Theisman, and Chin

Somtaaw wrote:She did get a rather prime posting though, La Martine was one of the few systems that was a net positive to the People's Republic. That made it a very prestigious positing because you're guarding one of the very few systems that genuinely believed in both working and Haven. It wasn't one of those systems that required extra fleet units to suppress unrest, Chin's fleet was there to protect the Golden Egg.

I don't think we can come to that conclusion.

A system that is net positive but contributes half a percent of your budget is not a golden egg. It could mean you haven't completely screwed it over just yet. We know this was a backwater sector, away from the war front. Given the fact that it's far from both Haven and Manticore, I don't see how it could be prosperous in the first place.

The fact that it didn't have anything that called for military engagement means it was not a prime military posting. That means Chin was doing nothing more than desk-jockeying and keeping her seat warm, in between bouts of filing unnecessary paperwork. She may have needed to keep everyone else from doing harm, including her commissioners, though.

More importantly for her, there's no career growth there, especially not in a war-time Navy. All the promotions will be based on accomplishments and her only accomplishment is that she was wise to realise that nothing needed doing (don't fix what's not broken). She would only get the automatic promotions for time in grade, assuming the PN had such a thing. Even if this is a prime sector, it's not a prime posting for her.

But she certainly didn't seem to be trusted with actively fighting Manticore again (directly) between her surrender in Hancock and StateSec being overthrown. Was that due to actual StateSec mistrust, or some part of her prisoner parole terms?

It could be parole.

ThinksMarkedly wrote:

But she certainly didn't seem to be trusted with actively fighting Manticore again (directly) between her surrender in Hancock and StateSec being overthrown. Was that due to actual StateSec mistrust, or some part of her prisoner parole terms?

It could be parole.

It's only parole if she were actually traded AFTER official declaration of war, and we don't really know how or when Chin got from Manticore POW camps back to Haven.

If she got traded prior to official declaration of war, she's technically not a parolee and therefore could probably still have served actively against Manticore. But StateSec distrusted her, like they did all active naval officers, so to their suspicious minds she lost (and surrendered rather than fighting to the death!) once, would she do so again now?

She was trusted enough to keep her life and even be promoted, a whopping one time in six years time. But she wasn't trusted enough to send back to the frontlines against Manticore. Trusted enough to be posted to La Martine, one of the few with a positive economy. But not trusted enough to be the Admiral for a fleet suppressing unrest or part of guarding Haven. Truly a marvel of StateSec's paranoia at work here.