General Discussion
So while I wait for you guys to sort out who is taking command of what and getting your ship rosters sorted, I will continue musing about the composition of the ships in the Frontier.
After reading the Frontier explorer article about how many ships the Construction Yards could support in the Frontier, I agree around 1500 seems a good number. I think that included the ship numbers from the UPF and Militia but I will consider those ships as extra, it is less than a hundred and does not skew the numbers too badly. General consensus seems to be around half those ships are system ships, not capable of interstellar flight, mostly shuttles, local freight and passenger ships etc In practical terms, most of these ships would have little combat value so I focused on the rest.
I figured the number of ships in any system at any given time was most likely related to the population of that world so I assigned a value to each population level. Outpost = 1, Light = 2, Medium = 4, Heavy = 8. Divided across all the planets of the Frontier I came up with 7 ships in an Outpost system, 14 Light, 28 Medium, 56 Heavy.
So the next step is to figure out what the break down is of those ships. I figure they will fall into a few major categories:
Private Yachts/Cruisers etc 10%
Passenger Cruisers 20%
Mining 30%
Freight 40%
What do you guys think so far?