaceport and liner security, police and emergency workers in IDJ and on new worlds under Imperial interim administration, etc. That's a total of 12%. What happens to the other 3%? Well, they just vanish during one of the periods of furlough: usually after Commando School or Integration Training, but sometimes between Drop School and the Divisional Replacement Depot. Vanish without a word, and nothing is said by the instructors. Four or five out of each intake. Very occasionally a marine will bump into one of these guys. But whereas the drop-outs and casualties fall on one's neck with glad cries of Brother! Brother! and want to spend an evening reliving the days when they were marines, these guys are polite and a bit distant, as though they were slightly embarrassed. And they always turn out to be doing something trivial, often not in the Service at all: art appraisers, security consultants, insurance claims adjusters for colonial brokerages, or journalists even. Everyone pretty much decides that this is not the sort of thing that you talk about. 3% of marines recruits. About 300 fellows per annum. Perhaps 12,000 throughout the Empire if they serve as long as marines. Excellent military aptitude. Trained as commandos and sometimes as drop troops. Either they were ring-ins from the start, recruited for something else unknown perhaps even to them, and given commando training for some other employment. Or else marines training happens to turn a few percent of marines recruits into something that someone wants for some other reason. Best not to talk about it. Does that seem right? Or are half of Marines officers recruited out of the enlisted training program?
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