[@obisemkenobi] the NCIS comparison was simply as it is a civilian agency. There are 100,000 waken souls aboard, some are scientists, some are military and the rest are there to perform other duties such as food production, bar tending work, cleaning just everything that will keep the ship and the people aboard going for however long they need to. The Police (I'll probably come up with an acronym or nickname later) are there to keep a check on Military Personnel and Civilian without being under military control, because a) The Military is a bad choice in police force, unless you want an authoritarian state and b) for the reason I mentioned before where Military Officials might abuse rank if all the security was military controlled. To clear up yesterday what I meant about families to [@FrozenEcstasy], families are kept separate to keep family lines apart and due to the long nature of the journey. Would you rather your family got to wake up to a fresh start or go through the unknown for so many years? It's also in a bid to try to decrease any potential drama on the ship, and make sure that there is no unemployment. You don't want a 15 year kid who is a viable choice to make planetfall on the ship because he wouldn't be able to do much. You also want to try and preserve as many family lines as possible, which means packing the ship to maximum capacity and why the crew of the ship are limited to three family members who are [i]viable[/i] choices, which means young and healthy and with skills needed to build a new home for humanity. Only reason kids are included in that is if, for whatever reason, reproduction doesn't go as planned you need a next generation.