Civil Service

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(This page is for the organization named the "Civil Service".  If you are looking for information about the story by "Duke of Ramus", that can be found here.)

Confederacy Uniformed Service Civil Service

   The Civil Service (usually abbreviated to CS) is an all-officer corps of non-combatants.  It is the Confederacy's primary non-military organization and as such everything the Navy and Marine Corps don't want to deal with gets dumped on the nearest Civil Service Officer (usually abbreviated to CSO),  Its primary mission is the continuation of the human race away from the planet Earth.

History

   The Civil Service was an after-thought, a quick fix to the problem of un-attached concubines.  The original agreement required that volunteers be allowed to collect personal slaves when they were extracted but these slaves were regarded as property, not people.  As such if the volunteer later died then the Confederacy's AIs wanted to recycled the excess property as it was no longer needed and was consuming resources.
   This, once it was understood, was unacceptable to the humans who had volunteered.  The concubines may have been property but they were also in many cases they were also loved ones.  The volunteers still considered these concubines to be human, while the AIs considered them to be interchangeable animals.  Besides, who was going to take care of the orphaned children?
   The Civil Service was established to, first, establish a new 'owner' for these spare concubines, and second, to get some use from them to further the race, and finally, if possible, find them and their children a new home.  Unfortunately, many of the excess concubines had no job skills beyond those needed in bed, and every colony with excess concubines was forced to set up a brothel to keep the excess concubines busy and pregnant until they could find a new sponsor.
   Once the Civil Service existed, the Navy, Marine Corps, and Fleet Auxiliary quickly realized that ALL non-military headaches could be dumped on them, and the Civil Service rapidly became the general-services organization it is today.  The Civil Service manages towns, factories, and colonies as well as the brothels they were originally told to set up.

Establishment

   Staffing was envisioned with a 'small team' of Civil Service Officers in each colony with at least one officer per township but to date the Civil Service would count themselves lucky if they managed to get one official CSO per colony. As a result, many CSO's obtain additional staff by utilizing their concubines in a strictly unofficial capacity.
   The CSOs have a rank system equivalent to the combat services, but with Roman terms.  They use the same insignia as the Marines.  Their uniform is patterned after the Marine uniform but is grey (the standard grey of a Concubine shift, in fact) unless in a combat zone in which case they wear the same white skinsuit as the other services.
   For many colonies, the main point of contact with the Civil Service is the brothel.  This is where unattached concubines are put to use if they have no other useful skills.

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