With Voshkod's Levarge on haitus, Tulp under a cloud from the Hainan Star incident, Rednan's Frans Truman wanting to play another character or be a cabinet minister (which will likely lead to him resigning his commission), that only leaves Busco's Major McGrath and Cestius' Major Braxton [Ret.] having any association with the military, which is a bit on the low side, considering that both of them are too low to be plausibly promoted to flag rank to run a service.
Therefore, I have a suggestion. We used to have special thread, where things could go on that didn't interact with other threads, and players were excused, in that thread, from following the one character per player rule. That was the Football League, (which is still in existence, just not being RP'ed). Could we do something similar with the Military? Two possible approaches:
I didn't put it as a content suggestion, because it is clearly a rules issue first, content would be fleshed out later, but only if the concept were acceptable.
Therefore, I have a suggestion. We used to have special thread, where things could go on that didn't interact with other threads, and players were excused, in that thread, from following the one character per player rule. That was the Football League, (which is still in existence, just not being RP'ed). Could we do something similar with the Military? Two possible approaches:
- Have a military academy/war college thread where people could begin RP'ing a military character, bringing them up through the ranks, and eventually retire their current character and being playing the military character, which would then be at a level to be a possible chief of service. This is most similar the AFLE exception, as there would be no outside posts by these larval characters-to-be.
- Have appropriate military threads, in which only military characters, mods, and the civilian chain of command (President and MDIS) can post, allowing civilians (other than the President and MDIS, whose military characters would be in stasis or overseas attending some foriegn war college while the civilian character held those posts) to run a military character in addition to their normal character. A secondary military character (if the player was running another character as well) would not be able to post in any non-military thread, and thus would effectively be unable to stage a coup. This version is a bit of a stretch, and I could see how it would be hard to monitor, but I wanted to suggest it as it would permit more military activity sooner.
I didn't put it as a content suggestion, because it is clearly a rules issue first, content would be fleshed out later, but only if the concept were acceptable.
