MP rejects, the Dirty Dozens

[mmartin798]

The Frozen Watch:

Not good enough to make a team, just crazy enough to survive.

Might make a good slogan.

[ArmySGT.]

Originally Posted by mmartin798

The Frozen Watch:

Not good enough to make a team, just crazy enough to survive.

Might make a good slogan.

Frozen Watch.

When you care to send the very second best.

[cosmicfish]

Originally Posted by ArmySGT.

Frozen Watch.

When you care to send the very second best.

I always thought of the Frozen Watch as simply being the result of recruiting past the time when all the teams were really finalized. Regardless, I could see having some "break glass in case of emergency" teams that were behind the cause but too unstable to trust to normal operations, as well as some kind of Morrow Prison where "bad people" who knew about the Project could be kept.

[ArmySGT.]

My opinion of the Frozen Wath.

They are the top 1% of a given class. The very talented but, generalists of their Branch.

Take Science. Someone who is a BS is a field like Biology or Botany and yet excelled at the weapons, field craft, and driving MPVs. One, who gets along well with groups and doesn't need a rigid team structure or much direct supervision.

Say a former National Park Service field biologist.

[cosmicfish]

Originally Posted by ArmySGT.

My opinion of the Frozen Wath.

They are the top 1% of a given class. The very talented but, generalists of their Branch.

If they are that good, I don't want them sitting in a bunker waiting for someone to need them, the place for top-tier generalists is on the front lines. Why do I need to wait for my lesser guys to die before I roll out my best?

[mmartin798]

I agree the brightest and best should be on the front line, but not always. My original tongue in cheek response did hold some truth for my view of Frozen Watch. They are good and competent, just not a good choice for the first wave.

An archtype for this is Dr. Nicholas Rush from Stargate Universe. Brilliant man, incredibly resourceful, but not exactly a team player or consensus builder. There is a use in the Project for such a man, but I don't want survivors assuming he is typical of what we bring to the table. So we keep him in reserve to bring out later or if we start to run out of options through attrition.

[cosmicfish]

Originally Posted by mmartin798

I agree the brightest and best should be on the front line, but not always. My original tongue in cheek response did hold some truth for my view of Frozen Watch. They are good and competent, just not a good choice for the first wave.

They should be good and competent, but if they are exceptional in any way then every effort should be made to make their exceptional-ness available for use from day 1. Perhaps that is on a field team, perhaps they are in a facility somewhere on call, but if they are exceptional then you cannot afford to stick them in a hole.