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by cladari 2581 days ago
I'm remembering back 40 years here. I worked in the engine room of a nuclear powered cruiser. We had a switch called something like "battle bypass" that would bypass all the auto scram functions. The military calls a shutdown scram while the commercial industry calls it trip. We had a captain rank captain and I believe all nuclear powered vessels had one.
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I love the qualifying phrase "captain rank captain."

(And I understand why it's needed.)

“battle short”