>Anyway, I'm not going to comment on this one way or another, except to
>ask you to consider the following: The IPO Space Force has, at the
>time of Roses in Springtime, only two ships. What, then, would
>it need another captain for?
>
>--G.

1: Paperwork. What, no vast bureaucracy? No "Pentagon"?

2: Cold storage. As we say in software, "You never know when somebody's going to get run over by a truck."

3: Decoy. So long as the Admiral is ordering the second captain around, the ship's skipper can do his job unmolested for a change.

--rR