Brigade XO wrote:It wouldn't be a bad idea to make mutual arrangements with the Alderman Empire to detain for return any former SCN ships -and their crews- from the side of the boarder. That insures the ships are dealt with and the crews have a less of a chance to being pushed into a pirate life though it still leaves the more disaffected people as possible recruits to groups of their home planets to resist the assimilation into SEM etc.
I didn't understand you here, even after reading the paragraph a few times. Detain which crews, and on which side of the border? Do you mean the Andermani should detain crews of the Andermani side on the Andermani side? I expect that they've already done that, the SCN units on their side became part of the IAN and probably got decommissioned like the Sarnow story.
Do you mean detain Manticore-side ships on the Andermani side? Why What do the Andermani gain from that? They don't want those ships any more than Manticore.
The crews themselves who weren't from a single system were probably broken up and sent home. Maybe they got the option of choosing which citizenship they wanted too.
Of course it all depends on what the actual agreement between SEM and IAE were in the division of Silesia and specifically things like ANY SCN etc ships & materials belonging to units formerly based in systems on on one side of that border now "belong" to the Empire that now holds the system. Giving the ships (and crews) back helps eliminate potential pirate ships though it's not clear if the IAN is going to want to scrap the SCN ships they get as that has not been mentioned.
Right, we don't know if they divided the SCN at all. Like I said, neither side wants those ships, so I guess the fair solution would be to divide the cost of decommissioning them too. I suppose it's possible the agreement also says they can't sell the ships, they have to be decommissioned and broken up.
Torch could be helpful in rooting out slavery related problems but that is probably more in the intelligence and enforcement areas. That's a lot of new planets and systems to start investigating essentially from scratch.
Sure, but nothing new. The Audubon Ballroom and the Anti-Slavery League had been active in the region for centuries. Torch's foundation does not change that at all.
Previously, Torch wouldn't have had permission fro the Confederation to operate warships in their territory, like Manticore and the Andermani could. Now, those GA members may give that permission, but what's the gain? Specifically, I don't think that's the best use of the RTN. The ex-Confederation territory is now being officially patrolled by IAN and RMN units, and besides there are probably bigger hotspots where the RTN could make a bigger impact.