On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 2:51 AM, Doug Grimes <damage169@gmail.com> wrote:

"Nonsense, my good chap. Of course one can't simply borrow a marine platoon. No, no, no. I am merely passing on to the good captain here a request by the newly formed system government for his troops to perform a series of integration and public relations training exercises with their new militia. The new system government is a good supporter of the Imperial Navy and Marine Corps, after all. Eh, what?"

Very nice.

But in this specific case, a system government did not yet exist. The security was being sought for the Constitutional Convention aimed at creating said government. So the PC noble was asking for Marines to be placed at his personal disposal. Tactical command remained with the Marine lieutenant who was placed in charge of the platoon by the ship's Marine commander. The PC noble could tell his "borrowed" Marines what should be done, but not how to do it.

Richard Aiken

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