SE4 by Committee

[Suicide Junkie]

Originally posted by Captain Kwok:
I'll sign up for Naming minister.

If you can think of a better name than "Naming" minister, you're in

Signups:
#1: Geo. (General/Colony Ship Captain)
#2: Arkcon. (Science Minister)
#3: Matryx (General)
#4: Dead meat (Defense Minister)
#5: LazarusLong (Colonization Minister)
#6: TerranC (R&D Minister)
#7: Lemmy (General/Simulation Minister)
#8: Tesco Samoa (General)
#9: Dan C (Transportation Minister)
#10: Skulky (Construction Minister)
#11: Askan Nightbringer (Senator)
#12: Sabaoth (System Lord/Local Governor)
#13: Krsqk (Finance Minister)
#14: Ragnarok (Political Minister/Ambassador)
#15: Puke (Local Governor)
#16: Captain Kwok ("Naming" Minister)
#17: Will (Senator)

Minister jobs:
- Individual planets: small ones seem popular with RPers and those with little time to spend in the spotlight. Manages ships in orbit.
- System lords: Rules all planets in a system that have no individual ministers. Manages ships making intra-system journeys.
(Taken) Political: One overall, or possibly one Minister for each race as an Ambassador.
(Taken) Finance: Watches over the budget and expenditures.
(Taken) Defense: Manages the overall inter-system distribution of warships.
- Economic: Manages resource generation, and general facility construction.
(Taken) Transportation: Manages the overall non-military shipping and travel arrangements.
(Taken) Colonization: Organizes colonization efforts.
Covered by Transportation if nobody claims the job.
(Taken) Science: Manages research projects.
(Taken) R&D: Designs ships.
- Covert Ops: Manages intel once researched.
(Taken) Construction: Decides locations to build at, and negotiates with local ministers.
(Taken) Naming Minister: Renames planets, ships, Design Classes.

[ December 18, 2002, 23:09: Message edited by: Suicide Junkie ]

[David E. Gervais]

..Intergalatic Designation Minister.. Been there done that and as a result I love the new show "John Doe"

P.S. SJ, this thread is seeing as much action as my Avatar thread in it's hey day! It's great to be popular Eh?

[ December 18, 2002, 23:53: Message edited by: David Gervais ]

[geoschmo]

"Minister of Nomenclature" ?

[Suicide Junkie]

Yes, it is nice to be popular

Geo:
Nice work, now I can build your office.

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Geo:
Nice work, now I can build your office.

What? I didn't want the job. I just was throwing that out there.

[geoschmo]

Hey SJ. Are you going to allow a System Lord to decide he wants to stage a little revolt if he wants. I could see one from a major system getting uppity and building some ships of his own. Might require some of the regular navy to show up and put the revolt down. Of course combat would be problematic. Maybe you could estimate it in the simulator or something.

Geoschmo

[Suicide Junkie]

What? I didn't want the job. I just was throwing that out there.

Hey, oops. Ah, well. Kwok's got the job anyways. He's just got a little more pressure to come up with good names now

Geo:
Good question. A system lord could start voting against moving ships out, and try to collect a navy...
He would probably have to have a rebel General in the fleet or be personally present in order to block the senate's orders from the ships... The senate would be able to vote him out of office, but he should retain some command over the immediate ships.
Perhaps once loyalist ships or a senator enters the sector, the rebel would be removed and control returned to normal ... so the rebellion could withhold ships from a war effort by playing cat-and-mouse for a few months, or go off and attack on his own for a while.
This is worth a vote.