11-13-2019, 10:51 AM
I'll give an example: In the US, the President is Commander-in-Chief, though many times the CiC comes from a civilian rather than military background. That isn't an issue though (current administration notwithstanding) because the CiC is briefed and has a cool head and a set of advisors to help decide if what's being proposed by the Generals is reasonable or not. Another example, Imki became Minister of Military Affairs in TSP in June 2016 despite no prior R/D experience. Still, she was able to effectively perform at the job because she learned what she needed to do and was able to make informed decisions. So I don't see why civilian, non-military oversight of the military is ipso facto a problem, and in particular with the recent amemdment that makes the Delegate a non-political office, Delegate oversight is quite a clever solution.
To address Chimp's concern: Ever since TSP adopted the non-political Delegate system in 2016, Delegates have by an large all been trusted members of the community that were either never military gameplayers or had retired from military gameplay long before. Now, in TSP a group of clever gameplayers could still try to subvert the electoral process and push a plant to the Delegacy but that isn't even possible here in Lazarus, because the Delegate is selected by a line of succession. Given the people I think of as current or future Delegates (Tubbs, NR, Imaginary), all of them are so Laz-first that none of them would even consider allowing Lazarus to be swayed by malign actors from either the raider, defender, or imperialist camp. If we ever have to seriously consider recalling a Delegate because of R/D alignment, we would have much deeper problems at that point already.
To address Chimp's concern: Ever since TSP adopted the non-political Delegate system in 2016, Delegates have by an large all been trusted members of the community that were either never military gameplayers or had retired from military gameplay long before. Now, in TSP a group of clever gameplayers could still try to subvert the electoral process and push a plant to the Delegacy but that isn't even possible here in Lazarus, because the Delegate is selected by a line of succession. Given the people I think of as current or future Delegates (Tubbs, NR, Imaginary), all of them are so Laz-first that none of them would even consider allowing Lazarus to be swayed by malign actors from either the raider, defender, or imperialist camp. If we ever have to seriously consider recalling a Delegate because of R/D alignment, we would have much deeper problems at that point already.