SO Ens. Alexei Lisenov

[Alexei, Let's talk.]

Alexei listened as Trask talked about his plans for changing up the science departments, taking a drink of his juice as he half-listened. His ears were perked towards the Lieutenant, and he was nodding at appropriate intervals but his mind was spinning in two different directions. He'd overheard Sara talking to the CSO about tracking a signal, and with a problem to solve, his mind flicked that way. Setting his drink down on the table, he mimicked what he saw Sara do, putting his finger to the surface, about 10 cm away from the glass, and said "Can I have a PADD, please?"

He waited as the PADD shimmered into existence, listening as the lieutenant's explanation came to a close, while calling information about the disposition of their science department -- personnel, as well as materiel. If he was going to track down a signal, he'd need to triangulate it somehow. 'Might be able to narrow the field using ships in the area, then sending some probes out...' he thought to himself. Tapping a few more commands into the PADD, he began to work out approximate probe loadouts. He figured about three to get enough parallax to judge approximate location, then six to narrow the field. If he were really careful about programming them, he could even bring them back in. Zero net loss.

"So. What do you think?" The Lieutenant asked.

Alexei paused his work as he gave it some thought, biting his tongue in concentration. Deftly, he flicked a few commands into the tablet, quickly saving his work on the PADD. Then, he called the information down from the screens onto his PADD. "We're sitting at 65% capacity, right, sir?" he asked, running the calculations, "So, that's what, a thousanf to fifteen hundred science officers? We should be able to get away with just assigning personnel to specific labs. In theory, it would work. The 'normal' way is mostly for ships with around half a percent of the science crew that we've got. Even at 65% efficiency we've got the manpower to make your plan work, and honestly, I'm a bit surprised that your system hasn't already been implemented. That said..." he paused to take another drink of the juice, working the numbers in his head.

With a few taps, he cross-checked them on the PADD... They looked about right. "If I were in your position, sir, I would prefer to keep as much flexibility as I could." he tapped his PADD, calling up the numbers he'd just run, and flicked on the screen of his PADD towards one of the holo-screens. A pie chart appeared. "I would recommend assigning up to three-quarters of the available crew to the more-or-less permanent stations, and keep the rest on reserve as needed." He tapped the PADD again, changing the chart slightly, "That would still leave us with about three or four hundred to place where we need them." He paused, taking another drink from the glass, savoring the tang. "For the sub-departments, we'd focus on the people with heavy specializations in their respective fields, and work our ways down the list. Odds are, once we get down to the people with more general skillsets, they're mostly going to be good for filling assistant positions, anyway."

[OOC: So, some numbers. Average officer complement for a Buckingham-class station is around 20,000. Operating under the assumption that Valdivian is for both diplomacy and maintenance for ships in the area, it's going to be diplomat and operations-heavy, so I was anticipating that these two groups would make up 50-60% of the population on the station. Factoring in military presence, I was anticipating about 10-15% of the total population of the station to be science personnel. The Badlands is still of scientific interest, after all. That's about 2-3,000 total science officers alone, assuming that we're at 100% capacity. Even at 5% of the total officer population, we're still dealing with about 1000 science officers. That's quite a lot of people, and to do anything less than your reorganization would be a huge waste of energy. In fact, I don't know that you could operate it any other way. The biggest lectures I've been to at school have only been around 100-150 people. I have no idea how you'd brief the entire staff all at once.]

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SO Ens Alexei K'rorrovich Lisenov - Valdivian Station/USS Trinity
Player: Soren Alder
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