<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=188049.msg9092519#msg9092519">Quote from: Caela on 22-10-2013, 23:11:58</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I disagree a little bit. Military command needs to be thinking about "now" but overall everyone else needs to be thinking long-term...IMO. We're the last of the human race and need to think about long term survival as well as, "Shit get hte fuck away from the Cylons!"<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I think the difference here is IC vs OOC.  OOC you're absolutely right.  ICly, though, why would the military have that stuff?  Beyond "if, one day, the cylons attack and we're forced to flee with only a few ships then we'd better make sure we have some refineries."  Civilians provide that shit (and, in case its not clear, that's the Admiral's IC opinion as well for when it comes up.  We fight, they provide what we need to do so.)<br/><br/>Im not claiming IC thought is the better way, just trying to illuminate what I see as the two different angles.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=188049.msg9092506#msg9092506">Quote from: Caela on 22-10-2013, 23:09:09</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">You may be absolutely right. I am probably over-thinking it. And I wasn't really thinking of oxygen amounts so much as food...the oxygen thing just popped into my head while I was typing.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Well, yeah, but there's no such thing as "food".  Agroships provide two to support.  They make people like us more.  Presumably that's because they have better and more varied food, sure, but agroships provide moral, not food.