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Throughout history, starship crews have encountered dangers in the depths of space. To give the Commanding Officer and the bridge crew the best chance to avoid violence by providing them with what may be information integral to their survival, all Starfleet starships have been outfitted with an array of sensor palettes and telescopes that bring kiloquads of information into the ship's computer banks every second. Experience has taught us, however, that the automated systems of a starship cannot always sort the important from the unimportant information. To solve that problem, Starfleet created the position of Chief Science Officer. The CSciO is responsible for sorting the data provided by the ship's sensors and routing it to the necessary ship departments. This position supplement's the position of Chief of Operations to allow the Ops officer to concentrate on the allocation of resources and monitoring ship status. (see Ops) In addition, the Chief Science Officer is the operating authority to a starship's science department. As such, all department operations are coordinated through the CSciO.