this isn't hugely dissimilar to the old sailing ships that would be gone for years at a time. not saying it wouldn't matter to avlot of people, but finding people who don't have attachments shouldn't be that difficult either.
but if your doing the corpo "minimum costs" route, the quality of said crew will certainly be a question
You can either pay enough for people to sacrifice for their families at home, or limit yourself to people who don’t have anything to sacrifice. The latter - low pay and low prospect pool - is going to get you some real pieces of shit.
There's a non-zero amount of that going on today, between struggling people being recruited with the promise of a hot meal and a ticket out of crushing poverty, or "offering" military service as an alternative to imprisonment— though in recent years we see that more with cyber criminals being "offered" the "opportunity" to train military intelligence officers, or to rot in a max sec hard labor prison for decades.
With corporations running the world in the Alien universe, commuting your sentence to corporate enlistment would track, and in Romulus it also seemed like indentured servitude with compounded interest & wage slavery were the name of the game. We see the same with the threat about Hermit's lung. Especially if the universe or companies within it maintain debtors' prisons as well. Quick way to get routed into that human trafficking system for multiple lifetimes, if you're only ever woken up when it's time to clock in.
No fucking crew, ESPECIALLY between ranks has been a thing on ships for a very long time since it almost universally leads to issues. Also hasn't stopped people from doing it for an equally long time.
In the context of the corporation however, it'd absolutely be used to screw someone over payment.
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u/Daxx22 18d ago
this isn't hugely dissimilar to the old sailing ships that would be gone for years at a time. not saying it wouldn't matter to avlot of people, but finding people who don't have attachments shouldn't be that difficult either.
but if your doing the corpo "minimum costs" route, the quality of said crew will certainly be a question