No, I was just looking for a satisfactory explanation.  Too many times people come onto Sci-Fi RPs with characters that have a variety of skills (the space cowboy syndrome Red mentioned) and this is only compounded by the fact Adult RPs tend to have much younger characters (would<em>you</em>like to bed a geezer?).  So we wind up with inexplicably young characters with multiple skills, most, if not all, of which take a lifetime of training and experience to learn.<br/><br/>You can see why a 34-year-old Admiral who started off as Army, and was also one of the best engineers in the Navy, sent some red flags up in my mind.<br/><br/>But, now that we've established that his race has superior learning capabilities, I'm satisfied.  ^^<br/><br/>EDIT: Er, whoops.  Didn't know additional posts had been made.  On a personal note, though, it was a constructive argument, not heated at all.  O_o