<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=148593.msg6735089#msg6735089">Quote from: mayovagn on 09-08-2012, 19:59:41</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I would volunteer Juliet, only I prefer to let these kinds of things happen in character and not arrange them beforehand. *Grins* This often backfires on me when I find everyone else has paired off and left me with nobody, yet my brain just won't let me do things any other way.<br/><br/><br/>Pope Juliet Franklin 1st of Mars... *Grins* Has a nice ring to it. Of course if my character takes after me and is Erisian, then she is automatically a POPE anyway...<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Don't worry, babe.<br/><br/>There are 13 player characters so far, plus one NPC (Depending on your definition of PC and NPC - As GM I'm not counting myself as a player.<br/><br/>If anyone finds themselves without a partner, then I am available to create as many NPCs as required to ensure everyone has a good time!<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">Deputy Mission Commander here with a few questions.<br/><br/>1. What are the plans to make the colony profitable? I mean, people have to get paid, and they will do research. </blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Export of minerals primarily. I think it's safe to assume that MarsCorp has done a P&L analysis on the viability of the colony based on data brought back by the three manned missions. So they know that the colony<em>can</em>make money for them in the long term or they wouldn't have launched it.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">2. What is the position of the council? What will it be doing?</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>The council is the governing body. Initially it will be more like the 15th Century English Parliament, a group of advisers to the Mission Commander. Over time its role will expand until it becomes the elected democratic government. At least, that's the plan.<br/><br/>Think in terms of Star Trek NG, where the moment a crisis occurs, Picard immediately calls a conference of the department heads to discuss how they can stop the shields from failing in the next five minutes...<br/><br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</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?</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>If you look, the head of each department is a council member. So, the members of each branch are responsible to their HoD, and the HoDs are responsible to the Council.<br/><br/>As for cross-department fraternisation, go for it. Cross department communication via normal communication methods is perfectly acceptable.<br/><br/>-----------------<br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">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.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>So far as I can tell, it depends on which flag the ship is registered under. On US registered ships the captain cannot perform weddings. On European ones, he can. But as you say, the whole point is moot, because ultimately the marriage will be made under Martian law, and will be whatever the couple require it to be.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Also, where do I sign up for the ménage a trois?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Depends on how many players we get... I wonder if you would be so quick if the surplus player was male?