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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [QB] [QUOTE]I was speculating that if each of the ship's departments were not connected, they'd have to be maintained by crews of people and those crews would need department heads and those heads would report to the XO who reports to the Captain and by the time the Captain gets word, the situation could have changed so the process starts all over endlessly.[/QUOTE]I'm just not seeing the problem. No matter what, the ship is going to have a crew working in the various departments maintaining, controlling, and reporting. Having a wide-area network connecting all of the ship's systems isn't going to change that. You may have to add a network engineer to each department, but communications is still going to have receiver repairmen, intercom operators, etc., and engineering is still going to have structural engineers, mechanical engineers, power engineers, etc. A ship as large as [i]Galactica[/i] is going to have a large crew regardless of whether all the systems are interconnected or not. [QUOTE]As opposed to just having the Captain glance at a status report on a monitor.[/QUOTE]But, this is similar to what we saw happen on the [i]Galactica[/i]. There's a damage control station in the command center, and it was getting input from internal sensors and crew reports. Tigh, Tyrol, and another officer were directing the efforts from that station. Not too mention, a lot of the ship's systems were directly accessible from the command center. Dualla appeared to be the communications officer or representative, and she seemed to be on the ball with forwarding messages to Adama. Gaeta appeared to be in charge of navigation. The ship's systems not being interconnected didn't seem to be a problem because all could directed from the command center. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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