Post by grävling on Feb 13, 2017 13:34:09 GMT -5
I had a thought.
I think that the death of a crew member should be made more important, somehow. Here is my idea along those lines.
When a crewmember dies, asuming you can recover the body and it hasn't been eaten by Space Kraken, or something, you should have
a choice. You can detour to a planet owned by the faction of the dead crewmember and give them a decent burial there. (Or blast them into the sun? depends on what burial traditions the ST worlds have.) With a rousing speech about how excellent they were. This improves morale. Not as much as not getting your crew killed in the first place, but it does lots of good along those lines. But it takes time.
Or you can just space them. Morale does not improve. May get worse.
Or you can decide to give them a burial but take your time about it. Maybe you like keeping your schedule better. Maybe you lost crew from many different factions, and just getting to all the burial sites takes time. Maybe you need to bury some members from a faction that wants your head on a stick and finding something that is weak enough that you can just sneak in and bury them is hard. Maybe you tried to do that and got a huge diplomatic incident that took time to resolve. At any rate, delays in buring adversely effect morale.
Not as bad as 'give everybody except Faction X members a good burial. Just space those sub-humans, though'. At least among Faction X crew.
I think that the death of a crew member should be made more important, somehow. Here is my idea along those lines.
When a crewmember dies, asuming you can recover the body and it hasn't been eaten by Space Kraken, or something, you should have
a choice. You can detour to a planet owned by the faction of the dead crewmember and give them a decent burial there. (Or blast them into the sun? depends on what burial traditions the ST worlds have.) With a rousing speech about how excellent they were. This improves morale. Not as much as not getting your crew killed in the first place, but it does lots of good along those lines. But it takes time.
Or you can just space them. Morale does not improve. May get worse.
Or you can decide to give them a burial but take your time about it. Maybe you like keeping your schedule better. Maybe you lost crew from many different factions, and just getting to all the burial sites takes time. Maybe you need to bury some members from a faction that wants your head on a stick and finding something that is weak enough that you can just sneak in and bury them is hard. Maybe you tried to do that and got a huge diplomatic incident that took time to resolve. At any rate, delays in buring adversely effect morale.
Not as bad as 'give everybody except Faction X members a good burial. Just space those sub-humans, though'. At least among Faction X crew.
