ThinksMarkedly wrote:Which is why this situation is unreal. The station commander would have been briefed on the weapons at his disposal. Assuming the bureaucracy worked, of course.
Yep. (Hence why I called it extremely unlikely).
Now you can get situations where someone lower in the chain of command is briefed in on things that their superior isn't cleared to know -- but they wouldn't be about the weapons on their ship. That would usually happen because you've transferred roles.
Say you had been serving a rotation at naval intelligence and then rotate back out to command a ship, division, or squadron -- there would be things you know from your time in intel that your intel superiors were aware of and cleared for; but your immediate superiors in the fleet are not (and have no immediate need to know).
Same might happen when Honor came back from her stint at the weapons development board. There were probably some development projects in the pipeline that she was aware of that weren't yet cleared for release to even high command in the fleet.
So, for example, she knew she was being assigned to White Haven's fleet and that he'd been briefed on part of Ghost Rider plus MDMs, SD(P)s, CLACs, and Shrikes -- and she was specifically tasked to discuss those with him.
But even in her brief stint at the WDB it's unlikely that she was
only working on those systems that were about to enter broad production and would begin deploying to the fleet in the next 18-24 months. She almost assuredly had
some input on systems that were further off.
(Though probably not Apollo as it was way too far off to need operational input yet; and too potentially revolutionary to want to let people knowledgeable about it back to the front where they might be captured)So I'm not sure what those other systems might have been; but whatever they were she did not discuss those with White Haven because,
at that time he had no need to know (and therefore was not cleared for) that R&D that was less mature and further from being a deployable system. (Equally the WDB might have had some proposals that she helped shoot down based on her frontline experience. And she similarly didn't discuss those)