Re: [FT] Crew Professionalism and Ship Quality

>the obvious low end, but not the actual low end. how about a
sovereignty
>with a population of zero? i am not familiar with the details
of the
>Alarishi constitution, but would it not be possible to have an
empty
>sovereignty?

No, because you can't define a culture of zero people.	In
Alarishi law, if your sovereignity dies off, its real estate
reverts back to the Imperium.  The immigration brochures don't
much mention it, but sovereignities do die off.  Usually it's
because the social model doesn't work too well, and people get
disenchanted and leave--when there are just a few left, they
either eventually die, or they change the social model and get
more people to participate.  There have been a couple of cases
where a relatively populous sovereigntiy died off--Andros had a
plague, for example, and the Sovereignity With No Name got a
little careless with their antimatter before they even got their
charter registered.  In the latter case, if course, there wasn't
much in the way of real estate for the Imperium to reclaim.

(snippage)

> if this isn't too offensive, i
>wouldn't mind drawing in some details.

We manage to get the Radical Lesbian Collective and the Knights
Templar to get along (different star systems, true), so how
offensive could it be?	If you can come up with a convincing
argument, the Emperor might be willing to grant an exception.