I suspect that this is simply another feed. Their other feeds such as cable channels and websites will still be available.

I watch the channel occasionally. Unfortunately the feed from my provider never matches the index, but it makes for great background noise.

It reminds me of that bit, something like "I can kill somebody in the middle of Times Square and never be convicted"?

"Most of them will spend 20+ years on a given ship, and will know every system intimately."

Interesting. The stories that some of these Warrant Officers could tell!

One of the reasons that officers are rotated in a modern military is so that no centers of power grow to where the troops are more loyal to a commander than to their government. Limiting the rank to WO's sort of gets around this problem. Supervisory authority, perhaps, but no command authority.

I wonder how large of a navy this could scale to?

I suspect it would be, "Damn the contracts, full speed ahead!"

"No. Because Disney would crack down on it."

Defying Dear Leader is one thing, crossing Disney is a whole 'nuther level.

qft

bah. mis-moderated. qft instead.

Heh.

My introduction to the theme was from Harlon Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream". It was a different time.

Information wants to be free.

I remember one of his more memorable books with Larry Niven, "Footfall".

While Heinlein introduced me to the effectiveness of throwing rocks at the Earth (The Moon is a Harsh Mistress), Footfall took it to another level with an alien vibe.

Wimpeynomics.