In “Command Actions”, we have:

As a Command actions a CIC may assign or unassign up to two techs to the space race.

Can a CIC assign or unassign other CIC’s techs to/from the space race? The argument I see in favor is the literal wording of the rule; it’s not in parallel with other Command Actions, which explicitly state that one can assign one’s own resources.

Arguments against include: (1) That assigning other peoples’ resources isn’t one of the affordances a common-sense reader of the Ruleset would expect. The words surrounding the description of “techs” imply that they’re owned by the CIC, which implicitly (to me) means they can’t be assigned by someone other than their owner. (2) The logistics of people assigning or unassigning other peoples’ resources gets difficult. For example, if someone’s techs get assigned by someone else, should I tell them?

The balance between these sides is sort of ambiguous to me but I’m leaning toward “you cannot assign other CIC’s techs”. As such, if this CfJ passes, change the above blockquote in the Ruleset to:

As a Command action a CIC may assign or unassign up to two of their techs to the space race.

Also, retroactively invalidate any Command actions that run afowl of the new text, and reset the Tick clock such that a previous Tick hypothetically “occurred” 24 hours before the enactment of the CfJ, so that the next Tick occurs at least 24 hours after enactment.

If the CfJ fails, I’ll interpret the block quote above in a way that allows assigning other CIC’s techs.