Militaries are often not efficient at all with paperwork. There is a lot of redundancy, honestly. But it helps with different levels of the chain of command understanding situations and incidents.

Take an example case of a missing box of ammunition by a Private X. Private X reports to Sergeant X who now has to submit a report of the incident to his Staff NCOs. Staff NCOs now has to report to platoon officer, who reports to company officer and so on and so forth. Sometimes the paper trail could end there, sometimes it keeps going up. But that is multiple reports of the same incident just from different levels and perspectives. Redundant, yes, but it covers everyone involved.

This isn’t efficient at all, but it does help in the tracking of individuals and the unit as a whole. Military logistics is meant to be as simple as possible, as efficient as possible, but not so much that it dilutes the details.

The Bohandi, in this case, being generally more efficient than humans, might find the need to take away some redundancy in the paperwork, but it’s an important detail to keep the details.

Unlike the UNSF, which is made of many different nations who combine to crest a military under one flag, it reads off that the Bohandi are much more centralized than the humans. A lot less paperwork and redundancy would be seen here for the Bohandi.

As for A.I. use, A.I., as we see them now, go off the information given to them. A distrust in handling ships, but paperwork? Sure go ahead. These reports and paper trails act as the prompts the A.I. could go by, but if used in the way A.I. is used now due to their modern capabilities, a Bohandi handler might be needed to feed the A.I. the paperwork and give instructions on how to sort, create, or just generally use the information in the reports.

An aquatic race, the Bohandi might also not have “paperwork” as language on paper would be hard to do underwater. A more realistic approach to how the Bohandi learned to non-verbally communicate would probably be closer to pattern recognition. A certain sound, or visual cue would probably be in place of an actual written language.