Hi Drothgery,
Quite right.
Part of the reason seems to be, not enough enlisting, or a an official perceived need for enlistments, and a potential means to seducing some of the best and brightest of the verge etc from opposition.
There have been some interesting stories from RFC among others about how RN captain John Paul Jones, might have frustrated and blocked the french at Chesapeake Bay in the fall of 1781; or general G. Washington as his majesty's commander in the American colonies might have ended the revolution much sooner.
I suspect most Beowulfian spies in the SLN aren't known for their Beowulfian ancestry, which given the s7ubterfuges the BSC engages in, are probably buried pretty deep.
Until we know more about how many of the core wore worlds actually actively serve in the SLN, say 10-20,000 people each, we can't argue either way if Beowulf in over or under represented, which as another posted above could very well be because of a ll the BSDF cruisers out looking for slavers, NTM their attitude regarding the SL and SLN for decades if not centuries.
If ballpark figures put the active on-board crewmen of both branches of the SLN at around 20.4 million (~8.4 M for FF, 2000 active SD's at 6000 each [averaging rather smaller than the Haven sector], not counting service transports, repair and supply ships etc,a total SL population of 10-20 trillion means the ratio is somewhere between 1/2 million and 1 million to one [1/2 M to 1M to 1], which might mean around 30-60,000 of earth/Sol's population, although it'd probably be much higher than that because it is Sol; though other core world systems with the same population might nail the average or mean.
Beowulf having a much smaller population, only 9 representatives in the executive council (less than 1/1300th), might be be expected to 'set an example or as a courtesy, etc' supply only a few to possibly ten thousand; being spread across some 23.83 million plus cubic LY's, ie over 2400 star systems and 10,000+ hyper warships.
I suspect even if Beowulf didn't know about Laocoon I & II, it still might have had plans to warn its crewmen within 'personal' messages from 'family or friends' if they don't figure things out for themselves earlier.
Given Beowulf's rather large merchant marine, fourth in the SL in early textev, there are probably lots of Beowulf embassies or consulates across the SL, which might even have some manticorans working out of an office to handle their merchant marine, so there might be a refuge or a possible quiet connection if a Beowulfian SLN crewman didn't return from liberty.
Again, interesting times.
L
drothgery wrote:cthia wrote:Would Beowulfans continue to be legal in the SLN?
Probably not, but it wouldn't be Beowulf leaving the League that made that the case, it would be their membership in a Grand Alliance that is actively at war with the League. The SLN has at least some officers (almost always junior, and almost always Marines or Frontier Fleet, but some) from the protectorates, which are not legally part of the League, so you do not need to be a League citizen by birth to serve in the SLN.