Yes, most of the command structure is at the Nidal front because of Golarion's stupid-ass correlation between management rank and combat potential.  Keltham gets that.  There are ways to design organizations to be robust to exceptional structural events like that.  Dath ilani corporations consider how to operate in earthquakes, or if communications get cut by a massive solar weather event; and everything like that gets rehearsed at least a little, once a year during the Annual Alien Invasion Rehearsal Festival.  The central principle is that so long as the ability to identify who's responsible for something can still function, the organization can still function.

Cheliax's problem is not that the person whose job was to tell Keltham about Cayden Cailean is fighting Nidal.  Cheliax's problem is not that this person's failover was also on the Nidal front.  Cheliax's problem is that the question 'Well who's responsible then?' stopped without producing any answer at all.

This literally never happens in a correctly designed organization.  If you have absolutely no other idea of who is responsible, then the answer is that it is the job of Abrogail Thrune.  If you do not want to take the issue to Abrogail Thrune, that means it gets taken to somebody else, who then has the authority to make that decision, the knowledge to make that decision, the eyes to see the information necessary for it, and the power to carry out that decision.

Cheliax should have rehearsed this sort of thing by holding an Annual Nidal Invasion Festival, even if only Governance can afford to celebrate that festival and most tiny villages can't.  During this Festival, the number of uncaught messages getting routed to Abrogail Thrune, would then have informed the Queen that there would be a predictable failure of organizational design in the event of large-scale catastrophe, in advance of that catastrophe actually occurring.

If literally everybody with the knowledge to make a decision is dead, it gets routed to somebody who has to make a decision using insufficient knowledge.

If a decision can be delayed - which class of decisions, by the way, does not include delaying telling the guy who started the last god-war about the latest set of divine interventions targeting him, that bit could actually be important for all somebody knows - then that decision can be routed to some smarter or more knowledgeable person who will make the decision later, after they get resurrected.  But, like, even in a case like that, there should be one single identifiable person whose job it would be to notice if the decision suddenly turned urgent and grab it out of the delay queue.

Yes, most of the command structure is at the Nidal front because of Golarion's stupid-ass correlation between management rank and combat potential.  Keltham gets that.  There are ways to design organizations to be robust to exceptional structural events like that.  Dath ilani corporations consider how to operate in earthquakes, or if communications get cut by a massive solar weather event.  Everything like that gets rehearsed at least a little, once a year during the Annual Alien Invasion Rehearsal Festival.  The central principle is that so long as the ability to identify who's responsible for something can still function, the organization can still function.

Cheliax's problem is not that the person whose job was to tell Keltham about Cayden Cailean is fighting Nidal.  Cheliax's problem is not that this person's failover was also on the Nidal front.  Cheliax's problem is that the question 'Well who's responsible then?' stopped without producing any answer at all.

This literally never happens in a correctly designed organization.  If you have absolutely no other idea of who is responsible, then the answer is that it is the job of Abrogail Thrune.  If you do not want to take the issue to Abrogail Thrune, that means it gets taken to somebody else, who then has the authority to make that decision, the knowledge to make that decision, the eyes to see the information necessary for it, and the power to carry out that decision.

Cheliax should have rehearsed this sort of thing by holding an Annual Nidal Invasion Festival, even if only Governance can afford to celebrate that festival and most tiny villages can't.  During this Festival, the number of uncaught messages getting routed to Abrogail Thrune, would then have informed the Queen that there would be a predictable failure of organizational design in the event of large-scale catastrophe, in advance of that catastrophe actually occurring.

If literally everybody with the knowledge to make a decision is dead, it gets routed to somebody who has to make a decision using insufficient knowledge.

If a decision can be delayed - which class of decisions, by the way, does not include delaying telling the guy who started the last god-war about the latest set of divine interventions targeting him, that bit could actually be important for all somebody knows - then that decision can be routed to some smarter or more knowledgeable person who will make the decision later, after they get resurrected.  But, like, even in a case like that, there should be one single identifiable person whose job it would be to notice if the decision suddenly turned urgent and grab it out of the delay queue.

Yes, most of the command structure is at the Nidal front because of Golarion's stupid-ass correlation between management rank and combat potential.  Keltham gets that.  There are ways to design organizations to be robust to exceptional structural events like that.  Dath ilani corporations consider how to operate in earthquakes, or if communications get cut by a massive solar weather event.  Everything like that gets rehearsed at least a little, once a year during the Annual Alien Invasion Rehearsal Festival.  The central principle is that so long as the ability to identify who's responsible for something can still function, the organization can still function.

Cheliax's problem is not that the person whose job was to tell Keltham about Cayden Cailean is fighting Nidal.  Cheliax's problem is not that this person's failover was also on the Nidal front.  Cheliax's problem is that the question 'Well who's responsible then?' stopped without producing any answer at all.

This literally never happens in a correctly designed organization.  If you have absolutely no other idea of who is responsible, then the answer is that it is the job of Abrogail Thrune.  If you do not want to take the issue to Abrogail Thrune, that means it gets taken to somebody else, who then has the authority to make that decision, the knowledge to make that decision, the eyes to see the information necessary for it, and the power to carry out that decision.

Cheliax should have rehearsed this sort of thing by holding an Annual Nidal Invasion Rehearsal Festival, even if only Governance can afford to celebrate that festival and most tiny villages can't.  During this Festival, the number of uncaught messages getting routed to Abrogail Thrune, would then have informed the Queen that there would be a predictable failure of organizational design in the event of large-scale catastrophe, in advance of that catastrophe actually occurring.

If literally everybody with the knowledge to make a decision is dead, it gets routed to somebody who has to make a decision using insufficient knowledge.

If a decision can be delayed - which class of decisions, by the way, does not include delaying telling the guy who started the last god-war about the latest set of divine interventions targeting him, that bit could actually be important for all somebody knows - then that decision can be routed to some smarter or more knowledgeable person who will make the decision later, after they get resurrected.  But, like, even in a case like that, there should be one single identifiable person whose job it would be to notice if the decision suddenly turned urgent and grab it out of the delay queue.

Yes, most of the command structure is at the Nidal front because of Golarion's stupid-ass correlation between management rank and combat potential.  Keltham gets that.  There are ways to design organizations to be robust to exceptional structural events like that.  Dath ilani corporations consider how to operate in earthquakes, or if communications get cut by a massive solar weather event.  Everything like that gets rehearsed at least a little, once a year during the Annual Alien Invasion Rehearsal Festival.  The central principle is that so long as the ability to identify who's now responsible for something can still function, the organization can still function.

Cheliax's problem is not that the person whose job was to tell Keltham about Cayden Cailean is fighting Nidal.  Cheliax's problem is not that this person's failover was also on the Nidal front.  Cheliax's problem is that the question 'Well who's responsible then?' stopped without producing any answer at all.

This literally never happens in a correctly designed organization.  If you have absolutely no other idea of who is responsible, then the answer is that it is the job of Abrogail Thrune.  If you do not want to take the issue to Abrogail Thrune, that means it gets taken to somebody else, who then has the authority to make that decision, the knowledge to make that decision, the eyes to see the information necessary for it, and the power to carry out that decision.

Cheliax should have rehearsed this sort of thing by holding an Annual Nidal Invasion Rehearsal Festival, even if only Governance can afford to celebrate that festival and most tiny villages can't.  During this Festival, the number of uncaught messages getting routed to Abrogail Thrune, would then have informed the Queen that there would be a predictable failure of organizational design in the event of large-scale catastrophe, in advance of that catastrophe actually occurring.

If literally everybody with the knowledge to make a decision is dead, it gets routed to somebody who has to make a decision using insufficient knowledge.

If a decision can be delayed - which class of decisions, by the way, does not include delaying telling the guy who started the last god-war about the latest set of divine interventions targeting him, that bit could actually be important for all somebody knows - then that decision can be routed to some smarter or more knowledgeable person who will make the decision later, after they get resurrected.  But, like, even in a case like that, there should be one single identifiable person whose job it would be to notice if the decision suddenly turned urgent and grab it out of the delay queue.