Intergalactic Summit

If your crew can't sort out their problems amongst themselves outside their jobs like adults I suggest that you just fire them.

Put down a rule that nobody is allowed to take their personal baggage onto the ship and to sort their problems out on the dry dock.

Also, hiring a counselor is in-fashion these days. You might want to consider hiring one or two as members of your staff.

I've never run into this problem. My crew knows full well that I am a Capsuleer, and if their personal problems cause issues with my ship, production lines, research, or wallet, I can end their lives in many unpleasant ways with absolutely zero consequences. Aside from that teenie, tiny, little stipulation, it's free game in the love department.

I generally tell my crew that if they cause issues, I'm going to transfer them to one of Jarna Civire's ships. That seems to work.

As far as rules, though... mostly the same sort of things others have mentioned: No fraternizing within the same direct chain of command, no activities that would compromise the ship's functions, etc. No PDAs on-duty or in public areas of the ship when off-duty. No co-habitation unless they're married or in some other equivalent legal status (polyamorous marriages are fine, I don't care how many of them are married to one another, just don't let it screw with the ship's function).

A Tengu is operated by more than three persons. On-dock a capsuleer, even a Freelancer, has even more staff. Ever consider that?

Like most respondents, I try to employ adults. All prospective employees undergo extensive psychological testing, as I'm sure is the case with most fellow pilots.

This means we can all understand a contract, and behave appropriately. On duty, staff are expected to be professional in all events. Off duty, it's none of my business. In fact, I'm all in favour of personal relationships being formed, romantic or platonic, because people work harder to protect those they love. It's also a sad fact of life in the war zone that no matter how careful I am, we will lose people. How can I begrudge my brave men and women the comforts of human love, or that last night of mad lovemaking before an engagement, never knowing if the next moment is to be their last? Make merry, for tomorrow we die.

Amazingly, I find myself in agreement with Commander Kim - any such act as offlining on active service is mutiny, and punishable by death as per the Uniform Code of Military Justice. We are Irregular forces for the Federal Defence Union, and all crew must sign the articles of war as if they were in the Navy. However, as noted earlier, appropriate screening and clarity of contract means we've never had such an incident, and I feel some sympathy for Captain Rain6637. I'm sure many people here can offer recommendations to her for excellent combat evaluators.

Finally, we also have two counsellors on board, and a multidisciplinary psych team (which includes a shaman for any Minmatar staff, and a skilled dominatrix for crew that simply need to be told to get a grip) available over secure transmission channels.

The penalty for members of my all-slave crew for this offense: torture and execution. Amen. Amarr Victor.

Well. There's that solution but it has a couple shortfalls. I only have so many clones and earmarking one for morale is a bit much. Also in the case of my crew, the involved are all male, as is the majority on board. And I don't think they'd be into my kind anyway.

Well, ma'am. This isn't just a "fraternization". It is an outrageous perversion, violation of Corporate Marriage code of conduct and basic human dignity.

I would recommend immediate expulsion from the duty every affected person, shaming them in front of all of other crew, bringing in physical punishment (about 20-30 whips in front of the crew), revocation of their shipman licences and immediate invalidation of their contracts without any compensation.

Don't forget to add in their recommendation letters that they are honorless perverts, so any other who would want to hire them would know what blight they might be accepting.

Such behavior in the State is not tolerated. Of course my recommendations would work for Caldari, but gallente... you know, they might even allow such sort of... well.

Of course, I would fire all gallente crew from my ships regardless, so you have to take into account our cultural traditions and project my advises through the prism of your crew reality. What would work for Caldari would not work for Gallene and counterwise.

But Miss Runekin! If you hired a crew to keep your drone crew from falling over, doesn't that make the drone crew redudant?

They have to be redundant, they keep falling over! My biological crew is far smaller, and as such I find I have to spend far less on Quafe and jerky flavor Protein Delicacies than if i had a fully breathing crew. Besides, it feels funny having so many humans running around inside of me.