PAU fleet

OO makes an interesting point about the PAU fleet. Also, there may be 
a difference between not being able to produce capital ships and not 
being able to produce many of them or not being able to produce them 
cost effectively. 

For that matter, you'd think that capship slips would be a fair size 
(even orbital) and if you didn't need to use them regularly (let's 
imagine that ESU and NAC and maybe FSE and NSL would), they'd be an 
expense to maintain. OTOH, some private firms could probably handle 
fleet maintenance contracts from several nations (or even 
construction contracts). 

I suspect the PAU fleet has some hand-me downs, some bought-news, 
some bought-and-modifieds, and maybe even some smaller home-brew 
designs (DDs, FFs, etc). I would guess NAC, ESU, FSE. NAC, because of 
what OO mentioned, ESU because we know they have some, and FSE 
because they were nominal allies at one point and the French have 
always tended to encourage arms sales to a variety of sides (even 
those fighting the French national forces....).