[FT] Crew Professionalism and Ship Quality

G'day all,

All this recent talk of using cards for Admirals has finally spurred me
on
to polishing off some more bits of Erratic Thrust (Piquetised FT), thus
I'd
like to hear your collective opinion on something (I can get a feeling
for
some of this from the FB etc, but I wanted to hear what you guys had to
say).

a) What do you think the relative professionalism of the crews are - is
the
NAC better than the ESU etc? Or are all the major powers about the same
and
the difference lies in the minor powers? Or is it UNSC the best then the
NAC followed by NSL/FSE, with ESU a little after them? And as for the
minor
powers are there some that are exceptionally professional, say NI, while
others are pretty poor, relatively speaking - say IF or PAU? Remember
this
is all relative so all the crews may well be top notch, just some are a
few
shades better than others (and its that few shades that's gonna count
come
the pointy end of a laser time)

b) What do you think the relative qualities of the actual ships are -
for
this I mean two things
- 1st is one navies going to be consistently better reliabailty wise
than
anothers (e.g. UNSC's are breath-taking whereas you can hear the rivets
rattle in those of the ESU)?
- 2nd would particular classes, may be the very old or the very new, be
more unreliable than others? Maybe the Suffren, say, is really reliable
that's why its lasted in service for so long, but the Jeanne d'Arc ain't
so
good and that's why they lost two inthe 'ambush'.

Thanks

Beth

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Elizabeth Fulton
c/o CSIRO Division of Marine Research
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email: beth.fulton@marine.csiro.au