USS Bremerton

Bremerton controversy

USS Bremerton and USS Bremerton SC

Union Ships are named by the Assembly and usually it is the first Docket Item on every First Day (One Day) of Red Week, when the Assembly takes an hour to name all new ships scheduled to go into service. Usually there are Citizen requests and name suggestions, such as name suggestions of the Union Ship Naming Club. There are Veteran Associations and Military Magazines and Clubs who call upon the Assembly. There are School classes and of course there are individuals who want to have their suggestion emblazed upon a Union Ship Hull. If a Society as diverse and huge as the Union could have a common past time and hobby then it would be "The Fleet". No other subject, is as dear and as important to the Union Citizens as the Union Navy. So this first Docket Item. "Naming of Capital Ships" is quite popular and subject to a GalNet Channel 2 Program. A Computronic filters the names for duplicate and Inapropiate and the rest is then displayed on a screen and the Assembly votes. Some names are reserved suggested by the Navy itself, such as historic ship names. Such as the name Bremerton. Smaller Ships are generally named by the navy. However during a Assembly Naming session for Capital ships,they were one Ship short, and so they added a Battle ship from the next month and named it ahead of schedule, USS Bremerton. The Computronic filtering the names was not checking since the Ship was added "manually". No one noticed that there already was a Super Curisernamed USS Bremerton and under the Command of Captain Denis Miguel. The mistake was not discovered for a while. Even though Supplies scheduled for the Supercuriser ended up with the Battle Shipand the Battle ship got Personnel scheduled for the Super Cruiser. It was always filed as Logistics error. However when Admiral Stahlordered the USS Bremerton to take part in a Battle ship exercise and a Supercruiser showed up, while the Battle ship was in space dock for an upgrade scheduled for a Super cruiser, the whole mix up came  to light. Simply renaming a Battleship however was not possible as the naming was an Act of the Assembly and needed an Assembly Vote to change and the Navy was not willing to strip a distinguished ship from  its name a compromise was made and the Super Cruiser was renamed USS Bremerton-SC