This is where you get issued all your stuff.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Exceptions
- Conceptual Images
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Introduction:
A Central Issue Facility (CIF) is the warehouse on each base and large ship from which personnel are assigned their gear; armor, backpacks, boots, sea-bags, waterproof layers, and much more are all stored, distributed, and returned to each CIF. Backup uniforms are issued from CIFs, too. On TNH, the CIF keeps the gear for thousands of crew members organized and locked down; even the loss of artificial gravity would not cause a mess here.
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Exceptions:
Most of the ~10,000 human service-members coming to TNH to work bring their pre-issued uniforms and other gear with them. This is because they were already in the military on the worlds they come from, thus those military facilities issued them just about everything they’d need during their enlistment contracts. They’ll turn in those items when they return planet-side to their locations after the “floats” (deployments) their commands authorize/order them to complete as part (members) of TNH.
The ~2,000 Registered Companions stationed aboard TNH also bring their own outfits, as Companions are raised to hand-select or custom-order articles of clothing of another tier/class entirely.
What’s left are things that those people will likely need only during their stays aboard this carrier. Those include weapons (which, at least in the vast majority of cases; excepting with/for Special Agents and similar operatives), optics, armor, HAZMAT suits, etc. All of those get issued from TNH’s CIF right here.
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