[quote=@Hylozoist]
Hooray! If you do end up being the Captain, would you mind if we worked out (together!) how The Will came to be Captain? I'm going to be asking everyone to provide a little snippet of their history that basically explains how they got on board, whether they're part of the "original" crew, or a replacement, or what-have-you. 
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My initial idea:

The one of the previous crews got a mission from some long ranged observing botanists to save the species from the impending destruction of their planetoide. After the initial invasion attempt of the ship by the bees is held off with fly swatters and bug spray they sort of live in the cargo bay while the crew fail to get them resettled somewhere as, unfortunately, nobody wants a swarm species on their planet, even if it only has a threat level B. Having free-time, more food and entertainment kind of mellows out the bees and eventually they are allowed to help out around the ship. 

Jump forwards to now and they basically live in every nook and cranny the ship, having seen several crews come and go who have all applied their own distinct modifications to everything. The bees have to get anyone new up to speed on things like what all those weird buttons on the searing wheel do, mainly by punting post it notes on everything. Even if they don't know why or how they do that stuff, so they boil down to basic functions from the manual, exerts from the installer's journals and lots of do not touch ones. 

The mind is captain because they control 99% of the crew and are the most experienced person there apart from the AI, even if that knowledge is rather dispersed among the bees.

What do you think? planet destruction might be a bit to grim for the setting even if everyone got off it alive way in advance.