OH BOYOh, and by the by, I just rolled the events up for ka'Sharren.
Can you explain why you feel that Choss is?
Oh, and by the by, I just rolled the events up for ka'Sharren.
Well, it's important to keep in mind that our characters are more than just the stats at the end of their bio. Something seems off about Sousa, in that she's clearly a politicker with that sort of PoliWill bonus, and she was close to getting our position in the past. The fact she's basically giving you a binary choice -- hire me or I retire, despite being younger than our other two candidates, speaks to some level of political arm-twisting. I get the feeling if we put her in charge of the Shipyards, she's going to eventually become a problem and gun for our post. This is in addition to the fact she is indeed the second human a human has appointed to a senior position. That's ample leverage for the council to suddenly get antsy and possibly force a candidate upon us.
Both her having worked so hard to land this job and her retiring if not chosen is 100% explained by her CURRENTLY NOT HAVING A JOB, and this quite probably being the only job she is both qualified for and not way overranked for opening up in what might be easily a decade or more. And if we pick Choss she doesn't even have the option to accept an effective demotion and try to fill the opening at the San Francisco Fleet Yards (which she is probably qualified for, but who likes a demotion, and no one is picking the vote that would give her that option anyway). There is no reason to expect her to be qualified for Tactical or Operations, nor does she have a reason to think we'd pick her then whenever the current holders end up retiring. There isn't even any indication that her otherwise retiring is something she says rather than what everyone suspects she'd do because that's what they'd do in her place, I certainly would retire in that situation and try to find something else to do.
Is that 100% known or are you speculating?
If the "political will" mechanic doesn't even express political will why would it be named for that? It should be called "mandate" or something like that instead. I can't think of a single thing better fitting a mechanic called "political will" than representing resentment over perceived racist appointments.
Well I don't know entirely what's happening in Oneiros' head, but I'm working on the assumption there could be narrative consequences separate from mechanics for taking certain courses of action.
Didn't notice that before. Probably just that she can't be on indefinite sabbatical because starfleet regulations don't allow for that and doesn't currently have a job.
Of course there are (like appointing an Andorian ambassador to the Amarki because an Andorian captain had such a positive impact with them), but that should be for consequences that are either not representable by existing mechanics or things that we wouldn't know in character. Neither of those applies here.
Oh, she accidentally something...
"Captain, what did I just say about hollow ice planetoids?!"
To be honest, I hear this more than you'd think
No, she'd give us straight up 2/3rds of that as a one-time bonus and then 1/6th of that yearly.
