NEW DAWN CREW INITIATIVE / ND-CMD-01

Command candidate application

Aurelia is accepting candidates for a closed command-selection cohort of the New Dawn Programme. The assessment focuses on judgement under pressure, long-term responsibility and decisions whose consequences may outlive the decision-maker.

There are no perfect answers. We are assessing how you reason when every option has a cost.

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1. A critical life-support subsystem is failing. Repairing it now will cancel a research programme that could shorten the voyage by centuries. What do you prioritise and why?

2. You are making a decision that will mainly affect people not yet born. What obligations do you have to them?

3. When, if ever, should mission command override a democratic decision of the ship population?

4. A cascading power failure threatens 40 living crew members. Saving them will require shutting down the reproductive reserve and may destroy thousands of cryopreserved future lineages. What do you protect?

5. Six hundred years after launch, the population votes to abandon Proxima Centauri and remain a permanent travelling civilisation. The founders considered Proxima the purpose of the mission. Whose decision should prevail?

6. The ship AI predicts with 92% confidence that a popular democratic policy will cause a catastrophic resource crisis within 30 years. Should the AI be allowed to block the decision?

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