Re: [FT] Crew Professionalism and Ship Quality

 Alan Brain remarked (concerning Alarish):
> > >Sounds a lot like the Republican side in the Spanish Civil
War.
> >
> > Oh, the Navy is organized.	So is the Army.
>
> Interesting Chain of Command though. Do the Radical Feminist
Collective
> insist on only following orders of a Female Admiral? Or when
in command,
> do they sacrifice the expendable males? Does everyone get a
vote on what
> orders to obey?

Yes, once--when you join up.  Each Alarishi culture has
different rules and social/political structures, and the Army
and the Navy are just another couple of cultures.  Adults are
generally free to move to a different culture, except when they
have contracturally committed themselves otherwise.  Some
cultures, of course, have very few people leave to join the
military, either because of philosophical problems (Poor
Claires) or because the culture is so small (Jack Old Ron,
population usually one although he sometimes has a concubine or
groupie for a few months).  The Radical Lesbian Collective,
which peaked in population at about 200 and is back down to 20
or so, has never had anyone join the Service--or at least not
that either the RLC or the Service has ever admitted.

> Then again, this could all be pure propaganda, misinformation
to cause
> an opponent to underestimate them <g>

The Alarishi pay a lot of attention to that.  But everything we
say is true.