<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=148593.msg6735139#msg6735139">Quote from: Prince Truhan on 09-08-2012, 20:09:06</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">1. What are the plans to make the colony profitable? I mean, people have to get paid, and they will do research. <br/><br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>This is just my own take, and based a bit on what was said in the recruitment thread...<br/><br/>From my understanding, it's something like the military pay system. You get paid regardless and is more like a salary than an hourly work effort. If I recall the post in the recruitment thread, colony members accrue half pay, which is kept in an interest bearing account and half goes to pay off a portion of the mission cost. That credit will, in turn go to the purchase of items when the colony begins to either produce it's own commodities for the conoly,  or when it comes possible to "order" things from Earth, Luna or other locations. Part of the lost 50% helps in shipping cost, even if it might be 18 months to 2 years to get said items.<br/><br/>At the moment, there isn't anything to buy, so there is no money or pay need. Basically, you get food and housing and get to work in a nifty cool place like Mars... you get a big paycheck later. The "profitability" part of the colony comes from, I would think, rare or difficult to get materials on Eart or Luna (or just cheaper to lift from Mars and shoot home), advances in research and/or development (Probably the most lucrative income area) and from whatever the colony can produce and export. The company would likely get at least a portion of this income as the shipping body. Profit will not be immediate, but probably a long term concept.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=148593.msg6735139#msg6735139">Quote from: Prince Truhan on 09-08-2012, 20:09:06</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><br/>2. What is the position of the council? What will it be doing?<br/><br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Taking power away from the XO so that they can set up their own government and be independent from Earth and it's oppressive overloards, Mar's Corp! Long Live the Revelotion!! ;)<br/><br/>Probably dealing with things that are too minor for the CO or XO, meaning day to day administration stuff... forming committees to deal with cockroaches, hearings and trials for trials, care of the colony's eventual economy and setting policies... much like the government of any country would do under it's president or ruler.<br/><br/>]<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=148593.msg6735139#msg6735139">Quote from: Prince Truhan on 09-08-2012, 20:09:06</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">3. I saw that a chain of command of sorts was posted, how do the different branches interact?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I would think (Again, my thoughts here), it would work much like any joint command structure. the CO gives orders to the XO, the XO gives orders to the officers (Department heads) and they give orders to the pee-on's... which we have none yet... The individual branches are immaterial in a military structure, but involving the civilian portion may be a little more tricky. I sort of view this as a provisional government with overall yay or nay in the hands of the CO, but below that, it's basically whatever is good for the colony... beyond that, I have no idea.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=148593.msg6735139#msg6735139">Quote from: Prince Truhan on 09-08-2012, 20:09:06</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><br/>-----------------<br/>As far as marriages go, my understanding was that captain's aren't granted any special powers to marry people, it is the people believing that they have the authority to marry, (and consequently believing they are married to one another) that makes the marriage to be considered valid. I also think the navy of the US and the UK expressly forbid their captains. <br/><br/>That isn't important really since we are set in the future anything can happen, my point was that if marriages are needed any person the future-weds choose could perform it.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote from: Prince Truhan link=topic=148593.msg6735139#msg6735139 [/quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_alternate_quote"><br/>Technically and partially correct. It does require more than simply being a ship's captian. Said captain has to be certified to operate/command a vessel of a certain size (Menaing that you cannot marry sommeone if you are captain of the rowboat tied to the pier). And, the captain has to be in international waters. In the military, it's why they have chaplins on ships, the captain cannot marry couples due more in the fact that marriages in the military cannot be between people in the same unit than being the captain of a ship... The liscensed captain of a cruise ship, a freighter or a yatch can, legally perform a marriage in the same ways that a magistrate, justice or c;ergy can... the state or law has granted them said power. "And by the power vested in me by the state of Georgia... I pronounce you.. blah, blah, blah."<br/><br/>I would, however point out the few marriages conducted in Star Trek (Both TOS and TNG) and that they could officiate such unions. As "governor" of the colony, our dear CO could probably do the same in the absence of a chaplin, or it could simply be a witnessed contract between people for either a lifetime, or a set duration... as is often mentioned in many near future fiction novels... I kind of like this last idea.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>