First a thankyou to the people who responded to my earlier questions
on system design, it was very helpful ........
What is the opinion of people about the command crew in Megatraveller
The book says (basically) 1 for every 6 crew . Now This has probably been
discussed before, but as I can no longer get access to the TML provided
by James Perkins, I dont know what the ending result was .
I think (as someone already pointed out, rob dean I think) that the
command crews are awfully bloated . I mean it really does not take
1 officer just to oversee the actions of 6 people . Another thing is, is
the command crew the officers . That is only command crew are the officers .
So according to the Imp Encyclopedia, The amount of officers is 1 (As in
one command personel) . Or is this the amount of officers on command duty ???
If we take a look at Star Trek the series (the old, not the new generation),
It is porbably the closest thing we have in modern film that ressembles the
navy . Now on the bridge we had Captain James T.Kirk (Commander of vessel),
Spock (Commander, Science/Computer Officer), Sulu (Lt Cmmdr (?) Pilot),
Chercov (Pilot or navigator, Lieutenant ?), Uhura (Lieut, Comm Officer) . Now
all of these people were officers, and all of them were bridge crew and
acted in Bridge areas . How does thios fit into MT ?
The old High Guard book said the average vessel had a commanding officer,
an executive officer, a pliot (officer) a navigator (an officer), a
Comm officer, oh another nav officer, a medical officer . It then goes on to
list officers needed for the other areas of the vessel such as engineering
and gunnery .
So we could have this as solution (By converting High Guard guidelines to
fit MT) .
Bridge : 75% Officers, 25% Ratings/NCOs
Engineering : 10% Officers, 20% NCO's, 70% Ratings
Gunnery : 10% Officers, 30% NCO's, 60% Ratings
Flight Crew : All pilots officers, all others are NCO's/Ratings
Ships Troops : Use military guidelines
Maintenance : Usually just NCOs'/Ratings
Medical : Not sure, I would say same proportions as the Bridge .
Stewards : Not sure, proably the same as gunnery .
To convert MT ships to this, I would simply divide the command personel
amongsnt the above 'duties' (but rationly) then work out officers as above
Officers probably would have their own staterooms (But small) .
What do people think about that ????????
Make sense etc .
BTW I would remove the maintenance section and stewards section and use the
old High Guard guidelines for service crew (ie 2 or 3 per 500 tons) .
Officers for service crew would be 5%, NCO's 20%, and ratings 75% .
If anyone has their own guidlines for this please, could you give me a copy ?
Edmund