In fiction, the situation is often adequately chaotic that the one that actually gives orders may find himself pressed into command and leadership. At least in modern times, doctors, lawyers, and clergy also cannot be placed in command over combat units, even if they are the only officers present - in such cases the most senior NCO would assume command, or even the most senior enlisted man. note Unless otherwise designated, i.e., the XO is always second-in-command and the OPS officer is always third, regardless of rank. In Real Life, if there are a number of survivors of the same rank, the most senior of them holds command. Trapped Behind Enemy Lines is another possibility, as is the characters becoming prisoners of war, where under The Laws and Customs of War, the senior-most commands, even if none of them belonged to the same unit prior to capture. It may occur in the army in an isolated Bleak Border Base or with Space Marines attacking a faraway alien planet. This is most likely to occur in the navy or its Space Operatic equivalent - it requires that the setting be isolated enough from the rest of the military's headquarters that they can't respond by immediately sending a replacement of the appropriate rank. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Behind the Lines"Ī character in the military, is suddenly forced into duties and command of someone of much higher rank everyone who ought to be doing those duties has unexpectedly found themselves dead, seriously wounded, or unavailable.
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