Uh.... Yeah. damn, knew there was one I was missing. But still wondering if I should wait to post for a bit. (amazingly enough my muse has returned and I'm all caught up, so much so that anyone posting in one of my RPs gets an almost instant response... Which is virtually unknown for me!<br/><br/>I have to admit to being a little bit weirded out by the sudden change in mission. I guess it's realistic, but it took me by surprise.<br/><br/>Interesting to point out something though: While on board a ship (sea or space) an army officer has no rank whatever that actually matters. Sures he can order her own men to do whatever she wants, but even if she is a field marshal, she is under the orders of the ship's commanding officer, even if that commanding officer is a lowly sub-lieutenant (ensign).<br/><br/>For a naval officer, the safety of the ship and crew takes precedence over the mission of any passengers, unless ordered otherwise by  her own superior officer. Even then naval commanders are generally expected to use best judgement when acting alone. When on fleet manoeuvres, obviously that isn't the case.<br/><br/>So, the point is that, regardless of what casualties the infantry might take, the ship's captain is perfectly within his rights to order the colonel in charge of the regiment on board his ship to protect and secure the ship from any hostile boarding party.