Having been charged with creating a military structure and blueprint to follow in the decades to come, Thule-Omicron 55 went to work drafting up what would be needed, what wouldn't, and which problems and questions had to be overcome and asked.
Unfortunately for all involved, the above sentence could be answered by her with: Guns, luxury, Psykana Experiments, and what the military was asked to do.
Or, in even simpler terms, you didn't build a military based on feelings but on what you needed it to do. Will the legions of the Star Child conquer the galaxy in its name to present a united nation to it after they are born? Will the military be tasked with covert infiltration and strike missions to take out strategic targets and support saboteurs and seeded revolutions? Or will there only be a navy, and if yes, what tasks are demanded of them?
Questions nobody could quite answer beyond: "Well, someone blew up a planet, so..." In her opinion, the best thing to do for now would be to organize the military to take care of the Psykana Experiments in two or three decades after a solid core of soldiers were trained and equipped with actual quality-build equipment and weaponry, with any further changes on hold until she got actionable intelligence about the situation and the threats the followers of the Star Child would face.
And ultimately, she chooses to:
[] Create a Force-Projection Military
Large military formations intended to put boots on stations and planets and then duke it out with the fuckers on the other side of one's weapon. A blunt hammer and anvil, able to march and fight without issues for months.
[] Create a Strike-Group Based Military
Small purpose-built formations specialized and able to perform valuable strike missions and support fifth column efforts initiated by the nation. A knife in the back, a hidden bomb, and a crate of munitions at the right time in the wrong place make all the difference between defeat and victory.
In contrast to Thule-Omicron 55's efforts to create a military with no information on what it would need to accomplish, the enlargened Civilian Administration had to contend with the overarching fact that the station's economy required to turn over from slaves bartering to free people trading, all without a good idea on what would actually work and what needed to be done.
Usually, a Labor Leader got the food required for the upkeep of their Work Unit delivered by the Dark Priests if they met the quota, with punishments applied if they didn't, and were then generally expected to hand out the food on a mostly fair basis. However, more than some dipped the scales for some on one end or the other depending on favors owed or demands met. All other trading usually occurred by bartering items created in what little "down-time" was left, usually medicine and clothes, with wealth measured in direct ownership of valuable resources.
Though there was a debate about whether the system shouldn't simply be continued, just fairer in the distribution of food, there were arguments about the need to create a wealth token, backed by pegging one token to one meal and ration of water, to ensure that trading beyond the station could be done once they found somebody to trade with. Or perhaps not? Something else?
What then?
[] Continue the old system.
Bartering held for so long, it will hold for another six-thousand years.
[] Wealth Tokens
One token for one meal and water ration. People will adapt its worth on their own. Probably.
[] (Write-In)
Another solution, perhaps?
(Keep it simple. These people are barter-level economists. You go fancy, I go veto.)
