This weekend, I was reminded of this article: http://jrients.blogspot.com/2012/08/star-frontiers-and-space-elitism.ht… /><br />The gist is that in SF, being a spacer means you are an Elite person, like an astronaut would be now, or in the '70s-- seriously well-trained, and probably really smart.<br /><br />I'm trying to think how that relates to some things that we've put up here about the CRM and SpaceFleet, and the like. We talked about UPF spacers, primarily the officers, being elite, with maybe the scum of several earths as crewpersons who are trusted to turn wrenches or push buttons, and that's it. Whereas the RM, and perhaps other space militias, since they are small, they are all well-trained and elite. I used to think that giving everyone in the CRM officer ranks, and rating the PCs as "midshipman" and not trainees, was silly, but now, not so much.<br /><br />Perhaps we should play up that getting a trainee/midshipman slot in any militia (or space academy) is pretty hard, and the Clarion RM consider themselves even more elite. And they have the track record to prove it!<br /><br />Anyway, those are my thoughts.
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