Integral Systems Engineering a company, or a function?
Is this an assumption, or was Integral Systems Engineering (ISE) referred to as a company, rather than just a functional unit (i.e. within the Colonial military establishment)?--Fredmdbud 01:14, 26 December 2007 (CST)
- It's an assumption. Seems more like a department to me, but it could be either. --Serenity 06:15, 26 December 2007 (CST)
- Not assumption. Note dialogue from Cain when we first see her in "Razor", speaking to Belzen. Paraphrasing, she was uncomfortable with all the "civilian contractors" aboard. We see one other ISE person in the corridors walking away (she has a jumpsuit with the logo on its back) just moments before Shaw is greeted by another ISE employee, Gina Inviere. ISE may not have been the only contractor given other mechanical systems that (per our real-world history) are often contracted from military to civilians, but at least we know that ISE was at least one of them. Gina's later talk to Shaw about her work in the retrofit also supports this. If they were Fleet, they would have uniforms of the Fleet in some version. Costuming shows no special exception to this that I can recall. Even military not assigned to a battlestar wear the Ministry patch (see Shaw's early uniform). --Spencerian 19:01, 26 December 2007 (CST)