Posted by Fleet Captain Jerome Davis (Presidential Candidate) in Questions for the Candidates - Unanswered Questions - Jerome

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10a. What would make you recognize that [ship cuts were] necessary?

General club health. However, I would first do all I could to save a ship before decomming her. You can’t have “fleet identity” without a fleet. Changing Command Staff, Posting Speed, and GMs are just a few of the options one has before cutting out a ship that has been part of club & fleet culture for 5, 10, 15 years or more. I would rather move a ship to the X-Fleet if I felt it might save the ship. Sometimes, sadly, you can’t. That said, I felt only a handful of the decomms in my club tenure were absolutely necessary and had I been in leadership… they’d still be around today.

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13a. Why is having this inroad so important to you? (context: X-Fleet -> Main Fleet progression route)

Because one doesn’t exist, if it did exist it would likely not cause a stitch of harm to the club, and in the event a ship did rise to the standards of a Main Fleet ship.. the Executive could move the ship to a Main Fleet with simply an Edict and coordination with TECH.

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The combination of these answers has me concerned. If you would have wanted to see more ships added to the Main Fleet and also seen fewed ships cut, wouldn’t that mean that we’d have a much more significant GM shortage? Would these approaches combined really not do a stitch of harm to the club?

Adam W.