----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Rogerson" steve.rogerson@mcr1.poptel.org.uk To: "Lysator" blakes7@lists.lysator.liu.se; "Freedom City" freedom-city@blakes-7.org Sent: 11 April 2001 0:40 Subject: [B7L] command question
A quick question for a story I'm writing. I've got a Federation officer
in charge
of three fighters with a small crew on each. What's the rank? I've used
"group
commander" for the time being, but I'm not sure that's right.
Space Commander would appear to be the appropriate rank. In "Duel", Space Commander Travis was in charge of three ships. He had (at least) two crewmembers on his ship; it's reasonable to deduce that there were at least two or three on the other two ships.
In "Hostage", the commander of the twenty-ship flotilla that attacked Liberator was also a Space Commander.
I never really liked the title "Space Commander." It always seemed a bit Flash Gordon-y (connotations of REALLY cheap and IMHO rubbish 50s sci-fi)
Wildean