On 5/6/25 09:33, David Johnson - piperfan at zarthani.net (via tml list)
wrote:
> Hi Alex.
>
> <snip>

> Yes, I think TAS is an obvious choice here, and agree that it would
> start with merchant starship (pilot, navigator, engineer, gunner,
> steward, medic, etc.) and other interstellar commerce credentials and,
> with time, also start producing standards for credentials for
> planet-bound skills like air/raft operator and robotics technician. . . .
>
> Also gives another benefit of TAS membership: members can get their
> own certifications for free.
>
Maybe not free _per se_, but certainly on some sort of non-profit
cost-recovery basis.  Cheap enough to make TAS membership (more)
worthwhile, but expensive enough to discourage grabbing them for the
hell of it.

In Third Imperial clients, TAS would be present as in the 3I proper.  In
the Solomani Confederation, would the equivalent organisation even
exist, let alone be called the TAS?  What about in that totalitarian
democracy with thought police?  And in the Vargr Extents?  Aslan
Hierate?  Third Empire of Gashikan?

How/if would TAS-equivalent organisations recognise _each other's_
credentials?

>>> <snip>
>>> Heh. You wouldn't be talking about a particular Archduke now, would you?
>>
>> Not when I wrote that.  Why would Isis have to worry about one?
>
> Didn't Norris (at least in the Rebellion setting) "manufacture" the
> Warrant which promoted him to Archduke?
>
Don't care.  Wrong timeline.

Alex
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