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Police Organizational Question(s)

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buckeyestar83:
If your character is an oceanographer and a scientist, why is he now a cop?  Wouldn't he be a batter fit for the Coast Guard?  This would put him in a setting that best fits his skill and offer many opportunities to encounter strange beasties, pirates, smugglers, mermaids....

Your character will be able to use his skills without becoming the geeky, lab rat stereotype.

Snowleopard:
Not all Scientists are geeky lab rats.

Ren:
Part of the catch to the character is that he had a boat accident and near-death/near-drowning incident that has made him terrified of the Open Water much less under the water. Tough being an oceanographer when you can't set foot on a boat without getting violently ill and shaky. He chose to become a cop to investigate the disappearance of his own mother several years previous,, well that's aprt of the reason anyway, still working out the rest.

Paynesgrey:
Marine Biologist could be a good job set for him.  Not so much studying the ocean as the critters that live there.  Also extends to cover salt marshes and similar bodies of water.

Ren:
There's a back story that involves him growing up as the son of a world-renowned Oceanographer, Activist and Treasure Hunter. Basically he's got it in his blood, and in more than one way. I wanted him to have a lot of training with Oceanography and Marine Biology and suddenly not be able to do what he loved to do so he pursued a different path while he recovered. I wanted him to be a police officer to deal with the land-based component of the story as well as the marine aspect. His fear of open Water keeps him off the Seas, but he is able to put his skills to use in helping deal with the odder marine-based cases that come up and the first case is a zinger!
There is going to be a fair "supernatural" aspect of it but more super-nature than where in many of the things that seem like magic are really based on a different understanding of natural science (Chemistry, biology, electromagnetism etc...), mental abilities (Some Telepathy, Telekinesis, Precognition etc..) as well as making us of super-psychological abilities (Prana, Psychosomatics, Fakhir training etc...) and possibly some Pseudo-science (Read, 'fringe' science). The story is going to also involve a certain long-hidden and ancient culture, possibly several of them, returning to the world stage after several millenia of dormancy.

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